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Nathan Richardson
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Law prof @JacksonvilleU. Climate, air pollution, energy, & institutions. Dad. Formerly @UofSC Law, @RFF. Believe in a better South. Build houses.

Economics 34%
Environmental science 15%
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Sober, precise read of relevant law from Seth Stoughton (who I don't think is on here), a former colleague and the best police lawyer I know:

verdict.justia.com/2026/01/09/t...
The Legality of Deadly Force: Three Critical Questions about the ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
University of South Carolina, Joseph F. Rice School of Law professor Seth W. Stoughton discusses the legal standards and critical factual questions surrounding the use of deadly force by a federal ICE...
verdict.justia.com
Everybody: That show was beautiful.

Me: OVERRULE THE INSULAR CASES TOMORROW FFS

"I come back to you for the turning of the sides"

Levels of surveillance honesty:
1) We do not tap Americans
2) Of course we do counter-espionage taps, don't be stupid
3) You idiots are supposed to find dirt on libs, not us
4) The deep state and the people are one

Reposted by Stuart Shapiro

Some of the best environmental economists I know, with decades of experience, on the Trump EPA's decision to value costs but not benefits. It "could lead to suboptimal decisions", they soberly understate. Economically illiterate and actively harmful, I'll add.

www.resources.org/common-resou...
If/Then: Ignoring the Benefits of Air Pollution Regulations Will Lead to Worse Policy Decisions
If the US Environmental Protection Agency doesn’t count the monetary benefits of regulations, then federal actions are likely to lead to worse policy outcomes for public health and welfare.
www.resources.org

Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.

is this an EV school bus or one with 80s-grade fluorescent paint?
a cartoon character with a mustache and glasses looks out a window
ALT: a cartoon character with a mustache and glasses looks out a window
media.tenor.com

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Now, I know what you're thinking: "CPSC, why does this look like the room where the bad guy from SAW makes his podcast." The thing you need to understand is that we're not like other agencies. We don't "have things" or "go to the store." We make our own way. We get what we get and we don't get upset
the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

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Do you think this is the first time Bartolome de las Casas has been labeled part of the "woke mob"?

tell them "manifest destiny" is a reference to a document listing the cargo on a vessel

I am once again suggesting that the White House and the National Museum of American History across the street should switch official roles. Then the ballroom can be a living exhibit about this authoritarian moment.

If Quillette had published in 1850, it would surely have run an "Abolitionism is a Moral Panic" think piece.

Bored Ape owners to BTC hodlers:
Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind."

This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students.

yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
As far as I know, this is DHS's first effort to explain their position that I-205 forms allow entry into the home. They rely on the dicta in the 1960 Abel case (before Payton) and re-imagine the plurality opinion in Lucas as if it were the majority (and then overrely on it).

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Trump’s environmental rollbacks contradict RFK Jr’s healthy America promise, report finds.

Dismantling rules will make children vulnerable to chronic diseases ‘make America healthy again’ wants to eradicate.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... 1/
Trump’s environmental rollbacks contradict RFK Jr’s healthy America promise, report finds
Dismantling rules will make children vulnerable to chronic diseases ‘make America healthy again’ wants to eradicate
www.theguardian.com

you see because of the carbon cycle,

this is basically the story of the first battle of Bull Run
Many people don't realize how special and valuable having a Department of Justice that is impartial and insulated from political influence is until it's gone.

You see it's a form of camouflage, so that it's impossible to tell if the White House is heading toward or away from you, especially through a periscope.

smh, so many memecoins and no one has thought of this

you come at the bling, you best not miss

Can someone better at political messaging than me try to tell all the otherwise OK white dudes convinced that their careers have been held back by woke that getting rid of all the powerful abusers and sex pests really would open up job opportunities at the top?

Fully anticipate a modern would-be Justice Marshall lamenting that cattle have a title that the courts of the cowqueror cannot deny.

yellowstonian.org/on-blm-land-...
On BLM Land, Sacred Cows Given Precedence Over America's National Land Mammal - Yellowstonian
American Prairie has seven leases yanked where it was allowed to graze bison on public land. A free-market economist, who sides with prairie restoration, says BLM made a bad move. Read our interview w...
yellowstonian.org

Most disrespectful exit to an agreement since the molotov-ribbentrop pact

I really preferred the alternate reality where instead of going reactionary, Richard Dawkins went hip-hop and released an album called God of the Raps

(bong rip) 2nd law of thermodynamics means all asset prices eventually go to zero

If you aren't following the tech, you won't know sodium-ion batteries are available to normies now. Safer, more durable, and more versatile than lithium, with easy-to-source materials. Should be cheaper too (though not yet). This model does not appear to be a good deal but innovation is here.

Coalie looks cute, but is an eldritch horror. Formed out of countless dead creatures in the Carboniferous, their souls trapped because detrivores had not yet evolved the metabolic machinery to digest lignin. Now unearthed to tempt humanity with the power to destroy the earth's capacity for life.

Lotta people posting the video of protesting kids administering a beatdown to a guy attacking them and treating it as funny. I get it, but it's also really disturbing. Someone, probably a kid, is going to get killed if this kind of thing keeps happening.