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Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.
October 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.
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September 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Hi folks! An announcement! Also, check out @boidscomic.bsky.social !
August 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Hi folks! An announcement! Also, check out @boidscomic.bsky.social !
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Re: Mahmoud Khalil
For the love of God, stop panicking already. An immigration judge ruled against him, yes. But IJs aren't even real judges: they're attorneys hired by the Executive Office of Immigration Review to apply immigration laws and regulations.
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For the love of God, stop panicking already. An immigration judge ruled against him, yes. But IJs aren't even real judges: they're attorneys hired by the Executive Office of Immigration Review to apply immigration laws and regulations.
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April 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Re: Mahmoud Khalil
For the love of God, stop panicking already. An immigration judge ruled against him, yes. But IJs aren't even real judges: they're attorneys hired by the Executive Office of Immigration Review to apply immigration laws and regulations.
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For the love of God, stop panicking already. An immigration judge ruled against him, yes. But IJs aren't even real judges: they're attorneys hired by the Executive Office of Immigration Review to apply immigration laws and regulations.
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Started the morning with a story about the role of the federal government in special education in light of recent comments from the Trump administration about moving "special needs" to HHS.
www.npr.org/2025/04/03/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/03/n...
How the Education Department helps students with disabilities get an education
Special education laws and the U.S. Department of Education have evolved together over nearly five decades. Now, the Trump administration seems to want to separate the two.
www.npr.org
April 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Started the morning with a story about the role of the federal government in special education in light of recent comments from the Trump administration about moving "special needs" to HHS.
www.npr.org/2025/04/03/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/03/n...
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I know many are kind of in shock at Switch 2 game prices specially with Mario Kart World but its hardly surprising when you consider a certain president is supposed to be announcing his big new tariffs today. Everything about the Switch 2 pricing smacks of tariff accounting.
April 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I know many are kind of in shock at Switch 2 game prices specially with Mario Kart World but its hardly surprising when you consider a certain president is supposed to be announcing his big new tariffs today. Everything about the Switch 2 pricing smacks of tariff accounting.
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So *both* "winners" of Elon Musk's random $1 million check were Republican operatives.
Scoop: Ekaterina Diestler, one of the "winners" of Elon Musk's $1 million handout in Wisconsin, works for a company founded and headed by Republican mega donors. Bruce Bell, the founder of Belmark, has donated thousands to Brad Schimel's campaign & other GOP causes. www.theverge.com/politics/640...
April 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
So *both* "winners" of Elon Musk's random $1 million check were Republican operatives.
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What led to the development of open-concept schools in the United States in the 1970s? There is no one better to take a crack at this then @schoolmarmadvisors.com!
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March 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
What led to the development of open-concept schools in the United States in the 1970s? There is no one better to take a crack at this then @schoolmarmadvisors.com!
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Well, Trump signed another EO, this one about voter registration. This is one of the areas I'm highly qualified to comment: I studied voting intensely in my Ph.D program.
tl;dr: this is even more blatantly unconstitutional than his EO ending birthright citizenship.
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tl;dr: this is even more blatantly unconstitutional than his EO ending birthright citizenship.
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March 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Well, Trump signed another EO, this one about voter registration. This is one of the areas I'm highly qualified to comment: I studied voting intensely in my Ph.D program.
tl;dr: this is even more blatantly unconstitutional than his EO ending birthright citizenship.
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tl;dr: this is even more blatantly unconstitutional than his EO ending birthright citizenship.
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"Could SecDef Hegseth really have implicitly declassified all the stuff he shared?"
No. _NYT v CIA_ (2nd Circuit) governs. Money quote is here. When there is a clearly specified EO regulating the declassification of material, everyone, even the President, must obey.
This argument is meritless.
No. _NYT v CIA_ (2nd Circuit) governs. Money quote is here. When there is a clearly specified EO regulating the declassification of material, everyone, even the President, must obey.
This argument is meritless.
March 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
"Could SecDef Hegseth really have implicitly declassified all the stuff he shared?"
No. _NYT v CIA_ (2nd Circuit) governs. Money quote is here. When there is a clearly specified EO regulating the declassification of material, everyone, even the President, must obey.
This argument is meritless.
No. _NYT v CIA_ (2nd Circuit) governs. Money quote is here. When there is a clearly specified EO regulating the declassification of material, everyone, even the President, must obey.
This argument is meritless.
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Wasn’t this an episode of Black Mirror?
The chatbot imitated the deceased teen's personality, referenced some of his favorite pop culture interests, and even offered a two-way call feature with his cloned voice, lawyers say.
Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide
Character.AI takes down bots bearing likeness of boy at center of lawsuit.
arstechnica.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Wasn’t this an episode of Black Mirror?
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One of the lesser considered things that might become enormous problems:
The Judiciary losing its trust in the competence and compliance of U.S. attorneys.
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The Judiciary losing its trust in the competence and compliance of U.S. attorneys.
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March 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
One of the lesser considered things that might become enormous problems:
The Judiciary losing its trust in the competence and compliance of U.S. attorneys.
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The Judiciary losing its trust in the competence and compliance of U.S. attorneys.
