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dariush1.bsky.social
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So, I'm starting a Substack. If you're interested, have a look. Subscriptions are free only; no present plans for paywalled material. open.substack.com/pub/richardp...

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A particularly Jewish take on the current destruction, from Yehuda Kurtzer. h/t Rabbi Andrea Merow (NJ) www.jta.org/2025/03/03/i...

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“Clients have the right to access their lawyer without interference by the government. Lawyers must be free to represent clients and perform their ethical duty without fear of retribution.” www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 16 days ago • 70 comments

NEW from me in Time: How the Supreme Court Paved the Way for DOGE time.com/7262781/supr...

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

Professor @primuseve.bsky.social spoke at an informal “blue jeans” lecture as a winner of the 2024 Faculty Award for Innovative, Interdisciplinary, and Inclusive Teaching, one of the annual student-nominated awards presented by the Law School Student Senate. michigan.law.umich.edu/news/eve-pri...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

With some brief thoughts from me at the beginning: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Read about Vincent, a dual degree student in Public Policy and Law, and the effects of President Trump putting a “help not wanted” sign out to the next generation of public servants.

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

submitted 27 days ago • 1474 comments

“Our government is the potent, omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. . . . If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” Brandeis’ prescient advice.

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Toni Morrison would have been 94 today and would have had a whole of a lot to say about what we're living through. Still her voice bellows down the hallway of time with what she did say 20 years ago, so hauntingly timely now:

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This is how you review the Kendrick Lamar halftime show: time.com/7214228/kend...

submitted 38 days ago • 6 comments

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On his first day at DOD, Pete Hegseth ordered the military to suspend all recognition of holidays like MLK Jr’s Birthday, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Black History Month, Juneteenth,Women’s Equality Day, National Hispanic Heritage Month Pride Month, & National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

submitted 49 days ago • 253 comments

This is so very excellent: Steinbeck on the true meaning and purpose of hope in human life

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"All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn’t that the evil thing wins — it never will — but that it doesn’t die." Steinbeck writing at the peak of WWII:

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

This is a MUST read from @sherillyn.substack.com on MLK Day: sherrilyn.substack.com/p/it-is-mlk-...

submitted 59 days ago • 43 comments

Happy MLK Day. Martin Luther King Jr. on the neutrality of time in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail:

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One of the all time great tributes. Just beautiful 🙏

submitted 62 days ago • 25 comments

not Lynch's movie, I know, but god, what a sendoff

submitted 62 days ago • 153 comments

RIP, David Lynch. Truly one of the great weirdoes in film and television history.

submitted 62 days ago • 469 comments

A former student of mine recently emailed with this question: what can supporters of our constitutional democracy do when the rules of the game – meaning the small-c constitutional norms on which all else depends – are not being followed? (1/13)

submitted 62 days ago • 3 comments

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