There’s nothing in the constitution that restricts juries to citizens. Federal and state laws do, but no court has ever held that those laws are required. www.stanfordlawreview.org/wp-content/u...
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There’s nothing in the constitution that restricts juries to citizens. Federal and state laws do, but no court has ever held that those laws are required. www.stanfordlawreview.org/wp-content/u...
Trofim Lysenko would like a word.
Our CrimPro prof gave us an article with a string cite of all suspicious behavior at an airport. I wish I could find it, but that was almost 20 years ago now. One bag, no bags, lots of bags, nervous, not nervous, pays in cash, pays with credit card, one way flight, round-trip flight …
Or Yarvin’s proposed solution to “welfare…” the racism is baked in. There’s NO WAY that Yarvin would support this neo-slavery if confronted with the fact that 16% of the rural population receives SNAP assistance versus 13% of urban residents.
The absolute intellectual bankruptcy of conservative thought is just astounding. The references to scholarly works and Roman society cover up for facts that simply don’t hold up to scrutiny. Like the second-hand claim that “25% of the girls in my school are furries or transgender or NB.”
@jd-vance-1.bsky.social Hey, Mr VP, you work with this guy. Why does he say things like this when it was Putin who invaded Ukraine and not the other way around? bsky.app/profile/atru...
7 plus, essentially 28, so, 35 really 38 countries …” The man maths like no other.
The 12 million who lose healthcare are abstract (and diffuse - 10-20 ppl per district). Depreciating jets is abstract. National guardsmen carrying weapons in the capitol is concrete. Illegally deporting someone is concrete. Canceling cancer research is concrete.
Or, is the problem that when we talk about language we’re conceding the Republican frame that we use off-putting language instead of the Democratic frame that people living on the streets is bad! LGBTQ is confusing? Discrimination against trans people is worse. Stop buying Republican frames!
“The democratic party often uses language that …” [Citation needed] For most of these words, they simply aren’t used by anyone. A handful (unhoused, food/housing insecurity, LGBTQ) are used by Democrats. But are our problems really about those handful of words?
You can’t ban speech that doesn’t present a real risk of imminent violence. But, what if you stoke your supporters to violence whenever they see, say, a flag burning. Checkmate, libs!
Funny
Who’s robbing these cars? The Incredible Hulk?
It’s super effed-up that he’s agreed to be deported to Costa Rica where he would get refugee status. But, apparently, the Trump DOJ tied that offer to a guilty-plea. So, as punishment, they’ll deport to Uganda.
Oh, and black maternal mortality ROSE after this article was written. www.axios.com/2025/02/06/b...
I found the original article and it’s low-key infuriating. No acknowledgement that the complained of language is to address DEATHS of “birthing people” or “women giving birth,” or whatever. Oh, and a dig at “implied bias training,” without acknowledging black women DIE MORE.
Yep - stop accepting the frame! Stop arguing on THEIR turf! Oh, we should say “homeless” and not “unhoused?” How about, “fuck you, people shouldn’t have to live on the streets?” Is that language good enough?
Kinda seems like focusing on the use of birthing people to police the tone is missing the point that we’re talking about MORTALITY RATES! Maybe the language problem is found there - clinical terms that allow the reader to obsess over gender-neutral language. Maybe say DEATH. People are DYING!
There are none so blind as those who will not see. Glenn was trained as a lawyer, so I KNOW he knows how to make distinctions based on facts. He chooses not to. Most powerful man in the world? Someone leaking to the press? Same thing to Glenn.
Glenn must have been TERRIBLE at those "spot the differences" puzzles on the backs of cereal boxes. - Billionaire, current president, defied subpoena and months-long effort to get return of documents - Shitty neocon, leaked to the press in opposition to the former Samesies!
I don't know if this is in this category or another one, but when I create a list of my favorites, if I could see their posts and their shares, etc.
There are a couple of accounts that I follow here that post their same content on ex-Twitter. On there, the first several to several dozen replies, well, if they’re not actually from the Nazi-region of France are certainly sparkling bigotry.
