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Whistleblower lawyer, sawdust production specialist, rubber side down. Save a few for Lefty too.
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Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes *worldwide* because of USGS.

submitted 3 hours ago • 15 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 16 hours ago • 1809 comments

Anybody who reports on Trump’s desire to fold USPS into Commerce without pointing out that it would require an act of Congress is practicing journalistic malpractice

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

In a feat of impeccable timing, the wonderful editors at the Lewis & Clark Law Review have finished their work on my article, "Is Originalism Bullshit?" The final version is now online at SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

If people want to know why it’s bad that Musk is firing government employees who oversee the safety of AI systems, remember the 737-Max-8 crashes, in which a simple AI system overrode pilot control and caused two full planes to nose-dive, killing 346 people. Musk thinks those deaths were efficient

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

So now both of his top advisors have intentionally done Nazi salutes in public

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is a pretty dark day in U.S. history

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If New Jersey thinks it’s unfair or illegal for New York to charge New Jersey residents for driving into New York, is it also going to stop charging New Yorkers for driving on the NJ Turnpike?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is not the greatest problem facing America, but the Peacock app is so bad that I’m positive DOGE created it

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is hoarding appropriated money, leaving planes to fall out of the sky, viruses to kill children, nuclear assets to get lost, and farmers to lose their payments, but he managed to give Musk a new $700MM this week and spend $11MM playing golf

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Those 25-year-old bro-fascists keep threatening agency heads with “do I need to call Elon?” but he won’t own up to being in charge because he knows what will come out if he has to testify at a confirmation hearing

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

If you want to know why AI is bad and relying on it is stupid, look at all the people Musk fired from the government that the government is trying to hire back because Musk’s AI had no idea what they did

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