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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 5h

hey so I know this is T&P but DHS doesn't have near the same authorities as DoD has with reprogramming, and also the DoD version of this is still illegal as shit even with those authorities

Whatever dog killer barbie is cooking up is gonna just be an outright money grab

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 12h

Coast Guard may now be paid through Pentagon-style money shifting trib.al/VhtWlMr

Coast Guard may now be paid through Pentagon-style money shifting

Homeland Security is taking similar steps after the Pentagon announced it would move “unobligated” funds to cover Oct. 15 pay.

trib.al

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charles (young QB agnostic) mcdonald @fourverts.bsky.social · 6h

this damn team has existed since 1920

Justin Russo @flybyknite.bsky.social · 7h

I don't know if this stat should make me laugh or cry.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 7h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 7h

since there's reports on social media of money hitting accounts worth reiterating that this is illegal and unconstitutional as shit, it's not a close question, and while I don't expect anyone on H/SASC or H/SAC will do anything, anyone performing this 'reprogramming' should face criminal penalties

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

It's also worth reiterating that absent this reprogramming authority being written into law it would be not just illegal but flatly unconstitutional for DoD to expend money in any fashion not explicitly specified (by both type/use and quantity) by Congress in an appropriations bill

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

Since we're getting a crash course in DoD reprogramming authority, CRS has a good report on it linked below. Some important points:

Congress gives DoD reprogramming authority because when you're dealing with a trillion dollars, some stuff is probably going to need to be changed over 12 months

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 8h

Taft wrote some bad history in a mostly forgotten 1926 case about firing a local postmaster, Scalia turbocharged that in a cranky dissent in 1988 that no other justice joined, and now it's a Roberts Court article of faith even though it has zero textual basis and is built on pseudohistory.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

I read Caleb Nelson's piece on the removal power and I was taken with a reference he makes in the conclusion.

When the First Congress confronted the same ambiguities, more than one member warned against interpreting the Constitution in the expectation that all Presidents would have the sterling character of George Washington. The current Supreme Court may likewise see itself as interpreting the Constitution for the ages, and perhaps some of the Justices take comfort in the idea that future Presidents will not all have the character of Donald Trump. But the future is not guaranteed; a President bent on vengeful, destructive, and lawless behavior can do lasting damage to our norms and institutions. As one member of Congress argued in 1789, we should not gravitate toward interpretations of the Constitution that “legaliz[e] the full exertion of a tyrannical disposition.”

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Kenn White @kennwhite.bsky.social · 8h

The Wired piece by @agreenberg.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social on this just dropped, and the research by Heninger et al is stunning:
“sensitive [sat] traffic is being broadcast unencrypted, including critical infrastructure, corp, gov't, and…private citizens’ voice calls & SMS". 🧵

Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 9h

This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

🛰️ SATCOM Security

Research project homepage for SATCOM Security: papers, source code, and recent satellite communications vulnerabilities.

satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

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Glonzo Journalism, But Scary 👻 @scriban.bsky.social · 8h

Ok, narc

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 8h

The tendency to use cannabis is associated with genes linked to impulsive behavior, obesity, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, among other traits, a new study found.

Scientists identify key reason people may use or get addicted to cannabis

The study builds on growing genetic research into cannabis use, as policymakers grapple with the risks and benefits of the drug’s soaring popularity.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9h

Someday this could be you or someone you love

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Glonzo Journalism, But Scary 👻 @scriban.bsky.social · 9h

Seems bad tbh

WIRED @wired.com · 9h

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted. www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.

www.wired.com

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 18h

“Yeah but there was no final status negotiated under those”

There’s no final status agreement now either

“Yeah but those were temporary”

This one hasn’t even been in force for a week

“But this time Bibi promises it’s for real!”

[stares]

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 18h

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 18h

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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Glonzo Journalism, But Scary 👻 @scriban.bsky.social · 9h

So, the #Bills are frauds, huh?

#BUFvsATL

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10h

3-0 since Humpy won

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Glonzo Journalism, But Scary 👻 @scriban.bsky.social · 10h

Can’t believe antifa makes us use Concur.

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 20h

It’s great to be paid for protesting and everything but let me tell you the whole antifa reimbursement process is just terrible

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 10h

I’m part of the problem because I completely forgot about this

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 17h

oh. right.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings.

Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings

Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

www.lawdork.com

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Glonzo Journalism, But Scary 👻 @scriban.bsky.social · 10h

Expos erasure.

Baseball on F*x is the worst.

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Glonzo Journalism, But Scary 👻 @scriban.bsky.social · 10h

It’s silly and superficial on its face. There was *nothing* that would budge Netanyahu as long as Trump and the GOP were waiting in the wings.

Glonzo Journalism, But Scary 👻 @scriban.bsky.social · 11h

I guess beating the #Yankees was Toronto’s World Series.

Congrats, bud.

#ALCS
#SEAvsTOR

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 15h

Wyoming is by an order of magnitude the US's largest coal producer (and produces more than the whole of the northern Appalachia and Midwest states *combined*).

Nearly all of that comes out of the Powder River Basin.

Coal is a dead industry.

J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 18h

New coal leases in the Powder River Basin have been paused after the first one had only a bid for 1/10th of a penny. They are trying to blame previous administrations, but the writing is on the wall. We should be supporting coal workers and communities not doing wtf this clown show is doing.

US postpones Wyoming coal lease sale after disappointing Montana auction

The Trump administration has postponed a scheduled sale of coal leases on federal lands in Wyoming two days after a disappointing auction in Montana, an Interior Department spokesperson said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

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Glonzo Journalism, But Scary 👻 @scriban.bsky.social · 14h

el oh el ok

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 14h

Sordid stuff thanks to SCOTUS and SCONC's Republican majorities

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15h

North Carolina Republicans announced today they’re going to pass a new congressional map to draw a Dem out of Congress; they already did last cycle, going from 7-7 to 10-4. Thus would be 11-3. t.co/XLJIhe8vZn

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

this is what I think. And it’s why I think 2016 was such a lost opportunity three in a row with Clinton as the third would have not just prompted soul-searching in the GOP but might have fundamentally changed it.

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Travis Souders @travissouders.bsky.social · 15h

He hit the Wee-bey meme immediately

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Watch butt plug’s reaction to Cal Raleigh’s homer

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 16h

this is going to get me yelled at so I will preemptively say "this is not the thread to reply with 'but I just don't like AI and think it's bad'"

but I do think that "LLMs are glorified autocorrect" as a meme is actively hindering people's understanding of how this tech works at this point

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