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"That’s why the CIA guards don’t allow cell phones, or even Fitbits, into their buildings. Which brings us back to Bill Murray’s question: Why was the director of the CIA using a cell phone at CIA headquarters?" www.spytalk.co/p/signalgate...

submitted 43 days ago • 448 comments

Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant

submitted 44 days ago • 168 comments

But the scary misused word "entitlements".... Maybe w should have put a lockbox around it, huh?

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely ridiculous. newrepublic.com/post/192660/...

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Telling: And the real concern is that Musk’s surrogates are bumbling around in classified programs. “These 25-year-old programmers, I don’t think they have enough experience to know what they don’t know,” said this aide.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Yes. Important for all NIH people and scientists: The executive orders are not law. The President *cannot* make laws. And in fact, executive orders may violate the law. As a federal employee, you are obligated not to follow illegal orders. That includes illegal EOs.

submitted 86 days ago • 16 comments

The author of this piece was an associate WH counsel under Reagan. He has a very polite way of explaining that what Trump is doing with DOGE is a coup. wapo.st/4hSE7Ox

submitted 86 days ago • 257 comments

Originally published Nov 13, 2024, but worth rebroadcasting. It's a 30 minute video but nails current events. Queue the R.E.M. music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpP... @briantylercohen.bsky.social @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

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Trump's "biggest deportation program of all time" is currently removing less people than in 2017 and barely 1/3 of the daily total under Obama. The game show host president putting on cheap entertainment for the rubes citydesk.org/2025/trump-i...

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And sometimes they aren't even allowed to land

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programming note: telling me that "both sides are the same" is an instant block

submitted 104 days ago • 184 comments

If we don't make if very uncomfortable being a Nazi, if will become very uncomfortable NOT being one.

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The nominee to take over the FBI has publicly published a list of innocent Americans he plans to target if given the power. This is more important than finger wagging about norms and traditions.

submitted 157 days ago • 228 comments

This set off my "you better find other sources" internet filter: "As part of Monday’s opinion, McCormick approved a $345 million attorney fee award for the lawyers who successfully sued on behalf of Tesla shareholders in order to void Musk’s pay plan." Great googly moogly.

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

For the non-paywalled version: whowhatwhy.org/elections/20...

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

Surprising absolutely nobody.

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