With Tik Tok now banned and prostrating itself to Trump, come join me on RedNote / Xiaohongshu!

I'm not surprised, but mostly because DeSantis' thing is being really bad at concealing how fake he is. Pic unrelated.

Incredibly interesting paper. The author purports to debunk the legal institutionalist claim that political affiliation is largely irrelevant to Circuit court decisionmaking. Highly recommend reading. ⚖️

The world is healing.

Not in the field but found this spike in the population of disabled folks around the same time period.

Even buying the logic that longer sentences affect decision-making processes--this encourages child rapists to kill the child after they rape them.

Finally, Jon's proposed pace of decarceration is dangerous on many fronts. Many abolitionists would agree that, for serious decarceration to be a net positive for society, social services need to be dramatically expanded. The needed provision medical care alone requires a major investment.

How I feel when I tell the Vietnamese restaurant that, yes, I have ordered Bun Bo Hue before.