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Richard Kay
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Wallace Stevens Professor Emeritus, UConn Law. Constitutional Law; Comparative Law; Legal History. Boston resident, Red Sox, Celtics fan. (NOT the Daily Mail reporter.) https://law.uconn.edu/person/richard-s-kay

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 19h
Looks like very few things you can't bet on in the new online world

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 19h
Hard to figure, isn't it?

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 20h
Emmanuel Clase is charged with accepting $5000 for throwing a ball on his first pitch. Clase's 2025 base salary was $4.5 million.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/n...
2 Major League Baseball Pitchers Are Charged in Gambling Investigation
www.nytimes.com

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 1d
A Two-Headed Coin That Always Comes Up ‘Trump’
A Two-Headed Coin That Always Comes Up ‘Trump’
Would a proposed coin featuring the president on both sides commemorate America’s founding, or undercut its founding principles?
www.nytimes.com

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 1d
A possible record breaker for falsehoods per paragraph. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
“AUTOPEN”Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President in American History. Taking office as a result of the most corrupt Election ever seen in the United States, Biden oversaw a series of unprece...
truthsocial.com

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 1d
Oy vey.
A Two-Headed Coin That Always Comes Up ‘Trump’
Would a proposed coin featuring the president on both sides commemorate America’s founding, or undercut its founding principles?
www.nytimes.com

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 1d
Oy very.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
A Two-Headed Coin That Always Comes Up ‘Trump’
Would a proposed coin featuring the president on both sides commemorate America’s founding, or undercut its founding principles?
www.nytimes.com

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 1d
This is QAnon stuff, very scary.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/us/politics/trump-conspiracy-probe-subpoenas.html
Trump Loyalists Push ‘Grand Conspiracy’ as New Subpoenas Land
www.nytimes.com

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 4d
Not the most helpful data for Alberta separatists. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
Canada Is About to Lose Its Status as Having Eliminated Measles
www.nytimes.com

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 4d
" I think a majority of the court will be very worried ...about giving a president basically unconstrained tariff authority to raise revenue that Congress as a practical matter cannot reverse." A useful and measured analysis of this important case.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...
Opinion | Why It Will Be Hard for Five Justices to Bless Trump’s Tariffs
www.nytimes.com

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 5d
Red Sox Decline Mutual Option With Liam Hendriks
Red Sox Decline Mutual Option With Liam Hendriks
An Aussie who's easy to root for. Click over to MLB Trade Rumors to read more.
www.mlbtraderumors.com

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 5d
His ARM is a lot younger than 37. www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/11/red-...
Red Sox Decline Mutual Option With Liam Hendriks
An Aussie who's easy to root for. Click over to MLB Trade Rumors to read more.
www.mlbtraderumors.com

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 5d
Also to be remembered for William of Orange landing at Torbay in 1688.

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 5d
She was fired over "PhArt” versus “PhAM?”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/a...
Director of Philadelphia Art Museum Is Dismissed After Unpopular Rebranding
www.nytimes.com

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 6d
A Baseball Hall of Fame without Roger Clemens or Barry Bonds (not to mention Pete Rose) is a joke.
(I also think Dewey should get in but that's a different kind of argument.)
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/03/s...
Dwight Evans denied, but Roger Clemens is one of eight on Hall of Fame’s Contemporary Baseball Players Era ballot - The Boston Globe
The Hall announced Monday that Clemens, Barry Bonds, Carlos Delgado, Jeff Kent, Don Mattingly, Dale Murphy, Gary Sheffield, and the late Fernando Valenzuela were on the ballot.
www.bostonglobe.com

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Perry Areolar @perryodontal.bsky.social · 7d
the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...
according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 10d
Russia can no longer be a defendant in ECHR cases for violations after September 2022. But apparently can find ways to be an "applicant!"
cerianbond.bsky.social Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 10d
Excellent investigation of Russian misuse of international investigatory & judicial machinery.
ninajankowicz.com Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 10d
Proud to publish this piece from my former student, who writes that Russia's lawfare in the European Court of Human Rights is "transforming [it] into an unwitting accomplice in one of the most sophisticated disinformation operations of the modern era.”

americansunlight.substack.com/p/russias-la...

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 10d
Need to move Kennedy Center to Branson, MO

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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 10d
Excellent investigation of Russian misuse of international investigatory & judicial machinery.
ninajankowicz.com Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 10d
Proud to publish this piece from my former student, who writes that Russia's lawfare in the European Court of Human Rights is "transforming [it] into an unwitting accomplice in one of the most sophisticated disinformation operations of the modern era.”

americansunlight.substack.com/p/russias-la...
Russia’s Lawfare Playbook: How the Kremlin Weaponized Human Rights Courts to Launder Disinformation
When the Kremlin wants to legitimize a lie, it doesn’t just hold a press conference – it files a lawsuit.
americansunlight.substack.com

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 11d
So now you want to do MORE testing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Trump’s Test Threat Could Fuel Nuclear Tensions With China
www.nytimes.com

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 16d
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day...
#stcrispinsday

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 16d
She "received the royal title Somdet Phra Nang Chao Sirikit Phra Borommarachininat." Must have been tough to write her a check.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/w...
Sirikit, Glamorous Queen of Thailand Who Wielded Power, Dies at 93
www.nytimes.com

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 17d
We are really moving into 25th Amendment territory.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Live Updates: Trump Cuts Off Trade Talks With Canada
www.nytimes.com

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 22d
He never shoulda took out Willoughby.

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 22d
In case you thought you could relax here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
White House and Government Agencies Join Bluesky, Then Attack Democrats
www.nytimes.com

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · 27d
It's hard to overstate Searle's influence on 20th century philosophy. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...
John Searle, Philosopher Who Wrestled With A.I., Dies at 93
www.nytimes.com

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · Oct 8
And I thought I was a formalist!

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · Oct 8
”Ms. Badenoch proposed to abolish “stamp duty,” a tax Britons pay when they buy homes above a certain price." You'd think they'd have figured this out in 1765. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...
U.K. Conservatives Yearn for Thatcher and Wonder About Their Future
www.nytimes.com

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · Oct 6
I also agree that for most states-party withdrawal isn't a politically viable option.

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Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social · Oct 6
It's true that states may always delay and evade-- but they can do that with just satisfaction awards too. (Disclaimer-- I have not been following the Strasbourg judgments as carefully as I once did!)