Not a law professor with a Twitter account.

None of us are safe

Before imposing a sentence (that deprives someone of life, liberty, or property), our Constitution requires the government to bring forward FACTS that prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused violated a specific criminal law. In court of law, in public, before a jury.

A Catholic Mass was held Saturday outside the Broadview ICE processing facility, where clergy were again denied entry to minister to detainees.

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Real National Guard patrol

Guy cosplaying as one

Spotted a real National Guard patrol in Dupont Circle (left) this morning … then an individual in ill-fitting fatigues and gear (right) shortly thereafter. Is this an actual guardsman? Did not appear to be a Halloween costume. It’s increasingly difficult to tell who’s legit, which seems dangerous.

Why Satmar Hasidic leaders endorsed Zohran Mamdani as mayor, stunning many Jewish voters The Satmar Hasidic community’s endorsement of Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor shows the broad coalition built by the democratic socialist and Muslim.

🚨 BIG 🚨Satmar Ahronim sect is endorsing Mamdani for mayor, two sources familiar confirmed.

Mamdani is expected to meet with Satmar leaders in Williamsburg this afternoon.

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Watched "House of Dynamite" and what struck me was how infrequently the Secretary of Defense (played by Jared Harris) failed to function because of his unwillingness to shove large tires around

Great job Google

Tell me more about the 2015 case about Filipino eggrolls.

Opinion | A jury of my peers agreed that the feds wrongly charged me for watching ICE I believe that filming what federal agents were doing that day counted as basic human decency.

“I’m a law-abiding citizen who never thought I’d be of such interest that the U.S. government would use my tax dollars & yours to try to send me to prison…[after being] manhandled by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent trying to remove my phone from my hand.”

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What an odd set of options offered in the CBS News Poll. DEI but nothing about democracy or rule of law.👀

This is my point again that the electorate has no idea of what's actually going on. Not in some ideological way, so you can argue whether it's good or not, just in a fact way.

a nonzero amount of wanting to ban it is because the chatGPT using people are annoying

Police rule out terrorism in mass stabbing attack on UK train after 2 suspects arrested British police dismissed speculation on Sunday that a mass stabbing attack on a London-bound train the previous evening was terrorism-related and said two victims remain in a life-threatening condition.

British police dismissed speculation on Sunday that a mass stabbing attack on a London-bound train the previous evening was terrorism-related and said two victims remain in a life-threatening condition.
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And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

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Making those sorts of connections is why you make the big bucks, I'll warrant.

For what it's worth, when my son was a toddler he called chopsticks "forkchops." Perfection.

In Donald Trump's mind, there is only him. He is everything. Everything is his. Everything is about him. Nothing else, no one else, matters.

In his own mind, he is the law. Everyone must follow him. He is the only one who gets to say what is right and what is wrong. ...

I hope that wherever you are, it's a Vermeer morning.
Johannes Vermeer, View of Delft, ca. 1660–1661.

Once they know where you are sitting, they know where to send the allergens.

Inning of baseball or inning of democracy?

Did you turn back the clock? It was a 6:37 sunrise this morning! @capitalweather.bsky.social

I'm really glad that I have an actual PhD, so as to avoid the humiliation of listing an honorary doctorate as an *actual* job qualification.

Physicists Create a Thermometer for Measuring ‘Quantumness’ “Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it.

“Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it. www.wired.com/story/physic...

Trump just held a Gatsby-themed party at Mar-a-Lago, which proves a) he doesn’t give a shit about the millions of Americans starving without food stamps and b) no one has told him how The Great Gataby ends

“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”

We didn't. Read the story that he wanted dropped:

Did you turn back the clock? It was a 6:37 sunrise this morning! @capitalweather.bsky.social

The Federal Judiciary Is Trapped Podcast Episode · Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts · 11/01/2025 · 1h 3m

always an immense honor to talk with @judgeluttig.bsky.social about what it means for judges to stand up to monarchic power, and then to Rick Woldenberg of Learning Resources who brought the tariffs case to SCOTUS for . . . precisely the same reason. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

They can’t, yet, just execute Americans in the street. So this will have to do to satisfy the psychological needs of a bunch of guys who are deeply, deeply, deeply insecure about how their masculinity is received.

The Good Samaritan, by Joseph Highmore, 1744, 📸 by @patricksmith04

Trump Isn’t Easing the Shutdown Pain—He’s Inflicting It Mike Johnson says the president is protecting Americans from the shutdown. That’s completely wrong.

"It’s comforting to imagine that a president feels our pain. But Johnson can’t hide the truth: Trump is a sadist, and his strategy in the shutdown has been to break the Democrats’ will by hurting the people they represent." ICYMI @saletan.bsky.social:

The “sweet” thing is a good example of what a psychotic freak this man is