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FatScribe
@FatScribe
*Raconteur *Founder of Co's *Writer screenplays *Shadow Banned *Classical liberal *Free markets best *Legal Consultant 20+ yrs 🇺🇸 https://t.co/HezBU2qmJW
LA / Malibu / South Central Se unió Mart 2009
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Shocked but not surprised.
Cray to be sure, though. You have to love constitutional law (and who doesn't?):
"all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof."
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@HarmeetKDhillon haven't had a good excuse to use "high dudgeon" in a long while. love it ... and it's not even an affectation.
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Dems exhibited Real Housewives-level-drama at this briefing by clutching their pearls and storming out in high dudgeon. It was stunning…. I thought they wanted to get at the truth?
Gunther Eagleman™@GuntherEagleman
HOLY CRAP! James Comer said that Democrats didn't ask a SINGLE SUBSTANTIATIVE QUESTION to Pam Bondi or any of the DOJ officials who appeared for the briefing. "They did not ask any questions... does it LOOK like there's a cover up?" The political charade is crumbling and they can't slow it down.
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Well @Grok thought about this for a whopping 9 seconds and gave a trenchant, thoughtful response:
* "(FatScribe's) post defends a prior suggestion of using The Boring Company's tunnel technology for the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing over California's 101 Freeway, citing global examples like underpasses in Banff National Park, Canada, which cost under $1 million each and effectively reconnect habitats for species like mountain lions, per a 2019 study in Ecology and Society.
* It highlights the project's escalation from a $92 million budget to $114 million with delays, attributing overruns to over-engineering for sparse wildlife traffic—primarily 1-2 tracked mountain lions annually—while an existing underpass 0.25 miles away already facilitates safe crossings, as documented by National Park Service collar data.
* FatScribe's reply underscores tunnels' cost-efficiency (e.g., Boring Company's Vegas Loop at ~$50 million per mile vs. bridges' $100+ million) and challenges the bridge's necessity, betting via Kalshi that lions will continue using the underpass, reflecting broader critiques of environmental infrastructure amid California's $68 billion transportation backlog.
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Bridges to nowhere.
Trains to nowhere.
Leave the building to us, @GavinNewsom
End Wokeness@EndWokeness
California already spent $114 million on this unfinished wildlife crossing bridge (leading nowhere)
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Based just means knowing and saying the truth
The Rabbit Hole@TheRabbitHole
@elonmusk So far Grok is the most based AI tool
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such comity.
this was a quick exemplar, not to scale; even a half-curious person would see these tunnel animal crossings exist around the globe & are far cheaper than grossly over-built (and scandalously plagued with cost overruns/delays) bridges.
btw, no large herds in our area (smattering of deer in small groups). this was built for one or two mountain lions to cross the 101 fwy safely -- and the mountain lions have been going under the fwy using the underpass safely for decades (as tracked by the parks services w/ collars) which is literally 1/4 mile away (which i'd bet
@kalshi money that they'll continue to use w/ aplomb.
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@FatScribe @SecDuffy @GavinNewsom @elonmusk @boringcompany Are you stupid? Than tunnel is not nearly wide enough.
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@JeffClarkUS @Riley_Gaines_ and having sympathy for my ex who forced my two sons to get the shot plus boosters. what a 🤡show.
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When pork belly is on sale all over town this is all we eat
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@SecDuffy @GavinNewsom @elonmusk @boringcompany .Grok has calculated this could cost around $10million (at most) for this project. With hard costs, like moving equipment, time, PM SME's, etc., even at $25 million it would have been a bargain.
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@Interior This lovely granite promontory in the Black Hills w/ fireworks galore is missing one thing, but will soon be corrected, the visage of our 45th and 47th president, viz., Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
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Fireworks will once again light the sky above Mount Rushmore National Memorial on July 3, 2026, as the nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of American independence.
Set against the iconic carvings of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, the celebration invites Americans to reflect on our nation’s remarkable journey and the leaders who helped shape it.
Public tickets will be available through a lottery from April 8–12. Learn more: recreation.gov/ticket/facilit…
Photo by Travel South Dakota
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15 mins from Pepperdine. Grew up here. I can remember when this was first proposed and I (the mean conservative) was not very gracious about the idea of spending other people's money on an expensive "bridge" when we could have @elonmusk @boringcompany plow rather inexpensively under for the same "animal cross" (whose efficacy is still suspect).
Myopia.
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Roberts, the perfect blend of the realpolitik with the navel-gazing of a court solipsist who stopped acting like an actual jurist examining 4-corners w/ hermeneutical precision a decade+ ago & became the court historical amanuensis whose sole concern was his place in the (dubious) pantheon of chiefs blown by winds of perception.
