Joe Dunman

The "good" news maybe is that Trump loves market manipulation more than anything so after the markets drop 10% tomorrow he'll announce the end of the war and they'll magically shoot back up in a couple of days.

Will never get how all these fools in Congress can watch this all happening and do nothing to stop it.

Building collapses at Glasgow Central Station as fire causes major disruption Dozens of services have since been cancelled and the station will be closed until further notice.

Coverage on BBC.

Fire confirmed to have started in a vape shop this afternoon. The whole row is gutted and collapsing. It looks as though the fire brigade are struggling just to contain the fire.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

It is so, so easy to focus on this as a problem unique to our current murderous regime, but murdering rescuers with strikes like this has been a fully bipartisan effort for almost 20 years. Our entire "national security" apparatus is morally indefensible and has been forever.

"Double-tap" strikes are...problematic, from the perspective of both international law and basic morality. Samuel Alexander's 2017 student note explores the legal issues: scholarship.law.ufl.edu/flr/vol69/is...

Initially, people suspected this was a mistake caused by chatbot-driven targeting, but it appears to have been deliberate, similar to the murderous "double-tap" drone strikes the U.S. has been doing since at least 2009.

Though it is day, the sun cannot be seen in Tehran today because of all the smoke following the US and Israel bombing Tehran's oil refineries. People on the ground describe it as armageddon. History will not forgive Reza Pahlavi, Masih Alinejad, Nazanin Boniadi, and all other "leaders" who tricked Iranians into thinking this war would set them free.

Oh my god: this is *daytime* in Tehran.

An ADSBx map showing C104 flying from Florida to Watertown SD late last night.

Ugh. The brand-new Coast Guard jet Kristi Noem was using before she got fired flew down to Florida late Friday -- presumably for the "Shield of the Americas" announcement -- and then returned to Watertown, SD, late Saturday. So she's still using it!!

Graham is an unhinged threat to humanity.

I would download a pdf of this

And almost certainly will, if our lives are long.

"'The court finds that there is significant public interest in ensuring the religious freedom of all citizens and the state’s position that religious freedom is somehow less important than other exceptions in the abortion law puts the court in an untenable position...'."

Church and State are Being Reunited, Thanks to SCOTUS | Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts An unholy alliance between the Roberts majority and the Trump administration is demolishing the separation of church and state.

With @rachellaser.bsky.social of Americans United on all the many many ways church is crowding out state, and why it all started at SCOTUS

Indiana court blocks abortion ban on religious grounds In 2023, the Indiana Supreme Court upheld the state’s near-total abortion ban, with limited exceptions only in cases of lethal fetal anomalies, the mother's health, rape and incest.

www.courthousenews.com/indiana-cour...

Never swore an oath!

I really like the claim for unlicensed practice of law.

Knowledge and causation are going to be really tricky, I think.

This is a tortious interference claim by an insurance company against OpenAI, which is definitely going into the rotation for next fall’s Torts class.

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!!

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

How Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed Before his misadventures in government efficiency, Musk promised to revolutionize commuting with a subway that would speed passengers between DC and Baltimore in a matter of minutes. The project was a...

A year long investigation into the Hyperloop found …

“The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing.”

washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

Ours finally arrived yesterday.

DEFENDANT PINCHING & PRESSING Sarah Fackrell* “Schedule A” cases, in which plaintiffs bring cookie-cutter complaints alleging IP infringement against groups of online sellers, continue to be filed in large numbers in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. But some Northern District judges are growing skeptical of various parts of this litigation model. Some judges are requiring plaintiffs to post higher bonds when they obtain ex parte asset-freezing TROs. Or refusing to issue such freezes entirely. Other judges are pushing back on the propriety of joining non-transactionally-related sellers, questioning—and sometimes explicitly rejecting—the mass joinder theory that underlies this litigation model. In response to these developments, many Schedule A plaintiffs are responding by engaging in what appears to be new forms of judge shopping. This Article analogizes the actions these plaintiffs are taking to certain forms of cheating at roulette—namely, “pinching” and “pressing” bets. This Article investigates and analyzes these developments, situating defendant pinching and pressing in the larger literature about judge-shopping. It suggests new local rules that would increase transparency, promote fairness, and discourage judge-shopping.

Mine is about (what appears to me) to be some new forms of judge shopping. I analogize them to certain forms of cheating at roulette and look at what this can teach us about judge shopping more generally.

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

That cake is a public health threat.

Walker remains incredibly predictable.

Some Supreme Court Justices think that viewing the Fourth Amendment as a right to "privacy" is an illegitimate 1960s Warren Court policy invention. But it's not: That language goes back to the beginning, as I showed in this 2022 article. scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcont...

This is the way.