Liz Thornberry

I will say though: the shitheads understand that if you pull someone into your epistemic bubble, you can lead them anywhere, get them to believe anything. They consciously & deliberately build those bubbles around powerful people. The left just yells at & alienates them.

Incredibly embarrassing that @govwesmoore.bsky.social hasn't withdrawn Maryland's executive order banning entities that do business from boycotting Israel (content.govdelivery.com/attachments/...).

Israel is openly carrying out a genocide in Gaza and MD is celebrating our "collaboration"?

Thought this was just me!

Ok but that’s in no way contradictory to the claim that it’s actually a phenomenon of British imperialism.

I agree that the latter is an oversimplification, but the fact that people invoke an earlier era has zero bearing on that. People misuse history all the time

Mahmood Mamdani’s son!!! What a world.

To be clear, that paper is arguing against originalism, not against recognizing the validity of the Reconstruction amendments.

Two former Shen Yun dancers allege forced child labor, brutal conditions in lawsuit Two former dancers allege that they lived under a culture of fear and routinely performed despite injuries. Shen Yun has vehemently denied the claims.

Historically accurate China before communism 💅🏻

www.npr.org/2025/05/13/n...

It’s happening!!!

Feels like you’re responding to a claim I didn’t make.

The whole thing is infuriating because zoning theoretically has to have a public purpose, but somehow we’ve decided than aesthetic regulation of something the public can’t see counts??

He wasn’t in an HOA (or if he was, it wasn’t relevant to the case). The holding was because the house in question wasn’t visible from the street so didn’t qualify as speech.

Obviously that also raises the question of why regulating the house’s external appearance is a legitimate public purpose.

Though raw numbers probably not a great proxy for economic impact. A significant percentage of Canadian and Mexican visits will be day trips, unlike European/Asian visits.

Sorry, I gave the subtitle for Abel, actual title is Politics by Other Means.

If you're looking for South Africa recs Chanock's The Making of the South African Legal Order is the place to start. Abel's Law in the Struggle Against Apartheid and Ngcukaitobi's The Land is Ours are very good (and more hopeful) treatments of the use of law in fighting authoritarianism

So badly. Who though?

Congrats to the TWO Baltimore-based historians of American constitutional law who were awarded Guggenheims!

Martha Jones in my dept at Hopkins and Mark Graber at University of Maryland law school--brilliant scholars both.

I'm sorry. I cannot process this and refuse to panic about it until five minutes before the threat is real. There are millions of lives at stake and there are also billions of dollars. I am depending on the greed of psychopharmaceutical industry and it has never let me down before.

FWIW, that kind of wait is routine in the US as well. The NHS has its issues, but they aren’t caused by the free at admittance model

This was the same staff he would have been seeing in-person if schools were open though. They just made us do it online. It sucked for the staff too—my kid’s therapists wanted to be in person.

Eh, my kid who has an IEP wasn’t back in person until fall 2021. He was supposed to be doing speech and occupational therapy virtually. He’s autistic and was 4-5 during that time: it was genuinely a shitshow.

We don't even have to outlast Trump. We merely need to outlast his political capital, and through retaliation we will burn more of his power and credibility than he would have burned on his own. We merely have to stick together till then

Full circle, I see - "This article draws its inspiration from a tweet by Professor Victoria Haneman. See Victoria Haneman (@TaxLawProf), X (formerly TWITTER) (Apr. 10, 2023),
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Wes Moore is proposing to balance the Maryland state budget by cutting services to our most vulnerable residents. $40 million reduction to the Developmental Disabilities Administration, which already has years-long waiting lists for services, and almost $200 million in cuts to school funding.

This is SUCH a thing in the academic job market, because lots of very smart and deserving people don't get jobs, and feel like there needs to be some kind of explanation other than shear bad luck.

She could look at Tropy, it’s designed for historians.

The second part of that is pretty much how tort law treats it.

The ABA industry has put a lot of effort into the claim that ABA is the “gold standard” but the evidence is actually shockingly weak. I’m sure UHC is equally terrible for OT and speech therapy, but some skepticism about ABA is warranted here.

A tweet by Jesse Singal showing a Bluesky an image of a post from Alejandra Caraballo: Caraballo is locked in a cycle with Ben in which she makes shit up about him, interferes with his work, then plays the HELP WHY IS HE OBSESSED WITH ME card. It's the behavior of an unhinged middle-schooler, and she's at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard! Crazy times.

A tweet by Jesse Singal showing a Bluesky an image of a post from Alejandra Caraballo: Wow this is some really good detective work by Alejandra Caraballo, a leading expert on online harassment at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center. And I was thisclose to getting away with my giant transatlantic conspiracy, too...

@safety.bsky.app and @aaron.bsky.team,

@esqueer.net ("Caraballo") blocked user did:plc:232eprew2nyn75ensoah2lg2 ("Singal") approximately four (4) days ago.

Today, on Singal’s X account, I noticed he is sharing screenshots of Caraballo’s Bluesky posts.

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Seriously hard to imagine a worse hell than parenting an infant who sleeps half as much as normal. It's already so bad!

@moderation.bsky.app needs to act, otherwise, this is going to be a huge misstep that deters potential new users from joining.

If this is going to be the anti-X, please, mods, act like it.

In the meantime, users? BLOCK SINGAL WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE. Cut off his oxygen. Suffocate him.