Jason Jones
@profjasoncjones.bsky.social
Law Prof @ NC Central
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Opinion | Government workers need to be more productive on the job. They can start by writing weekly emails detailing their progress to a drug-addled edgelord who will receive them while playing Diablo 4 with teenagers.
February 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Opinion | Government workers need to be more productive on the job. They can start by writing weekly emails detailing their progress to a drug-addled edgelord who will receive them while playing Diablo 4 with teenagers.
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What happens if we stop all clinical trials & funding basic science research? People die.
What happens if we send kids “back” to countries they’ve never lived in? People die.
What happens if we treat trans people the way Nazis treated Jews? People die.
Etc. etc.
What happens if we send kids “back” to countries they’ve never lived in? People die.
What happens if we treat trans people the way Nazis treated Jews? People die.
Etc. etc.
January 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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The most important fact—that this would be a patently unconstitutional executive order—is omitted from the social copy.
Breaking news: The U.S. government will no longer recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States to immigrants who lack legal status, one of 10 immigration-related executive orders President-elect Donald Trump plans to sign Monday, an incoming administration official told reporters.
Trump executive order will attempt to end birthright citizenship
The incoming president plans to take at least 10 actions related to the border or immigration, including ramping up deportations and suspending refugee resettlement.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The most important fact—that this would be a patently unconstitutional executive order—is omitted from the social copy.
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"If President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his vow to impose stiff tariffs and deport undocumented workers, rebuilding could become even more fraught. Undocumented workers comprise an estimated 13% of the construction industry,"
Rarely have so many cities ruined by natural disasters attempted to rebuild around the same time. Hurricane reconstruction efforts are under way in North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. Soon, Los Angeles County will be starting to rebuild.
The Battle for Recovery Supplies Is On in a Disaster-Strewn America
Los Angeles confronts wildfire destruction as the Southeast starts rebuilding after hurricanes.
www.wsj.com
January 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"If President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his vow to impose stiff tariffs and deport undocumented workers, rebuilding could become even more fraught. Undocumented workers comprise an estimated 13% of the construction industry,"
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I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.
ABC White House correspondent just released ANOTHER anti-trans EO expected that we did not cover in our piece this morning:
A federal ban on funding to programs that acknowledge and affirm transgender people.
A federal ban on funding to programs that acknowledge and affirm transgender people.
January 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.
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This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
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It's rare you get such a clear illustration of whose lives have value in America and whose don't
December 10, 2024 at 7:14 PM
It's rare you get such a clear illustration of whose lives have value in America and whose don't
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In a society that rejects any belief in the common good It's easier to destroy solidarity than to build it. If I had to define "Trumpism," it's the belief that your own worth as a person is enriched by other people's suffering.
The problem is that someone doesn't need to put in any work to come up with 'anti-trans talking points.' It's just a bunch of harmful stereotypes.
December 10, 2024 at 2:35 PM
In a society that rejects any belief in the common good It's easier to destroy solidarity than to build it. If I had to define "Trumpism," it's the belief that your own worth as a person is enriched by other people's suffering.
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Privileged people generally experience the system as biased against and as singling them out for abuse, because they cannot imagine that’s just how the system treats people.
From what I understand from listening to @kenwhite.bsky.social Weinstein isn't getting any special treatment, and this is how it is for everyone at Rikers, but no, he thinks he's being picked on.
Lawyers say they suspect Harvey Weinstein has been deliberately mistreated in prison
According to Weinstein’s legal team, the disgraced movie producer has faced egregious conditions while jailed
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Privileged people generally experience the system as biased against and as singling them out for abuse, because they cannot imagine that’s just how the system treats people.
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Why didn't they just put the photos inside a glass case that only the manager can open
BREAKING: CVS removes photos of executives from its website in wake of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s assassination
December 6, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Why didn't they just put the photos inside a glass case that only the manager can open
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I am a huge fan of Hawk Tuah but you took my life savings.
