Ross Schulman
@rbs.io
Father, husband, lawyer, coder. Senior Software and Policy Engineer at SpruceID. Guardian of the Matrix Foundation. RT ≠ Endorse.
If you want to reach me, Matrix is often the best way to do so: @rschulman:westwork.org
I'm also on Signal at rschulman.06
If you want to reach me, Matrix is often the best way to do so: @rschulman:westwork.org
I'm also on Signal at rschulman.06
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this is really it — this case isn't about the legitimacy of birthright citizenship or the 14th amendment, it's about the legitimacy of the court, and any ruling that doesn't uphold the former decides the latter
Counterpoint:
The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution.
So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter.
There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).
The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution.
So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter.
There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
this is really it — this case isn't about the legitimacy of birthright citizenship or the 14th amendment, it's about the legitimacy of the court, and any ruling that doesn't uphold the former decides the latter
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Too long for the character limit but
December 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Too long for the character limit but
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Truly the stupidest cult. Obsessed with a drug that doesn't work against an infectious disease that they don't even think is real.
In lieu of affordable universal health insurance, Texans will now be given better access to de-worming medication.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Truly the stupidest cult. Obsessed with a drug that doesn't work against an infectious disease that they don't even think is real.
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When I talk to my students about law and resistance, I talk about how people tend to think in terms of whether they would’ve acted in 1942, but that they should instead ask themselves what they would’ve done in 1933.
“I think we have to be careful with the Nazi comparisons” people are always waiting until we are five minutes until the Holocaust and then they’re like well it’s only ethnic cleansing not a Holocaust
Is this clear enough or are we still doing that whole thing where we pretend it’s about “crime”?
December 3, 2025 at 1:59 AM
When I talk to my students about law and resistance, I talk about how people tend to think in terms of whether they would’ve acted in 1942, but that they should instead ask themselves what they would’ve done in 1933.
The shitty thing for Adm. Bradley is that, if what happened was a violation of international law (I'm not a law of war expert, but it sure as shit looks like it was), then one of two things are true: either he willingly followed an illegal order (not ok) or issued an illegal order on his own.
December 3, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The shitty thing for Adm. Bradley is that, if what happened was a violation of international law (I'm not a law of war expert, but it sure as shit looks like it was), then one of two things are true: either he willingly followed an illegal order (not ok) or issued an illegal order on his own.
I was a decent ways into my adulthood before I came to understand that not everybody knows who Alice is or why you might be interested in her Restaurant.
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I was a decent ways into my adulthood before I came to understand that not everybody knows who Alice is or why you might be interested in her Restaurant.
If you have to say "We're not Enron" in your internal communications, you have already completely shit the bed.
In the memo, “Nvidia also responds to claims that the ‘current situation is analogous to historical accounting frauds (Enron, WorldCom, Lucent) that featured vendor financing and SPVs [special purpose vehicles.)’”
@barrons.com $NVDA
@firstadopter.bsky.social
www.barrons.com/articles/nvi...
@barrons.com $NVDA
@firstadopter.bsky.social
www.barrons.com/articles/nvi...
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
If you have to say "We're not Enron" in your internal communications, you have already completely shit the bed.
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QUEEN DEMON by @marthawells.com
- queer MCs
- didn't think you'd be rooting for the demons, huh
- let alone that they'd be fighting to stop an autocracy
- body hopping, cool magic, past and present intertwined - we've got it all, folks
- sequel to WITCH KING
- queer MCs
- didn't think you'd be rooting for the demons, huh
- let alone that they'd be fighting to stop an autocracy
- body hopping, cool magic, past and present intertwined - we've got it all, folks
- sequel to WITCH KING
Queen Demon
Check out Queen Demon - <p><b>A <i>USA Today</i> Bestseller!</b><br><b><i><br>From the breakout SFF superstar author of Murderbot comes the remarkable sequel to the </i>USA Today <i>and </i>Sunday Tim...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
QUEEN DEMON by @marthawells.com
- queer MCs
- didn't think you'd be rooting for the demons, huh
- let alone that they'd be fighting to stop an autocracy
- body hopping, cool magic, past and present intertwined - we've got it all, folks
- sequel to WITCH KING
- queer MCs
- didn't think you'd be rooting for the demons, huh
- let alone that they'd be fighting to stop an autocracy
- body hopping, cool magic, past and present intertwined - we've got it all, folks
- sequel to WITCH KING
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THE WASHINGTON SPIRIT ARE GOING TO THE FINALS!
