Crime rates dropped across much of the U.S. in 2025. That was true for both property and violent crime. And it declined nearly everywhere: In big cities and small towns, and in red and blue states. n.pr/4jlKpZ2

Ik ging ideologisch met de billen bloot: youtube.com/watch?v=fQ-L...

This one was fun to write: did 2025 put a final stake thru the heart of the process school? Or was it maybe the beginning of a revival? (Take our course this spring for more!) @yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social @samuelmoyn.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...

".. In the last four months, the European Union spent 7% less on buying oil and gas from the United States, despite Donald Trump’s pledge to purchase American energy resources worth $750 billion over three years." #PinkyPromise @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/c961...

From earlier this year - analysis of the legal status of Greenland, by Prof Ulla Neergaard

We zijn hier weer aanbeland. Neem ‘t serieus.

Holy shit practically the entire Heritage legal center resigned www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusi...

"Heritage American Foundation" seems to be where this is headed

Trump: "We're gonna need the help of robots and other forms of uhhhh, I guess you could say employment. We're gonna be employing a lot of artificial things."

Justice Department sues DC, saying residents should be allowed to have AR-15s

Dubbel sneue gast

Amerika trekt zich terug uit de wereld en of zuivert het ambassadeur korps. 30 carriere diplomaten v ambassadeursposities ontheven. Trump removes nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial positions apnews.com/article/dipl... removes nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial positions

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

While President Trump has lagged behind his predecessors in the number of official appearances in his second term in office, he has relentlessly pursued the public’s attention in other ways on a daily, and sometimes even hourly, basis, a New York Times analysis shows. trib.al/nf83ouc

My lord, when you’ve lost Josh Blackman

Not me. Sorry, not sorry.

Trump to make announcement today after latest oil tanker seizure

EU and Japan agree on Japanese association with Horizon Europe research programme - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

HASSETT: If the Supreme Court doesn't find with us, refunds would go to whoever cut the check for the tariff BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that? HASSETT: Uhh --

Apart from anything else, this is just an extraordinary thing for a guy with a Hindu wife and Indian-American kids to say. What is young Vivek Chilikuri Vance going to think when he hears his dad say this?

Ik geef Amerika nog niet helemaal op

JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"

”slaves” and ”owners” & “slavecraft” — it’s beyond twisted. Not just Epstein. Amazon made it easy for him to study these dark arts he practiced on girls.

“it’s goals and student expectations; its grading plan; and any required purchases.“ We should defeat this but there’s been a movement to simplify syllabi by posting links to sections. I’ve done this and lots of my assignments are written as reading packet 1 (on Blackboard) or assignment 1.

Not exactly a Xmas merrymaking post, but I wrote something on the changing environment for international academics in the Netherlands and how it has changed over the last 10 years: open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...

Eigenljk had ik het gisteren allemaal al voorspeld... 😉 www.trouw.nl/buitenland/w...

Laten we het hopen.

this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member

Afgestompt en moreel ambivalent. Politiek is entertainment en ze zijn op zoek naar authentieke leiders. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...

Op die andere site al een draadje hierover gedaan, maar de scheidlijnen worden steeds zichtbaarder: Israel/antisemitisme, het kamp 'heritage Americans' (WASPs) en het kampe'creedal nation' (Amerika als idee). En je raadt al wie aan welke kant staan. > www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

"Counterintelligence specialists were asked to drop nearly all of their other work to process the Epstein documents, two people said, but some lawyers declined to participate." www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/p...

Rep. Elise Stefanik stuns by dropping out of NY governor race, retiring from Congress

It was Oct 17 when the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to immediately allow it to deploy the National Guard in Chicago. On Oct 29, the court asked for additional briefing. Since then, nothing.

Not an “understanding.” The law.

Over no public dissents, #SCOTUS *denies* Trump administration's application for a stay in the immigration judges case (about whether the dispute should be in a district court or before the Merit Systems Protection Board). It's the Trump administration's first real loss at #SCOTUS since April.

The case against releasing the Epstein files www.vox.com/policy/46946...

Politiek standpunt: Als Kennedy-adept verzet ik mij hierbij officieel tegen de (onofficiele) naamsverandering van het Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in DC, in de 'Trump-Kennedy Center'....

Want a top expert analysis on the law of naval warfare, the UN Charter, and blockades? We've got you completely covered @justsecurity.org. With many thanks to @mikeschmitt.bsky.social and Rob McLaughlin, from whom I've learned a lot. Blockading Venezuela: The International Law Consequences

The Trump administration halted the US green card lottery program, which it said was used by the suspect in the Brown University shooting and killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor

“The Epstein survivors who spoke recently told CNN that they had gotten no outreach from the DOJ ahead of the files’ release.” Trump’s DOJ regards the survivors not as friendly witnesses who could be helpful but as adverse parties to the Trump administration. www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/p...

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C. Thursday for unfettered access to the states’ voter registration records. The federal government has now filed lawsuits against 21 states, plus D.C. This is a developing story...

Just to be clear. It’s the John F Kennedy center legally. Just like it’s still the department of defense

A hotel by Kennedy Airport has been transformed into affordable housing in the first hotel-to-housing conversion of its kind in New York City. Here’s a look inside. trib.al/pmaQpaR

In the new year you're going to watch Netflix constantly debase itself to secure regulatory approval for its merger with Warner Brothers. This is just the start:

Dat kan ie alleen niet, tenzij de federale wet gewijzigd wordt. Ook zou hij 50 staten moeten overtuigen om hun uitslagen ongeldig te verklaren. Dit is iets teveel stemmingmakerij.

Hey, ook eugenetica is weer terug!

The United States has approved $11.1 billion in arms sales to Taiwan, the largest-ever U.S. weapons package for the island that is under increasing military pressure from China.

We are so far past the point where they are pretending that this is about safety

De witte man als slachtoffer die beschermd moet worden van discriminatie, obv wetgeving die werd aangenomen ter bescherming van zwarte mensen. Gerepost door vicepresident JD Vance…