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JDB
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Running, writing, & reading.
The finish line is always six feet away.
Fall 7, rise 8.
Family Man Antihero.
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
The stupid coup's stupid energy policy--coal is just a dirty, expensive, moribund way to make electricity, and it's also some kind of symbolic Ye Mannehood of Olde stuff that the right gets all sentimental about, while screwing over actual coal miners.
scottpwaldman.bsky.social Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · Apr 8
At his coal promotion event at the White House, Trump just said he will use the major law firms he bullied into providing $150 million+ in free legal services to fight state and local government regulations on coal pollution.
April 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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andreapitzer.bsky.social
Ah, of course. The famous case of Schrödinger's Musk.
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Feb 18
NEW non-clarifying clarifications about Elon Musk's employee status filed just now in a NM-led lawsuit:
—Musk, as a presidential senior adviser, "has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself." He is also not DOGE's administrator.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Mr. Musk is an employee of the White House Office. He holds that position as a non-career Special Government Employee ("SGE"). In that job, Mr. Musk is a Senior Advisor to the President. It is not uncommon for the President to have Senior Advisors who are SGEs. For instance, Anita Dunn was an influential Senior Advisos to President Biden, while serving as an SGE. In his role as a Senior Advisor to the President, Mr. Musk has no greater authority than other senior White House advisors. Like other senior White House advisors, Mr. Musk has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself. Mr. Musk can only advise the President and communicate the President's directives. The U.S. DOGE Service is a component of the Executive Office of the President. The U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization is within the U.S. DOGE Service. Both are separate from the White House Office. Mr. Musk is an employee in the White House Office. He is not an employee of the U.S. DOGE Service or U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization. Mr. Musk is not the U.S. DOGE Service Administrator. Dated: Washington, D.C. February 17, 2025 Joshua Fisher Director Office of Administration
February 18, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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chadloder.bsky.social
In my self-defense classes I focus on how most people are socially conditioned to follow the norms of a civilized, polite society — and there is a MENTAL SHIFT required to use violence to defend from violence.

I'm reminded of this while watching our elected officials dithering and delaying. 1/
February 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
read-run-repeat.bsky.social
Our little offspring turned two yesterday 🎉 He grows smarter every day. He’s gentle and curious, does dangerous things carefully, acts coy while being loud and boisterous. In everything he does he continues to teach us that the only way to live and thrive is to love deep, try hard, and never stop.
February 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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andreapitzer.bsky.social
Here's some background on Guantanamo from a piece on US border policy that I wrote for @nybooks.com in 2019 during the first Trump administration. "Some Suburb of Hell: America's New Concentration Camp System." (www.nybooks.com/online/2019/...)
"Detention at Guantanamo began in the 1990s, when Haitian and Cuban immigrants whom the government wanted to keep out of the United States were housed there in waves over a four-year period--years before the "war on terror" and the US policy of rendition of suspected "enemy combatants" made Camps Delta, X-Ray, and Echo notorious. Tens of thousands of Haitians fleeing instability at home were picked up at sea and diverted to the Cuban base, to limit their legal right to apply for asylum. The court cases and battles over the suffering of those detainees ended up setting the stage for what Guantanamo would become after 9/11. In one case, a federal court ruled that it did have jurisdiction over the base, but the government agreed to release the Haitians who were part of the lawsuit in exchange for keeping that ruling off the books. A ruling in a second case would assert that the courts did not have jurisdiction. Absent the prior case, the latter stood on its own as precedent. Leaving Guantanamo in this gray area made it an ideal site for extrajudicial detention and torture after the twin towers fell.
January 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
read-run-repeat.bsky.social
Intro to Hills. Professor Bradbury presiding. Can’t let that elevation get me this season. #trailrunning #runitout #liftheavyrunfar
January 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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tobymorton.bsky.social
Just called the ICE hotline where people can call to report undocumented immigrants and reported Elon Musk.
January 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
read-run-repeat.bsky.social
Started a new 12-week half #marathon program with #coros. I especially dig their slow build-up through the program. Ramping up for a 25K #trailrun race in March. #lowandslow #roadto100
January 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
read-run-repeat.bsky.social
Man, on here for two days with no offensive or even controversial posts and I’m already suspended?
January 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
read-run-repeat.bsky.social
Time to do a little inner gardening.

Annie Dillard on How Winter Awakens Us to Life www.themarginalian.org/2016/12/21/a...
Annie Dillard on How Winter Awakens Us to Life
“Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
www.themarginalian.org
January 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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muellershewrote.com
🚨 🚨 🚨 HOMEWORK 🚨 🚨 🚨

The email address for federal workers to inform on their colleagues is DEIAtruth@opm.gov.

Would be a real shame if folks flooded that inbox, rendering it useless.
January 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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pattonoswalt.bsky.social
January 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
read-run-repeat.bsky.social
Got in some #trailrunning miles at #antelopeisland today. My first #halfmarathon in almost 10 years. Slower than I wished, faster than I thought. Been #running off and on for years, but finally committed last July, and never looked back.
January 20, 2025 at 2:48 AM
read-run-repeat.bsky.social
This is a tough one. Odd, quixotic, daring, and always beautiful. What a life’s contribution.
January 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM