Incompetence rates Are WAY higher than the oft- Cited past base rates. (Our state data at 60% incompetent to stand trial vs. the famous 27.5% stat) Me but led by @jenperillo.bsky.social #APLS2026 #PsychLaw #AcademicHaiku

The Mayor of Dearborn

Tomorrow is Friday, March 13. The last time March 13 fell on a Friday was in 2020. That was the first day my kid and I stayed home for Covid.

4th Cir., 2-1, affirms a jury finding that the operators of the Abu Ghraib Prison in 2008 are liable for conspiracy to commit torture and conspiracy to commit cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment under the Alien Tort Statute. Damages awarded: $42 million. www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251...

Every DOGE deposition is the guy in your college class that made everyone else groan whenever he started talking.

As a reminder, NYC has more subway riders per day than the total number of daily airline passengers in all of the United States.

Deep dive on this smirking little shit up and what he did to the National Endowment for the Humanities up today on our site www.lawandchaospod.com/p/doge-bros-...

its incredibly considerate that they delay the release of episodes of the pitt until just after bedtime for the kids

From a far-wing perspective, "like the Jewish person, the modern woman is simultaneously wretched and all-powerful, feeble and defective and responsible for everything wrong in the world." It's kinder, küche, kirche all the way down.

personally I don't like the "least of these my brethren," they are smelly and they do not own any large businesses

NEW: Ski Santa Fe announced Thursday it will close for the season March 22 due to unseasonably warm weather. sfnm.co/4b3G22c

This is a quick, ridiculous game (767/1000 for me)

This is a very entertaining list of narrow science topics

Alabama planned to execute Charles Sonny Burton today as punishment for the death of man he didn't kill But after widespread condemnation, the governor commuted the death sentence People recognize felony murder executions are wrong--the Constitution should, too! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Law schools advise students who are applying to be prosecutors not to talk about how much they love Law & Order, because apparently everyone talks about that. I once got an internship by talking about how much I like mob movies, though. Fewer people are motivated by Donnie Brasco.

I mean, objectively, it's good that bad people continue to put their bad thoughts in discoverable writing, but you'd think maybe they'd learn not to write down stuff like this.

We're all pulling for you, baby warty frogfish

Bike lanes and public seating are good for business! It's common sense: when you create streets that are calm and welcoming, people like to spend time there. www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...

Headline from the Icelandic news: “United States Does Not Seem to Know What They Are Doing”

I’ve said this before but I wrote a paper in college that required me to read some “race science” texts, and I am very grateful that I got to learn at 18 that this isn’t some secret forbidden knowledge; it’s just stupid

Life Hack: I was on the phone w/ an AI customer service agent that was insisting: (a) it couldn't fix the error the company had made, and (b) no live person could speak w/ me. I then said I'd file a complaint w/ my state's consumer protection office, and I was connected to a human in <1 minute.

I know I’m a goddamn broken record, I really do, but Congress had a way to change that, it worked for decades, and the Supreme Court blew it up in the 1980s in a way that was impossible for Congress to fix. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"Questions are flying, ever since the start of Sepharax the Cruel’s Thousand-Year Blood Reign. Whether it’s the Pit of Souls or the Child Reapers, there’s a lot to be worried about. But most of all? The price at the pump."

Do you like it when the President makes your life worse? Yes/No/Unsure Republicans: 83/6/11 Independents: 20/65/15 Democrats: 4/89/7

What the fuck kind of crab is Sebastian supposed to be

Might need to open a Kalshi line on the over/under of how many of these things occur before I get to shut it down

My colorblind kid got a 0.0073. I call BS.

My score is 0.0044, which I think is good?

On reflection the funny thing is that “paperwork isn’t what makes you american” is actually an argument for legalizing people who are American in every respect except the law bsky.app/profile/adam...

I'll never forget the time I unthinkingly called @ruralindexing.bsky.social one of my favorite "bots"—then discovered that the proprietor chooses and posts each of these perfect photos individually!

I don't know if this race will end up being competitive, but mathematically: all it would take would be for white people in Mississippi to vote Republican at the same ~ 70 to 75% as white people in Georgia, instead of their usual ~ 80 to 85%.

HUGE.

Maybe I just have a big ego (no maybe about it), but when I’m in various writing applications and am inundated with buttons that beg to let some uninvited AI parasite to “Write” “Revise” “Polish,” my only thought is: You wish you could do this as well as I do.

In 1990, when Congress created a protection for migrant children subject to abuse, it didn't anticipate backlogs would get bad enough that beneficiaries would wait years for a visa, and so never thought to explicitly bar deportation for winners. Today the BIA greenlit deportation in that situation.

Hey, did you know that many AI apps and automated services are actually just underpaid workers in the Philippines? ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-shop...

DoD has now banned press photographers from briefings on the war with Iran after Pete Hegseth’s staff deemed “unflattering” pictures that were published of the defense secretary from the March 2nd Pentagon briefing.

“And doubts about vaccines are increasingly spilling into refusal of other mainstays of pediatric medicine… At a hospital in Boise, Idaho, for example, three infants died last year after their parents declined a shot of vitamin K, administered to newborns to prevent bleeding, said Dr. Amanda Lee”

Today we gather to celebrate furry knee socks with eyes

Suddenly I have the entire Lisa from Temecula sketch playing in my head

conservative evangelicalism is the direct theological offspring of slaveholder christianity and it contains all of its pathologies, part infinity

Yas, Queen!

The 3 genders

Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.

EXCLUSIVE: @standupforscience.bsky.social sent an investigator to Guinea-Bissau and shared their unpublished findings with members of Congress. I obtained a copy of that report, which details how deeply the researchers are enmeshed - and what that means for US: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Literal clown-shoes administration

our boy's on it

Another view of the selfie captured by Perseverance earlier today. #Mars 🧪🔭

blessed image (and i guess he's now p🤌sada)

Artist ShouXin brilliantly captures the range of personalities of cats with his energetic pencil drawings. trib.al/R9wjsog

The problem with this “sacrifice for our freedom” language is that the Trump administration cannot articulate a single half-plausible reason it did this, didn’t bother to explain to the public it was starting a war in the first place, and has changed its explanation for why three times in a week.