Flying Dutchman
@flyingnl.bsky.social
Lawyer, Northerner, Golden Retriever dad.
Guys, it's pronounced ee-kay-ah, not eye-key-ah.
December 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Guys, it's pronounced ee-kay-ah, not eye-key-ah.
If you're okay with the Dems caving because you don't receive ACA subsidies, you don't understand healthcare economics.
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 AM
If you're okay with the Dems caving because you don't receive ACA subsidies, you don't understand healthcare economics.
This. Every case they take is designed to further the power of the president and create white Christo-nationalist state.
As a lawyer, I’m begging all the court watchers out there to stop being such lawyers about it. They are nakedly political. Their reasoning, when they deign to write any, is lipstick on a pig. The people need to understand that. Tell them plainly.
October 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This. Every case they take is designed to further the power of the president and create white Christo-nationalist state.
This. The Supreme Court is unilaterally rewriting the Constitution in a genuinely unprecedented way to the detriment of democracy and the balance of power.
Not only is this foreign aid stay an assault on the separation of powers and rule of law, it’s also an assault on Congress as an institution. If Congress can’t tell the executive to spend money, what can it *actually* do?
September 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This. The Supreme Court is unilaterally rewriting the Constitution in a genuinely unprecedented way to the detriment of democracy and the balance of power.
AI chip designers, data center manufacturers, and customer facing AI companies all just passing money back and forth praying the bubble won't pop.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Nvidia to Invest $100 Billion in OpenAI in AI Computing Buildout
Nvidia Corp. said it will invest as much as $100 billion in OpenAI to support the building of new data centers and the infrastructure needed to power artificial intelligence workloads.
www.bloomberg.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
AI chip designers, data center manufacturers, and customer facing AI companies all just passing money back and forth praying the bubble won't pop.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Yes.
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
September 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Yes.
Having a really hard time reconciling my anger at the administration, which seems to be shared by most of this website, with what Dems are doing in DC. I don't want them to cut a deal at all. Is this website a bubble or are DC Dems just completely missing the plot?
September 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Having a really hard time reconciling my anger at the administration, which seems to be shared by most of this website, with what Dems are doing in DC. I don't want them to cut a deal at all. Is this website a bubble or are DC Dems just completely missing the plot?
This. All of this.
This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison.
But...
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But...
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"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
September 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This. All of this.
Okay, but we can all agree the new iPhone 17 Pro is ugly right?
September 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Okay, but we can all agree the new iPhone 17 Pro is ugly right?
This. @mehdirhasan.bsky.social is 100% correct. We need leaders for the moment, and these two are not it.
It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down | Mehdi Hasan
This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition. We all deserve better
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This. @mehdirhasan.bsky.social is 100% correct. We need leaders for the moment, and these two are not it.
Fantastic bread.
area man beats sandwich crime charge, will not be sub-poenaed
August 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Fantastic bread.
Fascists use violence while claiming to be victims. They create chaos that "requires" their authoritarian solution. Then they purge anyone who opposes them. Meanwhile, democrats. . . file lawsuits. They write editorials. They vote on resolutions. And fascists just laugh and keep consolidating power.
I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%.
Once they win elections, it's already too late.
cmarmitage.substack.com
August 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Fascists use violence while claiming to be victims. They create chaos that "requires" their authoritarian solution. Then they purge anyone who opposes them. Meanwhile, democrats. . . file lawsuits. They write editorials. They vote on resolutions. And fascists just laugh and keep consolidating power.
Hear me out: AMD and Nvidia move their corporate headquarters to the Netherlands. Either US lets chips in tariff free or it falls behind in AI, AMD and Nvidia get to keep all their revenue without paying a bribe to the US.
August 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Hear me out: AMD and Nvidia move their corporate headquarters to the Netherlands. Either US lets chips in tariff free or it falls behind in AI, AMD and Nvidia get to keep all their revenue without paying a bribe to the US.
Just a reminder that Adobe valued $FIG at $25 per share.
August 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Just a reminder that Adobe valued $FIG at $25 per share.
Everything is fine, nothing to see here. Totally normal.
August 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Everything is fine, nothing to see here. Totally normal.
<Screams into pillow>
Emil Bove has been confirmed to a lifetime federal judgeship on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
July 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
<Screams into pillow>
I know everything sucks, but sometimes...
July 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I know everything sucks, but sometimes...
Given the recision bill that just passed Congress, please Donate to MPR. They just swung to a $6m deficit. support.mpr.org
July 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Given the recision bill that just passed Congress, please Donate to MPR. They just swung to a $6m deficit. support.mpr.org
This is giving end of the Roman Empire vibes.
The Times is doing a liveblog with two reporters, including one they flew to Des Moines. They haven't even mentioned the anti-Semitic slur.
July 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
This is giving end of the Roman Empire vibes.
WTF is this? So inappropriate.
July 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
WTF is this? So inappropriate.
Many countries don't allow dual citizenship; this would leave people stateless.
The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
substack.com/redirect/169...
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
substack.com/redirect/169...
June 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Many countries don't allow dual citizenship; this would leave people stateless.
MPLS: Tornado Warning for South Minneapolis. Expires 105a.
June 29, 2025 at 5:45 AM
MPLS: Tornado Warning for South Minneapolis. Expires 105a.
Just to be clear, this will kick millions off insurance, devastate rural hospitals, and very likely destabilize conventional insurance markets. Genuinely awful.
RON JOHNSON says Trump and Senate leaders agreed to back Rick Scott's amendment to phase out the 90% Medicaid match for expansion population under the ACA.
"We can't afford it," said Johnson, expressing confidence they can get the votes.
Guts part of Obamacare...
"We can't afford it," said Johnson, expressing confidence they can get the votes.
Guts part of Obamacare...
June 29, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Just to be clear, this will kick millions off insurance, devastate rural hospitals, and very likely destabilize conventional insurance markets. Genuinely awful.
The Dutch king, directly next to Trump, is 6'2". Just keep that in mind next time Trump's physician reports his height.
June 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The Dutch king, directly next to Trump, is 6'2". Just keep that in mind next time Trump's physician reports his height.
Breaking: Trump Lied.
June 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Breaking: Trump Lied.