P. Christian Adamski 🌐🇺🇦🇮🇱
@modalpenalcode.bsky.social
Prosecutor (appeals/fed. habeas/extraditions), ex-philosophy adjunct professor, Texas A&M Aggie. Advocate of free markets and institutions. Passion for Ancient Greece, literature, languages, weiqi/baduk/go, piano/violin.
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I got tripped up somewhat early in this interview. Mamdani says: “I gained some appreciation of Idi Amin in the sense that I began to understand the context in which he was acting, his reasons.” Idi Amin has been called “the butcher of Uganda”, responsible for a half million deaths.
"The administration ballooned, and inside the administration the financial technocrats took over. There was less and less sympathy with Columbia as a place of thought. It was more about Columbia as an enterprise..."
www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...
www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...
Mahmood Mamdani Doesn’t Want to Talk About Zohran
The Columbia scholar, and father of the mayor-elect, on politics, academe, and antisemitism.
www.chronicle.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I got tripped up somewhat early in this interview. Mamdani says: “I gained some appreciation of Idi Amin in the sense that I began to understand the context in which he was acting, his reasons.” Idi Amin has been called “the butcher of Uganda”, responsible for a half million deaths.
We’ve been getting lot of a visits from red-breasted nuthatches with temperatures starting to fall. I went out this morning to replenish the feeders when one landed just two feet away from me, and hung out for a bit. I wish I had had my phone to take a picture. They are very small and very cute.
October 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We’ve been getting lot of a visits from red-breasted nuthatches with temperatures starting to fall. I went out this morning to replenish the feeders when one landed just two feet away from me, and hung out for a bit. I wish I had had my phone to take a picture. They are very small and very cute.
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Exclusive: A teen’s live-streamed suicide illustrates the challenges of investigating a new and growing form of online predation, especially when the suspected perpetrators are outside of the U.S. https://wapo.st/3IT6EaZ
October 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Exclusive: A teen’s live-streamed suicide illustrates the challenges of investigating a new and growing form of online predation, especially when the suspected perpetrators are outside of the U.S. https://wapo.st/3IT6EaZ
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A walkthrough of a beautiful and artistic, 1000 year old Go problem that revolves around three rivers flowing into one.
A walkthrough of a beautiful and artistic, 1000 year old Go problem that revolves around three rivers flowing into one.
The 1,000 year old Three Rivers Puzzle
YouTube video by Telegraph Go
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August 13, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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A walkthrough of a beautiful and artistic, 1000 year old Go problem that revolves around three rivers flowing into one.
A walkthrough of a beautiful and artistic, 1000 year old Go problem that revolves around three rivers flowing into one.
Troubling.
August 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Troubling.
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I’m just saying, I don’t want judges and clerks to read my briefs and think “wow he’s so smart, he did such a brilliant job of arguing that claim.” I want them to think, “how does that bozo luck into all these cases with slam-dunk claims?”
July 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I’m just saying, I don’t want judges and clerks to read my briefs and think “wow he’s so smart, he did such a brilliant job of arguing that claim.” I want them to think, “how does that bozo luck into all these cases with slam-dunk claims?”
Had the pleasure to take some time off work and attend the 2025 U.S. Go Congress in Texas. I took part in the national tournament and went 4-2 in my games.
July 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Had the pleasure to take some time off work and attend the 2025 U.S. Go Congress in Texas. I took part in the national tournament and went 4-2 in my games.
I’m as free market as it gets, but it seems completely reasonable for the state to enter or subsidize markets that the free market cannot serve.
An idea of Zohran’s that gets roundly mocked is the idea of city owned grocery stores, but plenty of neighborhoods get failed by capitalism. In Milwaukee, Kroger’s is getting ready to close 5 grocery stores in working class communities. www.mensjournal.com/news/pick-n-....
Major Grocery Store Closures Spark 'Emergency' Meeting
The string of store closings came suddenly.
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July 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
I’m as free market as it gets, but it seems completely reasonable for the state to enter or subsidize markets that the free market cannot serve.
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Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
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“Instead of giving credit where it’s due for the most useful citation development in decades, we have invented a brand new phrase to communicate the same thing that is not as good and also is affirmatively misleading, given that the citation is not, in fact, modified.”
