Dennis D.
@dennisdoubleday.bsky.social
Retired software engineer, wanted to be a symphony musician but didn't make the cut. Love my dog, my spouse, my children, and my UU community (not in that order.)
I don’t understand why they would need this? Are Senators somehow unable to sue for illegal actions?
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I don’t understand why they would need this? Are Senators somehow unable to sue for illegal actions?
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Senators look at Trump's shameless corruption and say "give us some of that"
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Senators look at Trump's shameless corruption and say "give us some of that"
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
If Clinton hadn't picked him for VP, we might not have had to deal with any of this.
Sen. Tim Kaine statement "on the funding deal to reopen government, protect federal employees, and vote to protect health care"
bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sund...
bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sund...
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
If Clinton hadn't picked him for VP, we might not have had to deal with any of this.
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Wow I can't believe George
Soros bought up all those seats and paid all those people to dress up as Commanders fans
Soros bought up all those seats and paid all those people to dress up as Commanders fans
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Wow I can't believe George
Soros bought up all those seats and paid all those people to dress up as Commanders fans
Soros bought up all those seats and paid all those people to dress up as Commanders fans
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What drives me absolutely insane about this debate is how claims like “there has been a generational stagnation of purchasing power” have taken on the tenor of religious faith among progressives, and seemingly cannot be disproven with any evidence, no matter how overwhelming. It simply isn’t true!
November 9, 2025 at 3:52 AM
What drives me absolutely insane about this debate is how claims like “there has been a generational stagnation of purchasing power” have taken on the tenor of religious faith among progressives, and seemingly cannot be disproven with any evidence, no matter how overwhelming. It simply isn’t true!
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Sir, Trump is at Mar-a-Lago since yesterday.
November 9, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Sir, Trump is at Mar-a-Lago since yesterday.
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Musk does not get 1/1000th of the grief he should over this absurd claim about 20 million dead people getting Social Security. Social Security is run far better than Tesla and provides a way more valuable service.
Imagine shareholders willing to give a trillion dollars to a guy who says there are 20 million dead people getting Social Security, but is too incompetent to find any of them.
With Tesla stock at a price-to-earnings ratio of almost 300 it doesn't look like anyone is buying what Elon Musk is selling, other than Tesla shareholders finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Musk does not get 1/1000th of the grief he should over this absurd claim about 20 million dead people getting Social Security. Social Security is run far better than Tesla and provides a way more valuable service.
"Analysis" lol.
WaPo puts the Sleepy Trump piece on Page One.
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
November 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"Analysis" lol.
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Trying to think of a worse idea but I'm coming up short
November 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Trying to think of a worse idea but I'm coming up short
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get in bitch we're destroying the west
November 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
get in bitch we're destroying the west
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Criminal organization attempting to conceal evidence bsky.app/profile/brad...
DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Criminal organization attempting to conceal evidence bsky.app/profile/brad...
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In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.
Latest write-up about outrageous administrative over reach at IU. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leadership shakeup, a defunded graduate student and political pressure from above have turned a storied program into a flashpoint for Trump-era campus politics.
www.jta.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.
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Has New York Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs resigned over Mamdani yet? I hope he hasn't, so that he can instead resign over *improving Republican margins over Trump 2024 in an anti-Republican wave election*. Trump won Nassau by just 4%—now look at this bloodbath
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Has New York Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs resigned over Mamdani yet? I hope he hasn't, so that he can instead resign over *improving Republican margins over Trump 2024 in an anti-Republican wave election*. Trump won Nassau by just 4%—now look at this bloodbath
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Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system"
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
New College of Florida shows soaring expenses as state targets 'woke waste'
A report by Florida DOGE found that Sarasota's New College is the most financially inefficient school in the university system.
www.heraldtribune.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system"
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
I subscribed to Wired for the first time this year because they were one of the few outlets covering DOGE honestly.
We're running out of uncompromised outlets. A liberal billionaire who wants to make an impact could start a great publication by hiring all the great reporters fired this year.
We're running out of uncompromised outlets. A liberal billionaire who wants to make an impact could start a great publication by hiring all the great reporters fired this year.
