Brad Patrick

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#VoteBlue Lawyer in Florida; ex-Wikimedia Foundation General Counsel; I represent the best submersible manufacturer in the world (Triton Submarines).

Non sub Homine sed sub Deo et Lege. Not under Man, but under God and Law.

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@kcarruthers Last chance to do something meaningful.

The reliable New York Times normalizes extremism, as always, with the Kash Patel nomination. This headline does not even begin to hint at his often-stated eagerness to be a fascist apparatchik.

The Times' indifference to dictatorship is disgusting.

@kegill Can I find a Cliff's Notes version of how they see the 1st Amdt? The Establishment Clause and real history couldn't be clearer, so what is their position on destroying the separation of church and state and just ignoring ~230ish years? I can't stomach much of this hooey.

Sobering analysis from David Frum @theatlantic

For more than 40 years before #Trump, “the #FBI director was a position above politics. Never, never, never was a Senate-confirmed FBI director fired so that the president could replace him with a loyalist.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/trumps-fbi-kash-patel/680840/?gift=V2Xz1LHbTiPfZ3uourZyW7pSojK1LBovuxzAPcxJdeA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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A Constitutional Crisis Greater Than Watergate

Trump’s nomination of Kash Patel threatens to turn the FBI into an instrument of personal presidential power.

The Atlantic
@webhat @noondlyt Bunnie is precious.
"2000 Mules" was always obviously nonsense. D'Souza's belated acknowledgement that it doesn't show what he always insisted it did comes far too late for the damage it did — as has been the case with so many other Trumpworld lies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/02/trump-2000-mules-discredited/
Even its creator now admits that ‘2000 Mules’ is discredited

But the enormous damage caused by the obviously contrived film has already been done.

The Washington Post
Fellow attys: how are you dealing with the existential despair of the end of the "golden era of the Rule of Law”?
@ewen Relish it.

✍️ Rubin #CommissioningNotes, entry 4️⃣: whoaaaaa, we’re halfway there 🎶

Halfway through data-taking with Rubin’s test camera, that is. Our team has continued to make great progress testing Rubin’s systems with ComCam.

=== Highlights ===

🎨 The team got data using all six of Rubin’s wavelength filters for the first time!

💨 The team also continued increasing the telescope’s speed as the systems that manage the forces felt by the mirrors continued to show good response.

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