Ceej
@sarcastrix.bsky.social
Attorney. Chemist. Former ballerina. Occasional dinosaur.
The opposite of despair is not hope, it's action.
Don't believe everything you think.
The opposite of despair is not hope, it's action.
Don't believe everything you think.
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Always here for some Capt. James Lawrence quotation.
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Always here for some Capt. James Lawrence quotation.
@shelsue.bsky.social It's your L day! What L activities will you do? Layabout in bed? Go to the Library? Live Laugh Love? Leave your body? Launch a missile? Levitate? Laughingly Lobotomize Lawbreakers?
November 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
@shelsue.bsky.social It's your L day! What L activities will you do? Layabout in bed? Go to the Library? Live Laugh Love? Leave your body? Launch a missile? Levitate? Laughingly Lobotomize Lawbreakers?
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Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy?
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November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy?
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Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
November 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
Let's talk about Article V, a🧵. What’s that? It’s the bit in the Constitution that allows amendment. There are two ways the Constitution can be amended. One is the process you're familiar with: Congress passes an amendment and the states ratify it. Read it here: www.law.cornell.edu/constitution....
November 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Let's talk about Article V, a🧵. What’s that? It’s the bit in the Constitution that allows amendment. There are two ways the Constitution can be amended. One is the process you're familiar with: Congress passes an amendment and the states ratify it. Read it here: www.law.cornell.edu/constitution....
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Thank you for the spotlight @goodgoodgoodco.bsky.social 🙏 Who wants to run with us??? www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/can...
These 'can't-idates' are running for office knowing they'll lose. Their mission is to fight gerrymandering
The Can’t Win Victory Fund is recruiting people who want to run for office with no intention of actually winning.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Thank you for the spotlight @goodgoodgoodco.bsky.social 🙏 Who wants to run with us??? www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/can...
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People are gonna start starving soon and the Republicans are holding a Great Gatsby style party at Mar A Lago. Hollywood couldn't write this poorly.
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
People are gonna start starving soon and the Republicans are holding a Great Gatsby style party at Mar A Lago. Hollywood couldn't write this poorly.
Also see Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Crime will also increase from people desperately trying to meet their needs, feed their kids, etc. Auto defaults already have risen. Prepare for rough times.
With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
October 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Also see Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Crime will also increase from people desperately trying to meet their needs, feed their kids, etc. Auto defaults already have risen. Prepare for rough times.
Anyone else wonder if he tore down the east wing because Melania is mad at him?
October 24, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Anyone else wonder if he tore down the east wing because Melania is mad at him?
The professors' letter is a good read. Link to the pdf is in the news story. tucson.com/news/local/e...
Top U of A professors urge rejection of Trump compact
There's no assurance the University of Arizona would actually get funding benefits for complying, the Regents professors warn.
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October 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The professors' letter is a good read. Link to the pdf is in the news story. tucson.com/news/local/e...
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Moral of the story: don't be poor and live in a shithole. Neither your status as a senior citizen nor as US citizen will stop masked men from explosively breaking down your door, ziptying you, taking your kids, hauling you outside naked, breaking & stealing your stuff. www.wbez.org/immigration/...
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
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October 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Moral of the story: don't be poor and live in a shithole. Neither your status as a senior citizen nor as US citizen will stop masked men from explosively breaking down your door, ziptying you, taking your kids, hauling you outside naked, breaking & stealing your stuff. www.wbez.org/immigration/...
In case you haven't had the chance to read the opinion, here is a link to it. At least the conclusion is worth your time. With the footnotes.
AAUP v Rubio & Noem -- a case over the First Amendment rights of all people in the USA -- and the defendants get themselves carved a new one by Judge Young.
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October 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
In case you haven't had the chance to read the opinion, here is a link to it. At least the conclusion is worth your time. With the footnotes.
Apropos of nothing, I'm sure, this was part of an Atlantic game today. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_c...
Fifth column - Wikipedia
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September 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Apropos of nothing, I'm sure, this was part of an Atlantic game today. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_c...
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Statewide ranked choice voting for the entire nation when it comes to races for the House of Representatives would go a long way towards making the winners of elections coincide with the candidates people really want elected.
September 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Statewide ranked choice voting for the entire nation when it comes to races for the House of Representatives would go a long way towards making the winners of elections coincide with the candidates people really want elected.
In case you're wondering what your personal information is worth, Facebook just paid me $36.52. This was a class action settlement for selling my information to Cambridge Analytica so they could influence our elections.
That's what my democracy is worth to capitalism.
That's what my democracy is worth to capitalism.
September 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
In case you're wondering what your personal information is worth, Facebook just paid me $36.52. This was a class action settlement for selling my information to Cambridge Analytica so they could influence our elections.
That's what my democracy is worth to capitalism.
That's what my democracy is worth to capitalism.
If you haven't seen her speak or read her work, I encourage you to do so. Gift article by Jill Lepore. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
September 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM
If you haven't seen her speak or read her work, I encourage you to do so. Gift article by Jill Lepore. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Interesting preliminary work on the impacts of AI on brain function. www.media.mit.edu/projects/you...
Data backs up what you likely already suspect.
Data backs up what you likely already suspect.
Project Overview ‹ Your Brain on ChatGPT – MIT Media Lab
Check project's website: https://www.brainonllm.comWith today's wide adoption of LLM products like ChatGPT from OpenAI, humans and businesses engage and u…
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September 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Interesting preliminary work on the impacts of AI on brain function. www.media.mit.edu/projects/you...
Data backs up what you likely already suspect.
Data backs up what you likely already suspect.
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“Note: This episode was recorded on Aug. 21, before Trump announced his intention to fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and before U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had rearrested Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia and had begun processing him for deportation to Uganda.”
September 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
“Note: This episode was recorded on Aug. 21, before Trump announced his intention to fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and before U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had rearrested Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia and had begun processing him for deportation to Uganda.”
Highlight for this article: people who are less AI "literate" are more likely to use it and believe what it says.
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September 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Highlight for this article: people who are less AI "literate" are more likely to use it and believe what it says.
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Is there no limit to their greed? I guess that’s a rhetorical question because I know there isn’t. But I HAD NO IDEA about any of this! Did you? How can we protect ourselves from it?
::inwardly screaming into the void::
::inwardly screaming into the void::
September 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Is there no limit to their greed? I guess that’s a rhetorical question because I know there isn’t. But I HAD NO IDEA about any of this! Did you? How can we protect ourselves from it?
::inwardly screaming into the void::
::inwardly screaming into the void::
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During the 20 years following WWII, the worst epidemic year for polio in the US was 1951. There were 58.000 cases and 3100 deaths.
In 2024, there were over 50,000 recorded deaths from acute COVID-19 and an estimated 75,000 premature deaths from long term or permanent effects of COVID-19.
In 2024, there were over 50,000 recorded deaths from acute COVID-19 and an estimated 75,000 premature deaths from long term or permanent effects of COVID-19.
September 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
During the 20 years following WWII, the worst epidemic year for polio in the US was 1951. There were 58.000 cases and 3100 deaths.
In 2024, there were over 50,000 recorded deaths from acute COVID-19 and an estimated 75,000 premature deaths from long term or permanent effects of COVID-19.
In 2024, there were over 50,000 recorded deaths from acute COVID-19 and an estimated 75,000 premature deaths from long term or permanent effects of COVID-19.
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Every other report of this I’ve seen today is “judge apologizes to justices” with zero context for the so-called “apology.”
It seems like federal district courts are in full revolt against SCOTUS. I've never seen such direct scathing criticism of SCOTUS like this from the bench over their shadow docket rulings quietly overturning precedent without explanation.
From the Harvard decision today.
From the Harvard decision today.
![A screenshot of page 28 of a legal document discussing the difficulty lower courts face when interpreting unclear or rapidly evolving guidance from the Supreme Court.
The following phrases and sentences are highlighted in yellow:
* "That said, the Supreme Court’s recent emergency docket rulings regarding grant terminations have not been models of clarity, and have left many issues unresolved."
* "California was a four-paragraph per curiam decision issued in the context of a stay application."
* "The outcome, which no party had requested, was, thus, inconsistent with the views of eight justices"
* "the issues are complex and evolving."
* "this Court, not the district courts or courts of appeals, will often still be the ultimate decisionmaker as to the interim legal status of major new federal statutes and executive actions."
* "...it is unhelpful and unnecessary to criticize district courts for “defy[ing]” the Supreme Court when they are working to find the right answer in a rapidly evolving doctrinal landscape, where they must grapple with both existing precedent and interim guidance from the Supreme Court that appears to set that precedent aside without much explanation or consensus."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sefgphqp2xqwh2hawaixykwz/bafkreigccsnzzzeeozgxugdllvfylmdjlrmifsf34rgsubkhl5f2viivzu@jpeg)
September 4, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Every other report of this I’ve seen today is “judge apologizes to justices” with zero context for the so-called “apology.”
I believe this Breyer is the brother of that Breyer. The Supreme Court Justice. Gift link.
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The Trump Administration Gets a Serious Scolding
A federal judge’s scathing opinion explains why Trump’s deployment of troops to California was more than just an overreach.
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September 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I believe this Breyer is the brother of that Breyer. The Supreme Court Justice. Gift link.
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