Association for Political and Legal Anthropology / PoLAR journal

this question being led by a private firm (and potential privatization of rollout) is a worst case scenario if you ask me

I do think we have a pretty good chance of turning gambling into a genuine popular moral crusade 19th century style, because it's becoming a social evil that's destroying young men's lives in particular but also making sports coverage really shit.

Lawyer Support Project | Association of American Law Schools On March 22, 2025, President Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum entitled “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court”, which instructs the U.S. Department of Justice to seek profe...

This has been around since March, but I was just made aware of the Lawyer Support Project, a venture by the Association of American Law Schools to aid attorneys who are targeted by this administration.

www.aals.org/lawyer-suppo...

The poll watchers are back

The carceral state is generally brutal and evil in the way it treats the human beings it cages, but it’s fine to point out when there are bursts of unusually concentrated or vigorous evil and use it to get people to care.

The sheriff said the post caused “mass hysteria” among parents and teachers.

But the school district says they don't have a single record about it -- and the sheriff's department says it won't respond to public records requests.

Trump flunkie Todd Blanche says it's a crime for states to hold violent ICE thugs responsible for their crimes. He is wrong.

Why Trump would be perfect for an honorary U-M doctoral degree Awarding Trump an honorary doctoral degree would be an opportunity to recognize the long way the University has walked in less than two years. U-M juniors may still remember times when the campus code...

@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump

“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”

www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

Here it is: the Trump Administration "draft proposal" to the University of California. Published bc faculty sued for its disclosure.

Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities.

EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni.
ucop.edu/communicatio...

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

glancing through this, it basically follows that path of ilan wurman's "scholarship," ignoring the actual text and legislative record in favor of the basic assertion that the plain meaning of the text *can't* be true.

This is the abhorrently unethical man who served Trump and got rewarded with an appeals court seat. Democrats should begin impeachment proceedings against him the moment they are able to do so.

A fun fact is that contemporary political philosophy has something like ~no explanation for why democracy is something ordinary people would or should care about this much

approximately seven million people were out in the streets protesting last week. these people need to grow a spine. www.ft.com/content/1377...

A picture of the garden in front of the east wing of the White House. A mix of colorful flowers and small trees

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.

(📸 Getty Images)

I don’t know if there’s a more perfect illustration of the utter fucking nonsense that creative pollution by AI will produce than this choice to illustrate the power of Paramount’s new “localization” and “customization” technology by face-swapping Brad Pitt into the lead role of GET OUT

"our customers have driven over 700 million hands-free miles with SuperCruise without a single accident attributed to that technology. I led [Tesla] Autopilot, you can't say that about Autopilot"

GM's new chief product officer firing shots!

Opinion | You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator

You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...

With a gift link because I think it is very important for people to understand this:

A president who can tear down 1/3 of the White House can tear down the entire White House. A president who can steal $230M from the treasury can steal $1T from the Treasury. We have both legalized and tolerated Trump’s crimes, so they will only get bigger.

A TEACH-IN IN DEFENSE OF HISTORY AND MUSEUMS. Sunday, October 26th - Sunup to Sundown. Washington, DC - The National Mall, "AMERICA'S FRONTYARD". LECTURES, READINGS, PERFORMANCES, AND CONVERSATIONS IN DEFENSE OF HISTORY AND MUSEUMS. FEATURING KELLIE CARTER JACKSON, NICOLE HEMMER, DEREK MUSGROVE, NATE DIMEO, TRESSIE MCMILLAN COTTOM, AMANDA SEALES, JODY AVIRGAN, JAMES FALLOWS, MARTHA JONES, MARCIA CHATELAIN, PAUL BUTLER, NATHAN CONNOLLY, AND MORE. ORGANIZED BY NATE DIMEO (THE MEMORY PALACE) AND JODY AVIRGAN (THIS DAY). All Welcome. More Info, Sign-Up, Latest Updates https://linktr.ee/historyteachin

DC friends!! Join us on this Sunday on the National Mall for a teach-in in defense of history and museums, ft. an all-star line-up! We’ll be there from sun-up to sun-down. More info here: linktr.ee/historyteachin

volk v cosmopolitan really does seem to be the cleavage now

This is nearly a weekly occurrence

Deputy AG Todd Blanche is threatening to arrest top California officials.

boy is that true. in 2022-3, burrito taxis going up got about ten thousand times more attention online than the fact that it was the best labor market for low income workers in like 60 years

Everyone is fixated on the children’s hospital thing but “children weren’t sick” is by far the more ignorant statement.

Children dying used to be horrifically more common, even in America and even in Rob’s time.

Say what you like about the Reichstag Fire but there was actually some fire.

They didn't just stand around claiming it was in flames as puzzled workers filed into it to go to work.

This was an excellent read, and this bit stands out as what's made me most worried over the last few years. The whole information environment is geared to making people angry, afraid or depressed, and before we get to anything as advanced as politics, that's terrible for our brains.

Phils ax white nationalist-supporting food vendor Emily Youcis, a popular food vendor at the Philadelphia Phillies' ballpark who supports the white nationalist movement, has been fired.

Do you know how racist you have to be to get fired from selling nuts at baseball games? After this happened, she went full tilt into the neo-Nazi movement -- and I mean "neo-nazi" in a pretty pure sense of that word, here.

www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

It’s hard to decipher but if you look closely you can find an alarming secret message in this headline