It will be very difficult to argue, after Slaughter, that any civil service or non-discrimination laws apply to the executive branch, as they interfere with the President’s sole authority over who works for the Executive branch - unless the President decides to impose them by his own authority.

The Supreme Court Gives Donald Trump Full Control Over the Executive Branch, Except the Part of It that Impacts Their Retirement Portfolios

Sorry I thought loving constant loud music makes you a “real New Yorker” and only transplant gentrifiers like to be able to work, sleep, and put their kids to bed in relative peace

Law is a moral enterprise. Those who disregard or mock the suffering of others while saying "that's just the law" are, in fact, morally bankrupt.

"I still can't believe I'm home..." Ukrainian Warrior Serhii, who defended Mariupol, spent more than four years in Russian captivity. Nearly 99% of the Ukrainian Defenders who returned home today were captured in 2022. 📹: TSN

I've had a few VIPs on our shown in person, including sitting governors, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of the Treasury, and none of them had the level of security that Anthony Fauci brought with him. Why? Because there were two people already in jail for attempting to kill him.

"Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion." - Ben Franklin on Emmers' German ancestors

Teens in Zaporizhzhia hang out by a glide bomb crater. This is what youth looks like in Ukraine today... ​Just days earlier, on June 20, a Russian airstrike severely damaged the Zaporizhzhia City Palace of Children and Youth Creativity, a landmark and beloved symbol of the city.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

Isaac Chotiner: can you list some examples of systemic oppression green creatures face? Kermit the Frog: I’m sorry? Isaac Chotiner: well you do mention the difficulty quite a lot

If you view political office as chiefly a vehicle for rent extraction and personal enrichment, there’s no great mystery why you’d rather deal with despots than democracies, quite apart from ideology.

iran has closed the reflecting pool.

"i'm a committed catholic. also i waited six years to baptize my child"

oracle of delphi voice

Did the "Dems" allow this, or did people like Duss will it into existence?

Reminder that at one point when Zuckerberg was trying to break into China he asked Xi to name his child and Xi was “for the love of God, have some self-respect you weirdo”

Hashime Murayama's skill as an illustrator was one of the reasons why the Pap smear is used in today's cervical cancer screenings. Because of his ethnicity, he was arrested & detained in Ellis Island after Pearl Harbor was bombed. 🧪🐡 #SciArt www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...

Great example of why SHORAD should be a last resort for OWA drone interdiction

Man, what is he talking about? Reagan LOVED giving the Iranian government material support to wage war against their neighbors & brutalize their populace.

only good things happen when things are signed in versailles

if i had spent years bending the knee to a moron, i wouldn’t find my voice after it no longer mattered, proving myself a liar and a coward.

Even if you don't care a whit for Iran, it's still remarkable that we expended 1/3-1/2 of the advanced munitions we desperately need even more of to deter China, for the sake of .... nothing much. Less than we had when we started.

If you think making people post under their real names will make them civil, I encourage you to attend an upzoning public comment meeting.

<Nods Sagely> Mm, yes. Negotiated settlement always. Why, look across CN history: -The Warring States -The Three Kingdoms -The Mongol Conquest -The Manchu Conquest -The Taiping Rebellion -The Xinhai Rebellion -The Communist Revolution All negotiated settlements. Good point, JD.

Also don’t invest in Space X… Per ig: @/your.richbff

Me: So it says here you suffer from imposter syndrome. Therapist: Get out of my chair!

FREDERIKSEN: As Europeans, we need to rearm and innovate. Ukraine needs Europe, and just as importantly, Europe now needs Ukraine. In my opinion, it's quite simple: Europe cannot rearm effectively without Ukraine, and our support for Ukraine is not charity — it is self-defense.

My opponents are all communists. In unrelated news, my government will be taking ownership of the means of production.

He used the government's power to shake down Intel for a 10% equity stake. But his critics are the "communists".

the union representing federal workers is endorsing republicans like LaLota, Garbarino, Lawler and Malliotakis even though they support the MAGA/DOGE agenda of decimating the federal workforce this is just fucking insane. why are do many major unions have such horrible leadership?

It's inexcusable, and it's remarkable there's not more pushback. Y'know what ETFs like SPY & VOO do when they add a stock? They rebalance by selling all the other stocks in proportion. They are literally changing the rules to take value from shareholders of every S&P 500 company to give it to Musk.

Fellas...

Brian Mansell spent 15 years and around $30k building the world's largest sealed Star Wars Lego collection with his 83-year-old father. After consigning the Lego at Bricks & Minifigs, the corporate parent took over the store, took the collection, and never paid another dime. youtu.be/14ktgvoH4Mc

I think about this tweet weekly.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

If Eisenhower delivered the Gettysburg address (published in 1957 by Oliver Jensen). Hysterical stuff. They need to do this for every president. Attn @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

72 years ago today in Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court declared that racial segregation is unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment. The fight for civil rights continues.

I'm a socialist in that I want to socialize the costs of building sprawl in parts of the state that are guaranteed to burn in the coming decades.

We’re getting there.

In terms of "who moved first" I think we have to squarely place the blame on X. It was my "home platform" and while it took a lot to pry me off it, but the data is very clear. Exhibit A below.

"Higher taxes on second homes already exist in conservative strongholds like South Carolina and Montana, but if Mamdani adopts them in New York, the ultrarich argue, we might as well be in Soviet Russia." Appreciate this reality check on the push to get zillionaires to pay their fair share:

Our communities need more housing options. Yet modest townhomes like these, built in Marblehead in 1970, are now illegal to build under overly restrictive modern zoning here and across much of Massachusetts in the 1970s.

After 12 years, the EU flag is back on Hungary’s Parliament building — the new Speaker’s very first decision. A happy Schuman Day indeed.

“housing is a human right but the problem is developers who build housing” is simply not a coherent message Especially when you consider the fact that Seattle has actually done a decent job at building housing and is relatively affordable as a result compared to other high demand cities

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

Silly FDA, flavored vapes are for kids

It is interesting how Trump quietly accepted the Gulf states denying U.S. military access to their airspace for Iran operations after blasting NATO countries for doing the same thing. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

On its third attempt tonight, Marblehead Town Meeting approved an “MBTA Communities–compliant” district largely centered on the 125-year-old Tedesco Country Club, meeting 3A requirements on paper while all but assuring no new housing would be built. This comment says it all.

Are we… kinda being pricks? 😂