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Greg Gentry

@greggentry.bsky.social

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A lawyer living in MN, licensed in MO. Specializing, now, in litigation support, but have written about FDA regulations.

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Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · Jun 24

Let me start to answer my own question - a reading list of the use of history to square the circle of a social contract that binds people who had no input into its drafting:

- Memory and Authority, Jack Balkin
- Reva Siegel, The Politics of Constitutional Memory.

law.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

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Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 3m

And from Archie Bunker, through the moral panic about “political correctness” in the ‘90s to today, it seems like there has always been discomfort among the bigots as they’re left behind.

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 7m

Hard to square his claim, “Nobody should celebrate or encourage bigotry or hang a giant “BIGOTS WELCOME HERE” sign on the outside of their tent,” with the rest of his column.

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 17m

But, why? Shouldn’t we have a tent big enough to encompass animal cruelty? Why have any lines at all?

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 20m

a woman sits at a desk with her mouth open and says i can excuse racism but i draw the line

ALT: a woman sits at a desk with her mouth open and says i can excuse racism but i draw the line

media.tenor.com

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, who among us …

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 2d

Obamacare might not be perfect, but it’s a damn sight better than the alternative!

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans point to a 61% increase in premiums since it was passed 14 years ago.

Umm, premiums went up 113% in the 10 years prior to its passage.

(Both in the individual market.)

50 million uninsured then, 23-25 m now.

Pre-existing conditions. Companies spending 40-60% on “overhead.”

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Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 2d

Grok will give WILDLY different responses on "main" X versus in the Grok app.

Compare:

An @grok response to the prompt "have Haitian immigrants helped to revitalize rust belt towns?" with an answer that boils down to "No."

A grok app response to the prompt "Have Haitians helped revitalize rust belt towns/" [a typo - I wanted a question mark] The answer boils down to "yes."

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 3d

They don’t even bother to deny it. “The [] results speak for themselves…”

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 3d

They’re pointing to the human banners as PROOF that someone must be paying for the protests.

Reasons.

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 4d

It’ll never not be wild that conservatives will gladly sign onto wild conspiracies like chemtrails and ignore climate change.

“They’re spraying chemicals into the atmosphere to control the weather!”

I mean, yes, but you’re not talking about the CO2, are you?

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Chemtrail? New Conspiracy Theory Takes Wing at Kennedy's HHS - KFF Health News

The idea that airplane vapors are toxic to people or that there are ongoing efforts to intentionally change the climate made the social media rounds. Now, it has found advocates at the Department of H...

kffhealthnews.org

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 9d

Weird AI summary from Google, saying it was vetoed today. When I click through to sources … nothing. When I search specifically for a veto, it says it hasn’t been vetoed.

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 9d

I don’t even know what he thinks passive voice is. Does he think it’s “blame shifting?”

Because “Trump got rid of the de minimus exemption,” and “UPS is destroying packages” are definitely not passive voice.

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 10d

Damn, Google tells me that this is entirely false. Not a single eyeball.

I do like that in the original fake story, the stated reason was “eco friendly.”

“The company should start a green initiative. They don’t even have recycling at the plant.”

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 10d

My shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 11d

You’re probably all looking at “Bookmark not defined,” but almost as bad: “Tro.”

Not, “temporary restraining order,” or even “TRO.”

“Tro.”

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 11d

Exec1: Every cooking direction will be slightly off. Microwave directions will be 1-2 minutes short. And we’ll have an oven alternative that’s just absurd. Like cook at 350 for 60 minutes, or microwave for 3 minutes.

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 11d

Shittier plans:

Pre-existing conditions excluded

Less money spent on care, more on salaries/profit

Fewer things covered

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 11d

The complaints about ObamaCare making health insurance unaffordable relies on people just not remembering 2010.

52 million uninsured (25-27m today)
10+% increases in premiums annually. (7.1% after ACA passed)

Shittier plans

The $600 plans they’re whining about today wld be $900 w/o the ACA.

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 22d

It’s wild how much of the current Right-Wing is grounded in deliberate, obstinate, ignorance. Over on the bad-site, they’re losing their mind over the ADL characterizing “Christian Identity” as a racist ideology.

www.newsweek.com/maga-rages-o...

MAGA Rages Over ADL’s ‘Christian Identity’ Classification %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%

The ADL classifies the movement"Christian Identity," which it differentiates from mainstream Christianity, as “extremism, hate or terrorism.”

www.newsweek.com

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 12d

It is hard not to be fatalistic, because it certainly seems like if the SC blesses this interpretation in the face of multiple, obviously partisan prosecutions, they have given up on the American experiment.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12d

Perversely, Trump v. United States (immunity decision) might've handed the government some language to use as ammo.

Though the context is very different, I wouldn't be surprised if at some point the government cites language like this (from the infamous Footnote 3):

bsky.app/profile/anna...

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 12d

*Fannie Mae

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 12d

I assume it’s the standard FHA 2nd House Rider, which was rewritten in 2019 to allow short-term rentals.

www.wsj.com/articles/sec...

Second-Home Rider Rewrite

There’s radically different language in the new rider, but Fannie Mae says it just clarifies that owners can rent out a second home

www.wsj.com

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 13d

Narrator: It is, in fact, the easiest test.

It’s designed to flag cognitive disfunction and anyone with a functioning brain should get a very high, to perfect, score.

There are 30 questions on the MOCA and a normal score is 26 or higher. Missing 5 signals mild impairment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Trump: "I also did a cognitive exam. Which is always very risky because if I didn't do well, you'd be the first to be blaring it and I had a perfect score. And one of the doctors said he's almost never seen a perfect score. I had a perfect score. That made me well good ... not the easiest test."

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Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 13d

What, you didn’t routinely charge people for federal felonies for crimes worth $600 a year?

Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 13d

Some good options if the goal is exploding Trump’s brain.

The International Criminal Court - maybe Jack Smith could accept on their behalf.

Greta Thunberg.

Navalnaya, Alexei Navalny’s widow, would also be a poke in his eye.