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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 6h

This is almost literally what the English Civil War was fought over.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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Grumpy D. Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · 1h

The Democrats need to meet and form a Rump Congress.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 2h

My super modern regulatory plan is that any entity named for a thing from Tolkien has to publicly explain why Tolkien wouldn’t immediately throw it into Mount Doom

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 14h

Tolkein continues to resonate. The new bank being set up by Palmer Luckey and backed by Peter Thiel is named Erebor after the “lonely mountain” in The Hobbit. This was also an interesting line in this rpt on the new bank by @tabbykinder.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/202d...

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Grumpy D. Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · 2h

Bottles of scotch I presume.

David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 2h

Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year

The volume of tap water used by Scotland's data centres has quadrupled since 2021, figures show.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2h

Bluesky 2023 when we had to reskeet ourselves 50 times a day so the other 9 people had something to read when they logged in

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Grumpy D. Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · 2h

Are you shitting me?

www.latimes.com/california/s...

I-5 may be shut down due to concerns over live-fire military event at Camp Pendleton

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is weighing whether to close parts of Interstate 5 beginning Friday amid concerns over what it says is a White House-directed plan to use live ordnance during a military ann...

www.latimes.com

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doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 3h

hey here's a legitimately great thread on levels of fucked with respect to budgetary authority/antideficiency.

i'm linking to the end of it because scrolling up is easier than scrolling down and expanding more every couple skeets.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 11h

By an entire parsec, the Trump administration has undertaken the most illegal set of budget actions in history. This is why we desperately need guardrails to restrain and go after budget malfeasance from the White House.

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Grumpy D. Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · 2h

This whole damn thread.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 11h

I think there are five levels of potential badness here. Once you've decided to violate the ADA, you're only bound by self-imposed limitations. But depending on what the White House is self-imposing, this can range from "BAD" to "The Republic has fallen, pack it in."

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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 4h

"If this system of transportation collapses, the Northeastern economy and the economy of the country collapses." The most important economic development project in the entire nation threatened with cancellation: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/n...

Trump Says $16 Billion Hudson River Tunnel Project Is ‘Terminated’

www.nytimes.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2h

Amen.

Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 15h

It’s important in all this to remember: official press conferences are a minuscule part of the job and exist to present one side and control questioning.

Much reporting, often the best reporting, happens without ever having to flash a press pass

Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 15h

Soliciting information from officials is a journalist's job.

The Pentagon's new press policy would make reporters "stenographers parroting press releases, not watchdogs holding government officials accountable," explains @npr.org's Tom Bowman.

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Grumpy D. Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · 2h

Hourly doesn’t even cut it.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2h

Unprecedented crimes & constitutional violations, now happening daily

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7h

So this is just facially illegal right?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidef...

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 5h

Jewish law & Bible scholarship don't think the word in the 10 Commandments for "steal" is about, like, shoplifting.

Look at eg Genesis 40:15, Exodus 21:16 , Deuteronomy 24:7--

the commandment is not to steal people. Don't kidnap.

Though you shouldn't need the Bible to teach you that. #AbolishICE

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Grumpy D. Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · 5h

"Don't worry m'am it's just a Kavanaugh Stop."

"No not that Kavanaugh Stop, the other one."

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 9h

ICE agents kidnapped a US citizen in Chicago because she didn’t “look” American to them. She even had her US passport on her. 🤬

ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name

She even had her U.S. passport on her.

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Grumpy D. Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · 6h

"Citizens United for me but not for thee!"

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

WSJ: “.. the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said ..”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 6h

you know I could have sworn that like ten years ago they pretended this happened against them (it didn’t) and said it was the worst offense that had ever happened (again it didn’t).

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

WSJ: “.. the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said ..”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Grumpy D. Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · 6h

That's $40B ... SO FAR.

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Grumpy D. Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · 6h

Episodes 2 thru 13 of Flash Gordon?

Mike Sterling, Comics Guy @mikester.bsky.social · 7h

Okay, so THE LAST JEDI and what else

Headline from website: "9 Sci-Fi Sequels Better Than The Original"

Grumpy D. Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · 6h

That's a little TMI on your Zardoz fetish.

a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face while looking at the camera .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face while looking at the camera .

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Grumpy D. Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · 6h

Probably plural...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h

Americans love the idea of other Americans working in factories. bsky.app/profile/jame...

James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 7h

Remember kids: Spending trillions of dollars to "reindustrialize America" is dastardly socialist central planning...unless billionaires do it. finance.yahoo.com/news/marc-an...

Marc Andreessen Backs Call For Elon Musk To Spearhead $10 Trillion US Re-Industrialization Plan: 'This Is The Way'

Prominent tech investor, Marc Andreessen, expressed support for a suggestion for Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO, Elon Musk to lead a $10 trillion program to reindustrialize America. Andreessen Agrees Musk Sh...

finance.yahoo.com

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Grumpy D. Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · 6h

man this @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social knows how to play the "i'm not going to play *your* game and by the way you just fell into mine" game.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

MacCALLUM: Andrew Cuomo tomorrow night in that debate, he's gonna say 'I'm gonna bring 5,000 more police officers to the street.' Will you match that?

MAMDANI: I don't look to Andrew Cuomo for leadership

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

MacCALLUM: Andrew Cuomo tomorrow night in that debate, he's gonna say 'I'm gonna bring 5,000 more police officers to the street.' Will you match that?

MAMDANI: I don't look to Andrew Cuomo for leadership

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 8h

my main takeaways from listening to the Supreme Court oral argument today are

-the writing is on the wall for the Voting Rights Act
-the Republican justices are now throwing racist spaghetti at that wall; they'll pass of whatever sticks as the opinion's rationale
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...

The Conservative Justices Have So Many Ideas For How to Kill the Voting Rights Act

The Republican justices already know where they’re going. They just have to figure out which route they’re going to take to get there.

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Grumpy D. Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · 7h

”Now as to why its no longer protecting consumers…”