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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 15h

pretty typical for a HOA

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 15h

they said the program has 12 steps, but 7 has two components, so it's 13, and they're not really "steps" per se

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 15h

it destroyed Herman's Hermits

Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 18h

to be fair, his part is on food deserts and existentialism

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 22h

Awesome idea. Some comment bubbles should concern footnotes, meaning that they sit in the margins as rootless as clouds, with an equal number asking why bubbles don't work within footnotes.

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 1d

rare to see someone fall twice on a play before falling a third time for a score

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 1d

on the Tiffany network no less

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 1d

it's small consolation, but I just got great Xmas tree skirts on ebay.ca

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 1d

Re-upping these questions from @tessbridgeman.bsky.social & Mary McCord. Note that the subsequent CNN story on the classified OLC memo does not report whether the memo was prepared before the recent strikes, which is one of the questions posed.

Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 4d

Valuable questions, terrific format -- ideally reaching Senate staff.

Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 4d

Mary McCord, former Acting Assistant AG for National Security, and I teamed up on Qs Senators should ask #Bondi at her Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, on strikes that have killed 17 people to date.

The implications are serious. Consider a few of the Qs:

www.justsecurity.org/121862/ask-b...

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 1d

a group of men are sitting around a table with one of them saying one of us !

ALT: a group of men are sitting around a table with one of them saying one of us !

media.tenor.com

Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, I was thinking of Bevo.

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 1d

Dead?!?!?!?! That's terrible, but I suppose he'll be put to good use.

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 1d

I say this fondly, and with a daguerreotype on my profile

Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 1d

professor / his faculty profile picture / his self-image

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 1d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 1d

If I understand, numerous dissents -- and many decisions overturning lower court decisions, and briefs urging that -- are implicitly accusing an erring judge of committing illegal insurrection, subject to punishment of being barred from holding any office under the United States.

Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 1d

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Stephen Miller: "It's simply a factually accurate statement that when a judge assumes for him- or herself the powers that have been relegated or delegated by the Constitution to the president, that that is a form of illegal insurrection." ...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: You called the judge's ruling 'legal insurrection.' Are you recommending the president take action against judges who rule against him?

STEPHEN MILLER: No. It's simply a factually accurate statement

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 1d

"Generals aren't thinking about how to annhilate all of humanity by triggering an all-out nuclear war. That's just not how our minds work. Now, Skynet . . ."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Dr Oz: "We have an advantage with AI. You know why? We don't think the way fraudsters think. That's just not what our minds do. The bank managers don't think about bank fraud. They want to do loans and help businesses. Fraudsters think about fraud. So the AI can think the way a fraudster thinks."

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 1d

Texas regents welcome being among the select few who might (or might not!) be paid for surrendering traditional state prerogatives over tuition, admissions, and higher education generally.

Gadsden 2.0: "they could have trodden anywhere, and they chose us!"

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 1d

I think the average communist or terrorist would heartily favor that

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 2d

the ghosts of Lieutenant Calley and Captain Medina, still nearby, lean forward attentively

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 1d

great, now Torquemada's over there putting me on blast

Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 2d

NYT: experts -- of all faiths! -- think this is bad, far worse than expected

Reader: interesting, at least people rethinking their priors

Bluesky: what idiot didn't expect the Spanish inquisition

Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 2d

NYT: experts -- of all faiths! -- think this is bad, far worse than expected

Reader: interesting, at least people rethinking their priors

Bluesky: what idiot didn't expect the Spanish inquisition

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 2d

The group was designed to be 50/50 Democrats and Republicans. IMHO, not surprising that some disposed to have supported a R candidate, or in all events not to have actively supported a D candidate, would view things as worse than their prior selves imagined.

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 2d

I'm less confident that the surveyed individuals are most people the NYT treats as legal experts. And less surprised, maybe, that a 50/50 bipartisan pool would have been relatively sanguine, and in any case interested in the comparison. IMHO, the story is useful beyond its broad evidentiary value.

Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 2d

Respectfully disagree. There's obviously an interesting story in comparing the same group's views before and after. If that group were somehow the only people the NYT ever consulted, fine.

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 2d

the ghosts of Lieutenant Calley and Captain Medina, still nearby, lean forward attentively

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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