Joe
@twitskeptic.sirvin.com
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Unprofessional data wrangler and Bluesky’s official fact checker. Older and crankier than you are.
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twitskeptic.sirvin.com
Because bank issued private currency worked out so well in the 19th century.
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵
OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.
twitskeptic.sirvin.com
Most of the simultaneous large studies that I'm aware of are data exploration studies ("Is BPA exposure associated with illness?"), not studies designed to "prove" one specific outcome ("Is prenatal Tylenol use associated with autism?").
twitskeptic.sirvin.com
Can you give me an example of when a funding agency (aka NIH) funded multiple studies, at the same time, to try and "prove" one very particular association? That's highly unusual.
twitskeptic.sirvin.com
IDK, it sure seems to me that multiple (p hacking) studies looking for one particular kind of association isn't a methodologically sound way of doing science.
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carlzimmer.com
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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pbump.com
I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges
Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.
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twitskeptic.sirvin.com
That was a great explanatory summary. The fact that they turned off comments on that ridiculous piece ("It's the Democrat's fault that Trump is destroying the Constitution!") tells anyone what they need to know.
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rtodkelly.bsky.social
"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"
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esqueer.net
ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.
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darrigomelanie.bsky.social
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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flglchicago.bsky.social
Here’s video of the incident
twitskeptic.sirvin.com
One of the many reasons I quit on baseball. You can try a VPN if you haven’t already.
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atrupar.com
"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.
atrupar.com
Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."
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atrupar.com
Hirono to Bondi: "It's very clear to me that when the president posts something like, that he considers the DOJ to be his law firm and you his lawyer."
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atrupar.com
NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse
twitskeptic.sirvin.com
Right next to the carrots and apples in the crisper.
atrupar.com
Trump: "Recently they said they found billions of dollars. And they couldn't understand -- I said, 'check the tariff shelf.' And they come in the next hour and they say, 'Sir, you're right, it was from the tariffs.'"
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
On the left:

Sept 2: Judge Breyer opinion (in CA case) showing DoD's own instructions of actions that violate Posse Comitatus Act (eg "crowd control").

On the right:

Sept 26: DHS request to DoD for military forces in Chicago "in direct support of ... access control, and crowd control."
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Trump pulling every lever to expand military occupations of American cities. Gov. Gavin Newsom will take the administration back to court. 👇
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. an overhaul of the federal safety net for poor, older and disabled people that could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing benefits ..”

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.