Anonymous policy lawyer
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- Brilliant if clumsy reminder of how AI reflects human biases rather than transcending them
- Have any of the Silicon Valley VCs who were until very recently worried about AI risk weighed in on House Republicans pushing a ten-year ban on AI regulation? No?
- Subject matter experts like “savvy” businessmen are a dime a dozen. True “renaissance men” and polymaths are rare. Lots of media and political dysfunction stems from conflating the two. (This is a long way of saying Ackman’s a dumbass outside his narrow expertise and maybe within it too.)
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerAs Congressional Republicans push for Medicaid work requirements, here’s how it’s going in Georgia: Deloitte Consulting is taking in tens of millions in tax dollars to manage the country’s only Medicaid work requirement program — and sell it to the public. Only 3% of those eligible have enrolled.
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerNPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
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- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerNew from 404 Media: Republicans are trying to cram a ban on AI regulation into the Budget Reconciliation bill, which would stop states from regulating AI entirely for 10 years. www.404media.co/republicans-...
- POV: You have made the mistake of asking me when the Roman Empire “fell”
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- I’d like some mainstream voice to make one clear, historical point: if Abraham Lincoln couldn’t suspend habeas without a vote by Congress *to protect Washington, DC from being encircled,* then I doubt Stephen Miller can to more speedily deport toddlers
- I was glad to see the NYT taking this seriously enough to write a story about it. But then I read it, and there's not one iota of pushback, or critical context, not even a "critics say". Pure stenography. Absolutely shameful for something this outrageous. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerTrue story: When I was a contractor at a NASA facility I kept M&Ms on my desk. A civil servant I worked with ate a few one day. The next day I came in to find a pound bag on my desk. He wanted to "reimburse" me because he didn't want the few he ate to be seen as a gift. Anyway
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerBut remember, *you* can only have two dolls and five pencils
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerone thought i have reading this (great) thread is that the administration has been proceeding as if there is no chance they will ever face a crisis or a sudden challenge, and has destroy its capacity to respond to one should it arise
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerThings are getting much scarier much faster than I think people realize
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- “Drums. Drums in the deep.”
- Nowhere does this article mention that only Congress can suspend habeas corpus
- If we don’t get a scene of Guiteau belting “I AM GOING TO THE LORDY” at his execution I’m deleting Netflix and getting the Sondheim estate to write an angry letter
- Learned last night that we’re getting a Netflix miniseries on the Garfield assassination with Michael Shannon as Garfield and Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, and how are we not all talking about this? www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerThe rats have chosen a new pope.
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerwhat is fascinating to me is the number of people whose “knowledge” of government appears to just be an accumulation of cliches and stereotypes + an inchoate sense that if something is big and costly then it must necessarily be “wasteful”
- *cut to scene of Justinian, breathing heavily*
- *Daniel Tiger jingle* 🎶 Defund the help-errrrs 🎶
- Justinian’s war to reconquer Italy set Western Europe back a century, maybe more.
- God forbid we have even one aspect of modern life free of ads youtu.be/XPGgTy5YJ-g?...
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- Whatever you think of AI, it’s increasingly clear that Silicon Valley’s ham-fisted attempt to foist half-baked products onto unsuspecting users will backfire and slow mass adoption of the technology. People don’t like new stuff being shoved into their phones with no explanation. Just ask U2.
- Every summer GenCon brings 70,000+ board game players and $77 million into Indianapolis. This year the looming trade war means small game companies are pulling out or closing up shop, throwing the r/GenCon subreddit into a low-grade panic. Cc: @jeffstein.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/gencon/
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerI believe in this so hard I also believe in the converse: if you know a little stuff and are talking to someone who knows a lot about that stuff, you should also make a real effort to take the opportunity to learn more from them!
- Once again the giant ash tree I pay $1,000 every year to keep alive has repaid me with a week-long full body reaction
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- Probably for the best that Hanania’s chosen to part ways with MAGA but still feels more like a strategic rebranding than anything approaching personal growth or teshuvah
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerPhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyer🚨Here is Judge Boasberg's opinion finding that he has probable cause that the government in CRIMINAL contempt for defying his orders on March 15: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerNEW: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt for their decision not to turn the planes around on March 15. He orders them either to fix their mistake or identify who made those decisions (presumably for further sanctions).
