I don't think Thinking Basketball ever misses, but here he *particularly* doesn't miss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NWD...

AI has some good uses already, but it's certainly not universally useful & in no way shape or form profitable. But there is a lot of nuance and it's a technical topic. What shouldn't be hard to grasp is that companies try to make their product addictive. It's a design feature.

In layman's terms, these two Trump appointed judges want arguments for the proposition that only the Trump justice department can investigate if the Trump justice department broke the law when it possibly lied and and disobeyed the judicial branch.

It's not that it's not a bill of attainder. It's just that these three (Biden appointed) appeals court judges *like* the attainder!

At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The whole point of my post is that “interim” isn’t either (1) accurate or (2) neutral as a discussion of what the Court is doing in the relevant subset of cases. The term “merits” docket seems to have neither of those shortcomings.

At this point I'm not interested (almost universally) in donating or campaigning for anyone who doesn't support court reform or supports current congressional leadership. Those are my lines because I don't think anything meaningful can happen without them.

To put that into yet more perspective: In the chart below, the purple area is too early (the law does not exist) and the red part is too late (the Supreme Court's newest Purcell principle). The pink bit is both too early and too late. The green part is when you should sue.

(1) New essay and blog post up that are coauthored with the great @jedshug.bsky.social We bring together a decade of scholarship to argue that the quasi-judicial category is both consistent w/ original public meaning and synonymous with a deeper Anglo-American “history and tradition.”

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

The best case for legal realism is that the supreme court majority act like legal realists. The facts and rules don't matter, it's all power.

The court repeatedly acknowledged the presumption of good faith, but explained that all of the evidence pointing to racial motivations overcame it. The bill's authors compiled a legislative record "replete with racial statistics!"

Also!!!! The two things SCOTUS said the district court failed to consider were … addressed by the district court. More persuasively than SCOTUS

The main institutions of the Federal Government—White House, Supreme Court and Congress—are in complete shambles.

Texas & DOJ said that’s what was going on! So apparently the way to stop discriminating on the basis of race is to … allow some discrimination on the basis of race when it’s to secure Republicans electoral advantage. Just lawless partisan hackery. No fact finding deference. No legal basis.

As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?

An aspect I see being under reported The report from current & former FBI SAs about Patel & Bongino does paint them as feckless, vain, know nothings. But the tenor of the report makes it clear the authors wish more capable ppl were there to make the FBI more right-wing. nypost.com/2025/11/30/o...

The only narrow crack seems to be (1) if an appeals court just overrules this or (2) if the district court appoints a new interim US attorney and the new attorney decides to indict within the 6-month 'do over' grace period.

Slot had 2 weeks off to implement changes. All the players on international duty looked great. How come #LFC look the same they have for 2 months?

Last month I wrote about two new papers presenting the new Taiwan Precision Medicine Initiative (TPMI), a resource with genetic and EHR data from about half a million participants. This was special as my mom went to NTU & worked in some of these medical centers. 🇹🇼 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This isn't that complicated. Both Plaskett and Trump should resign!

Here's how I think the "Epstein Files" stuff will play out: Senate will pass the bill. Trump may not even veto, but if he does it will gets overridden. DOJ will then release an extremely limited set of heavily redacted files. Patel and Bondi may end up in a cong. hearing and act sanctimonious.

I just remembered this from Glenn Kessler 3 months ago

Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."

First time on Bsky and first big announcement! I am excited to announce that our new study explaining the missing heritability of many phenotypes using WGS data from ~347,000 UK Biobank participants has just been published in @Nature. Our manuscript is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....

This was me! I was a "whole language" kid in the 90s! I have a vivid memory of a middle school English teacher telling us that she was going to "close the doors, shut the blinds, and teach us some parts of speech".

So it's just a complete coincidence that the only people who voted to cave are people *not* up for reelection soon? I think it's a safe bet that there were many more senate dems who wanted to cave, but also didn't want it to hurt them electorally. I think Schumer as Chamberlain is most apt.

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social can we get a minute by minute update on your reaction to every twist and turn of this Seattle mayor vote count?

All these feelings and plans are besides the point. It's far past time Schumer and Durbin stepped away from leadership (and hopefully the senate as well).

Donnarumma had a clear view, Robertson ducks out of the way and doesn't interfere. That has to be a goal.

Support for court reform should be necessary to win a democratic primary at this point.

NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work. Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours. She was later released with NO CHARGE. A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”. You decide…

Gettleman calls some of the alleged conditions "disgusting." "To have to sleep on a floor next to an overflow toilet, that's obviously unconstitutional," he says. But that doesn't amount to a ruling yet. We're just getting started.

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

Was absolutely the best chess educator out there and created tons of great content. Also seemed like a genuinely decent person. It was tough to watch him struggle with all of the drama over this past year. Really sucks that he is gone.

This is torture. Naroditsky was perhaps the best chess educators ever. He had been posting seemingly healthy a couple days ago and then all of his Twitch streams were deleted. My heart goes out to his family

Slot is out of leeway. You can't try to install almost an entirely new starting 11 *and* a new style. Szobo, Chiesa, and Grav only people playing well and two of them are forced to play defense for half of every game and the other cant get on the field.

A main organizer of VC Defensa in Ventura County was rammed in his vehicle by federal agents and taken into custody this morning. This video is from VC Defensa IG and shows the ramming. Organizers are thinking he’ll be taken to LA MDC—headed there now

The goal shouldn't be to set everything back to the 2015 status quo. FIX THE DAMN PROBLEMS THAT WERE EXPLOITED

90 minutes in and I'll make the "bold" decision that the court rules 6-3 for petitioners and effectively says "section 2 still stands, but you must apply strict scrutiny and that's impossible."

I don't like this.

lmfao

I just want to point out that Kash Patel is again wearing an LFC (Liverpool Football Club) tie. Liverpool is famously one of the most left wing and pro-socialist cities in the UK.

Why is Ron Johnson running a solo hearing about vax? Why don't dems show up? And why is the one non-anti-vax witness not better prepared by who invited him? He's clearly knowledgeable and an experienced dr/scientist, but woefully unprepared for a conspiracy theorist to be grilling him for hours.

but more than anything I think these people have absolutely shot to shit "vote blue no matter who" as an entire concept, and done so of their own volition. which kinda sucks if you think "more and better democrats" is part of the path out of this mess!

Quick reactions are missing a broader point. This court does not care about racial discrimination as long as you dont write it down or have it as an official policy. I think most of the majority here is happy to say "hey look they just happen to be latino!". Would be nice if they explained tho.

Want to reiterate that this is RFK jrs dream job. It's his lifelong dream. There is absolutely no circumstance under which he resigns. None.

I think it's important ti remember that this is RFK jrs dream job. No matter what people think, he's not quitting.

An appeals court saying (w/o it really being argued) that the executive branch is the only thing that can sue to stop the executive branch from brazenly illegally impounding funds is just wild. Pure and aggressive partisanship from two GOP judges.