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Concerned NFC Fan @busyragespiral.bsky.social · 1d

He looks like a 5th place finish in a Richard Petty look-alike contest.

Concerned NFC Fan @busyragespiral.bsky.social · 23d

All the services are incentivized to pitch themselves against the pacing threat and what they can deliver as quickly as possible, regardless of reality. Asking a service to volunteer to sit out a funding cycle is basically asking them to render themselves obsolete for years.

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Concerned NFC Fan @busyragespiral.bsky.social · 23d

If the Army played it honest and said, "Ok, the rest of the force will worry about the pacing threat while we hold the line elsewhere" it's also telling policy "We are not relevant to your funding priorities or the vision you lay out in your strategic documents".

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Concerned NFC Fan @busyragespiral.bsky.social · 23d

I think the larger problem is the blob's prioritization of its budget vis-a-vis the fundamental capacity problem of fighting a global war.

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Concerned NFC Fan @busyragespiral.bsky.social · 23d

It's also a pretty clear way for the Army to lose the Pentagon wars for funding.

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Concerned NFC Fan @busyragespiral.bsky.social · 23d

How long until this statue gets a giant diaper put on it?

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Concerned NFC Fan @busyragespiral.bsky.social · Sep 7

Famously his fireside chats came with assigned reading with charts and data mailed to every home.

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Concerned NFC Fan @busyragespiral.bsky.social · May 21

Yes, I'm the narcissist, not the dime a dozen Berkeley resident snarking away.

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Concerned NFC Fan @busyragespiral.bsky.social · May 21

And what does that have to with civic virtue and shirts? Because you're complaining about a lack of virtue by talking about virtue signaling.

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Concerned NFC Fan @busyragespiral.bsky.social · May 21

You still don't have anything to say about that since you're busy riding your high horse, speaking as one of those noble savages in a red state.

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Concerned NFC Fan @busyragespiral.bsky.social · May 21

"I'm too busy dragging the libs from the left in Berkeley to think about all those other people who agree with me but are effectively locked into electoral hell and surrounded by political opponents."

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Concerned NFC Fan @busyragespiral.bsky.social · May 21

Or even worse, they'd be the Republican voters you'd be voting against. So what are you actually bitching about?

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Concerned NFC Fan @busyragespiral.bsky.social · May 21

The worst liberals you know in Berkeley, CA would be your best friends if you all moved whole cloth into Augusta, GA.

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Concerned NFC Fan @busyragespiral.bsky.social · May 21

So what's your definition of society then? Who's included and what would you rather have them do in public to show their values?

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Concerned NFC Fan @busyragespiral.bsky.social · May 21

You realize this critique only really works in the deeply blue areas where you see this behavior right?

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Concerned NFC Fan @busyragespiral.bsky.social · May 18

Just go home and be a husband to your wife Betty Boop.

Mr. Boop as a Democrat strategist suggesting Biden drop out of the 2024 election

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · May 18

"I want people to be safe and protected. I want to live on the right side of history. I am an immigrant. My parents are refugees from Chile. We fled a dictatorship and I was privileged enough to grow up in the United States after asylum in Denmark. I stand by those protections, always."

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Concerned NFC Fan @busyragespiral.bsky.social · May 18

I liked this guy better when he was just simping for his wife, Betty Boop.

Sawyer Hackett @sawyerhackett.bsky.social · May 16

Democrats destroyed our credibility by propping up Joe Biden—and we won’t fix that by burying our heads in the sand…again.

And I don’t give a shit if you don’t think it’s helpful.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · May 17

thinking once again about The Most Wrong Tweet Ever

Tweet from Casey Neistat:

If you could be born at any time in history, when would it be?

for me 1900; fight in WW1, roaring 20s, great depression, fight in WW2, then experience the 50s + 60s in my 50s and 60s, enjoy my twilight years with the modern conveniences of the 70s and die in the 80s before all this internet bullshit begins.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · May 15

it's absolutely wild that the solicitor general is out here saying you'll likely never be able to have a universal rule of citizenship if they win, and they might nonetheless win

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · May 15

The federal government is attempting a radical, massive expansion of what constitutes "wiretapping" that threatens everyone working in media/as a journalist today and I hope you'll read this and share it with everyone you know.

I'm not just fighting this for me. I'm fighting it for everyone.

Advisory to Journalists: The Dangerous Expansion of the Federal Wiretap Law

Journalists, podcasters, and digital media professionals beware: the U.S. government is currently advancing a legal theory under 18 U.S.C. § 2511—the federal wiretap statute—that threatens to criminalize the mere act of downloading publicly available videos or listening to podcasts. This interpretation risks not only chilling investigative journalism but undermines the very foundation of freedom of the press.

The federal wiretap law makes it a felony to intentionally “intercept”—that is, acquire the contents of—a “wire communication” unless you are a party to the communication or a party has given prior consent. Under 18 U.S.C. § 2510(1), a "wire communication" includes any transfer containing the human voice that travels at any point by wire or cable. Originally meant to prevent unlawful phone taps in 1968, the statute has not meaningfully evolved to reflect digital media distribution in the 21st century.

As a result, many core journalistic practices today—listening to audio on a video stream, downloading a podcast, reviewing livestreamed footage—can be construed as “intercepting” a wire communication. And unlike “oral communications” (which are only protected if private) or “electronic communications” (which are exempt if publicly accessible), wire communications have no similar public-access defense. This leaves journalists legally vulnerable for accessing material that is otherwise freely available to the public.

This is not just a theoretical risk. In Tampa, Florida, the U.S. Department of Justice is actively prosecuting my client, journalist Timothy Burke for allegedly violating the wiretap statute by downloading publicly accessible livestreamed interviews from a video server. The journalist used only a URL—no password, no hack, no deception.

The government claims that because the streams included the human voice and were transmitted in part by wire or cable, they are “wire communications”. Under this interpretation, even if the stream was intended for public consumption, and even if no reasonable expectation of privacy existed, the act of acquiring and publishing the content becomes a federal felony. The government also asserts that the same communications are also “electronic communications,” where the law makes it clear that it is not a violation if the electronic communication is obtained from a server that is configured so that the communication is “readily accessible to the general public” -- however, the government has argued (and the court has agreed) that whether or not the communication was obtained from a publicly accessible server is a fact question that the journalist must prove at trial - not an element of the offense that the government must prove. This means that a journalist that obtains public information may still be subject to search, seizure, arrest, indictment and prosecution.

The implications for the First Amendment are chilling. Under the government’s interpretation of interception of “wire communications”, the government could prosecute journalists based not on their methods, but on the content they choose to listen to or report on. The wiretap law also criminalizes the disclosure of the contents of a wire communication. Thus, quoting from a podcast or a leaked livestream could subject a reporter to criminal liability regardless of intent, public interest, or harm.

This is a dangerous expansion of government authority. It converts the passive act of receiving a communication—something essential to journalism—into a criminal offense based solely on outdated statutory definitions and prosecutorial discretion.

The broader issue is not just technical—it’s constitutional. A law that is so vague or overbroad that it allows the government to pick and choose whom to prosecute based on their speech, targets the very heart of press freedom. It is unconstitutionally vague under the Fifth Amendment and overbroad under the First.

By failing to modernize the statute—or at least to interpret it in line with modern communication platforms—the government risks turning millions of journalists, researchers, and citizens into potential criminals. The law as it stands today is an anachronism of the analog era being misapplied in a digital one.

If you are a journalist, you should be alarmed. If the DOJ’s current theory prevails, simply clicking “play” could one day lead to prosecution. The press cannot operate in an environment where the law punishes access to speech—particularly where that speech is both public and newsworthy.

The press must not only report on this misuse of power, but challenge it—legally, politically, and publicly. Because the right to receive and report information is not just a constitutional luxury. It’s a democratic necessity.

--
Mark Rasch
MDRasch@gmail.com
(301) 547-6925

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Concerned NFC Fan @busyragespiral.bsky.social · May 15

It's also weird coming across people who view genocide as a red line using it as a dunk online when the genocide has only gotten worse. Who did you want to win this last election? Who do you want to win the next one?

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Concerned NFC Fan @busyragespiral.bsky.social · May 15

Uh oh, not the white voice again? Is that because caping for Palestinians gives you the moral high ground to punch from the left this time?

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Concerned NFC Fan @busyragespiral.bsky.social · May 15

Lol code switching only when you get called out, way to represent.

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