(A) incredible and (B) an excuse to post this

Bless your heart

That they'll vote blue no matter who?

The Discourse on the Tilly Norwood profile is turning me into the Joker. Do people just not read things anymore, before they comment on them?

This is immensely troubling. And it should be noted that the recently passed federal police accountability law only covers RCMP and CBSA, not CSIS.

A few weeks ago I offered a short seminar on senior poverty and public pensions. The notes are sometimes useful, so I am posting them here: open.substack.com/pub/tammysch...

[Something] the rich, for sure

This is precisely what intellectual property law is supposed to prevent. AI-boosters claim the law needs to "catch up" to tech, but the truth is that they engage in a form of mystagogy, in which they breach established legal standards but claim to be innovating.

The Iran deal is 95% done (unweighted)

I’m confused. Are centrists now advocating to *not* vote for the Democratic candidate after they win the primary and instead protest by not voting or voting for a third party? I thought one is supposed to “vote blue no matter who”.

Her blatant hypocrisy aside, Smith betrays a lack of understanding how the Constitution works. Section 35 is part of the Constitution Act, 1982, but it is not part of the Charter. It expresses that a reconciliation process w/Indigenous nations is a condition of getting to have a Constitution at all!

I hope there's an effort to make this a test case for recognizing the tort of malicious prosecution as part of federal common law...

HATING AI IS GOOD! I have believed this. It’s good to have beliefs. To believe in the human brain and its worth. To work to preserve our dignity as a creative species.

Oh yeah: my standup comedy special Path of Most Resistance just now finally broke even on the budget expenses, so if you watch it from here on out I might start seeing the first payout from it (thousands and thousands of cents) … youtu.be/pJ5DFrdOyig

It's a pro-social, even radical, act to: - bring back the family restaurant - work toward curtailing work-creep from encroaching workers' free time, to facilitate their (our!) right to a social life

Australia is just hot Canada (and vice versa)

Really incredible stuff.

Exhibit infinity: the GOP does not actually care about "states' rights". They simply want whatever constitutional formation makes welfare policies impossible to administer and punitive/extractive policies impossible to prevent.

The sharpest satirical voice of the moment

In case you haven’t heard we are all boycotting REI until they respect the union. Please spread the word.

The US yearns for Roncarelli v Duplessis (canlii.ca/t/22wmw)

I'm confused by the position Sam is taking. Does he not think the LIRR union should have the right to strike? Does he think it should only be exercised in certain conditions? (if so, dictated by the employer? by the law?) What replaces the right strike, so they are not prone for exploitation?

They need to cut down on avocado toast in provisions

bitch, lover, child, mother, sinner, saint

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The Supreme Court of Canada just recognized intimate partner violence as a tort, broadening pathways to remedy for people experiencing relationship abuse

Brutally frame mogged

This bill materially undermines the constitutional presumption of innocence. That the US regards cash bail as normal is one thing, but to criminalize people's efforts to facilitate a detained person's access to their liberty means that arrest, not conviction, effectively means guilt.

This might do it. This might finally turn me into the joker.

Who tries the DOJ for perjury? (I guess this makes clear how contempt ought rightly be the last remaining common law crime...)

Making an official announcement: I would be fully cool with this

It should not be revolutionary or radical that an essential aspect of democratic governance is engagement with and justification to the public. It's not just about campaigning; this is the essence of a democracy.

salute to @arunviswanath.bsky.social for this excellent catalogue he made of his great-grandmother Lifshe Schaechter-Widman's Yiddish song recordings

It's funny, because in Canada we're facing the consequences of legislative sovereignty (which is more constrained than supremacy!), where the Constitution can be overridden by the will of the Government. I don't think US liberals appreciate the risk of throwing the baby out w/the bathwater.

This is why, for Acharei Mot-Kedoshim, it's the unique case that the first parsha's Haftarah is read. The one for Kedoshim is the subject matter of the pericope below, and the Rabbis found it too mean to Jerusalem.

This point can also be applied to the super-wealthy, who are surrounded by nothing but yes-men

The decline of American society is captured by this image/article: before, to pay your fair share and contribute to society's functioning was seen as patriotic. Now, the wealthy see any effort to ensure their contribution as a personal and unfair attack. A genuine civic tragedy.

EDIT: "The reporter should have [reported]"

This is an interesting (and, in this case, disturbing) aspect of a unitary government system. Local elections correlate to national political sentiment, as there is no divergence depending on level of government.

A halfhearted Yes cover band called Sure

The future we are entitled to is one where there is a new "Nice Guys" movie out every other year, alternating with a new Hamm/Mottola "Fletch" flick every other year

What goyish nonsense is this

What is the story here? The story is that conservatives like something. That is not news; that's marketing.

Not to be too constitutionalist or lib-pilled, but... it actually makes perfect sense. The constitutional monarchy of Canada (or the UK) is a model that has constrained executive power through devolutions and conventions. It's American presidentialism that runs the risk of tyranny.

What's so outrageous about this (& the conservative [legal] movement in general) is that the scandal is that there's criticism of the Court at all. It's the critique that undermines its legitimacy rather than the Court's actual conduct that is blatantly political & runs roughshod over longheld norms

Ah, so some gender affirming care *is* ok for minors, after all

Obama is right that politicians should directly describe what affects Americans, but Democrats don't complexify the diagnosis but rather the prognosis. What simple & comprehensible solution would his imagined candidate pose? It is the Dems' favoured means-tested tax break that needs to be abandoned.

Personally, I think corruption undermines democracy (for the most part) and should rightly be opposed by a candidate seeking to reëstablish democratic norms.