If only it was funny, Kate! <shudders...repeatedly>

Reading the Signs

Yes. That. There.

Nope. Not just you.

For those who don't understand what Chevron Deference is, and why SCOTUS ended it, here's the long and short of it: A family fishing company, Loper Bright Enterprises, was being driven out of business, because they couldn't afford the $700 per day they were being charged by the National Marine Fisheries Service to monitor their company. The thing is, federal law doesn't authorize NMFS to charge businesses for this. They just decided to start doing it in 2013. Why did they think they could away with just charging people without any legal authorization? Because in 1984, in the Chevron decision, the Supreme Court decided that regulatory agencies were the "experts" in their field, and the courts should just defer to their "interpretation" of the law. So for the past 40 years, federal agencies have been able to "interpret" laws to mean whatever they want, and the courts had to just go with it. It was called Chevron Deference, and it put bureaucrats in charge of the country. It's how the OHSA was able to decide that everyone who worked for a large company had to get the jab, or be fired. No law gave them that authority, they just made it up. It's how the ATF was able to decide a piece of plastic was a "machine gun". It's how the NCRS was able to decide that a small puddle was a "protected wetlands". It's how out-of-control agencies have been able to create rules out of thin air, and force you to comply, and the courts had to simply defer to them, because they were the "experts". Imagine if your local police could just arrest you, for any reason, and no judge or jury was allowed to determine if you'd actually committed a crime or not. Just off to jail you go. That's what Chevron Deference was. It was not only blatantly unconstitutional, it caused immeasurable harm to everyone. Thankfully, it's now gone. We haven't even begun to feel the effects of this decision in the courts. It will be used, for years to come, to roll back federal agencies, and we'll all be better of for it. And that's why politicians and corporate media are freaking out about it.

"I piloted this song in a plane like that one...she is selling faith on the Go Tell Crusade..." 🎶

Reminded just recently that I still have a presence out here! If you are a follower of mine out here on T̶w̶i̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ X and you found yourself wondering about the unexplained hole in your life 😆, please do not be shy in letting me know!

Me, avoiding the imminent Twitter purge.

Mercury is so dense an iron anvil floats in it. Credit: Cody'sLab x.lingyaoai.com/DubiousByName/status/1…

A couple of days ago someone reached out to me to enquire about obtaining my twitter handle. Wake up call. "Right! I have a twitter handle!"

WTF?!!

It has been EONS since I tweeted for a reason other than whingeing about something other than a bad-travel-happening-in-the-moment, and I was never good at it anyway, so...any advice? 🤣

Love @TASCHEN books, but what a mess! Given XXL "Jean-Michel Basquiat" as a holiday gift, but copy is French and not English (no marking on the box). Asked for exchange and received a definitive "NO", in Paris shop and over phone to Germany. €150...gone. #fail #CustomerFirst

Twitter is removing inactive accounts starting in December? Well, I imagine this will keep my handle safe for another year or so. 😀

.@icelandair Three weeks have now passed since I reported “My IcelandAir Ordeal”, and yet I still have received no adequate response other than “We’ll refund the erroneous Foreign Transaction Fee” you were charged (still waiting for that, too). Shall I post it all to Facebook?

Happy anniversary day to the band who played their first ever show on April 5, 1980, at a friend's birthday party at the former St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Athens. The rest, as they say, is history... R.E.M. history. @m_millsey photos by @slpatslp

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BIG happenings at my workplace!

Beautiful work…and those light handles are gorgeous!