Nathan Richardson

While progressives have an understandable skepticism of originalism, it's important to recognize the difference between intellectually honest originalists (@kewhittington.bsky.social, @lsolum.bsky.social, Michael McConnell, etc.) and increasingly partisan hacks like Wurman, Barnett, and Lash. 1/

There is an ahistorical belief, epitomized by just about everything Hegseth says, that the US has been somehow ineffective in warfare since WWII because it was somehow constrained in delivering destruction. To put it bluntly, this is dumb.

Taft or Math?

We need another classmate to GC for Bluesky and give out reasonable advice like "Sell the crypto and buy target date funds, and consider how couples therapy from a licensed human therapist is a wiser course than an AI companion"

The guy Musk is retweeting here is my law school classmate and GC of xAI, former GC at Doge. So, yeah, don’t do this.

Spent four hours in the ER with my daughter (she's fine!) and overheard the patient on the other side of the little curtain -- a college student freaking out because she has midterms and can't waste time getting treated.

Students, take care of yourself. I promise you, your profs will understand.

I think if I died and found out that my descendants had used AI to write my eulogy I'd invent haunting from first principles

US Government not beating the "insurance company with a navy" allegations

"Yeah, State Farm, I'm paying a local attorney to sit in my house 24/7, can you lower my fire insurance rates?....no, he doesn't have firefighter training and, no, I didn't give him a fire extinguisher either, but he's a very good litigator"

Judge: Counsel, help me out here...
Counsel: (walking gingerly) Yes, your honor?
Judge: Are we talking about a particularly dire emergency or-
Counsel: yes, very dire
Judge: Can I finish?
Judge:...or are we talking about literal surgery on your rear end
Counsel: What?
Judge: Where's the hyphen?

Judge: Counsel, help me out here...
Counsel: (walking gingerly) Yes, your honor?
Judge: Are we talking about a particularly dire emergency or-
Counsel: yes, very dire
Judge: Can I finish?
Judge:...or are we talking about literal surgery on your rear end
Counsel: What?
Judge: Where's the hyphen?

Vote Lib Dem: No One Hates Us

WAIT THEY CAN FUCKING DRIVE NOW

So you've tried first past the post, runoffs, ranked choice, proportional representation, even some of the wild stuff like cardinal voting and minimax Condorcet. But none of it got you the simple thing you needed: an official and public method to declare who you think sucks the most.

It's a Modelo Especial Military Operation

hoya saxa to those who celebrate

Lots of different stories here, it's a veritable Rashomon

"We probably should have disarmed Burr, I'll leave it at that"

It doesn't really come through on screen (and arguably DS9 is better for it), but in-universe Dukat has off-the-charts Mamdani-level charisma.

Seriously, it is easy to laugh now, but there was a real fear that this could collapse law firms. Clients and attorneys can leave at any time. No long-term contracts. No non-competes.

Jenner, Susman, Wilmer, and Perkins deserve so much credit, as do those that stepped in to defend.

As much as I was looking forward to seeing Elizabeth Prelogar, Don Verrilli, and Paul Clement take turns dunking on these orders in front of a D.C. Circuit panel, this is good news.

tu, felix Austria, EVA

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@wilhelmkeitel
Has any theory in military theory been more discredited than deep battle?

Turns out you can just kick in the door, and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.

June 23, 1941

a NO VEHICLES ALLOWED ON BEACH sign

I’m about to become the single most annoying person on this beach for the next 10-15 minutes