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Written by Radley Balko on 2025-02-04 at 03:56

Thread of non-theoretical horribles

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Written by Radley Balko on 2025-02-03 at 23:35

Really hate that we’re in this position where a relatively not terrible outcome (temporary suspension of Trump’s maniacal, destructive tariffs) means letting Trump declare a ”victory” he didn’t actually get. Which gives him more power.

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Written by Radley Balko on 2025-02-03 at 17:31

Also, it’s going to be fun for historians to look back on this era in which official communications for the most powerful country on earth are written in the voice and tone of your drunken racist uncle after after his fifth scotch & soda.

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Written by Radley Balko on 2025-02-03 at 17:25

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Written by Radley Balko on 2025-02-03 at 17:19

U.S. attorney threatens to break the law by arresting people who try to obstruct a private citizen from his ongoing lawbreaking.

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Written by Radley Balko on 2025-02-03 at 16:36

We have to give people room grow and learn. Sure, Beattie wrote some intemperate things in the past.

But I'm sure he's accumulated a lot of life experience and done a lot of maturing since . . .

. . . October of 2024.

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Written by Radley Balko on 2025-02-03 at 16:24

I think the harder question right now is, "Who will enforce it?"

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Written by Radley Balko on 2025-02-03 at 16:12

Musk has subjected federal workers, Twitter employees, trans people and their healthcare workers, and countless others to death threats and harassment by posting or amplifying posts that reveal their names. But one gets to know the names of the toddlers he sent to hack the government.

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Written by Radley Balko on 2025-02-03 at 14:36

Since Abbott and Always Sunny got together, everybody wants to do a crossover episode.

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Written by Radley Balko on 2025-02-03 at 00:14

SpaceX too? I’ll bet it isn’t SpaceX too.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Musk Says DOGE Is Halting Trea...

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Written by Radley Balko on 2025-02-02 at 21:31

Just to be clear, he’s asking the country to endure “pain” for no fucking reason other than that he does not understand basic economics and now needs to salvage his ego.

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Written by Radley Balko on 2025-02-02 at 19:34

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Written by Radley Balko on 2025-02-02 at 18:53

From the reports I've read, the USAID people were following the law, preventing DOGE from viewing classified material they didn't have clearance to see.

Musk calling this criminal" means that Musk thinks the law is what he says it is.

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Written by Radley Balko on 2025-02-02 at 18:20

Threats aside, Vance is also just full of shit. The U.S. seized 19kg of fentanyl at the Canadian border last year, or 0.19 percent of the total fentanyl seized.

Meanwhile, in 2023, Canada seized 27,000 prohibited weapons at the border. The U.S. seized 459 weapons coming from Canada.

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Written by Radley Balko on 2025-02-02 at 17:56

I'm deleting this post because it seems that the data Flynn posted is publicly available, and the original post is spreading faster than the update.

There's still a lot to be alarmed by here. Just not that particular part of it.

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Written by Radley Balko on 2025-02-02 at 16:13

Man. What a quaint problem to have!

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Written by Radley Balko on 2025-02-02 at 16:06

Update: The Flynn list is apparently from publicly available information. My mistake. Musk's access is still a problem. As is his claim to be unilaterally stopping Treasury payments. As is his public chumminess with Flynn, a foreign asset and QAnon conspiracist.

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Written by Radley Balko on 2025-02-02 at 15:06

Also, if Trump did authorize it, and setting aside Musk’s utter lack of authority, isn’t this a violation of Clinton v. City of New York?

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Written by Radley Balko on 2025-02-02 at 14:47

Just a reminder that Musk couldn’t get a top level security clearance. And he was under investigation for violating the terms of the clearance he did have. Now he has your Social Security number, your tax returns, and is unilaterally deciding who the government does and does not pay.

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Written by Radley Balko on 2025-02-02 at 14:31

In retrospect, Trump was right. The country has indeed been taken over by an immigrant who was here illegally and doesn’t share our values.

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