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Nathan Richardson
@nathanrichardson.bsky.social
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Law prof @JacksonvilleU. Climate, air pollution, energy, & institutions. Dad. Formerly @UofSC Law, @RFF. Believe in a better South. Build houses.

Hoya Saxa, the Peloponnesian War, X squared, Y squared, H2SO4.

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 8h
If right wing tech bros keep naming companies after Tolkien characters, do I get to call them Barrow Wight Nationalists?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 2d
I don't know with what weapons Woke 2 will be fought, but Woke 3 will be fought with sticks and stones

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 2d
This will only encourage spaghetti snuggling, penne piracy, cavatappi contraband, black market bucatini, tortellini tax evasion, and the like.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Tariffs on pasta from Italy could soon soar to more than 100%
A routine Commerce Department probe into alleged “dumping” resulted in crushing 100% tariffs on Italian pasta that leave exporters shouting “Basta!”
www.washingtonpost.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d
The laws of war are not mere niceties. They are lessons from centuries of blood agreed upon to keep the world more stable.

Violating them isn’t hero cop who cuts through red tape to get things done, it’s psycho cop who crosses lines in ways even the rule benders find appalling and must be stopped.

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 3d
NYT: Dems underperforming in rectilinear counties
bluestein.bsky.social Greg Bluestein @bluestein.bsky.social · 3d
Georgia Republicans say they’d be foolish not to heed the lessons of the PSC races, when Democrats didn’t just run up the score in liberal strongholds. They outperformed their party’s 2024 presidential vote share in all but two of Georgia’s 159 counties.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d
Tuberville: “We just saw what happened in NY. We lost NY. It will be completely Muslim in 3-4 years. That’s what they want. And it’s going to spread throughout the country.”

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Greg Bluestein @bluestein.bsky.social · 3d
Georgia Republicans say they’d be foolish not to heed the lessons of the PSC races, when Democrats didn’t just run up the score in liberal strongholds. They outperformed their party’s 2024 presidential vote share in all but two of Georgia’s 159 counties.

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 3d
Beyond Coal was good! The rest of their electric power advocacy, and in particular their local chapters, not so much!

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 3d
lol

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 3d
Instagram Farben

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls his company the first to be 'completely anti-woke'
Palantir sees "accelerating and otherworldly growth" as CEO Alex Karp highlights working with ICE and supporting Israel on an earnings call.
www.businessinsider.com

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 3d
Conveys a very different meaning as a title for a mid-market dieting book and the name for a metal band

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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 3d
Law Profs teaching First Amendment: I have put together a FREE, recently updated, and easy to use casebook for use in free speech classes. If you are interested in using such a casebook, send me an email or DM and I would be happy to share!
Image of the first page of the casebook

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3d
Every time I see a story premised on the presumably surprising idea of rotund, happy-looking whales holding their own against mean, scary-looking sharks, I feel compelled to remind people that orcas WEAR A DISGUISE. The orca is the ONE WHO KNOCKS.
Orca skeleton

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 4d
One of the slave power secessionist complaints was that Northern juries kept acquitting people who obstructed the Fugitive Slave Act. But even when the bastards had the federal government on their side, there was no way around the Sixth Amendment's requirement of not just a jury but a local one.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 4d
ICE grabs father by the neck—send him into violent seizure while his arms lock up around his toddler.

"He's having seizure and they're trying to rip the baby out of his hands!"

Agents then handcuff him—before putting in ambulance with his child.

Mother is detained by agents as target of arrest.

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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 4d
I almost can’t believe this. I spend an absurd amount of time litigating pre-enforcement standing in the 6th Circuit, which makes establishing pre-enforcement standing near impossible. *En banc,* the 6th Circuit just blessed pre-enforcement standing in a culture war case with wafer-thin analysis.
Highlighted segment of Sixth Circuit opinion: https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/25a0307p-06.pdf

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 4d
YOU SEE THIS CLEARING WE’RE SITTING IN? SOMEONE CLEARED THIS LAND FOR AGRICULTURE A WHILE AGO. ITS ONGOING USE FOR FOOD PRODUCTION EACH YEAR HAS A CARBON COST, BECAUSE IF IT WASN’T PRODUCING FOOD, IT WOULD LOOK LIKE THOSE TREES OVER THERE, WHICH STORE MORE CARBON. THE FOREGONE SEQUESTRATION CAN BE
czedwards.bsky.social CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 4d
New version of Girl Yelling In Guy's Ear at Concert Dropped:
A pair of leopards on a rock, with trees in the background. The leopard on the left has a paw draped over the leopard on the right's shoulder, and has its mouth open, as if yelling in the one on the right's ear. The one on the right looks skeptical, and mildly annoyed. A finalist in the 2025 Comedy Wildlife image contest, by Hikkaduwa Liyamage Prasamtja Vinod named “Bad Mouthing”

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 4d
New version of Girl Yelling In Guy's Ear at Concert Dropped:
A pair of leopards on a rock, with trees in the background. The leopard on the left has a paw draped over the leopard on the right's shoulder, and has its mouth open, as if yelling in the one on the right's ear. The one on the right looks skeptical, and mildly annoyed. A finalist in the 2025 Comedy Wildlife image contest, by Hikkaduwa Liyamage Prasamtja Vinod named “Bad Mouthing”

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 4d
To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
legal.reuters.com Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 4d
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
Tesla shareholders approve $878 billion pay plan for Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
reut.rs

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 4d
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
Tesla shareholders approve $878 billion pay plan for Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
reut.rs

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 4d
Being escorted out of the garden center for repeatedly referring to the annuals section as "depleted geraniums"

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 4d
We are going to live in a world where the the marginal cost of electricity is very close to zero
marklemley.bsky.social Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 5d
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 4d
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 4d
“Women don’t belong in the workplace” is a delusion of the nineteenth century, and particularly of the upper classes.

In preindustrial Europe, the home was commonly the workplace, and everyone worked. Until very recently, the workplace has always been everyone’s.

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 4d
The Prosecco bottles can break or shatter
posing a laceration hazard
I always turn the car around
cpsc.gov U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 4d
#RECALL: F&F Fine Wines Recalls Kirkland Signature Valdobbiadene Prosecco DOCG. The Prosecco bottles can break or shatter, posing a laceration hazard. Get refund. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026...
Kirkland signature prosecco.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 4d
#RECALL: F&F Fine Wines Recalls Kirkland Signature Valdobbiadene Prosecco DOCG. The Prosecco bottles can break or shatter, posing a laceration hazard. Get refund. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026...
Kirkland signature prosecco.

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 5d
If only Basil II the Bulgar Slayer had lived, maybe real communism would have been tried

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 5d
Imagine being one of the (amazing, hardworking) people behind Sierra's decades-long Beyond Coal program of political and legal work and then having to deal with this.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Trump: "You're not allowed to use the word 'coal' unless you say, in my administration, unless you use two words before it -- clean and beautiful. Biden would say 'unless you use two words before it.' He'd go, 'clean.' What happened to the other word? Remember those days?"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Trump: "You're not allowed to use the word 'coal' unless you say, in my administration, unless you use two words before it -- clean and beautiful. Biden would say 'unless you use two words before it.' He'd go, 'clean.' What happened to the other word? Remember those days?"