New Bluebook v.22 is out. Further updates as events warrant. For now:
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![B5.3 Modifying Quotations and Citations for Clarity (p.9)
When a quotation includes material quoted from another source, the quotation may, for clarity, be stripped of internal quotation marks, brackets, ellipses, internal citations, and footnote reference numbers; the original sources of quotations within the quotation need not be cited parenthetically; and capitalization may be changed without brackets. Indicate these changes parenthetically with “(citation modified).” Other than the changes specified, the text of the quotation after modification should match the text used in the source cited. If the quotation is altered further, indicate the changes or omissions according to rules 5.3 and 5.3.
Thus: “[A]n ‘on the merits adjudication’ is” understood as “one that actually ‘pass[es] directly on the substance of [a particular] claim’ before the court.” Semtek Int’l Inc. v. Lockheed Martin Corp., 531 U.S. 497, 501–02 (2001) (alteration in original) (quoting Restatement (Second) of Judgments § 19 cmt. a (A.L.I. 1982)).
becomes: “An on the merits adjudication is” understood as “one that actually passes directly on the substance of a particular claim before the court.” Semtek Int’l Inc. v. Lockheed Martin Corp., 531 U.S. 497, 501–02 (2001) (citation modified).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o6o2u2byc2cellhzzisujort/bafkreiabsg2dgqrf67gqyh2rsonn7tr6hvruqubulkhped6euajcj66hnm@jpeg)
May 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“Instead of giving credit where it’s due for the most useful citation development in decades, we have invented a brand new phrase to communicate the same thing that is not as good and also is affirmatively misleading, given that the citation is not, in fact, modified.”
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A thing media outlets could do to improve their credibility is to cease the practice by which the body of the article is attributed to a real person, but the headline, social media posts and push notifications linking to the article and placement of the article are all totally anonymously decided.
May 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
A thing media outlets could do to improve their credibility is to cease the practice by which the body of the article is attributed to a real person, but the headline, social media posts and push notifications linking to the article and placement of the article are all totally anonymously decided.
My rule of thumb is that if Thomas, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kagan are all on the same side, then I will agree with the opinion. This lineup may be an interesting point of discrimination.
Feliciano gives us a line-up we've never seen before: Gorsuch, Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Sotomayor in the majority; Thomas, Alito, Kagan, and Jackson in dissent.
This outcome is a victory for military reservists who'd otherwise take a pay cut when called up during a national emergency.
This outcome is a victory for military reservists who'd otherwise take a pay cut when called up during a national emergency.
April 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
My rule of thumb is that if Thomas, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kagan are all on the same side, then I will agree with the opinion. This lineup may be an interesting point of discrimination.
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120 light years from Earth, there's a planet that may be covered in a living ocean. Here's my story on a tantalizing hint of life beyond the Solar System. Gift link: nyti.ms/3GbrEaZ 🧪
Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (Gift Article)
Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.
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April 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
120 light years from Earth, there's a planet that may be covered in a living ocean. Here's my story on a tantalizing hint of life beyond the Solar System. Gift link: nyti.ms/3GbrEaZ 🧪
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To say "let's eliminate due process for the bad guys" is to fundamentally misunderstand what due process is.
April 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
To say "let's eliminate due process for the bad guys" is to fundamentally misunderstand what due process is.
Lincoln, NE basically requires you to make an appointment beforehand which is great. I show up with the required documents, I am seen on time, and I’m out. 180 degrees difference from growing up when going to the DMV meant taking up your whole morning.
Every year I ask my students about their DMV experiences. Varies by state, but a lot of states are really excellent.
you know, it was annoying to have to spend a chunk of my morning at the DMV to get a REAL ID but shoutout to the people at my local location, who are clear, *very* efficient and quite polite (if necessarily a bit stern)
April 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Lincoln, NE basically requires you to make an appointment beforehand which is great. I show up with the required documents, I am seen on time, and I’m out. 180 degrees difference from growing up when going to the DMV meant taking up your whole morning.
