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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

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More arguments from @buddyyakov.bsky.social confirming that what passes for US grand strategy under Trump is a weird combination of the appearance of ultra realist hard-nosed power politics and a giant pile of bullshit.

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I was on NewstalkFM yesterday discussing whether Ireland needs to change its stop and search laws to tackle knife crime. Spoiler: it does not. Unfortunately, this is just another example of opportunistic knee-jerk criminal justice policy-making we see all the time. www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

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Irish lawyers and judges have been urged to show solidarity with members of the Hungarian judiciary protesting this weekend against government interference with their independence.

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"We can see the division... into grievable and ungrievable lives from the perspective of those who wage war in order to defend the lives of certain communities, and to defend them against the lives of others—even if it means taking those latter lives." www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

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These f**king snowflakes. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Would be far more interested to know what evidence-led, thoughtful policy alternatives the Opposition are proposing than watching them stoke petty squabbles over nothing between FF and FG. You can’t demand seriousness from government if you’re not serious yourself! www.rte.ie/news/politic...

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This is exactly right Starmer saying that the judgement was wrong while not appealing is shameful, he should know so much better - he does know better. Both him and Badenoch did this but only one is a KC

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Plus ça change, my first post on this platform is shameless self promotion! Myself and @btcwarwick.bsky.social argue that asking the "when" question provide news depth to the nature of structural gender inequalities in this blog for African Law Matters. www.africanlawmatters.com/blog/tempora...

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You'll be back, Soon you'll see. From republic back to monarchy.

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So the president of a republic founded by individuals who were obsessed with the Roman Republic and Roman history called himself a king...

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I'll be on NewstalkFM this morning at 7.30, talking about proposed changes to Gardaí stop and search powers to tackle knife crime.

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The Trump appeasers have gone from 'keep calm and carry on' to 'Oh f**k' in record time.

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This is excellent from Ben Saul on the new proposed definition of terrorism from the Council of Europe. I was involved with the OSCE-ODIHR in preparing their advice to the CoE on reform of this definition and I share his concerns as to its proposed breadth. www.ejiltalk.org/the-council-...

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The thing about YooCoin is that rather than crypto-mine it, you have to extract it from somebody by waterboarding them.

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My article 'Border Penality as Antagonistic Politics' has just been assigned to the new issue of Theoretical Criminology: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... In the🧵 below you can read the piece's main arguments. Let me know what you think! @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social @cahr-york.bsky.social

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Brazil taking the opposite approach to the US on this. In Democracy Unmoored, Samuel Issacharoff argues that for the sake of democracy, past leaders should not be tried for their actions while in office. But the US is where it is now... www.ft.com/content/17e3...

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I had a really interesting disucssion with Phil Gurski on his Canadian Intelligence Eh podcast about the Southport attacks and whether the UK needs to change its definition of terrorism. www.buzzsprout.com/2000197/epis...

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The dumbest timeline version of the Manchurian Candidate. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

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Gonna name my dystopian crypto-fascist tech company after a character from The Kingkiller Chronicles... just to mix things up a bit.

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I've been reading Democracy in America and reflecting on the role of lawyers in the rise of Trump. Martin Loughlin got there before me: "Such developments reveal the singular inability of US lawyers to perform the mediating role that Tocqueville envisaged." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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1. Become the person you think you need to be to become Labour leader. 2. Become Labour leader. 3. Kill that person and become their antithesis instead. news.sky.com/story/englan...

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Lovely shiny happy email from Severn Trent telling me that my water bill is going up by about £11.75 per month to pay for infrastructure upgrades. Meanwhile Severn Trent paid out £562.7million in dividends over the past 2 years. They increased their dividend by 9.4% in the last 12 months alone.

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How to do your own research according to the right-wing fascist-adjacent culture warriors: Read "Intellectual elites" with their peer-reviewed research and rigorous methodologies? ❌ AI? ✅ Manosphere podcasts by host who negs women? ✅ YouTube essay video with zero sources? ✅ X Bot account? ✅

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Taking "We've had just about enough of experts" to fashy places.

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Imagine thinking that court jester is not an overtly political role. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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I want a long read on the Spurs v Man Utd game about how two teams with similar disastrous league positions have completely different financial outlooks. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Solidarity to @caoilfhionn.bsky.social

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The US Army hanged - ineptly - the last bunch of Nazis to run that defence.

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During my PhD, I read an article by a certain US constitutional lawyer that I thought got Schmitt very wrong when they applied his theory to the administrative state. It took me until now to realise that that was intentional.

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Spare me from folk who said nothing about the treatment of the Chagossians over their 50 years of forced displacement by the UK but have now discovered them as a means to thwart the deal over islands which the UK has no lawful basis for holding. Bonus points for making it all about NI.

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JD Vance is a full-on Carl Schmitt stan. The hypocrisy is a feature, not a glitch.

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Wojciech Sadurski on what far-right authoritarian populist governments do when they get a second bite at the cherry... www.forumuljudecatorilor.ro/wp-content/u...

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Happy 20th Birthday, YouTube.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYvy...

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If I were very good at making deals, I probably would not write a book about the art of the deal in which I set out my strategy.

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