Chase Madar
@madar.bsky.social
Author, attorney, translator. Teaching law ~and society~ at NYU Gallatin. Make the Road NY legal alum.
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I like how a dead tree is the star of this one, gesturing like an elated lottery winner in front of their new house
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New DCWP Commissioner Sam Levine pledged to crack down on app companies that pressure delivery workers to use e-bikes and cars recklessly.
Mamdani Commissioner Pledges to Hold App Companies Accountable for Road Safety - Streetsblog New York City
DCWP Commissioner Sam Levine pledged to crack down on app companies that pressure delivery workers to use e-bikes and cars recklessly.
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January 4, 2026 at 9:23 PM
New DCWP Commissioner Sam Levine pledged to crack down on app companies that pressure delivery workers to use e-bikes and cars recklessly.
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Sun in an Empty Room - 1963
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/40480
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/40480
January 4, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Sun in an Empty Room - 1963
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/40480
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/40480
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a stark raving imperialist madman who wants to attack a treaty ally
TRUMP: “We need Greenland”
The guardrails are gone
The guardrails are gone
January 4, 2026 at 9:26 PM
a stark raving imperialist madman who wants to attack a treaty ally
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They hate themselves. Many of them do. They live under an immense amount of pressure. And then of course you have the religious aspect. I myself don’t give a damn as long as it’s discreet but this is why so many are into dope.
Why does Rubio look so miserable?
January 4, 2026 at 8:19 PM
They hate themselves. Many of them do. They live under an immense amount of pressure. And then of course you have the religious aspect. I myself don’t give a damn as long as it’s discreet but this is why so many are into dope.
Why does Rubio look so miserable?
January 4, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Why does Rubio look so miserable?
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I still don’t understand how it could possibly be a violation of U.S. law for a foreign head of state to own or to conspire to own any type of gun in his own country.
So a lot of the charges against Maduro are either cocaine importation, which Trump pardoned Hernandez for, or owning machine guns, which is a constitutionally protected right in the US
January 4, 2026 at 6:45 PM
I still don’t understand how it could possibly be a violation of U.S. law for a foreign head of state to own or to conspire to own any type of gun in his own country.
It's bad for the US to conceive of its foreign relations as global criminal law with Washington as sheriff and prosecutor. It was bad when VP Harris went to Munich Security Conference and read a prosecutors brief against Putin and its worse that this crew has abducted a foreign head of state
STEPHANOPOULOS: Why wasn't congressional authorization necessary?
RUBIO: It wasn't necessary because this was not an invasion. We didn't occupy a country. This was an arrest operation.
RUBIO: It wasn't necessary because this was not an invasion. We didn't occupy a country. This was an arrest operation.
January 4, 2026 at 7:52 PM
It's bad for the US to conceive of its foreign relations as global criminal law with Washington as sheriff and prosecutor. It was bad when VP Harris went to Munich Security Conference and read a prosecutors brief against Putin and its worse that this crew has abducted a foreign head of state
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“Lebensraum: is it prudent fiscal policy?”
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Again, one thing I was completely wrong about is that I believed there was a baseline level of professional pride & integrity below which supposedly serious journalists would not sink in the face of the far right authoritarianism.
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Again, one thing I was completely wrong about is that I believed there was a baseline level of professional pride & integrity below which supposedly serious journalists would not sink in the face of the far right authoritarianism.
January 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“Lebensraum: is it prudent fiscal policy?”
🤷♂️🤦♂️
Again, one thing I was completely wrong about is that I believed there was a baseline level of professional pride & integrity below which supposedly serious journalists would not sink in the face of the far right authoritarianism.
🤷♂️🤦♂️
Again, one thing I was completely wrong about is that I believed there was a baseline level of professional pride & integrity below which supposedly serious journalists would not sink in the face of the far right authoritarianism.
People continue to discuss international law as if it were something that could be discarded or dispensed with, rather than an inevitable byproduct of international politics that will always be with us
January 4, 2026 at 6:04 PM
People continue to discuss international law as if it were something that could be discarded or dispensed with, rather than an inevitable byproduct of international politics that will always be with us
Would gladly read a long-form historical explainer on Black American Zionism, from Bayard Rustin to Kamala Harris and Eric Adams
January 4, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Would gladly read a long-form historical explainer on Black American Zionism, from Bayard Rustin to Kamala Harris and Eric Adams
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Another galling example of this: It's been said that Trump's hatred of the "deep state" is rooted in hatred of its "warmongering." But Trump hates the deep state because it tried to hold him accountable for his crimes and because a professional civil service is a barrier to authoritarian corruption!
January 4, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Another galling example of this: It's been said that Trump's hatred of the "deep state" is rooted in hatred of its "warmongering." But Trump hates the deep state because it tried to hold him accountable for his crimes and because a professional civil service is a barrier to authoritarian corruption!
