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Hydrargyrum

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Hydrargyrum

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As an aside on the bad reporting:
So we're going to lose 190k commercial drivers??
Unclear how soon we'll feel that pain, given current licenses aren't (yet) being revoked. But I can't imagine this will be a good thing for business at any scale.

Under the new rules, only 10,000 of the 200,000
noncitizens who have comnmercial licenses would
qualify for them, which would only be available to
drivers who have an H-2a, H-2b or E-2 visa. H-2a is
for temporary agricultural workers while H-2b is
for temporary nonagricultural workers, and E-2 is
for people who make substantial investments in a
U.S. business. But the rules won't be enforced
retroactively, so those 190,000 drivers willbe
allowed to keep their commercial licenses at least
untilthey come up for renewal.

November 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM

Hydrargyrum

@mercurymusing.bsky.social

Hey now. Don't forget all the chihuahua mutts

Leggy black and tan little dog, in a brightly colored harness with a pride bandana tucked under it for sun cover. Some sort of chihuahua min pin mix, with vaguely italian greyhound proportions.

August 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM

Hydrargyrum

@mercurymusing.bsky.social

The 1D tie-in we were really missing in 2010.
#HarryStyles

Two playstation move motion controllers. The tracker balls are lit up red and pink.
Oddly reminiscent of a recent Harry Styles collab.

July 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM

Hydrargyrum

@mercurymusing.bsky.social

Screenshot of the wikipedia page as it currently appears:

Screenshot of the wikipedia article Detention of Rümesya Öztürk, showing copyright violation template

July 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM

Hydrargyrum

@mercurymusing.bsky.social

I have never struggled so much with the urge to throw my phone at the nearest wall as hard as possible. I would be shaking with frustrated rage right now if I wasn't consciously tensing every muscle for the sake of typing.

Screenshot of Sotomayor's dissent in Trump v CASA:
Cite as: 606 U.S.
(2025)
SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting
No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates. Today, the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow, a different administration may try to seize firearms from law- abiding citizens or prevent people of certain faiths from gathering to worship. The majority holds that, absent cumbersome class-action litigation, courts cannot completely enjoin even such plainly unlawful policies unless doing so is necessary to afford the formal parties complete relief. That holding renders constitutional guarantees meaningful in name only for any individuals who are not parties to a lawsuit. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent.
I.
The majority ignores entirely whether the President's Executive Order is constitutional, instead focusing only on the question whether federal courts have the equitable authority to issue universal injunctions. Yet the Order's patent unlawfulness reveals the gravity of the majority's error and underscores why equity supports universal injunctions as appropriate remedies in this kind of case. As every conceivable source of law confirms, birthright citizenship is the law of the land.

June 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM

Hydrargyrum

@mercurymusing.bsky.social

Talk about burying the lede

Payne’s note to agency employees listed two email addresses — one belonging to the EPA and one to the Office of Personnel Management — where EPA employees could send details about DEI efforts. ProPublica submitted public records requests to both agencies for the contents of the inboxes from the start of the administration through April 1.

The Office of Personnel Management didn’t respond to the request, although the Freedom of Information Act requires that it do so within 20 business days. The agency also did not answer questions about whether it received any reports to its anti-DEI inbox.

The EPA, meanwhile, checked its inbox and confirmed that zero employees had filed reports. “Some emails received in that inbox did come from EPA addresses but none of them called out colleagues who were still working on DEI matters,” an agency spokesperson said in a statement in May.

May 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM

Hydrargyrum

@mercurymusing.bsky.social

Installation is just screwing a T-valve in between the water line and the toilet tank, then attaching the hose and sprayer head.
Took longer to find a wrench to make sure everything was tight than it did to attach it.

T-Valve installed on the underside of a toilet tank. Waterline hose to the wall valve runs out the bottom, the hose of the bidet exits to the right.

April 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM

Hydrargyrum

@mercurymusing.bsky.social

Fred Meyer has a $50 model, but I checked around local hardware stores and sprung a whole $80 for the luxury option with the nice finish and the spring trigger.