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Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · 3h

“Anybody can sue anybody” — good to be reminded of its importance

Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 13h

Good morning to everyone but especially to Lady Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whose judgement against Rudy Giuliani for defaming them and turning their lives upside down cannot be pardoned away by the president

Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 13h

Good morning to everyone but especially to Lady Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whose judgement against Rudy Giuliani for defaming them and turning their lives upside down cannot be pardoned away by the president

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · 1d

Running with this analogy, remember when we successfully distracted him for a day by getting him fixated on shower heads?

Other bathroom fixtures will likely work too

Point Blank Sandwich Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is like a toddler: time he spends asleep is to be prized, not resented. Every minute he sleeps is a minute he is not tantruming or breaking things or smearing his own shit on things.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise questions about Trump’s on-the-job performance.

Point Blank Sandwich Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is like a toddler: time he spends asleep is to be prized, not resented. Every minute he sleeps is a minute he is not tantruming or breaking things or smearing his own shit on things.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise questions about Trump’s on-the-job performance.

Images of Trump appearing to close his eyes during Oval Office event spread across social media | CNN Politics

Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise qu...

www.cnn.com

tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 1d

Drowning meme:

"My cordonary artery is completely blocked"

"Coronary angioplasty didn't even exist in 1960"

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · 1d

Rule of Law

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

What drives me absolutely insane about this debate is how claims like “there has been a generational stagnation of purchasing power” have taken on the tenor of religious faith among progressives, and seemingly cannot be disproven with any evidence, no matter how overwhelming. It simply isn’t true!

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2d

Housing in metro areas is a real problem. But Will has a point about "affordability," which is really about "affording what you *want*," not what you might need.
Health care and housing? Yes, problems. The rest, not so much.

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · 4d

I agree abt conventional usage but my pet peeve is that word libertarian had to be invented to describe real liberals

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · 4d

classical liberal?

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · 5d

Newly published article on #contracts #consent

adhesive #arbitration agreements, incl #comparative discussion of US v EU, UK, Japan

contracting away #7thAm & #dueprocess
in

"jury waiver"
forum selection
consent-to-jurisdiction
#SecuredTransactions

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Contracting Away Constitutional Rights in the United States: Adhesive Consent (Blanket Assent) to Arbitration and other Agreements

<p><span>The United States is peculiar in its widespread enforcement of consumers' and workers' adhesive arbitration agreements. Comparative law discussio

papers.ssrn.com

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · 13d

Some related history papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Money, Politics and Judicial Decisions: A Case Study of Arbitration Law in Alabama

This article presents the results of a study of 106 decisions by the Supreme Court of Alabama from January 18, 1995 through July 9, 1999. The decisions are in

papers.ssrn.com

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · 13d

www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-pa...

www.gatesnotes.com

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · 13d

What reduces deaths from climate change? Economic growth, much driven by tech—including mobile phones, crop breeding, vaccines, and yes, AI.
By Bill Gates link in comment

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23d

National Guard in DC:

man in royal robe and horned helmet with scepter cheerfully posing with three National Guard

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · 28d

European universities starting their fall semesters now makes me wonder how they can start nearly 2 months after US universities yet manage to finish in spring only a week or two after US schools

Cato Institute @cato.org · 29d

The AI boom has exposed America’s electricity crisis. Regulators can’t keep up, but entrepreneurs can. New Hampshire just passed a bill freeing off-grid providers to deliver power without the usual bureaucratic roadblocks.

Competition and innovation—not monopoly utilities—are the way forward.

www.wsj.com

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · Oct 11

(European food + American music) > (American food + European music)

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · Oct 3

Red Sox are in the Bronx on an October night—good to know with all the craziness in the world that some things continue as they should

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · Oct 1

When I first glanced at this, I thought it involved a young Paul McCartney

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · Sep 29

Inflation and immigration

Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · Sep 28

The way to stay sane is to remember that Joe Biden lost because of inflation, which drove down real incomes. Clinton lost because it's hard to win 3 consecutive terms, the economy was good/not great, and her support was misaligned with the Electoral College.

Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · Sep 28

The way to stay sane is to remember that Joe Biden lost because of inflation, which drove down real incomes. Clinton lost because it's hard to win 3 consecutive terms, the economy was good/not great, and her support was misaligned with the Electoral College.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Sep 27

A few years ago, my team looked at household sizes around the world.

The household size experienced by the average person ranged from 2.7 people (in Germany) to 13.8 people (in Gambia).
www.pewresearch.org/religion/201...

Map shows variation in the average household size experienced by people in 130 countries around the world.

John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · Sep 22

"Roughly three-quarters (73%) of H-1B workers whose applications were approved in fiscal 2023 were born in India. A majority of approvals every year since 2010 have gone to workers born in India." www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Line chart showing that India has long been the most common birthplace for workers whose H-1B visa applications in the United States are approved each year. The chart is based on a Pew Research Center analysis of data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · Sep 19

Listening to Democratic Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro interviewed on a podcast and thinking he sounded more conservative than I would have guessed.

Then I realized it was Ben Shapiro being interviewed.

Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · Sep 19

Trump's abuses lend additional weight to the great economist Ronald Coase's classic 1959 argument for abolishing the FCC. We don't need a govt agency that licenses broadcasters, and such an agency is inherently dangerous to liberty: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Abolish the FCC

FCC The Trump Administration Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) recent efforts to intimidate broadcasters into taking anti-Trump comedians off the air…

reason.com

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · Sep 17

I read the first half and have some hopefully constructive suggestions. Bravo for the breadth of your research!

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · Sep 16

I feel this

States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · Sep 16

A university distinguished professor of law at the University of Kansas says President Donald Trump's use of tariffs is destroying international trade law and will result in harm to the U.S. economy and global standing.

via @kansasreflector.com

University of Kansas professor says Trump’s tariffs are xenophobic, unlawful and harmful to U.S.

LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas law professor says President Donald Trump’s tariffs against more than 100 countries violate international trade law and harm the United States by undercutting its…

www.newsfromthestates.com

Stephen Ware @profstephenware.bsky.social · Sep 11

Interesting corporate #arbitration post,

including a Delaware law that makes me wonder about FAA preemption

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