Chris Hazel

I'm assuming the airlines are going to hemorrhage cash at this point. Wondering what the fight will look like when they come for bailouts while the GOP wants to simultaneously defend not giving backpay to government workers.

I figured that the desire to push non-delegation and major-questions would combine with financial self-interest here. Or rather, the doctrines they want to push anyway are grate ways to rationalize self-interest.

Probably related to the aircraft carrier the US has deployed to the Caribbean.

(At no kings... Looks around)

I really do have friends everywhere.

Given the opportunity to hear a Mahler hammer live in concert, why on earth would you not?

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Fri Aug 1st, 8:00pm, Kresge auditorium, MIT campus, free and open to the public.

I'm sorry, nine HUNDRED former DOJ lawyers all signed this letter opposing Emil Bove's nomination to be an appellate federal judge?

900?!

Netanyahu's puppet. Was played like a fiddle.

MUST WATCH: ICE kidnapped a disabled American citizen.

Her name is Alma Bowman. Born in the Philippines while her dad served in the U.S. Navy.

She’s lived here 48 years.
They crashed her wheelchair, denied meds, cut her off from her lawyer—and jailed her.

She. Is. A. Citizen.

Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter.

They graded it.

Bwahahaha.

I doubt anyone here needs convincing. But I wanted to highlight something about Trump's order to Pam Bondi to commence a harassment investment of Act Blue. I was actually pleasantly surprised by the candor here. They note these examples of 'suspicious' contributions on ACT BLUE. But note the ...

This dissent from Alito and Thomas is rich talking about "in the middle of the night". These guys have never seen an emer. application from a conservative admin. that wasn't ripe for the shadow docket. Hell, they'll hear a TRO appeal. Don't take indignation from men with no standards.

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Every time he makes an assertion I think "And how the hell would you know that?"

I love how we're all just skipping the part where his tariff powers depend on there being an emergency.

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One of my favorite "project management" scenes in cinema is when Tommy Hagen, after hearing from Woltz that there's no way the kid gets in the picture, says he has to fly to NY right away because The Don insists on hearing bad news right away.

Situational awareness can be life or death.

From the "our numbers are better if we do less testing" salesman/conman/prevarication administration - eliminate people who's job is to forecast our situation (that way they can't tell us about all the bad news we're creating).

a poster that says injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere ALT: a poster that says injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere

Sad / pissed. Hoping it ends up better for you despite their mission to hurt your family.

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Feeling revolutionary

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Tragicomedy.

If the point is to find fraud and accountability, yes.

If the point is to perform for the faithful, then no.

I know which I'm betting is the actual point.

I wonder if opportunistic Major Questions Doctrine supporters might use SCOTUS's political need to push back on Trump as a way of back-dooring solidifying the doctrine in precedent.

6/6 The one piece of solace I can give them is that once your data is clean and the process that creates is clean - you will find efficiencies that will make lots of what you do with the data take much less effort.

Some large swath of government data needs cleaning? Knock me over with a feather.

5/6 So now we should look at revising your processes so they produce only clean data (if we can).

4/6 Your data isn't clean because the processes that created it created the dirty data. If I build you a dashboard and clean your data, we're just waiting until new data that is dirty get's added to it because the processes that update your data haven't been addressed.

3/6 So now we add the estimate it takes to fix your data to the estimate for the dashboard.

But then there's more bad news:

2/6 I've had people on projects ask me for data analysis dashboards and they ask me how long it takes. This inevitably leads to me giving them an idea of what it takes, but that's assuming your data is "clean". The bad news is I'll bet money your data isn't clean and needs fixing.

1/6 If every time you seek some weird stuff inside a big swath of data you're going to think "conspiracy!" or "fraud!", I've got some news for you about the general state of "cleanliness" of large swaths of data generally.

A reminder: in the past, when a singer's mic cut out during the U.S. National Anthem at a hockey game in Canada, the entire arena stepped in, singing every single word of the Star Spangled Banner together.

Tonight, thanks to Trump, Canada is booing during the National Anthem.