If you're looking for the helpers, you are far more likely to find them in the people on the street filming abuses than amongst the ranks of Senior Policy Advisors.

People are out there filming the abusive feds, LITERALLY putting their lives on the line and making themselves bigger targets than anyone else. And this guy is going "they're not resisting, they're just there for the content." Deeply unserious.

FFS.

OK, everyone - The Litigation Disaster Tourism Hour is live now. Let's look at terms of service, the rights you give to companies in those terms of service, and why YOU SHOULD REALLY READ THE DANG THINGS!! twitch.tv/questauthority

Oh, right - the stream on reading TOS at 18:00 pacific today will be at twitch.tv/questauthority

I'll be dong a brief stream today at my 16:00, which is 18:00 on the west coast and 21:00 eastern. The topic will be "Terms of Service, for the love of all things holy, unholy, and mundane, please read them."

Remember, kiddos, it's 'sparkling authoritarianism.' If you use the other word, you make the metaexpert pedant almost as sad as he would be if you took your shoes off during a long-haul flight.

I keep emphasizing this point because I am worried that some US citizens who are doing rapid response may have the false belief that it is illegal for ICE/Border Patrol to arrest them, and out of this incorrect belief respond in ways that make it *more likely* they get arrested or brutalized.

Don't worry if the tide goes out Don't worry if the sun goes down Don't worry if you get caught in the rain Don't worry if the fish don't bite Don't worry it'll be alright Don't worry you can throw your net again

Look for the helpers. Faced with evil, watch for the decent people standing against it.

Don't worry if the tide goes out Don't worry if the sun goes down Don't worry if you get caught in the rain Don't worry if the fish don't bite Don't worry it'll be alright Don't worry you can throw your net again

When I was in law school, we talked about this in contracts 1L year. An example of such a party was provided: Donald Trump.

/2 Trumpian America is like that. If other countries — or domestic organizations do business with the U.S., it should not be under a delusion that America will abide by a treaty or agreement or international law or even It’s own law. Trump America is “fuck you, we do what we want.”

3/3 This deal is illegible to normal folks. You were not meant to understand it. I am an int'l tax law professor and I barely understand it. This is intended. Even if people tell you it isn't and this is all just the outcome of negotiations. The OECD might make a CLS scholar out of me.

These are fundamentally broken people.

If your fundraising tactic is misleading people, I don't want you in office.

Fun fact: In the novel, Frank is described as occasionally preaching (back home) at the Church of the Nazarene.

My god, Frank Burns is the most on the nose reference for this.

The casebook First Amendment decision that's going to come out of this is going to be amazing.

Got my first mini of the year done last night. It's a necromunda squat bounty hunter I primed years ago, then couldn't decide how to paint. Ninjon recently previewed his Deck of Many Colors - cards with art and 5 suggested paints from the art. Used a sample card from the video. #miniaturepainting

I don’t use blocklists but if someone would make one listing every pointless shitbird who piled on Parker Malloy and made her leave, I would subscribe.

Stuck my arm into a gap between rocks to stop myself from sliding further down a steep slope, grabbed something soft and furry that went berserk and started biting the shit out of my hand. Also, can confirm that there are wallabies in Hawaii.

Got my first mini of the year done last night. It's a necromunda squat bounty hunter I primed years ago, then couldn't decide how to paint. Ninjon recently previewed his Deck of Many Colors - cards with art and 5 suggested paints from the art. Used a sample card from the video. #miniaturepainting

Imani wins.

Bold, assuming that this is a copy editing issue.

The Rail is truly coming of age here in Honolulu. I just saw my first fare-evading yoots. Unfortunately for the two yoots, so did a couple of aunties, who proceeded to give them a thorough telling-off while they stood waiting for the elevator. Rookie mistake. They should have used the stairs.

Here's my most controversial internet law take: Section 230 was a well-intentioned mistake. It probably gave us much faster internet development than we otherwise would have seen. But it prevented the reasonable development of the common law and incentivized platform irresponsibility.

Here's my most controversial internet law take: Section 230 was a well-intentioned mistake. It probably gave us much faster internet development than we otherwise would have seen. But it prevented the reasonable development of the common law and incentivized platform irresponsibility.

1: It should be the site's speech. 2: courts have been interpreting 'user speech' so broadly for so long that I'm not confident that it is. 3: legislative reform is badly overdue.

Sad trombone was one of the first to make me regret coming here, and that's not hylerbole.

Wait, did Sky Marchini get brigaded into deactivating because people were mad that Sad Trombone Karl, famous occupier of space and consumer of time, got himself suspended for threatening to dox people? What the hell?

This might be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen

This is intended to chill the speech of all military retirees.

4/ Look three steps ahead. Now that the U.S. has triggered an "international armed conflict," Venezuelan nationals residing in the USA are "protected persons" under Geneva Convention IV. Several significant legal implications flow from that. ...

They really are. But also: DHS is a rogue agency that routinely acts in unlawful ways. It cannot be reformed. It must be abolished.

The ultimate root problem here is that the American public chose to vote in a dementia-addled narcissist, all the more serious people in the room who were there to keep him at least partially in check the first time around resigned, so now there are only racist enablers in the room.

For those inclined to make the same arguments as the dipshit I just blocked: 1: The US involvement in the overthrow of Hawaii was obviously illegal at the time, not just in retrospect. 2: If you need something to be "among the most" bad things we've done to get outraged, that's a you problem.

I agree it's illegal, but I think it would still be wrong even if it were legal.

I'm not a fan of yesterday's "military misadventure," but I'm also writing from a state that was a nation before American business interests conspired with the American ambassador to secure the help of American Marines to overthow the government. "Among the most"? Pressing 'f' to doubt.

You’re Article I; Act Like It™️ (All the best slogans have semicolons. The next-best have em-dashes.)

The only good thing about Karl is that "all he can" is severely handicapped by his deep commitment to the principles of the "you and them should fight" ethos.

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Schrödinger's Doomerism bsky.app/profile/ryan...

You can be part of the solution or you can be herbie.

Yes!! It's actually really clear that Trump, in his second term, does not view his power as deriving from, and therefore limited by, the Constitution

Insane flex apnews.com/article/zohr...

Fuckaduck.

Lot of people gonna be reading and talking about US v. Noriega, 117 F.3d 1206 (11th Cir 1997) this weekend. Some possibly competently.

Yes.