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Scene in Porco Rosso where Porco describes his vision of... heaven? hell? purgatory? something else?... and the last time he saw Berlini. You gotta remember that this is an upper-mid Ghibli film. This is what Ghibli produces as a B+ sorta day for them.
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From the ghibli community on Reddit: Porco Rosso - One of my favorite scenes of all time in any Ghibli movie
Explore this post and more from the ghibli community
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April 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Scene in Porco Rosso where Porco describes his vision of... heaven? hell? purgatory? something else?... and the last time he saw Berlini. You gotta remember that this is an upper-mid Ghibli film. This is what Ghibli produces as a B+ sorta day for them.
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Yay, it’s here!
If you want to know about the history of federal appellate procedure and how modern practice blends the traditions of the common law and of equity, please have a read.
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Full text here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
If you want to know about the history of federal appellate procedure and how modern practice blends the traditions of the common law and of equity, please have a read.
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#AppellateSky #AppellateTwitter
Full text here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
January 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Yay, it’s here!
If you want to know about the history of federal appellate procedure and how modern practice blends the traditions of the common law and of equity, please have a read.
⚖️ 🗃️
#AppellateSky #AppellateTwitter
Full text here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
If you want to know about the history of federal appellate procedure and how modern practice blends the traditions of the common law and of equity, please have a read.
⚖️ 🗃️
#AppellateSky #AppellateTwitter
Full text here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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I finished my first year of piano lessons, and as a gift to myself I ordered a Kawai K-300. I hope one day, many years from now, I’ll be able to play music like this.
I finished my first year of piano lessons, and as a gift to myself I ordered a Kawai K-300. I hope one day, many years from now, I’ll be able to play music like this.
Spinning Globe (The Boy and The Heron) piano cover ft. Kawai K300 K500 K800 AS (Sound Demo)
YouTube video by Kawai Malaysia
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December 31, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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I finished my first year of piano lessons, and as a gift to myself I ordered a Kawai K-300. I hope one day, many years from now, I’ll be able to play music like this.
I finished my first year of piano lessons, and as a gift to myself I ordered a Kawai K-300. I hope one day, many years from now, I’ll be able to play music like this.
I was a late joiner of Twitter, but quickly learned what an incredible place it was: subject-matter experts, breaking news, inside scoops, etc. For various reasons, I am in the process of deleting my Twitter account and will be relying on Bluesky and Mastodon. I followed a wide range of voices on
November 17, 2024 at 4:33 PM
I was a late joiner of Twitter, but quickly learned what an incredible place it was: subject-matter experts, breaking news, inside scoops, etc. For various reasons, I am in the process of deleting my Twitter account and will be relying on Bluesky and Mastodon. I followed a wide range of voices on
I got a feeling yesterday as I listened to the cases before mine at oral argument. These cases involved division of marital property and a dispute over care of cows (a very midwestern case). I felt: how grand it is to have a court system. It’s not perfect. 1/2
November 15, 2023 at 3:05 PM
I got a feeling yesterday as I listened to the cases before mine at oral argument. These cases involved division of marital property and a dispute over care of cows (a very midwestern case). I felt: how grand it is to have a court system. It’s not perfect. 1/2
SCOTUS cert grant on criminal law issue re confrontation clause and substitute expert testimony. Having worked on this issue before, I am excited to see how the court resolves this case.
www.scotusblog.com/case-files/c...
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September 29, 2023 at 7:20 PM
SCOTUS cert grant on criminal law issue re confrontation clause and substitute expert testimony. Having worked on this issue before, I am excited to see how the court resolves this case.
www.scotusblog.com/case-files/c...
www.scotusblog.com/case-files/c...
I was annoyed with Nebraska standard of review language for sufficiency review. Language would say: the standard is the same whether the evidence is direct or circumstantial. But course it would, so why say it? Well, not so in Nebraska history I've just discovered. Used to be that inferences 1/2
September 4, 2023 at 9:41 PM
I was annoyed with Nebraska standard of review language for sufficiency review. Language would say: the standard is the same whether the evidence is direct or circumstantial. But course it would, so why say it? Well, not so in Nebraska history I've just discovered. Used to be that inferences 1/2