CS:Sour Mash
@corip.bsky.social
Memento Mori, Memento Vivere
Whisk(e)y, facts, science, gluten-free treats, and the block button are my copilots. ⚠️Certified Potty Mouth & Typo World Champ. Mainly here for politics. NO DMs, PLS
📍Atlanta via Miami via Seattle
Whisk(e)y, facts, science, gluten-free treats, and the block button are my copilots. ⚠️Certified Potty Mouth & Typo World Champ. Mainly here for politics. NO DMs, PLS
📍Atlanta via Miami via Seattle
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Murphy: There’s no negotiation happening because Trump has told Republicans not to talk to Democrats.
And what are we even asking for?
Don’t raise people’s premiums, don’t break the law, and you might get our votes. But Republicans won’t even talk to us.
And what are we even asking for?
Don’t raise people’s premiums, don’t break the law, and you might get our votes. But Republicans won’t even talk to us.
September 19, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Murphy: There’s no negotiation happening because Trump has told Republicans not to talk to Democrats.
And what are we even asking for?
Don’t raise people’s premiums, don’t break the law, and you might get our votes. But Republicans won’t even talk to us.
And what are we even asking for?
Don’t raise people’s premiums, don’t break the law, and you might get our votes. But Republicans won’t even talk to us.
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I tried to do a version of this report that @warren.senate.gov did, but gave up. The task was too overwhelming!!
Two-plus full pages, 34 of 130 entries, focus on the regulatory help Musk got after buying the Presidency for Trump. (This is just a selection.)
www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
Two-plus full pages, 34 of 130 entries, focus on the regulatory help Musk got after buying the Presidency for Trump. (This is just a selection.)
www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
June 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I tried to do a version of this report that @warren.senate.gov did, but gave up. The task was too overwhelming!!
Two-plus full pages, 34 of 130 entries, focus on the regulatory help Musk got after buying the Presidency for Trump. (This is just a selection.)
www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
Two-plus full pages, 34 of 130 entries, focus on the regulatory help Musk got after buying the Presidency for Trump. (This is just a selection.)
www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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One way of thinking about it is, why wouldn’t *I* use ChatGPT to write a paper?
1. It’s a matter of self-respect.
2. I believe my writing says something basic about who I am.
3. I believe research and writing are valuable activities.
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1. It’s a matter of self-respect.
2. I believe my writing says something basic about who I am.
3. I believe research and writing are valuable activities.
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June 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
One way of thinking about it is, why wouldn’t *I* use ChatGPT to write a paper?
1. It’s a matter of self-respect.
2. I believe my writing says something basic about who I am.
3. I believe research and writing are valuable activities.
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1. It’s a matter of self-respect.
2. I believe my writing says something basic about who I am.
3. I believe research and writing are valuable activities.
+
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Stop using AI.
Yes, even just for fun.
AI is built on STOLEN images and text.
That’s right: by using it, you’re stealing from your friends. There is NOT ethical generative AI.
Bonus bullshit: it is HORRENOUS for the environment.
(Yes, even the cutesy profile photo cartoon things.)
Yes, even just for fun.
AI is built on STOLEN images and text.
That’s right: by using it, you’re stealing from your friends. There is NOT ethical generative AI.
Bonus bullshit: it is HORRENOUS for the environment.
(Yes, even the cutesy profile photo cartoon things.)
April 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Stop using AI.
Yes, even just for fun.
AI is built on STOLEN images and text.
That’s right: by using it, you’re stealing from your friends. There is NOT ethical generative AI.
Bonus bullshit: it is HORRENOUS for the environment.
(Yes, even the cutesy profile photo cartoon things.)
Yes, even just for fun.
AI is built on STOLEN images and text.
That’s right: by using it, you’re stealing from your friends. There is NOT ethical generative AI.
Bonus bullshit: it is HORRENOUS for the environment.
(Yes, even the cutesy profile photo cartoon things.)
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this Azealia Banks screenshot of her texts with Grimes belongs in the MOMA and i'm being fully serious
April 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
this Azealia Banks screenshot of her texts with Grimes belongs in the MOMA and i'm being fully serious
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Here, of course, the application *was* referred (as the docket now reflects). It's just fascinating Kremlinology to try to figure out when that happened and why last night's order uses such bizarre language to get around that procedural step here.
Nothing turns on this; it's just all ... curious.
Nothing turns on this; it's just all ... curious.
April 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Here, of course, the application *was* referred (as the docket now reflects). It's just fascinating Kremlinology to try to figure out when that happened and why last night's order uses such bizarre language to get around that procedural step here.
Nothing turns on this; it's just all ... curious.
Nothing turns on this; it's just all ... curious.
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ICYMI: Overnight, SCOTUS (7–2) ordered the govt not to deport any Venezuelans in the ACLU's putative class as courts considered their petitions—AND the Fifth Circuit denied ACLU's motion for a stay.
