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Terry J. Harris @trryjhrrs.bsky.social · 16h

The coming national horror is that if Portland's *truly* minimal level of protest justifies federalizing and deploying troops, they can and will be federalized and deployed anywhere the President wants and whenever he wants.

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 16h

My initial read on this argument: Judge Nelson is eager to disagree with his 9th Cir. colleagues that federalizing the NG is reviewable at all.

He's also eager to disagree with Judge Immergut that the Portland protests were small and under control.

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 16h

McArthur about the ICE protesters: "these are violent people." Says the president is entitled to say "enough is enough."

Asks for a stay pending appeal. Sits.

Argument is over.

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Joshuawfully Neat @joshiswrite.bsky.social · 16h

insane

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 16h

Judge Nelson: do you disagree with any of the factual findings?

Chaffin: the facts as found by the district court judge were that the protests were small and mostly peaceful.

Nelson: that's clearly erroneous! (whoa)

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Joshuawfully Neat @joshiswrite.bsky.social · 1d

My Boomer Take is the director of the FBI shouldn’t dress like this

Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 1d

that's right Kash and all we have are Mids

Screenshot from twitter that shows Kash Patel on Fox News. The post states "Breaking FBI Director Kash Patel has just revealed nearly 5% of Chicago's 2.5 million residents, approx 110,000 people are active gang members."

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE:

I absolutely did trigger my fire marshals to go through the code and grumble about it continually playing catch up. That part of the point of building the datacenters where they are isn't just cheap land and resource they can exploit, but older code with poor enforcement.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 2d

I suspect I have just triggered a "Well, shit" moment regarding the building code, its to imagine datacenters facilities like this, and the potential of people just outright ignoring the code to load as many GPUs in as possible and run them at 99.999% of maximum clock speed until they melt.

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 1d

"You can sense complacency now in the debate over extending Trump’s budget authority, which somehow doesn’t touch on his establishment of a secret police force, his deployment of armed service members into U.S. cities, or his selective prosecutions."

Paul Ferguson @fergdawg.bsky.social · 1d

"The point isn’t that we’re headed irreversibly toward totalitarianism, but that we should at this point be on guard against complacency, exploiting all legitimate means to change our course."

www.offmessage.net/p/the-median...

The Median Experience Of Tyranny

If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like "never again."

www.offmessage.net

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s video of the incident

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Joshuawfully Neat @joshiswrite.bsky.social · 2d

Let me reiterate: I will never vote for Newsom. Never.

cair-sfba @cair-sfba.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Gov. Newsom signed AB 715—classroom censorship shielding Israel and importing Trump-style gag rules into K-12.

From MDAC/MYDAC, to repeated Capitol hearings, 1,000s of emails, & 100s of calls, you showed up.

Facing retaliation? Report to CAIR-SFBA: bit.ly/cairsfbareport

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Joshuawfully Neat @joshiswrite.bsky.social · 2d

new The Big One article just dropped

Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 2d

Uh...

San Andreas, Cascadia faults could combine to produce back-to-back earthquake disasters, new research suggests

They are two of the West Coast's most destructive generators of huge earthquakes: the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia subduction zone. What if they were capable of back-to-back disasters?

www.seattletimes.com

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Paula Poundstone @paulapoundstone.bsky.social · 3d

Stephen Miller doesn't eat enough grains, or something.

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 2d

To follow up for my friend Chris: If you’re in the mid-Michigan area and want to support a family who is about to go through some heavy stuff, they’re holding a spaghetti dinner on Thursday. $10 a head, $35 for a family.

Tell ’em Ernie sent ya.

www.facebook.com/events/11385...

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Joshuawfully Neat @joshiswrite.bsky.social · 3d

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 4d

rewatching Scream 2; why would he do that?

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 4d

Concise summary of the Trump admin’s proposed “compact” with universities: “In other words, this is the most sweeping pile of unconstitutional conditions that any American constitutional lawyer has ever seen in the wild.”

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 5d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 6d

News coverage of the Trump administration's proposed "compact" with universities has been, so far, shockingly bad.

I hate to pick on NPR reporter Elissa Nadworny, who's usually a solid reporter, but almost every important thing I heard her say this morning about the proposed "compact" was false.

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Joshuawfully Neat @joshiswrite.bsky.social · 5d

So, POTUS repeatedly criticizes the leadership of a city and sends in the national guard. You put out an article *that same week* criticizing leadership in that city and you don't think people will draw connections?

Do you think that your shadow appearing when a light turns on is a coincidence?

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Joshuawfully Neat @joshiswrite.bsky.social · 6d

Basically any amount of money Bluesky has on hand should all be going toward a PR team.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 6d

You could try a poster’s strike. I hear that works

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Matt C. Shoot @confirmedshoot.latenightgrin.com · 6d

A really simple to understand explanation of why we’re headed for a drawn out labor dispute.

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🫘 👻 Spooky BEAN YEAR soup 🥣 season🎃 @billhookunion.beanyear.com · 7d

Leto Atreides: I get paid in woims!
Paul Atreides: I get woims!
Leto 2: I woims!

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Joshuawfully Neat @joshiswrite.bsky.social · 8d

The people’s champ

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dr. misses normal wife @category-fury.bsky.social · 8d

who gives a fuck if they WERE a criminal. you can't just fucking shoot criminals to death????

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 8d

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 8d

Far too many people in the US are already totally untethered from reality. Enter AI:

“Part of what keeps us sane is other people’s perspectives, which are often in tension with ours,” says Carissa Véliz, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI. “When you say something questionable, others will challenge you, ask questions, defy you. It can be annoying, but it keeps us tied to reality, and it is the basis of a healthy democratic citizenry. Truth is intersubjective, meaning that we need other people — their testimony, their experiences, their rationality — to be well informed. And chatbots are not people. They don’t have experience. They are not witness. They are fancy wordplay.”

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Joshuawfully Neat @joshiswrite.bsky.social · 8d

Honestly, someone should arrest him for inciting violence

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8d

Stephen Miller tells law enforcement in MEMPHIS: “You are unleashed”

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 8d

this is a message to elon musk and the billionaire class: kiss my grits

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 8d

AEW has never once booked a bad women's hardcore match. It's a women's hardcore promotion 🤼

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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 8d

"Could the next Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman be an AI avatar?" I don't know, could a peanut butter sandwich somehow turn into the next Jeep Wrangler? Could a cellphone magically turn into a tiny bird and fly away with my wallet? Could a family of large opossums replace the government?

NPR @npr.org · 8d

Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated avatar, is being compared by its creators to A-list human actors. SAG-AFTRA and others are pushing back.

Could 'the next Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman' be an AI avatar?

Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated avatar, is being compared by its creators to A-list human actors. SAG-AFTRA and others are pushing back.

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