James Goodwin

I hope he took some time off to relax a bit

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Clearly, these people don't know about Trump's FIFA Peace Prize

Or really anything of Metallica's Kill 'em All

Bluesky: Conflating "is" and "ought" since 2021 (TM)

Remember how the press castigated Biden for months over the Afghanistan withdrawal?

While wearing jorts

My wife and I both trying to "do our thing" in the kitchen at the same time

I was just emptying the waste baskets when it hit me like a ton of bricks: I now know why they wanted to call it the "Department of War."

Just because Barrett has the "better" understanding of MQD, that doesn't make it right.

A mad king’s illegal war on Iran is a cry for regime change...in Washington | Will Bunch Democracy really did die in darkness as Donald Trump’s unconstitutional war on Iran stamps America as a dictatorship.

My instant reaction at 3 a.m. yesterday was not whether Khamenei would be killed or oil prices or anything else but this

This undeclared, unexplained war is illegal. Full stop

28 hours later, it is still the worse abuse of power in U.S. history. Impeach

My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Didn't watch much due to the Olympics, but I found 'Tokyo Godfathers' (2003) to be surprisingly charming

"[A]t least five separate opinions discussing the major questions doctrine and none garnering support from a majority of the Court."
The Supreme Court has too much free time. Either take more cases or grab some trash bags and pick up litter on the National Mall. www.yalejreg.com/nc/tallying-...

Trump really has taken us back to the Middle Ages

I realize there's a lot of complexity and gray area here, but does this technically count as a religious conflict? I find that possibility to be very interesting for several reasons.

The Major Questions Doctrine Can’t Save EPA’s Big Climate Repeal Opinion: The Environmental Protection Agency’s arguments in the recent climate repeal misunderstand the major questions doctrine, ignore Supreme Court precedent, and contradict principles of stare dec...

The Trump administration could really save everyone a lot of trouble if it just reduced the preambles to its final rules to say: "We have changed the lineup of the Supreme Court." news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-exchan...

wife chasing me around the kitchen table with a rolling pin because she found me in the epstein files being a Mossad Operative

They're such expert marksmen. Until they're shooting at each other, that is.

Makes it very hard to walk your dog

This from @petridishes.bsky.social is brilliant, and should be made into a documentary.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Pretty much

Rod Serling from the Twilight Zone with a swirling circle in the background

Imagine if invading another sovereign nation was at least as hard as setting limits on toxic air pollution emissions from fossil fueled power plants

Reality check

The war on Iran is fundamentally illegal

Yet not one general or even soldier -- they we know of -- refused to follow this illegal order

Neville Southall in a goalkeeping kit

Espresso in a coffee cup on a table with a table cloth

Saturday evening espresso

The Tariff Decision and the Major Questions Doctrine - Legal Planet The major questions doctrine was confusing before. Today's tariff decision only adds to the confusion.

"... Justice Gorsuch and Justice Barrett completely disagree about the basic nature of the doctrine. Roberts got both their votes by using fuzzy language, so we’re not sure what he thinks." legal-planet.org/2026/02/20/t...

I had heard similar things

"As of last month, about 12,700 employees were on EPA’s payroll, according to data released under a separate FOIA request. The agency had more than 16,000 employees at the end of the Biden administration, so it has lost roughly a fifth of its workforce."

AI poem and committee swapping: How Utah Republicans helped an anti-vote-by-mail bill get traction Republican lawmakers manipulated Utah’s legislative process to ensure a bill that would impose new restrictions on mail-in ballots would gain traction in the Legislature.

There is a book to be written about how crooked and fucked GOP-controlled legislatures in Ruby Red states are www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.