WrathofAchilles
@wrathofachilles.bsky.social
Classicist working with Lawyers and Judges. Lover of history, anime, video games, NHL and NFL. Foodie. Homura did Nothing Wrong.
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Why do all official U.S. government social media posts now sound like they were written by bratty 7th-graders trying to mimic Jim Jordan?
December 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Why do all official U.S. government social media posts now sound like they were written by bratty 7th-graders trying to mimic Jim Jordan?
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Love has no gender🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Love is love❤️
love you all🤍
Merry Merry⭐️✨
Love is love❤️
love you all🤍
Merry Merry⭐️✨
December 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Love has no gender🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Love is love❤️
love you all🤍
Merry Merry⭐️✨
Love is love❤️
love you all🤍
Merry Merry⭐️✨
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Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
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The people who say they are opposed to participation trophies want their children to receive diplomas for refusing to learn and if anyone suggests their precious little unique dandruff flake has to actually do the work then off with their heads.
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The people who say they are opposed to participation trophies want their children to receive diplomas for refusing to learn and if anyone suggests their precious little unique dandruff flake has to actually do the work then off with their heads.
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I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday
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it's just so emblematic of what passes for conservative thought, this belief that their children go to college not to leave ignorance behind by learning from experts, but rather to teach the experts from their locus of ignorance, and to have their nonsensical prior assumptions validated as true
December 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
it's just so emblematic of what passes for conservative thought, this belief that their children go to college not to leave ignorance behind by learning from experts, but rather to teach the experts from their locus of ignorance, and to have their nonsensical prior assumptions validated as true
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The jump from "pride" to "hiding" is an important one, but *needs* to proceed to "consequences" immediately in the next administration, or it will all happen again.
December 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Ian's "I guess" is underselling the significance of this shift IMO
Hiding from the thing they were just crowing about this summer is a big f*cking deal
Hiding from the thing they were just crowing about this summer is a big f*cking deal
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Ian's "I guess" is underselling the significance of this shift IMO
Hiding from the thing they were just crowing about this summer is a big f*cking deal
Hiding from the thing they were just crowing about this summer is a big f*cking deal
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“who called it illegal”
i am so done with journalists who can’t ever _know_ things. either it’s illegal or it’s not. figure it out and report that!
i am so done with journalists who can’t ever _know_ things. either it’s illegal or it’s not. figure it out and report that!
December 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“who called it illegal”
i am so done with journalists who can’t ever _know_ things. either it’s illegal or it’s not. figure it out and report that!
i am so done with journalists who can’t ever _know_ things. either it’s illegal or it’s not. figure it out and report that!
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this disgraces the office. we do not and should not want a president who behaves this way.
December 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
this disgraces the office. we do not and should not want a president who behaves this way.
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I am totally serious about this: file articles of impeachment over this specifically
December 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I am totally serious about this: file articles of impeachment over this specifically
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any time the catholic church does something i have to wait for one of my normal catholic friends to tell me if the news is Good, Good (with caveats about the nature of the church), Good (with caveats about the nature of the church *in america*), or Bad with the same distinctions. way too complicated
December 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
any time the catholic church does something i have to wait for one of my normal catholic friends to tell me if the news is Good, Good (with caveats about the nature of the church), Good (with caveats about the nature of the church *in america*), or Bad with the same distinctions. way too complicated
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The venn diagram between people who like AI "art" and people who can't notice motion smoothing on their tv is a perfect circle
December 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The venn diagram between people who like AI "art" and people who can't notice motion smoothing on their tv is a perfect circle
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The only people who like AI is the generation that can be fooled into giving someone 50K in a shoebox. Young people think it looks like cheap shit.
December 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The only people who like AI is the generation that can be fooled into giving someone 50K in a shoebox. Young people think it looks like cheap shit.
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I said the same thing to him. They're going all out for frying pans now I'm interested in these frying pans
December 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I said the same thing to him. They're going all out for frying pans now I'm interested in these frying pans
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"The ice block weighed 250 lbs but they didn't care. They found some guys to carry it on set. Bear in mind this wasn't a commercial. This was a photo shoot of frying pans"
December 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"The ice block weighed 250 lbs but they didn't care. They found some guys to carry it on set. Bear in mind this wasn't a commercial. This was a photo shoot of frying pans"
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They made him build an entire set of a kitchen with a hidden dry ice rig to make smoke for the shoot. He said it looked fantastic and it was the right call, but this was clearly a response to what crap AI is pushing out and the kids don't like it
December 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
They made him build an entire set of a kitchen with a hidden dry ice rig to make smoke for the shoot. He said it looked fantastic and it was the right call, but this was clearly a response to what crap AI is pushing out and the kids don't like it
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He got hired by some ad firm to do a shoot for cookware. All the creatives on their team were late Gen Z and vehemently opposed to anything that wasn't real. He said "I told them we can photoshop the frying pan in ice but they were like NO BRUH BUILD THE ICE BLOCK" They wanted everything to be real
December 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
He got hired by some ad firm to do a shoot for cookware. All the creatives on their team were late Gen Z and vehemently opposed to anything that wasn't real. He said "I told them we can photoshop the frying pan in ice but they were like NO BRUH BUILD THE ICE BLOCK" They wanted everything to be real
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For those of us worried AI is gonna end creative jobs, I heard a funny story this weekend from a parent of one of my kids classmates who happens to be a production designer. He builds sets and things like that. He's worked on Ray Donovan, Always Sunny, and a bunch of FX shows.
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
For those of us worried AI is gonna end creative jobs, I heard a funny story this weekend from a parent of one of my kids classmates who happens to be a production designer. He builds sets and things like that. He's worked on Ray Donovan, Always Sunny, and a bunch of FX shows.
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Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement.
#NoWords 🤮
#NoWords 🤮
December 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement.
#NoWords 🤮
#NoWords 🤮
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Dear Turtle Island Liberation Front:
I guess it’s too late but you might have found this helpful
bsky.app/profile/kenw...
I guess it’s too late but you might have found this helpful
bsky.app/profile/kenw...
/2 If your friend introduces you to a third person you don’t know to help you achieve the goals in your manifesto, your friend is cooperating and the third person is an FBI agent
December 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Dear Turtle Island Liberation Front:
I guess it’s too late but you might have found this helpful
bsky.app/profile/kenw...
I guess it’s too late but you might have found this helpful
bsky.app/profile/kenw...
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/3 If your new friend listens politely to your incel wankfest manifesto your new friend is an FBI agent
November 4, 2024 at 10:54 PM
/3 If your new friend listens politely to your incel wankfest manifesto your new friend is an FBI agent
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/2 If your friend introduces you to a third person you don’t know to help you achieve the goals in your manifesto, your friend is cooperating and the third person is an FBI agent
November 4, 2024 at 10:54 PM
/2 If your friend introduces you to a third person you don’t know to help you achieve the goals in your manifesto, your friend is cooperating and the third person is an FBI agent
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