Doesn't the prime minister of Norway understand that this is unconstitutional under Article II

I'm not saying it was ever a good tweet but this tweet is from a year ago from before Trump even became president and it was far less obvious how serious he was about this

The Spectrum case in the Fifth Circuit raises very important legal questions, like "does the rule of law exist for LGBTQ people in the Fifth Circuit"

The changes in this graph largely reflect partisan realignment (lots of southern Dems in the initial counts, these shifts take a long time to filter though) and thermostatic effects, I don't think it reflects a failure of Dem strategy exactly

Gotta say that I don't understand the "shutdown the government to constrain ICE" theory of change

I am not a Josh Barro fan but I think the main thrust of this is correct www.joshbarro.com/p/the-cult-o...

Left-abundance keeps winning

Turns out that maybe we actually needed all those civil rights remedies that the Supreme Court gutted. Oh well

Tsarist pogroms were globalizing the intifada

I don't know that there's any way to get the justices to get this but the treatment of definitions in arguments like "the sports regulation must mean 'biological sex' [and a trans-exclusionary understanding thereof] when it says 'sex' because it was drafted in 1974" is very philosophically naive

Trans sports bans have at least three kinds of harms: - they harm female athletes by encouraging transvestigation and intrusive verification - they harm trans people as a group in the social meaning they express - they harm the individual athletes who are unfairly excluded

I think some of the arguments DOJ is making here are correct, e.g. the court was clearly wrong to say Judge Currie's ruling in a different case is binding here. They seem to be trying to provoke the judge to feed their favored political narratives about out of control judges

The problem is that no one is willing to say that the sports classification is facially invalid--that forces the question of whether an as-applied challenge is possible.

Did we just lose audio in Hecox?

Deborah Lipstadt is an esteemed Holocaust historian and served as the Biden administration’s envoy on antisemitism. Here, she is blaming the arson attack on a synagogue in Mississippi on pro-Palestine protesters, without evidence. The attacker turned out to be a white conservative Christian.

Wait is this real

In the end the biggest enemy of the contrarian centrist and edgelord socialist is the Cringe Lib who is often gender coded by both respective parties

I have been reducing my Bluesky use dramatically but probably going to skeet through Hecox and BPJ today

Being right about trump was boring, tedious, partisan, ideological. Being wrong about trump? Heterodox, contrarian, free thinking.

The prohibition on perfidy was established so that opposing armies won't shoot at targets that appear to be civilian. But here, the men on the boats weren't going to shoot at anyone, and *they* were the civilians who were unlawfully targeted.

This just shows how absurd the whole "armed conflict" framing is. The men on the boats weren't members of an organized armed force, and therefore the question of "perfidy" is inapposite. The problem is that they were civilians who were murdered. @justsecurity.org www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

Very real chance that the opinions we get today are unanimous opinions uninteresting to anyone except the lawyers involved and the legal nerds interested in that specific topic

Apartheid, definitely not something the US has its own history with bsky.app/profile/self...

my biggest problem with claims like this is that american cops were violent, racist sociopaths for over a hundred years before there was a state of israel, and they don't need anyone's help in that department — it's just blaming the jews for cops being cops

Narcissists can be so weird, man. I would rather throw myself into a cave full of bat guano than let the world know I won a huge prize this way.

“AI can only produce buggy code” is the new “AI can only draw deformed hands” btw, update your priors now so you don’t get caught massively offsides in the next six months.

Machado bribing Trump with the Nobel Peace Prize to get him to do a more serious effort at regime change in Venezuela is certainly... something

I don't think the AI thing is a big partisan difference offline (though there is a policy diffference about the desirability of regulation)

It is exhausting how evil these people are. It goes so far beyond, we have a public policy disagreement that is morally weighty. They have no moral character at all. They are nihilists through and through. The closest they come to caring about others is a degraded desire for praise.

This appears to be PDVSA's/the Venezuelan government's version of what is being negotiated with the US www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Today we saw the devastating and predictable consequences of the Trump administration encouraging reckless, heavily armed agents in our communities to commit horrifying abuses. Congress must rein in ICE before what happened in Minneapolis today happens again.

We condemn ICE's killing of a Minneapolis woman today and call on federal agents to withdraw from Minnesota immediately. This tragedy is further proof that ICE is out of control, endangering our communities, and must end its lawless operations before anyone else is brutally hurt or killed.

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University. (And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.) /

Renee Nicole Good is the one whose reputation should be protected, whose death should be marked by flags across the country being lowered to half-staff, who should be getting tearful tributes and acknowledgments from politicians and media figures. These are the people we ought to honor.

ICE OUT NOW

"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

US (and much international) media is the Trump show all the time but has anyone found an outlet (or Bluesky feed?) that is doing good tracking of what the Venezuelan government is actually saying?

Klobuchar's statement is bad but Duckworth's is fine imo

To this point, one common anti-Zionist view in the early twentieth century that is virtually unheard of today is that Zionism is bad because the idea of a separate Jewish peoplehood is threatening to the idea that Jews are ordinary citizens of the countries they live in

Whittington's post here raises more sharply a question I had been wondering about; why does the syllabus refer to a unit as "Race and Gender Ideology"? This is not the conventional academic term for debates about e.g. affirmative action or gender identity, and it's not the term the book uses either

My hot take is that the president of the United States should obey the Constitution of the United States, which makes the UN Charter, a validly ratified treaty, the supreme law of the land

what u have to understand is that working on my novel, answering dms, and answering emails all cost 1 spell slot but posting? Posting is a cantrip

Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.

As much as I appreciate this order, it does seem wrong. “A decision of a federal district court judge is not binding precedent in either a different judicial district, the same judicial district, or even upon the same judge in a different case.” Camreta v Greene, 563 US 692, 709 n7 (2011).

I hope we get some good NY-12 polling at some point

I think this is probably true, Trump is using the threat of military force as a cudgel to try to coerce a deal, but it's also worth remembering that there have been two instances now where negotiations seemed to be ongoing and Trump decided to resort to force

Yes

The attacks on gender and race scholarship are very bad in their own right but the Plato thing is almost certainly a case of omitted context

Forcing a vote on impeachment over Greenland strikes me as something that may be a good idea--if you frame it right, you can get a political win, it's a simple issue and ~no one thinks the US should go to war to conquer Greenland