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New comment by outer_web in "Signal war plans messages disappear from CIA director's phone"

outer_web — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:24:31 +0000

Trump v. United States. He could theoretically be impeached but if Congress wasn't going to it after he kinetically attacked them, it's not going to happen.

Others: pardon power.

New comment by outer_web in "Signal war plans messages disappear from CIA director's phone"

outer_web — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:22:18 +0000

Might be what they used prior to taking office, having not spent a career using systems approved for classified information.

New comment by outer_web in "Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data"

outer_web — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:53:54 +0000

I stand corrected. Please flag anything you disagree with.

New comment by outer_web in "Free WiFi is on its way to American Airlines"

outer_web — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 22:12:49 +0000

This seems like an advertisement.

New comment by outer_web in "Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data"

outer_web — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:17:44 +0000

The "looking at" process is still subject to federal law.

New comment by outer_web in "Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data"

outer_web — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:08:49 +0000

"People don't like my opinions therefore I am going to sabotage the discussion from obscurity."

New comment by outer_web in "Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data"

outer_web — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:04:06 +0000

You flag posts with politics because you don't like having been flagged?

New comment by outer_web in "Doge Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress"

outer_web — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 17:54:27 +0000

Finally the government is run like a business - a magical world outsourcing, capricious decisionmaking, and c-suite self-delusion.

I am so glad we slaughtered the Deep State that made us ... checks notes ... the global hegemon.

New comment by outer_web in "Doge Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress"

outer_web — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 17:47:57 +0000

Agree with your conclusion but the SCOTUS order was much softer than that, slapping the lower court's terminology while passing the enforcement burden back down (and all but ensuring another trip upwards).

New comment by outer_web in "Trump Administration Will Freeze $2B After Harvard Refuses Demands"

outer_web — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 02:54:32 +0000

So this money is already appropriated and going to be redirected to institutions that pledge fealty?

New comment by outer_web in "Trump Administration Will Freeze $2B After Harvard Refuses Demands"

outer_web — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 02:53:10 +0000

Politics was already short on ideological consistency before the age of alternative facts.

New comment by outer_web in "Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes"

outer_web — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 20:03:52 +0000

Especially the most conservative person.

New comment by outer_web in "Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes"

outer_web — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:28:05 +0000

Uh yeah, why wouldn't I?

I mean I don't know that it's their policy but it sure looks that way.

New comment by outer_web in "Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes"

outer_web — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:26:13 +0000

Or the Supreme Court.

New comment by outer_web in "Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes"

outer_web — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:23:58 +0000

Hyperbole doesn't help at all.

Police the violence, not the speech.

New comment by outer_web in "Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes"

outer_web — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:18:44 +0000

Maybe their endowment is held in treasurys they should start selling off...

New comment by outer_web in "Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes"

outer_web — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:17:45 +0000

It could have been water under the bridge if we simply did not re-elect him. But now we have a second term emboldened by de facto total immunity.

New comment by outer_web in "Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes"

outer_web — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:16:19 +0000

Habeas corpus - still in effect unless you're already in El Salvador.

New comment by outer_web in "Facebook is just Craigslist now"

outer_web — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 17:47:55 +0000

That's how I imagine facebook but haven't been there in years.

New comment by outer_web in "Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs"

outer_web — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 15:52:36 +0000

> Men came to me with tears in their eyes, big men, and said "sir..."