November 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
THE WASHINGTON SPIRIT ARE GOING TO THE FINALS!
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florence pew: thread
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
florence pew: thread
Seriously, fuck this guy in particular. What utter waste.
#TeamOrca
"Docked in Spain, Google co-founder Sergey Brin's $450 million megayacht is so big, just to keep its air-conditioning, spa, and pools running, it devours enough electricity every day to light up 580 average American homes, even when the billionaire is not on board" - Luxurylaunches
"Docked in Spain, Google co-founder Sergey Brin's $450 million megayacht is so big, just to keep its air-conditioning, spa, and pools running, it devours enough electricity every day to light up 580 average American homes, even when the billionaire is not on board" - Luxurylaunches
Docked in Spain, Google co-founder Sergey Brin's $450 million megayacht is so big that just to keep its air-conditioning, spa, and pools running, it quietly devours enough electricity every day to lig...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Seriously, fuck this guy in particular. What utter waste.
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In the newest episode, Sirens explores life's certainties: taxes, trade taxes, acquisition reform, and nuclear annihilation. Wait, WHAT?
What's the end of direct file have to do with democracy, what's portfolio acquisition, and are we starting nuclear testing?
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
What's the end of direct file have to do with democracy, what's portfolio acquisition, and are we starting nuclear testing?
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Trade Taxes, Acquisition Reform, and Nuclear Testing
Podcast Episode · Sirens: A Bombshell production · 11/14/2025 · 1h 8m
podcasts.apple.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
In the newest episode, Sirens explores life's certainties: taxes, trade taxes, acquisition reform, and nuclear annihilation. Wait, WHAT?
What's the end of direct file have to do with democracy, what's portfolio acquisition, and are we starting nuclear testing?
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
What's the end of direct file have to do with democracy, what's portfolio acquisition, and are we starting nuclear testing?
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
Thanks, I hate it.
Jazz up your economic crisis by giving everything fun little names.
It's not "working two jobs," it's "polyworking."
It's not "working two jobs," it's "polyworking."
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Thanks, I hate it.
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
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people who keep claiming "BILLIONAIRES WRITE LIKE THAT ON PURPOSE" ????????? i think i've probably had a decent degree exposure to email and text messages by the rich and powerful (at trial and elsewhere) and even though they are at times quite comical they don't look like this shit
November 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
people who keep claiming "BILLIONAIRES WRITE LIKE THAT ON PURPOSE" ????????? i think i've probably had a decent degree exposure to email and text messages by the rich and powerful (at trial and elsewhere) and even though they are at times quite comical they don't look like this shit
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Strong advice here.
Live your life in such a way that if 20K pages of your files are released and someone builds a database of them, it doesn't crash because too many people want to search it simultaneously.
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Strong advice here.
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Disgusting. You engaged in political gamesmanship using them as pawns knowing they would get harmed and now you question *their* patriotism because some of them aren't wealthy like you and didn't want to work a high stress job for no pay?
Sean Duffy threatens "action" against air traffic controllers who didn't come to work during the shutdown: "I'm concerned about their patriotism."
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Disgusting. You engaged in political gamesmanship using them as pawns knowing they would get harmed and now you question *their* patriotism because some of them aren't wealthy like you and didn't want to work a high stress job for no pay?
Aside from being just horrible policy/politics/humanity/whatever, this is also, just... barely comprehensible English.
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Aside from being just horrible policy/politics/humanity/whatever, this is also, just... barely comprehensible English.
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TRUMP: US TO LAUNCH NEW AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM WITHIN 2–3 WEEKS
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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