SPIDERSHyphenMan
@spiderhyphenman.bsky.social
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Somehow a government employee. He/him.
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spiderhyphenman.bsky.social
me and who? (i'm the dragon)
spiderhyphenman.bsky.social
the vending machine is working at least
odeecs.bsky.social
Coworker: "America? Broken? Oh, I don't know if I'd go that far."

Me, sitting back and opening a candy bar: "Okay. What's working?"

Coworker: (stares in silence, filled with increasing dread)
spiderhyphenman.bsky.social
you once cost me tenbux just for posting "you're no hakan" but you were always an S-tier mod in my book.
spiderhyphenman.bsky.social
I still remember the time @caylen.bsky.social wore a fruit hat for an entire trip to the mall so he could credibly claim it as his hat before eating it
spiderhyphenman.bsky.social
1000% this will never happen I'm making it my official SpiderHyphenMan decree that there is absolutely no way in hell that post engagement gets demonitized on "X the Everything App" and if it does I will do some undetermined difficult and humiliating task that is NOT horny coded.
birdrespecter.bsky.social
It turns out, financially incentivizing viral slop, rage bait, hate, divisive politics, porn bots, and other generally horrifying vaudevillian behavior was a really quick way to destroy that app. Who could have seen that coming, except for everybody who used it?
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birdrespecter.bsky.social
Anyway this is the first smart thing I have seen Twitter do since Elon took over. This is also the guy who apparently banned all the Nazis though so I imagine Elon will immediately cower to the mob and overturn him on this as well as he’d rather pay to be liked by Catturd than have a good product
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yasharali.bsky.social
BREAKING via WSJ

The Trump administration is planning sweeping changes in criminal division at the IRS.

Full Story: on.wsj.com/3LbVFtK
The Trump administration is preparing sweeping changes at the Internal Revenue Service that would allow the agency to pursue criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups more easily, according to people familiar with the matter.
A senior IRS official involved in the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said.
The undertaking aims to install allies of President Trump at the IRS criminal-investigative division, or IRS-CI, to exert firmer control over the unit and weaken the involvement of IRS lawyers in criminal investigations, officials said. The proposed changes could open the door to politically motivated probes and are being driven by Gary Shapley, an adviser to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
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sharonk.bsky.social
Still find it wild how they shut down USAID with no Congressional approval
jamellebouie.net
would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute
reuters.com
White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT
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paleofuture.bsky.social
DHS is so off the deep end that a spokesperson appears to be using the line “That is a 40mm launcher that fires beanbags and rubber projectiles” like that excuses what we’re seeing.

Rubber bullets can kill people, even when they’re not fired at point blank range.
Tricia McLaughlin &
@TriciaOhio
X.com
This is a U.S. citizen who, along with his cousin, was arrested for assaulting and throwing rocks at law enforcement.
That is a 40mm launcher that fires beanbags and rubber projectiles.
But keep making this thug your poster child.
Joe Walsh ®
@WalshFreedom • 10h
Here's the thing. We still have the power (probably) to say that this image must not be what America is. We still have the power to say "fuck no, we refuse to allow this to be what the streets of America look like." Attend a "No Kings" rally this Saturday. And then vote in 2026.
spiderhyphenman.bsky.social
Dogma would be a much better movie if Kevin Smith had the stones to commit to God being a woman but nooooooo 98% of the time it's He/Him pronouns for Alanis Morissette
spiderhyphenman.bsky.social
What I'm saying is that the government is going to be shut down on July 4th 2026 :toxx:
spiderhyphenman.bsky.social
I mean I guess it's possible whoever the guy in charge of UFC is pays for it himself.
Or maybe it'll happen in a McDonald's Play Place. See it's like poetry, it rhymes.
spiderhyphenman.bsky.social
It is very possible we are reaching an endgame here, but of course capitalism will mean that things continue even after Endgame, even if it really fucking shouldn't or at least should take a break for like five years.
nytimes.com
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.
nyti.ms
spiderhyphenman.bsky.social
I do not think that UFC match on the White House lawn is going to happen.
spiderhyphenman.bsky.social
Even if Republicans completely cave on the ACA tax credits and shitty Dem leadership declares victory I do not see any scenario in which the government does not shut back down upon the expiration of the CR that ends this shutdown.
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andycraig.bsky.social
"a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority"

The phrasing you're looking for is that he's suspending parts of the Constitution by decree.
nytimes.com
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.
nyti.ms
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mjsdc.bsky.social
By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court refuses to stay Charles Ray Crawford’s execution, despite overwhelming evidence that his lawyers violated the Sixth Amendment by telling the jury he committed the murder.

In dissent, Sotomayor says the court “abandons its duty.”
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
The application for stay of execution of sentence of death
presented to JUSTICE ALITO and by him referred to the
Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is de-
nied.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting from the denial of appli-
cation for stay and denial of certiorari.
Charles Ray Crawford will be executed tonight for a
crime that his own lawyers told the jury he committed, de-
spite his express instructions not to do so. Had this case
come to this Court on direct appeal, Crawford could have
proved that his Sixth Amendment rights were violated un-
der our decision in McCoy v. Louisiana, 584 U. S. 414
(2018), in which we held that lawyers may not override a
defendant’s explicit and unequivocal decision not to concede
guilt at trial. He would also likely be entitled to a new trial,
as a McCoy violation is a structural error that mandates
reversal.
Because Crawford’s convictions became final before
McCoy was decided, however, this case raises a threshold
issue that this Court has not squarely resolved: Whether
McCoy applies to cases on collateral review because it
merely applied existing law, or whether McCoy announced
a nonretroactive “new” rule of constitutional law. This
question has divided lower courts. It is also undoubtedly
important, and is even more so in this case because its
spiderhyphenman.bsky.social
eh what the hell maybe a little festive spirit will do me good
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perrybaconjr.bsky.social
I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.
spiderhyphenman.bsky.social
The most important question in American politics right now is if Democratic leadership understands this. Dem branding of this shutdown as entirely about the ACA premiums has seen great success in polling, but the stakes here are truly existential for the very concept of co-equal branches.