We're now waiting for the US solicitor general to file a response with SCOTUS.
We're now waiting for the US solicitor general to file a response with SCOTUS.
![UNPUBLISHED ORDER
Before Ho, WILSON, and RaMIrez, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:
Petitioners' opposed motion for a temporary administrative stay and
an injunction pending appeal is DENIED as premature.
"A court of appeals sits as a court of review, not of first view." Zaragoza v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, 112 F.4th 313, 322 (5th Cir.
2024) (cleaned up). That principle dictates our ruling today.
Just yesterday, the district court entered an order indicating that
"It]he government states that authorities will not remove the petitioners during this litigation, and it will alert the Court if that changes." If Petitioners are concerned that Respondents' position has changed, they should have litigated these concerns before the district court in the first instance. We do not doubt the diligence and ability of the respected district judge in this case to act expeditiously when circumstances warrant.
Petitioners insist that they tried to proceed before the district court in the first instance, and that the district court simply "refus[ed] to act." But the district court's order today indicates that Petitioners gave the court only 42 minutes to act— and did not give Respondents an opportunity to respond.
The appeal is DISMISSED for lack of subject matter jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291(a)(1), for substantially the reasons stated in Judge Ramirez's concurrence.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreicj5ynzxefic2bl7c2vu3rhoffgkbnifbjkf4ip4f7wacopokbh2a@jpeg)
April 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
ICYMI: Overnight, SCOTUS (7–2) ordered the govt not to deport any Venezuelans in the ACLU's putative class as courts considered their petitions—AND the Fifth Circuit denied ACLU's motion for a stay.
We're now waiting for the US solicitor general to file a response with SCOTUS.
We're now waiting for the US solicitor general to file a response with SCOTUS.
Trapped in my car bc I can't stop listening to the supremely delightful @joshgad.bsky.social #BearClaw on GPB/NPR
Not a native-born Floridian Miamian🎯
Not a native-born Floridian Miamian🎯
April 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Trapped in my car bc I can't stop listening to the supremely delightful @joshgad.bsky.social #BearClaw on GPB/NPR
Not a native-born Floridian Miamian🎯
Not a native-born Floridian Miamian🎯
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More than 1 in 4 people in the U.S. skip necessary medical care because of cost, and 68k Americans die each year because they can’t access the care they need.
Donald Trump is purposely trying to make our healthcare crisis a lot worse.
Donald Trump is purposely trying to make our healthcare crisis a lot worse.
Trump on his plan to impose tariffs on pharmaceuticals: "All I have to do is impose a tariff. The more, the faster the move in. It's very simple -- it's inversely proportional, the higher the tariff, the faster they come."
April 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
More than 1 in 4 people in the U.S. skip necessary medical care because of cost, and 68k Americans die each year because they can’t access the care they need.
Donald Trump is purposely trying to make our healthcare crisis a lot worse.
Donald Trump is purposely trying to make our healthcare crisis a lot worse.
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Jesus Christ this is so dark
COLLINS: Can President Bukele weigh in on this? Do you plan to return Garcia?
BUKELE: How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? Of course I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous
TRUMP: These are sick people
BUKELE: How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? Of course I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous
TRUMP: These are sick people
April 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Jesus Christ this is so dark
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Rolling Stone Reports: Inside Elon Musk’s Gleeful Destruction of the Government
The world’s richest man has blazed a staggering trail of destruction as Trump’s DOGE chief, firing tens of thousands of workers while cashing in.
The world’s richest man has blazed a staggering trail of destruction as Trump’s DOGE chief, firing tens of thousands of workers while cashing in.
Inside Elon Musk's Gleeful Destruction of the Government
Trump’s DOGE chief, Elon Musk, has blazed a staggering trail of destruction, firing tens of thousands of workers while cashing in.
www.rollingstone.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Rolling Stone Reports: Inside Elon Musk’s Gleeful Destruction of the Government
The world’s richest man has blazed a staggering trail of destruction as Trump’s DOGE chief, firing tens of thousands of workers while cashing in.
The world’s richest man has blazed a staggering trail of destruction as Trump’s DOGE chief, firing tens of thousands of workers while cashing in.
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This is the OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE—so why is the GOP talking about vape pens and weight loss drugs rather than conducting oversight on Trump's firing of 10,000 federal healthcare workers at HHS and 3,500 scientists at the FDA?
These cuts WILL threaten the health and safety of our food and drug supply.
These cuts WILL threaten the health and safety of our food and drug supply.
April 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This is the OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE—so why is the GOP talking about vape pens and weight loss drugs rather than conducting oversight on Trump's firing of 10,000 federal healthcare workers at HHS and 3,500 scientists at the FDA?
These cuts WILL threaten the health and safety of our food and drug supply.
These cuts WILL threaten the health and safety of our food and drug supply.
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Hello to all the new people migrating from X. I'm a BBC journalist and fact-checker.
