Darthskeptic
@darthskeptic.bsky.social
Survived Type 1 Diabetes since 1989. Interests include kittens, metal, gaming, and murderously spicy food. Wishing I picked something other than politics/law to obsess over from high school on.
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Or the laws of armed conflict. Or the Geneva conventions. You cannot kill people who have been rendered hors de combat in a military action.
Decent answer, but this is why CNN needs experts on the law of the sea on, instead of the usual political commentators. They could easily explain why this violates maritime rules.
Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
November 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Or the laws of armed conflict. Or the Geneva conventions. You cannot kill people who have been rendered hors de combat in a military action.
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There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
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The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
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How the fuck do you forget THE EXORCIST exists
November 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM
How the fuck do you forget THE EXORCIST exists
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James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
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Eleventh Circuit affirms $1 million sanctions award against Trump attorneys, led by Alina Habba, for frivolous "racketeering" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton (among many others): storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Eleventh Circuit affirms $1 million sanctions award against Trump attorneys, led by Alina Habba, for frivolous "racketeering" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton (among many others): storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Every day we’re reminded that we live in a scam economy and money is fake.
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Every day we’re reminded that we live in a scam economy and money is fake.
Dune’s “let’s replace AI with super autistic people with autism amplifying drugs” seems better by the day.
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Dune’s “let’s replace AI with super autistic people with autism amplifying drugs” seems better by the day.
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It’s like the people behind the Fyre Festival decided to throw a little war
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It’s like the people behind the Fyre Festival decided to throw a little war
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So the US was aware that the world thought the document was US endorsed, yet waited until now to clarify that it wasn't?
How could the US have communicated to Ukraine that they had to accept the proposal or lose US support without clarifying that the Russian proposal wasn't actually their proposal?
How could the US have communicated to Ukraine that they had to accept the proposal or lose US support without clarifying that the Russian proposal wasn't actually their proposal?
November 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
So the US was aware that the world thought the document was US endorsed, yet waited until now to clarify that it wasn't?
How could the US have communicated to Ukraine that they had to accept the proposal or lose US support without clarifying that the Russian proposal wasn't actually their proposal?
How could the US have communicated to Ukraine that they had to accept the proposal or lose US support without clarifying that the Russian proposal wasn't actually their proposal?
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/2 Are some marginal weirdos genuinely pro-Hamas? Yes.
But when you are part of a movement that calls EVERYONE pro-Hamas if they criticize or question Israel or express concern for Palestinians, I’m not going to waste my time listening to you when you tell me someone is pro-Hamas.
But when you are part of a movement that calls EVERYONE pro-Hamas if they criticize or question Israel or express concern for Palestinians, I’m not going to waste my time listening to you when you tell me someone is pro-Hamas.
November 21, 2025 at 1:05 AM
/2 Are some marginal weirdos genuinely pro-Hamas? Yes.
But when you are part of a movement that calls EVERYONE pro-Hamas if they criticize or question Israel or express concern for Palestinians, I’m not going to waste my time listening to you when you tell me someone is pro-Hamas.
But when you are part of a movement that calls EVERYONE pro-Hamas if they criticize or question Israel or express concern for Palestinians, I’m not going to waste my time listening to you when you tell me someone is pro-Hamas.
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Today in things that sound like alternate history, but aren't...
"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
November 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Today in things that sound like alternate history, but aren't...
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The sequel to Joe Steele we've all been yearning for.
Kruschev considered emigrating to the US as a teenager/young man, interesting to think of him as like a union boss in Detroit or something.
November 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The sequel to Joe Steele we've all been yearning for.
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
The CDC and FDA now state chicken sashimi is completely healthy.
November 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The CDC and FDA now state chicken sashimi is completely healthy.
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Of course one of these morons used ChatGPT to write a use of force report. Of. Course.
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Of course one of these morons used ChatGPT to write a use of force report. Of. Course.
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11th Cir. revives § 1983 case against an Alabama county jail which allegedly knowingly contracted with a healthcare company that employed no physicians and was incompetent, causing the deaths of several inmates.
Held: the so-called Pottery Barn rule applies.
media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
Held: the so-called Pottery Barn rule applies.
media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
![4 The “Pottery Barn rule” refers to the notion that if “‘[y]ou break it, you own
it.’” James Warren, On Donald Trump and the “Pottery Barn Rule”, Vanity Fair,
Nov. 21, 2016 [Perma | On Donald Trump and the “Pottery Barn Rule” |
Vanity Fair]. As it turns out, though, the rule is not Pottery Barn’s policy. Id.
Rather, Pottery Barn’s corporate policy provides “that if you break it accidentally, then you don’t have to pay for it.” Id. The phrase “the Pottery Barn
rule” has been attributed to Tom Friedman of The New York Times. Id. As we
explain below, Smothers presented evidence that would allow a reasonable
jury to find that the county both broke and bought (both literally and figuratively) the Jail’s medical care.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24vva42nxim6zbcmnozegoef/bafkreibh52ybckknhtuaxoxlvplehjbuhfcupmyq4kv22nsa2qyqqcouii@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
11th Cir. revives § 1983 case against an Alabama county jail which allegedly knowingly contracted with a healthcare company that employed no physicians and was incompetent, causing the deaths of several inmates.
Held: the so-called Pottery Barn rule applies.
media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
Held: the so-called Pottery Barn rule applies.
media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
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The screengrab below is nuts. "This officer was so indiscriminate about shooting protesters that plaintiff, as a matter of law, cannot demonstrate he was targeted in retaliation for his First Amendment activity."
DO WE NOT SEE THE PROBLEM HERE
DO WE NOT SEE THE PROBLEM HERE
6th Cir. holds that because police officer also shot pepper balls at George Floyd protesters who weren't filming police, plaintiff (causing permanent vision loss) cannot show the officer shot him in retaliation for filming.
QI for officer.
ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/25/11...
QI for officer.
ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/25/11...
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The screengrab below is nuts. "This officer was so indiscriminate about shooting protesters that plaintiff, as a matter of law, cannot demonstrate he was targeted in retaliation for his First Amendment activity."
DO WE NOT SEE THE PROBLEM HERE
DO WE NOT SEE THE PROBLEM HERE
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This is a fantastic bit of lawyering by a prosecutor who just effectively told the judge that a declination memo exists without technically violating his direct instructions
MORE: Under questioning by the judge, prosecutor Tyler Lemons said that he’s under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether there is a declination memo recommending against the prosecution of Comey
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is a fantastic bit of lawyering by a prosecutor who just effectively told the judge that a declination memo exists without technically violating his direct instructions
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So here’s what apparently happened: they tried to indict Comey on the last day of the statute with a three-count indictment. The grand jury rejected one. Rather than cross it out or indicate on the indictment that only two of the three counts were voted upon, Halligan creates…/1
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
So here’s what apparently happened: they tried to indict Comey on the last day of the statute with a three-count indictment. The grand jury rejected one. Rather than cross it out or indicate on the indictment that only two of the three counts were voted upon, Halligan creates…/1
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In case you wondered, and I know you did, the Texas redistricting case was before a three-judge panel because that’s what 28 U.S.C. 2284 requires when “an action is filed challenging the constitutionality of the apportionment of congressional districts”
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
28 U.S. Code § 2284 - Three-judge court; when required; composition; procedure
www.law.cornell.edu
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
In case you wondered, and I know you did, the Texas redistricting case was before a three-judge panel because that’s what 28 U.S.C. 2284 requires when “an action is filed challenging the constitutionality of the apportionment of congressional districts”
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
No one:
Me: “Does insurance exist on civilized worlds away from any major front in 40k?”
Me: “Does insurance exist on civilized worlds away from any major front in 40k?”
November 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
No one:
Me: “Does insurance exist on civilized worlds away from any major front in 40k?”
Me: “Does insurance exist on civilized worlds away from any major front in 40k?”
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As a reminder, you will occasionally get good rulings out of a Trump appointee from his first term because that was when he was still listening to more mainstream Republicans on who to appoint.
It's the ones being appointed now that you have to worry about.
It's the ones being appointed now that you have to worry about.
"But when the Trump Administration reframed its request as a demand to redistrict congressional seats based on their racial makeup, Texas lawmakers immediately jumped on board."
— Trump appointee Jeffrey V. Brown, writing for a 3-judge panel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
— Trump appointee Jeffrey V. Brown, writing for a 3-judge panel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
As a reminder, you will occasionally get good rulings out of a Trump appointee from his first term because that was when he was still listening to more mainstream Republicans on who to appoint.
It's the ones being appointed now that you have to worry about.
It's the ones being appointed now that you have to worry about.
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So is it worse for OpenAI if their service being down causes major disruption or if barely anyone notices?
ChatGPT has fallen
millions of students must learn
millions of students must learn
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
So is it worse for OpenAI if their service being down causes major disruption or if barely anyone notices?
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(1) What migrants coming across the border? Now? In 2025?
(2) Even if it were true (which I also doubt), how would people importing cattle raise the price of beef?
Even the lie doesn't make sense.
(2) Even if it were true (which I also doubt), how would people importing cattle raise the price of beef?
Even the lie doesn't make sense.
Scott Bessent just said that migrants coming across the border are bringing their cattle with them, and that's why beef prices are so high.
Has there been a single report of someone trying to bring cattle into this country? I highly doubt it.
Has there been a single report of someone trying to bring cattle into this country? I highly doubt it.
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
(1) What migrants coming across the border? Now? In 2025?
(2) Even if it were true (which I also doubt), how would people importing cattle raise the price of beef?
Even the lie doesn't make sense.
(2) Even if it were true (which I also doubt), how would people importing cattle raise the price of beef?
Even the lie doesn't make sense.