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Just a Phone Guy @phoneguy517.bsky.social · 22h

My favorite take on this is “The customer is not always right, but the customer is always the customer.”

Just a Phone Guy @phoneguy517.bsky.social · 1d

Flacco “led five straight Cincy drives to close the game that didn't end in a punt or turnover” is some darned fine damning with faint praise

Just a Phone Guy @phoneguy517.bsky.social · 1d

Isn’t Krissy the CEO of Scalzi, Inc.? And as such, isn’t she therefore technically your boss? And, well, you see where this is going…

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Just a Phone Guy @phoneguy517.bsky.social · 1d

Any time you see the words “labor shortage” you can replace them with the words “unwillingness to pay a decent wage”

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3d

I think it would be a huge public service if major media outlets interviewed people given RIF notices and let them explain in detail what their jobs are so that people can judge for themselves whether these positions are wasteful like Trump and Vought claim or whether they help the country prosper.

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Just a Phone Guy @phoneguy517.bsky.social · 4d

My 740 PM flight from ATL to EWR is now scheduled to push back at 1101 and then sit on the ground for 40 minutes before taking off, so yeah, I know what you mean

Just a Phone Guy @phoneguy517.bsky.social · 9d

You just know that the Vikings are going to get a field goal to tie it at 17 and then no one is going to score in OT…

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Just a Phone Guy @phoneguy517.bsky.social · 10d

I’ll take that deal

Just a Phone Guy @phoneguy517.bsky.social · 11d

*illegally fire

Just a Phone Guy @phoneguy517.bsky.social · 11d

Does Betteridge’s Law of Headlines apply to social media posts?

Just a Phone Guy @phoneguy517.bsky.social · 11d

@jdickerson.bsky.social ?

Just a Phone Guy @phoneguy517.bsky.social · 11d

Maybe they’re dropping off donations.

Then again, the trunk isn’t big enough to carry anything to donate.

And people that would drive a Cybertruck likely don’t believe in giving to charity.

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 13d

Pharmacists who recommend homeopathy should be willing to accept as payment envelopes that once contained money.

- @davidjuurlink.bsky.social

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Just a Phone Guy @phoneguy517.bsky.social · 13d

“Amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics”

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Just a Phone Guy @phoneguy517.bsky.social · 14d

“Now Al joined up to do his part defending you and me
He wants to fight and bleed and kill and die for liberty”

Just a Phone Guy @phoneguy517.bsky.social · 15d

For me it’s anything from Cherryh’s Foreigner series, because I find it so totally absorbing I lose track of the passage of time

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 16d

This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face.

democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Ranking Member Jamie Raskin
Prepared Remarks for the Judicial Conference
September 16, 2025
Thank you, Chief Justice Roberts, for the invitation.
Forgive my directness here but the times are serious, as you know, our time is short. I have just five minutes and don't want to trespass on Senator Cruz's time.
Sometimes these days I feel as if all the foundational principles are being trampled and lost.
Often, I hear my colleagues in the House, and these are fellow Democrats, get up to protest some Executive usurpation of legislative power and they begin their lament with the plaintive cry, "We are a coequal branch of government..."
And I always feel they have lost the argument right there just by repeating that fifth-grade dogma.
First of all, co-equal is not even a word. It's an embarrassing redundancy like "very unique" or
"irregardless.
"

But there's a reason all legislative power is vested in the Congress and there's a reason it's in Article I.
The Founders had a revolution against monarchy and its constant assaults on liberty. In America, the Framers determined, only the representatives of the people would have power to declare wars, pass budgets, impose taxes and tariffs, and so on. Article lis pages and pages of all the powers vested in Congress. Then you get to Article Il, which is tiny.
The key paragraph says a president shall be removed from office upon impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. If we are co-equal, why do we have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and permanently disqualify the president and he doesn't have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and disqualify us?
The core job of the president is plain: "To Take care that the laws are faithfully executed."
That's it. Not abused, not thwarted, not impounded, not redirected, but faithfully executed.
A lot of the cases entering the federal courts are variations on this theme.

Here's the remarkable thing: Americans have brought over 300 cases in federal district courts against the Administration so far for usurping legislative powers, defying federal laws, or violating the rights of the people. This summer, researchers found that plaintiffs were winning an astonishing 77% of the cases in the district courts. Moreover, they found that President Trump was losing about equally before Republican-appointed judges (72%) and Democratic-appointed judges (80%).
The numbers in the federal circuit courts of appeal are similar, with plaintiffs against the Administration winning overwhelmingly and again without a sharp partisan valence to the appeals courts' voting. A good example is the birthright citizenship case where four district court judges, two appointed by Republican presidents and two appointed by Democratic presidents, all struck down the President's purported negation of birthright citizenship. Then, on appeal, three circuit courts again all ruled against the Administration.
But everything is flipped when the cases come to the Supreme Court.

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Just a Phone Guy @phoneguy517.bsky.social · 17d

if you see this, post a bridge

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Just a Phone Guy @phoneguy517.bsky.social · 18d

The silver lining of the Pirates sucking is that they can run out a below-average hitter at DH every day and the fans will be disappointed when he’s not there anymore.

Just a Phone Guy @phoneguy517.bsky.social · 18d

subtly downgrade a band

Slightly-heavy zeppelin

🅱️oofessor Killosk 🔪👻 @professorkiosk.wtf · 22d

subtly downgrade a band

chartreuse floyd

Just a Phone Guy @phoneguy517.bsky.social · 19d

Betteridge’s Law of Headlines remains undefeated

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Dennis Goris @dennisgoris.bsky.social · 21d

#RFKjr

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Just a Phone Guy @phoneguy517.bsky.social · 22d

Somebody do the math on Jordan Davis

Just a Phone Guy @phoneguy517.bsky.social · 24d

My favorite team is the Pirates. What is this “entire career” thing you speak of?

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25d

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition.

www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

In her recommendation, Bagdasarian stated,
"Any person over the age of six months without contraindication who has not received a dose of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved or-authorized 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccine may be considered to have an underlying condition that puts them at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 and is thus eligible to receive an age-appropriate dose."

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