DaveManynumbers
@davemanynumbers.bsky.social
Canadian: we have gun rights, a functional Supreme Court, vaccines, and milk in bags! What more could one ask for?
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The most powerful person in the world ...could go into office knowing there would be no potential penalty for committing crimes, I'm trying to understand what the disincentive is from turning the Oval Office into, you know, the seat of criminal activity in this country.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
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I don't have much hope of it actually happening even if/when Dems win back power, but is nice to see one Dem politician bring it up
January 3, 2026 at 7:37 PM
I don't have much hope of it actually happening even if/when Dems win back power, but is nice to see one Dem politician bring it up
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We're going to need a bigger Hague.
January 3, 2026 at 9:51 AM
We're going to need a bigger Hague.
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"Superintelligence" 🙄 claims aside, I think he's right. LLM boosters always start dissembling when you point out that the tech has two critical problems—it scales poorly and routinely generates errors—and nobody has a clue how to fix either. Both problems appear inherent to the tech itself.
Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
January 2, 2026 at 3:12 PM
"Superintelligence" 🙄 claims aside, I think he's right. LLM boosters always start dissembling when you point out that the tech has two critical problems—it scales poorly and routinely generates errors—and nobody has a clue how to fix either. Both problems appear inherent to the tech itself.
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Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.
January 1, 2026 at 5:27 AM
Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.
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NEW: Jack Smith seemed in total command of the details of his probes and used his deposition to forcefully rebut claims of weaponization and reiterate his belief that Trump was guilty of historic crimes.
Our 7 takeaways.
w/ @Hailey_Fuchs @jordainc
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Our 7 takeaways.
w/ @Hailey_Fuchs @jordainc
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
NEW: Jack Smith seemed in total command of the details of his probes and used his deposition to forcefully rebut claims of weaponization and reiterate his belief that Trump was guilty of historic crimes.
Our 7 takeaways.
w/ @Hailey_Fuchs @jordainc
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Our 7 takeaways.
w/ @Hailey_Fuchs @jordainc
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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Jack Smith: “Our case was built on, frankly, Republicans who put their allegiance to the country before the party.”
Trump also had a “pattern” of rejecting information that didn’t fit his false narrative.
Trump also had a “pattern” of rejecting information that didn’t fit his false narrative.
December 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Jack Smith: “Our case was built on, frankly, Republicans who put their allegiance to the country before the party.”
Trump also had a “pattern” of rejecting information that didn’t fit his false narrative.
Trump also had a “pattern” of rejecting information that didn’t fit his false narrative.
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Extinction rarely departs with drama, it slips out the back door while we’re still debating the guest list. These records are made official on the Red List. "Conservation failures are often recognised only once they can no longer be reversed."
via @mongabay.com: news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
via @mongabay.com: news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
December 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Extinction rarely departs with drama, it slips out the back door while we’re still debating the guest list. These records are made official on the Red List. "Conservation failures are often recognised only once they can no longer be reversed."
via @mongabay.com: news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
via @mongabay.com: news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
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CNN becomes the first US outlet to confirm Trump's attack on the Venezuelan mainland. He apparently did report it to Congress. This is an act of war and a violation of the UN Charter. www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
Exclusive: CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast | CNN Politics
The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that...
www.cnn.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
CNN becomes the first US outlet to confirm Trump's attack on the Venezuelan mainland. He apparently did report it to Congress. This is an act of war and a violation of the UN Charter. www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
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We have already decided as a society that ChatGPT is allowed to tell people’s kids to kill people. Now we’re just debating who.
December 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
We have already decided as a society that ChatGPT is allowed to tell people’s kids to kill people. Now we’re just debating who.
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Thousands of farms set to go bankrupt as grain farmers in particular hit by trade disruptions caused by price hikes.
US farmers say Trump’s $12bn package not enough to undo damage from tariffs.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
US farmers say Trump’s $12bn package not enough to undo damage from tariffs.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
US farmers say Trump’s $12bn package not enough to undo damage from tariffs
Thousands of farms set to go bankrupt as grain farmers in particular hit by trade disruptions caused by price hikes
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Thousands of farms set to go bankrupt as grain farmers in particular hit by trade disruptions caused by price hikes.