Those who disagree with me are unpersons doesn’t seem like the healthiest mindset.
The fact that you characterised what he said as believing “everyone in Twitter is ‘a nazi’” actually says more about you.
Do Democrats’ problems really boil down to those TWO words? Really?
The vast majority of the words on this list aren’t used by any politicians, much less by Democrats. Another large group are used mostly by R’s to mock Democrats. There are a handful that are actually used by Dem politicians - unhoused and LGBTQ being the big ones. bsky.app/profile/dcin...
Here’s an attempt to quantify the actual use of these terms. Most aren’t used at all by anyone. Some are used mostly by Republicans to mock Democrats. A few (unhoused) are used. bsky.app/profile/dcin...
Does David not have bootstraps he can pull himself up by?
They tried to charge him for treason again after the war. And he likely helped found the KKK. Certainly lots of Albert Pike KKK chapters throughout the country. Anyway, real shitheel. www.newburyhistory.org/blog/2023/7/...
I like that one of the first statues they’re going to reinstate is Albert Pike, who was accused of stealing money from the Confederacy, fled to the hills of Arkansas. Then was arrested on charges of treason AGAINST THE CONFEDERACY before being allowed to resign his command. Real winners.
I’m old enough to remember GOPAC’s memo on language in 1990, which listed words to avoid and also words to marginalize the opposition. Dems are only ever self-scolding. uh.edu/~englin/reph...
Compare this with GOPAC’s memo on Republican language in 1990. Their prescriptions included ways to make their policies sound good while also marginalizing the other side. (Call them “anti-child.) Dems are ONLY ever self-scolding. uh.edu/~englin/reph...
I think there might be a handful of these terms that occasionally sneak out of the intern’s drafts into the politician’s tweets, but not many. bsky.app/profile/jdcm...
Not Glenn Greenwald out here defending siccing federal agents on someone leaking classified documents to the press. He’d defend Nixon because Deep Throat was an execrable FBI goon (which he was).
The White House and its source, the Federalist, complain mightily about basic mentions of the controversy over transgender people in sports. The complained of exhibit says, basically, some say transgender athletes have an advantage, while critics say sex checks are humiliating.
They also have a problem with the CONCEPT of art. Here they whine about a painting of the Statue of Liberty not being depicted accurately. They complain that she holds a tomato aloft and a basket of tomatoes instead of a torch and tablet as she should.
Yep, any exhibit that doesn’t center cis-gender, white, able-bodied men is automatically suspect.
Uh yeah, Trump just hates black people. And anything that reminds people that slavery was pretty shitty. Just a reminder, as many as 2 MILLION people died in the Middle Passage.
The CEO of the parent company, or the parent company’s parent is Patrick Byrne - the tool who’s being sued for defaming Hunter Biden. And playing games with the court - trying hard to lose a default judgment.
The BB&B guy was saying they would be taking over the 300 Kirkland’s locations. But the parent company was saying they would be taking over 75. They have about 6-8 locations in CA, and no news about whether they’d be closing those or if they’d all become Overstock stores.
I hate app updates where they just say, “we’re always updating our app and making improvements.” And, what, specifically, are those improvements? What bugs did you “squash?” I’d like a detailed list, please.
Two. Some great motion there.
Haiti was the first nation to abolish slavery in 1804. Great Britain outlawed the slave trade in 1807, but didn't abolish slavery itself until 1838.
And some are ?? "He quotes precedent like it’s scripture, but his context game is weaker than a public defender's lunch break." This one hurts, though "He’s the kind of lawyer who thinks ‘case law’ means quoting Wikipedia with citations."
It offered, so I accepted its suggestion of all legal-themed burns. Some good "T Greg's legal takes are like hearsay — loud, secondhand, and usually inadmissible." Some meh: "T Greg loves the law so much, he married the sound of his own closing arguments."
