aviduser
@aviduser.bsky.social
Progressive father, lawyer, cyclist, thinker. Hopeful that the USA will one day live up to the promise of the Declaration of Independence. Dumbfounded that we seem to be stuck in an historical feedback loop.
What a hideous monstrosity.
You know, I see folks going after the construction company building this monstrosity.
Why aren't people going after the funders? A lot of people gave a lot of money to build this thing. Why are they getting off the hook?
Why aren't people going after the funders? A lot of people gave a lot of money to build this thing. Why are they getting off the hook?
October 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
What a hideous monstrosity.
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They want us fighting so we never notice who is stealing from us all. Don’t get lost in the circus.
August 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
They want us fighting so we never notice who is stealing from us all. Don’t get lost in the circus.
What award would the Kennedy Center have for a no talent ass clown?
Trump: Since 1978 the Kennedy Center honors have been amongst the most prestigious awards. I wanted one, never able to get one. I would have taken it. I waited and waited and waited and I said to hell with it, I'll become chairman. I will give myself an honor. Next year we'll honor trump, okay?
August 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
What award would the Kennedy Center have for a no talent ass clown?
Seems like a mafia protection racket. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...
U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China
www.nytimes.com
August 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Seems like a mafia protection racket. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...
With all the AI generated fake content and propaganda, I predict that the internet is going to become much less of a public good.
August 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
With all the AI generated fake content and propaganda, I predict that the internet is going to become much less of a public good.
Of course! They are only allowed to be shills for the right!
Totally normal stuff: the U.S. president once again threatening to shut down media outlets for reporting the news. Just a wannabe dictator doing his thing.
July 27, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Of course! They are only allowed to be shills for the right!
This should be nothing but a “no duh” outcome, but sadly in this day and age, “no duh” outcomes are not a given.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit wrote that Mr. Trump's order is "invalid because it contradicts the plain language of the Fourteenth Amendment's grant of citizenship to 'all persons born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.'"
www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-...
www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-...
Trump's birthright citizenship order is unconstitutional, appeals court says
A federal appeals court said Wednesday that President Trump's executive order curtailing birthright citizenship is unconstitutional.
www.cbsnews.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This should be nothing but a “no duh” outcome, but sadly in this day and age, “no duh” outcomes are not a given.
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Re Velvet Sundown:
Someone is confusing songs about dust and wind.
“The band’s lyrics, too, were a perfect mesh of generic anti-war sentiments and other clichés like “Nothin’ lasts forever but the earth and sky, it slips away, and all your money won’t another minute buy.”
Someone is confusing songs about dust and wind.
“The band’s lyrics, too, were a perfect mesh of generic anti-war sentiments and other clichés like “Nothin’ lasts forever but the earth and sky, it slips away, and all your money won’t another minute buy.”
nypost.com
July 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Re Velvet Sundown:
Someone is confusing songs about dust and wind.
“The band’s lyrics, too, were a perfect mesh of generic anti-war sentiments and other clichés like “Nothin’ lasts forever but the earth and sky, it slips away, and all your money won’t another minute buy.”
Someone is confusing songs about dust and wind.
“The band’s lyrics, too, were a perfect mesh of generic anti-war sentiments and other clichés like “Nothin’ lasts forever but the earth and sky, it slips away, and all your money won’t another minute buy.”
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Intentional delay cuz they know they will lose their seats in 2026 once their constituents feel the pain and suffering of this Big Ugly Bill!
July 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Intentional delay cuz they know they will lose their seats in 2026 once their constituents feel the pain and suffering of this Big Ugly Bill!
There is exactly zero chance that I’d sign up for anything Musk was pushing.
Huh
July 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
There is exactly zero chance that I’d sign up for anything Musk was pushing.
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It’s really great that Congress and the Trump administration have devoted so many resources to reinforcing FEMA and ensuring that it can respond more effectively to the ever increasing number of natural disast …… oh, wait
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Texas flooding live updates: Rescue effort enters a third day as dozens remain missing
Flash-flood warnings and watches remained in effect for parts of Central Texas, dimming hopes that more survivors would be found.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It’s really great that Congress and the Trump administration have devoted so many resources to reinforcing FEMA and ensuring that it can respond more effectively to the ever increasing number of natural disast …… oh, wait
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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How bad is Trump’s Big Abominable Bill?