US farmers say Trump’s $12bn package not enough to undo damage from tariffs.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
US farmers say Trump’s $12bn package not enough to undo damage from tariffs.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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In 2019, the rate of fatal police shootings in the US was 3.1 per million residents. By contrast, the rate in France was 0.14 per million, and in Germany, it was lower.
In Germany, police officers discharged a total of 85 bullets at people in the entire year of 2011.
In Germany, police officers discharged a total of 85 bullets at people in the entire year of 2011.
I’ve said it and I believe it is true
There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed
There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed
December 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
In 2019, the rate of fatal police shootings in the US was 3.1 per million residents. By contrast, the rate in France was 0.14 per million, and in Germany, it was lower.
In Germany, police officers discharged a total of 85 bullets at people in the entire year of 2011.
In Germany, police officers discharged a total of 85 bullets at people in the entire year of 2011.
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We are getting to the point where white collar criminals are thinking, "why take the plea deal my high-priced lawyer negotiated when I can just bribe the President and skip jail altogether?"
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
December 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
We are getting to the point where white collar criminals are thinking, "why take the plea deal my high-priced lawyer negotiated when I can just bribe the President and skip jail altogether?"
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
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3I/ATLAS Flyby apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...
This deep exposure captures the comet from another star system as it gently swept across a faint background of stars in the constellation Leo
This deep exposure captures the comet from another star system as it gently swept across a faint background of stars in the constellation Leo
December 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
3I/ATLAS Flyby apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...
This deep exposure captures the comet from another star system as it gently swept across a faint background of stars in the constellation Leo
This deep exposure captures the comet from another star system as it gently swept across a faint background of stars in the constellation Leo
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Hate when this guy shows up in my feed
December 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Hate when this guy shows up in my feed
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bluesky developers, please let us add more than one video to a post 😔
December 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
bluesky developers, please let us add more than one video to a post 😔
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Thanks much, Leah. I think it's noteworthy that *no* Justices thought that the SG's unconvincing alternative argument that Trump had properly invoked the *rebellion* provision of 12406 was even worthy of discussion or refutation; and ... [1]
December 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Thanks much, Leah. I think it's noteworthy that *no* Justices thought that the SG's unconvincing alternative argument that Trump had properly invoked the *rebellion* provision of 12406 was even worthy of discussion or refutation; and ... [1]
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THIS is among the most important list of documents the public needs to see.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
December 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
THIS is among the most important list of documents the public needs to see.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
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I don't think people realize how hard the US food & farm sectors are declining to do the work of feeding humans.
Feeding livestock is just way easier. So that's what they're doing.
Feeding livestock is just way easier. So that's what they're doing.
December 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I don't think people realize how hard the US food & farm sectors are declining to do the work of feeding humans.
Feeding livestock is just way easier. So that's what they're doing.
Feeding livestock is just way easier. So that's what they're doing.
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BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.
![ORDER
For the reasons stated in the accompanying Memorandum Opinion, the Court ORDERS
that:
1. Plaintiffs' [177] Motion for Summary Judgment is GRANTED;
2. Plaintiffs' [178] Motion for Class Certification is GRANTED;
3. Defendants' [182] Motion for Summary Judgment is DENIED; and
4. The Government shall submit its proposal either to facilitate the return
of Plaintiffs to the United States or to otherwise provide them with
hearings that satisfy the requirements of due process by January 5,
2026.
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Case 1:25-cv-00766-JEB
Document 214
Filed 12/22/25
Page 2 of 2
/s/ James E. Boasberg
JAMES E. BOASBERG
United States District Judge](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreieca4ukx2h54wbcpvlobarhijo2py237ojy3y7q7pgdpbffmalsoy@jpeg)
December 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.
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Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
December 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
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Google Gemini Pro: please generate a map of the western united states showing cities of over 250K population
December 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Google Gemini Pro: please generate a map of the western united states showing cities of over 250K population