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Law prof @JacksonvilleU. Climate, air pollution, energy, & institutions. Dad. Formerly @UofSC Law, @RFF. Believe in a better South. Build houses. Hoya Saxa, the Peloponnesian War, X squared, Y squared, H2SO4.
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Ah the architectural dark roof web strikes again

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In general, I have found “telling Floridians what to do” to be a fools errand.

submitted 2 hours ago • 5 comments

Happening in a lot of states right now -- governors & legislatures seeking more direct, immediate, even day-to-day state control of public higher education, as compared to past management premised on longer time horizons, more delegation to university leadership and expertise 🗃️

submitted 10 hours ago • 17 comments

Weather Service offices in Miami, Jacksonville, Puerto Rico and Houston “lack at least a third of all the meteorologists required... “The Nat’l Hurricane Center is short 5 specialists, despite assurances from the Trump administration that it is fully staffed.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 16 hours ago • 18 comments

"Look, if you give people homes, the next thing you know, they’re going to start to get their lives together and then get jobs and start organizing. Then they’ll expand Medicare to everyone and build a fucking light rail line instead of a border wall."

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Home Depot near me doesn't carry paper lawn trash bags, manager claims that's because they're "not in an HOA area" (yeah I know, that's why I live here). But I don't know what people are doing instead. Plastic bags, or just burning waste?

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This grossly understates how bad the House bill is. All projects that haven’t started construction in 60 days from enactment are disqualified. Even then, prohibited foreign entity (aka FEOC) restrictions are impossible to meet, even with little real risk of Chinese control.

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rough beasts, slouching towards Bed Bathlehem and Beyond to be born

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Freshman physics professors in tears as their exam question becomes reality: www.9news.com.au/world/loose-...

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Five Feet High and Rising

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A lot of people know about the Germans in the space program, but the more relevant engineer might be Qian Xuesen, the MIT/CalTech aerospace professor who co-founded JPL and was sent to recruit the Germans. We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.

submitted 3 days ago • 73 comments

Look the easy dunk is Von Braun, but the better response is that Von Neumann, Szliard, and von Karman have not streets inn Budapest, but rather craters on the moon named after them.

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I have an important Good Florida Man alert. A dude nicknamed "Weed" jumped in front of an guy trying to stab a woman. “Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear ugly pants. But this dude Joe 'Weed' Clements is one today. And I’m proud to call him brother" www.flkeysnews.com/latest-news/...

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"Three billion human lives ended on May 28, 2024. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war "Judgment Day. " They lived only to face a new nightmare… the war against the machines. "

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I have just recently learned that many US cities have youth curfews. I am not sure whether this says more about my naivety or about how selectively these laws are enforced, to the extent that suburban kids like me could just ignore them.

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(bong rip) "DOGE is more of a polycephalous heptarchy"

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Judges who didn't like what an agency was doing have been declaring their preferred reading of a statute to be "the best and only permissible one" for decades, get over it.

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Trump nominated Emil Bove to the federal judiciary because he is a reliable Trump vote.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

One Real Problems party, folks. If the policy problem you care about is not some version of “people I hate are insufficiently subjugated”, there is one (1) game in town. Yes, even basic good-government stuff. Yes, even things that would be in the self-interest of GOP constituencies like businesses.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

As someone who taught the Inflation Reduction Act the last two semesters in a purple state, can confirm.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Using open source texts for 3/4 of my courses next year (Contracts, Property, and my own in-progress Environmental text). Hope to get to 4/4 soon! Law profs, the water's great, come on in and save your students tens of thousands of $.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Critically, this would be in direct defiance of the Senate Parliamentarian.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

A Congress with any self-respect would impeach and remove her just for this

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Locke strikes again

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Predict Grok will shortly be responding to all prompts with unhinged parsing of the hallmark characteristics of the Gestapo.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

"We are not secret, are federal not state, and are not the police. QED!"

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You know you’re winning when you post “We are NOT the Gestapo!”

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Some of the finest land on the east coast of Florida, one of the few bits of estuary and beach open to all, appears to be about to be traded off to developers. I am pro-growth and pro-development, when it's smart. This ain't it. This land is irreplaceable. 1/x floridapolitics.com/archives/738...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Maybe law students have life figured out after all? (I kid, I love you all)

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Standard theater? Children of Men and The New World. But if you let me open an IMAX planetarium? Gravity and Interstellar.

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sometimes you pitch an article, black out, and then wake up 2000 words later with no real recollection how any of it happened www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...

submitted 17 days ago • 34 comments

America has had a lot of good ideas. But the only great and original ones are birthright citizenship and the melting pot of multiethnic democracy. Both come from the same principle that Jonathan points out--that all are created equal.

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