Please flag any potentially misleading viral claims either on Bluesky or any other social media platform that needs fact-checking via DM, and I'll do the rest.
Thank you!
Please flag any potentially misleading viral claims either on Bluesky or any other social media platform that needs fact-checking via DM, and I'll do the rest.
Thank you!
November 11, 2024 at 2:58 AM
Hello to all the new people migrating from X. I'm a BBC journalist and fact-checker.
Please flag any potentially misleading viral claims either on Bluesky or any other social media platform that needs fact-checking via DM, and I'll do the rest.
Thank you!
Please flag any potentially misleading viral claims either on Bluesky or any other social media platform that needs fact-checking via DM, and I'll do the rest.
Thank you!
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Ukraine has raided Belgorod oblast while Putin and Trump were talking. They’re already several km into Russian territory.
March 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Ukraine has raided Belgorod oblast while Putin and Trump were talking. They’re already several km into Russian territory.
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it’s deportation in the same sense that Jews put on trains by Nazis to be “resettled” in camps in Poland were called deportees
March 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
it’s deportation in the same sense that Jews put on trains by Nazis to be “resettled” in camps in Poland were called deportees
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If you thought Trump and his sycophants have forgotten about elections, you are wrong. The GOP voter suppression and election subversion war machine is already preparing for the next election.
March 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
If you thought Trump and his sycophants have forgotten about elections, you are wrong. The GOP voter suppression and election subversion war machine is already preparing for the next election.
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Trump has declared that the US will not resume military aid to Ukraine unless Zelenskyy steps down. This comes after Trump cut supplies and intelligence to Ukraine air defences and frontline troopers in an effort to aid Russia. Countless Ukrainians have been killed as a result. #StandWithUkraine
March 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Trump has declared that the US will not resume military aid to Ukraine unless Zelenskyy steps down. This comes after Trump cut supplies and intelligence to Ukraine air defences and frontline troopers in an effort to aid Russia. Countless Ukrainians have been killed as a result. #StandWithUkraine
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I have heard this as well. Read this concerning report —>
1. EXCLUSIVE
The Veterans Administration is requiring therapists to return to the office full time, but does not have enough space for them
As a result, they are forced to provide mental health counseling to veterans in open cubicles
It is an unethical and likely illegal practice
The Veterans Administration is requiring therapists to return to the office full time, but does not have enough space for them
As a result, they are forced to provide mental health counseling to veterans in open cubicles
It is an unethical and likely illegal practice
Veterans Administration therapists forced to provide mental health counseling in open cubicles
As part of the Trump administration's frenzied push to end remote work arrangements for federal government workers, the Veterans Administration (VA) is forcing therapists to provide mental health coun...
popular.info
March 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I have heard this as well. Read this concerning report —>
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Bonamici: "I wonder if Donald Trump or Elon Musk has ever been in a public school. Because I did all of my town hall meetings at public schools. People want us to protect public education."
March 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Bonamici: "I wonder if Donald Trump or Elon Musk has ever been in a public school. Because I did all of my town hall meetings at public schools. People want us to protect public education."
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New — The Social Security Administration (SSA) Acting General Counsel Grace Kim just announced her retirement to staff, a person who was present tells me.
Kim will be replaced by a private sector exec named Mark Steffensen, formerly of HSBC. Sources say he was directly picked by White House.
Kim will be replaced by a private sector exec named Mark Steffensen, formerly of HSBC. Sources say he was directly picked by White House.
February 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
New — The Social Security Administration (SSA) Acting General Counsel Grace Kim just announced her retirement to staff, a person who was present tells me.
Kim will be replaced by a private sector exec named Mark Steffensen, formerly of HSBC. Sources say he was directly picked by White House.
Kim will be replaced by a private sector exec named Mark Steffensen, formerly of HSBC. Sources say he was directly picked by White House.
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OMB director Russ Vought has officially begun carrying out his section of Project 2025.
Technical thread to follow, but it’s really important - this is a major path through which the Trump administration will illegally impound funding, refusing to carry out some of our spending laws.
Technical thread to follow, but it’s really important - this is a major path through which the Trump administration will illegally impound funding, refusing to carry out some of our spending laws.
February 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
OMB director Russ Vought has officially begun carrying out his section of Project 2025.
Technical thread to follow, but it’s really important - this is a major path through which the Trump administration will illegally impound funding, refusing to carry out some of our spending laws.
Technical thread to follow, but it’s really important - this is a major path through which the Trump administration will illegally impound funding, refusing to carry out some of our spending laws.
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Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE
February 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE
Another week another bowl of ramen!
February 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Another week another bowl of ramen!
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If I had a nickel for every time that I found out I had a new half-sibling online, I'd have a few nickels- which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened SIX SEPARATE TIMES 💀
February 15, 2025 at 6:23 AM
If I had a nickel for every time that I found out I had a new half-sibling online, I'd have a few nickels- which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened SIX SEPARATE TIMES 💀