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Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 10h

Nov. 4 is election day, so they will take off that week too. Then Thanksgiving. And Christmas. Maybe they will bother to work again the first week in January when they must formally gavel in for the 2nd year of this term. I'm betting that, unless Dems cave (I hope not) the gov is still shut down.

Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 11h

Also my bank, USAA.

Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 11h

Trump is just peaching commanding people he likes to be paid and commanding people he does not like to not be paid. Trump feels he doesn't need Congress at all. Executive orders fit perfectly with his style. Unless the Democrats cave (I hope not), I expect we will still be shut down come January.

Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 11h

He claimed to have a royalty check to deposit. Did he? Inquiring minds want to know....

Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 11h

Trump is well known for accusing other people of what he himself is guilty of. This makes me wonder about Trump's obsession with Venezuela viewed alongside what Trump is doing to the USA. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump is threatening Venezuela. But his own country looks a lot like it | Daniel Mendiola

The US president’s efforts to consolidate power are strikingly similar to historical authoritarian moves in Caracas

www.theguardian.com

Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 13h

He probably had another gig lined up and was on the edge of leaving anyway. Morality is totally lacking in that world.

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Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 14h

"The 1952 National Capital Planning Act gave the commission its current name and the responsibility for preservation of important natural and historic sites in the area." Demolishing the East Wing without approval clearly violates the law. But Trump doesn't care, does he.

Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 14h

The East Wing is the least historic part of the main White House building. It was built by FDR decades after the building of the West Wing. The Eisenhower building was built way earlier, by President Grant, and only renamed in the 20th century.

Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 14h

Yes. But Trump only appoints 3 of the 12 members. 3 more are from Trump controlled executive departments. Others are from Congress and the DC government. But I would guess that the "demolish first, then ask" strategy is designed to force approval.

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Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 14h

True fact. "The 1952 National Capital Planning Act gave the commission its current name and the responsibility for preservation of important natural and historic sites in the area." Per Wikipedia. That would clearly include demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 14h

I suspect the "demolition" claim is an outright lie. Wikipedia says this: "The 1952 National Capital Planning Act gave the commission its current name and the responsibility for preservation of important natural and historic sites in the area." That would clearly include demolition of the East Wing.

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Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 1d

My post was questioning the path of such a bullet. If the ICE guy smashes the driver side window and shoots DOWN at the occupant, how does the bullet go UP to a Marshall on the opposite side of the car? I can't quite believe that. Much like I can't quite believe the magic Kennedy bullet path.

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CNN @cnn.com · 1d

23-year-old Democratic activist Harry Sisson responds to an AI video posted by President Donald Trump depicting Trump dropping what appeared to be sewage on Sisson and other protesters attending the "No Kings" rally.

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Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 1d

Trump proclaims that he is a king and can spend money how he wants regardless of what anyone in Congress might wish to say about it. I would like to have my share of such a "distribution" but I want it to be due to a law passed by Congress, not by Trump choosing who gets paid and who doesn't.

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Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 1d

This is another thing that Senate Democrats should stand firm on. No bailouts for soybean farmers. Let them sell the beans to nations that are now very hungry due to USAID vanishing. See what those beans are really worth on the open market.

Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 1d

How about let's not bail out the farmers this time. Most of them voted for Trump. I say let them reap what they have sown. Besides, there is no budget. And too much spending versus too little revenue. Congress should not appropriate money to bail out farmers given the current budget.

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Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 1d

Given a suspect sitting in a car, smashing in a window with a pistol, I can't quite picture how the suspect could be "gravely injured" and "another law enforcement officer" could be in the same line of fire. Multiple discharges anyone?

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Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 1d

Needless to say, if you used the wrong kind of device at the junction between glass and copper, the signal would not go through. There are many different types of copper and glass wire (fiber). The powered device needs to convert between the proper types according to the overall system design.

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Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 1d

To hook copper wire signals into glass wire signals you need a powered device at the junction point. As a computer guy, we did it a lot with 10 gigabit ethernet signals. Copper will not carry those very far. But glass will carry the signal many miles before it needs a signal repeater.

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Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 1d

Expect Friend of the Court briefs from the Hawaii state Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHH) which was established to take revenue from state land taken from the former Kingdom of Hawaii to benefit native Hawaiian people. www.oha.org

Office of Hawaiian Affairs

Empowering Hawaiians, strengthening Hawai‘i

www.oha.org

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Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 1d

The First Amendment right of free association, combined with the lack of any federal funding, should allow the schools to continue to do what they do. At least, IMHO. It is like a private golf club that refuses to admit women or blacks or whomever.

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Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 1d

Here is some background from actual Hawaii (it appears that in 2006 they paid off the complaining student rather than risk an adverse Supreme Court decision, so it looks like a decent test case): alohastatedaily.com/2025/09/05/k...

Aloha State Daily | Kamehameha Schools gearing up for legal battle over admissions policy

Virginia-based Students for Fair Admissions announced plans to challenge Kamehameha Schools preferential treatment of Native Hawaiian applicants

alohastatedaily.com

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Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 1d

All we need to do is to find out that AI companies are using private credit to fund their massive growth plans and the AI bubble burst could cause the private credit collapse. Be warned!

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Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 1d

And the seventh: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

University of Arizona becomes seventh US college to reject Trump’s ‘compact’

Administration has pushed nine universities to sign a deal that seeks to make changes in line with conservative ideas

www.theguardian.com

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Elbonian @elbonian.bsky.social · 2d

Caterpillar is contributing and they use VOLVO equipment to do the demolition? So much for making America great again!

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