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One of Barry's descendants surveying the area at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica
Bare-throated Tiger-Heron
#birds #herons #nature
Bare-throated Tiger-Heron
#birds #herons #nature
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
One of Barry's descendants surveying the area at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica
Bare-throated Tiger-Heron
#birds #herons #nature
Bare-throated Tiger-Heron
#birds #herons #nature
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Crucial thing to watch: The Dem blowout wins suggest it'll be way more risky for GOPers to gerrymander, because the GOP safer seats may become more vulnerable than expected. Rs in those seats will now be very nervous.
Exchange on this w/Dem operative Jessica Post:
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
Exchange on this w/Dem operative Jessica Post:
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
November 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Crucial thing to watch: The Dem blowout wins suggest it'll be way more risky for GOPers to gerrymander, because the GOP safer seats may become more vulnerable than expected. Rs in those seats will now be very nervous.
Exchange on this w/Dem operative Jessica Post:
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
Exchange on this w/Dem operative Jessica Post:
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
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For those who want to block everyone who follows a certain account or likes or reposts a certain post, here's a powerful tool: Blockenheimer (newly reborn).
Use it thoughtfully, because as with blocklists, it's all too easy to accidentally block friends! block.alxtratrstrl.xyz/index.html
Use it thoughtfully, because as with blocklists, it's all too easy to accidentally block friends! block.alxtratrstrl.xyz/index.html
October 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
For those who want to block everyone who follows a certain account or likes or reposts a certain post, here's a powerful tool: Blockenheimer (newly reborn).
Use it thoughtfully, because as with blocklists, it's all too easy to accidentally block friends! block.alxtratrstrl.xyz/index.html
Use it thoughtfully, because as with blocklists, it's all too easy to accidentally block friends! block.alxtratrstrl.xyz/index.html
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15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.
Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
October 16, 2025 at 4:43 AM
15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.
Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
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The thing is, I actually have no idea why people are mad at the Bluesky folks, but all I *do* see is them making asses of themselves.
October 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The thing is, I actually have no idea why people are mad at the Bluesky folks, but all I *do* see is them making asses of themselves.
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More people should be talking about this.
September 26, 2025 at 5:29 AM
More people should be talking about this.
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The greater cantle of the world is lost
With very ignorance, we have kiss’d away
Kingdoms and provinces.
With very ignorance, we have kiss’d away
Kingdoms and provinces.
September 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The greater cantle of the world is lost
With very ignorance, we have kiss’d away
Kingdoms and provinces.
With very ignorance, we have kiss’d away
Kingdoms and provinces.
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Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk
#birds #photography #birdphotography #birding #nature #naturephotography #wildlife
#birds #photography #birdphotography #birding #nature #naturephotography #wildlife
September 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk
#birds #photography #birdphotography #birding #nature #naturephotography #wildlife
#birds #photography #birdphotography #birding #nature #naturephotography #wildlife
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Tired: Millions of lines of COBOL written in the 1960s no one understands.
Wired: Billions of lines of Python written by AI last week no one understands.
Wired: Billions of lines of Python written by AI last week no one understands.
August 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Tired: Millions of lines of COBOL written in the 1960s no one understands.
Wired: Billions of lines of Python written by AI last week no one understands.
Wired: Billions of lines of Python written by AI last week no one understands.
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Natural history archives and collections, if they close under these illegal Trump impoundments, will very likely be sold off to collectors and/or stuffed into landfills and lost forever. We can't restart that. Some of the source populations for our specimens are extinct.
I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost
I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.
June 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Natural history archives and collections, if they close under these illegal Trump impoundments, will very likely be sold off to collectors and/or stuffed into landfills and lost forever. We can't restart that. Some of the source populations for our specimens are extinct.
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I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
May 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
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I don’t care what Ozturk wrote. It doesn’t matter. This is America. We’re fucking free to have opinions of all sorts. It doesn’t matter. You don’t get to lock up people for bad thought. That’s against the fucking law and morals and fuck every last person arguing that this is a crime. Fuck all of em
May 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I don’t care what Ozturk wrote. It doesn’t matter. This is America. We’re fucking free to have opinions of all sorts. It doesn’t matter. You don’t get to lock up people for bad thought. That’s against the fucking law and morals and fuck every last person arguing that this is a crime. Fuck all of em
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So therefore the court finds that she does not pose danger to community or present risk of flight.
THE COURT ORDERS THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE OZTURK FROM CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY.
"Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."
THE COURT ORDERS THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE OZTURK FROM CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY.
"Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."
May 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Hume with an early intervention in the pineapple-on-pizza debate.
“One person may perceive deformity, where another is sensible of beauty; and every individual ought to acquiesce in his own sentiment, without pretending to regulate those of others.”
— David Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
— David Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
May 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Hume with an early intervention in the pineapple-on-pizza debate.
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I'm up with a new piece on @lawfaremedia.org about the problems the Supreme Court would face trying to repeal Humphrey's Executor while preserving Federal Reserve independence.
A thread:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/repe...
A thread:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/repe...
Repealing Humphrey’s Executor and the Problem of the Federal Reserve
There is simply no principled way for the Supreme Court to retain the Fed’s removal protections while overturning Humphrey’s Executor.
www.lawfaremedia.org
April 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I'm up with a new piece on @lawfaremedia.org about the problems the Supreme Court would face trying to repeal Humphrey's Executor while preserving Federal Reserve independence.
A thread:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/repe...
A thread:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/repe...
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🔥 @ninajankowicz.com to the European Parliament: "Before I describe the details of Russia's recent online influence campaigns, I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy: The United States of America."
April 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🔥 @ninajankowicz.com to the European Parliament: "Before I describe the details of Russia's recent online influence campaigns, I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy: The United States of America."
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Wrote this in 2023, but it is relevant again because Trump proposing a new Schedule F rule. The basic issues remain the same, as does the value of public comment. You can submit a comment starting on April 23 and until May 23.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-tangible...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-tangible...
April 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Wrote this in 2023, but it is relevant again because Trump proposing a new Schedule F rule. The basic issues remain the same, as does the value of public comment. You can submit a comment starting on April 23 and until May 23.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-tangible...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-tangible...
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Best analysis I've read this morning of the extraordinary things that happened while I was asleep
www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...
144. The Supreme Court's Late-Night Alien Enemy Act Intervention
Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.
www.stevevladeck.com
April 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Best analysis I've read this morning of the extraordinary things that happened while I was asleep
www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...
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I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
April 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
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This aged like milk.
Donald Trump's weaponization of the tax system is illegal and a threat to every person who works hard and plays by the rules.
Why aren't Republicans in Congress speaking out now? Grow a spine.
Donald Trump's weaponization of the tax system is illegal and a threat to every person who works hard and plays by the rules.
Why aren't Republicans in Congress speaking out now? Grow a spine.
April 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This aged like milk.
Donald Trump's weaponization of the tax system is illegal and a threat to every person who works hard and plays by the rules.
Why aren't Republicans in Congress speaking out now? Grow a spine.
Donald Trump's weaponization of the tax system is illegal and a threat to every person who works hard and plays by the rules.
Why aren't Republicans in Congress speaking out now? Grow a spine.
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It's worth reading the entire 7-page 4th Circuit ruling rejecting Trump's appeal in the Abrego Garcia case. I've never read anything quite like it. It's an elegy to the end of the country as they've and we've known it. It rues "all that might have been."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
It's worth reading the entire 7-page 4th Circuit ruling rejecting Trump's appeal in the Abrego Garcia case. I've never read anything quite like it. It's an elegy to the end of the country as they've and we've known it. It rues "all that might have been."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Good Lord. 4th Cir. (Judge Wilkinson writing):
"We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Good Lord. 4th Cir. (Judge Wilkinson writing):
"We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...