Matt Gaetz just cast a vote for Donald Trump as Speaker of the House. But can a non-member even serve as Speaker?

The question isn't explicitly answered in the #Constitution. But according to former House counsel Stan Brand, speaking yesterday with Kyle Cheney at @politico , the answer is no.

Short version: historical precedent, line of succession, and legislative powers inherent to the position all suggest the role is intended for an elected House member. #uspol

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/kyledcheney/status/1610790983113003014#m

The turkeys can still be prosecuted at the state level.

#lawfedi #law @law

Edit: This is getting a lot of attention, so I'll shamelessly use it to plug https://esq.social instance for #law and #lawfedi folks.

Seeing people with coding ability commenting on features they want in Mastodon, many of them framing their insights as if there is a bug.

Almost all ideas I have seen so far could be implemented in a client or a relay. For ones that can't, there are pull requests. For ones that are declined, downstream forking is feasible.

It's #OpenSource & based on a truly open standard, #ActivityPub. How about we frame ideas positively & look for places to contribute? This is not a walled garden run by VCs.

To all mastodon admins:

Hi! I’m Evan Phoenix, the primary author of puma, the ruby webserver that powers mastodon!

Please reply or DM me if you need tuning help! I’ve got no officiation with the mastodon, just want to see you succeed!

(Quick Tip: set WEB_CONCURRENCY to core count * 1.5 and then tune MAX_THREADS. High thread values will see diminishing returns!)