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Now in the world of anyone drone striked anywhere
NEW
🧵The White House has now issued its first formal legal justification for the lethal attack on a vessel in the Caribbean.
This War Powers report to Congress is long on bluster and short on substance.
This letter does not adequately justify the premeditated killing of apparent civilians. 1/n
🧵The White House has now issued its first formal legal justification for the lethal attack on a vessel in the Caribbean.
This War Powers report to Congress is long on bluster and short on substance.
This letter does not adequately justify the premeditated killing of apparent civilians. 1/n
September 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Now in the world of anyone drone striked anywhere
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Microwaving a Hot Pocket takes 2 minutes (120 seconds). Google says Gemini uses 0.24 Watt-hours per prompt, about the same as using the microwave for 1 second. THEREFORE, you can either do 120 AI prompts or make 1 Hot Pocket for the same energy. AI is 1/120 Hot Pocket Units. bsky.app/profile/dave...
Wait i know a guy who makes his students do this type of math it is @costasamaras.com
August 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Microwaving a Hot Pocket takes 2 minutes (120 seconds). Google says Gemini uses 0.24 Watt-hours per prompt, about the same as using the microwave for 1 second. THEREFORE, you can either do 120 AI prompts or make 1 Hot Pocket for the same energy. AI is 1/120 Hot Pocket Units. bsky.app/profile/dave...
FFS Gutierrez de Martinez v. Lamagno, 515 U.S. 417 n.8 (1995) “Though ‘shall’ generally means ‘must,’ legal writers sometimes use, or misuse, ‘shall’ to mean ‘should,’ ‘will,’ or even ‘may’….” supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...
June 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
FFS Gutierrez de Martinez v. Lamagno, 515 U.S. 417 n.8 (1995) “Though ‘shall’ generally means ‘must,’ legal writers sometimes use, or misuse, ‘shall’ to mean ‘should,’ ‘will,’ or even ‘may’….” supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...
tl;dr of this article: if you can’t get the state governor to agree you must invoke the insurrection act. That “shall” is doing a LOT of work. does it mean must, or does it mean strongly recommend?
The statute that President Trump has invoked - 10 U.S.C. § 12406 - has an important proviso:
“orders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the States"
Great article @justsecurity.org explains that proviso in this February 2024 article:
“orders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the States"
Great article @justsecurity.org explains that proviso in this February 2024 article:
Biden Can, But Shouldn’t, Federalize the Texas National Guard
Invocation of the Insurrection Act in response to Texas' obstruction of CBP agents at the U.S.-Mexico border would be inappropriate.
www.justsecurity.org
June 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
tl;dr of this article: if you can’t get the state governor to agree you must invoke the insurrection act. That “shall” is doing a LOT of work. does it mean must, or does it mean strongly recommend?
Wait mechanics electricians and HVAC technicians have all been working only in china??? Bring those jobs back!
Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."
April 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Wait mechanics electricians and HVAC technicians have all been working only in china??? Bring those jobs back!
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Here's how this could play out. Imagine a roommate is someone ICE says is a TDA member.
- 2 points for "residing" with him
- 2 points for "closely associating" with him
- 2 points for being in a "group photo"
- 2 points for "social media posts" with him.
= 8 points = sent to prison in El Salvador.
- 2 points for "residing" with him
- 2 points for "closely associating" with him
- 2 points for being in a "group photo"
- 2 points for "social media posts" with him.
= 8 points = sent to prison in El Salvador.
March 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Here's how this could play out. Imagine a roommate is someone ICE says is a TDA member.
- 2 points for "residing" with him
- 2 points for "closely associating" with him
- 2 points for being in a "group photo"
- 2 points for "social media posts" with him.
= 8 points = sent to prison in El Salvador.
- 2 points for "residing" with him
- 2 points for "closely associating" with him
- 2 points for being in a "group photo"
- 2 points for "social media posts" with him.
= 8 points = sent to prison in El Salvador.
They gave it to me when I was having my *0 days old baby with whom I shared a vascular system!!!*
They gave it to our *5 week old baby* when she was on a ventilator!
When I got heart surgery at a naval medical center they gave me fentanyl!
March 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
They gave it to me when I was having my *0 days old baby with whom I shared a vascular system!!!*
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we just need stupider leftists. I'm dead serious. charismatic guys with the stamina to record 100 instagram reels a week in the front seat of their car saying stuff like "trump made summers too hot" and "the fries at wendy's taste better ever since they went woke"
not ideal that a big chunk of the most prominent lefty voices online are youtubers who post like once every 6-18 months www.mediamatters.org/google/right...
The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces
As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, the influence of this media ecosystem becomes more prominent — and Media Matters has found that the most popular of this conte...
www.mediamatters.org
March 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
we just need stupider leftists. I'm dead serious. charismatic guys with the stamina to record 100 instagram reels a week in the front seat of their car saying stuff like "trump made summers too hot" and "the fries at wendy's taste better ever since they went woke"
This, America, THIS is how you use capital letters im dead
GAVIN NEWSOM: So, again, you were talking about the importance of-
EDGAR THE BUG WEARING HUMAN SKIN FROM MEN IN BLACK: SUGAR WATER
GAVIN NEWSOM: Yes, sugar water. And my party hasn't acknowledged how much people love sugar and water. My son was shouting SUGAR WATER at me the other day on xbox.
