Good Place: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.
13.10.2025 12:46 β π 1825 π 512 π¬ 10 π 20@jamesftierney.bsky.social
Associate dean for academic affairs and Associate professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law (Illinois Tech). I study financial markets regulation & law of capitalism. But this β IIT. DSA Fund board πΉπ€, Rstats, NLP, Phish dad, etc. Semper ubi sub ubi.
Good Place: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.
13.10.2025 12:46 β π 1825 π 512 π¬ 10 π 20I wrote fancy words about how SCOTUS, by writing no opinions, had left no precedents to bind it when a Dem retakes the White House β and then Justice Barrett just blurted it out.
12.10.2025 16:47 β π 140 π 47 π¬ 4 π 1This is your periodic reminder that you can add coffee stains to your LaTeX documents.
12.10.2025 21:48 β π 107 π 17 π¬ 5 π 5If youβre that unsure about resolution of an issue, you shouldnβt decide it on the shadow docket anyway, unless thereβs an exigent need. And if thereβs 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.
12.10.2025 17:03 β π 111 π 31 π¬ 5 π 3What 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.
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.
www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...
This guy was a law school classmate. He was an unrepentant bigot then and continues to be today.
12.10.2025 03:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Also: if you work for ICE, even if youβre not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, youβre part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.
12.10.2025 00:54 β π 17764 π 4123 π¬ 357 π 119For 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 Portlandβs 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.
08.10.2025 17:34 β π 152 π 33 π¬ 3 π 0Soldiers 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
βCan you explain this gap in your resume?β
Me thinking quickly on my feet to explain the period when I worked for ICE: βI was selling drugsβ¦ ,uh, to children.β
Americaβs brain drain
No words
30.05.2025 12:23 β π 2190 π 859 π¬ 92 π 167Does 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.
11.10.2025 17:57 β π 160 π 77 π¬ 3 π 2The entire American economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesnβt understand how the economy works
10.10.2025 22:18 β π 6622 π 1346 π¬ 290 π 54My first thought was βwow I hope this guy didnβt give out his name because he could absolutely be chargedβ and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.
This manβs account is shocking. His neighborsβ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.
I mean I donβt want to hand it to <waves around> anyone but I take your point!
11.10.2025 01:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Because I teach corporate laws and bylaws are relevant OBVIOUSLY, people
11.10.2025 01:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0100% would take that cle
11.10.2025 01:47 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I do appreciate that my work spam folder is a mix of CLE solicitations and a variety of statements from Chairman Bob Avakian (?)
11.10.2025 00:55 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0All of life is an effort at improving the R^2
10.10.2025 22:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I feel like this is a scene in A FISH CALLED WANDA
10.10.2025 22:37 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ownership of US corporate equities by institutional investors + some top %ile of households (by wealth)
10.10.2025 11:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And I think my friend @ofsevit.bsky.social was on at least twice?
10.10.2025 01:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Hey, 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 Peopleβs Republic of Cambridge than almost any other polity in the country, but thatβs just me
10.10.2025 01:44 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Was! Former!
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