Patrick Schmidt

We need to answer mass detention with a program of mass detonation.

Even shorter Gorsuch: I'm protecting you against a President Newsom. Thank me later.

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

Note there that Gorsuch couldn't bring himself to use the words "take care," replacing it with "seeing that," as if to avoid the implications for how FedSoc arrives at the unitary executive.

So companies might get massive rebates from the government on tariffs that consumers actually paid for? Cool cool.

What James I did to Edward Coke, when the latter was transferred out of the Chief Justiceship on the Court of Common Pleas, will do very nicely as a power of the crown.

Wouldn't you want to be at least a *postmodern* law firm, if not metamodern even, rather than being stuck in the mid-twentieth century?

Pretty sick joke [sic].

I have found AI to be increasingly handy for circumventing paywalls.

With many niche publishers, I can see headlines but can't get the content anywhere else. But since AI has trains on those companies' content, asking about it turns up the content. Compare below.

Someone might want to recall what happened to King Charles I in his attempted personal rule, including without taxing and spending without parliament.

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

The scale of the corruption--what the Founders recognized as the threat to a republic--is breathtaking. We need a full reset of the constitutional order.

ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.

“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Where "consent of the governed" means "you said no but really you wanted it".

Wouldn't a global MAGA be MGGA (Make the Globe Great Again), then?

The one that has survived, at least in pockets on campus and despite attempts to shut it down, is the Drink Blood chant.

I haven't heard that song in my 20 years at Mac! Perhaps the alumni need to organize an event to teach the old songs.

Thanks for the guest lecture! So fun, as always.

The fascists learned that the mistake wasn't gassing Anne Frank. It was leaving behind her diary in the apartment.

Well, it is the eclipse of American democracy and world leadership, that much is true.

The ultimate thrust of the tiktok discourse cited here is to favor pragmatism over ideology, and that I wholly support. Eschew labels, and instead pursue the values within the tradeoffs inherent to all life.

One answer is that there are different standards for consistency in different spheres of life. If this man were on the witness stand and asked "are you a vegetarian?", they might reply, "I consider myself one" and then be confronted with photos of him eating bacon, losing credibility with the jury.

There's a joke in which a man tells his friends that he's vegetarian. One day they see him eating bacon. "What kind of a vegetarian are you?!" "The kind that eats bacon."

I teach that joke to raise for debate whether words can be the foundation of law if we allow them to be infinitely flexible.

Good point. If you want to be around in the long term, you don't put autonomous targeting into systems. If they can survive the short term politics, they might be more likely to be around later.

Jeffrey Dahmer should have been the Milwaukee Sentinel's Man of the Year 1991. Absolutely robbed.

The concern of Luddites, and then the Arts & Crafts Movement, was the preservation of craft, not the elimination of technology. AI will destroy anything that can be mass-produced.

What I don't get is Bill Gates. Bill had been the world's richest man for a long time when Epstein comes along and gives him access to Russian girls. Bill never needed Epstein if that's what we wanted. What happened there?

My favorite trivia: 1607, when Jamestown becomes the first permanent English settlement...barely surviving...is the same year as the first hotel opened in what is now the USA (Sante Fe, N.M.). It changed my perspective on the idea that the English settled America.

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I have identified her. Her name is Dedra Meero.

*I* know that Diversity is Our Strength because I learned as a kid that it enabled us run circles around Colonel Klink.