jcerb.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

National, regional, and global economies with billions of transactions? So simple. The labyrinthine Rube Goldberg US healthcare system? So simple. Hemisphere-wide migration movements? So simple. The most straightforward act of unprovoked military aggression in decades? Well, it’s complicated.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

I wrote about how particularly ridiculous it is that Senate Democrats, led by Dick Durbin, think the priority should be repealing Section 230 and undermining the very open internet we need more than ever right now. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 113 comments

Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

submitted 14 hours ago • 80 comments

I'll comment. This was all obvious from the campaign, and you guys are fucking morons

submitted 7 days ago • 62 comments

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

submitted 10 days ago • 1247 comments

An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case. Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

submitted 9 days ago • 844 comments

The Democratic factions can squabble later. One does not negotiate terms of surrender while the enemy is battering the gates. You defend the city. You hold the walls. You sort out who gets what plot of land after we’ve won. That's what I think of the liberal-progressive divide.

submitted 11 days ago • 37 comments

Just thinking about Chief Justice Robert’s legacy tonight. For no reason …

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Always nice when your employee bribes you with $10 million.

submitted 11 days ago • 26 comments

Again, Twitter WON this case (decisively) at the district court level. The 9th Circuit made it clear that Twitter would win on appeal at oral args. And now it decided to just hand over $10 million to Trump. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/e...

submitted 11 days ago • 145 comments

The economy is doing just great under tinpot Trump so far “Inflation in America rose faster than expected in January, up by 3% year on year, compared with 2.9% in December. Core inflation, … increased from an annualised rate of 3.2% in December to 3.3%.” From The Economist.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Click on the magnifying glass icon in your browser bar, then select "DuckDuckGo" as your default search engine.

submitted 12 days ago • 694 comments

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

submitted 14 days ago • 256 comments

Holding. But sure.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

I dunno, I don't trust the Chiefs, they live on comebacks, full court press this all the way to the end

submitted 14 days ago • 13 comments

Just wrote about the UK Apple encryption mess. This is a BIG deal. It doesn't just apply to the UK. It would be an absolute disaster for online privacy and security. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/07/u...

submitted 16 days ago • 44 comments

Overturning Sullivan has at least two votes on the Supreme Court — Thomas and Alito. Maybe more. I can’t overstate how catastrophic that would be for free expression in America in an environment where political and performative defamation litigation are common.

submitted 16 days ago • 122 comments

If you work for the federal government and are tempted to take Musk’s “buyout” offer please know that you’re never going to see that money.

submitted 18 days ago • 130 comments

From @cathygellis.bsky.social: "I think a colorable, non-frivolous argument can be made that Elon Musk, and everyone on his DOGE team accessing the federal government’s computer infrastructure, is potentially personally liable for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)."

submitted 19 days ago • 53 comments

This seems … concerning.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

If a 19-year-old Canadian who calls himself Big Balls marches into your federal agency and demands access to your system, telling him to fuck right off should be the mildest reaction you have.

submitted 21 days ago • 626 comments

Why does it seem like Wyden is always doing this stuff alone? What are the other Democratic senators doing??

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Frustrated there's not more I can do directly, but for now I can just try to document reality. Elon is bringing his Twitter destruction playbook to the US government, and it's impossible to explain just how serious and bad this is. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...

submitted 23 days ago • 86 comments

Looking at you, @fetterman.senate.gov @johnfetterman.com

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 23 days ago • 3627 comments

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

submitted 24 days ago • 1413 comments

Okay, sure, but this is the correct position. Snowden broke the law. Also: Some of what he disclosed should never have been secret. Some of the surveillance programs were unlawful. We should narrow the surveillance laws and strengthen whistleblower protections. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

submitted 24 days ago • 14 comments

Trump, Vance, Hegseth, and Combs all said they were briefed on the collision, so they all knew about this internal FAA report when they went on TV to blame minorities for the crash. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

submitted 24 days ago • 259 comments

American air safety is one of the greatest successes in the history of this country, a genuinely incredible accomplishment that has made it possible to travel anywhere in the US without fear absurd to throw that away for nothing

submitted 24 days ago • 15 comments

Seems very efficient to have one guy have to accept phone calls in which agencies have to beg for the money Congress already appropriated. What could possibly go wrong?

submitted 26 days ago • 54 comments

Now that the tax filing season is open, scammers hope that distracted taxpayers will click on malicious links or provide info that can be used to steal identities. Here are a few red flags to look out for—and what to do if you think you might be a scam victim. www.forbes.com/sites/kellyp...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it. Irony is dead. I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated. #LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust

submitted 26 days ago • 157 comments

Just the <checks notes> Chair of the House Appropriations Committee going on the record to say that appropriations statutes “are not a law.” The United States Congress, ladies and gentlemen.

submitted 26 days ago • 964 comments

The hypocrisy is a feature, not a bug.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone who thinks the president doesn’t have leverage over Musk hasn’t read the immunity decision closely enough

submitted 31 days ago • 64 comments

I was already a Costco fan, now we’re really going to have more of everything than we need. Just for spite.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

So, TikTok is supposedly a national security threat from China, but it seems odd that there's been almost no mainstream press coverage of Trump dismantling the board investigating the Salt Typhoon hack which is an ACTUAL PROVEN hack from China & incredibly damaging. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/23/t...

submitted 31 days ago • 69 comments

“Thanks Judge for the permission to commit crimes”

submitted 34 days ago • 51 comments

TikTok banned, meanwhile

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

On December 31, the DOJ asked SCOTUS to put the brakes on the nationwide injunction that had barred the government from enforcing beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting. If the request is granted, the government can enforce the CTA. www.forbes.com/sites/kellyp...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t enjoy the gas pump screaming commercials at me every time I fill up. There should be a “shut the eff up” button.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Merry Christmas, Bluesky!

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Congressional leaders have released the text of a proposed funding measure. (Don't be fooled by "short" in "short-term"—the bill is 1,547 pages.) Tucked into the bill is a measure that would change the due date for BOI reporting. A vote has not yet been scheduled. www.forbes.com/sites/kellyp...

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment