If right wing tech bros keep naming companies after Tolkien characters, do I get to call them Barrow Wight Nationalists?

everyone dunking here has homework due in 30 minutes explaining to me what magnets are

The laws of war are not mere niceties. They are lessons from centuries of blood agreed upon to keep the world more stable. Violating them isn’t hero cop who cuts through red tape to get things done, it’s psycho cop who crosses lines in ways even the rule benders find appalling and must be stopped.

This will only encourage spaghetti snuggling, penne piracy, cavatappi contraband, black market bucatini, tortellini tax evasion, and the like. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

This is 100% true. I’m in Manhattan today for work and they made me convert to Islam before I was allowed to purchase my BEC and coffee this morning. Inshallah I’m able to get a slice of pizza tonight because the ration lines are so long.

NYT: Dems underperforming in rectilinear counties

Instagram Farben www.businessinsider.com/palantir-ceo...

Every time I see a story premised on the presumably surprising idea of rotund, happy-looking whales holding their own against mean, scary-looking sharks, I feel compelled to remind people that orcas WEAR A DISGUISE. The orca is the ONE WHO KNOCKS.

Law Profs teaching First Amendment: I have put together a FREE, recently updated, and easy to use casebook for use in free speech classes. If you are interested in using such a casebook, send me an email or DM and I would be happy to share!

One of the slave power secessionist complaints was that Northern juries kept acquitting people who obstructed the Fugitive Slave Act. But even when the bastards had the federal government on their side, there was no way around the Sixth Amendment's requirement of not just a jury but a local one.

It's actually a credit to the strength of our civil society that we're not treating ICE officers the way they're asking to be treated on sight.

YOU SEE THIS CLEARING WE’RE SITTING IN? SOMEONE CLEARED THIS LAND FOR AGRICULTURE A WHILE AGO. ITS ONGOING USE FOR FOOD PRODUCTION EACH YEAR HAS A CARBON COST, BECAUSE IF IT WASN’T PRODUCING FOOD, IT WOULD LOOK LIKE THOSE TREES OVER THERE, WHICH STORE MORE CARBON. THE FOREGONE SEQUESTRATION CAN BE

I almost can’t believe this. I spend an absurd amount of time litigating pre-enforcement standing in the 6th Circuit, which makes establishing pre-enforcement standing near impossible. *En banc,* the 6th Circuit just blessed pre-enforcement standing in a culture war case with wafer-thin analysis.

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

The Prosecco bottles can break or shatter posing a laceration hazard I always turn the car around

Being escorted out of the garden center for repeatedly referring to the annuals section as "depleted geraniums"

They're eating the evidence!

we’re going to live in a world where this is true, and a country where it isn’t

“Women don’t belong in the workplace” is a delusion of the nineteenth century, and particularly of the upper classes. In preindustrial Europe, the home was commonly the workplace, and everyone worked. Until very recently, the workplace has always been everyone’s.

The Prosecco bottles can break or shatter posing a laceration hazard I always turn the car around

On tariffs at SCOTUS www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Imagine being one of the (amazing, hardworking) people behind Sierra's decades-long Beyond Coal program of political and legal work and then having to deal with this.

I love that Mamdani is doing his press conference right in front of the Unisphere, like he's filming a sequel to the Space Olympics video.

consistent libertarians exist and they look like @ilyasomin.bsky.social

Worst FIFA Ultimate Team ever

sdklfj Gorsuch asked a question like, so if the pres unliterally declared a 50% tariff on all gas-powered vehicles to respond to the unusual & extraordinary threat of global warming? DOJ says well we'd say that's a hoax & not a threat Gorsuch dripping w condescension goes I'm sure you would lmao

Gorsuch admitting that Major Questions is an atextual appeal to raw, unprincipled exercise of judicial power. (not really, but sort of)

Lafayette saw the prisoners freed from the Bastille and later spent 5 years in an Austrian dungeon. He told all the Philadelphia city leaders, architects, and prison reformers as politely as he could that they didn't know what they were talking about when it came to solitary confinement.

A lot of people probably won't get how finely crafted this joke is and how many layers it has, applause to Jane

Does the ring work in Common, or just the Black Speech of Mordor? www.wired.com/story/sandba...

Tweets people have been dying to send for weeks, ranked: 3) Mamdani won't be able to govern, him winning doesn't mean much. 2) CIA+DSA=Popular Front 1) Winsome, lose some

“'Some complaints are just rants with almost no evidence or detail,' noted Darryl Li, a professor at the University of Chicago and co-author of the report. 'Government civil rights enforcement is now being driven by the equivalent of a YouTube comment section.'”

The fact that Democrats won both elections yesterday for the Georgia Public Service Commission is remarkable enough (no Democrat had won a non-federal statewide race in GA since 2006). But both won by a margin of 63% to 37%. In Georgia. results.sos.ga.gov/results/publ...

Remember how SCOTUS applied the nondelegation doctrine in only 2-3 cases early in the New Deal era and then kinda forgot about it? Wondering if MQD will have a similarly brief role in history.

Public Utilities Commissioners are climate policymakers and we finally started acting like it

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BTW, I would really like @consumerreports.org to watch this video and perhaps start breathing down the necks of those big companies for forcing everyone into using pre-dosed products. That's the opposite of pro-consumer, imo. youtu.be/DAX2_mPr9W8

In which I respond to William Barr's arguments for preempting climate suits. reason.com/volokh/2025/...

This is a good start, but people should also be free to drive on whatever side of the highway feels appropriate to them.

It’s fascinating how the Very Serious Person climate discourse has almost entirely erased any reference to the proximate cause of the climate crisis: The production and combustion of fossil fuels.

Bad for America. Great for every public schools not in Florida.

People and the government are making it harder to build clean energy

“Antitrust law is bad for fish.” 🐟 Jonathan Adler explains how well-meaning regulations sometimes block fishers from saving their own fisheries. 🎙️ On Taboo Trades: Market-based conservation, from sardines to whales. 🎧

This is like justifying a limited nuclear exchange on the basis that the American people somehow elected Michael Buffer president

A little too on the nose.

It’s not up to him. It is prohibited by the Constitution, to which Tuberville (god help us) is tasked through Article I with ensuring fidelity.

world-nuclear-news.org/articles/san... VC Summer might get a second shot at 2 AP1000's after an abandoned boondoggle in the 2010's, and TerraPower passes another milestone toward construction permit. Another review still pending for Dec 2025. interestingengineering.com/energy/terra...

Has anyone made a battery-buffered kettle? I want a lithium battery to charge slowly and safely all day, then dump the power of the sun into a pot of water in the morning to make tea or coffee in seconds.

Look how much state capacity is in one picture--and how easy it is to lose it.