When the richest man alive, Elon Musk, criticized it, Trump’s allies threatened to have him deported from the United States.
*That’s* how bad they *know* the bill is. *That’s* how much it’s pork-laden fare for rich American elites *only*.
When the richest man alive, Elon Musk, criticized it, Trump’s allies threatened to have him deported from the United States.
*That’s* how bad they *know* the bill is. *That’s* how much it’s pork-laden fare for rich American elites *only*.
June 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
How bad is Trump’s Big Abominable Bill?
When the richest man alive, Elon Musk, criticized it, Trump’s allies threatened to have him deported from the United States.
*That’s* how bad they *know* the bill is. *That’s* how much it’s pork-laden fare for rich American elites *only*.
When the richest man alive, Elon Musk, criticized it, Trump’s allies threatened to have him deported from the United States.
*That’s* how bad they *know* the bill is. *That’s* how much it’s pork-laden fare for rich American elites *only*.
Funny what happens when you use a bomb you’ve never used before. Results might not be entirely predictable.
Wow, I thought Trump said "Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated."
apnews.com/article/iran...
apnews.com/article/iran...
Early US intelligence report suggests US strikes only set back Iran’s nuclear program by months
A new U.S. intelligence report suggests that Iran’s nuclear program has been set back only a few months after U.S. strikes, not “completely and totally obliterated” as President Donald Trump has said.
apnews.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Funny what happens when you use a bomb you’ve never used before. Results might not be entirely predictable.
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BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional.
We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.
We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.
June 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional.
We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.
We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.
Justice Jackson is brilliant.
Whoa. Spicy footnote from Justice Jackson, dissenting in the ADA case. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![The majority’s contention that I reject “ ‘pure textualism’ [a]s insuf
ficiently pliable to secure the result [I] seek,” ante, at 10, stems from an
unfortunate misunderstanding of the judicial role. Our interpretative
task is not to seek our own desired results (whatever they may be). And,
indeed, it is precisely because of this solemn duty that, in my view, it is
imperative that we interpret statutes consistent with all relevant indicia
of what Congress wanted, as best we can ascertain its intent. A method
ology that includes consideration of Congress’s aims does exactly that—
and no more. By contrast, pure textualism’s refusal to try to understand
the text of a statute in the larger context of what Congress sought to
achieve turns the interpretive task into a potent weapon for advancing
judicial policy preferences. By “finding” answers in ambiguous text, and
not bothering to consider whether those answers align with other sources
of statutory meaning, pure textualists can easily disguise their own pref
erences as “textual” inevitabilities. So, really, far from being “insuffi
ciently pliable,” I think pure textualism is incessantly malleable—that’s
its primary problem—and, indeed, it is certainly somehow always flexi
ble enough to secure the majority’s desired outcome.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f4d76fjna5nxqsy2fu6cgmp3/bafkreicg7mx5lddzyvnoguvadwnojtm7xcu2sf34hhizuapfesk46w7kli@jpeg)
June 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Justice Jackson is brilliant.
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Apparently, the National Republican Congressional Committee doesn't like this ad, and would not like you to watch it.
June 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Apparently, the National Republican Congressional Committee doesn't like this ad, and would not like you to watch it.
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On Juneteenth, we celebrate freedom and recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope for tomorrow’s light.
June 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
On Juneteenth, we celebrate freedom and recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope for tomorrow’s light.
This is a fucked up story from the land of the free and the home of the brave.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.
www.newyorker.com
June 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is a fucked up story from the land of the free and the home of the brave.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Unfortunately, Bush 43 created a precedent for preemptive attacks with his lies about Iraq having a nuclear weapon.
June 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Unfortunately, Bush 43 created a precedent for preemptive attacks with his lies about Iraq having a nuclear weapon.
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June 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Even a stopped clock…
June 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Even a stopped clock…