- New filing: "J.G.G. v. TRUMP (Boasberg: Alien Enemies Act)" Doc #80: Order Download PDF | View Full Case #CL69741724
- This is it, this is what may finally break my elder millennial brain. It’s the geopolitical equivalent of “stop hitting yourself.”
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerNot sure one knock-kneed centrist is a "reality check" as such, but the idea that you'll defend due process only when Americans start being shipped to overseas prisons is like deciding to only defend France if Hitler reaches the Eiffel Tower.
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- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerOn the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerNEW: DOJ finally files its response. They continue to refuse to provide any information about any steps they are taking to bring him back, suggesting they are not taking any. They again offer nobody with personal knowledge and simply cite Bukele's (utterly false) claim that he can't do anything.
- Remember the early Obama years, when conservatives caricatured Justice Sotomayor for saying empathy was an important quality in judging?
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerIt is essential for the rule of law that everyone involved in this end up in prison. Nothing else is a sufficient deterrent against the intentional, repeated abuse of government power to systematically deny fundamental rights.
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerThis, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- Bullies interpret any effort at consensus-building as weakness. It’s true from the schoolyard to the Sudetenland.
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerWhen I reported a long 2021 piece about Cuomo, a thing that many people who worked for him for years told me about (besides the corruption, incompetence & cruel domination tactics) was that he & those in his senior circles JUST DIDN'T CARE about policy, or about actually getting anything done.
NEW: Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to help write the housing plan he released this weekend, which included several nonsensical passages. The plan even cites to ChatGPT on a section about the Rent Guidelines Board. hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...
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- Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.” x.com/nayibbukele/...
- The president wants to exile American citizens beyond the reach of our law
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- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerWrote about the unconstitutionality of exiling U.S. citizens, something that the Trump administration is openly flirting with: newrepublic.com/article/1939...
- How do you think this all ends? Best case scenario seems to be a national crisis or scandal so disastrous and discrediting that we’re forced into a major reforms. Feels like we’re now well past what a “normal” president of either party could fix.
- People toss around the word “unconstitutional” so it’s worth being specific. The rule being violated here — that the executive cannot arbitrarily punish its enemies — is a foundational concept in English law roughly 500 years older than the United States itself. It predates the fall of Byzantium.
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerScoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government. DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox. with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerIn addition to all the other ways this is wrong it’s also a clearly impeachable offense. This is the type of tyranny the Bill of Rights was written to prevent and it’s an attempt to blankly negate judicial authority.
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerThis video shows the fire damage inside the Pennsylvania Governor’s mansion. Governor Shapiro’s reaction to the arson attack is on my timeline.
- Listened to an episode of All-In, for my sins, and it’s very clear the hosts are just some rich guys who got their feelings hurt when Biden didn’t treat them like special little boys and backfilled their politics from there
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyer“Bluesky is too much of an echo chamber” have you spent five minutes in a political discussion here
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerthere is simply no amount of child death that will move RFK to change his mind because he is a predatory narcissist who cares less about health than the gratification of his own ego
- Astonishing RFK Jr interview with NBC. At 23.30 he claims pharmaceuticals are the 3rd leading cause of death in the US [wtf]. He discloses the name & medical history of the 2nd child to die of measles, implies she wasn't healthy & argues about her cause of death. @gorskon.bsky.social
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerSeems pretty clear that doge is a total scam
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyer“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs less to house people.
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- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyer3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
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- Getting disappeared to a Salvadoran black site for saying “happy holidays”
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerWelp, got an answer to this question: Apparently the answer is no tariffs are being collected. Trump broke the system www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...
- Wait so what is happening at our ports right now? What level tariffs are being collected?? bsky.app/profile/carl...
- Reposted by Anonymous policy lawyerIf I were Judge Xinis, I would order the government to produce, in her courtroom, officials who were in a position to answer her questions and to do so under oath. Letting DOJ continue to prevaricate and deflect responsibility in written submissions seems ... insufficient at this point.
