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In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons…
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
December 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons…
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
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One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
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top notch mascottin'
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
top notch mascottin'
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“Dems moved too far left” means BLM and trans equality—and for some, taking COVID seriously—and many Dem politicians really do support those things.
There’s tons of noise and euphemism, but that’s the core argument.
And it is a misguided one, since Dems won the election after that move, in 2020.
There’s tons of noise and euphemism, but that’s the core argument.
And it is a misguided one, since Dems won the election after that move, in 2020.
November 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“Dems moved too far left” means BLM and trans equality—and for some, taking COVID seriously—and many Dem politicians really do support those things.
There’s tons of noise and euphemism, but that’s the core argument.
And it is a misguided one, since Dems won the election after that move, in 2020.
There’s tons of noise and euphemism, but that’s the core argument.
And it is a misguided one, since Dems won the election after that move, in 2020.
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Only one single person — the hero filming — took any sort of action. Everybody else just keeps walking, pretending not to see a screaming woman being dragged away. This is so incredibly Nazi Germany.
I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
October 30, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Only one single person — the hero filming — took any sort of action. Everybody else just keeps walking, pretending not to see a screaming woman being dragged away. This is so incredibly Nazi Germany.
It’s really frustrating to see this hack rage bait from the left. “Officially considering taking up a case” is vapid and meaningless. Please leave the legal commentary and analysis to pros like @chrisgeidner.bsky.social and @stevevladeck.bsky.social
Breaking: The Supreme Court is now officially considering taking up a case overturning same-sex marriage.
This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.
This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.
October 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It’s really frustrating to see this hack rage bait from the left. “Officially considering taking up a case” is vapid and meaningless. Please leave the legal commentary and analysis to pros like @chrisgeidner.bsky.social and @stevevladeck.bsky.social
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"If I’m being honest, I’ve seen a serious dip in your overall performance ever since the beast of the sea emerged."
Don’t Let the Beasts from Revelation Distract You from Your Expense Reports
Thanks for coming in. Have a seat. I realize there’s a lot going on right now between work and the seven-headed dragon that is here to brutally mur...
buff.ly
October 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"If I’m being honest, I’ve seen a serious dip in your overall performance ever since the beast of the sea emerged."
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great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system
September 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system
It’s really not fair to @kenwhite.bsky.social when the Internet conspires to serve up so many bad 1st Amendment takes at the same time as so many bad RICO takes.
Deputy AG Blanche: RICO is available to all kinds of organizations committing crimes and committing wrongful acts… So is it sheer happenstance that individuals show up at a restaurant where the president is trying to enjoy dinner and accost him with vile words?
September 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM
It’s really not fair to @kenwhite.bsky.social when the Internet conspires to serve up so many bad 1st Amendment takes at the same time as so many bad RICO takes.
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MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
September 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
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The truth is most people don’t give a shit about the rule of law, or due process, or laws of war, or freedom of unpopular speech or unpopular religion. Just about every modern civilizational advancement out of barbarism gets only occasional lip service and is unpopular in particular instances.
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September 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The truth is most people don’t give a shit about the rule of law, or due process, or laws of war, or freedom of unpopular speech or unpopular religion. Just about every modern civilizational advancement out of barbarism gets only occasional lip service and is unpopular in particular instances.
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a pretty good summary of the 21st century is that the humiliation of america's defeats in the middle east post-9/11 curdled into a reactionary politics that seeks affirmation in the humiliation of anyone who is an other: liberals, minorities, the global south, china, europe, whoever.
August 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
a pretty good summary of the 21st century is that the humiliation of america's defeats in the middle east post-9/11 curdled into a reactionary politics that seeks affirmation in the humiliation of anyone who is an other: liberals, minorities, the global south, china, europe, whoever.
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here's a template, feel free to make slight adjustments:
"Trump should have spent his final days in jail, not destroying the country. We look forward to making sure everyone who enabled him spends a good amount of time there, too."
"Trump should have spent his final days in jail, not destroying the country. We look forward to making sure everyone who enabled him spends a good amount of time there, too."
August 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
here's a template, feel free to make slight adjustments:
"Trump should have spent his final days in jail, not destroying the country. We look forward to making sure everyone who enabled him spends a good amount of time there, too."
"Trump should have spent his final days in jail, not destroying the country. We look forward to making sure everyone who enabled him spends a good amount of time there, too."
Feels like Kate Winslet’s The Regime becomes less satire and more documentary every day.
August 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Feels like Kate Winslet’s The Regime becomes less satire and more documentary every day.
