Genuinely think if you tried to explain a conservarion easement to Trump he'd start talking about golf courses and sand traps in three sentences.

It is not! A “scrivener’s error” is for things like fixing typos or very minor non-material errors, not retroactively adding a deportation order that doesn’t current exist!

Anyway, a very good FOIA to file this morning would be for all emails and calls received in the last 24 hours by the immigration “judge” who issued the order.

At any other time before 2025, a seasoned and sophisticated commander such as Bradley, and the JAGs he consulted, would have immediately dismissed any such notion as palpably mistaken (indeed, incoherent), & thus it would have been obvious that he couldn't strike the boat in the first instance. [3]

What we see here with crystal clarity is Altman's facile understanding of intelligence as a process of input/output. Perhaps he will learn, as so many parents do, that things are not nearly as linear with human beings, and that creativity and joy are not easily converted to data. Perhaps. /end

the unitarian notion of accountability is, in general, very strange as it holds that a single election — the president’s reelect — is more democratically accountable than the rolling process of democratic assent produced by legislative elections and congressional oversight.

it is similar to the trick conservatives are trying to pull with the birthright citizenship clause. take something whose meaning is absolutely clear from just a plain reading of the text and transmogrify it into something that says its opposite through obfuscation and esoterica