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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 4h

Well, yes, yes he has. It was in fact Letitia James’s team who showed he did, in the NY court. It led to him and his sons being banned from running businesses in New York, which was upheld on appeal. In his case it was false accounting of the value of his properties, leading to favorable loan terms.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 8h

With the caveat that I am part of this blessed age group so I fully endorse the sentiment, I would just remind you: it was precisely the arrival of the 1975 birth year kids as college freshmen, logging onto USENET in 1993, which is considered the start of the ‘Eternal September’.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 13h

Right, clearly these questions have an agenda. And they also add to the warped information environment he’s in – ‘the press keeps asking me when I’m going to invoke the insurrection act; the people must be clamoring for it’.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 13h

There was an Oval Office press gaggle the other day where a ‘reporter’ asked if the admin might consider doing a few hundred layoffs every hour til the Dems agreed to reopen the government, like government workers are hostages. It’s not the press’s job to bait Trump into agreeing to new evil ideas!

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 14h

The graph line is labeled ‘hardly ever’ and only covers reading ‘in their leisure time’ so leaping from that to ‘never’ and ‘even when mandated’ seems a bit alarmist.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 1d

Committing new constitutional violations by breaching the rights of a man named Miranda during an arrest?

If this goes to the Supreme Court it would be the mother of all ‘weird that it happened twice’ moments.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like the Templars’ investments in the Ubisoft/Abstergo Entertainment partnership are finally paying off.

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Abstergo Entertainment | LinkedIn

Abstergo Entertainment | 178 followers on LinkedIn. Founded as Abstergo Entertainment in 2010, the company's main mediums included video games, movies and other media sourced from genetic memories...

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 1d

It seems more that they’re suppressing the Epstein investigation because they fear that what comes out will distract from the mission of authoritarian consolidation. They’re not invading Chicago to distract from the Epstein Files; they’re worried the Epstein files will end the invasion of Chicago.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 1d

I’m struggling to parse his argument here. I think he’s coming out against in-network negotiated insurance pricing. “Americans should have to pay the full undiscounted price for medical care” is a hell of a campaign promise.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 2d

True, though the 101st were sent to Arkansas pretty much to ensure the national guard followed their federal orders. They had been being deployed by the governor to block integration up until federalization.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 2d

Great thread.

In theory deploying federalized TXNG troops is same as deploying regular army. In practice it’s as you say: shattering to the concept of a national guard.

The 101st went to Arkansas to enforce a SCOTUS ruling. TXNG to Chicago aims to *defy* a federal ruling that upheld the TRUST act.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 2d

Many such cases

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 2d

Someone needs to tell Mike about Betteridge’s law of headlines before he does something really dumb

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 3d

Or just the existence of natural beauty. The lack of any human hand in the design of Yosemite doesn't take anything away from the fact that the sight of it can move you to tears.

If you find something touching in the stream of words from an LLM, the effect it has is real, even if it isn't authored.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 3d

This is a change from the strategy in the previous Trump administration where murders of fishermen were confined to North Korean territorial waters.

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 3d

Authoritarian governments sending troops drawn from the ordinary population to repress said population and then *not paying* those troops is definitely a thing that has gone well, historically. A+ dictator performance Donny

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3d

ok I didn't mention this in my piece on friday but one of the things the judge asked about was whether the guardsmen were going to get paid during the shutdown

the doj was like "idk"

the state of oregon was like "we looked into it and the answer is no"

Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 3d

I keep forgetting the government is shut down bc Trump admin is so focused on sending troops to US cities

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 3d

I think it also depends on when you think you’re being asked to compare your expectations. Is it worse than you expected after the election results were in? Is it worse than you expected any US government could ever be after you first took civics classes in middle school?

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, criticize people for the terrible things they use AI technology to do. Don’t blame the AI for it.

To put it in Star Wars terms, anti-clanker sentiment is misdirected. It was people who owned robots who started the war. Why bar droids from your cantina but let in droid owners?

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 5d

I thought it was because the cantina has live music, and there's a strong Huttese copyright lobby on Tatooine which enforces rules against bringing a holographic recording device like R2 into a music venue.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 5d

This is exactly the scenario that gave poor Charlie Skinner a heart attack in the final season of The Newsroom.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 5d

I can't find any archive video of 'perp walks' for any of Bannon, Navarro or Roger Stone. Roger Stone leaked his own security footage of his arrest, but there doesn't seem to be any footage of any of them being dragged to court in cuffs, let alone of MSNBC focusing on it.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 5d

The right seem to have Mandela-effected themselves into a false memory of having seen Trump dragged into the dock in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs, which obviously never happened but to them *feels* like it did. They’re looking for payback for imagined indignities.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 6d

If you enjoyed that, you'll certainly appreciate an older Matt Berry learning about a new synth from Jemaine Clement: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbO1...

"How to Orchid" by Telepathic Instruments

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 6d

Just a cursory search turns up these numbers from the 2017 Superbowl - 8% of ticket sales went to overseas purchasers; 3% were to Mexico.

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International Audience Willing To Travel For Super Bowl 51

Super Bowl 51 tickets have been purchased by people in twenty different countries through eBay-owned secondary ticket company StubHub as of the start of this month, and international sales for the Sup...

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