Frank
@frankvaladez.bsky.social
Director, ABA Division for Public Education. Skeptical of everyone, cynical about everything, but not without hope.
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Because the alpha males are alpha-ing.
December 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Because the alpha males are alpha-ing.
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The contrast between ordinary citizens courageously confronting Trumpist bullying, and billionaires and CEOs obsequiously bending the knee– this spectacle in its clear simplicity provides a lesson we should not forget.
December 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The contrast between ordinary citizens courageously confronting Trumpist bullying, and billionaires and CEOs obsequiously bending the knee– this spectacle in its clear simplicity provides a lesson we should not forget.
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"In retrospect, the Court’s willingness a quarter-century later in Palmer v. Thompson to allow cities to shut down public swimming pools rather than allow Black people to use them makes a lot more sense." whew Lord
“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of
The Alarmingly Racist History of the Supreme Court’s Canceled 1947 Christmas Party
The Court held its first-ever office Christmas party in 1946. The following year, the clerks suggested inviting Black employees. It did not go over well.
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December 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
"In retrospect, the Court’s willingness a quarter-century later in Palmer v. Thompson to allow cities to shut down public swimming pools rather than allow Black people to use them makes a lot more sense." whew Lord
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BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
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December 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
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For more examples of practical, litigation-based responses to originalism, check out @brennancenter.org's new guide, "Countering Originalism": www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Countering Originalism
This guide offers lawyers strategies, arguments, and citations to address originalist claims they encounter in litigation.
www.brennancenter.org
December 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
For more examples of practical, litigation-based responses to originalism, check out @brennancenter.org's new guide, "Countering Originalism": www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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The New School owns about a billion dollars worth of art, most of which is not on display. They could sell the two Warhols they own and raise $100 million tomorrow. But they’d rather close academic departments.
New School “administrators have started to implement a plan to close, overhaul or merge about 30 academic programs or majors; pause nearly all admissions to doctoral programs; and offer buyouts or early retirement to what professors say is about 40 percent of the full-time faculty.”
Falling Enrollment, Money Woes: The New School Seeks a Path to Survival
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The New School owns about a billion dollars worth of art, most of which is not on display. They could sell the two Warhols they own and raise $100 million tomorrow. But they’d rather close academic departments.
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a politician running a tough race, fwiw: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts
A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
a politician running a tough race, fwiw: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...
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Shocked I am that Matt Yglesias, a man who is almost never correct or even moderately well informed outside of his weird centrist media bubble, might be proven wrong for the umpteenth time.
matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong.
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
December 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Shocked I am that Matt Yglesias, a man who is almost never correct or even moderately well informed outside of his weird centrist media bubble, might be proven wrong for the umpteenth time.
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All Trump supporters must acknowledge this. Their backing of the president means that they support the forced transfer of millions of Ukrainians from a democracy to a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.
This is the America you have made. Own it.
This is the America you have made. Own it.
December 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
All Trump supporters must acknowledge this. Their backing of the president means that they support the forced transfer of millions of Ukrainians from a democracy to a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.
This is the America you have made. Own it.
This is the America you have made. Own it.
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This has to be one of the greatest runs any director has ever experienced.
December 15, 2025 at 3:34 AM
This has to be one of the greatest runs any director has ever experienced.
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Major advertisers appeared to sit out a new CBS News town hall telecast Saturday, moderated by Bari Weiss and featuring an interview with Erika Kirk.
Lack of Madison Avenue support could challenge the viability of the format, which Weiss wants to expand
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Lack of Madison Avenue support could challenge the viability of the format, which Weiss wants to expand
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Big Advertisers Appear Wary of CBS News’ Bari Weiss Town Hall Format
Many major advertisers appeared to sit out a new CBS News town hall format moderated by Bari Weiss and featuring a conversation with Erika Kirk
variety.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Major advertisers appeared to sit out a new CBS News town hall telecast Saturday, moderated by Bari Weiss and featuring an interview with Erika Kirk.
Lack of Madison Avenue support could challenge the viability of the format, which Weiss wants to expand
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Lack of Madison Avenue support could challenge the viability of the format, which Weiss wants to expand
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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NEW: A judge ordered DOJ late Friday to return materials it seized from Comey friend Dan Richman, calling their rummaging through the documents a flagrant abuse of his constitutional rights.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Court orders DOJ to return data seized from Comey friend
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled the material obtained from law professor Daniel Richman was handled with “callous disregard” for his rights.
www.politico.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
NEW: A judge ordered DOJ late Friday to return materials it seized from Comey friend Dan Richman, calling their rummaging through the documents a flagrant abuse of his constitutional rights.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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If Trump had just left the oil tanker alone, he could have continued to claim at least with a fig leaf of credibility that we had no choice but to blow up the boats he isn't seizing
The Caribbean Killings Were Unnecessary. Trump Just Proved It.
