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Sen Schmitt: "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds!!!!!" <plop>

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after exhaustive search, least likely US exec order identified ⬇️

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AHA but then why is there a hawk RIGHT HERE! owie

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's much complaint about how all the press (and this interview) is negative, but this synopsis is incredibly generous. It's like saying Tristram Shandy is about a man and his Uncle Toby, or Infinite Jest concerns both tennis and Quebec.

Over the course of the interview, Trump discussed a wide range of issues, including the war with Iran, the artificial intelligence boom, the Federal Reserve, the Supreme Court, and his outlook for the midterms.

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One mystery is why *some* memos are swiftly released -- see, for instance, the highly redacted Venezuela memo -- while others aren't. It may be because an operation is ongoing (creating a perverse incentive to never stop). It is likely due in large part to the amount of legal and political pressure.

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Trump administration withdraws US from Greco anti-corruption monitoring body

Worthwhile story, including grounds for questioning whether the driver was really budgetary or other priorities. P.S. Rejecting an anti-corruption body because you *oppose* writing checks to a bureaucracy is a bold move.

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‘The era of writing blank checks to international bureaucracies is over,’ state department spokesperson says

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"No beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors. <pause> No commandERs, no commandOs. Just command-lines. Just <pauses again, checks notes> Autotraderwarcom?"

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Schmitt: Does your hawk bite? Smith: No. Schmitt [leaning over to stroke hawk] Nice hawk. [Hawk shrieks and bites Schmitt on the hand] Schmitt: I thought you said your hawk did not bite! Smith: That is not my hawk.

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ladies and gentlemen, Super Intelligence!

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don't know if it was a hawk, but a very large bird just picked up the corpse of a staffer

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thread. YMMV, but I see much more attention paid to engineering institutional fixes for the exec and judicial branches than for Congress, especially relative to const'l hurdles.

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i no longer understand what's on the ballot

Brad Pitt and daughter are on the ballot

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In related news, US ambassadors worldwide are being recalled to Mar-a-Lago

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

SPOILER ALERT fyi to audiences, the post-credit scene in Avengers: Endgame Encore Redux -- Always Be Avengin' is *exactly* the same as the trailer, don't accidentally overstay the showtime

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fail Safe (1964) General Black, somberly: "He's choosin' Texas."

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I believe a magician might call this a force

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

it would need a stunning résumé to get through screening

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

in search of New York Mining Disaster 1941 / Mr. Jones mashup [high harmony] Have you seen my wife, Mr. Jones? [snap segue to jangly tenor] . . . and me Tell each other fairy tales And we stare at them beautiful women [high harmony] Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide, Mr. Jones.

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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice --> Claude & Alexa & Harvey & Siri

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sometimes they read "Cartavious?" from the attendance sheet, and he refuses to reply

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3 you'd add: The Thick of It, Counterpart, Derry Girls 2 you'd move up: Battlestar, Always Sunny 1 (you've seen) that you'd boot: Squid Game

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What's new on WhatsApp: secure and private messaging, who else would bother to reinstall every time you get a new chat.

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Reading the CNN TRO order makes me wonder whether (as with the presumption of regularity) this admin's litigation will have permanent consequences for USG invocation of national security grounds. Not absurd to think that in the short term, its mention will effectively *attract* judicial scrutiny.

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breaking: pumpkin spice is people!!!

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new FDA label -- "may contain super flavors, colors, and preservatives" -- is a lot more upbeat

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Art. 2(4) of the UN Charter provides that a state can't "drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations" or even *threaten* to do that, but I'm just paraphrasing.

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Maybe you're skeptical of the UN's (or anyone's) ability to solve them, but this is what actually talking about the world's issues -- rather than avoiding them, or exploiting and worsening them -- looks like

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