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Good servant. Pie maker. Riot grrl dad. Obsessed with the limits of Executive Privilege.
Justices Roberts and Alito were so smugly confident in their sophomoric gotcha proposition that if the Trump admin loses, Congress can make the Education Dept into a multi-member commission. Plaintiff’s attorney Agarwal responded essentially, yes, why not? Just don’t give them guns and handcuffs.
In a memo John Roberts wrote just 4 yrs out of law school, he said the “time may be ripe to reconsider the existence” of independent agencies & bring them back into the executive branch. Now he’s poised to end what he has long called “a constitutional anomaly.”
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Conservative Project at Supreme Court Meets Trump’s Push to Oust Officials
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December 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Justices Roberts and Alito were so smugly confident in their sophomoric gotcha proposition that if the Trump admin loses, Congress can make the Education Dept into a multi-member commission. Plaintiff’s attorney Agarwal responded essentially, yes, why not? Just don’t give them guns and handcuffs.
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6/ Trump’s SG Sauer opens with ironically relying on recent 5-4 precedent in Seila in arguing to overturn a 90-year old unanimous precedent Humphrey’s.
So far, no originalist arguments.
So far, no originalist arguments.
December 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
6/ Trump’s SG Sauer opens with ironically relying on recent 5-4 precedent in Seila in arguing to overturn a 90-year old unanimous precedent Humphrey’s.
So far, no originalist arguments.
So far, no originalist arguments.
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Everyone should listen to this oral argument. Sotomayor very clearly lays out how the end of independent rulemaking agencies will be rulemaking agencies led by the presidency. Gorsuch immediately responds that the answer is to end rulemaking agencies full stop.
December 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Everyone should listen to this oral argument. Sotomayor very clearly lays out how the end of independent rulemaking agencies will be rulemaking agencies led by the presidency. Gorsuch immediately responds that the answer is to end rulemaking agencies full stop.
Justice Sotomayor seems dead set on casting the Trump Admin and court conservatives as unhinged radicals out to watch the world burn …and they’re not disagreeing!
Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
December 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Justice Sotomayor seems dead set on casting the Trump Admin and court conservatives as unhinged radicals out to watch the world burn …and they’re not disagreeing!
Shots fired, as it were.
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
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December 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Shots fired, as it were.
The pilot ep of Mad Men may be one of the best episodes of TV ever. Wow.
December 7, 2025 at 6:22 AM
The pilot ep of Mad Men may be one of the best episodes of TV ever. Wow.
Pete Hegseth’s tell-all book about the Trump admin will be called, “I was NOT in the room where it happened.“
"Hegseth would still have been reachable after he left the room. One would think the commander would have taken a minute to call him...Unless Hegseth had given an order ahead of time to 'kill everyone.' Either way, the second strike is Hegseth’s responsibility."
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The Potemkin Pentagon Press
Stacking a briefing room with Trump stans might seem like good praxis for a guy like Pete Hegseth. But it can backfire, too.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Pete Hegseth’s tell-all book about the Trump admin will be called, “I was NOT in the room where it happened.“
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This came to me in a dream
December 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This came to me in a dream
Nazi s#!t.
Trump national security strategy: Make Europe White Again.
"Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades ...certain NATO members will become majority non-European"
"the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure"
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"Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades ...certain NATO members will become majority non-European"
"the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure"
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December 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Nazi s#!t.
Appellation d'Origine Crash
It’s only a recession if it comes from the Democratic region of France, otherwise it’s just sparkling Republican mass layoffs and crushing inflation.
Behold the greatest economy in the history of the world
December 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Appellation d'Origine Crash
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The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami.
They are lying to us.
They are lying to us.
December 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami.
They are lying to us.
They are lying to us.
A hauling indicator.
Heavy Truck Sales Collapsed in October and November
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Heavy Truck Sales Collapsed in October and November
This graph shows heavy truck sales since 1967 using data from the BEA. The dashed line is the November 2025 seasonally adjusted annual sales...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
A hauling indicator.
Three years since ChatGPT launched and we’re finally comprehending that GenAI models lack the barriers to entry of prior tech bonanzas like unique patents & network effects, leaving them subject to ruinous competition. Regardless of corporate form, I suspect Open AI will remain a “nonprofit.”
Sam Altman has put ChatGPT’s ads effort on hold and declared a code red to focus on the product as Gemini gains ground.
I noticed that Sora has dropped out of the top 20 in the App Store. Looks like TikTok for AI slop may have been a fad. It’s probably for the best as they need to focus on ChatGPT.
I noticed that Sora has dropped out of the top 20 in the App Store. Looks like TikTok for AI slop may have been a fad. It’s probably for the best as they need to focus on ChatGPT.
OpenAI CEO Declares ‘Code Red’ to Combat Threats to ChatGPT, Delays Ads Effort
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday told employees he was declaring a “code red” to marshall more resources to improve ChatGPT as threats rise from Google and other artificial intelligence competitors, ac...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Three years since ChatGPT launched and we’re finally comprehending that GenAI models lack the barriers to entry of prior tech bonanzas like unique patents & network effects, leaving them subject to ruinous competition. Regardless of corporate form, I suspect Open AI will remain a “nonprofit.”
Effective politics needs a story. That means a hero, a victim, and some villains. The slogan “strong floor, no ceiling“ sounds like the final line of a half-hearted Craigslist post.
Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.
Kiss of death
November 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Effective politics needs a story. That means a hero, a victim, and some villains. The slogan “strong floor, no ceiling“ sounds like the final line of a half-hearted Craigslist post.
ChatGPT, put the below description of behavior of Biden White House communication staff into the form of a policy promise for the 2028 Democratic Party platform.
Citizens will be happy to hear that the WHCA's long national nightmare of unreturned emails is finally over,
November 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
ChatGPT, put the below description of behavior of Biden White House communication staff into the form of a policy promise for the 2028 Democratic Party platform.
Jamie Dimon knows the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act maybe a dead letter in the US for now, but other countries continue to enforce the same rules and ours will eventually bring it back.
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Jamie Dimon knows the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act maybe a dead letter in the US for now, but other countries continue to enforce the same rules and ours will eventually bring it back.
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These are not people who make this kind of statement lightly.
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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November 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
These are not people who make this kind of statement lightly.
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This is a lot of words to say, “Yikes! That Washington Post story about us illegally killing survivors on the open seas was 100% correct!”
November 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
This is a lot of words to say, “Yikes! That Washington Post story about us illegally killing survivors on the open seas was 100% correct!”
Apparently putting your magic spell in rhyming verse really does make it work better.
You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Apparently putting your magic spell in rhyming verse really does make it work better.
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You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. www.wired.com/story/poems-...
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
Tonight Trump repeatedly held up this 2021 photo of a crowded plane leaving Kabul, Afghanistan to support his claim that “Operation Allies Welcome” flew these refugees from Afghanistan to the U.S. without no vetting.
One problem though: this flight didn’t come to the U.S. It went to Qatar.
One problem though: this flight didn’t come to the U.S. It went to Qatar.
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Tonight Trump repeatedly held up this 2021 photo of a crowded plane leaving Kabul, Afghanistan to support his claim that “Operation Allies Welcome” flew these refugees from Afghanistan to the U.S. without no vetting.
One problem though: this flight didn’t come to the U.S. It went to Qatar.
One problem though: this flight didn’t come to the U.S. It went to Qatar.
Whoopsie
CNN on the D.C. shooter: He came here from Afghanistan in 2021. He applied for asylum in December 2024, went through another vetting process, and was approved for asylum in April of this year under the Trump administration.
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Whoopsie