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Recall that just this past Monday, a White House official declared and DOJ lawyers then told a court that “Elon Musk ‘has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself.’” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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This week I
* Took time out of my work to read an email unlawfully threatening my position which ordinarily has life tenure
* Composed five bullet points in response to the email
* Discussed with others about whether OPM understands the role of federal judges within the US constitutional system ...
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But yeah, if Taft got hit, we would’ve had three Presidents in a Row to take a Bullet in one form or another.
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Contextually we have more documented attempts since FDR, but last guy to take an actual bullet pre-Trump was Reagan, last successful assassination was JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Probably should also mention 1870-1913 had more Presidential Assassinations and Assassination Attempts than any other period of US History…
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Just off the top of my head, you’d worry about receiving personal identifying information, material nonpublic information, law enforcement sensitive information, trade secrets, attorney-client communications, attorney work product, …
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The best part of the story is the compromise they reached to end the standoff without shots being fired. Basically, Leslie was allowed to cross the bridge to "search" for cannons so he could satisfy his superiors.
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We have a GIF for that now, Mike.
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"Your conclusions were all wrong Ryan, Halshey acted shtupidly" could've been referring to like a half dozen things lmao
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The history of the Big Blue Fleet is basically Halsey YOLOing his way around the Pacific, either Leroy Jenkins-esque failure or one of the greatest victories in naval history (sometimes in the same engagement) and then Spruance showing up like "well anyway let's get on with actually winning the war"
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Those who came up with the misguided “reverse Kissinger” strategy of “driving a wedge” between Putin’s 🇷🇺 Russia and Xi’s 🇨🇳 China clearly didn’t read our 📖 on Russia-China Relations. It explains while such a strategy has little chance of success.
Open access.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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One Swedish engineer in US once wrote a letter claimig his title while suggesting improvenents to traffic lights. He was prosecuted.
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If Elon and Zuck have taught us anything about Gen X it’s that, “No. You guys haven’t always been or born at Age 30, in fact it appears you’re just making everyone else rapidly age 30 years way sooner based on your voting records.”
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Considering most Gen Z are most likely to be a child of Gen X rather than Boomers like Millennials are you’ll notice certain overlaps and societal trends is my hypothesis.
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If your younger sibling grew up in a generation that watched Logan Paul pay $300,000 for an OG First Edition Holo Charizard you had at Age 9, it’ll have an effect somewhat on perception of net capital.
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Perceptions of Wealth and Socioeconomic signs of Status in the Digital Age and Post-Wall Street Crash.