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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The presidential appts serve staggered 3-year terms. There is no statutory mechanism to dismiss them before the ends of their terms.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

And it’s illegal. The law governing BoV appointments for the USNA, for example: uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Does he even have the legal authority to do this? 10 USC 6968 seems to imply that presidential appointees to the Naval Academy’s Board of Visitors serve three-year terms, with no mention of any ability to dismiss them. uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

“The personal pronouns in Arabic are…” <- DELETE “The Islamic State movement comprises a diverse group of regional extremist militias” <- DELETE

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

They. Had. Fucking. Well. Better.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

To put it plainly, this would justify secession and/or civil war.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Look forward to reading their work. And please do what you can to make sure the Times doesn't follow the Post into Pravda-land.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Cool. I think that if the Trump administration doesn’t abide by statutory law and court orders, it releases all Americans from any obligation to pay federal taxes.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

You hear that, red-state seniors?

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

That will be the moment when the blue states are no longer under any moral obligation to obey the federal government.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Why “embrace” it at all? If it has legitimate uses, as it almost certainly will, then those will become apparent. But I don’t want it forced on me every fucking time I update my Mac or log on to a web site.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

If the Trump administration ignores this restraining order and ships them there anyway, we will be in, by even the most cautious use of the term, a dictatorship.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The real villains here are social media companies, Hollywood, the fashion and cosmetic industries, and the like — and now a lot of “masculinist” politicians too. Men and women should stop blaming and disrespecting each other and start calling out the people who have made it and keep it like this.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

None of that lessens the different but similarly toxic pressures being put on women, and of course it should never be forgotten that they are also far more subject to physical violence.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Might get dogpiled for this, but I do think it’s important to be aware that young (and not-so-young) men are being preyed on by a hideously toxic culture around dating and relationships that shames them mercilessly for being sexually unsuccessful, and doesn’t even allow them space to talk about it.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I’m thinking the Canadian border would look real nice if it were moved down to the Mason-Dixon line

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

And often just creates new problems. 90% of the "tech" that has come out of SV since 2010 or so has been utter crap that just distracts you, actively gets in your way, corrodes your privacy, and toxifies public discourse, all in the name of advertising dollars. And that's probably an underestimate

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Anyone have some recommendations for books about the French Revolution?

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I will only care what these people have to say when they've said "Oh shit we fucked up, sorry America"

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Then the bitch gets jailed for contempt of court.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The agreement was, we the people pay federal taxes, and the Executive Branch allocates them as Congress directs. If that's no longer the case, why should we the people continue to pay federal taxes?

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Looks like we'll need an electron microscope to see USAID and the Department of Education

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Musk convincing trendy tech journos that he's a "genius" has got to be one of the greatest PR coups of all time

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Texas has a vast network of elite biomedical research institutions and hospitals. Will be interesting to watch all that evaporate

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

TBF, Bush owes Trump a huge debt of gratitude for ensuring that he won't be ranked as the worst president of the 21st century

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

We need to do more than say it. We need to fight for it. In the courts, Congress, and elections if possible. In the streets if necessary.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I'll eat my hat if this choad can even define what "rare earths" actually means

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Indeed they aren't. But they are fully allowed to stop the executive from using its power *illegitimately*

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I am *absolutely certain* that the American people, many of them, would love to join Canada.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I am *really* starting to like this guy.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Cyanide, tapeworms, and Ebola are "natural."

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Honestly, the poster boy for this dynamic is your colleague Bret Stephens.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

And the odds of that historical parallel continuing to hold are increasing exponentially.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

It's going to take about three minutes for this to get struck down by the courts on First Amendment grounds. ...at least, that's what I would have said circa 2023

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The blue states should mandate vaccination for all persons attending or working at any educational institution, public or private, within their borders, exemptions only for legitimate medical reasons, period, end of discussion.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I honestly am not sure we deserve to survive as a democracy. Americans collectively are lazy, narcissistic, willfully ignorant adolescents.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Related: the newest macOS update sneakily turns on Apple Intelligence by default, even if you'd had it turned off. They just can't stop trying to manipulate us

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

What exactly do you imagine you're contributing to the discussion with this post?

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Should the blue states be thinking seriously about secession if this happens?

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

This kind of shit starts civil wars. Real ones.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Trump ignoring statute and court rulings, and Republicans in Congress blocking impeachment and removal from office, would make the Executive Branch illegitimate. Neither states nor citizens would be morally obliged to obey it any longer, just as they stopped obeying King George III in 1776.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The only way we can respond effectively to this is by continuing to be, and making a point of being, decent people ourselves. Even -- especially -- when it's inconvenient or dangerous.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I do not recognize the legal authority of Elon Musk and his minions at DOGE, and will not comply with any policy they decree.

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Physicus Patricius @physicus.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Liebe Deutsche: Wir entschuldigen uns bei euch für dieses abscheuliche Stück Scheiße. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, nicht-faschistisches Amerika

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