Took me a second to work backwards what's happening here, but holy fuck is this stupid. To get the merger approved, US Steel amended its incorporation documents to give Donald Trump effective personal control over the company so long as he's President. When he's not, that power transfers... RE:
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Brian JM Quinn (@bjmquinn.bsky.social)
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Turns out diplomacy is harder than "guys, stop it." Trump might have understood that if he had ever actually had to raise his own kids. RE:
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Trump on Israel: "These guys gotta calm down. Ridiculous ... I didn't like the fact that Israel unloaded right after we made the deal. They didn't ...
According to WaPo columnists everyone should be eager to expose themselves to this sort of "viewpoint diversity" RE:
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Anna Merlan (@annamerlan.bsky.social)
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Just spent a few hours writing up 4000 words (tbf, many of them just quoting Sotomayor) about the Supreme Court's blessing human trafficking to war zones and slavery. And am doing so in a hotel room in Manhattan where the AC broke and it is fucking hot. I thought it was just me getting angrier...
I've said it before, I'll say it again: pitch it as increasing SCOTUS to at least 100 Justices, with randomly selected pools of 9 to hear each case, such that no single Justice matters so much. RE:
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Will W (@wweldon.bsky.social)
There should be an earnest call to pack the courts by Dem leadership. It should be a thought out campaign to explain to the American people why itβ...
It would appear we are now, officially, the bad guys RE:
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Reuters Legal (@legal.reuters.com)
BREAKING: The US Supreme Court lifts limits on deporting migrants to countries not their own
To be fair I also just saw this one so it seems like these ads are pure kookery. RE:
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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
Saw this banner again today. This time... with an Israeli flag. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Saw this banner again today. This time... with an Israeli flag. RE:
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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
Ah, yup. This is the one I saw. Was flying up and down along the Hudson. https://bsky.app/profile/hannahnyc.bsky.social/post/3ls7s3m4r5c2n [cont...
This is... not what a bubble means. What is with wapo people? RE:
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Tamar Haspel (@tamarhaspel.bsky.social)
In which Bluesky board member @mmasnick.bsky.social makes the argument that social media *isn't* a bubble. And then goes on to argue that Bluesky ...
Am briefly in Manhattan and saw an obnoxiously stupid anti-Mamdani airplane banner flying around (saying he'd bring intifada to NY). People are crazy. Saw it twice but didn't get a photo