Justin Hayward California

Throwing away a lot of old lecture notes from a file cabinet. But then I wonder, what if overhead projector transparencies have a comeback, like cassette tapes?...

He wasn't the perfect dad, but he was there when his son really needed him.

2026 @amyklobuchar.com Pride Month tracker, Day 20. Nothing. 10 days left. 2026 stats: Posts supporting Pride: 1 (recycled) Posts supporting trans rights: 0

It would be an extraordinary step, but perhaps the Senate needs to get a quorum together and expedite approval of Jay Clayton as DNI--a pragmatic step to try to prevent massive damage.

Like, do we use too many em-dashes?

Poor Marco is still wearing those huge shoes--so large that the cuff of his shoe falls into it. Just ridiculous.

Just did some OG Looksmaxxing. Well, I got a haircut but that doesn't sound as cool.

Big banner with a Teddy quote about courage on the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building, headquarters of OPM. Only discrepancy is that the 26th president never said this.

I think the "FT" means they aren't going to find that breakthrough.

It's so heart-warming to see a city that otherwise doesn't have much going for it, like Oklahoma City last year, to finally have something to celebrate.

It's going to be a bumper crop of swallowtail butterflies in our garden this year.

Wonder of wonders, some Einstein came up with an innovative new strategy.

I took the dogs out for a long walk at half-time, with the game well in hand. Wha'd'I miss?

About 30 years ago, I interviewed a securities lawyer who described the philosophy of disclosure in American capital markets as: "If your prospectus says, 'We are going to defraud you,' that's fine, as long as the investors know." Now that's pretty much what we're doing.

NEW: In February, I visited Raw Farm. You may have heard of it. RFK Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow are customers. It supplies raw dairy products to 500 stores nationwide. And regulators have linked it to over a dozen recalls and outbreaks that have made hundreds sick. 🧵👇

I just received the terribly distressing news that Gordon Wood was hit by a car and killed yesterday. We were together with other Founding era scholars at the 2nd Judicial Circuit conference last week at Lake George, and he was as usual in fine fettle and as always enjoyable to talk to.

I have a longer thing I'm working on about this, with more data and stuff, but the key thing folks need to know: anyone on the left *CANNOT WIN* with any kind of content on platforms where the right owns the algorithm. Not just in politics — in entertainment media, or anything else.

Consider all that Russia's military (as flawed as it is) has thrown against Ukriane *for four years* without eliminating Ukraine's domestic industrial capacity. And he'd have us believe this?

But don't worry, the tech bros trying to rule the world are geniuses.

It probably doesn't help @amyklobuchar.com in the Minnesota DFL primary to have centrist governors Mikie Sherill and Abigail Spanberger showing exactly what you get when you vote for that.

Does anyone remember the Old Days when people talked about ideas and policies? You need to be of a certain age, and even then the memories are fading.

My favorite type of post is seeing what people are reading. Here's my summer reading list here, minus a few older ones. @juliabowes.bsky.social, @profferguson.bsky.social, and @unlawfulentries.bsky.social included!

I am *so relieved* to read this, because my stupid party trick is rapping the entirety of "Principal's Office", and if I couldn't stomach Young MC's politics, I don’t know what else I have.

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What was true in the Soviet Union is true in the Republican Party: Smart. Sincere. Ambitious. You can only pick two.

They say free press keeps everyone honest. Reality: Foreign billionaire's 25-year-old daughter, whose only prior donation was $20 to Buttigieg, drops $3.5M into Trump PAC. Dad's bribery case? Vanishes into a full pardon. This is straight-up illegal. ... campaignlegal.org/update/seeki...

My German-American family traditions, for the win.

Have you been injured? #slushfund

Most people try to exact retribution, but Trump is just a poser trying to enact retribution.

This is not complicated. Older folks aren't using AI or seeing it affect their work as much. Youth are tech adopters and are seeing peers use and abuse it. We know in other surveys that people see AI users as lazy--an all too familiar problem for classmates seeing AI use everywhere.

The first emoluments lawsuits were filed in January 2017, and ultimately went nowhere. In my book, that was the crossroads, when it became clear that the legal system would prove no obstacle to this regime.

This sounds serious. Should judges be mogging defendants? What is the history and tradition of mogging in Anglo-American law? Does the Code of Judicial Conduct need to be updated to account for mogging?

That saying about the Dildo of Consequences is getting more literal.

This will undoubtedly be shown in classes for years to come.

We don’t talk enough about how the Trump admin has just removed women and people of color from all the front lines of government.

America's chief Middle East negotiator - Jared Kushner - is almost completely dependent on Middle East government investment in his chief business. It's probably the biggest conflict of interest in American diplomatic history and we should be talking about this way more.

Literally a heist from government coffers and/or de jure instead of de facto impunity for tax crimes. We fought a revolution to not be ruled by a king.

Doing research on corruption in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Found a FB post from Stars and Stripes promoting its report on the Pentagon awarding the $1 billion contract to run the Ft. Bliss detention facility to a tiny company in Virginia. Clicked on the link. The report is gone.

The Minnesota State Fair may want a backup for Rod Stewart's late summer grandstand show for when he is denied entry to the U.S....

Child protective services ripped a 14-year-old from her home to stop her from leaving the state for an abortion. They also threatened her mother with murder charges and the removal of her other child if they crossed state lines for care. So please don't tell me Republicans aren't banning travel.

<Everything> else - whatever Kitchen Table or civil rights or other policy issue you care about - <follows> from fixing our broken institutions & having multiparty majoritarian democracy. <All> of it. We keep doing it backwards, thinking Just One Popular Policy will fix it. It’s a category error.

I got summoned to jury duty, requiring arrival at the courthouse at 7:15 a.m., downtown. 7:15 a.m.! That's about the time I had to show up for a colonoscopy. That's just obnoxious.

A political cartoon in the Chattanooga Times Free Press

"Disbar Brendan Carr!" has a nice ring to it.

I'm guessing that the White House is saying that it will "guide" ships through the Strait of Hormuz only because Donald doesn't want to sully the trademark on the Trump Escort Service the family business might want to run.

James Talarico: We are living in an era of corruption. I don’t just mean illegal activity. I mean corruption in the deeper sense — the rotting of something from the inside. This is, at its root, a spiritual crisis. And it will require a spiritual solution.

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!