Chase Madar
@madar.bsky.social
Author, attorney, translator. Teaching law ~and society~ at NYU Gallatin. Make the Road NY legal alum.
That and my Thai-forward cranberry relish
November 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
That and my Thai-forward cranberry relish
Telling my wife that her bourbon-pecan pie “should be on the cover of Pie Times magazine” is my favorite #ThanksgivingTradition – whats yours?
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Telling my wife that her bourbon-pecan pie “should be on the cover of Pie Times magazine” is my favorite #ThanksgivingTradition – whats yours?
You do feel a bit like youre there in venue, maybe in the back, with these cassette recordings; there’s a slightly muffled warmth there that hasn’t been scrubbed out. Anyway here’s the band at Stonehenge, one of those photos that makes me proud to be a Homo sapiens
November 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
You do feel a bit like youre there in venue, maybe in the back, with these cassette recordings; there’s a slightly muffled warmth there that hasn’t been scrubbed out. Anyway here’s the band at Stonehenge, one of those photos that makes me proud to be a Homo sapiens
Hochul should be easy to beat but Stefanik’s compulsion to act like a manic, bug-eyed clown-bigot hired for Eric and Don Jr.’s birthday party means the incumbent will probably sail to reelection next year
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Hochul should be easy to beat but Stefanik’s compulsion to act like a manic, bug-eyed clown-bigot hired for Eric and Don Jr.’s birthday party means the incumbent will probably sail to reelection next year
End of the semester 🍂
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
End of the semester 🍂
What old guy with long experience and some expertise doesn’t LOVE a successful young guy coming over to talk shop with a certain amount of solicitousness and strategic deference? No wonder Trump has that faraway look
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
What old guy with long experience and some expertise doesn’t LOVE a successful young guy coming over to talk shop with a certain amount of solicitousness and strategic deference? No wonder Trump has that faraway look
Robert Kobayashi (1925-2015), at Susan Inglett through Wednesday
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Robert Kobayashi (1925-2015), at Susan Inglett through Wednesday
Good. Great, even. Big part of why I voted for him. Thank you Thomas Sowell fan account. Minor point: all left-of-center candidates would be well advised to never utter the word “critique” again as long as they live unless in a soundproofed seminar room
November 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Good. Great, even. Big part of why I voted for him. Thank you Thomas Sowell fan account. Minor point: all left-of-center candidates would be well advised to never utter the word “critique” again as long as they live unless in a soundproofed seminar room
I hope our opinion class remembers a Glenn Beck’s brief spell of anti-Trumpism before turning into a foaming MAGA hat
November 17, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I hope our opinion class remembers a Glenn Beck’s brief spell of anti-Trumpism before turning into a foaming MAGA hat
Where do all the NY-10 candidates stand on taxpayer-funded military aid to Israel. My guess is that @bradlander.bsky.social will back billions in US mil aid but “defensive weapons only,” the position of Bernie and AOC. But I hope not because this position is morally incoherent and a feckless hedge
November 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Where do all the NY-10 candidates stand on taxpayer-funded military aid to Israel. My guess is that @bradlander.bsky.social will back billions in US mil aid but “defensive weapons only,” the position of Bernie and AOC. But I hope not because this position is morally incoherent and a feckless hedge
Moronic, despicable and quite similar to the invasion of Iraq where different pieces of the Bush-Cheney administration had very different rationales and strategic aims, with “getting rid of Saddam’s WMD” serving as a kind of common (if willfully hallucinated) denominator
November 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Moronic, despicable and quite similar to the invasion of Iraq where different pieces of the Bush-Cheney administration had very different rationales and strategic aims, with “getting rid of Saddam’s WMD” serving as a kind of common (if willfully hallucinated) denominator
For a great power, all geopolitics is local, and often ridiculously petty 🇺🇸
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
For a great power, all geopolitics is local, and often ridiculously petty 🇺🇸
I guess the harvesters started throwing olives at each other as like a joke and it got out of hand. Senseless and also tragic
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I guess the harvesters started throwing olives at each other as like a joke and it got out of hand. Senseless and also tragic
Mamdani flipping Black voters is maybe the biggest story of round 2. A sign of his political talent and his team’s organizational skills, also of younger voters happily ignoring more traditional brokers of Black NY
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Mamdani flipping Black voters is maybe the biggest story of round 2. A sign of his political talent and his team’s organizational skills, also of younger voters happily ignoring more traditional brokers of Black NY
Josh Shapiro’s loud and clear pro-Netanyahu position from 2011, undermining the Obama administration. H/t @ettingermentum.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Josh Shapiro’s loud and clear pro-Netanyahu position from 2011, undermining the Obama administration. H/t @ettingermentum.bsky.social
I’ve never seen any of those Final Destination movies for I have a tender heart but if the next one doesnt have one of these badboys taking care of business our cinema is without hope
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I’ve never seen any of those Final Destination movies for I have a tender heart but if the next one doesnt have one of these badboys taking care of business our cinema is without hope
My neighbor Chuck has long been unfit to be a United States Senator, let alone leader of the Democrats. This really should have been clear since his 2002 Iraq invasion vote and it's pretty pathetic that normie libs and rank & file Democrats are only catching on to this now
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 AM
My neighbor Chuck has long been unfit to be a United States Senator, let alone leader of the Democrats. This really should have been clear since his 2002 Iraq invasion vote and it's pretty pathetic that normie libs and rank & file Democrats are only catching on to this now
What nauseates about Mayor Pete is that he’s an Atlantic Monthly-reading retiree’s idea of what a young (ok, 43-yr-old) person should be like. Thank god for competitive primaries
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
What nauseates about Mayor Pete is that he’s an Atlantic Monthly-reading retiree’s idea of what a young (ok, 43-yr-old) person should be like. Thank god for competitive primaries
Reminder that many Republican elected officials aren’t just hostile to Obamacare but to the very concept of “insurance” which violates their deeply held creed of fuck-you social Calvinism. My Le Monde diplo report from Trump I mondediplo.com/2017/07/05he...
November 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Reminder that many Republican elected officials aren’t just hostile to Obamacare but to the very concept of “insurance” which violates their deeply held creed of fuck-you social Calvinism. My Le Monde diplo report from Trump I mondediplo.com/2017/07/05he...