This one starts out good, but then I think it goes off the rails: “If overexplaining were an Olympic sport, he’d DQ himself arguing with the judges.”
I asked it to step it up. And we got a little better: “T Greg Dou-sweat-it – the only cardio you do is running your mouth.” The one liners were better, too: “He’s like a legal Wikipedia page — if it were edited entirely by Reddit trolls.” chatgpt.com/s/t_689f6f99...
Here’s what I get when I ask ChatGPT to riff on your name: Tea Greg Decaf T-Rex Doubt-it T-Gripe Doucette Tread-dough-set “Greg Doucette? More like Greg Dou-sweat because he’s working too hard to be right.”
Mr Powell couldn’t talk to anyone in DC about their feelings? Kind of weird when he says that a mother in Ward 8 would feel safer with the national guard there.
Obama wasn’t in office an entire day before Republicans planned to obstruct EVERYTHING he did. www.theguardian.com/world/2012/a...
Republicans have operated in Congress as if every Democrat elected to President was illegitimate since 1992. And we act like every Republican won in a Reagan-landslide.
They want affirmative action for works and theses that have failed in the marketplace of ideas!
According to the article, Jim Crow has been cited > 19k times and Occidentalism > 90k times. Their critics have been cited around 600 and 1,500 times respectively. So, around 1-3% as often. And they’re pissed these aren’t cited in more than 3-5% of classes.
I just saw a “right wing grievance” article that complained that right-wing critics aren’t taught in when notable articles are assigned. The examples were “The New Jim Crow,” and “Occidentalism.” Both very influential pieces cited thousands of times. The critics have a fraction of that.
The people most likely to post TikToks about how their side would win the next civil war are also the ones most likely to talk about how scary homeless people are. Weird.
This is kind of hilarious: 1) the noted historical source, scale models 2) and which country built the Bismarck again?
Sorry, his questioning by Biden is around the 53 minute mark. His defense of Bork starts around 25 minute mark.
Gary Born testified before the Senate in defense of Bork. And this appears to be the memo he discusses with Biden in this clip from the testimony - starting around 53:00. www.c-span.org/program/sena...
Here it is, apparently: larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
Here's the question Kennedy put to Bork and his response. It does not seem to mischaracterize his stance that poll taxes could be okay if not racially discriminatory.
I would compare Senator Kennedy's criticism of Bork, that poll taxes are facially invalid, with Bork's defenders who note that the there was (allegedly) no evidence of discrimination in the poll taxes in Harper.
Notice the words in between these "" - those are quotes from Bork. And, they point to the exact page number they pulled those quotes from. Your source characterizes Bork's views (on poll taxes alone, by the way, not literacy tests).
And never once have I heard a Democrat argue, “we had to nominate this unqualified ideologue because you said Barack gave Michelle a ‘terrorist fist-bump.’”
The absolute whininess of complaining about Obama’s milquetoast attacks on Romney! I’m old enough to remember: - Clinton draft dodger - Whitewater - Willie Horton - Swift Boat Veterans
The flip side is in the Romney complaint. Bog-standard campaign attacks (Mitt’s private equity firm dismantled businesses and shipped jobs overseas) are seen as beyond the pale. Which is rich coming from the party of Willie Horton, Whitewater, and Swift Boat Veterans!
But, several of them, man, “don’t threaten me with a good time!” - Abolish ICE permanently - Launch pilot programs for government-run grocery stores in “underserved” neighborhoods - Abolish the electoral college And, my favorite: - Impeach Trump again, and again and again! I’m onboard!
We can’t trust what legislators say in their floor speeches when they talk about their intentions because, apparently, they don’t know how to read dictionaries. And we can’t trust what they say publicly because they’re just going to lie to the public.
The distinction between “original intent” and “original public meaning” seems to rest in large part on the assumption that all legislators are either idiots or liars, or, likely, both. See here. scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcont...
Anti-Griswold. Totally okay with poll taxes and literacy tests. The only good thing about him is that he was the last conservative nominee to be honest about his views.
