A.Jay Wagner

White House Doctor: Trump Has Far More Bones Than Any Prior President

A winter commuter bike, that's a true Calgarian.

It's always been there. It used to be shrouded in budget concerns and "financial realities."

But the formalities have been stripped away, and callous USAID cuts to incessant online trolling of marginalized groups is just part of our lives now.

They appear to feel no shame.

Feels like one of Trump's lasting impacts will be the outing of the healthy subset of the U.S. public simply does not care about other people.

Trump has given them license to openly express this, and in many cases celebrate their indifference to human misery.

Remember when the federal government was dignified enough to not respond (in the most childish way imaginable) to every single perceived slight.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Reading a few opinions will quickly disabuse you of thinking SCOTUS is some wise tribunal. It's coded legalese, and thus hard to decipher, but the arguments are often downright silly.

Surprised 1Ls don't demand a refund after they read Korematsu. It's ethically bankrupt and logically implausible.

Amen. Such a short-sighted money grab.

It discourages subscriptions for those less 100% certain of their commitment. At this point, everybody know it's comes with Internet-provider level bs

Glad that this is getting coverage, but the chilling effect is here! Apple and Google are very clearly chilled! Speech is restricted with no legal basis! No experts needed, it's just facts!

YouTube video by Raw Jaw Undone - The Sweater Song - Weezer - Live 1994 Conan Show (reupload)

Just look at Rivers's immaculate hair

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As we wind down late night talk shows, gonna miss the musical performances. So many incredible bands put on tape early in their stardom.

ABC 7 Eyewitness News segment about the Black neighbourhood in Chicago that was targeted by ICE with the help of FBI

Another sign that they give zero fucks about anything beyond power and control. Hypocrisy doesn't even get at what they're doing.

Any gesturing to courts or rules are just opportunistic veneer. It's leverage when it's in the favor. It's meaningless when it's not.

It's all very out in the open now. All the corporations are clearly willing to play ball, and when a natural disaster hits your state, or a regional/local politician would like to finish that highway project, you'll be required to bend the knee too.

Delay was a bigger problem at the federal level.

Local and state requesters had more problems with fees.

Takeaway: Requesting is not monolithic. Local and federal FOIA requesting are distinct mechanisms with differing requester bodies, behaviors, and results.

Hometown Transparency: Differences in Local, State, and Federal Freedom of Information Experiences - A. Jay Wagner, David Cuillier, Jessica Sparks, 2025 This exploratory study surveyed 330 U.S. public record requesters on their local, state, and federal experiences and behaviors. Findings showed requesters with ...

We found 330 FOIA requesters (by combing FOIA logs) and asked them about their experiences.

The findings on how local, state and federal requesting differs are intuitive but, I think, really interesting.

Local requesters receive their records more often and report more satisfaction than federal.

Just an abject moral and ethical failure of a human.

He simply does not care about people other than himself. An absolute disgrace that he is an influential member of the U.S. government.

Turns out decades of championing individualism was a bad idea.

It's a "get yours" society. Not a lot of interest in broader, common objectives.

I wonder how things will work out as our resources get tighter?

The cowardice of the elites is a defining feature of America in 2025

Really hope Vought sees some punishment for his term of illegal activities. Right up there with Miller and Homan as people that need to be made an example of.

They've ushered in a new era of bad faith government and need to be dealt with seriously.

It's like reading a week's worth of headlines.

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
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They picked the wrong professor to try to intimidate. About as tough and principled as they come.

Censorship is here and it’s come in the form of corporations censoring themselves in order to win favor with the regime.

Explained to my 5yo that I wouldn't respect her taste in music until she listens to Down by the River and Neil's guitar noodling gives her goosebumps.

She asked me to turn Paw Patrol up.

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Florry coming to the Cactus Club, I like that.

To sum up: the President is not enforcing the law about TikTok access in order to structure the timing and sale of another giant social media platform to his political allies.

From the law community on Reddit: Attorney General Pam Bondi: "There's free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in ou... Explore this post and more from the law community

What a fucking clown show of a country we've become.

The United States attorney general has zero idea or concern about settled First Amendment law.

(Never mind the conspiracy-addled goon running HHS.)

Trump admin live updates: Bessent says 'framework' for TikTok deal has been reached Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, in Madrid for trade talks with China, said on Monday they have "a framework for a TikTok deal."

Let me guess: it involves selling TikTok's U.S. domestic operations to the right wing Ellison family and Oracle, who'll combine CBS/Paramount/Time Warner/CNN with TikTok to create one of the most effective right wing propaganda machines ever constructed?