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I used to write laws… then I invented Knee Defender. ex-HPSCI, ex-Senate tech, taxes, trade/FP, ethics, antitrust… crime & even reputed parliamentarian
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I know Susan Collins is known for being no more than "concerned" about bad things, but she is from Maine _and_ she does chair Senate Appropriations, so this should be interesting... unless she stops at being "concerned".

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

These guys are lucky that eggs are too expensive to throw at them.

submitted 10 hours ago • 6 comments

Time to deorbit the mission to Mars. It has served its purpose and we simply don't have the money for this vanity project. Better to fund medical research to cure diseases on Earth than have Elon bring back new diseases from another planet.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

39% of the detainees disappeared to the Guantanamo offshore prison were deemed "low threat" by the Trump administration. Some of the individuals being detained at Guantanamo did not cross illegally, legally requesting asylum at a port of entry.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Does NY have a Rico law?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

I'm confused at the idea of how legislation could change a court's final judgment in a way that would retroactively give a win to the losing party. Elon already got dunked when he tried to do this with a post-judgment shareholder vote.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Just waiting for the announcement that Musk &c have fired the planetary defense team

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"Seated beside Mr Musk, [President Trump] excoriated the company, saying, 'I mean, they are actually in default, Boeing.'"

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Boeing has the opportunity to do the funniest thing of all time

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

JUST IN: Judge John Bates says expedited discovery would be "appropriate & beneficial" in unions' suit challenging DOGE access to Labor Department data. Plaintiffs must file proposal today. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

DEVELOPING: At least one person has died after two planes collided Wednesday morning at an Arizona airport, police say.

submitted 2 days ago • 78 comments

I didn't even know this was possible, but Elon both stepped in 💩 and on his 🍆 with this one. 😂 "DOGE dividend" 🧵 ...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

🚨 Elon's Grok kneecaps Elon, undercuts his claim DOGE is like what Clinton/Gore did. 🤯 Grok says – CLINTON/GORE: First did a "thorough review"; secured broad support in Congress; balanced "efficiency with effectiveness". DOGE: Puts speed over quality; no legislative support; unclear legality. 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

The top criminal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington quit today, citing pressure by the Trump administration to open what she viewed as an improper criminal probe of a federal contract. ca.news.yahoo.com/senior-u-pro...

submitted 4 days ago • 170 comments

Endorse.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

We're moving from deliberate recession to deliberate depression territory. And also, it makes the import of Pam Bondi covering up for corrupt banks the LAST time this all crashed more important.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

TIL: In British English, "shingle" refers to a the pebbles (in the aggregate, so to speak) on a beach that's pebbled instead of sandy. (apparently it's used in the singular – "the pebble", not "the pebbles" – like "the sand") www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

If Dems were marching in the streets b/c nothing was being done to stop Elon & his DOGE crew after, for the past 17 weeks, they blew up one school bus a week carrying kids home from school and he admitted they'd done it after each one, this would still be the headline in MAGA newspapers.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 4 days ago • 846 comments

NEW: Three former U.S. Attorneys ask to file a brief in Eric Adams' case before Judge Dale Ho "in support of the Court’s authority to conduct a factual inquiry" into DOJ's actions leading to its Friday request to dismiss the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 4 days ago • 51 comments

Via @capitolhunters.bsky.social, here's the Social Security IG report that explains the discrepancy Musk has been claiming to have found (which Karoline Leavitt parroted). It clarifies these people are not being paid. oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploa...

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments