Brad Ford
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Brad Ford
@Digetydog
Bringing the Latino Heat. Pronouns: I/ME. Yale wasn't that hard.
North Texas Entrou em Haziran 2009
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The epidemic of vibe lawyering is going to cause some problems. A friend recently typed the details of an employment dispute, including things he did in violation of his non-compete, into ChatGPT and asked it to draft a separation agreement. He did not talk to a lawyer first. He created a discoverable record of his own liability that lives on a third party's servers. He is very much not the only one. I wrote about why this is a real problem, and what a federal court just confirmed about it.
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It is the view of the United States that the most stoned assistant shift manager at Taco Bell outranks the most mighty inbred German you have oversee your tourism industry
Benjamin Lewis@tc1415
@Blade_94 You know it's the view of the United Kingdom in diplomatics that the lowliest sovereign hereditary prince outranks the most mighty elected president? Not really enforced these days, but formally we'd put Trump after the Prince of Liechtenstein....
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@SMUMustangAlum @RKelanic Anyone who has seen any military movie with "Bridge" in the title knows the rationale for blowing bridges.
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Rosemary @RKelanic is a young and very misinformed armchair commentator. She complains about the selection of targets in Iran, specifically the Azimiyeh Bridge, a major newly completed suspension bridge and key highway link connecting Tehran to Karaj on the northern bypass.
She has no access to real time intelligence and then proceeds to lecture with a false analogy to strategic bombing in WWII.
To pierce her naïveté, suffice to say that, if anything, the strategic air campaign in Germany was a resounding success from the perspective that more than one million German soldiers and incalculable resources were diverted defending Nazi Germany instead of fighting the Allies on the battlefield.
By mid-1944, at the peak of the Allied strategic bombing campaign, Nazi Germany diverted roughly 1.11 million men to ground-based Flak anti-aircraft defenses alone. That’s the equivalent of several full army corps pulled from the fighting fronts, unavailable for combat, factories, or any other war effort.
They positioned over 10,700 of the legendary 88mm guns (the famous “eighty-eights”) across the Reich. These weren’t being used as devastating anti-tank weapons on the Eastern or Western Fronts — they were tied down protecting German cities and factories from RAF night raids and USAAF daylight bombing.
The cost went far beyond manpower and guns. Flak units burned through hundreds of millions of shells (it took an average of 16,000 rounds of 88mm ammo to down a single American bomber). The Luftwaffe also pulled roughly half its fighter force into home defense, stripping experienced pilots from the actual battlefields.
Industrial production took a massive hit too. Steel, factories, and labor that could have built more tanks, aircraft, and lorries were instead poured into AA guns, flak towers, bunkers, radar, and searchlights. Albert Speer himself later admitted the defensive effort caused output shortfalls of around 35% fewer tanks, 31% fewer planes, and 42% fewer trucks than Germany had planned.
In short, the Allied bombing campaign didn’t just damage factories — it forced Hitler to bleed irreplaceable men, weapons, and resources defending the homeland instead of reinforcing the front lines. A quiet but decisive strategic victory.
Rosemary Kelanic@RKelanic
What could possibly be the military rationale for this. There isn’t one.
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Why aren’t any of these at risk hospitals publishing their full accounting so everyone can see where they spend their money ?
All but one group of hospitals that I have looked at potentially investing in, spend so much on consultants and fees that it’s no wonder they are at risk
Plus, I have NEVER seen an industry that is worse than hospitals when it comes to buying medications and items like implants, screws, other devices. They overpay for everything.
And then when you show them how to save money, their “supply chain” employees resist any change.
They are so set in their ways, it’s a shock more don’t go out of business.
Prove me wrong.
NBC News@NBCNews
More than 400 hospitals across the U.S. are at high risk of closing or cutting services because of the Medicaid cuts in President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” according to an analysis from the progressive watchdog group Public Citizen. nbcnews.com/health/health-…
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@Backfirejim 6.8 W X Bolt Mountain Pro - 9. I would like the stock LOP to be 1/2” shorter and flush cups in place of sling studs. With those changes, it is a 10.
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Survey for our next video: (1) What make/model of rifle do you have (2) Score it 1 (terrible) through 10 (awesome) on if you'd recommend it to a friend. We can't use your comment if you don't give a specific score. (3) What's one thing you wish were different about the rifle?
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@grok @NicoPerrino @AAGDhillon Do better research @grok. @elonmusk will be pissed when you make basic mistakes like this.
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No, that's not true. The Supreme Court courtroom has fixed seating: justices' bench, counsel tables, bar section, press area, and public gallery. No dedicated or reserved "chair for presidents" exists for oral arguments. Descriptions from SCOTUS visitors, diagrams, and recent high-profile attendees (e.g., Fed chairs sitting in gallery sections) confirm this. No sitting president has ever attended arguments in 235+ years.
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There’s literally a chair set up at SCOTUS for our presidents to sit in for oral argument. Your separation of powers nonsense is more imitation pearl-clutching hauteur.
Kathryn Watson@kathrynw5
If President Trump attends the Supreme Court's oral arguments tomorrow on his birthright citizenship executive order like he says he will, he would be the first sitting president on record to do so. Presidents have avoided attendance in part to honor the separation of powers.
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That should be a separate descriptor of an opinion: concurring, dissenting, expressing exasperation with Justice Jackson.
𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘑. 𝘋𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥@StevenJDuffield
Justice Kagan, essentially exasperated w/ Justice Jackson... "explaining the difference" supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf… cc: @ishapiro
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I am at a game now. My daughter is wearing her white kit. Black kit is in her game bag.
Steven Bank@ProfBank
Thousands of US youth club parents/team managers contact players/parents weekly to remind them to bring BOTH kits to the games just in case and US Soccer couldn't figure it out? It's our one comparative advantage! Fine. Send me the roster and I'll create a TeamSnap account
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Thousands of US youth club parents/team managers contact players/parents weekly to remind them to bring BOTH kits to the games just in case and US Soccer couldn't figure it out? It's our one comparative advantage!
Fine. Send me the roster and I'll create a TeamSnap account
Adam Crafton@AdamCrafton_
NEW @TheAthleticFC Neither USMNT nor Belgium had alternative kit at venue to change kits re: color clash. Post kick-off they tried to source from team hotels but not possible. Belgium's Onana said "it was awful" on-field & Lammens raised at HT with kitman nytimes.com/athletic/71543…
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Today in 1979, you rode your bicycle around barefoot like some kind of feral beast with no regard at all for shin or foot pain.
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This is the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota — worth the journey.
trlibrary.com
History With Jacob@HistoryWJacob
On American's 250th birthday, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library will open. In the beautiful Medora, North Dakota. It will include immersive exhibits on Roosevelt's life and legacy shaped by the Badlands.
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@MorosKostas Legalized euthanasia allows families to put enormous pressure on the ill. Throw in governments with an incentive to cut medical spending - recipe for abuse.
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I used to lean slightly towards legalized euthanasia on libertarian grounds, and on empathy for people going through immense physical torture who deserve a painless way out if they want it, with the dignity of not having to take matters into their own hands.
I still certainly feel for those people. But what I have seen in Canada has made me change my mind about it. If you legalize it, the government will abuse it and encourage people far short of terminal to kill themselves. Particularly in countries with socialized medicine where the government is literally incentivized to "cut costs."
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog
All of the arguments for euthanasia fail. Even if I agreed that people have some kind of moral right to kill themselves (which I don’t), euthanasia wouldn’t be needed to exercise that “right.” You can already kill yourself. The idea that people need some kind of state sponsored system just to commit suicide is totally incoherent, even on its own terms. And those term are totally deranged because in truth, again, there is no moral right to suicide. But that’s almost a separate question, or at least a question further downstream. When it comes to euthanasia, the first and most immediate question is not whether people have the right to kill themselves, but whether the STATE and the MEDICAL INDUSTRY have the right to kill people. Should doctors be in the business of deliberately killing human beings? Should we have a bureaucracy for suicide? These are the real questions. And even if you (wrongly) think that humans have a moral right to murder themselves, you should still be able to see why doctors and bureaucrats ought to have no role in it.
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@SMUheavyweight I hate that Sheraton. I spent weeks going to bar review classes there. I felt like a hostage. 😂
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@Digetydog Possibly Southland Life (now Sheraton) that was finished in 1958.
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I saw this posted on a Dallas historical FB page dated 1950. Of course we all know it’s post mid 1953 because you can see the Sportatorium’s rebuilt rectangle shape. Silly of them to try to get that past us. 😉
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Palantir CTO @ssankar in 2024:
“For $10 billion, @elonmusk put 300 rockets in orbit.”
“For $11 billion the state of California has built 1600ft of elevated rail, with no rail.”
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca
Everything costs less than the cost of high speed rail from SF to LA, which is infinite.
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@martensmatt1 @OrinKerr Most real trial lawyers I know would make terrible district court judges.
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@OrinKerr I don’t think most litgation partners a big firms are qualified to be district judges.
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This is an embarrassment.
Nobody should ever be a federal district judge if no client has ever trusted that person to first-chair a trial. Nobody.
Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸@JudiciaryDems
Sen. SCHIFF: Have you tried a case to verdict? Trump nominee: I worked on a bench trial and handled seven as a clerk. Schiff: The judge handles trials. Were you lead counsel? Nom: No. Schiff: Your trial experience is as second or third lawyer on one bench trial? Nom: Yes.
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An open letter to current Harvard faculty, donors, and trustees:
I know you hate me.
I know you hate President Trump.
I know you think the enforcement of federal law is actually a conspiracy to overhaul higher education.
I know you think the multiple conclusions of religious discrimination against Jews is a lie.
But I am genuinely struggling to understand, irrespective of antisemitism, how the current disastrous state of the University has not resulted in tangible, meaningful reform.
I implore you to answer basic questions about how you continue to choose to run Harvard University:
1. Why do you insist on paying Claudine Gay, an actual serial plagiarist who was forced to resign, a salary of $900,000 a year?
2. Why specifically should Claudine Gay of all people be teaching a class on leadership, using Harvard as a case study?
3. What specific merits and talents does Chairwoman Penny Pritzker bring to the table? What is the specific justification for keeping her?
4. For what specific reason is the University refusing to comply with federal law by not sharing the criminal background history of your foreign students to DHS?
5. Does it bother you that 97% of the faculty identify with one particular political ideology? If yes, what are two specific actions you're willing to take to rectify the problem?
6. What specifically have you done to ensure that the few conservative students left on campus aren't self-censoring their work and opinions?
7. Does it bother you that multiple faculty members, such as Professor James Hankins, admitted they or their colleagues were told that white men, in the post George Floyd backlash would no longer be hired if there was a (less qualified) black or gay applicant?
8. Thousands of donors, representing billions of dollars, have refused to give anymore since 10/07. What specific policy overhauls have you implemented to win them back?
Irrespective of antisemitism, I'm genuinely struggling to understand why Harvard refuses to get out of its own way.
This entire controversy since Day 1 has been entirely self inflicted and avoidable. Poor leadership after poor leadership...
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