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@dansmywholename.bsky.social
Lawyer, author, South African, lover of Baldwin
In what I can only assume is in reaction to SCOTUS’ recent decision not to revisit Obergefell, Vermeule has posted the following:
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
In what I can only assume is in reaction to SCOTUS’ recent decision not to revisit Obergefell, Vermeule has posted the following:
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From Magazine: Common good constitutionalism has taken root in elite legal academia and is finding its way into courtrooms. But scholars remain divided on its potential to reshape the legal landscape.
Sophie Gao and Jocelyn E. Shek report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Sophie Gao and Jocelyn E. Shek report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The Theory, Born at Harvard, That Could Remake Right-Wing Jurisprudence | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson
Over the past five years, common good constitutionalism has taken tenuous root in elite legal academia. It’s now beginning to find its way into courtrooms. But scholars remain divided on its…
www.thecrimson.com
October 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
From Magazine: Common good constitutionalism has taken root in elite legal academia and is finding its way into courtrooms. But scholars remain divided on its potential to reshape the legal landscape.
Sophie Gao and Jocelyn E. Shek report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Sophie Gao and Jocelyn E. Shek report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
South Africa is always featured somehow 😭
This doesn't seem to be an idle threat. Landau is responding to people reporting posts on X with an image suggesting that they'll put permanent black marks in peoples' files or even seek to strip visas from people who "made light" of Kirk's assassination.
Another betrayal of the First Amendment.
Another betrayal of the First Amendment.
September 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
South Africa is always featured somehow 😭
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Five children in Gaza among those killed by Israeli strike while fetching water
Five children in Gaza among those killed by Israeli strike while fetching water
Latest attack comes as Israel’s military urges people to leave Gaza City with 60,000 more reservists to be called up
At least nine people, including five children, have been killed in an Israeli strike while fetching water in al-Mawasi, an area of southern Gaza which Israel has designated as a safe zone, health officials said.
A doctor from al-Nasser hospital shared a picture of the children’s bodies in the hospital, as well as a picture of water jugs left in a pool of blood at the site of the attack on Tuesday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Five children in Gaza among those killed by Israeli strike while fetching water
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Part of the problem for Thomas Chatterton Williams is that he styles himself as an American cultural critic despite having lived in France since Obama's first term.
He has no connection to contemporary American culture outside of Online. He is simply Ian Miles Cheong with better PR.
He has no connection to contemporary American culture outside of Online. He is simply Ian Miles Cheong with better PR.
![Williams’s book is impaired by slapdash prose. His writing abounds with interminable, convoluted sentences that teem with digressions and then awkwardly limp toward disorienting conclusions. Here is one from the prologue:
For non-whites, even though the mixed-race population has become the fastest-growing segment of the American demos and, in real terms, a disproportionate but statistically small and decreasing number of unarmed Black civilians were killed by police annually (typically between 15 and 25 per year from a population exceeding 40 million, according to The Washington Post’s “Fatal Force” database) — and indeed other quality-of-life markers have been equalizing for significant numbers of Black people since the civil rights movement — the death of [Trayvon] Martin followed by [Michael] Brown (regardless of the specific contingencies of that case), and a high-profile slate of videotaped police and vigilante killings that converged with the proliferation of camera-equipped smartphones and the pervasiveness of social media, thwarted any self-congratulatory sense of the inevitability of social progress still alive in the first half of Obama’s second administration.
Huh? In addition to such passages, “Summer of Our Discontent” includes many distended excerpts — some spanning three pages — from not-so-obscure sources, including The Times.
Midway through the book, Williams chides another writer on the race beat for propounding “an excruciatingly simplistic tale, fueled by a powerful unwillingness and incapacity to grapple with contemporary American racial and social complexity.” Regrettably, I know the feeling.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfposmpmhegtyvhbs75s3pw/bafkreif2e52q5ncyrgmcxrrhpwuuclwcfp2vefdlmqxka6z5p2brfiarsa@jpeg)
August 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Part of the problem for Thomas Chatterton Williams is that he styles himself as an American cultural critic despite having lived in France since Obama's first term.
He has no connection to contemporary American culture outside of Online. He is simply Ian Miles Cheong with better PR.
