Coriolus Nimrod

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Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· 13d

Also, it’s nuts how everyone just openly accepts the rank political cowardice of the entire Republican Party. “What do you expect these guys to do, speak the truth about this corrupt deal? Vote their conscience? If they did that they might not get to hang out in the Senate cloakroom. Get real.”

“Mr. Cornyn quickly pushed back, suggesting that he and Mr. Tillis represented a much larger group of Senate Republicans who had reservations about the implications of the tax deal, but could not incur the political risk to publicly oppose the White House that their status afforded them.

““There are more than just two people who have reservations about the weaponization fund and about the scope of the settlement decree,” Mr. Cornyn said. “And you know, after the midterms, who knows who’s going to be the next United States senator from North Carolina or Texas?””

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· 29d

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· Jun 20

One of the lesser-known Bond girls.

Packaging which reads “Virgin Polyester.”

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· Jun 19

First car I drove. Not actually this one. I don’t know that there are any photos of my actual one in electronic format. And it’s the first car I owned, I learned on a hodgepodge of cars and trucks owned by various relatives. Loved this car. But the windows did have a habit of exploding.

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· Jun 18

I don’t see how people can complain when the company said right in their name what color water they make.

New York Times:

“The first no-bid contract went to a Virginia-based company, Atlantic Industrial Coatings, to seal leaky joints between the pool’s concrete slabs and coat the slabs with the dark blue waterproofing material. The second went to Ohio-based Greenwater Services to add an upgraded water-purification system.”

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· Jun 6

Dan fucking Moraff is mixed up in this mess? Now it makes sense.

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· Jun 3

You know, most people would take being humiliatingly defeated in and blindsided by the consequences of in a war they started for no clear reason as a signal to start taking intelligence seriously. Or you could just put your nepo baby hatchet man in charge.

“Pulte’s career has been primarily focused on finance and home building, and he has no known national security experience. The president said Pulte would remain director of the FHFA and chairman of Fannie and Freddie while serving as acting director of national intelligence.

“Pulte, a scion of a homebuilder fortune, gained favor with Trump through his aggressive approach to his role as the administration’s housing chief. He alleged that several of Trump’s perceived foes committed mortgage fraud, including Sen. Adam Schiff; Letitia James, the attorney general of New York; and Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. James was charged with fraud, but that case was later dismissed.”

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· May 31

“No, the Epstein thing was fine. I didn’t do anything you would take women to, like sex parties. We only did man things, like money and power. I would never invite a woman to a discussion of those things.”

WSJ:

“That September, Netflix released a documentary, “Inside Bill’s Brain,” that offered a glowing, intimate look at his philanthropic second act. In an interview that month with the Journal about the documentary, Gates was asked about his Epstein association.

“Gates replied: “I met him. I didn’t have any business relationship or friendship with him…. There were people around him who were saying, hey, if you want to raise money for global health and get more philanthropy, he knows a lot of rich people. Every meeting where I was with him were meetings with men. I was never at any parties or anything like that.” “

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· May 27

According to Justice Powell, flying has been legal in the environs of Doncaster since at least the 17th century, and likely well before.

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· May 27

Or Formosus.

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· May 14

The governor of Mississippi referred to a black man holding public office as a “reign of terror.” This is straight up first Klan shit.

But the governor is urging the Mississippi Legislature to redraw its legislative, state supreme court and congressional lines before the 2027 elections, when state legislative seats will be on the ballot. He also vowed in a social media post on Wednesday morning that the state’s only Black congressman’s “reign of terror” will be “over” soon, referring to Democratic U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson.

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· May 13

Hoo, buddy. Is this a racism? Yes, sure seems like it. But you are not that young.

Scott, 42 years old, said he was “very disappointed” by her post. He noted that he doesn’t drink or smoke, adding that “luxury to me is an Under Armour sweatsuit.”

“That just adds on to the fire that we’re talking about, like, oh yeah, it is a young Black guy, he has to be corrupt,” Scott said.

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· May 13

And then a man with the name of a Byzantine emperor drops into the story to opine about the concerns of the common people.

“People who can’t pay their own bills are saying, ‘I pay my taxes, I’m working three jobs,’” said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston, while officials “are just blowing money on crab dinners and [sky]boxes and all of these extra amenities.”

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· May 13

Yes, this penny-ante scandal about spending an objectively reasonable amount on aggressively local snacks is exactly the same as a global pedophilia-cum-influence peddling ring for billionaires and royalty.

Hawks, like other locals, was in the high-ceilinged chamber to support the inspector general. “We as taxpayers have every right to know where our dollars are going,” she said, criticizing records shielding as “no different than the Epstein files.”

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· May 13

Baltimore remains the Batimoreiest Baltimore to ever Baltimore.

Scott and Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming are locked in a power struggle that has spilled into the courts and animated voters. The conflict escalated after Cumming’s office flagged potential fraud in a city-run youth-diversion program and dinged the mayor’s office for skirting spending rules. One finding cited about $50,000 spent over roughly three years on treats such as crab cakes and Old Bay wings at city-owned stadium skyboxes during Orioles and Ravens games.

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· May 9

NYT Editor: “Nadine, do you have the illustration for the guest essay?” Nadine: “Yup, real sarcastic and dismissive of the essay’s argument, just like you asked.”

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· May 9

An individual, eh? What a deep disappointment for everyone hoping that the Northrop Grumman corporation had been killed crossing the runway.

A recording posted by the ATC.com app, which relays air traffic radio, captured the pilots describing the incident. “We’re stopping on the runway,” a pilot told the air traffic control tower. “We just hit somebody. We have an engine fire.” Later, a pilot told the tower that “an individual was walking across the runway.”