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Ukraine's position is to quasi-endorse the kidnapping of Maduro. They also support Israel's domination of Gaza. Nice window into what it means to try to vie for entry into the West's "rule-based" order.
January 4, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Ukraine's position is to quasi-endorse the kidnapping of Maduro. They also support Israel's domination of Gaza. Nice window into what it means to try to vie for entry into the West's "rule-based" order.
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Every major free speech org has said the IHRA definition suppresses constitutionally protected speech. Every major human rights group has said it suppresses legitimate advocacy. The scandal is that Adams adopted the definition, not that Mamdani rejected it. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/n...
Inside Mamdani’s Decision to Revoke Executive Orders That Backed Israel
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Every major free speech org has said the IHRA definition suppresses constitutionally protected speech. Every major human rights group has said it suppresses legitimate advocacy. The scandal is that Adams adopted the definition, not that Mamdani rejected it. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/n...
Its nice that the Times put 4 reporters on this but the real story – one perhaps too horrid for the paper’s editors to face – is that a solid majority of the city is quite happy to not give Israel bizarrely solicitous treatment www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/n...
Inside Mamdani’s Decision to Revoke Executive Orders That Backed Israel
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Its nice that the Times put 4 reporters on this but the real story – one perhaps too horrid for the paper’s editors to face – is that a solid majority of the city is quite happy to not give Israel bizarrely solicitous treatment www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/n...
You knew this, but Hegseth’s public persona is a greater degradation of traditional masculinity than any drag show, jfc
January 4, 2026 at 2:45 PM
You knew this, but Hegseth’s public persona is a greater degradation of traditional masculinity than any drag show, jfc
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According to the Wall Street Journal, the overpayment rate for the food stamp program in Minnesota is one-third less than the national average www.wsj.com/opinion/minn... Maybe the right's star journalist, Nick Shirley, can figure out what Walz and MN are doing right.
Opinion | Minnesota’s Fraud Problem Isn’t Immigrants
It’s the vast size of the welfare state that corrupts them.
www.wsj.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:33 PM
According to the Wall Street Journal, the overpayment rate for the food stamp program in Minnesota is one-third less than the national average www.wsj.com/opinion/minn... Maybe the right's star journalist, Nick Shirley, can figure out what Walz and MN are doing right.
Looking for signs of joy in MAGAland over their boys new war and I don’t see it. Up at Fox News dot com, the best they can do is go anti-anti, pointing out that bugbears Martina Navratilova and Kamala (in that order) are _against_ the war, hoping this will bait the faithful into supporting it
January 4, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Looking for signs of joy in MAGAland over their boys new war and I don’t see it. Up at Fox News dot com, the best they can do is go anti-anti, pointing out that bugbears Martina Navratilova and Kamala (in that order) are _against_ the war, hoping this will bait the faithful into supporting it
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Tom Lehrer - Send the Marines
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
www.youtube.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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For my enemies, straight-talking realpolitik about the consolidation of power, control of the judiciary, and rampant corruption. For my friends, a complex host of extraordinary legal issues at the intersection of international law and the presidency.
January 4, 2026 at 2:07 AM
For my enemies, straight-talking realpolitik about the consolidation of power, control of the judiciary, and rampant corruption. For my friends, a complex host of extraordinary legal issues at the intersection of international law and the presidency.
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Sorry, best I can do is the Western Grebe Baby Taxi Service. 🐣 🪶
January 4, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Sorry, best I can do is the Western Grebe Baby Taxi Service. 🐣 🪶
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I do not, of course, endorse kidnapping. But there’s a certain kind of US-centric law-brained analysis that’s very forward in the Serious Papers. It’s kind of depressing. I mean, this headline is faintly ridiculous. Call the IR, Poli Sci, and Area Experts before you phone the lawyers, please.
January 4, 2026 at 1:35 AM
I do not, of course, endorse kidnapping. But there’s a certain kind of US-centric law-brained analysis that’s very forward in the Serious Papers. It’s kind of depressing. I mean, this headline is faintly ridiculous. Call the IR, Poli Sci, and Area Experts before you phone the lawyers, please.
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Terrible face aside this is an important point I think, removing Maduro was, like Iraq, a logroll that lots of advisers supported for different reasons.
"One of the similarities this has with the Iraq War is that there were a lot of people [Rubio, Trump, Miller, Hegseth] who supported it for a lot of different reasons. Everybody can kind of find their reason and get on board," says @profsaunders.bsky.social.
January 4, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Terrible face aside this is an important point I think, removing Maduro was, like Iraq, a logroll that lots of advisers supported for different reasons.
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Quisling audition mixtapes
Imagine licking the boot of a president who's threatened to annex your country multiple times.
January 4, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Quisling audition mixtapes