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Can't wait to hear this! www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Is there a list or dashboard of nasty new Federal regulations with open comment periods? I am way behind and need to submit whatever comments I can ASAP.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Day of the Triffids!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I have read four long judicial decisions in the past two weeks. If I had to write a 100-page paper with 75 different, widely divergent sources, it would take me three months to research and write. Judges take a matter of weeks. I am a non-lawyer; how do judges do it?

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

In the first decade of the 20th century, Cossacks came to my grandfather's shtetl from time to time. Without any authority beyond force, they dragged away the young men, who were never to be seen again. This administration has reinvented the Cossacks.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

I hope that when President Biden dies, which I suppose is inevitable, President Trump will offer him the niceties, courtesies, and protocols that are due to a dead president. I can see Trump refusing to fly U.S. flags at half-staff or not allowing Biden to lie in state at the Capitol.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE! Have you taken three minutes to save the political independence of the civil service? It’s easy! Here’s how you can do it: news.chanda.science/archive/urge...

submitted 17 days ago • 23 comments

AJ Gorsuch weirdie: In the Grants Pass decision: "San Francisco has seen over half of its offers of shelter and services rejected by unhoused individuals who often cite the Martin order against the city as their justification to permanently occupy and block public sidewalks.” /1

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment