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What could have been… Man Utd v Brentford #ManUtd #PremierLeague
September 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
What could have been… Man Utd v Brentford #ManUtd #PremierLeague
@jsellenberg.bsky.social listening to your audiobook (Shape, 2021) and I just heard about the headache of squaring the circle. How about this for a use, let’s say we want to fight in a circle and we use a rope to mark the circle, we can easily use the same rope to make our fighting area a square. ❤️📕
September 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
@jsellenberg.bsky.social listening to your audiobook (Shape, 2021) and I just heard about the headache of squaring the circle. How about this for a use, let’s say we want to fight in a circle and we use a rope to mark the circle, we can easily use the same rope to make our fighting area a square. ❤️📕
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I received a pair of interesting documents last week from a FOIA request, wherein Los Alamos scientists in 1947 and 1949 tried to answer the question: “How many nukes would it take to make the atmosphere dangerously radioactive?”
You can read the reports here: doomsdaymachines.net/p/irradiatin...
You can read the reports here: doomsdaymachines.net/p/irradiatin...
Irradiating the planet
Los Alamos scientists calculate the limits of radioactivity, 1947-1949
doomsdaymachines.net
September 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I received a pair of interesting documents last week from a FOIA request, wherein Los Alamos scientists in 1947 and 1949 tried to answer the question: “How many nukes would it take to make the atmosphere dangerously radioactive?”
You can read the reports here: doomsdaymachines.net/p/irradiatin...
You can read the reports here: doomsdaymachines.net/p/irradiatin...
It has come to this… www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
A Revealing Joke in the Oval Office About Getting in Trump’s Good Graces
www.nytimes.com
May 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
It has come to this… www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
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If anyone thought Bruce Springsteen would back down after Donald Trump’s threats, last night he doubled down: “In my country, they're taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers. They're rolling back historic civil rights legislation that led to a more just society”
May 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Thank you CSPAN: www.youtube.com/live/qVDP_z0... —> I’m also reading “The True German” on how Germany turned military justice on its head during WWII, it was by decree (much like executive orders) — if only some lawyers stood up to issue “universal injunctions” against those decrees.
Supreme Court Hears Birthright Citizenship Case
YouTube video by C-SPAN
www.youtube.com
May 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Thank you CSPAN: www.youtube.com/live/qVDP_z0... —> I’m also reading “The True German” on how Germany turned military justice on its head during WWII, it was by decree (much like executive orders) — if only some lawyers stood up to issue “universal injunctions” against those decrees.
How is Manchester United 3-0 up by half time but playing poorly? Even with the extra man the most pass connections were between Maguire and Lindelof. Playing scared against 10 while 3 nil up!!!
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May 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
How is Manchester United 3-0 up by half time but playing poorly? Even with the extra man the most pass connections were between Maguire and Lindelof. Playing scared against 10 while 3 nil up!!!
“The Slot machine, pays out the jackpot!” — commentator had that one lined up… 🤣🤣 Congrats to Liverpool on winning the premier league… #YouWillNeverWalkAlone #EPL
April 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“The Slot machine, pays out the jackpot!” — commentator had that one lined up… 🤣🤣 Congrats to Liverpool on winning the premier league… #YouWillNeverWalkAlone #EPL
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New report from the US GAO on human rights obligations related to arms transfers. Includes recommendations for better incorporating external parties’ allegations of civilian harm into State's response process.
More to be done, but this is a (surprising) step forward.
www.gao.gov/products/gao...
More to be done, but this is a (surprising) step forward.
www.gao.gov/products/gao...
Human Rights: State Can Improve Response to Allegations of Civilians Harmed by U.S. Arms Transfers
The United States is the world's largest exporter of defense items such as ammunition and missiles. Public reports have raised concerns that some...
www.gao.gov
April 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
New report from the US GAO on human rights obligations related to arms transfers. Includes recommendations for better incorporating external parties’ allegations of civilian harm into State's response process.
More to be done, but this is a (surprising) step forward.
www.gao.gov/products/gao...
More to be done, but this is a (surprising) step forward.
www.gao.gov/products/gao...
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Can district courts order the executive branch to engage in specific acts of diplomatic negotiation?
If SCOTUS doesn’t think so now, why did it let Matthew Kacsmaryk force U.S. diplomats to negotiate the revival of a Trump border policy in 2021 after Biden tried to end it? slate.com/news-and-pol...
If SCOTUS doesn’t think so now, why did it let Matthew Kacsmaryk force U.S. diplomats to negotiate the revival of a Trump border policy in 2021 after Biden tried to end it? slate.com/news-and-pol...
![Texas and Missouri filed suit in 2021, claiming the program's disbandment was unlawfully
"arbitrary and capricious." They shopped their complaint to the federal court in Amarillo, Texas, where they were guaranteed to draw Kacsmaryk, an ultra-partisan Trump appointee (who would later attempt to ban mifepristone medication abortion nationwide). To nobody's surprise, Kacsmaryk sided with Texas, issuing a nationwide injunction that forced the
government to restart Remain in Mexico almost immediately. Biden's Justice Department promptly begged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to freeze Kacsmaryk's injunction, providing ample evidence that his order would
"significantly harm our diplomatic relationships" and mandate complex "diplomatic engagement" with foreign sovereigns. The 5th Circuit refused a stay, blowing off these concerns in one brusque paragraph. Any harm to Biden's foreign policy agenda, it asserted, was "self-inflicted," because the government should have "simply inform[ed] Mexico" that terminating the program "would be subject to judicial review."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreickdg5clcvsga4eiyfgv7qejxvpvmtdbapusbk2wmgpvwri6txwxm@jpeg)
April 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Can district courts order the executive branch to engage in specific acts of diplomatic negotiation?
If SCOTUS doesn’t think so now, why did it let Matthew Kacsmaryk force U.S. diplomats to negotiate the revival of a Trump border policy in 2021 after Biden tried to end it? slate.com/news-and-pol...
If SCOTUS doesn’t think so now, why did it let Matthew Kacsmaryk force U.S. diplomats to negotiate the revival of a Trump border policy in 2021 after Biden tried to end it? slate.com/news-and-pol...
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"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it."
-Judge L Hand
May we rise in the spirit and do what is necessary to protect our nation.
-Judge L Hand
May we rise in the spirit and do what is necessary to protect our nation.
April 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it."
-Judge L Hand
May we rise in the spirit and do what is necessary to protect our nation.
-Judge L Hand
May we rise in the spirit and do what is necessary to protect our nation.
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If you're looking for an explainer on why due process matters to share with friends and family members who might ... need convincing, I've removed the (partial) paywall from my March 19 post for "One First" on the topic:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-133-...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-133-...
Bonus 133: Due Process and the Rule of Law
Too many Americans don't understand, at a basic level, *why* the Constitution requires due process when the government deprives anyone of their life, liberty, or property.
www.stevevladeck.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
If you're looking for an explainer on why due process matters to share with friends and family members who might ... need convincing, I've removed the (partial) paywall from my March 19 post for "One First" on the topic:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-133-...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-133-...
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Schumer on CBS claims "one of the Republican senators who knows said to us, 'you'll be in the shutdown for six to nine months until we totally destroy the federal government.' So the shutdown was a much worse alternative."
March 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Schumer on CBS claims "one of the Republican senators who knows said to us, 'you'll be in the shutdown for six to nine months until we totally destroy the federal government.' So the shutdown was a much worse alternative."
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Lamine Yamal, you are unreal
March 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Lamine Yamal, you are unreal
Great episode! Historians just might cite to this one day to explain these times. Right out of a Shakespeare play… @thedailyshow.com youtu.be/OeUZI5RnYGg?...
Jon Stewart on Trump’s Heel Turn on Zelenskyy In Favor of Putin’s New World Order | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
youtu.be
March 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Great episode! Historians just might cite to this one day to explain these times. Right out of a Shakespeare play… @thedailyshow.com youtu.be/OeUZI5RnYGg?...
“Unitary Executive Theory” #SupremeCourt brief…
March 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
“Unitary Executive Theory” #SupremeCourt brief…
Benedict Arnold Day 2025.
February 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Benedict Arnold Day 2025.
What a time to be alive. It’s like the New Deal… but in reverse for the bottom %99 that can’t afford their own private jets… #LiveonCSPAN
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February 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
What a time to be alive. It’s like the New Deal… but in reverse for the bottom %99 that can’t afford their own private jets… #LiveonCSPAN
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One thing is clear: the dismantling of our federal agencies and foreign affairs is making America less safe. And, the American people are NOT. HERE. FOR. IT.
Listen to your communities and stand up—because real lives are on the line—and we will not abandon our people, our allies, or our humanity.
Listen to your communities and stand up—because real lives are on the line—and we will not abandon our people, our allies, or our humanity.
February 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
One thing is clear: the dismantling of our federal agencies and foreign affairs is making America less safe. And, the American people are NOT. HERE. FOR. IT.
Listen to your communities and stand up—because real lives are on the line—and we will not abandon our people, our allies, or our humanity.
Listen to your communities and stand up—because real lives are on the line—and we will not abandon our people, our allies, or our humanity.
American: Hello, is this “tech support”?
Tech Support: Yes, why are you wasting air today?
American: I need help with the price of eggs, not killing babies abroad, and cheaper housing?
Tech Support: Delete half your files, delete some children, and tell me what you did last week?
American: Huh? 🤷🏾♂️
Tech Support: Yes, why are you wasting air today?
American: I need help with the price of eggs, not killing babies abroad, and cheaper housing?
Tech Support: Delete half your files, delete some children, and tell me what you did last week?
American: Huh? 🤷🏾♂️
February 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
American: Hello, is this “tech support”?
Tech Support: Yes, why are you wasting air today?
American: I need help with the price of eggs, not killing babies abroad, and cheaper housing?
Tech Support: Delete half your files, delete some children, and tell me what you did last week?
American: Huh? 🤷🏾♂️
Tech Support: Yes, why are you wasting air today?
American: I need help with the price of eggs, not killing babies abroad, and cheaper housing?
Tech Support: Delete half your files, delete some children, and tell me what you did last week?
American: Huh? 🤷🏾♂️
“we are the federal law” :(
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
Trump Clashes With Maine’s Governor, Janet Mills, Over Trans Athletes
President Trump asked Gov. Janet Mills if her state would comply with the executive order he signed banning transgender athletes from women’s sports. He didn’t like her answer.
www.nytimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 4:45 AM
“we are the federal law” :(
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...