If we can seize an oil tanker, why did eighty people have to die?
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
If Trump had just left the oil tanker alone, he could have continued to claim at least with a fig leaf of credibility that we had no choice but to blow up the boats he isn't seizing
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Are you a constitutional law professor, appellate clinician, or legal writing teacher looking for tools to help your students learn how to lawyer effectively now that the Supreme Court's gone originalist?
Our new guide, Countering Originalism, can help!
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Our new guide, Countering Originalism, can help!
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Countering Originalism
This guide offers lawyers strategies, arguments, and citations to address originalist claims they encounter in litigation.
www.brennancenter.org
December 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Are you a constitutional law professor, appellate clinician, or legal writing teacher looking for tools to help your students learn how to lawyer effectively now that the Supreme Court's gone originalist?
Our new guide, Countering Originalism, can help!
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Our new guide, Countering Originalism, can help!
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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I would be fucking terrified about this.
Canada has the unfortunate luck of the longest continuous land border in the world but US public health being destroyed affects everyone.
Canada has the unfortunate luck of the longest continuous land border in the world but US public health being destroyed affects everyone.
🇨🇦 Health minister says she worries about U.S. public health☣️ decisions harming Canadians.
"It’s a big worry for me," Michel said in an interview on CBC’s The House that airs Saturday morning. "The U.S. is our neighbour. And it’s a big neighbour."
#Cdnpoli🍁
#CanadaSky🇨🇦
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
"It’s a big worry for me," Michel said in an interview on CBC’s The House that airs Saturday morning. "The U.S. is our neighbour. And it’s a big neighbour."
#Cdnpoli🍁
#CanadaSky🇨🇦
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Health minister says she worries about U.S. public health decisions harming Canadians | CBC News
Health Minister Marjorie Michel says she worries about how recent actions by U.S. public health agencies, like removing a universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for American infants, could harm ...
www.cbc.ca
December 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I would be fucking terrified about this.
Canada has the unfortunate luck of the longest continuous land border in the world but US public health being destroyed affects everyone.
Canada has the unfortunate luck of the longest continuous land border in the world but US public health being destroyed affects everyone.
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"We may wander, argue, and flirt with isolation. But when the consequences become clear—as they always do—we return. We always do." And so we, probably, will do again. ICYMI @markhertling.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4pAE7qK
This Isn’t the End of NATO
There’s a reason every previous prediction of the alliance’s dissolution was wrong.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"We may wander, argue, and flirt with isolation. But when the consequences become clear—as they always do—we return. We always do." And so we, probably, will do again. ICYMI @markhertling.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4pAE7qK
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The best political interviewers in Britain and Europe treat questioning like a point in tennis - you keep hitting until the exchange is resolved.
Nearly all American interviewers treat a question like a penalty kick in soccer - you have one shot, and if the interviewee deflects, that's it.
Nearly all American interviewers treat a question like a penalty kick in soccer - you have one shot, and if the interviewee deflects, that's it.
December 8, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The best political interviewers in Britain and Europe treat questioning like a point in tennis - you keep hitting until the exchange is resolved.
Nearly all American interviewers treat a question like a penalty kick in soccer - you have one shot, and if the interviewee deflects, that's it.
Nearly all American interviewers treat a question like a penalty kick in soccer - you have one shot, and if the interviewee deflects, that's it.
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America is a mafia state running a protection racket in the interest of the boss, not the people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... bsky.app/profile/john...
December 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
America is a mafia state running a protection racket in the interest of the boss, not the people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... bsky.app/profile/john...
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shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.
December 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights
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Authoritarians in power are weak, actually.
Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Authoritarians in power are weak, actually.
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And now DOJ has failed a second time to re-indict Tish James. They are in the middle of a total shit show and just don’t have the good sense to leave. Remarkable public rebuff, unprecedented I would say.
December 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
And now DOJ has failed a second time to re-indict Tish James. They are in the middle of a total shit show and just don’t have the good sense to leave. Remarkable public rebuff, unprecedented I would say.
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Remember when people said that his supporters weren't racist.... or that racism wasn't "salient" to understanding them.
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Remember when people said that his supporters weren't racist.... or that racism wasn't "salient" to understanding them.