Raylan Gibbons
antoniodramsci.bsky.social
Raylan Gibbons
@antoniodramsci.bsky.social
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The fact that NBC can (accurately) call the Administrative Procedure Act “obscure” just shows how little Americans know about how their government works.

It literally is one of the most important laws ever enacted by Congress.
"Arbitrary and capricious"

A law that requires federal agencies to follow the correct process when making changes in policy is becoming a big hindrance to Trump and his shock and awe makeover of the government.

New, from me 👇
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
This obscure law is one reason Trump's agenda keeps losing in court
Lawsuits challenging Trump policies raise big constitutional questions, but they also rely on a law that requires the government to follow the correct procedures when changing course.
www.nbcnews.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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i mean, the president's executive order isn't a goddamn law! as far as this doctor is concerned, who cares what the president says!
February 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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The idea that it’s undemocratic to use the powers given to you under state law to remove a corrupt mayor who is essentially being bribed into complying with an administration that’s breaking the law every minute is ridiculous.
Earlier today, Gov. Hochul was asked whether she's considering using her power to remove Eric Adams as mayor.

" That does not feel like something that's very democratic," she said. "That's why I'm not going to go there."
February 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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jokes aside, the really interesting thing to me here, and with similar posts from other right wing pundits complaining about the performance that I've seen is that there seems to be a mass delusion that Trump's win represented a total cultural victory, not a narrow win in a low enthusiasm election
February 10, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.

In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
February 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Slicker, savvier Dems are hoping a big part of the base will instantly forget the last administration's militant support for genocide and ethnic cleansing, backed by its entire foreign policy team, very much including Samantha Power. But moral rot smells bad. It does not inspire
“Killing USAID Is a Win for Autocrats Everywhere”

Samantha Power, who served as USAID Administrator for all four years under President Biden, writes about the danger of losing USAID.
Opinion | Samantha Power: Killing U.S.A.I.D. Is a Win for Autocrats Everywhere (Gift Article)
The attacks on the agency are cruel and counterproductive.
bit.ly
February 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Nico Harrison ass
Oh boy, there's more. At a presser minutes ago, Jeffries says he's powerless:

JOURNALIST: To what extent will Dems withhold votes in the negotiations?

JEFFRIES: Repubs control trifecta, it’s THEIR govt. What leverage do we have? We’re going to continue to try to find bipartisan common ground...
February 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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This is what I think of as a specific kind of ignorance that heavily affects young white guys who work in tech. It says “i don’t know about this, so I assume no one else does either.” It’s new to them, so it must be new to everybody!
February 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Nico Harrison needs to be killed
February 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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talk radio freaks have always found deranged ways to be mad at their teams for losing, but being mad they failed to cover your weird bets is a particularly egregious example of why i despise all the gambling tie-ins with sports now
October 1, 2023 at 3:26 PM
Are people being weird on here
July 15, 2023 at 2:23 AM
Threads sucks, I don’t even use bluesky but this app is definitely better
July 6, 2023 at 2:26 AM
Fourth of July movie queued up
July 3, 2023 at 5:38 PM
Where are all the baseball perverts on here
July 2, 2023 at 2:05 PM
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WIP for today!
June 3, 2023 at 5:14 AM
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Happy Pride Month!
June 1, 2023 at 4:40 PM
Sickening that this app doesn’t have a dm feature yet. The posters yearn for chats
May 31, 2023 at 8:13 PM