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the idea we’re being sold that POTUS needed to personally check the reference of non-cabinet level appointee is so transparently untrue they must think the public is that dumb. But, even if that was the true reason for the call, the fact that Alito took it is why the court’s reputation is shit.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

The Caravan from Mexico didn’t see its shadow this morning so there won’t be any reporting on border crossings for the next four years

submitted 62 days ago • 8 comments

The key takeaway from the House Ethics report is not that Gaetz was paying for sex and using his office as a drug den but that Trump nominated him for AG.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

When I announced my candidacy six years ago, one of the core promises I made was to never use the death penalty. But I’ve represented innocent people convicted of crimes they didn’t commit and people condemned to death. There is no place in civilized society for the death penalty.

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

There are two kinds of law professors in the world: the first kind grades their exams the moment they receive them; the second stares at them reproachfully for days and wakes up every morning hoping an elf graded them in the middle of the night. The first kind is a psychopath

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

Every 100 years, an innovative American carmaker backs an extremist German political movement.

submitted 69 days ago • 6 comments

I have this deranged obsession with beautiful old grand English houses/eatates. Except whenever I watch a documentary about them the thought that runs through my mind over and over again is: I wonder how many black people you enslaved to get this? Yet I can’t stop watching.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

There was so much flapdoodle flying in November 2020, the Mars comment didn't get the attention it deserved. But Pam Bondi sent Rudy Giuliani into Pennsylvania to claim Trump had won because some of Biden's votes came from Mars. Pam Bondi is basically Amanda Chase with a law degree. wapo.st/4iId8X2

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

WOW. Third Circuit nominee Adeel Mangi's letter to Biden (but, really, to all) is today's required reading: "I have battled for justice, even if it meant there would be none for me." And, though unnamed, Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, Jacky Rosen, and Joe Manchin get their earned response.

submitted 72 days ago • 77 comments

Your occasional reminder that we would not have a single one of Kafka’s novels to read if the executor of his estate had not disregarded his express instructions to burn all of his unpublished works. Thank the guy on the left.

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

The most important thing about the plot against birthright citizenship isn’t what SCOTUS will eventually do. It’s the fact that the plot itself expresses a regime commitment to an antebellum Constitution. To attack birthright citizenship is to reject Reconstruction.

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

There is no law that authorizes the US to “deport” its own citizens. So when they say they’re going to “deport families together” even if some are citizens, what they mean is they’ll force Americans to choose between staying in their country and staying with their family.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Ben Folds and Jeremy Irons should get together and start a dry cleaning business. They could call it Ben and Jerry's.

submitted 79 days ago • 383 comments

scully: it doesn’t make any sense mulder, out of nowhere he started showing empathy and a base level curiosity about the life experience of others mulder [tossing a manila folder on the desk]: ever hear of the woke mind virus?

submitted 83 days ago • 43 comments

Biden should commute every single federal death sentence before he leaves office. I won’t say all will be forgiven if he does but it will go a long way.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Not that this was ever in any way unclear, but given Trump’s cabinet picks, can I assume we will all stop pretending that the DEI panic was ever really about merit?

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

My favorite Black Friday Thanksgiving message from a brand is from Thom Browne. They’ll charge you $5,000 for a single sock and come Thanksgiving all you’ll get is a note saying “Wishing you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving.” That’s it. No discount on the $5,000 sock.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Clearly this law professor is a rabid radical left wing nut!!!!

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Not sure I understand the motivation of billionaires. No matter how many billions they get, they just want more billions and more stuff. There’s not a number of billions that will keep you from dying. While you’re here, why not do something actually cool? (No, it’s not spending 1 minute in space).

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

Deep breath. Taps the mic: the Grand Canyon isn’t that impressive to see in person. Pretty much a big hole in the ground. Very big. But still….

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

This passage from Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time has been playing in my head on a loop since November 5.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

First post on Bluesky...be gentle. 😀 I'm a photographer, showcasing Edinburgh, Scotland's capital city for more than ten years now via Facebook and other social media platforms. I thought I'd pop over here and say hi and do the same thing - here's an epic sunset over Edinburgh to get us started!

submitted 103 days ago • 990 comments

Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius was born #OTD in 1790. 🧪 🔭 He is best known for devising a surface that not even the New York Times could find a way to both-sides.

submitted 102 days ago • 25 comments

1/3 So, here’s my intro. My first name is Aderson “just A D without the N in between”. Folks typically think it’s a mistake and it’s my last name and I meant say Anderson. But no it’s Aderson. The reason my father named me that is a story in itself but that’s for another day.

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment