Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thought and opinions has ceased to exist.

That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants.

- Frederick Douglass

You know what I do when I see a post that doesn’t interest me?

I scroll past and continue my day.

It’s not that complicated.

Just don’t shit on other people’s joy and do NOT police what other people post. No one made you Emperor of Social Media.

Scroll on by.

Congrats to @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social for it's acquisition of @scotus-blog.bsky.social it's nice to see you building up around your flagship podcast Advisory Opinions with Sarah Isgur and @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

@karenswallowprior.bsky.social Am I wrong to think Trump sounds like a Jane Austen antagonist? In this article he reminds me of Lady Catherine "If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient." He also reminds me of Mrs. Elton. His "people say" reminds me of "my friends tell me."

Chesterton's Fence: There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.”

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. - James Madison, Federalist Papers 47