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Drop a like on this comment, or star/follow/fork on GitHub, if you think this kind of high-quality hackery is your bag. And as always, constructive criticism, useful bug reports, and high quality PRs are the best praise there is.
github.com/rjhansen/dji...
github.com/rjhansen/dji...
March 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Drop a like on this comment, or star/follow/fork on GitHub, if you think this kind of high-quality hackery is your bag. And as always, constructive criticism, useful bug reports, and high quality PRs are the best praise there is.
github.com/rjhansen/dji...
github.com/rjhansen/dji...
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Playdate - Gator Days
March 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Playdate - Gator Days
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For years I justified my twitter habit by saying, "I need to be here to promote my books and stuff like the Project for Awesome."
Without twitter, this year's p4a raised a record $3,700,000.
Without twitter, Everything Is Tuberculosis (a history of tuberculosis!) is outselling my previous book...
Without twitter, this year's p4a raised a record $3,700,000.
Without twitter, Everything Is Tuberculosis (a history of tuberculosis!) is outselling my previous book...
March 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
For years I justified my twitter habit by saying, "I need to be here to promote my books and stuff like the Project for Awesome."
Without twitter, this year's p4a raised a record $3,700,000.
Without twitter, Everything Is Tuberculosis (a history of tuberculosis!) is outselling my previous book...
Without twitter, this year's p4a raised a record $3,700,000.
Without twitter, Everything Is Tuberculosis (a history of tuberculosis!) is outselling my previous book...
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It's been a long time since I've seen SCOTUS reasoning this shoddy. Let's look at it slowly, because there's a lot to unpack.
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March 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It's been a long time since I've seen SCOTUS reasoning this shoddy. Let's look at it slowly, because there's a lot to unpack.
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We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
March 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
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I was trying to teach Orin a lesson about the world today and I asked, “what percent of earth’s land is our country.” And he stood there and thought for a second and said, “Like three percent?” And I was like, “well, pretty much yeah 😒.”
He’s getting too old, I need new tricks.
He’s getting too old, I need new tricks.
March 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I was trying to teach Orin a lesson about the world today and I asked, “what percent of earth’s land is our country.” And he stood there and thought for a second and said, “Like three percent?” And I was like, “well, pretty much yeah 😒.”
He’s getting too old, I need new tricks.
He’s getting too old, I need new tricks.
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Many thanks to #TheWildRobot team for inviting me to attend #TheOscars & to the Academy for asking me to be a part of the ceremony. I will be presenting the award for Original Score with no wardrobe malfunctions whatsoever.🤞
March 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Many thanks to #TheWildRobot team for inviting me to attend #TheOscars & to the Academy for asking me to be a part of the ceremony. I will be presenting the award for Original Score with no wardrobe malfunctions whatsoever.🤞
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
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Something I removed from my latest video which I now regret removing was the fact that YouTube uploaders can choose to prevent a video from appearing in the Subscriptions feed.
If we uncheck "Publish to subscriptions feed and notify subscribers" during the upload process... it won't go to subs.
If we uncheck "Publish to subscriptions feed and notify subscribers" during the upload process... it won't go to subs.
March 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Something I removed from my latest video which I now regret removing was the fact that YouTube uploaders can choose to prevent a video from appearing in the Subscriptions feed.
If we uncheck "Publish to subscriptions feed and notify subscribers" during the upload process... it won't go to subs.
If we uncheck "Publish to subscriptions feed and notify subscribers" during the upload process... it won't go to subs.
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4 key steps to transform the USA back into a scientific nation
The USA has endured false-equivalence narratives, supported the reckless endangerment of others, siloed science and its benefits while deprioritizing and defunding science.
Let's fix that.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#science #space
The USA has endured false-equivalence narratives, supported the reckless endangerment of others, siloed science and its benefits while deprioritizing and defunding science.
Let's fix that.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#science #space
4 key steps to transform the USA back into a scientific nation
We've wasted our time and resources ideologically policing and punishing each other for far too long. Here's a better route to prosperity.
bigthink.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
4 key steps to transform the USA back into a scientific nation
The USA has endured false-equivalence narratives, supported the reckless endangerment of others, siloed science and its benefits while deprioritizing and defunding science.
Let's fix that.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#science #space
The USA has endured false-equivalence narratives, supported the reckless endangerment of others, siloed science and its benefits while deprioritizing and defunding science.
Let's fix that.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#science #space
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🚨 BREAKING: Pentagon orders Cyber Command to halt ALL Russia operations
CISA also told to drop Russia from threat monitoring. "Putin is on the inside now," insider tells Guardian.
#cybersecurity
CISA also told to drop Russia from threat monitoring. "Putin is on the inside now," insider tells Guardian.
#cybersecurity
Pentagon Orders Cyber Command to Stand Down on Russia Operations
The U.S. government has dramatically reversed its stance on Russian cyber threats, marking a stark departure from years of vigilance against Moscow's digital operations. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered U.S. Cyber Command to halt all planning aga...
www.implicator.ai
March 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
🚨 BREAKING: Pentagon orders Cyber Command to halt ALL Russia operations
CISA also told to drop Russia from threat monitoring. "Putin is on the inside now," insider tells Guardian.
#cybersecurity
CISA also told to drop Russia from threat monitoring. "Putin is on the inside now," insider tells Guardian.
#cybersecurity