Joe Ura
@joeura.bsky.social
a private citizen commenting on matters of public concern. not at all speaking for my employer.
political science. law and courts. higher education. revolutionaries. tar heels. tigers. aggies. different tigers. sc.
political science. law and courts. higher education. revolutionaries. tar heels. tigers. aggies. different tigers. sc.
This is wrong up close.
No one will be in trouble for using a Generative AI assistant? Obviously someone might be in trouble if their AI helper hallucinates or misrepresents key facts, sources, or ideas they pass along to others. Then, of course, someone could be in trouble.
No one will be in trouble for using a Generative AI assistant? Obviously someone might be in trouble if their AI helper hallucinates or misrepresents key facts, sources, or ideas they pass along to others. Then, of course, someone could be in trouble.
October 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This is wrong up close.
No one will be in trouble for using a Generative AI assistant? Obviously someone might be in trouble if their AI helper hallucinates or misrepresents key facts, sources, or ideas they pass along to others. Then, of course, someone could be in trouble.
No one will be in trouble for using a Generative AI assistant? Obviously someone might be in trouble if their AI helper hallucinates or misrepresents key facts, sources, or ideas they pass along to others. Then, of course, someone could be in trouble.
No Kings in Seneca, SC.
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
No Kings in Seneca, SC.
Efforts to enforce it must also contemplate race, otherwise they're meaningless. You can't protect people from race-based disenfranchisement if you can't take account of race.
The VRA extends in a straight line from Congress's 15th Amendment enforcement powers, and state actions undertaken...
The VRA extends in a straight line from Congress's 15th Amendment enforcement powers, and state actions undertaken...
October 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Efforts to enforce it must also contemplate race, otherwise they're meaningless. You can't protect people from race-based disenfranchisement if you can't take account of race.
The VRA extends in a straight line from Congress's 15th Amendment enforcement powers, and state actions undertaken...
The VRA extends in a straight line from Congress's 15th Amendment enforcement powers, and state actions undertaken...
I await the inevitable reports of suspiciously timed stock trading.
October 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I await the inevitable reports of suspiciously timed stock trading.
Republicans control both houses of Congress. They could just change the law, but lawlessness seems to be the point. Trump's position is that law does not apply to him.
Also, the Treasury took down a website listing the "no living person on money" rule? Really? Come on!
Also, the Treasury took down a website listing the "no living person on money" rule? Really? Come on!
October 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Republicans control both houses of Congress. They could just change the law, but lawlessness seems to be the point. Trump's position is that law does not apply to him.
Also, the Treasury took down a website listing the "no living person on money" rule? Really? Come on!
Also, the Treasury took down a website listing the "no living person on money" rule? Really? Come on!
“targeted immigration enforcement operation”
Armed federal agents in
military fatigues approached or entered nearly every apartment overnight, knocked down doors, removed residents including children without allowing them to dress, separated parents...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Armed federal agents in
military fatigues approached or entered nearly every apartment overnight, knocked down doors, removed residents including children without allowing them to dress, separated parents...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
October 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
“targeted immigration enforcement operation”
Armed federal agents in
military fatigues approached or entered nearly every apartment overnight, knocked down doors, removed residents including children without allowing them to dress, separated parents...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Armed federal agents in
military fatigues approached or entered nearly every apartment overnight, knocked down doors, removed residents including children without allowing them to dress, separated parents...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
To the extent there's constitutional logic in ICE's building sweeps, it's the same as the Kavanaugh: the Constitution provides less protection to a concentration of people of certain apparent ethnicities and professions associated with illegal immigration than others.
October 2, 2025 at 11:12 AM
To the extent there's constitutional logic in ICE's building sweeps, it's the same as the Kavanaugh: the Constitution provides less protection to a concentration of people of certain apparent ethnicities and professions associated with illegal immigration than others.
The irony of the president giving the Department of Defense a tough nickname to better reflect his sense of its changing identity just hit me. Apologies if I'm late to this party.
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September 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The irony of the president giving the Department of Defense a tough nickname to better reflect his sense of its changing identity just hit me. Apologies if I'm late to this party.
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I know, I know, but ten years ago, a brief conversation between former President Clinton and Loretta Lynch, Obama's AG, while the DOJ was investigating Hillary Clinton was a national political scandal.
Candidate Trump called it, "so terrible... so out of bounds.”
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Candidate Trump called it, "so terrible... so out of bounds.”
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September 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I know, I know, but ten years ago, a brief conversation between former President Clinton and Loretta Lynch, Obama's AG, while the DOJ was investigating Hillary Clinton was a national political scandal.
