Greg Gentry
greggentry.bsky.social
Greg Gentry
@greggentry.bsky.social
A lawyer living in MN, licensed in MO. Specializing, now, in litigation support, but have written about FDA regulations.
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Let me start to answer my own question - a reading list of the use of history to square the circle of a social contract that binds people who had no input into its drafting:

- Memory and Authority, Jack Balkin
- Reva Siegel, The Politics of Constitutional Memory.

law.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
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Evergreen post
Maybe someone should tell Pete Hegseth he’s not actually a villain from True Blood or The Boys. He’s too committed to the bit.
November 29, 2025 at 2:35 AM
What? “I’m under orders not to disclose whether there’s Brady material?”

That’s not how this works!
MORE: Under questioning by the judge, prosecutor Tyler Lemons said that he’s under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether there is a declination memo recommending against the prosecution of Comey
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Okay, how come nobody mentioned this?!?

In the Epstein files released by the House, they have a folder “natives,” most of which are Excel files, but at the end, a movie of a doggo chewing on a Trump stuffed animal. A Hillary one nearby.

drive.google.com/file/d/19MEn...
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026678.mov
drive.google.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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1) An administrative burden party is a brilliant idea.

2) This mundane crap is the stuff AI *should* be helping us with for a happier and more productive society, but capital prefers to weaponize it against us, including to make bureaucratic mazes more confusing and impenetrable.
This is...sort of brilliant.
November 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
@yrfatfriend.bsky.social @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

When you said you listened to “Milk!” I knew the author must be Michael Kurlansky, author of such classics as “Salt!” and “Cod!”

Good stuff!
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Pretty amazing mis-reading of the mood on Bluesky from Nate here.

Maybe it’s just my feed, but I’m pretty sure the site is about to join @kevinmkruse.bsky.social in burning Democratic defectors in effigy.
the hipsters, they’re ordering double frufru mocha soy frappuccino. doesn’t anybody order a black coffee anymore
November 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The case of Imane Khelif demonstrates how fluid, and cruel, the right’s definition of “woman,” is.

Assigned female at birth, birth certificate says “F,” lived her entire life as a female, but a “man,” because of claims a genetic test has a Y on it?

www.sportskeeda.com/us/olympics/...
'They're men' - Riley Gaines makes stance clear on appeal to strip Imane Khelif and Lin yu-Ting of medal after Olympics ruling
Former American swimmer Riley Gaines recently made her stance clear on the appeal to strip Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting of their medals after a ruling by the International Olympic Committee.
www.sportskeeda.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
7 million people showed up for No Kings protests.

A huge blue wave sweeps Democrats into power across the country, including a supermajority in Virginia.

What’s that I’m feeling? Hope?

Oh, good thing there are Dems who recognize their purpose is to quash that feeling!

Politics suck again.
Sen. Angus King: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work"
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Reposted by Greg Gentry
Sandwich verdict wasn’t jury nullification. It was failure to prove the required “reasonable fear of physical injury” in a case where the agent was wearing A BULLETPROOF VEST. The only crime was the waste of resources on this case. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The sandwich thrower was wrong. But Jeanine Pirro was, too.
To establish a forcible assault, jurors were required to find that Dunn caused “reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm.” That allegation was laughable.
www.msnbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Qui sème le vent récolte la tempête

Learning that phrase has made Duolingo worthwhile.
November 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Just some casual Islamophobia from Brianna, here.

Taqiyya is the Islamic concept that you can hide your Islamic faith if it would save your life. It’s the same as saying you’re not Jewish to the Nazi interrogator.

It’s thrown around by racists to discredit anyone of the Muslim faith.
Who has the best Zohran crashout screenshots?
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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There is a good argument that Zohran Mamdani did not win the New York mayoral race, because constitutionally votes for him are only worth 3/5ths of votes for Cuomo.

—Ilan Wurman, Yale Law Review, Spring 2026
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
AI is starting to be useful for limited tasks - as long as I don’t rely on it for difficult things.

Alexa querying the smart fans and TOGGLING them from on to off or off to on … that’s something I couldn’t figure out how to program using their limited scripting language.
October 31, 2025 at 11:52 PM
It’s time to for all Supreme Court advocates to start invoking the dicta about how “the Constitution is not a suicide pact.”

Maybe a functioning system can allow for executive immunity, perhaps that’s even what the Founders intended, but that originalism isn’t compatible with continued existence!
October 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Should probably pass this around to potential Dem politicians.
October 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Grok will give WILDLY different responses on "main" X versus in the Grok app.

Compare:
October 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It’ll never not be wild that conservatives will gladly sign onto wild conspiracies like chemtrails and ignore climate change.

“They’re spraying chemicals into the atmosphere to control the weather!”

I mean, yes, but you’re not talking about the CO2, are you?

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Chemtrail? New Conspiracy Theory Takes Wing at Kennedy's HHS - KFF Health News
The idea that airplane vapors are toxic to people or that there are ongoing efforts to intentionally change the climate made the social media rounds. Now, it has found advocates at the Department of H...
kffhealthnews.org
October 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The complaints about ObamaCare making health insurance unaffordable relies on people just not remembering 2010.

52 million uninsured (25-27m today)
10+% increases in premiums annually. (7.1% after ACA passed)

Shittier plans

The $600 plans they’re whining about today wld be $900 w/o the ACA.
It’s wild how much of the current Right-Wing is grounded in deliberate, obstinate, ignorance. Over on the bad-site, they’re losing their mind over the ADL characterizing “Christian Identity” as a racist ideology.

www.newsweek.com/maga-rages-o...
MAGA Rages Over ADL’s ‘Christian Identity’ Classification %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%
The ADL classifies the movement"Christian Identity," which it differentiates from mainstream Christianity, as “extremism, hate or terrorism.”
www.newsweek.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It is hard not to be fatalistic, because it certainly seems like if the SC blesses this interpretation in the face of multiple, obviously partisan prosecutions, they have given up on the American experiment.
Perversely, Trump v. United States (immunity decision) might've handed the government some language to use as ammo.

Though the context is very different, I wouldn't be surprised if at some point the government cites language like this (from the infamous Footnote 3):

bsky.app/profile/anna...
October 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Narrator: It is, in fact, the easiest test.

It’s designed to flag cognitive disfunction and anyone with a functioning brain should get a very high, to perfect, score.

There are 30 questions on the MOCA and a normal score is 26 or higher. Missing 5 signals mild impairment.
Trump: "I also did a cognitive exam. Which is always very risky because if I didn't do well, you'd be the first to be blaring it and I had a perfect score. And one of the doctors said he's almost never seen a perfect score. I had a perfect score. That made me well good ... not the easiest test."
October 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Setting aside his medical ignorance, can anyone find the TikTok he’s referring to? Seems like she might need more subscribers!
RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."
October 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.
October 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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This is Clio. She did not study for the test today. Also does not know how to read. 12/10 (IG: paspastotoro)
October 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The immigration system seems like a black box. ICE will conduct a high-profile raid of a marijuana farm, for example, and claim to have arrested hundreds of people. People die. Citizens are arrested.

And then. Nothing.

The gov’t claimed they were practically slavers. Exploring child labor.
October 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM