greggentry.bsky.social
A lawyer in Minnesota, but not (yet) a Minnesota lawyer.
652 posts
521 followers
2,860 following
Getting Started
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/h...
comment in response to
post
Dr. Cody Meissner, the only actually qualified new member of the committee, schools the committee on how thimerosal is metabolized into ethylmercury and thiocylitholate (sp?) and never becomes methylmercury.
He also points out that this is an old issue that is a waste of the committee's time.
comment in response to
post
He confuses methymercury, which bioaccumulates in the body, and ethylmercury (thimerosal) which simply doesn't bioaccumulate the same way.
comment in response to
post
Yes, and probably things FedEx and UPS could not do, like rural delivery. Most economists agree that would be significantly more limited in a purely private system.
But, for the consumer USPS is a great counter-example to the contention that government services are always worse.
comment in response to
post
FedEx and UPS both exist today. As does the USPS.
The market has ALREADY decided that vast swaths of New York are too unprofitable to provide grocery stores. 3 million New Yorkers live in neighborhoods without easy access to fresh produce.
comment in response to
post
It seems like the perfect opportunity then for a government option to step in where there are obvious failures in the market. Clearly market forces have decided that huge swaths of New York simply aren’t profitable to serve.
comment in response to
post
State owned liquor stores operate in a monopoly-system. You cannot operate a private liquor store outside the state-system.
By contrast, Whole Foods, Shaws, and all the private companies, can still operate under Mamdani’s plan. They can then compete on price and selection.
comment in response to
post
If only there were a poignant video demonstrating the fact that capitalism likes to go where the money is, and there are no Costcos in low income neighborhoods. Maybe then Billy Binion would understand.
comment in response to
post
“Become?” With the notable exception of gay marriage, Andrew “Bell Curve” Sullivan’s brain has always been pickled!
“Aesthetic” is an apt description of his operating principle - most debates to him are aesthetic, not impacting real people.
comment in response to
post
The article referenced in the slide behind her is about abortion, "The Celestial Fire of Conscience, Refusing Medical Care."
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
comment in response to
post
Republicans: we want to encourage more kids.
Also Republicans: Not like that!
comment in response to
post
When you hear stories from the people who worked with/for him, it makes you think we need a secular equivalent of sainthood.
comment in response to
post
Hey, Bondi, the timing is your fault. You fired Erez and set the clock running on the whistleblower complaint.
It’s like the defendant who murdered his parents begging for leniency because now he’s an orphan.
comment in response to
post
So, it’s a little bit fash-y wrapped up in a classic Trump-type grift!
comment in response to
post
It’s actually worse - one of the types of wearables he mentioned was continuous glucose monitors. (“they can see what food is doing to their glucose levels…”)
There’s little evidence those work for people without diabetes. AND, the Surgeon General nominee has a CGM company.
comment in response to
post
Yeah, I think they announced this change last year in August.
www.archives.gov/press/press-....
comment in response to
post
This appears to be just the College Park location, not the main archives in DC, or the branch facilities throughout the country.
I think it’s part of their digitization plan - College Park will be the scanning hub.
www.archives.gov/about/speech....
comment in response to
post
It might have something to do with the digitization center they’re installing at College Park.
www.archives.gov/press/press-...
comment in response to
post
Remember when Michelle Obama tried to make school lunches healthier?
comment in response to
post
Source for above: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
comment in response to
post
In re: Dobbs, the view that drafter’s (men’s) views of abortion are the only relevant consideration ignores the reality that abortion was widely available to women. Advertised in ways (“restoration of menstrual function when suppressed BY ANY CAUSE,”) that were coded to slip past the patriarchy.
comment in response to
post
And that doesn’t even get to the obvious absurdity of countenancing the idea that white, slave-owning, drafters might adequately represent the views and understandings of enslaved Black people (or even freedmen).
