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Here are my concerns:
1. ending violence against women and children
2. reforming the legal system to better recognize (and protect families from) emotional abuse
3. anti-racism
4. public records law
5. crochet
[originally tweeted Nov 6, 2018]
1. ending violence against women and children
2. reforming the legal system to better recognize (and protect families from) emotional abuse
3. anti-racism
4. public records law
5. crochet
[originally tweeted Nov 6, 2018]
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Since they're trying to blame this on Biden, here's annual measles cases since 2000:
December 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Since they're trying to blame this on Biden, here's annual measles cases since 2000:
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behold, the platonic ideal of social media
December 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
behold, the platonic ideal of social media
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Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
We have Die Hard on and gas is 74¢
December 12, 2025 at 5:17 AM
We have Die Hard on and gas is 74¢
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everyone who suspected the admin was trying to hide something by spiriting him far away to a deep dark hole was right
🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.
December 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
everyone who suspected the admin was trying to hide something by spiriting him far away to a deep dark hole was right
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Look, it's the Mets. They have one job to do. Make it halfway through the season, to get your hopes up, before collapsing.
December 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Look, it's the Mets. They have one job to do. Make it halfway through the season, to get your hopes up, before collapsing.
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None of the Mets' moves feel entirely indefensible (so far!), but that doesn't mean it's fun to watch your favorite players go. defector.com/the-mets-are...
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
None of the Mets' moves feel entirely indefensible (so far!), but that doesn't mean it's fun to watch your favorite players go. defector.com/the-mets-are...
a billionaire, hungover, having just pulled the fire alarm at his company headquarters, standing at the window of his elevated office watching the sprinklers rain down on everybody's desk and computers: "We needed this."
December 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
a billionaire, hungover, having just pulled the fire alarm at his company headquarters, standing at the window of his elevated office watching the sprinklers rain down on everybody's desk and computers: "We needed this."
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Fifty different problems in the world just locked into one big uniform piece like a Rubik's cube in my head.
December 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Fifty different problems in the world just locked into one big uniform piece like a Rubik's cube in my head.
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I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
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December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
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Today seems as good a time as any to note my extended discussion of SCOTUS expansion here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Also, @epps.bsky.social and @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social specifically propose a lottery along @mmasnick.bsky.social's lines here: yalelawjournal.org/pdf/EppsSita...
Also, @epps.bsky.social and @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social specifically propose a lottery along @mmasnick.bsky.social's lines here: yalelawjournal.org/pdf/EppsSita...
December 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Today seems as good a time as any to note my extended discussion of SCOTUS expansion here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Also, @epps.bsky.social and @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social specifically propose a lottery along @mmasnick.bsky.social's lines here: yalelawjournal.org/pdf/EppsSita...
Also, @epps.bsky.social and @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social specifically propose a lottery along @mmasnick.bsky.social's lines here: yalelawjournal.org/pdf/EppsSita...
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Listen to the clip. Instead of immediately shutting him down when he lies that he hadn’t heard about the pardon of the Honduran president who was convicted of a conspiracy to smuggle 400 TONS OF COCAINE, Stephanopolous lets him spew insanities about how this one boat was the existential threat.
December 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Listen to the clip. Instead of immediately shutting him down when he lies that he hadn’t heard about the pardon of the Honduran president who was convicted of a conspiracy to smuggle 400 TONS OF COCAINE, Stephanopolous lets him spew insanities about how this one boat was the existential threat.
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If they pretend they haven’t heard about the story of the day, end the interview right there.
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
December 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
If they pretend they haven’t heard about the story of the day, end the interview right there.
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
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If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows
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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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dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.
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the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
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what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"
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"Citizenship, which is to be free and equal"
December 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"Citizenship, which is to be free and equal"
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Originalism is fundamentally incompatible with Brown v. Board of Education, which would be enough to consign it to a footnote in law textbooks, if anti-Black racism weren’t a prime animating force of American political life
December 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Originalism is fundamentally incompatible with Brown v. Board of Education, which would be enough to consign it to a footnote in law textbooks, if anti-Black racism weren’t a prime animating force of American political life
My town's shitty xmas music radio station, for a segment about holiday cheer, just said "let's hear from today's celebrity spreader... Gwen Stefani"
December 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
My town's shitty xmas music radio station, for a segment about holiday cheer, just said "let's hear from today's celebrity spreader... Gwen Stefani"
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this is from my WORK IS FOUR LETTERS conversation with @jdandeneau.bsky.social a little over a year ago, man, i need to get back to these some day
Jim Dandeneau | Executive Director
Our strength is in our relationships.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
this is from my WORK IS FOUR LETTERS conversation with @jdandeneau.bsky.social a little over a year ago, man, i need to get back to these some day
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Lots of interest here, and I will write about it. But what jumped out at me was ZM's observation that the laws we need are already on the books. We just need to enforce them. I mean, OF COURSE, but... it needs to be said.
I had the absolute pleasure of joining @hcrichardson.bsky.social for a conversation yesterday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15L...
American Conversations: Zohran Mamdani
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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December 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Lots of interest here, and I will write about it. But what jumped out at me was ZM's observation that the laws we need are already on the books. We just need to enforce them. I mean, OF COURSE, but... it needs to be said.
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I'm struggling to articulate this in my teaching: there is a point in preserving the ideals of avoiding fear or favor and exercising reasoned judgment in law, even if they have to be kept in exile
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I'm struggling to articulate this in my teaching: there is a point in preserving the ideals of avoiding fear or favor and exercising reasoned judgment in law, even if they have to be kept in exile