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Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 3h

So, this is about the difference between a "base" and a "facility" within a base?

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Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 3h

Okay. Thanks. I don't see it, and I don't know what "views/trends" that you're referring to exactly.

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Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 3h

Where do these percentages come from? I asked the original poster, who did not respond. Now, I'm asking you (because you reposted them). They may be correct, but what's the basis for them?

Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 4h

Please explain.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 10h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 1d

First, question when does the author of the “obscure document” get fired? See www.washingtonpost.com/business/202....

Second question: What economic theory supports the notion that lowering the pay for H-2A workers & making them pay for their own housing will increase the supply of those workers?

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 1d

Where do these percentage increases come from? I'd like to read more about it. Thanks!

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Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 1d

It's a statistical tie among whites.

Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 1d

And not at all close in Staten Island.

Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 1d

Very good point.

Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 1d

“We fired all the competent career people and now it’s high-level loyalists trying to manage it all somehow” is run of the mill contempt. It’s not an exculpatory alternative.

If a judge orders me to do X, and my tale is I couldn’t comply bc I fired all my staff, that’s a confession not a defense.

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Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 1d

Gene really is the expert. (And a great person to work with, which I had the pleasure to do years ago.) I look forward to listening.

Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 1d

With Yale Law School military justice expert Eugene Fidell and former JAG Maj. General Steven J. Lepper on the biggest civil/military crisis since the Civil War.

Trump Wants to Use American Cities as a “Training Ground.” It’s Becoming Clear Why.

MAGA cries “Insurrection!”, setting up a dangerous standoff between the American people and the military.

slate.com

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Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 1d

I remain puzzled by the notion that Trump & his agenda are vulnerable because they garner more opposition than support in polling. The depressing thing is that, generally, the polls are close, often with large minorities supporting him & his agenda. Does an authoritarian need more than that?

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Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 1d

True. But are the prices for lung-disease drugs dropping? If so, by how much?

Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 3d

Very high. I predict that in the bottom of the first Brandon Marsh will make a spectacular diving catch on a Mookie Betts' liner to center preventing a triple that would have been a one-out single if he hadn't dove.

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Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 5d

Why are you sorry!?

Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 8d

The 7-year-old is quite, quite wrong.

Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 10d

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Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 10d

It's particularly difficult to have a record citation for a false proposition.

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Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 10d

When I first read the opinion, the thing that struck me immediately were the passages of factual assertions unaccompanied by citations.

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Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 12d

That's a little unfair . . . because what did he sing that wasn't great?

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Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 12d

Also Ray Charles's Let it Be: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBmf...

Let It Be

YouTube video by Ray Charles - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 12d

Hendrix All Along the Watchtower for sure. Cash's Hurt very close.
Also Cash doing Cohen's Bird on a Wire.
KD Lang doing Cohen's Hallelujah
Chris Farlow doing the Stones' Out of Time
Stevie Wonder doing Fab Four's We Can Work It Out

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Ali & Lockwood LLP @alilockwood.bsky.social · 13d

Uh, guys?

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

fortune.com

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Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 14d

To say that he was the 5th vote is to presume that he might have gone the other way. But he didn't. Just like the others that voted his way.

Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 14d

Sure, standards for all sorts of diagnoses change. And sure, I can find all sorts of stuff on my own. But I was just asking if you had a citation for evidence supporting your 20% assertion. Is the answer no?