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> The operative portion I see is as follows: “The President and the Attorney General [...] shall provide authoritative interpretations of law for the executive branch" [...] This doesn’t touch the judicial branch in any way.

What? Trump has just asserted that the Judicial Branch's interpretation of federal law--almost its entire job under our US Constitution, and widely understood to include laws authorizing and controlling how government programs work--is entirely void in places where it's mattered for generations.

The correct response to that is: "That's an unprecedented assertion contrary to established principle, and arguably unconstitutional."

Not: "Gee golly willickers, I just can't see why you're all overreacting, it's not like the justices have to obey his interpretation of the law when they do things every day, so it's all fair-n-square!"

> [I]t seems clear to me that the prevailing narrative is both consistent and being constructed in bad faith.

The bad-faith here is your willful blindness, where you construct textual apologetics by dismissing the consequences of what's being said. (Compare: "He only said Big Mickey should wear concrete overshoes and sleep with the fishes, you people are all making bad-faith arguments against someone just trying to give honest lifestyle advice!")


> If he wanted to fire anyone who disagreed with him, this EO wouldn’t have been necessary.

Nonsense! This is the exact opposite! This is EO shows Trump trying even harder to fire all the people who refuse to go along with his crimes.

He is asserting that when the Judicial branch concludes his firings are illegal, he's going to ignore it, and then fire anyone else who refuses to help him illegally fire people.

It's the democracy-destroying version of a Monty Python sketch: The people who followed the law have been sacked. The people who didn't sack the people who followed the law have also been sacked.


> He is asserting that when the Judicial concludes his firings are illegal, he's going to ignore it, and fire anyone else who refuses to help him illegally fire people.

Where?


And also above rulings from the Judicial Branch.

This Executive Order says they are law, checkmate, sane people.

Where exactly does it say that?

It doesn’t need to be said everywhere when the president takes full power for himself and all institutions let him do so without saying anything.

In the US it was a long struggle to abolish that kind of corrupt spoils system [0], although the current administration is trying to bring it back again.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system


Nepotism and payola in US politics just began this year, or in 2016?

Fucking LOL.


I'm no expert on US politics, but I'm pretty sure yesterday's executive order is unprecedented in this regard:

> Therefore, in order to improve the administration of the executive branch and to increase regulatory officials’ accountability to the American people, it shall be the policy of the executive branch to ensure Presidential supervision and control of the entire executive branch. > > Moreover, all executive departments and agencies, including so-called independent agencies, shall submit for review all proposed and final significant regulatory actions to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Executive Office of the President before publication in the Federal Register.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensu...


It's interesting that the Bush family had to all go out to half wit states to get elected somewhere instead of being assigned positions by their father.

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This "no, you" kind of response is really, really boring.

At least try to bring concrete examples of the behaviour so a discussion can be had, in the least to check if the assumed behaviour is of the same kind and degree...


When everything Trump is doing is so nakedly illegal / unconstitutional / fascist, the best "defense" is to try to trick people into looking at something else... until it's too late.

Originally I was going to link to the Trump's "Schedule F" plan, but it seems merely bringing back the spoils system has just now become quaint and obsolete: Trump went a step further and formally signed an executive order declaring that the entire executive branch must ignore all decisions or court-orders by any judge, because he alone (with presumptive immunity from future prosecution) decides what happens to be lawful at all times.

https://old.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1isvzgu/the_full_execu...

Even Emperor Palpatine was more circumspect!


Failing to cut, in general: Understandable, there isn't that much you can cut without the legislature making hard choices and hard vote-compromises. (Or breaking the Constitution and/or statutory law.)

Failing to cut, after claiming it was super-easy and that you've basically already solved everything by finding instantly finding something nobody else could find using your Ultra Smart And Stable brain: Worth condemnation and mockery.


> Workday is an example.

I'll also name and shame iCIMS. Some API docs are public but then link to other pages that are blocked (restricted to direct customers or temporary access by contractors) for no good reason and with no obvious pattern.


At work, I do a lot of integrations with other third-party APIs, and I've seen some put crucial portions of their documentation behind "you need to be a customer first."

In my book that is always a big negative sign, since it indicates possible issues like:

1. The company doesn't really support the API or consider it important.

2. The feature isn't really being used, being either obsolete, unreliable, or not useful.

3. The company's management is a weird kind of paranoid and the process of integrating is going to be painful because of that.


1. Post the thing itself instead of an indirect Twitter comment about it.

2. Don't link to Tweets which require creating and using a Twitter account to get anything useful out of them. (I only see a screenshot, no link.)

3. It's already been submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43074852


For a moment I misread this as "Rotating logs are mini-ecosystems", as a complaint about disorganized cloud-computing.

I remember a theory that that the delay between trees emerging with lignin and species specialized to digest it caused a unique spike in un-decayed matter and therefore modern coal deposits, but it seems like that has been debunked [0] now.

[0] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1517943113


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