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JD/PhD. Alumni of GW, Alabama Law, and Alabama PSC. Teaching: torts, PR, negotiations. Research: litigant behavior, legal change, institutional design and behavioral effects.
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People get very angry when you point out that the vitriol they feel entitled to undermines the cause they claim to value above all else. As an organizer, I am very familiar with this attitude.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

i think "an effective altruist is personally denying twenty million people their HIV medications despite a court order telling him to send the money" is a pretty good summary of effective altruism as a real world philosophy

submitted 5 days ago • 73 comments

For folks in DC with animal pals

submitted 12 days ago • 106 comments

Relatable.

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

guys i hate to disappoint a good narrative but the article is wrong. the shareholder lawsuit that was filed alleges that target misled investors about the risks of conservative backlash from overly liberal policies, not the other way around

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

submitted 12 days ago • 605 comments

The love of a cat is worth every early wake-up call, every hair on your clothes and furniture, every mess, and every dollar spent. Happy Caturday #catsofbluesky

submitted 15 days ago • 312 comments

he's running (to be clear, while i'll never vote for Cuban in a primary, i'll crawl over broken glass to vote for him if he's the D nominee)

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I remember my dad being asked about Ted Williams, known as the greatest hitter who ever lived “what do you think Ted Williams would hit today”? He immediately said “about .315” His friends were appalled-are you kidding me ? Ted had a lifetime .344 average! Dad: well he’d be 81 years old.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

We are in a dangerous time but here are two important facts: 1. Trump's base of support is a minority. 2. That base is going to shrink as his agenda is enacted. The opposition is the majority. No moping allowed. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

submitted 16 days ago • 63 comments

Based on the current lawsuits, this appears to be the state of the U.S. government at the moment... (with apologies/thanks to @xkcd.com for the original diagram).

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

There's a small contingent of people online who get angry when you say this but: Wikipedia is unquestionably the most successful utopian project of the internet age, and its destruction would be a crime against humanity

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

Because of four decades of bad faith narratives by rich folks who want your taxes to go up and their taxes to go down, most folks don’t know this: career federal workers are heroes who work extremely hard every day and go above and beyond all across America to improve your lives.

submitted 16 days ago • 18 comments

SEE Krell, Matthew Reid, "Judging as Soccer: Jurisprudence, Legisprudence, and Metaphor," 10 Elon L. Rev. 125 (2018).

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

At work today one of my coworkers said it was weird to just keep living life while... the horrors... unfold, and I responded, "Jews kept kosher for Pesach in the concentration camps" which my boss deemed the most Jewish possible response.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 20 days ago • 1165 comments

Just a reminder: One of the billionaire owners of the Kansas City Chiefs spent several hundred thousand dollars on a disinformation campaign against abortion rights in Missouri.

submitted 22 days ago • 124 comments

I firmly believe that “American democracy and the Constitution are good and an unelected dictator billionaire should not be allowed to subjugate us all” are, in fact, firmly majority opinions in the U.S.: the problem is that our quisling legacy media are massively failing to convey this to people.

submitted 20 days ago • 18 comments

My prediction for a major fallout of the NIH action, if it's upheld: Lots of universities will start law schools and close medical schools.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Someday we will look back on Trump the way the British look back on Thatcher: the turning point where decline became inevitable. All empires decline, I suppose.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

So You Are Worried Your University Is Going to Fold and You Want to Move Overseas, a thread on my experience moving outside the US for an academic job:

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

If you have a job offer that you want at a university take it now. Widespread hiring freezes are likely.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

re: the NIH announcement on indirects, this is basically the equivalent of a mob boss looking around your shop that he's just smashed up and saying, "I hear fire insurance is pretty cheap these days. You should look into it."

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments