Jake Knanishu

How did they manage to shoot the one cool Presbyterian?

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Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

I'm floored. Ellis essentially just told the govt. to suck it up. Cites incidents of judges getting doxxed.

"It's unfortunately part of the cost of doing business as a public servant," she says.

The fundamental truth of content moderation is that it never existed to protect users. It's the equivalent of HR, it exists to protect the company from legal and political liability.

I think he can be on the coin, it should just have to be part of an image featuring every president Sgt. Peppers-style

“That’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time… long time”

I like that the one for Word looks like an E

Which would be more embarrassing for an “editor”? Getting caught using ChatGPT like this, or getting outed as someone whose own writing is indistinguishable from AI slopjargon

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

Strikes me much more as a “power of segregation” guy

My office manager, who is German, almost fell out of her chair when I told her that story

Had a call with co-counsel in Oregon this afternoon. We chatted about the Immergut order

They said in their experience, she’s always tough like that, but “Immergut is always good”

No one else seemed to think that was as funny as I did

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

A certain contingent of the “words matter” crowd seem to think that, by identifying a problem, you speak it into existence. Big shoot-the-messenger vibes on here

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

If I were in the National Guard, I would just simply guard the nation instead of all that other stuff

Sorry, but you’re a couple hundred years late

In “war zones,” soldiers famously worry about access to restrooms and lunch spots.

They, like the entire legal academy, probably just aren’t smart enough to figure out this one weird trick

Elite defense-lawyer mentality. Terrible attitude for an academic to have, especially one so public

Imminent harm for me, actual harm for thee

How long do we think until the guys wearing “border patrol” arm patches go back to jerking each other off in south Arizona instead of bodyslamming people in Chicago peacefully standing on a public sidewalk?

Warning people of a “large and growing network of leftwing terrorism” that doesn’t exist, feverishly hoping that it comes to be

None of it was in pursuit of justice, but all of it was in pursuit of social media videos.

Unironically though, this is actually why we have dual sovereignty. This is actually what “states’ rights” is for

This is how it will change, if it changes. At some point, the public will force state DAs, AGs, Mayors, etc. to prosecute ICE agents for their crimes—or we won’t, and that’ll be that

It’s called dual sovereignty. The federal government abuses and assaults protestors, and the state governments shield them from accountability

“Bona fide”

“In commenting on Obergefell, I am not suggesting that the decision in that case should be overruled”

…is how a lawyer says, “I will overrule it if someone asks me to because I believe the Constitution compels me to.”