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I believe human rights are universal: your elections are literally numbers games. Is the best way to oppose MAGA’s position on human rights by letting them win an election? Will not voting force Dems to change their position to appeal to the non-voter or will they try to appeal to likely voters?

You can’t keep calling football the beautiful game if that’s how big matches get decided. Someone kicking a ball from a comically close distance into a net that is comically oversized to be tended by one person is deranged.

Anyways….read theory.

All the American scholars sounding the alarm about UET…to this simple Canadian seems like the post-9/11 chickens coming home to roost. There was a reason US/Can scholars took on the patriot act - not just because it racially profiled Muslim people and created new expansive surveillance powers…

I see the discourse on The Millennials’ Song is pretending How You Remind Me wasn’t a thing.

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I am once again asking that legal scholars stop referring to SCOTUS decisions as Calvinball as if the law hasn’t historically been contingent.

In the end, I think it’s a lot less about a “few bad things happen in every era” and more related to things like social capital, race…and the power of nostalgia.

Name your top 15 shows ever, gut instincts only X-Files Community TNG Simpsons Rick and Morty Homicide The Office (UK) Slow Horses NewsRadio Golden Girls The Good Place Columbo House Futurama Cheers

I'm starting to accept that some people will use AI chat bots and tools no matter what they learn about the negatives. It's like the people who choose to litter, speed, run red lights, and bring their pets into grocery stores. They just don't care and are sometimes even upset if you criticize them.

This isn’t a lamentable side effect of these products. It’s the actual reason they exist.

Meanwhile my university has bought licenses for CoPilot. Is a technology that "is for entertainment purposes only, which can make mistakes, which may not work as intended and cannot be relied on for important advice and has to be used at our own risk" so essential?

I describe it as such as a historian of disability because I want to remind scientists and the world that the history of science IS the history of eugenics, scientific racism and medical racism, and more. I’m not comforting them with the idea that it was a ‘pseudoscience.’ This is your history.

We always said Trump was incapable of empathy and yet, he’s making others walk a mile in his shoes.

Swearing at the Olympics is okay as long as you are a) celebrating your greatness and/or b) American

“Monsters are something exceptional, an inverted miracle that comes out of nowhere with no real explanation,” Thomas said. “It’s a metaphor that shuts off the possibility of trying to think through what is occurring.”

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While in nearby pastures, two sheep from different flocks poke their heads through the fence that divides them Bleated Rivalry.

I'm not trying to tell anyone what tactics they should agree or disagree with, I have my opinions but I don't think that's a *useful* argument to have when this stuff becomes Discourse. But if your standard is "no crime," you let legislators dictate protest legitimacy. Guess who is legislating.

And you cannot talk about these distinctions without talking about race. With white folks, there's incredible energy being exerted to define what they're doing as good and noble. White folks don't protest, is the subtext. We respond with nobility and planning (unlike those other people.)

What I think keeps getting lost I'm The Discourse is that there is a difference between disagreeing with a tactic (strategically or even on moral principle) and *endangering* the folks engaged in that tactic.

Tapping the sign again.

As an aside, this is similar to those who argue it is ineffective to protest by marching down streets and causing traffic delays because it means I can’t get to where I want to go. Sure I’m for your rights, but this just hurts your cause because I’m inconvenienced.

I do wonder if part of this policing of the style of protest is related to the (post—Enlightenment?) tendency to assume emotional expressions of anger aren’t valid and change really only happens with reasoned discourse.

Exeunt, leading Katherine.

I know I’m contested on this and speaking into the void, but a moral panic is not just people afraid of kids generally or people over-worried about the evils of something. There is a specificity in MPs and a stereotyping of a folk devil that gets applied more broadly by concerned people.

American progressives were faced with their version of the trolley problem last election…and they decided to say the situation the trolley found itself in wasn’t their responsibility. Trolleys still gonna trolley.

Phew. Can’t wait for more legal scholars to tell us the illegalities of Trump trying to invade Canada without proper congressional approval. Really useful action.

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Would I have liked the Jays to land Soto, Ohtani or Tucker? Sure. But they are trying to spend the money at least. They keep finishing second and that may be more a function of a “do not want to go to Canada” thing or “who doesn’t love LA” thing than money.

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It really feels to me like the Jays have had an offer out to Kyle Tucker for a long time and he hasn’t accepted because he has no desire to play here.

Today I learned that LexisNexis has a $21 million data-brokerage contract with ICE. I don't use it much/never preferred it, but definitely will be avoiding it.

Sure. I mean. If you feel like it’s important to clarify the history of policing in the US at this particular moment in time.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

Danish guy gets it

These findings are important. I’ve been wanting to write on narratives to reopen schools. We missed an opportunity to reimagine schooling. While much discourse centred around parents needing to get back to uninterrupted work or children falling behind, there were still real impacts

Harvard has removed a resident dean -- a Black lecturer in psychology -- for writing posts critical of Trump and law enforcement www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Fascinating that some people are criticizing Kamala Harris’ lack of words on Venezuela but not focusing on any other past presidential candidates (like Biden) or other public figures. Not qwhite sure why.

America doing America things. I think a more pressing question is what is the international order going to do about it. Clearly America is broken - it is not just Trump and Republicans. Democrats and the media are complicit. America is a threat to everyone.

I was in the US at a Pirates game years ago. During an inning break, the jumbotron put on two kids as the announcer told us they just finished high school and were joining the army. There was a standing ovation as these two were goofing around (as kids do). It was unsettling.

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Your semi-regular reminder that there is no such thing as legal Calvinball. You are talking about the law. Pretending that it’s separate from a made up game with no rules says more about you as an analyst.

I may have to do sub out The Plight Before Christmas and add They Slug Horses Don’t They?