Carol
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Carol
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So very, very confused by it all. But, heck, that keeps it interesting.
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Okay, my obscure background as an erstwhile DC land use lawyer is finally relevant. There are several agencies that oversee any projects at the White House, including the Commission of Fine Arts, the Commission for the Preservation of the White House, the National Park Service, and the National 1/
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Trump's FTC just deleted articles by former Chair Lina Khan about the dangers of AI.

Meanwhile, Trump is fast-tracking data center permits after Big Tech gave huge donations to his inauguration.

AI is making the richest Americans even richer while everyone else pays the price.
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That whole thing about brain filtering…I didn’t realize there where problems until I read the comments and looked back at the patch to see it riddled with errors. Whoa.
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Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
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Everyone's focused on how idiotic Lindsey Halligan is, but don't sleep on the official response from Department of Justice spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre.

It's just Mean Girls all the way down, if they'd written that script while huffing paint fumes.
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the year is 2030. the white house remains half demolished because president trump refused to pay construction workers and musk gutted government spending. two thieves sneak into the white house using a truck mounted ladder and steal the constitution
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No mention at all of the fact that Trump doesn't have the legal authority to do this, that plans haven't even been reviewed (because the office is closed for the government shutdown), that the size and cost estimates keep changing, etc., etc.
Part of White House Is Reduced to Rubble. Trump’s Ballroom Will Rise in Its Place.
www.nytimes.com
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a tyrant is ignoring the constitution, firing live artillery at americans, invading our cities, and tearing down the white house to build himself a palace

our institutions won't react because they're lost in a digital dreamstate, unable to decide what is true because of social media poisoning
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😎 First glimpses from space!

The new #Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission has delivered its first preliminary images during commissioning.

Sentinel-4’s spectrometer is hosted on @eumetsat.int's MTG-S1 satellite 🧪🌍

@josefaschbacher.esa.int @ec.europa.eu @esaearth.esa.int
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billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society

also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind
The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.
Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

futurism.com/future-socie...
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The Battle of Trafalgar happened on this day in 1805. One hundred years later, on this day in 1905, as part of Southampton’s celebration of Trafalgar Day, the Trafalgar Dry Dock was opened by the Marquess of Winchester. It was the largest dry dock in the world at the time.

1/4
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Yep this is a decade long play. Every inch matters. Democrats have been riding the anti bush pro Obama inertia, and forgot how to build movements
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This is a good question.

Off the cuff, it helps people organize. It helps people learn to protest. It helps people see they are not alone.

Protest is one step. And when people see The Problems Continue, we get closer to other action, like a general strike.

No Kings Protest was EASY for ppl...
Can I ask, what did the No Kings protest actually accomplish? I mean, in real terms, what have these protests materially changed? I can't help but feel these one off protests are merely a heatsink for energy and anger rather than a path for meaningful change and disruption of the system.
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What’s funny is that the gold rush analogy is absolutely correct.

Nothing for most, with some people striking it rich by sheer luck, but the real winners being the people selling equipment to the people trying to strike it rich.

Nvidia is Levi Strauss, the 49ers get fleeced.
man who tried to slash social security spending promises communism is coming if you just ignore the enormous job losses this year due to the technology he's developing for private profit
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It's official: Takaichi Sanae has made history by becoming the first female Prime Minister to lead Japan in the modern era. Here's our write-up on why many Japanese feminists and women's rights advocates here fear this isn't a good thing:

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“Honorary Man”: Takaichi Sanae Scorned, Shunned by Japanese Feminists - Unseen Japan
The woman who may be Japan's first prime minister is under fire for her "fossil-like thinking" on women's rights.
unseen-japan.com
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“The Oregon v. Trump order … was issued at a key moment, as the courts move toward more definitively resolving whether Trump can use the National Guard in American cities as he is seeking to do — and what limits, if any, will attach to that use.”
NEW: The Ninth Circuit's 2-1 Oregon National Guard order was just the start of getting to an answer.

Monday's order granting the Trump admin a stay pending appeal in the Oregon case changed nothing on the ground immediately. But, it did crystallize where we are at — and going.

Now, at Law Dork:
The Ninth Circuit's 2-1 Oregon National Guard order was just the start of getting to an answer
Monday's order granting the Trump admin a stay pending appeal in the Oregon case changed nothing on the ground immediately. But, it did crystallize where we are at — and going.
www.lawdork.com
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One insurance denial for Teressa’s husband stated, “your newborn does not meet the criteria for coverage.”

“This is when I really start to think they’re just denying,” she recalled. “They’re not even looking. They’re just ‘deny, deny, deny.’”

By @deldeib.bsky.social
“Just Let Me Die”: After Insurance Repeatedly Denied a Couple’s Claims, One Psychiatrist Was Their Last Hope
After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife tried to get him help at an inpatient clinic. But their insurance provider refused to cover the treatment, deeming it “not medically necess...
www.propublica.org
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The Leverage cast seeing the Louvre heist and collectively posting, "Not it," is the whimsy we deserve.
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Just a reminder that "en banc" review in the Ninth Circuit is ... unique.

The full court (29 active judges, currently with a 16-13 D-R split) votes on whether or not to rehear a case en banc.

If so, then *10* judges are randomly drawn to sit with Chief Judge Murguia as the "en banc" court.
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This Anthropic settlement is weird bc yeah for sure pay up, but also if they’d asked to purchase the rights to use my books for their trash I would have said no, so doing it anyway and then paying in the form of a settlement is still slimy backdoor shit
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Had to explain this repeatedly during the 2020 interregnum: the Insurrection Act and martial law are not the same thing
Elaborating b/c there's a lot of misunderstanding on this.

Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.
Even if he did, which I'd bet is likelier than not, none of this is true. The Insurrection Act is not a declaration of martial law. It doesn't close the courts. It doesn't suspend habeas corpus. It means you can use the military to enforce federal laws, but the laws themselves remain the same.