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· Apr 30

Indeed, they say, it is “repugnant.” Not only now, but it has always been a “disastrous misadventure” to protect the collective interests of racial minorities.

Thomas concurrence, joined by Gorsuch:

“I join the Court’s opinion in full. This Court should never have interpreted §2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to effectively give racial groups “an entitlement to roughly proportional representation.” Thornburg v. Gingles, 478 U. S. 30, 93 (1986) (O’Connor, J., concurring in judgment); see ante, at 23–24. By doing so, the Court led legislatures and courts to “systematically divid[e] the country into electoral districts along racial lines.” Holder v. Hall, 512 U. S. 874,
905 (1994) (THOMAS, J., concurring in judgment). “Blacks [we]re drawn into ‘black districts’ and given ‘black representatives’; Hispanics [we]re drawn into Hispanic districts and given ‘Hispanic representatives’; and so on.” Ibid. That interpretation rendered §2 “repugnant to any nation that strives for the ideal of a color-blind Constitution.” Id., at
905–906. Today’s decision should largely put an end to this “disastrous misadventure” in voting-rights jurisprudence. Id., at 893.

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· Apr 30

It is especially striking when all of the justices who signed on to the opinion, including Alito himself, joined another opinion including this paragraph *the very same day.* This stated concern for ensuring that minority groups’ free association and ability to “influence policy” is forgotten.

From SCOTUS opinion in First Choice v. Davenport:

“We have recognized, too, that associational rights carry special significance for political, social, religious, and other minorities. See id., at 462; Roberts, 468 U. S., at 622. With the freedom to associate, minorities can “show their numerical strength,” influence policy, and “stimulate competition” in the marketplace of ideas. 1 A. de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 196–197 (H. Reeve transl., rev. ed. 1900). But take that freedom away and “dissident expression” stands
particularly vulnerable to marginalization and outright “suppression by the majority,” leaving all of society poorer for it.Roberts, 468 U. S., at 622.”

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· Apr 13

The capitalist class is made up of the dumbest, most credulous people you can imagine. Just constantly making stupid bets on obvious lies then swinging wildly when they turn out to be lies. How is it that we still have not internalized as a culture that capital is deeply, deeply stupid?

WSJ:

“Oil prices are surging again after President Trump said the U.S. would blockade the Strait of Hormuz starting today, threatening a cease-fire that fueled a relief rally in markets around the world last week.”

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· Apr 11

This place seems nice enough, but be careful around the water feature.

Apartment building entrance with the word “OPHELIA” over the door.

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· Apr 10

Hypocrisy, huh? That is the line they are going with?

Politico:

“Anticipating a race-rewriting event, multiple of Swalwell’s rivals have assailed him in recent days and accused him of hypocrisy given his past statements in support of the woman who accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault ahead of his confirmation hearing.”

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· Apr 10

Wait, so they want to protect only the richest from liability? This is like if there was a gilded age law against labor organizing, but only if the company was run by a Carnegie, duPont, or Rockefeller.

The bill would shield frontier AI developers from liability for “critical harms” caused by their frontier models as long as they did not intentionally or recklessly cause such an incident, and have published safety, security, and transparency reports on their website. It defines a frontier model as any AI model trained using more than $100 million in computational costs, which likely could apply to America’s largest AI labs, like OpenAI, Google, xAI, Anthropic, and Meta.

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· Apr 7

I think it is right and good for them to call for it. The problem we now see with section 4 of the 25th am, though, is that there is one specific person who has to be on board: the Vice President. So, is JD Vance capable of (even self-serving) acts of political courage to stop a genocide?

The first paragraph of Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

“Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.”

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· Apr 4

Remember when the Washington Poat seemed like it might be an example of a part of the mainstream media where things could be done right sometimes? Let us all remember you can never trust a billionaire to do anything but serve their own wealth and ego. Certainly nothing like the public good.

From M Gessen’s 2020 book Surviving Autorcracy, a section giving the Washington Post and its reporter David Farenthold credit for responding to the Trump era in a way that the New York Times could not do. Six years later, Farenthold works for the Times and the Post is an open mouthpiece for American fascism.

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· Mar 12

Meanwhile, Kansas City is trying to rip off one of our actual nicknames.

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· Mar 12

Oh, if you told them, I am sure they will be careful. The parties to this conflict have definitely proven themselves to care deeply about international law.

In a statement last week, UNESCO said “cultural property is protected under international law.” It said it had contacted all parties in the Iran conflict and shared the geographical coordinates for sites on its world heritage list, as well as for national symbols. The hope was that they might be spared.

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· Mar 11

Now I am torn, because I don’t want hostile work environments, but I also don’t want emetic ones.

Graf from Law360 article:

"Penn attorney Seth P. Waxman argued that the EEOC's charge against the university was not specific enough about how Penn allegedly fostered a hostile, antiemetic work environment.”

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· Mar 10

Yes! Apart from the very limited circumstance of immediate self-defense, yes the president very much does need to do that. Maybe Congress calls what they give him an AUMF rather than a declaration of war, but the president does not get to go around the world punching people in the nose sua sponte.

“The issue is more: Does the president have to go to Congress every time he deploys U.S. forces? And the debate is about what constitutes a "declaration" of war versus a deployment of U.S. troops or the use of U.S. military force abroad.”

Coriolus Nimrod@coriolusn· Mar 10

Well, at least there are some stated objectives. Trump will come out and contradict them in 20 minutes, but I guess we are calling these the objectives for now. 1) ok, I guess. Seems like if we could do that with just dropping bombs, we would have by now, but I get why we would want that.