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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 10h

Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law"

Declaration of Independence: "For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever."

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 11h

since there's reports on social media of money hitting accounts worth reiterating that this is illegal and unconstitutional as shit, it's not a close question, and while I don't expect anyone on H/SASC or H/SAC will do anything, anyone performing this 'reprogramming' should face criminal penalties

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

It's also worth reiterating that absent this reprogramming authority being written into law it would be not just illegal but flatly unconstitutional for DoD to expend money in any fashion not explicitly specified (by both type/use and quantity) by Congress in an appropriations bill

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Gunnar "Ghostly" Hamann 🎃👻 @ostprog.bsky.social · 15h

”Trump’s quest for the Nobel peace prize has become a common press frame for international affairs, from Gaza to Ukraine to India-Pakistan, highlighting how much news and public discourse have become warped around one man’s pathologies.“

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 10h

i cannot get over how quickly this is happening. the decline of the other two branches/ascent of the lawless executive is outpacing actual democratic decline, which is usually what precipitates executive consolidation. but in our case, the other two branches are collaborators

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11h

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 11h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 11h

Stoller makes me sad. I liked his book, during the 2020 stuff he was really good, so i found him online, and as you do, follow an author you like. Thats when i met parasocial stoller.

At first, i seriously thought it was a tim heidecker level bit, but then oh, this is your everyday personality

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 19h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 12h

Not enough writers with national reach are traveling around getting flash banged and shot at by various police imo.

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 12h

Cristóbal Colón, on the other hand, i will arrest on sight

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 16h

Get in on the ground floor of the abattoir

First pig in!

#1 self-inflicted wounds

The Gazette @thegazette.com · 17h

Iowa lawmakers urge regent universities to be first to sign Trump’s higher ed compact

Iowa lawmakers urge regent universities to be first to sign Trump's higher ed compact

None of the nine campuses the Trump administration has asked to sign a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" have done so, but two conservative lawmakers in Iowa are urging the Board of Regents to be the first.

www.thegazette.com

Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 17h

Its such a low bar.

I mean, its been years. A triumph would have been january '24 peace. This is just bibi settling for having gotten to do everything he wanted anyway.

Its just bizarre. The war was bad for gazans. The status quo is bad too. The media always pretends its all good.

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 17h

I dont get the celebration. It was always a foregone conclusion when israel wanted to, it could stop asymmetrically slaughtering gazans. Would *whoever* was u.s. president been credited with it? We had the leverage at anytime. Nothing good happened beyond the yes, a great thing, cessation of bombs.

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 17h

Oh ffs, shutup

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 17h

Finally, gazans can die and be expelled under the guise of state peace. Huzzah.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 18h

I repeat this too much, but i cant get over that steve kings career ended only for his ideology to become the dominant mode for every gop politician that piled on him for white supremacy

"Diversity is not our strength"

Steve King is racist

"Diversity is not our strength"

Pete Hegseth is SoD

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 19h

Once again saying, bill clinton, stfu

Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 19h

I miss richard lewis sometimes

Marc Maron has filled that void pretty well, but i miss that guy

Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 19h

Its beautiful. A freudian perfection.

"Back to the womb despite <gestures wildly> all this" is just conservatism in a nutshell. A tiny amniotic nutshell cocooned in a pretech world of melissa & doug toys

Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 20h

Reminder what Uber is spending the money you give it on - sponsoring Bari Weiss.

Screenshot of poster for Bari Weiss and Jonahtan Haidt's broadway talk "Reclaiming Childhood in an online world" Presented by The Free Press and Uber.

Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 19h

Its beautiful. A freudian perfection.

"Back to womb despite <gestures wildly> all this" is just conservatism in a nutshell. A tiny amniotic nutshell with no technology.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 20h

this image is an attempt on @michaelhobbes.bsky.social's life

Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 20h

Reminder what Uber is spending the money you give it on - sponsoring Bari Weiss.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The merging of the omniforce is happening via different mechanisms.
First, ICE has become a black hole consuming resources from other agencies. Those agencies are being told to send their people to support ICE. For example, nearly half of FBI field agents work on immigration enforcement.

According to an analysis by the Cato Institute, more than 28,000 law enforcement officials have been sucked into performing ICE’s mission. ICE has trained or is training more than 10,500 state and local police who are part of a task force that allows them to make arrests. In addition, “one in five US marshals (650 of 3,892), one in five FBI agents (2,840 of 13,700), half of DEA agents (2,181 of 4,620), over two-thirds of the ATF (1,778 of 2,572), and nearly 90 percent of Homeland Security Investigations (6,198 of 7,100).”

More recent data suggests that these numbers are increasing, with nearly half of FBI agents in major field offices, and about one-quarter of all FBI agents, now working on immigration enforcement.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20h

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 21h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 1d

The fundamental idea (of course) goes back to Adam Smith. But Krueger coined the term "rent-seeking" and put the topic on the agenda of modern economics with a 1974 paper in the American Economic Review. /10 assets.aeaweb.org/asset-server...

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 1d

Worried this was all an elaborate trap or test and the real, obvious answer should have been "why, i'd direct her to www.liamkofibright.com of course"

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 1d

Foucault "fearless speech" cause its short
Add another Euthyphro vote

Or neither... its genuinely harder to say. With no background, its so tempting to go real broad and pop and say scifi novels or short story collections