Richard Civille

Collateral damage is the point. Administrative error is the point. Cruelty is the point. Stochastic terrorism is the point. Random disappeared is the point. This is 1970s Argentina.

They are performing AS IF they were but they are sure hedging their bets by pulling out the stops to rig the mid-term elections they are terrified of losing ... can't have it both ways ...

Kinda hard to fire a guy who never worked for you. Try again?

Separated at birth?

Trump Administration’s Mass Layoffs of Federal Workers Are Illegal | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The massive reductions in force the Administration is seeking to carry out would so degrade agency capacities that they would effectively end congressionally mandated activities and violate statutory ...

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Who files the suit? Some strange bedfellows, maybe the US Chamber of Commerce will join up with the Teamsters Union?

It's highly likely backroom bribes for preferential carveouts to companies and countries for tariff relief, paid off via crypto purchases of Trump meme coins, thus circumventing all evidence of the transactions of what is clearly public business. Change my mind.

Next, the suit would invoke the Administrative Procedures Act prohibition against "arbitrary and capricious" action by the government. I'm not sure where to begin, beyond my paygrade, but gee whiz, ya think? And then the Federal Records Act, which has just been dusted off re: SignalGate.

Is there a case for injunctive relief over the tariff debacle? All a judge needs is a lawsuit filed asking the court to identify a class (i.e. everyone everywhere) about to be irrevocably harmed.

I have thought for a long time that radical right fundamental evangelism will also converge with radical left environmentalism. The two movements have more in common than not.

Well bless his heart, did he really say this?

EFF Sues DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to Halt Ransacking of Federal Data EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders have filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the private information of mil...

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We could call it "Mayor Pete's Playhouse." He rides in on his special bicycle. I know there's videos somewhere of Buttigieg in a talk show format taking calls from from listeners with transportation related issues in his official capacity as Secretary. Its funny, informative and Pete is razor sharp.

Schumer urges Trump to eat his broccoli

He dropped the nth decimal into a private account let it accumulate to a large sum and delivered his “research” at the conference to show how compromised the German banks were. This was before the Euro.

Saw that happen once in West Germany in the ‘80s at the then famous/notorious Chaos Computer Club annual conference. Hacker by the handle Dr Vow got into currency transfers between countries which were never whose numbers.

No wonder he wants to slap tariffs on that handsome dude. What a wimp.

Call your peers, worldwide and go deal with Musk right now on his level in the manner he’ll understand. Stop your Bluesky platitudes and go out there and do something necessary right now.

I was thinking later how long it’s been since I read a nice long novel. So part of the not reading thing is no longer reading literature

@chilicatsmom.bsky.social
If no one reads anymore no one reads Bluesky, X, FB or any other social platform. Yet tens of millions do. People definitely read, voraciously, every single day.

Is the Equal Rights Amendment the actual law of the land? Sounds like that’s plausible. If so throwing out equal opportunity rules and equity policy is moot. The ERA now governs. Take an AG suit to the 9th Circuit for temporary injunction and prompt
en banc review.

Years ago, John Gilmore, employee #5 of Sun Microsystems, one of the original libertarian tech bros famously observed that “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it”. I really hope Bluesky will be a good example of the old adage that information wants to be free.

And another thing I'm liking is Bluesky emerging as a powerful platform for independent journalism. This is huge. I stumbled across someone's starter pack of state and local reporters from all over the country. Followed all of them. This is only the beginning.

A few more reasons I'm liking Bluesky more these days. If I just want a bit of idle entertainment, rather than staring at cat vids, I now have a deep bench of Morris dancing vids from lovely eccentric places from all over the place.

Tonight I am watching a before-times concert with Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett.

The masses love show trials just part of the distraction of spectacle.

Feeling my way around, learning the ropes. Got my first cutsey bot-chik come on the other day, so I figured out how to flick off like a gnat. That didn't take long. I guess that'll be a thing.

So, here I am on Bluesky, as part of the great migration, a social network refugee perhaps. This is my first post, and its on Thanksgiving so have a great time out there to those who celebrate. A new dawn on its way and as is my style, I'll have more to say.

Hi Ken thanks for tracking me down I’m new here, how long have you been on Bluesky?