Edward Swaine
@edswaine.bsky.social
Law professor. Personal account, personal views only. Vonnegut's rule: you've got to be kind.
I hear Joyce Carol Oates is wondering, ostensibly out of curiosity but with easily discerned pity and disdain, whether the world's richest man has ever felt the bone-warming pleasure and glory of giving everything to charity and starting anew
November 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I hear Joyce Carol Oates is wondering, ostensibly out of curiosity but with easily discerned pity and disdain, whether the world's richest man has ever felt the bone-warming pleasure and glory of giving everything to charity and starting anew
Another great resource!
P.S. Pictured National Guard troops were helping (at invitation of the local police) with the Women's March in 2019.
P.S. Pictured National Guard troops were helping (at invitation of the local police) with the Women's March in 2019.
Loren Voss introduces Lawfare's new resource tracking how and where National Guard and military forces are being used on U.S. soil and discusses the troubling lack of transparency surrounding domestic deployments. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/coun...
Counting the Boots: Tracking Domestic Deployments, One Missing Report at a Time
A monthlong effort to track domestic deployments revealed a troubling lack of transparency on why and how military forces are used on U.S. soil.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Another great resource!
P.S. Pictured National Guard troops were helping (at invitation of the local police) with the Women's March in 2019.
P.S. Pictured National Guard troops were helping (at invitation of the local police) with the Women's March in 2019.
Serious question. Assume Tesla is right that Musk's performance may be worth $1 trillion. Doesn't that compensation tell the market that the company is extraordinarily risky, because it's confessing that its success is highly dependent on just one person's continued commitment and well-being?
How the Great Kahn, Supreme Progenitor, Holy-Martial Emperor, Interpreter of the Heavenly Law, and Initiator of the Good Fortune Might Mean Good Fortune for *You*
How Elon Musk’s Tesla Pay Award Can Earn More Money For You
Most people will never see anything near $1 billion, let alone $1 trillion, over their working lifetimes. Still, taking a few lessons from Elon Musk can help anyone make a little more scratch.
www.barrons.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Serious question. Assume Tesla is right that Musk's performance may be worth $1 trillion. Doesn't that compensation tell the market that the company is extraordinarily risky, because it's confessing that its success is highly dependent on just one person's continued commitment and well-being?
How the Great Kahn, Supreme Progenitor, Holy-Martial Emperor, Interpreter of the Heavenly Law, and Initiator of the Good Fortune Might Mean Good Fortune for *You*
How Elon Musk’s Tesla Pay Award Can Earn More Money For You
Most people will never see anything near $1 billion, let alone $1 trillion, over their working lifetimes. Still, taking a few lessons from Elon Musk can help anyone make a little more scratch.
www.barrons.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
How the Great Kahn, Supreme Progenitor, Holy-Martial Emperor, Interpreter of the Heavenly Law, and Initiator of the Good Fortune Might Mean Good Fortune for *You*
a chicken in every pot, but they're overpriced, the tariff-free pot is back-ordered until 2026, and at least one isn't being inspected for salmonella
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
a chicken in every pot, but they're overpriced, the tariff-free pot is back-ordered until 2026, and at least one isn't being inspected for salmonella
No mention of composition, but imagine if it looked less ritzy than Sacagawea. Or bronzer.
Hail, Caesar!
What are we even doing here? Trump is corrosive to the dignity of a free people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
What are we even doing here? Trump is corrosive to the dignity of a free people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
A Two-Headed Coin That Always Comes Up ‘Trump’
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
No mention of composition, but imagine if it looked less ritzy than Sacagawea. Or bronzer.
an equalizer from Spandrel but for a very untimely gobstopper
November 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
an equalizer from Spandrel but for a very untimely gobstopper
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just landing and OMG it's like nonlethal Fortnite
South Sandwich Islands - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
just landing and OMG it's like nonlethal Fortnite
just landing and OMG it's like nonlethal Fortnite
South Sandwich Islands - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
just landing and OMG it's like nonlethal Fortnite
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Looks like ordinary drugrunning, not narco-terrorists piloting turbocharged death boats at the US--so naturally, people ask why they weren't just interdicted.
So far as we know, the answer is that officials thought killing suspected criminals outright would be a popular, dramatic way to deter them.
So far as we know, the answer is that officials thought killing suspected criminals outright would be a popular, dramatic way to deter them.
November 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Looks like ordinary drugrunning, not narco-terrorists piloting turbocharged death boats at the US--so naturally, people ask why they weren't just interdicted.
So far as we know, the answer is that officials thought killing suspected criminals outright would be a popular, dramatic way to deter them.
So far as we know, the answer is that officials thought killing suspected criminals outright would be a popular, dramatic way to deter them.
Siri, show me "rubbernecking"
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PHOTO OF THE DAY. A policeman stops traffic to let a man carrying an inflatable rubber giraffe cross the road on his way to the British Industries Fair in London (1935)
📷 google images
📷 google images
November 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Siri, show me "rubbernecking"
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Bear in mind in evaluating the proper scope of executive branch budgetary authority -- whether reorg, waste prevention, and programmatic reevaluation, ongoing w/o legislative approval, should be allowed to decide whether over half a million people, 2/3s of them children, survive (per estimates).
“The destruction of U.S.A.I.D. [caused] public man-made death. And the cruelty and lethality will only grow as the Administration expands its rollback of public-health advances to the homeland.”
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Bear in mind in evaluating the proper scope of executive branch budgetary authority -- whether reorg, waste prevention, and programmatic reevaluation, ongoing w/o legislative approval, should be allowed to decide whether over half a million people, 2/3s of them children, survive (per estimates).
You went full Dowd, man. Never go full Dowd.
America Begins Clapping Back at Donald Trump
In a week of political exits, a reminder that Trump’s time is coming soon, too.
www.newyorker.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
You went full Dowd, man. Never go full Dowd.
Bear in mind in evaluating the proper scope of executive branch budgetary authority -- whether reorg, waste prevention, and programmatic reevaluation, ongoing w/o legislative approval, should be allowed to decide whether over half a million people, 2/3s of them children, survive (per estimates).
“The destruction of U.S.A.I.D. [caused] public man-made death. And the cruelty and lethality will only grow as the Administration expands its rollback of public-health advances to the homeland.”
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Bear in mind in evaluating the proper scope of executive branch budgetary authority -- whether reorg, waste prevention, and programmatic reevaluation, ongoing w/o legislative approval, should be allowed to decide whether over half a million people, 2/3s of them children, survive (per estimates).
anyone who's ever been near bars or frat row has seen sandwich hurling before
November 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
anyone who's ever been near bars or frat row has seen sandwich hurling before
sounds like he tried to takeout an agent
Assault now. Injury, government says, isn’t the layman’s definition but the legal one. “Hit with a sandwich. Having a sandwich spiked on your chest. Is that offensive to a person of reasonable sensibilities? Certainly. We have an assault.”
November 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
sounds like he tried to takeout an agent
The cure for "broken feedback mechanisms" is to make education free for a few students -- not fostering competion for tuition and research dollars.
It's like "Free to Choose" arguing against public education, *and* against vouchers, by claiming that the true market is one for virtuous donors.
It's like "Free to Choose" arguing against public education, *and* against vouchers, by claiming that the true market is one for virtuous donors.
I’m Betting $100 Million on a New University
The incentive structure of higher education is broken. My gift to the University of Austin is meant to change that—by tying its success to the real-world achievements of its students, writes Jeff Yass...
www.thefp.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The cure for "broken feedback mechanisms" is to make education free for a few students -- not fostering competion for tuition and research dollars.
It's like "Free to Choose" arguing against public education, *and* against vouchers, by claiming that the true market is one for virtuous donors.
It's like "Free to Choose" arguing against public education, *and* against vouchers, by claiming that the true market is one for virtuous donors.
so your testimony is that you were in condiments
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
so your testimony is that you were in condiments
perfect cross if this involved a threuben
“Are you ryeing to me now or were you ryeing to me then?”
The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
perfect cross if this involved a threuben
Me and you and a dog named "Two"
November 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Me and you and a dog named "Two"
Recalling David Duke, the popular (among white Louisana voters) former Klansman.
GOP leadership fairly consistently rebuffed him, even conceding an open primary to a Democrat so that Duke couldn't get to a runoff.
Very different view by elites re who the "enemy outside" was.
GOP leadership fairly consistently rebuffed him, even conceding an open primary to a Democrat so that Duke couldn't get to a runoff.
Very different view by elites re who the "enemy outside" was.
November 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Recalling David Duke, the popular (among white Louisana voters) former Klansman.
GOP leadership fairly consistently rebuffed him, even conceding an open primary to a Democrat so that Duke couldn't get to a runoff.
Very different view by elites re who the "enemy outside" was.
GOP leadership fairly consistently rebuffed him, even conceding an open primary to a Democrat so that Duke couldn't get to a runoff.
Very different view by elites re who the "enemy outside" was.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, hereby as of this date and ratified as of all dates previous, so don't even *think* you are looking at vast and trunkless legs of stone
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and your call is very important to us. It will be responded to in the order in which it was received. Due to higher than normal call volumes your wait time may be longer than usual. Our menu options have recently changed please stay on the line.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and this meeting could have been an email.
November 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, hereby as of this date and ratified as of all dates previous, so don't even *think* you are looking at vast and trunkless legs of stone
Louvre is blinds
November 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Louvre is blinds
Note, too, the incompleteness of the WPR. Harder cases to type as WPR "hostilities"--e.g., engagement-free strikes against targets with no ties to any foreign gov't, which would pose little risk to US directly or through escalation--are by the same token *easier* cases for other kinds of illegality.
NEW:
In @justsecurity.org I analyze the Trump administration's reported theory for how it can continue its lethal maritime strikes despite the time limit on unauthorized military action imposed by the War Powers Resolution.
www.justsecurity.org/123844/war-p...
In @justsecurity.org I analyze the Trump administration's reported theory for how it can continue its lethal maritime strikes despite the time limit on unauthorized military action imposed by the War Powers Resolution.
www.justsecurity.org/123844/war-p...
Dissecting the Trump Administration’s Effort to Circumvent the War Powers Resolution for Boat Strikes
Analysis of Trump administration's claim that War Powers Resolution's regulating US troops in "hostilities" does not apply to boat strikes.
www.justsecurity.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Note, too, the incompleteness of the WPR. Harder cases to type as WPR "hostilities"--e.g., engagement-free strikes against targets with no ties to any foreign gov't, which would pose little risk to US directly or through escalation--are by the same token *easier* cases for other kinds of illegality.