@raaleh.bsky.social re gambling edges on NCAA sports programs replacing personnel with AI, that information can probably be obtained by state-law equivalents to FOIA; under the California Public Records Act they're required to respond within 10 days!

They thought they were gonna do another Venezuela and instead we've functionally put a bullet through the freedom of navigation, fucked up our newest carrier, lost a not insignificant number of tankers, overstressed the rest of the tanker fleet and lifter fleet, and lost an AWACS

The only reason BlueSky even exists is that it's essentially Twitter methadone.

What is outrageous about this, among many other things, is that makes relief turn on whose loved ones have the resources to hire or luck or network to get a lawyer to file for habeas. If you don't know to file or can't, even "we have no opposition" cases lead to continued detention.

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Strait of Hormones

re OBAA, I feel haven't seen anyone point out how the end *directly* apes The Right Stuff (1983), only to immediately subvert it in such a comprehensive way

cathedrals everywhere, things of that nature

I know I’m a goddamn broken record, I really do, but Congress had a way to change that, it worked for decades, and the Supreme Court blew it up in the 1980s in a way that was impossible for Congress to fix. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

neat

my Claude said this

Pointless war in the Middle East, economy floundering, Britney Spears arrested. In the dark, a million millennials take a sledgehammer to the concrete slab over their basement safes containing their JNCOs and Invader Zim hoodies

I don't know that it would be a "good" outcome for this war, but Trump has a pattern: Try something on gut instinct without planning or considering the consequences, and if it turns out to be unpopular, walk away and say he won.

it’s probably fine that this meme is one of the top posts on every military Reddit sub right now

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

@nogodsnomayors.com @postoctobrist.bsky.social @mattielubchansky.com @raaleh.bsky.social the other year on a trip to SF my lovely wife agreed to head to Colma so I could take this picture of the grave of Emperor Norton, and then we drove out to Pacifica to get lunch at the world's best Taco Bell

"The president had DOJ illegally cover up documents about allegations he sexually assaulted a child after Congress specifically passed a law requiring they be disclosed" is, in and of itself, enough to merit rapid removal from office regardless of how true or credible the underlying allegation is.

bluesky ran into an error trying to pull in the headline for this article but the result is frankly evergreen

lol lmao even

Please shoot me.

This is the political movement that convinced a non-trivial amount of Americans that they were going to “protect women’s sports.”

I have no idea if they ever made “Godzilla vs An Usually Large Carp” but they definitely should have

Kristi Noem: "I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the security blanket of the very freedom that I travel with and then questions the manner in which I travel with it."

I called up one of the White House's "special government employees" involved in the Fulton County FBI raid. I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...

Pam Bondi testified to Congress the right way. by Ezra Klein

Part of what's great about this is how Hunter Hess tried really hard to not go into specifics but Trump (1) deduced (correctly!) that any reference to things that aren't "good" or "moral" must mean him and (2) decided he needed to elevate it with some bonkers response. Great work, Mr. President. 🫡

1. this is bullshit 2. it is a good thing that an outcry against extremely racist stuff led to a bullshit excuse rather than a defense on the merits

its WaStancil, the Wario to Will’s Mario

Permission to be a sneering little twit is indeed what Trump promised

Senator Thune out here threatening me with a good time.

The only response here is a motion to enjoin the whole operation If the government's position is "I'm sorry your honor but we don't be the capacity to both respect constitutional rights and conduct the operation as it is currently being conducted" the answer is "then you must stop the operation"

Julie Le takes the stage just a few minutes into the proceedings, and this is an ominous start. To immediately say the U.S. Attorney's Office is "overwhelmed" and to say you were "stupidly enough to volunteer" does not bode well.

the only casting for Helen of Troy that would've made this movie tolerable is Tim Robinson

"Oh, will this horrible year never end?"

Q for anyone who works at the VA: Has the VA secretary or leadership said anything internally addressing the fucking elephant in the room that one of their VA colleagues was just shot to death by a federal agent? Hearing from one source it's been a cone of silence in there, no comms to staff.

People are definitely setting up a barricade of trash cans and this couch, in the middle of the street where ICE is. "That's my couch," said a woman standing nearby. "It's been on my porch for four years because it won't fit up the stairs. My neighbor will be pleased it's gone now."

It has gotten so bad that the @nytimes.com has stopped using the passive voice to describe the violence.

pack it up, we’re done here

here's my claude being similarly confused

It is an *extraordinary* act of bad faith for the judicial branch to stipulate that the Trump2.0 Administration is acting in good faith (as the Fed Cir dissent did 👇) bsky.app/profile/saba...

what on earth is this; did they just buy a single thermal camera from some guy in North County or something?

Whenever you hear a rumor like this, you should also be asking yourself "which Dems". I'm sure Fetterman has all sorts of ideas for a grand compromise that won't fly with anyone else with a (D) next to their name, for example.

this fucking headline and the lede is that she *served on a fucking school board*

I'd love to see this as one of the demands to get any Dem votes for the next funding bill.

my claude is really scared