EDGAR THE BUG WEARING HUMAN SKIN FROM MEN IN BLACK: SUGAR WATER
GAVIN NEWSOM: Yes, sugar water. And my party hasn't acknowledged how much people love sugar and water. My son was shouting SUGAR WATER at me the other day on xbox.
March 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This, America, THIS is how you use capital letters im dead
I’m not a contracts attorney but I distinctly remember from 1L that silence cannot be the way to accept an offer? Also what’s the consideration here? I have common law questions.
This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.
February 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I’m not a contracts attorney but I distinctly remember from 1L that silence cannot be the way to accept an offer? Also what’s the consideration here? I have common law questions.
I’m sorry but social security is a fucking hand out. Let’s just admit as a society that we don’t want old people dying of cold and starvation so we give them a little stipend bc THAT IS THE HUMAN THING TO DO. Means testing would be nice though. (Responding to the AARP page)
If AARP wasn’t ready for this moment than that’s on their leadership as tonight’s news is not a surprise. Many of us have been seen this coming for a while. They have resources and have comms staff and that they aren’t firing out tonight makes their leaders look unfit for the moment.
AARP is a not-for-profit, and they're not set up to do instant press blasts the minute a shocking news report comes out. Electronic privacy isn't their main issue. They do zealously lobby Congress on Social Security issues. action.aarp.org/secure/prote...
February 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I’m sorry but social security is a fucking hand out. Let’s just admit as a society that we don’t want old people dying of cold and starvation so we give them a little stipend bc THAT IS THE HUMAN THING TO DO. Means testing would be nice though. (Responding to the AARP page)
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I am going to keep saying this. They are crashing these public services so that they can argue that they need to take them over and privatize them. We need to resist that with every fiber of our being.
Bonneville Power Administration, Northwest’s largest transmission grid operator letting go of 600 workers as part of Trumps cuts www.oregonlive.com/environment/...
At least 600 workers to leave BPA, spurring concerns about transmission grid
The Bonneville Power Administration, the region’s largest transmission grid operator, will lose at least 600 workers under President Donald Trump’s sweeping efforts to reduce the federal workforce.
www.oregonlive.com
February 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I am going to keep saying this. They are crashing these public services so that they can argue that they need to take them over and privatize them. We need to resist that with every fiber of our being.
The thing that most infuriates me about the RFK MAHA EO is not that it proposes literal labor camps for folks on SSRIs but that NOT ONCE does it mention PLASTIC which is actually giving us all cancer and fucking up our reproductive systems. Fuck off to this admin’s industry interests.
February 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The thing that most infuriates me about the RFK MAHA EO is not that it proposes literal labor camps for folks on SSRIs but that NOT ONCE does it mention PLASTIC which is actually giving us all cancer and fucking up our reproductive systems. Fuck off to this admin’s industry interests.
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I firmly believe @petebuttigieg.bsky.social should lead a daily press conference. We are in desperate need of simple, unified messaging
Waging a procedural war and an information war will at least delay — and possibly prevent — an actual war. I don't get why Democratic leaders don't see the necessity here.
If Democrats don't have the stomach to actually wage the procedural war that's fully within their power, they must at the very bare minimum wage the information war that's both right in front of them and extremely ripe with targets.
February 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I firmly believe @petebuttigieg.bsky.social should lead a daily press conference. We are in desperate need of simple, unified messaging
If an executive order is announced but isn’t published… what the fuck are the actual tariffs on Mexico and china and under what legal authority???
February 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
If an executive order is announced but isn’t published… what the fuck are the actual tariffs on Mexico and china and under what legal authority???
My wife (a woman) and I (also a woman) both call it babysitting when we’re alone with the baby. Shrug emoji (the lady one)
What might it take for an author, multiple editors, a copy editor, & whoever else has eyes on this at *checks notes* The New York Times to realize that dads ARE NEVER THE BABYSITTER FOR THEIR OWN KIDS
January 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
My wife (a woman) and I (also a woman) both call it babysitting when we’re alone with the baby. Shrug emoji (the lady one)
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December 14, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Remember when the internet was composed of random obscure geocities pages and people being lovely in yahoo chat?
Hard to overstate how badly Elon has kicked our ass when it comes to this basic norm
When social media sites tell you moderation has limits I want you to know there was a time when you could only find the worst people on obscure forums created for being offensive because everywhere else moderated them into those corners.
December 14, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Remember when the internet was composed of random obscure geocities pages and people being lovely in yahoo chat?
After learning you have ADHD it becomes very easy to spot others with ADHD
Diving into writing a new kid’s book and have two weeks to deliver the 25,000 manuscript. Is this the right time to experiment with a new writing method? Maybe not, but I’m doing it anyway. A new way of working may give me the momentum I need!
November 27, 2024 at 1:32 PM
After learning you have ADHD it becomes very easy to spot others with ADHD