In “As a Jew” Sarah Hurwitz is on a search for blame. And I don't like where it leads. A book review. joshuatauberer.medium.com/in-as-a-jew-...

I could come around for this guy if he goes bigger and bans more AI.

The only thing I was afraid of walking around downtown #DC today (as always) wasn't other people but being hit by a motor vehicle at one of those intersections where roads don't come in at right angles.

Wish I could be there. (I am currently scheming an online national civic tech conference for winter/spring. Get in touch if interested.)

There should be an ad hoc emergency conference of the states and Illinois should convene it. Not because it'd have any legal power, of course, but because there should be a united front in the form of a body able to speak with their combined voice, a coordinating committee if you prefer.

Which "Judeo" views is he talking about? The right to abortion? (No.) The importance of debate? (No.) Jews not going to hell? (No.) Education? (No.) Health? (No.) Welcoming guests and immigrants? (No.) Repairing the world? (No.) It's bullshit and orthodox jews fall for it every time.

Dear National Guardsmen of DC, Thank you for your service picking up litter. It's your calling.

Union Station, DC this morning with National Guardsmen, Amtrak police, and Homeland Security. The main concourse was pretty empty.

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If anyone has videos of police clashing with civilians in Washington, DC, feel free to send them to me anonymously at emgarcia.85 on Signal

I am so glad Martin gets paid to report on DC issues for all of us. It's so important.

Trump federalizes and militarizes D.C.'s police: We don't need it substack.govtrack.us/p/trump-fede...

I saw the helicopter that buzzed the 2020 protestors at eye-level from my mid-rise apartment window, half a block away, where I thought I was safe. That was the least safe I have ever felt here. Military escalation by far-away unaccountable bureaucrats is terrifying.

Clanker. www.instagram.com/reel/DMp3KwZ...

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I'm still getting emails on the removal of pages from the Constitution Annotated website at the Library of Congress. I believe the LC has a statement (although it oddly is not on the press website), but if you have questions, just reach out.

One of the hallmarks of Trump's first administration is the appropriations bills were largely passed with *Democratic* support, with Dems wanting to keep the government open and Republicans balking at the pandemic relief spending, etc. The bipartisan pattern went completely unreported at the time.

I made a splurge purchase at an in-airport boutique clothing store because I had a few extra minutes before boarding. I have changed.

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This is bribery, and any Republican that plausibly switches from no to yes and then gets material support from Trump will open themselves up to prosecution whenever the Department of Justice returns to not dispensing with the law for MAGA.

Sure, Grok went full nazi today, but every other AI is totally and completely trustworthy and unable of being manipulated by their owners to their own nefarious political and financial ends, right?!?!

Dems should get behind any Republican amendment so it goes back to the Senate and can't go next to the President.

very good from Maxwell Frost

For all the handwringing among liberal circles about Zionism among Jewish people, I never got why progressives and pro-Palestine activists don't protest Christian Zionist orgs as much as they do AIPAC or DMFI. There are far more Christian Zionists in America than Jewish Zionists.

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“He didn’t falsify a report. He didn’t smear an innocent person. He exposed the ugly truth that was publicly accessible about a famous figure’s hateful views and the media machinery that tried to hide them. That’s not a crime. That’s journalism.” www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinio...

We've seen this from anti-vaxxers and other conspiracy movements for years: Act like frothing-at-the-mouth psychos and then accuse scientists of conspiracy for behaving like they're being targeted by frothing-at-the-mouth psychos.

Today, is flag day. I’m honoring the DC Flag because the American flag doesn’t have a star for me, my family, & our 700,000 neighbors in DC. The DC flag is our unifying symbol of pride & protest. Happy #DCFlgDay! #DCStatehood

If SBA financing is refocused on Red states, it'll show once again that Red states depend on extracting from Blue state economies to survive.

When she closes with “accept Jesus” she is being very serious. Only people who accept Jesus get to live. If you don’t accept Jesus you don’t deserve Medicare or health care, you’re not a person, and your death is justified.

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Musk out!

welp I sent an email

And we will 86 47 the same.

Between the three lost military jets and the upcoming Donald Day parade, the military spending will be an order of magnitude more than whatever "DOGE" claims it has "saved."

STATEMENT "Trump's firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden is an untoward use of presidential power," said Daniel Schuman, Exec. Dir., American Governance Institute. "Dr. Hayden heads a legislative agency, and Congress should make that call. That unofficial arrangement should be made law."

Mike Waltz out! Ed Martin out! Keep it up folks!

lmao

Right on. Warrant required.

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My toddler also makes an appearance. I had to drop but heard that @niquelle.bsky.social made some good suggestions for how to keep the Open Meetings Act intact and give the Council more wiggle room for closed discussions. @brianneknadeau.bsky.social, my CM, had good opening remarks. Hope they heed.

So the plane that the judge ordered to turn around on its way to El Salvador and Trump lawyers said sorry it's out of our airspace.... Did it not come back? Surely they could have put the man on the return flight if they couldn't turn the plane around. I guess they just left the planes.

The United States "illegally revoked" the passport of W.E.B. Du Bois, a U.S. citizen, in 1956.. www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...

All concepts are social constructs. That some are also inherent universal reality is the domain of religion, pseudoscience, and of course hegemony and supremacy in all its forms.

More gratuitous cruelty towards trans people from the Fifth Circuit courtesy of Judges Jones, Oldham, and Hendrix www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/unp...

TS/SCI means the information must be transmitted over Text or Signal with Some Civilians Invited

Passover is coming! It's the time of year where I promote my Minimalist Haggadah. I've only gotten to use it once, but numerous people have told me they have found it useful for guiding them to a serious but eminently practical observance of Passover. joshuatauberer.medium.com/a-minimalist...

So if I wanted to swap out my Alexa for something open source, does such a thing exist? Do I have to build it from scratch myself?