Sixty years ago ... and Texas today ...
04.08.2025 14:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@rosenzweigp.bsky.social
Homeland security consultant; Cyber renaissance man; rugby referee; grandparent; uncle; art lover; Nats fan.
Sixty years ago ... and Texas today ...
04.08.2025 14:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Judy Garland, Somewhere over the Rainbow: youtu.be/PSZxmZmBfnU?...
02.08.2025 17:46 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 03. Mao Zedong (China): Punished statisticians during the Great Leap Forward (1958β1962) for reporting true famine and crop failure data /fin
HT: Grok
Three examples:
1. Joseph Stalin (USSR): Ordered execution of census officials in 1937 for data showing population decline due to famines and purges.
2. Greek government: Prosecuted statistician Andreas Georgiou (2011βongoing) for accurate debt figures that triggered austerity. /1
Trump firing the BLS director for a bad jobs report - days after demanding the Smithsonian remove him from the list of impeached presidents - is banana republic stuff.
If a Democrat pulled these stunts, Republicans would be setting themselves on fire outside the White House.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Puddle Jumping in Paris (my title, I could not find the title):
31.07.2025 13:28 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Winged Scarab (Egypt approx 600-500 BCE):
30.07.2025 16:22 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Pablo Picasso, Hibou Brilliant:
29.07.2025 14:56 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0DM me π
29.07.2025 01:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What's your ranking?
29.07.2025 01:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Europe and US Tech Dependency
open.substack.com/pub/prosenzw...
No apology necessary at all!!! It was long ago. I am more pleased to find a kindred spirit. Great minds ....
27.07.2025 02:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I wrote this 8 years ago....
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trad...
Mark Rothko, Untitled (Lavender and Green):
24.07.2025 20:49 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Why I'm not optimistic: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
23.07.2025 15:48 β π 10 π 5 π¬ 5 π 1The latest
www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...
Sent you a DM.
19.07.2025 20:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hello legal bluesky. Do I know any copyright lawyers?
19.07.2025 20:34 β π 10 π 8 π¬ 3 π 1That feeling when your lawyers are too scared to tell you that what you're about to do is going to dramatically backfire. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/t...
18.07.2025 21:00 β π 19 π 5 π¬ 5 π 0Astronomical clock, Prague:
17.07.2025 13:42 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Proud to sign
17.07.2025 02:55 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0If there is one strand that runs through Trumpβs second stint in office, itβs his administrationβs thoroughgoing commitment to weakening any and all resistance to his hold on power.
@rosenzweigp.bsky.social
Echos of today ...
16.07.2025 20:17 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Even as Trump loses four court rulings in a row, he's imposing his will on BigLaw: "firms that havenβt yet been targeted by the administration are eliminating from their pro bono portfolios work that might" displease Trump and even "scrubbing their websites of anything [he] might find offensive."
16.07.2025 13:07 β π 15 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0Amen
16.07.2025 02:25 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Big Law Is Finally Getting its Act Together and Fighting Trump's Attacks
www.theunpopulist.net/p/big-law-is...
I was being polite ... :-)
14.07.2025 21:53 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated).
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*