Candidate Trump called it, "so terrible... so out of bounds.”
share.google/i2JTNXfNROcy...
Candidate Trump called it, "so terrible... so out of bounds.”
share.google/i2JTNXfNROcy...
In Rankin v. McPherson (1987), for example, the Supreme Court held a county employee could not be fired for criticizing President Reagan and saying, "If they go for him again, I hope they get him" while at work.
September 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
In Rankin v. McPherson (1987), for example, the Supreme Court held a county employee could not be fired for criticizing President Reagan and saying, "If they go for him again, I hope they get him" while at work.
South Carolina state law makes it a criminal offense to intimidate someone or remove him from employment because of his political opinions or his exercising rights protected by the US Constitution.
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September 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
South Carolina state law makes it a criminal offense to intimidate someone or remove him from employment because of his political opinions or his exercising rights protected by the US Constitution.
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September 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Here's the catalog description the now-fired Texas A&M lecturer allegedly transgressed by giving a lecture about gender in children's literature.
ENGL 360 Literature for Children
Credits 3. 3 Lecture hours. Representative writers, genres, texts and movements.
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...
ENGL 360 Literature for Children
Credits 3. 3 Lecture hours. Representative writers, genres, texts and movements.
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...
September 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Here's the catalog description the now-fired Texas A&M lecturer allegedly transgressed by giving a lecture about gender in children's literature.
ENGL 360 Literature for Children
Credits 3. 3 Lecture hours. Representative writers, genres, texts and movements.
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...
ENGL 360 Literature for Children
Credits 3. 3 Lecture hours. Representative writers, genres, texts and movements.
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...
Texas A&M fired a dean and department head for approving instruction outside the scope of a course's description after a viral video showed a student objecting to a lecture about gender in a children's literature class.
I believe this is the catalog description:
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/t...
I believe this is the catalog description:
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/t...
September 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Texas A&M fired a dean and department head for approving instruction outside the scope of a course's description after a viral video showed a student objecting to a lecture about gender in a children's literature class.
I believe this is the catalog description:
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/t...
I believe this is the catalog description:
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/t...
Actually, this is more the energy..
September 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Actually, this is more the energy..
Trump didn't actually rename anything, he just gave the DoD a "secondary title," a nickname, I guess.
September 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Trump didn't actually rename anything, he just gave the DoD a "secondary title," a nickname, I guess.
Sadly, though, this is charted territory. We know what the world was like before vaccines and scientifically informed efforts to mitigate disease. It was filled with the graves of children.
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August 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Sadly, though, this is charted territory. We know what the world was like before vaccines and scientifically informed efforts to mitigate disease. It was filled with the graves of children.
share.google/4UfJGFSoztCz...
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The grand jury protection and the right to trial by jury exist to give the people constitutional agency in the administration of justice.
The passage below is from Larry Kramer's The People Themselves.
The passage below is from Larry Kramer's The People Themselves.
August 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The grand jury protection and the right to trial by jury exist to give the people constitutional agency in the administration of justice.
The passage below is from Larry Kramer's The People Themselves.
The passage below is from Larry Kramer's The People Themselves.
August 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Allowing police to hide records about misconduct complaints and other matters is hardly consistent with "the fundamental philosophy... that government is the servant and not the master of the people."
GOVERNMENT CODE CHAPTER 552. PUBLIC INFORMATION share.google/2Vnx4p6XDweI...
GOVERNMENT CODE CHAPTER 552. PUBLIC INFORMATION share.google/2Vnx4p6XDweI...
August 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Allowing police to hide records about misconduct complaints and other matters is hardly consistent with "the fundamental philosophy... that government is the servant and not the master of the people."
GOVERNMENT CODE CHAPTER 552. PUBLIC INFORMATION share.google/2Vnx4p6XDweI...
GOVERNMENT CODE CHAPTER 552. PUBLIC INFORMATION share.google/2Vnx4p6XDweI...
Now that we've crossed the threshold into state ownership, the economy isn't a level playing field, even more so than now, sitting on competition and innovation.
And as @sarahbauerled.bsky.social and others point out, the government, particularly this government, isn't likely to be a silent partner
And as @sarahbauerled.bsky.social and others point out, the government, particularly this government, isn't likely to be a silent partner
August 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Now that we've crossed the threshold into state ownership, the economy isn't a level playing field, even more so than now, sitting on competition and innovation.
And as @sarahbauerled.bsky.social and others point out, the government, particularly this government, isn't likely to be a silent partner
And as @sarahbauerled.bsky.social and others point out, the government, particularly this government, isn't likely to be a silent partner