December 5, 2024 at 2:07 AM
I am a huge fan of Hawk Tuah but you took my life savings.
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Nothing says “lead the Pentagon” like mommy making phone calls for her very good boy.
December 4, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Nothing says “lead the Pentagon” like mommy making phone calls for her very good boy.
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Anytime you feel imposter syndrome creeping in at your job, just remember that Brett Kavanaugh, one of the most replacement-level Guys our society has ever elevated to a position of power, is an honest-to-God Supreme Court justice
There is a stance I will call "Kavanaugh neutrality" that says the Constitution is "neutral" between vulnerable people and the power of the state and so we will watch and shrug while the vulnerable are beaten up in our presence. #Skrmetti
December 4, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Anytime you feel imposter syndrome creeping in at your job, just remember that Brett Kavanaugh, one of the most replacement-level Guys our society has ever elevated to a position of power, is an honest-to-God Supreme Court justice
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Claudine Gay was deemed Not Accomplished Enough to run Harvard, but all the failsons, creeps and psychos with no experience or expertise will get to be Cabinet officials
November 30, 2024 at 11:07 PM
Claudine Gay was deemed Not Accomplished Enough to run Harvard, but all the failsons, creeps and psychos with no experience or expertise will get to be Cabinet officials
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It will never not blow my mind that Republicans have introduced thousands of anti-trans bills and spent half a billion on anti-trans ads and somehow it's the Democrats that are labeled as obsessed with trans people.
November 22, 2024 at 9:01 PM
It will never not blow my mind that Republicans have introduced thousands of anti-trans bills and spent half a billion on anti-trans ads and somehow it's the Democrats that are labeled as obsessed with trans people.
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yeah it's a big mystery
CNN's Dana Bash on the neo-Nazis marching in Columbus: "We don‘t know what side of the aisle this comes from. I mean, typically, neo-Nazis are from the far right. You had protests from the far left at your house as a Jewish member."
November 18, 2024 at 9:20 PM
yeah it's a big mystery
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Worth noting the EPA's brief correctly uses "nitrogen oxide" 7 times, and the EPA submitted a declaration from an official who used it twice.
But nobody involved in the majority opinion, Justices and clerks, bothered to take the EPA's brief seriously, and so none of them noticed the error.
But nobody involved in the majority opinion, Justices and clerks, bothered to take the EPA's brief seriously, and so none of them noticed the error.
Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it right—in an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
July 8, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Worth noting the EPA's brief correctly uses "nitrogen oxide" 7 times, and the EPA submitted a declaration from an official who used it twice.
But nobody involved in the majority opinion, Justices and clerks, bothered to take the EPA's brief seriously, and so none of them noticed the error.
But nobody involved in the majority opinion, Justices and clerks, bothered to take the EPA's brief seriously, and so none of them noticed the error.
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The Dallas Fed estimates that Texas’s extreme summer heat has probably shaved 1 percent (!) off its nominal GDP growth this year. heatmap.news/sparks/heat-...
The Texas Economy Took a Hit This Summer from Record-Breaking Heat
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas calculated the economic cost of a really hot summer.
heatmap.news
October 18, 2023 at 9:51 PM
The Dallas Fed estimates that Texas’s extreme summer heat has probably shaved 1 percent (!) off its nominal GDP growth this year. heatmap.news/sparks/heat-...
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Deeply impressed by the business acumen required to buy the place where experts wrote stuff for free and make it the place where WokeDestroyer1488 will never be banned.
A survey from Nature found that about half of scientists who used to use Twitter have cut back or quit it entirely & half are using other platforms. 🧪 By Myriam Vidal Valero www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty
A Nature survey reveals scientists’ reasons for leaving the social-media platform now known as X, and what they are doing to build and maintain a sense of community. A Nature survey reveals scientis...
www.nature.com
August 22, 2023 at 3:40 PM
Deeply impressed by the business acumen required to buy the place where experts wrote stuff for free and make it the place where WokeDestroyer1488 will never be banned.