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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 2h

Blind squirrel finds a nut, he's realized that he doesn't want the headlines on Monday saying "LET THEM EAT CAKE: Trump Admin asks SCOTUS for Emergency Ruling to Suspend SNAP"

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6h

OK, regardless of source, credit where due: That's a great headline.

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 10h

Prince Andrew will now be The Andrew Formerly Known as Prince

Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 3d

I have 100% come down from a winter ascent on Monadnock to find people starting up in shorts and flip flops.

It was in the fifties at the bottom. The top was an icy wasteland.

Also, flip flops are not mountain hiking footwear in any season.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3d

The president had a MRI but won't say why.

He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why.

He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical.

He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it.

How is any of this ok?

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 3d

Late in my undergrad years I discovered that there was a temperature (-30°F/-34°C) at which my gasoline-powered minivan wouldn’t start. No amount of fuel line antifreeze or spraying ether in the air filter helped. So I rode my bike for a few days.

Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 3d

It’s probably great for book sales

Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 5d

Some people on food stamps will celebrate this sort of rhetoric, but anybody in power should be very, very worried about what happens when you suddenly take away access to food for 6% of your population.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 5d

May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 7d

It’s a nice dessert to go with the entree of pardoning crypto-billionaire-money-launderer Zhao

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Wednesbury Addams @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 7d

“Cutting off all trade negotiations with Heard Island and the McDonald Islands because the penguins refused to salute our passing aircraft. Thank you for their attention to this matter.”

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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 9d

A district court would preliminarily enjoin the razing but SCOTUS would stay the PI and allow the razing to occur while litigation concerning the razing’s legality proceeds.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 9d

As a matter of current law, could the president just…knock down the entire White House? Just raze the whole thing to the ground?

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 10d

Let’s also pause to notice the weasel words “said to” in the headline. Did he or didn’t he? “Some people say” isn’t front page news! The lede cites background sources but the headline doesn’t commit to it.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 10d

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11d

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 11d

Common-law here meaning “made the fuck up.”

Like the “constitution” in “constitutional sheriff”

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 11d

"you're the only reporter I reached out to"

... does she not think "reporter" is a species of "journalist?"

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 11d

You work here long enough you move past the fear that comes from understanding the frailty of human life and replace it with taking joy in the small things that make life worth living.

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D.M. Ridley @ridleydm.bsky.social · 12d

It follows, however, that every single thing that is closed, and every person who is not paid, is Trump's and only Trump's fault. By his own logic, he could pay them, and he has decided not to.

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 13d

Further, to say his presidency fails "as a matter of law" neglects the fact that the electoral count occurred in Congress as mandated by the constitution and electoral count act, and that he was declared the winner of the EC as a result. What law, in particular, would negate this?

Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 13d

He sits at the resolute desk, the executive follows his orders. Congress and SCOTUS both acknowledge him as such. For all practical purposes, he is President. Regardless of how he got there.

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 13d

*”Reasonably well” meaning as well as it ever did. It never actually worked all that well.

Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 13d

As a philosophical stance, I agree.

As a descriptive statement we must ask what “law” means in the second clause. For example, if it means a set of rules by which one can predict the exercise of state power, it still works reasonably well* for ppl who are not friends or enemies of POTUS.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14d

Make it make sense. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

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Andy @chiashurb.bsky.social · 14d

If you wanted to do a full accounting (someone should!), you’d need to account for what % of those fines and restitution amounts will ever actually get paid, as well as the costs of incarceration the public does not incur as a result of early releases.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 14d

Lots of people dodging this question, unsurprisingly, but I'll step up: AI has been amazing, like game-changingly amazing, at introducing inexplicable errors into my research. I have also used it to make my writing more stilted and boring. And guess what? It's only getting better at all that.

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