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cyclonus11.bsky.social @cyclonus11.bsky.social · 37m

I'm thinking early 1920s Italy

Black and white photo of demonstrators holding a large sign that reads "Il Fascismo Non Passera"

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 25m

One of the reasons the Jack Smith investigations seemed to take forever is because Biden's DoJ *did* have their hands around the evidence before they indicted. And they'd have convicted, too, if it weren't for those pesky SCOTUS fellas. 1/

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 35m

Hey, you guys? Is it a good sign or a bad sign if the prosecution is just getting its hands around the evidence *after* it criminally charged the former FBI director?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7h

At one point during the hearing, the judge asked the prosecution why the case can’t be tried before mid-December.

Lemons replied: We are “just getting our hands around” discovery in the case.

There’s lots of it, he added, and it includes a “significant” amount of classified information.

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 39m

Yeah, I think that's really good methodology.

Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 1h

faction of the public that are simply afraid of freedom, which is a distressing thought.

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 1h

oh yeah. but it does matter to the wider public. I keep having to explain that these are the sort of people who are likely to find you a meal and a place to stay, not bomb-throwers; they will rumble with Nazis, but are otherwise largely pacific. So far, a hard row to hoe.

I think there's a large

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 2h

The people who said that were the German Communists, so this is red-baiting. The term has shifted in meaning since, and currently people who identify as antifa—not the same as the much larger group who simply oppose fascism—are largely pacific anarchists.

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 2h

landlords for excellent reasons, as witness the recent ICE apartment raid in Chicago, where apparently the landlord wanted to clear a money-losing building.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 2h

some economists in the social sciences are a lot like some physicists in the physical sciences; they think they know how to tell everybody else their jobs.

BTW, if anyone is interested in reducing US housing costs, they need to improve the regulation of landlords. The public does not trust

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 2h

resume—he's on LinkedIn—and his expertise is an undergraduate economics degree from Stanford and then became a consultant. There's just no way this man knows anything about building at all—he must be all finance—, but here is making pronouncements on building safety.

I am left thinking that

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 2h

Just blocked someone who is looking for names of people in the US building code development process. These names are easily available on line. The man is a consultant in the field, and there's no way you can have any senior expertise in AEC and not know a bit about code development. I reviewed his

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 2h

I nearly was on one of the technical committees. So I am one or two handshakes away from most of them. Here's the ICC board; there are bios, all with long histories in building safety. You can go to their web site and find lots more; there's nothing secret about their identity or qualifications.

Leadership - ICC

Leadership The Code Council’s Leadership is comprised of the Board of Directors and Staff. Find out key information regarding the Board below. Board Meeting InfoPrevious & Upcoming Guidelines for Serv...

www.iccsafe.org

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 3h

I am left thinking that a great many people feel threatened by freedom, which is not at all comfortable thought.

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 3h

And then there's antifa. Actual antifa is this tiny loosely-organized network of people that are more likely to find you a meal and a place to stay than do anything violent; they rumble with the fash but are not there to kill. But, no, they're made out to be this huge threat.

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 3h

Are we looking at AI psychosis here?

JadenX @jadenx.bsky.social · 3h

BBC News - ChatGPT image snares suspect in deadly Pacific Palisades fire
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Pacific Palisades fire suspect snared by ChatGPT image, say investigators

Investigators say evidence collected from the 29-year-old's devices showed an AI image of a burning city.

www.bbc.com

Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 3h

When you talk about cost benefit analysis, the members of the technical committees and standards council are all professionals in their fields. They are aware of costs and do account for them. When I hear "cost benefit analysis," I think "landlords being cheap and endangering tenants."

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 3h

The half million dead so far are only the beginning. Curse the man, and the Congressional Republicans who ratified this.

Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 18d

Some achievements deserve to be memorialized.

Certificate of Achievement Awarded To Donald Trump and Elon Musk For Genocide
On this day September 18, 2025 it is estimated that deaths due to
US foreign aid cuts have passed half a million

(Six skulls surround the text.)

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 3h

The Guard under state authority against ICE under federal? I don't know how the courts would rule, but I do think that the Trump administration would respond by escalating.

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 3h

Never underestimate miserliness as a motivation in democratic politics, especially local politics.

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 3h

Or maybe European codes are influenced by landlords and historical practices. That tower that burnt up in London was no doubt approved by local governments.

What you say about code authorities is not true, BTW.

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 4h

Never underestimate the power of miserliness in democratic politics.

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 7h

It's back. One of the things it doesn't know about is possessives; apostrophe-s will entirely fuddle Bluesky search

Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 7h

LOL! It has. This is what real anarchists do. It's much more effective than throwing bombs.

Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 7h

It's one of the founding issues of the United States, and part of the stated motivation for the Second Amendment; controlling a bad king's abuse of the military—the "well-regulated militia" was supposed to be under the authority of the states, not the federal government.

Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 7h

Damn it! How many biographies of obscure people do you know?

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 7h

Heck, he's cool with them dying if they can't pay.