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“My statements were literally true based on a technical definition that a significant portion of the population is, concededly, unaware of . . .” is the start to an argument that will quite possibly end up convincing the court of nothing beyond your culpability and unrepentance

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 15h

Like, okay, they’re not synonymous. Then calling herself a lawyer wasn’t per se holding herself out. Instead, we look at overall context for whether she should’ve realized her stmts would make others think she were a licensed attorney?

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah, yeah. I meant that even if we were to concede that this wholly imagined technical destination between the two terms existed it probably wouldn’t actually get you anywhere

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 15h

It’s also somewhat beside the point. This argument-by-dictionary, at bottom, is that the statements are literally true. But if the stmts would lead others to reasonably conclude that one’s licensed, it doesn’t necessarily matter that the stmts are literally accurate

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 16h

4. The gossamer-thin evidence for this theory is that some papers & her MN and House legislative bios listed as born in 1981 rather than ‘82. Either a reporter hit wrong key & the other sources repeated the error or she forgot that the 1 thing she must never, ever reveal is that she was born in ‘81

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 16h

her father committed fraud & staying silent. There’s no reason to involve her in a conspiracy 3. They’d have to have laid the groundwork years in advance. She enrolled in school in the U.S. when she was 13; her father would’ve filled out forms listing her b-day at the time.

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 17h

So the upside would be avoiding some paperwork and saving a couple hundred bucks on application & attorney fees the downside would’ve committing felonies and making her citizenship invalid 2. I think they’d claim she committed a crime by conspiring w/ her father. That’d require more than knowing

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 17h

Only minor children can derive citizenship from a parent. The claim is that her father lied and said she was 17, when she was actually 18 The claim is very, very stupid 1. It’s the epitome of high risk-low reward. There’s no question that she’d have been naturalized, had she applied separately

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 17h

Their crime their alleging that she committed (which, to be clear, is dumb on multiple levels) couldn’t have been committed before she was 18. Literally impossible Omar isn’t a naturalized citizen. She derived her citizenship from her father when he was naturalized

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 20h

Her deceased father and possibly other family members (which wouldn’t be RICO)? It’s as though someone were insisting that the capital of the U.S. was 7i (ie the square root of -7). Just so fundamentally wrong on so many levels you can’t even conceive of how they could reach such a conclusion

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 23h

Not to mention that even if it were accurate, one can’t make statements that imply that they’re licensed even if the statements are literally true Like, anyone who’s been granted a power of attorney is an atty-in-fact. A state bar isn’t going to be amused by “I never said I was an atty *at law*”

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

It also helps the Dem campaigns. They follow who’s voted, so if you vote early it allows them to focus their get-out-the-vote efforts

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

It’s much better to vote early, in person if the option is available If there’re problems with your registration or identification, you’ll have a couple weeks to put together the evidence to prove you’re eligible. If you vote provisional on Election Day you could have as little 5 days

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I’m not a psychologist or neuroscientist, so I’ll take your word on it

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Or at the very least, the uncle you thought was cool when you were 5, but whose comments about women were making you deeply uncomfortable by age 12

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

* an easily recognizable _animal_

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I assume the purpose of the question is to assess whether the mental processes that link words w/ concepts are still functioning. You’d want it to be an easily recognizable, but probably not one people tend to observe or think about on a daily basis (Or I’m totally wrong about what the Q’s doing)

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Part of it is believing that luxury apartments and affordable apartments are two wholly separate markets. They would, perhaps, concede that building more luxury units brings down *luxury* rents, but insist it has no effect on *affordable* rents

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

They’re not each conducting independent investigations into when she was born A newspaper reporter presses the 1 key, when they meant to press the 2. Wiki uses that article as the source for her DOB. It’s uncontroversial, so no one notices. House & MN leg staffers check Wiki for her DOB

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I know who Congressman Jackson is. I doubt that even he’s enough of a loon to give up his medical license and admiral’s pension for no reason other than political propaganda that’d only be useful in an election that already occurred

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

There are at least 3 versions, one of which includes a snake

MoCA test with drawings of a cobra, elephant, and alligator

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

One of the versions has a cobra/snake

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I suspect the White House Physician would resign before turning over a former president’s medical records

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It’s part of the test he’s referring to. It’s not an aptitude test, though. It screens for, and tracks the progress of, dementia geriatrictoolkit.missouri.edu/cog/MoCA-8.3...

geriatrictoolkit.missouri.edu

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Also, you don’t need to affirmatively consent to recording in private. You express your consent by continuing to speak after being made aware that you’re being recorded That’s why “this call may be recorded”when you call customer services is sufficient

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Airports aren’t federally administered. They’re run by state/local governments for the most part

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

So the administration decided to make an example out of a random Canadian, and he had the misfortune to have, out of the million or so names in the hat, his to be the one they drew?

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A load-bearing “if” if I’ve ever seen one

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s also addressed in the 14th Amendment. If the states disqualify people on any basis other than felony conviction, they lose a proportionate share of their Congressional delegation and electoral college vote

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Doubly pathetic since Southwick’s seat is almost certainly going to someone from Mississippi regardless of what happens to Butler’s nomination

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I wouldn’t call DC a megacity, but when I lived there I’d typically walk home from work in the evening (about 2 miles, but it’d give me time to think over my day). I’d stop at one of the 4 groceries stores I’d pass 2 or 3 times a week Anything heavier than a single gallon of milk would be delivery

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“The United Kingdom and India were both affected by colonialism.” I guess that’s true, but I feel like we might be missing some nuance…

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sure, but it’s a bit odd for that sentence to refer to both an empire electing to adopt a script and a subjugated nation having it imposed upon it

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You don’t necessarily need it, but it’s pretty useful in a language where the placement of pauses can change the meaning of a sequence of words “She eats shoots and leaves,” versus “she eats, shoots, and leaves”

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Vietnamese didn’t “switch” to Latin characters. It was imposed on them by the French

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pollsters attempt to control for non-response bias. Whether their models do so successfully remains to be seen…

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bad headline—calling someone a “terrorist” is unlikely to be defamatory. A court would probably say it’s a hyperbolic epithet, rather than a provable statement of fact But also said the protesters were arrested for assault police officers, which is definitely a factual assertion

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I would’ve thought you need punctuation to turn a spoken language into a written one rather than the other way around

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah, it also overlooks the somewhat important detail that a lot of these weapons are specifically intended to be used against Russian armies invading Eastern Europe. If they can’t be detonated over Poland, they don’t serve any purpose

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

First, disobeying orders is mutiny, not a coup Second, it’s only mutiny if the order is lawful. If Congress makes it unlawful to use nukes against NATO, refusing to do so isn’t mutiny

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So in addition to the writer’s concerns being insane, he seems to have overlooked the rather important detail that small U.S. nukes stored in Europe are meant to be used against invading Russian armies which would, unfortunately, mean detonating them in the territory NATO allies in Eastern Europe

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Software in the bombs themselves that would prevent them from detonating if GPS tells them they’re over an ally?

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’d only make it impossible for the US to use nukes against NATO or Israel (and maybe other close allies like Australia & Japan?). Baffling why the writer would think such safeguards are necessary

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s not It’s something far weirder: a call for legislation requiring controls that’d make it technologically impossible for the US to target Israel or NATO allies with nuclear weapons

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He’s assuming the thing he’s trying to prove

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tell me again how government employees don’t need unions…

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Ryan @ryandc83.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the type of situation the International Criminal Court was created for The next Dem president should instruct the UN Ambassador to introduce a Security Council resolution referring him to The Hague, which would give it jurisdiction even though the U.S. isn’t a state party to the treaty

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