Jennifer Hendricks

I guess I should have expected something like this once I learned that they clap between movements here.

We went to a concert, and there was a drunk guy who yelled "woo" when he liked the music, put his feet up, and staggered in and out of the concert hall, once coming back with a new drink. Much of which sounds normal for a concert until I tell you it was Beethoven's triple concerto and 5th symphony.

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

there's really a point where i genuinely fear for my own immortal soul, because even as i oppose this administration, i still am a part of this polity and am guilty of its sins

I'm thinking about that as I work on an article about marriage (and what we in the biz call "nonmarriage") as a sharing institution. Anyway, here's a history of the Boulder Chautauqua, part of the Chautauqua Movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. We could do this again!

My spouse (free-lance writer) recently told me (lawyer cum professor), "Sometimes when we have a really bad fight, I think about how, if you left me, I'd have to listen to the symphony from outside."

Boulder has a Chautauqua Park with a concert hall--basically a big barn with lots of gaps in the walls. You can buy a ticket, like for a regular theater, or you can picnic outside and listen for free.

But seriously ... we need to be out of the habit of reaching for the violence of the state as a response to every problem.

Not to be a killjoy, but having watched the video: what exactly is the basis for arrest?

It seems like the argument would be that whatever immunity officials have while inside the building must also extend to transit to and from.

I guess I mean something more like "Has a relevant body or official taken the position that the UN HQ Agreement bars enforcement of an ICC arrest warrant against an official traveling to or from the UN building in New York?"

Has this been interpreted in comparable situations? It seems like there would be a fair argument that the point of the agreement is to prevent the host nation from acting on its own, but that in this case the impediment is coming from the ICC.

(I think OP means it in the second sense.)

"HC" is also used to refer to things you need to already know to succeed (ex: In law school, you should go to office hours for help and also to create material for rec letters.) You're often more likely to have learned those things from the HC at an elite college, or in an elite family.

"HC" refers to the things taught implicitly rather than explicitly. It points out that education is a process of socialization, not just transmission of information. It often operates through what is excluded (ex: elementary school library with no books showing same-sex or mixed-race couples).

I just finished reading the whole thing, and ... no, it isn't that they crafted a few screenshots. It's all like that. I don't know how people are even choosing what to screenshot.

Little known con law trivia for your Monday: if Bad Bunny sings Preciosa at the Super Bowl, Puerto Rico gets two Senators.

By investing huge amounts of money on car infrastructure and underinvesting in everything else, the government is basically creating another tax: you need a car to participate in society. It’s another cost that the government forces you to incur due to its transportation and land use decisions

How incredibly disrespectful.

Capitalism is premised on the necessity of there being (a few) winners and (a lot of) losers. Writing off everyone who is below average on certain skills currently valued by capitalists is part of how we got here.

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say.

If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court.

I do not say this lightly.

What they want is Dems to join them in dabbling their fingers in the blood.

There are absolutely no circumstances under which anybody loyal to the Constitution should vote to fund a government controlled by Donald Trump. They are covering their own asses by demanding that line not be clearly drawn.

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

It seemed like the writer thought or wrote "she" for Butler, then realized "oh, it should be they," but didn't take into account that they [the writer! a singular "they" b/c I don't know their pronouns!] had two potential antecedents that took the same pronoun, so needed to rephrase for clarity.

I would add (as a grammar nerd who is not nonbinary) to make sure you repeat your antecedents appropriately. For example, I read an article that described the UC fiasco involving "Judith Butler and hundreds of others," then went on to explain how "they" were being affected.

They've done it. They've turned Iowa communist.

"The crowd ended the protest repeating a chant: 'We have nothing to lose but our chains.'"

*offer limited to people opposed to genocide

Headline: "CU Boulder police shut down student groups' screening of Palestinian film: University says Boulder Students for Justice in Palestine didn't properly reserve auditorium for Sept. 5 screening," by Elizabeth Hernandez for The Denver Post, 9/26/2025

CU will send the cops if you* make a mistake on your room reservation form!

"A CU police report ... said several people in “executive leadership” ... did not want to engage with the student groups before their movie screening and asked the police department to respond."

A few found cars is enough to appease folks that mass surveillance is OK for those small wins but here are the important takeaways: 1. Police are so shockingly cozy with the multi-billion dollar companies that sell surveillance tech that you have to ask who is actually making policy.