hb elam

I am. I think. Or at least I think that I am and I think that I think.

[hb elam @hbelam]

MARCUS AURELIUS SAYS TOUCH GRASS

[austerity is theft @wideofthepost]

Washington Post last October. Zeteo last week.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Tom Steyer: “I’m totally in favor of trans athletes in high school. When you understand the vulnerability, the stress, the danger of being a trans kid and you understand almost half of them try to commit suicide. Then you think we’re gonna punish those kids, we’re gonna cut them off from team sport. It’s like, no we’re not”

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Thomas Massie says he plans to publicly read the names of Epstein clients before leaving Congress.

If he follows through, Washington is about to enter full panic mode.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

It’s wild how booing AI has completely broken some commencement speakers. They’ve gone from, “You can do anything if you put your mind to it” to “Shut up and eat shit, fuckers. Being here is supposed to make ME feel good, not you.”

[Sam Stein @samstein]

What even does this first sentence mean? Obama literally negotiated with Iran. Whether you liked the outcome or not, it happened.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Saying “I didn’t expect the corruption to be quite as widespread as it has been” is admitting that you knew he was corrupt, and endorsed him anyway.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Bill Clinton has a random run-in with Loretta Lynch at an airport in 2016 - MASSIVE, WEEKS LONG SCANDAL
JD Vance attends a private dinner with Chief Justice Roberts while the Court considers multiple Trump Admin lawsuits - "social call" ... "friendly pop-by"

[sententiae antiquae @sentantiq]

quick while no one is talking about POLYTROPOS

ῥοδοδάκτυλος ᾿Ηώς, typically translated as "rosy-fingered" should be "rosy-toed Dawn" because the image is of a woman rising from the horizon and trailing her feet in the water....

[Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw]

This is utterly extraordinary.

If Hegseth et al got this wrong, think what else is happening with the drug boat strikes and much more.

The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm.

Gets worse as you read it.

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[hb elam @hbelam]

@Apple this is fucking ridiculous. I’ve been sitting here for an hour waiting for this to update. At the VERY least it could give some mention of how far along it is in “preparing”. It was a download that took 5 minutes. Updating your hardware shouldn’t be an all day affair

[Warren @swd2]

You'll never believe what we did in Minnesota

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

“Feminism pushed women into the workforce” these two women are having this conversation at their jobs.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

EXCLUSIVE: Father of service member killed in Iran war said he did not tell Pete Hegseth to "finish" the job. https://t.co/4QTTfz5SGM

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

REPORTER: Yesterday you told us Israel was going to strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved. But today the president said Iran--

RUBIO: No. Were you there yesterday?

REPORTER: Yes. I asked the question

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

“We ought therefore to recall that God transcends the human distinction between the sexes. He is neither man nor woman: God Has No Gender” - Book 239 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church

[Acyn @Acyn]

Raskin: I heard one of our colleagues across the aisle just say, “Well, yes, Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 does give Congress the exclusive, plenary, comprehensive power to declare war and not the president. And we could be debating it, but the president has already taken us to war, so it’s too late. It would undermine the cause for us to debate it.” 

What a humiliating, self-defeating argument for a member of the Article I branch of Congress to be making. Don’t you understand? That destroys our power to declare war if any president can plunge us into a war and thereby defeat our exclusive, plenary power over it—

[Hannah Cox @HannahDCox]

The way Tillis is legislating on his way out of Congress provides some insight into how they all might behave if we had term limits and broke the two party system’s stranglehold on representative’s guts.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

This might be the most basic concept in the entire Constitution.

The Framers granted Congress the power to declare war. To “declare” war meant to “commence” war—to put the country in a state of war, and activate the commander in chief to take offensive action.

Draft language had granted Congress the power to make war, but the Framers were concerned that such phrasing would prohibit the president even from taking defensive action without Congress’s permission.

They amended the language to ensure that the president could “repel sudden attacks” while preserving Congress’s authority to initiate war.

[John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang]

“Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.”

– Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Allied Commander
Last GOP POTUS to have a balanced budget with a surplus, too.