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M. Osborn

@ctll033

Twitter refugee. Retired UPRR. Also on Spoutible. Generally discuss Nebraska, Wyoming, Omaha. No DM’s unless I know you.

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Oh, and look, here's that class action suit! That anyone with half a brain would have seen coming! From, like, a million miles away!

Just because you work in tech doesn't mean you're smart.

11.03.2026 21:28 👍 1374 🔁 267 💬 42 📌 11
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War in the Middle East Threatens Global Food Production

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/b...

Gift article

11.03.2026 17:37 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

11.03.2026 01:03 👍 17019 🔁 6859 💬 495 📌 916

3/ Your local GOP state rep may not be writing the laws they sponsor. They often push factory-made national bills designed to unify state control under a single coordinated script. This top-down supply chain gives the GOP its initial foothold in state legislatures.

11.03.2026 13:55 👍 22 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0

👈 Not a tenured professor, y’all.

11.03.2026 14:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The case of temporary visitors was more complicated at common law. The
parents, if lawfully present, were under the temporary protection of the sovereign.
That is why one judge in a famous case, Lynch v. Clarke, held in 1844 that a child
born of temporary sojourners was a citizen. But the rule was contested because of
increasing international travel and the resulting dual allegiances. Joseph Story
suggested that an exception for temporary visitors would be a “reasonable
qualification” to the rule. Henry St. George Tucker in his treatise stated flatly that
temporary visitors fell outside the common-law

The case of temporary visitors was more complicated at common law. The parents, if lawfully present, were under the temporary protection of the sovereign. That is why one judge in a famous case, Lynch v. Clarke, held in 1844 that a child born of temporary sojourners was a citizen. But the rule was contested because of increasing international travel and the resulting dual allegiances. Joseph Story suggested that an exception for temporary visitors would be a “reasonable qualification” to the rule. Henry St. George Tucker in his treatise stated flatly that temporary visitors fell outside the common-law

I'm afraid I can't just sit here and say nothing when another law professor gives false testimony to Congress about the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Ilan Wurman has given false testimony to Congress, being fully on notice of the falsity. I do not think this is fairly debatable. 1.

11.03.2026 13:45 👍 1453 🔁 398 💬 17 📌 33

Not only do we not have enough of the ships needed, our destroyers and frigates are very vulnerable to drone swarms. Also, we do not have enough minesweepers, and Iran can easily re-mine areas that we do manage to sweep.

11.03.2026 12:56 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Good thing trucks that transport millions of products every day in the US don’t use diesel so we don’t have to worry about inflation getting worse.

11.03.2026 13:48 👍 5501 🔁 1489 💬 341 📌 75

Flashback to the 2024 Republican National Convention 👇🏽

10.03.2026 18:51 👍 1756 🔁 579 💬 36 📌 9

Meanwhile in New Hampshire...

bsky.app/profile/the-...

11.03.2026 01:53 👍 60 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 1
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GA-14

OK, with 94% in we're inching back up again (the rest of Cobb County is coming in).

Looks like the final Dem overperformance will be somewhere between 16 - 18 points.

11.03.2026 01:44 👍 40 🔁 17 💬 4 📌 0

4/ various streams of business and academic engagement with the world.

Arguing Israel has fallen short of Ben Gurion's founding vision for "a nation among nations," Rahm said the country has never been "more strategically secure and never has it been more politically isolated and vulnerable."

10.03.2026 18:44 👍 61 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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Former JAGs file brief opposing Trump administration's use of military lawyers to prosecute civilians Efforts to install military lawyers in Justice Department roles shatter historical norms and the law while posing genuine national security risks

We are proud to file their amicus brief in U.S. v Johnson, a criminal case *without any connection to the military.*

Read more about the brief here: protectdemocracy.org/work/jag-ami...

10.03.2026 16:44 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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There is a segment of journalism that i'm really curious about...

with so many cut backs to client services the retrenchment in oversight and regulation

what is really happening in EEOC ?

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

10.03.2026 16:35 👍 27 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 1

too busy trying to round up brown people i suppose

10.03.2026 13:55 👍 314 🔁 12 💬 6 📌 0

I hope they are paying Ukraine handsomely.

10.03.2026 16:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We’ve entered the Howard Hughes “Saving Bottles of His Own Urine” phase, I see…

10.03.2026 16:22 👍 60 🔁 21 💬 12 📌 1

There’s a sci-fi novel about an attempt to generate massive amounts of solar power by creating a Saturn-like rings of ice around the Earth to redirect the sunlight towards solar collectors. The project goes horribly wrong & the rings collapse, falling to earth as a torrential Biblical-level flood.

10.03.2026 03:08 👍 58 🔁 12 💬 6 📌 0

Maybe Trump has “cahooters.” 😏

10.03.2026 03:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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10.03.2026 01:06 👍 13 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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Top DOJ Official Todd Blanche Shut Down Crypto Enforcement While Holding Crypto Assets The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement,…

Deputy AG Todd Blanche promised to dump his crypto holdings no later than 90 days after his Senate confirmation last March.

But about a month into the job — before divesting — he ordered an end to investigations into crypto companies.

(Published Dec. 2025)

10.03.2026 01:01 👍 899 🔁 444 💬 27 📌 25

If you are watching Trump's presser right now, you are seeing beyond reasonable doubt a person not mentally suited for any position of responsibility. Even running a small store.

GOP members of the House and Senate: You are seeing this too.

09.03.2026 22:35 👍 4163 🔁 1107 💬 116 📌 52

Bay of Pigs, redux.

09.03.2026 03:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

These poor kids. This family did nothing wrong except believe in the United States.

08.03.2026 20:54 👍 999 🔁 307 💬 17 📌 3

And fertilizer.

09.03.2026 03:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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In first, CIA acknowledges 1953 coup it backed to overthrow leader of Iran was undemocratic While other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, the acknowledgment by the CIA in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup still rema...

I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.

08.03.2026 19:23 👍 3240 🔁 1431 💬 133 📌 75

OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters."

www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

09.03.2026 03:29 👍 2204 🔁 915 💬 34 📌 52

DC folks actually sort of need to demand that heads roll over this. It’s a real problem if law enforcement in the capital is so pathetic, weak, and supine that their instinct is to act as stormtroopers for illicit federal power grabs.

08.03.2026 23:58 👍 2301 🔁 574 💬 2 📌 9

I would reverse the order of your suggestion, since it reads like the yellow pages are somehow a result of peeing in that cup 😁.

09.03.2026 03:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0