I’m not sure this holiday has ever felt so solemn and mournful, especially as I reflect on pieces such as this. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
Goodbye to All That
My resignation from the FBI.
www.lawfaremedia.org
July 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I’m not sure this holiday has ever felt so solemn and mournful, especially as I reflect on pieces such as this. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
These days, we have to appreciate the small things… like having Josh Blackman as an ever-running fount of unintentional comic relief.
March 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
These days, we have to appreciate the small things… like having Josh Blackman as an ever-running fount of unintentional comic relief.
Supposed to fly back to LA from Sydney this afternoon, but what if I just… don’t?
November 11, 2024 at 12:17 AM
Supposed to fly back to LA from Sydney this afternoon, but what if I just… don’t?
A little morning Whitman can be good for the soul:
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer.
That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer.
That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
November 10, 2024 at 5:00 PM
A little morning Whitman can be good for the soul:
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer.
That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer.
That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
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On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had written and asked, “What makes a good citizen?"
November 9, 2024 at 9:40 PM
On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had written and asked, “What makes a good citizen?"
Thanks to our “law and order” Supreme Court, seems like now the question boils down to whether Biden is going to execute Trump or, next year, vice versa.
July 1, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Thanks to our “law and order” Supreme Court, seems like now the question boils down to whether Biden is going to execute Trump or, next year, vice versa.
Make a band milder
Third Eye Astigmatism
Third Eye Astigmatism
make a band milder
electric night light orchestra
electric night light orchestra
Make a band milder.
Uncertainty! At the Disco
Uncertainty! At the Disco
June 12, 2024 at 6:02 AM
Make a band milder
Third Eye Astigmatism
Third Eye Astigmatism
It’s one that’s subject to the normal amount of scrutiny.
WHAT THE FUCK IS A DEFAULT JUDGMENT
August 31, 2023 at 12:00 AM
It’s one that’s subject to the normal amount of scrutiny.
Mata v. Avianca, Inc. will be in the next edition or supplement of every legal ethics casebook.
Such jaw droppingly bad judgment that I have to hope that Mssrs. Schwartz and LoDuca, are—like the cases they cite—totally bogus.
Such jaw droppingly bad judgment that I have to hope that Mssrs. Schwartz and LoDuca, are—like the cases they cite—totally bogus.
May 27, 2023 at 3:04 AM
Mata v. Avianca, Inc. will be in the next edition or supplement of every legal ethics casebook.
Such jaw droppingly bad judgment that I have to hope that Mssrs. Schwartz and LoDuca, are—like the cases they cite—totally bogus.
Such jaw droppingly bad judgment that I have to hope that Mssrs. Schwartz and LoDuca, are—like the cases they cite—totally bogus.
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This is so astonishingly dumb I just spent 20 minutes summarizing it for Slack friends
(all links to docket entires at https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63107798/mata-v-avianca-inc/. I paid 20 cents to get one of these you're welcome)
(all links to docket entires at https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63107798/mata-v-avianca-inc/. I paid 20 cents to get one of these you're welcome)
![so this guy files citations to non-existent cases (this is a case where the plaintiff says he was injured when the food/drink cart hit his knee). Opposing counsel is like WTF; none of this stuff exists:
In support of his position that the Bankruptcy Code tolls the two-year limitations period, Plaintiff cites to “Varghese v. China Southern Airlines Co., Ltd., 925 F.3d 1339 (11th Cir. 2019).” The undersigned has not been able to locate this case by caption or citation, nor any case bearing any resemblance to it. Plaintiff offers lengthy quotations purportedly from the “Varghese” case, including: “We [the Eleventh Circuit] have previously held that the automatic stay provisions of the Bankruptcy Code may toll the statute of limitations under the Warsaw Convention, which is the precursor to the Montreal Convention . . . We see no reason why the same rule should not apply under the Montreal Convention.” The undersigned has not been able to locate this quotation, nor anything like it any cas](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyzx4hhwaqsjbqxukz2a3hve/bafkreidec5icfjxc6kmfvei5xavtapye7vmkcyvr3dpg3lffyg2bt26t2u@jpeg)
May 27, 2023 at 2:28 AM
This is so astonishingly dumb I just spent 20 minutes summarizing it for Slack friends
(all links to docket entires at https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63107798/mata-v-avianca-inc/. I paid 20 cents to get one of these you're welcome)
(all links to docket entires at https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63107798/mata-v-avianca-inc/. I paid 20 cents to get one of these you're welcome)