@philiprocco.bsky.social
politologue // yinzer // co-editor of Publius: The Journal of Federalism // author of "Counting Like a State" https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700638758/counting-like-a-state/ Most posts are first drafts, comments welcome.
You think you are hurting at the pump? Spare a moment to remember those with private planes.
The direct consequences of this breach are too staggering to fathom.
can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives
Well said. The problem, as ever, is the system that structures incentives towards slop production.
truly
Footnote 3 — I was laughing
What if -- just for a moment -- we thought about knowledge production as a public good?
i see a lot more people saying that AI is better than the "average" social scientist, and a lot fewer saying they think AI is better than they are. Which maybe tells us something about how the view their peers...
I’m given to understand the technology can and has been harnessed to useful effect. Ok. But in aggregate it is also increasing the relative volume of garbage that editors and reviewers must now contend with. With limited time and resources, that leads invariably to inefficiencies. Not good! (2/2)
As a journal editor, the most noticeable consequence of LLMs I’ve observed is an increase in slop submissions. While this might show up on someone’s ledger as greater productivity, what it has meant for me is more toil at the desk review stage and challenges with workflow. (1/2)
My Interview with Terry Gross on NPR’s “Fresh Air:” “President Trump is trying to make it harder to vote. Here’s why that matters” electionlawblog.org?p=154603
This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
People keep acting as if there is no such thing as reputational risk anymore and that’s really what worries me
Worthless
![With nowhere else to turn, the applicants asked us to issue a stay, and we have jurisdiction to entertain their application. Title 28 U. S. C. §1257(a) gives us jurisdiction to review “[f]inal judgments or decrees” that are rendered by a State’s highest court and adjudicate federal constitutional claims, and the Court of Appeals’ February 11 order falls
within that category.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/bafkreibhhdcymq4dbg2pzqxsntooytqznjfgrztweju4jb5kdbqpsy6okq)
1/9: In the New York redistricting case, Justice Alito's justification for why #SCOTUS even had *jurisdiction* to issue a stay is based upon a remarkably misleading portrayal of the state court proceedings.
I realize this is technical, but I wanted to write a short thread to explain the shadiness:
I had to punch you because my friend was about to punch you and you might have punched back and hit me by accident.
#JustWar
States are leading in the fight to make drug prices more affordable. Our founder, @gabygoldstein.bsky.social spoke with @bloomberglaw.com about new prescription drug affordability boards (PDABs) legislation that is moving in Virginia.
Read more: news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
Yikes
Florida doesn’t allow for same-day voter registration, so those left off the rolls due to a late postmark won’t be able to cast a ballot. “Voters are unfortunately out of luck if they register late,” says the state director for All Voting is Local.
FEDSPEAK: “.. To some degree, the Strait is experiencing ‘self-closure.’ .. No oil shipments have passed since morning, according to local reports; 22% of global supply is effectively ‘frozen’ .. indicating that the warnings by the IRGC are heeded.”
Same!
Seems like the solution now, as ever, is to teach the contradictions.
That Americans “do not know” whether war is being waged to stop an already dismantled nuclear program or to do regime change or […] is beside the point. Americans now overwhelmingly oppose war in Iran. So too did they oppose it in 2025 when the “nuclear program” rationale was the only game in town.
posting, once again, the well-established definition of the crime of aggression in the rome statute for the ICC
And this is why the search for a method, a rationale, a plan must go on. Because registrars of opinion will try (as they always do) to furnish an administration these essentials if necessary. But it is not the same thing as an analysis of why Trump (or anyone) decides to kill.
That Americans “do not know” whether war is being waged to stop an already dismantled nuclear program or to do regime change or […] is beside the point. Americans now overwhelmingly oppose war in Iran. So too did they oppose it in 2025 when the “nuclear program” rationale was the only game in town.
It seems absurd to lock in, as growing number of commentators seem to be doing (NYT clip below), on Trump’s failure to articulate a casus belli in Iran. Asking “why?”, presuming a satisfactory explanation is out there, ignores the sense of unreality that perpetuates endless war in the first place.
Bets to oust the Ayatollah on Kalshi jumped last night at 11:30pm.
When Trump addressed the American people on Tuesday night, he claimed that Iran is “working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America.”
That assertion is not backed up by US intelligence, sources told CNN. www.cnn.com/2026/02/27/p...