1999: VCs and brokers approached me with maybe an $11B deal/ I just remembered my basic values, and I turned them down Not being altruistic, just basic Things have worked out better than I thought, by the time I pass, guessing my total contribution to stuff I believe in will be around one billion
It’s a very powerful and moving museum. Highly recommend.
If I’m reading the subpoena duces tecum correctly, it’s the club, GVC replying. But, I can’t tell which exhibit it is. Anyone have the link to the docket?
My, “Questions you want to ask about Nicosias racist “Juneteenth Spoof” mansion party” shirt is raising a lot of questions answered by the shirt.
It’s a 6 page brief with TWO uses of the phrase, “the bottom line…” And something is described as “part and parcel to their modus operandi…” That part hurt my head.
www.un.org/en/genocide-...
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group - Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part - Imposing measures intended to prevent births w/in the group - Transferring children of the group to others.
The number of people who think the crime of genocide means only killing - people who should definitely know better. It's any act committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or IN PART, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, and includes acts like: Killing but ALSO ...
Not a recipe, but a nice cheap addition to the Traeger is, ironically, a smoke-tube. You can’t have too much smoke and you already have the pellets.
I like that one of the first two statues they’ll be reinstalling is of Albert Pike, who is such a shitty guy he was briefly arrested for treason and insubordination BY THE CONFEDERACY! General Hindman had accused him of financial misconduct. www.alreporter.com/2025/08/07/s....
It appears a new attempt to inoculate against the charge of play-acting as historians is to claim that originalism is, by definition, merely “history-ish.” Indeed, maybe BAD history is BETTER than good history. Who’s to say? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
. @katemanne.bsky.social, by my lights the most important feminist philosopher in the world, makes a VERY compelling case that Donald Trump raped a 13-year-old girl. This includes terrifying details, but it must be read. open.substack.com/pub/katemann...
He’s not a very smart man.
They changed the subhead, to a less execrable, “Legal experts say THE ACTIONS CAUSING concern from the bench could have a more systemic effect, eroding the healthy functioning of the courts.” But that was a TERRIBLE flub!
There are societies that have gone a different way. Germany decided that maybe genocide was too high a price to pay and banned extremist parties. But, you know, they’re not really free.
Even posts directly linked to mob violence, like Wirathu posting about a “rumor of an alleged rape of a Buddhist girl by “Bengali-Muslim” men,” without an explicit call for violence is likely protected. Even if a “seemingly coordinated riot” occurs days later. www.theguardian.com/world/2013/a...
None of this appears to cross the line into incitement, even as actual murders are going on.
Contrast Facebook’s complicity with the genocide in Myanmar with this op-ed from FIRE. They’re right, most calls for genocide are legal. www.thefire.org/news/why-mos...
A few genocides every decade or two is just the price we have to accept for a free society. systemicjustice.org/article/face...
It would be so cool if free speech absolutists acknowledged that this is, at the very least, a very difficult problem. We’re a little less than a decade removed from a genocide fomented on Facebook. www.un.org/en/hate-spee...
"stick to menswear"
Sorry, a couple of employees? No wonder it's a legend.
Does he think books are like bananas? Like iPhones? That they'll go bad? Become obsolete? That's we'll get food poisoning if we read a book written in 2023 rather than 2025?
That's a SINGLE sentence?
Wow, that is a REALLY hard passage to read! So many asides and parentheticals.
That’s some impressive lawyering! To find that thread in a discovery dispute and weave it into the narrative of corporate malfeasance is very difficult.
Meta-analysis shows a 52% accuracy rate for AI systems in medical diagnoses. So, I eagerly anticipate Yascha’s next article, “the Peculiar Persistance of the Coin-flip Denialists.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...
He ended up at Mayo Clinic. So, he might have been mediocre as an undergrad, but must have acquitted himself well at med school.
Wouldn’t starvation and malnutrition affect the most vulnerable populations, like those with pre-existing health conditions first, most noticeably, and worst?