Nick Sortor@nicksortor
🚨 NOW: Chief SCOTUS Justice John Roberts on on stage COMPLAINING about the “hostility” the public feels towards activist judges OF COURSE people are upset! We elected PRESIDENT TRUMP. NOT President Boasberg—or any random Biden judge And you’re doing NOTHING to rein them in, Roberts. You’re part of the problem.
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Roberts, the perfect blend of the realpolitik with the navel-gazing of a court solipsist who stopped acting like an actual jurist examining 4-corners w/ hermeneutical precision a decade+ ago & became the court historical amanuensis whose sole concern was his place in the (dubious) pantheon of chiefs blown by winds of perception.
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Activists in black robes cosplaying as presidents aren’t judges
They’re imposters—subverters of the constitutional order—pretending to be something they’re not
They have earned every bit of the “hostility” hardworking Americans feel toward them
Nick Sortor@nicksortor
🚨 NOW: Chief SCOTUS Justice John Roberts on on stage COMPLAINING about the “hostility” the public feels towards activist judges OF COURSE people are upset! We elected PRESIDENT TRUMP. NOT President Boasberg—or any random Biden judge And you’re doing NOTHING to rein them in, Roberts. You’re part of the problem.
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notes in cursive in law school for me, totesmagotes (undergrad / grad school as well). also, from a seminary seminar (say that 3x fast) class, gleaned that by note-taking active listening is all -- we "hear", we process the data engage our minds, we "see" (our notes), we cement our understanding by lecturing/speaking with others (our poor spouses) about what we learned and the job is done.
even 25 yrs later we find ourselves pulling Latin out of nowhere about even the most arcane of subject matters. @JeffClarkUS
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I got made fun of in law school for only doing handwritten notes. But I know how my own brain works.
Brandon Luu, MD@BrandonLuuMD
Students who took notes by hand scored ~28% higher on conceptual questions than laptop note-takers. Writing forces your brain to process and compress ideas instead of copying them.
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a decent bet that our once truly remarkable industry of film / moviemaking will be gone right along with them as well. 4 billion tix sold annually in mid-1940s in US alone.
I remember when the gaming industry surpassed box office results for domestic / foreign film early 2000s
we are on the leeward of this industry. a shame.
maybe Paramount pics can help save it?
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The Oscars have lost 2/3 of their audience, while average viewer went from 50 years old to 63.
Hollywood is where magazines were in 2010 -- it'll be gone with the Boomers.
Wall Street Mav@WallStreetMav
The audience cares less and less each year about celebrities and their political rants during award shows. 2010: 41.3 million 2015: 37.3 million 2020: 23.6 million 2025: 19.7 million 2026: 17.9 million
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@KeenanPeachy @StephenM Well, if Congress were an actual healthy functioning branch of our Federal government, they have the authority to create & eliminate federal courts, including lower federal judges, as outlined in the Constitution.
It's that simple. Tabula rasa. Fresh start, do over.
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@StephenM When voting doesn't work, and it turns out we live in a judicial monarchy, then what
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This is a severely underestimated fulcrum point in American history. During the nineties there was a great societal upheaval over mass migration. California voters, in the face of an onslaught of media demonization, acted to save their state by passing Prop 187 to end all public benefits for illegals. It was one of the most potent examples of popular democracy defeating entrenched corruption. It captivated the attention of the entire nation. Millions and millions of Californians voted to recapture their destiny. The proposition passed in a landslide. It was enjoined by a District Court judge IMMEDIATELY and remained enjoined permanently. Illegals continued flooding the state, consuming benefits, a Democrat (Gray Davis) won the next election and entered into a court settlement to halt the law forever.
bumbadum@bumbadum14
Your reminder that 60% of Californians voted to strip illegals of taxpayer funded programs and a judge said no.
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Judicial tyranny.
Same as Prop 8 -- passed IN CALIFORNIA until a heretofore closeted gay judge summarily, unilaterally ended it.
4th gen Cali who both loves and hates this state -- I hate the destruction being done to it by lefty progs who are Dems. We don't hate the nefarious activity of the left enough. Democrat party will go the way of the Whigs one day soon.
Dems delenda est.
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@JeffClarkUS It's all about rent-seeking by those who desperately want in on the grift (as you say). The know full well that once they're behind the curtain the sky's the limit on how much they can "fundraise" to bring attention to their cause celebre, viz., themselves & their apparatchiks.
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Most of this money is being wasted and grifted out of the system.
It’s the same reason why higher educational administrative costs are through the roof: the money isn’t being spent to educate; it’s being spent on an educational grifter class paid to push paper around.
New York Post@nypost
NYC spent roughly $81K per person on homeless services last year: comptroller trib.al/Dpks97C
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