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Recent Bluessky Posts- Hegseth is wholeheartedly endorsing the core premise of fascism: industry, as part of the private sphere, must be subordinated to the military objectives of the state. February 27, 2026 Corey Rayburn Yung
- OpenAI claims it's joining Anthropic to say the DOD can't use their AI for surveillance/autonomous weapons. As DOD starts an embargo of any military contractor using their products, will they do the same to OpenAI? Wild this happens on a day a report is out about how Grok for government is awful.... February 27, 2026 Matthew Guariglia
- I really hope someone follows up on this. The Antideficiency Act is ancient, so it has strong remedies--including sometimes personal liability for the person who authorized the illegal spending, for the full amount misspent. February 27, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Jotwell Health: Myrisha Lewis, The Significant (and Unexpected) Causal Impacts of Common Health Conditions and Genetic Traits in Death Investigations, JOTWELL (Feb. 27, 2026), health.jotwell.com/the-signific... February 27, 2026 Jotwell
- The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25... February 26, 2026 Raffi Melkonian
Has there ever been a time in history when one branch of government had so much information and power, ostensibly for one purpose, when that information and power wasn’t used for other less palatable purposes? Information and power not subject to checks and balances has always been abused.
And is the ostensible purpose even effective?
What is the point of a constitution and legal system if those are ignored whenever people are afraid? Isn’t one of the purposes of such frameworks to precisely prevent us from giving into knee-jerk emotional responses that fail us later?
Why should we trust an executive branch that has over the decades committed such massive crimes against humanity?