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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 3h

Really just giving the game away. There is no legal logic to what they are doing and they never want it to apply to any future Dem president but they need to give Trump whatever he wants.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 4h

Even in political science! Typical questions on my exams include "What's the jurisdiction of the Appropriations Committee?" "Which of the following agencies is an Independent Regulatory Commission?" and "Calculate the standard deviation of this set of numbers."

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 4h

Also, I'm unsure what the claim that students align their viewpoints with the professor in order to get a good grade means. How does this work in biology, computer science, and math? How often do profs share their "viewpoints" in matters unrelated to the course, so that undergrads would even know?

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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 4h

The entire Teapot Dome scandal happened over less than $10 million. After adjusting for inflation.

Josh Alien @joshalien.bsky.social · 5h

Man, reading some crypto forums, Democrats should be hammering the insider trading charges. It reminded me of that times focus group where the main frustration with guys into crypto was the rug pulls/insider stuff. cc @jlray.bsky.social

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 16h

Every once in a while I remember Trump changed vice presidents because he sent a violent mob to take care of his previous one and that’s not a thing anyone even talks about.

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 22h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 19h

FWIW, I really do think she's an intelligent person. She learned early on that crazy gets her attention, so that's the strategy she goes with. But it's an act. bsky.app/profile/jlaz...

Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 3d

This clip of MTG being perfectly reasonable illustrates what sets her apart from, say, Nancy Mace or Tommy Tuberville. MTG is capable of turning off the crazy, and smart enough to know when to do so. When others go off the rails that's just them being them. For MTG it's just an act.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Greene on the Epstein files: "I can't conclusively say that's why the House isn't in session, but the House should be in session...there is a new Democrat that's been elected that deserves to be sworn in...if it's to avoid the discharge petition, why drag this out? It's going to have 218 signatures"

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21h

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 22h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 19h

It's like watching a kindergartner learn they get just as much attention for listening to their parents as they do for acting out.

Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "We have to do something about labor, and that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them."

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 22h

Many historians of Rome identify Roman generals becoming the personal sources of payment for their armies as a key step in the downfall of the Republic, since it personalized military authority and freed armies to fight for their immediate leader, who paid them, instead of for the Republic

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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 19h

Welcome to the Watergate-a-day bandwagon

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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 19h

If you're a professor and you're giving students instructional materials generated by AI that you don't vet for hallucinations, just retire. You're a bad professor, and you don't want to be one anyway.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Gregory Koger @gregorykoger.bsky.social · 23h

Isn‘t this the arrangement Trump hounded Hunter Biden for?

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 22h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 23h

Basically RFK Jr is blowing a dog whistle in the key of anti-semitism. (Autism = bad, in his eschatology: also circumcision = Jewish cultural practice = bad. It's much more obvious outside the US eg. here in Europe, where circumcision is mainly practiced by muslims and jews, or for phimosis.)

John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 1d

We knew RFKjr was as crazy as a soup sandwich, but this?!

RFK Jr.’s comments on circumcision and autism draw sharp criticism

Kennedy's comments were met with incredulity, skepticism and snark.

www.oregonlive.com

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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 1d

Trump went for a Covid shot and then set the CDC on fire.

If that ain’t that asshole in a nutshell.

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Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 1d

There is no senior Republican less equipped at this moment to chair Approps than Susan Collins.

If you chair Approps, you defend the cmte's prerogatives and its members (sometimes even minority), yet Collins won't go to the mattresses to defend her own state. If only she had an inner Ted Stevens.

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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 1d

For me it was the last one. Right in the gut.

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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 1d

Watergate-a-day

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Gregory Koger @gregorykoger.bsky.social · 1d

Senator Collins, CHAIR of the SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTE, wishes there was someone who could stop Russ Vought from decimating the federal workforce.

www.politico.com/live-updates...