Jake Lahut, a Wired reporter who from the Nancy Mace airport story last week, was among those fired.
During the incident, CN's HR chief asked staff not to congregate outside his office. Lahut asked "what's your definition of congregating?" and was let go later on Wednesday.
During the incident, CN's HR chief asked staff not to congregate outside his office. Lahut asked "what's your definition of congregating?" and was let go later on Wednesday.
November 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I subscribed to Wired for the first time this year because they were one of the few outlets covering DOGE honestly.
We're running out of uncompromised outlets. A liberal billionaire who wants to make an impact could start a great publication by hiring all the great reporters fired this year.
We're running out of uncompromised outlets. A liberal billionaire who wants to make an impact could start a great publication by hiring all the great reporters fired this year.
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
Is it surprising? He wrote The Road Ahead, purporting to provide a map of the future of computing, in 1995 and failed to foresee the explosion of the Web, which had already begun by the publication date. And THAT was his area of expert knowledge, unlike climate!
Bill Gates's climate memo showed a stunning lack of political vision.
The climate fight was always going to require technologies AND markets AND a social movement to make inconvenient demands upon the powerful.
What did he think he was signing up for?
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
The climate fight was always going to require technologies AND markets AND a social movement to make inconvenient demands upon the powerful.
What did he think he was signing up for?
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Bill Gates's stunted political vision
Bill Gates went full Llomborg. Never go full Llomborg.
open.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Is it surprising? He wrote The Road Ahead, purporting to provide a map of the future of computing, in 1995 and failed to foresee the explosion of the Web, which had already begun by the publication date. And THAT was his area of expert knowledge, unlike climate!
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“in my official capacity as the head of the FBI, i demand that you stop talking about my girlfriend” is some profoundly embarrassing and unprofessional shit, and that’s before you remember no one *is* talking about his girlfriend, they’re talking about him taking FBI jets to see her
November 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“in my official capacity as the head of the FBI, i demand that you stop talking about my girlfriend” is some profoundly embarrassing and unprofessional shit, and that’s before you remember no one *is* talking about his girlfriend, they’re talking about him taking FBI jets to see her
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In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.
November 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.
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I hope future generations recognize how quickly and strangely the contours of what counts as a political scandal changed for this president.
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I hope future generations recognize how quickly and strangely the contours of what counts as a political scandal changed for this president.
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All of these people are so grievously unqualified, it’s incredible.
What a disaster administration. Makary was literally praising this Stanford guy on his podcast 3 months ago.
“Such an impressive resume. Just impeccable credentials,” he said, beaming.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/f...
What a disaster administration. Makary was literally praising this Stanford guy on his podcast 3 months ago.
“Such an impressive resume. Just impeccable credentials,” he said, beaming.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/f...
FDA’s top drug regulator resigns amid investigation
George Tidmarsh, the FDA's top drug regulator, has been placed on leave after being accused of abusing his regulatory authority, STAT has learned.
www.statnews.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
All of these people are so grievously unqualified, it’s incredible.
What a disaster administration. Makary was literally praising this Stanford guy on his podcast 3 months ago.
“Such an impressive resume. Just impeccable credentials,” he said, beaming.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/f...
What a disaster administration. Makary was literally praising this Stanford guy on his podcast 3 months ago.
“Such an impressive resume. Just impeccable credentials,” he said, beaming.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/f...
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This is like Drunk History meets This Old House
November 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
This is like Drunk History meets This Old House
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holy crap I went and looked up the Myers segment on youtube and this is even funnier bc a lot of it is about how trump accuses anyone who criticizes him of treason. and trump immediately proves his point with this post.
November 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
holy crap I went and looked up the Myers segment on youtube and this is even funnier bc a lot of it is about how trump accuses anyone who criticizes him of treason. and trump immediately proves his point with this post.
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The Jewish right discovering in real time that the Trumpist right, and the open bigotries it has unleashed upon the US body politic, is not in fact going to spare Jews, is quite a trip.
October 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Jewish right discovering in real time that the Trumpist right, and the open bigotries it has unleashed upon the US body politic, is not in fact going to spare Jews, is quite a trip.