Trevor Burrus

@billybinion @David_J_Bier Dear lord, only a union rep could believe that.

@TCBurrus @David_J_Bier Meanwhile this is the union guy's response to why we can't get rid of TSA. That is not what makes me happy at the airport!

I waited nearly 3.5 hours in a TSA line—and *still* almost missed my flight. The ability to get home shouldn’t depend on whether Congress does its job. Why are we still tolerating this? Nothing has made a better case for abolishing the TSA than this shutdown. I wrote about it:

@edwest After a decade in the public sector I still find this one of the most replicable observations ever made.

Filed a cert petition in SCOTUS this morning on behalf of two students barred from wearing “Let’s Go Brandon” hoodies to school. It asks the Court to resolve a circuit split over the scope of public school students’ First Amendment rights. So proud of this @TheFIREorg team

🧵Rumblings from the 7th Circuit over a tense oral argument in USA v. Rishi Shah which should be of concern to anyone paying attention to Democrat lawfare.

The presidency is a giant ATM machine for Trump and his family.

The head of Europe’s central bank just said financial markets don’t understand what they’re in for. This is Christine Lagarde saying the damage is already done. Most people have absolutely no idea. Here is what she actually said. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. That chokepoint carries 20% of the world’s oil and gas. Markets shrugged. Investors assumed it would blow over. Lagarde told The Economist that technical experts are not talking about months for recovery. They are talking about years. Helium travels through the Strait of Hormuz. Helium is not a balloon gas. It is the invisible ingredient inside every advanced microchip on earth. Qatar supplies 35% of the world’s commercial helium. Qatar’s facilities have gone dark. Spot prices have surged past $450 per thousand cubic feet. Most chip fabricators carry less than three months of inventory. The world is building AI data centers at record speed. The raw material that makes the chips possible is now scarce. Meanwhile Brent crude has hit $99. Earlier spikes passed $120. US gasoline is up 30%. Iraq cut 1.5 million barrels a day. Saudi Arabia paused its largest refinery. Europe is heading into this with gas storage at 30% capacity. And the ECB is not cutting rates to soften the blow. It is considering hiking them to fight inflation. Slow economy. Rising prices. Tighter money. All at once. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

One more time for the people (and mayorial candidates) in the cheap seats: The cities with the MOST amount of renter protections are the LEAST affordable. The cities with the LEAST amount of renter protections are the MOST affordable. By allowing a subset of renters to stay in their apartment for months on end without paying rent, you create a scarcity of vacant apartments. Or to put it more succintly... we should do what these cities are doing 👇

If you think Trump’s signature on our currency is to “honor” America and not Trump, you’re a moron or have Pro-Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Warren Buffet: "I can end the deficit in five minutes. You juts pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for reelection."

You can certainly argue that we shouldn’t increase defense spending, but its worth acknowledging that we spend far more on entitlement programs than defense:

Which way, Western man?

Mars colonization is a silly dream: “Remember this, please, when you see clickbait and pronunciamentos about humans very soon migrating to Mars. I, author of the Mars trilogy, call bullshit on that fatuous fantasy.” #Echobox=1774608303" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newscientist.com/article/252031…

The @washingtonpost editorial board agrees with me. The @Surgeon_General and the PHS Commissioned Corps are unnecessary relics (cato.org/policy-analysi…). @CatoHealth wapo.st/4lQznfo

This is a devastating ruling for the government, finding Anthropic likely to prevail on essentially all of its theories for why the government’s actions were unlawful and unconstitutional. One of the things she mentions is the huge range of amici briefs supporting Anthropic (by the way, 0 supported USG)—so thanks to everyone here who signed on to FAI’s brief, or to one of the many many others. These things do matter. More importantly, you were on the right side of history. On a personal note: some friends and allies of mine on the right have been angry at me for my own words and actions in all this. Anyone who thinks I spoke out for personal gain or trivial reasons against an administration I served in is crazy. It was a hugely costly decision for me. But Judge Lin’s ruling shows why I did it: this is a staggeringly illegal act by the government. That is why I am particularly honored to have been (implicitly) quoted in the ruling for calling this what it was when Secretary Hegseth initially made his announcement: an attempted act of corporate murder. The case continues, but Anthropic has scored a very large win here. The real victors, however, are all red-blooded Americans who are, as the founders would have said, “jealous of their liberties.”

There have more hours filmed of Daredevil than any other Marvel hero. That’s how it should be. He is always been on the streets fighting while others took the limelight. He is more interesting than any Marvel superhero. #Daredevil

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Anyone still have these? Are we gonna make a new deck?

“We have not a government” cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump…

This is 7 minutes straight of a demented malignant narcissist desperately seeking to repair his self-image in the eyes of his sycophants & followers by demonstrating his dominance in the areas of building management and lawsuits. Try reading it. He is an Earth-wide emergency.