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A small brown tabby with a pink harness receiving pats on a bar table

BREAKING NEWS THERE IS A CAT AT THE BAR

one of the real horrors of middle age has been going back to eliot and finding him just absurdly, transcendently good

radiator season

Malort advent calendar. 7 are open. They are all Malort.

Week 1 of the Malört advent calendar is complete. You’re not gonna believe this

I can’t help but notice that a bunch of people think “actual thinking” means “insipid contrarianism that substitutes banal edgelordery for any meaning or principle.”

Meg Luger-Nikolai at 64A

DFL-endorsed candidate Meg Luger-Nikolai addresses the convention.

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"I am Spartacus" but for sex pests

agree with you on Cho (I actually overlapped a bit with him at Berkeley as an undergrad)

The Wurman/Barnett model for legal scholarship is Carl Schmitt.
He was infinitely smarter, but they're doing the same thing.

Tolerating these bad faith parlor games, devoid of an attachment to actual history or the plain meaning of words, as paths to elite success in legal academia & the federal judiciary was a grave mistake. We need to stop doing that & never do it again.

i feel like we have this dynamic where conservative constitutional “scholars” just like lie about the plain textual meaning of the reconstruction amendments while liberal scholars are doing the john ganz scrapbook tweet in response

exactly!!

the article is also a great example of Murc’s law, as it spends a lot of time blaming Biden but describing the results of GOP policy (Trump leaving Biden with a pent-up migrant flow) or GOP ratfucking aimed at provoking crises (TX busing migrants, Trump sabotaging Biden-era immigration legislation)

good God, speaking as an Xer, we don’t even really like ourselves

If the Court arbitrarily strikes down this key part of the fourteenth amendment, I think Americans lose any moral obligation to show any allegiance to the laws enforced by a fundamentally lawless regime

I for one need more lectures on dressing up for the airplane from a guy who tucks his suit pants into his shoe

Palpatine in ROTS sayin g Did you ever hear the story of the most famous reindeer of all?

It’s kind of funny in a dark way how much of Western history includes the idea “if we let women have their own things, then they will have secrets, and we won’t know those secrets, and THEN the world as we know it will end.”

yes to the second part and to the first part, which is really critical: partisan interest — and a conception of partisan interest constructed overwhelmingly around the Trumpcult — is driving ideological Calvinball

legal Calvinball

the irony of course is that ‘longstanding governing practices and civic understandings should give way to esoteric abstractions professed by a handful of intellectuals’ is a profoundly un-conservative view in the context of the history of political and legal thinking

the Dems need a guy who comes into every strategy meeting and just slams the Labour poll numbers down on the table and walks out

I am willing to be that guy

fun fact: my extended family and his extended family intermarried at various points in 20th century New Orleans

uncanny valley but make it prose

agree with this a fellow old man

Soviet authorities to Sergei Parajanov:

Tom Cotton is actually and truly not worth my time.

Hard to overemphasize the intensity of social discourses concerning the Factory Acts and Child Labor laws. Rushing new technological regimes into existence without a sense of the necessarily concomitant protections is, in fact, VERY BAD!

I call this the Dream Vampire Economic Model. It also exists in the arts, publishing, and every other somewhat prestigious industry that young people want to work in.