First time trying this logic puzzle… the (long retired) LSAT tutor in me enjoyed this a lot! #CluesBySam, Mar 27th 2026 (Hard), in 05:48 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.

what makes him dangerous is that he is a fanatical xenophobe and white supremacist with the power of the federal government in his hands. what makes him weak is that he is utterly indifferent to public opinion or political necessities.

In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons… To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain. "The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.

top notch mascottin'

“Dems moved too far left” means BLM and trans equality—and for some, taking COVID seriously—and many Dem politicians really do support those things. There’s tons of noise and euphemism, but that’s the core argument. And it is a misguided one, since Dems won the election after that move, in 2020.

Only one single person — the hero filming — took any sort of action. Everybody else just keeps walking, pretending not to see a screaming woman being dragged away. This is so incredibly Nazi Germany.

It’s really frustrating to see this hack rage bait from the left. “Officially considering taking up a case” is vapid and meaningless. Please leave the legal commentary and analysis to pros like @chrisgeidner.bsky.social and @stevevladeck.bsky.social

"If I’m being honest, I’ve seen a serious dip in your overall performance ever since the beast of the sea emerged."

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

It’s really not fair to @kenwhite.bsky.social when the Internet conspires to serve up so many bad 1st Amendment takes at the same time as so many bad RICO takes.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

The truth is most people don’t give a shit about the rule of law, or due process, or laws of war, or freedom of unpopular speech or unpopular religion. Just about every modern civilizational advancement out of barbarism gets only occasional lip service and is unpopular in particular instances. /1

a pretty good summary of the 21st century is that the humiliation of america's defeats in the middle east post-9/11 curdled into a reactionary politics that seeks affirmation in the humiliation of anyone who is an other: liberals, minorities, the global south, china, europe, whoever.

here's a template, feel free to make slight adjustments: "Trump should have spent his final days in jail, not destroying the country. We look forward to making sure everyone who enabled him spends a good amount of time there, too."

Feels like Kate Winslet’s The Regime becomes less satire and more documentary every day.

I’m not sure this holiday has ever felt so solemn and mournful, especially as I reflect on pieces such as this. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...

These days, we have to appreciate the small things… like having Josh Blackman as an ever-running fount of unintentional comic relief.

Supposed to fly back to LA from Sydney this afternoon, but what if I just… don’t?

A little morning Whitman can be good for the soul: The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had written and asked, “What makes a good citizen?"

Thanks to our “law and order” Supreme Court, seems like now the question boils down to whether Biden is going to execute Trump or, next year, vice versa.

Make a band milder Third Eye Astigmatism

It’s one that’s subject to the normal amount of scrutiny.

Mata v. Avianca, Inc. will be in the next edition or supplement of every legal ethics casebook. Such jaw droppingly bad judgment that I have to hope that Mssrs. Schwartz and LoDuca, are—like the cases they cite—totally bogus.

This is so astonishingly dumb I just spent 20 minutes summarizing it for Slack friends (all links to docket entires at https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63107798/mata-v-avianca-inc/. I paid 20 cents to get one of these you're welcome)

Holy. Shit. All time hall of famer entry for “Things you don’t do in front of a federal judge” See if you can guess what’s on page 2. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.575368/gov.uscourts.nysd.575368.31.0.pdf

It gets so much worse. I’ve never seen a judge spit so much fire… 😱 https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.575368/gov.uscourts.nysd.575368.31.0.pdf

Artie and I are thrilled to have gotten seats aboard this lifeboat.