He has no connection to contemporary American culture outside of Online. He is simply Ian Miles Cheong with better PR.
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
Jamelle you’re too talented to have to deal with this. You were right to say what you said, you shouldn’t have deleted those posts.
July 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Jamelle you’re too talented to have to deal with this. You were right to say what you said, you shouldn’t have deleted those posts.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭 sorry I’d have to leave the profession
I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.
June 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭 sorry I’d have to leave the profession
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Mocks "self-proclaimed experts" then writes own dissertation on gender dysphoria into U.S. Reports.
June 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Mocks "self-proclaimed experts" then writes own dissertation on gender dysphoria into U.S. Reports.
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Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.
June 8, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.
New article from me about the Gauteng High Court's attempt to make mediation mandatory.
Mandatory mediation raises concerns about the rule of law
It has been introduced to deal with the huge backlog of civil trials, but could mean thousands of litigants are denied the right to be heard by a court in a fair public hearing.
mg.co.za
March 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
New article from me about the Gauteng High Court's attempt to make mediation mandatory.
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New @helltopaypod.bsky.social out:
I'm talking about the Christian Taliban that ruled apartheid South Africa and created Elon.
open.spotify.com/episode/3tzq...
I'm talking about the Christian Taliban that ruled apartheid South Africa and created Elon.
open.spotify.com/episode/3tzq...
2. The Afrikaner Broederbond: the secret society that shaped Elon Musk
Hell to Pay · Episode
open.spotify.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
New @helltopaypod.bsky.social out:
I'm talking about the Christian Taliban that ruled apartheid South Africa and created Elon.
open.spotify.com/episode/3tzq...
I'm talking about the Christian Taliban that ruled apartheid South Africa and created Elon.
open.spotify.com/episode/3tzq...
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The specific quote from General John DeWitt, justifying Japanese internment: “The very fact that no sabotage has taken place to date is a disturbing and confirming indication that such action will be taken.”
Just like in WW2 when some argued the lack of subversive activity by Japanese-Americans indicated they were plotting something big.
2/ This does not instill confidence that the Government has accurately or properly identified individuals under the Alien Enemies Act:
Government declaration:
"[T]he lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose."
Full context:
Government declaration:
"[T]he lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose."
Full context:
March 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The specific quote from General John DeWitt, justifying Japanese internment: “The very fact that no sabotage has taken place to date is a disturbing and confirming indication that such action will be taken.”
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if you just scan the headline — or if you’re just uncurious — you’ll think this is a “trump bad” piece but if you read it you’ll find that it is my attempt to explain what makes something “anti-constitutional” and why that is distinct from an “unconstitutional” act.
Opinion | Trump Has Gone From Unconstitutional to Anti-Constitutional (Gift Article)
Where all this goes is still up to us.
www.nytimes.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
if you just scan the headline — or if you’re just uncurious — you’ll think this is a “trump bad” piece but if you read it you’ll find that it is my attempt to explain what makes something “anti-constitutional” and why that is distinct from an “unconstitutional” act.
Inshallah it all crashes and burns.
"Together, four top officers at the company have offloaded over $100 million in shares since early February."
seems significant
abcnews.go.com/Business/tes...
seems significant
abcnews.go.com/Business/tes...
Tesla board members, executive sell off over $100 million of stock in recent weeks
As Tesla stock has fallen in recent weeks, members of the board and an executive at Elon Musk's company have sold off millions of dollars in stock, according to filings.
abcnews.go.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Inshallah it all crashes and burns.
On Trump and the invention of white victims in South Africa
open.substack.com/pub/sisonkem...
open.substack.com/pub/sisonkem...
On Trump and the invention of white victims in South Africa
Occasionally a display of racist violence is so brutal and grotesque that it forces South Africans to time travel.
open.substack.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
On Trump and the invention of white victims in South Africa
open.substack.com/pub/sisonkem...
open.substack.com/pub/sisonkem...
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what an incredible piece of data visualisation and journalism:
30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed in March 2020 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed in March 2020 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed in March 2020
It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us.
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
what an incredible piece of data visualisation and journalism:
30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed in March 2020 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed in March 2020 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
