The Samuelation

*Megacorps should be defined broadly, using effective control. We've seen billionaires use multiple companies they control toward common ends plenty. Also the "corporate veil" needs a more holes than it has right now; there should be a "oh, come on, just look" test for alter ego, minimum.

Megacorps* are an existential threat to civil society, as is the conspiracy of billionaires. Every available legal mechanism should be used to deal with this. That's the moderate solution.

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

(posting on PeopleWhoLoveToVote dot app) Guys, you should vote.

So.... Hegseth wanted this globe because he thinks he's a brilliant military genius right? And not because he might like the way certain lines are drawn and countries are labeled?

BOOM! Finally somebody takes down those arrogant little preschoolers and their so-called art: "Adults outperformed children on externally rated creativity, particularly in structured tasks."

Diminish an Anime Argon Deuteronomy Thevangelion

AI shouldn't be able to fire you, fire a weapon, or deny you healthcare.

Campaign update - looks like the opposition is running scared, they’ve now dumped over half a million dollars in independent expenditures against me. Probably due to the fact that my assembly district is leading the state in early vote totals.

Request to identify the "experts" incoming in 5...4...3...

Mistake I see in turnout analyses is confusing *voting lines* & *high turnout*. You can have high turnout in a place that planned for it, has tons of locations/staff, & see no lines! Or middling turnout in a place that doesn't care to help, enough to trigger long lines!

I just………….

Oh. Oh yeah, she's fucking pissed. Sequestering the witnesses is "I think you're going to lie to me if you can hear what the other witnesses said and build your story around that"

AL: what was discussed abt tree at mtg before Bowron email? GW: legal counsel was involved JR: issue with respect to that obviously. Step back, conversation w lawyers and I can’t let you hear. I have some arcade machines in my chambers

Reyes seems understandably ready to absolutely rip these clowns apart today, right off the bat.

But brutalism as an interior design style is quite striking and beautiful, and people do not appreciate it nearly enough.

Yes, it really is that embarrassing.

It's literally not a claim I've really heard outside sovereign citizen arguments until this week, and all of the sudden all these people are confident that it's gospel truth because the token prediction machines say so? Fuck this century, I want off.

Class. Act.

Thank goodness Eminem teamed up with this guy to make music that can bridge the gap between people who think all Muslims or Arabs are terrorists and those that live in reality.

Jeffries has one weak-sauce joint statement on the raid on his press release page. Schumer, can't find anything at all. Those two are going to go down in history as some of the most aggressively stupid politicians we've had, people who, when the moment demanded leadership, were cowards.

And look, I love cool tech stuff, but this isn’t cool tech stuff, it’s an obvious scam from a known scammer. Honest reporters should treat it as such.

So, uh, how big are these compressed air tanks and how bad will a rupture in an accident when at capacity be?

Love, Actually for Tax Purposes

Republicans Don’t Know Ball Update: A hockey blogger asked the two Michigan Senate candidates for statements on the Red Wings. Rogers: blah blah Michigan loves the Red Wings El-Sayed: angry rant about how the cheap owners MUST pay Detroit’s young star defenseman octopusthrower.com/what-each-mi...

Dear god, it's conscious!

These are fair questions. I'll take 1 & 2 as a unit, since I don't think a race to the bottom is necessarily a bad thing. Right now, one of the problems with this Court is that the small size gives each justice way too much influence, and way too much of a sense of their own importance.

The one in which Magistrate Judge Fitzpatrick joins the #WITAOD cult, finding Musk was head of DOGE on Feb. 11 — a date when, per the government’s position in other litigation, no one formally held that role. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Yes, absolutely. For example, if in the next few weeks, Trump sends ICE officers to polls, you know what you do? You go anyway, you throw them a middle finger, and you walk into the ballot box and don't let them intimidate you. What you don't do is despair and stay home.

Strikes me how in this case they claim it is essential to restore historic sightlines and original concepts for the area, while down the road they are seeking to do the opposite and build a massive fucking arch.

gm! at 10 I'll be live-tweeting the emergency TRO hearing in Judge Reyes's "courtroom" (this is on Zoom) in D.C. Preservation League v. Department of Interior, otherwise known as the golf course case

tua throws the worst ugliest nastiest interceptions you’ve ever seen in your life. it’s remarkable

TUA WHAT HAPPENED

Tree law?

It was cool when the Ravens had Isaiah Likely as a smart fallback option to a Mark Andrews decline, then signed Andrews to an extension for some reason, let Likely walk, and now can't count on Andrews.

This is attempted murder.

PUT AMEER ABDULLAH IN THE PRIDE RIGHT NOW

True. However, he is also the inevitable apotheosis of the conservative political, legal, and theological project of the last 30 years.

did not expect to have to read or remember how to spell the name kimberly guilfoyle but lol

the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time"

why is the California Democratic Party taking millions from Kalshi? WTAH - they don't need to take this gross gambling money. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try