Gary Longsine 📱

The kind who accepts $400 million bribes in the form of a former flying brothel? Is this a trick question.

I promise I'll stop posting abt the Cuomo tweet eventually, but I must say this: I've lived as an adult in NYC for 14 years. I moved into my partner's rent-stabilized apt last year. It is the first time in 14 years that I have not felt deep, constant anxiety about money. It has changed my life.

Suspect and Officer Are Dead After Shooting Outside C.D.C. in Atlanta

NEW: The Emory shooter thought the Covid-19 vaccine was to blame for his medical problems, NYT confirms, so he shot CDC buildings, killing a police officer in the process.

Our latest:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

He called the CDC a cesspool of corruption that lied about the COVID vaccines. Now someone has committed violence because of the same misinformation.

Emory University shooting live: Suspect dead and cop killed Police are reportedly working on the theory that the CDC was the suspect’s target, who ‘blamed his illness on the Covid-19 vaccine,’ according to an unconfirmed report

The police think that the man who killed a police officer at Emory University today was seeking revenge on the CDC. He had an unspecified illness that he believed was caused by the COVID19 vaccine.

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Thanks to @jonsam1961b.bsky.social for the heads up.

Weaponized Communication with Chinese Characteristics: The CCP’s Next-Gen Information Warfare Doctri — The CCP BioThreats Initiative

"A paper by Ma Liming and Chen Qing (2025) details how synthetic agents, such as social bots, are deployed to saturate digital environments with emotionally resonant content that appears organic." #NatSec

www.ccpbiothreats.com/initiatives/...

Happy 88 th, Dustin Hoffman.
With Anne Bancroft on the set of Mike Nichols’s The Graduate 1967

Do Legal Checks on a President’s Power “Diminish the Votes of the Citizens Who Elected Him”? The administration is arguing that when courts restrain Donald Trump’s actions in the name of the law, they “diminish the votes of the citizens who elected him” as a “representative of the people” wie...

What's more, in a constitutional republic, earlier voting rounds count too. In respecting the rule of law and the role of coordinate branches of government, we honor democratic choices made by previous sets of voters in other moods - that, and curb the potential whims of a mob or strongman. /5, end

I add a few points of my own: supposed presidential "mandates" are not a legal concept for the very good reason that there is no objective way to identify them, discern their boundaries, or distinguish some claims of mandates from others. They are inescapably interpretation-dependent. @cato.org /4

The voting public has an interest - call it a mandate - in “seeing its governmental institutions follow the law.” What's more, while the Executive does have an interest in enforcing the nation’s immigration laws, its "paramount interest is the same as the judiciary’s: that justice shall be done.” /3

I quote Paul Clement's terrific memorandum on behalf of the Maryland judges in rebuttal of that notion: "In reality, it is the enduring text of the Constitution, not the preference of voters at a moment in time, that establishes the powers of the three branches of the federal government." /2

Do Legal Checks on a President’s Power “Diminish the Votes of the Citizens Who Elected Him”? The administration is arguing that when courts restrain Donald Trump’s actions in the name of the law, they “diminish the votes of the citizens who elected him” as a “representative of the people” wie...

Just out from me at Cato: in its case against Maryland federal judges, the Trump administration is advancing the dangerous and open-ended argument that legal checks on a president's actions "diminish the votes of the citizens who elected him." Whoa! /1

That's gonna be discovered by John Roberts as the Hammurabi Principle on which America was secretly founded or some bullshit. But that's just window-dressing.

MAGA is at its core a Christian Nationalism movement and we cannot understand what's happening until we admit this.
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The reason it's important to recognize that Los Angeles was the test for pushing the military into places like DC, is that ultimately the test failed here.

If it can fail in Los Angeles, it can fail everywhere else they try it. It will take resistance.

A thread on Christian Nationalism. We cannot understand MAGA unless we admit that its core is an end-times supremacist cult.

There's some populism accreted to MAGA, sure, but scratch the surface and take a closer look.

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Why I left The Washington Post “Democracy Dies in Darkness” — but what if the lights are going out from within?

In a one-hour meeting April 2024 with Will Lewis, “the then-new publisher of The Post. During our discussion, he asked me: ‘What should The Post do to appeal more to Fox News viewers?’” substack.com/home/post/p-...

In case you were wondering, it *is* possible. It's not even really very difficult.

Are prisons as bad as you think?

No! Much worse.

www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/unp...

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They would also bring it back once or twice a week, for the next five years.

Yup.

This. 👇

X post by Derek Guy with four photos (two ornate ceiling decorations, one close-up of an ugly gold Cupid, one of Cadbury Easter bunnies with and without gold foil) and following text not counting link to now-absent post: "derek guy @dieworkwear · 13h I actually have an MA and PhD in architectural history. The first two photos show the detailing at Amalienburg, a German hunting lodge done in Rococo style. Note the level of detailing. The third photo shows the Oval Office, which is done in the traditional Cadbury bunny style."

I idolize @dieworkwear.bsky.social but I wish he would start posting his best stuff on Bluesky first.

Yesterday on Twitter, RFK Jr. blatantly accused doctors of vaccinating patients solely for money. Earlier in the week, he cancelled $500m in funding for mRNA vaccines.

Then a man who apparently thought his illness was caused by the COVID19 vaccine fired numerous rounds at the CDC, killing a man.

They Want Missouri Education Policies to go Nationwide Curated failure

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social writes about this, usually without looking closely at the religious roots of the project, but she does a great job of explaining how the GOP is working to do to the nation what they've done to Missouri.

jesspiper.substack.com/p/they-want-...

Most folks don't realize Project 2025 is how these folks have been running their homes & churches for decades.

As they gained control of local & state governments, they instituted it there. Red States have been running P2025 for awhile now.

It's just on a national level since January.

A thread on Christian Nationalism. We cannot understand MAGA unless we admit that its core is an end-times supremacist cult.

There's some populism accreted to MAGA, sure, but scratch the surface and take a closer look.

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One fascinating thing about Project 2025 that people like @brucewilson.bsky.social and @mhairiforrest.bsky.social understand: Even at 900 pages the document doesn't convey the full Republic of Gilead scope of the Christian Nationalist ambition for paving over America.

www.project2025.observer/en

Apple could probably solve their Siri problem by acquiring Anthropic.