Ugh! Can you point me to forceful anti-originalist writings on this topic?
comment in response to
post
Just to take one example - married women now have the right to own property in their own name and men cannot mortgage jointly owned property without their wife’s consent (Kirchberg v Feenstra). Clearly the law recognizes now that even married couples might have distinct legal rights.
comment in response to
post
I’m shocked that the intellectually bankrupt legal philosophy has intellectually bankrupt defenses of their theories!
The “We ‘fully and fairly’ represented the interests of the unenfranchised” theory doesn’t square with any post-enfranchisement law.
comment in response to
post
Oof, not available on any of the streaming services (except to purchase).
comment in response to
post
I would love to see the readings on that issue. I want to know how originalism deals with how a social contract binds those whose thoughts on the meaning of that contract were systematically ignored.
I was wondering this after Dobbs.
comment in response to
post
Iranian “compound” is a weird way to spell “consulate.”
Consular buildings, like this one, where the ambassador slept, are protected by international law, and in many respects are considered the soil of the nation.
comment in response to
post
Also, FUCK Dr Edwards who, “continu[ed] to see patients even as he suffered a mild breakthrough infection and developed a rash himself.”
Measles is one of the world’s most infectious disease - if you’re in a room with 10 unprotected ppl, it will infect 9.
comment in response to
post
My body is “designed” to see well. But I still wear glasses because the design often sucks!
comment in response to
post
Note Josh just casually throwing in “I'm not sure anyone would disagree with this point…” about the nation being founded as an explicitly white nation. Guess we’ve moved beyond the anti-1619 Project arguments that America wasn’t founded on white supremacy?
comment in response to
post
That’s an extraordinary claim and should require the same level of evidence as, say, that courts don’t have jurisdiction because of the fringe on their flag.
comment in response to
post
It’s the triumph of high school debate culture where every legal argument needs to be approached from a “tabula rasa” mindset.
The appropriate heuristic should be “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
Did we do an oopsie and operate for 160 years with unratified 14/15 amendment?
comment in response to
post
The closest thing would be Republicans attacking Clinton for "wagging the dog" in his attacks on Afghanistan back in '98.
comment in response to
post
Took an international law class in undergrad and we discussed how controversial the application of the War Powers Act was. This was back in '93. It hasn't gotten any more settled since then. Anyone who tells you it's a clear question is misinformed.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
comment in response to
post
It’s kids and their parents in consultation with their doctors.
Thomas is talking about substituting government decision-making for parents’ rights to make medical decisions with their kids in consultation with doctors.
If it weren’t trans-rights this would be a red-flag for conservatives.
comment in response to
post
The evidence shows that kids have to spend years interfacing with the medical establishment before getting medications like PBs.
Thomas’ concurrence should be alarming to conservatives when it talks about the ethics of kids consenting to medical treatment … because it’s not kids consenting!
comment in response to
post
There is simply no evidence that practitioners are pushing these medications on patients, much less that they’re doing so in response to incentives from pharmaceutical companies.
comment in response to
post
The medications in question, puberty-blockers, are used off-label in transgender children, which means they have an on-label use. They have been used for decades in precocious puberty - so far, this is a population that dwarfs the number of kids getting PBs for gender affirming care.
comment in response to
post
I'd point you to Michael Hobbes' posts about Thomas' concurrence. That is, if you wanted to engage on the issue in good-faith, which, seems doubtful to say the least.
bsky.app/profile/mich...
comment in response to
post
On the topic of Wu: youtu.be/c1O6S7MWXb8?...
comment in response to
post
Yeah, is she still on their board?
comment in response to
post
I thought she and Rebellion PAC had parted ways.
youtu.be/v_sYCxu3PhE?...
comment in response to
post
Are the best/only measure of treatment effectiveness. As if ADHD wasn’t comorbid with impulsivity, drug use, and other things improved with treatment.
One article outlining the numerous things wrong with the article:
www.additudemag.com/adhd-article...
comment in response to
post
Completely flawed. Had me yelling at my radio. The two biggest things that jumped out to me:
1) the search for a “biomarker” as the end-all of scientific research. As if there aren’t any number of psychiatric/neurologic disorders without biomarkers.
2) the idea that test scores …