James Fallows Tierney

Good Place: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

I wrote fancy words about how SCOTUS, by writing no opinions, had left no precedents to bind it when a Dem retakes the White House — and then Justice Barrett just blurted it out.

This is your periodic reminder that you can add coffee stains to your LaTeX documents.

Ten-Day Interval

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If you’re that unsure about resolution of an issue, you shouldn’t decide it on the shadow docket anyway, unless there’s an exigent need. And if there’s an accident need, you should say what it is and why the resolution is appropriate. ACB is making the 6 look worse, not better, w/ these appearances.

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

What Trump Means for John Roberts's Legacy | Harvard Magazine Executive power is on the docket at the Supreme Court.

Re-upping:

Excellent assessment of John "Roger Taney" Roberts.

In @harvardmagazine.bsky.social , by Lincoln Caplan.

As careful, legally informed, judicious-minded writer as you're going to find. With an unsparing judgment.

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This guy was a law school classmate. He was an unrepentant bigot then and continues to be today.

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

I really feel like millennials especially resent the copyright theft part of these AI data centers because of this.

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

“Can you explain this gap in your resume?”

Me thinking quickly on my feet to explain the period when I worked for ICE: “I was selling drugs… ,uh, to children.”

America’s brain drain

No words

Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.

The entire American economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the economy works

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

I mean I don’t want to hand it to <waves around> anyone but I take your point!

Because I teach corporate laws and bylaws are relevant OBVIOUSLY, people

100% would take that cle

I do appreciate that my work spam folder is a mix of CLE solicitations and a variety of statements from Chairman Bob Avakian (?)

All of life is an effort at improving the R^2

I feel like this is a scene in A FISH CALLED WANDA

Ownership of US corporate equities by institutional investors + some top %ile of households (by wealth)

And I think my friend @ofsevit.bsky.social was on at least twice?

Hey, Tom, RIP.

If it helps fill out the character vignette I went to a Car Talk live taping when I was 14

I would probably rather be governed by any randomly chosen set of citizens of the People’s Republic of Cambridge than almost any other polity in the country, but that’s just me

Was! Former!