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Matt Steilen @mattsteilen.bsky.social · Sep 2

Mojo dojo casa house coffee looks righteous

Matt Steilen @mattsteilen.bsky.social · Sep 2

I mailed mine there and back again

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · Sep 1

Well Leeds certainly knew how to name its streets and yards containing working class housing. "Prosperity Street" might have been a little over the for families living in poverty. I am not sure I would have liked to live in a throughfare titled "Institution Street" either.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · Sep 1

Church interior with, at left, church official explaining altarpiece to visitors. How great is that? Hendrick van Steenwyck, 1608.

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Matt Steilen @mattsteilen.bsky.social · Sep 1

A very Buffalo image

Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · Aug 31

Bernd and Hilla Becher, Hochofen ( Blast furnace), Völklingen, Saar, Germany, 1986

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Music and the Holocaust @holocaustmusic.bsky.social · Aug 31

Alma Mahler-Werfel (born #OTD in 1879) crossed the Pyrenees to Spain carrying a number of manuscript scores including Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, and the first three movements of Bruckner’s Third Symphony. She arrived in New York on Oct 13 1940.
holocaustmusic.ort.o...

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DevonChurchLand @devonchurchland.bsky.social · Aug 29

Angel

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · Aug 30

The rebirth of the phoenix

BL Harley 4751; Bestiary; 13th century; England, S.; f.45r

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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · Aug 30

Astonishing. “The U.S. Air Force said on Friday it was offering military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, a supporter of President Donald Trump who was shot and killed by a police officer during the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.” www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Air Force to offer military funeral honors to slain Capitol rioter

The U.S. Air Force said on Friday it was offering military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, a supporter of President Donald Trump who was shot and killed by a police officer during the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · Aug 29

BREAKING: Historian Jane Manners filed a brief in Boyle v. Trump, challenging President Trump’s dismissal of three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. 1/ bit.ly/4mKYlN8

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Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social · Aug 29

This from the good news section of a Black newspaper (1914) really puts things in perspective

Old newspaper type reading "By the sudden lurch of a train Miss Lucille Champaigne, a white school teacher of Baton Rouge, was thrown between the coaches; but for the strength and presence of mind of George Mack, a Negro porter, she would have been killed. Mr Mack was not lynched.

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Matt Steilen @mattsteilen.bsky.social · Aug 29

State elimination of faculty senates:

www.chronicle.com/article/a-mu...

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · Aug 28

Charcoal portrait of a woman in Flemish dress, possibly 1521.

Albrecht Dürer

(British Museum)

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John Fabian Witt @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social · Aug 28

Character countdown for The Radical Fund, no. 47: George Creel, the Wilson administration propagandist and foil for the Garland Fund’s efforts to think about democracy in an age of mass communications. #TheRadicalFund

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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · Aug 27

Lisa Cook will likely sue to retain her seat on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors very shortly. While we wait (and even after she files), here's my analysis of her case in five not-so-easy pieces. 👇

Can Lisa Cook Keep Her Fed Seat? That's Actually (at Least) Five Questions

A federal statute allows the president to appoint someone to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors for a term of up to 14 years. President...

www.dorfonlaw.org

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William Baude @williambaude.bsky.social · Aug 27

blog.dividedargument.com/p/complicati...

Complications and Clarity in Birthright Citizenship

The conventional wisdom is right.

blog.dividedargument.com

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Matt Steilen @mattsteilen.bsky.social · Aug 26

Fits with: district courts weren't given the judicial power to issue nationwide injunctions, but we were

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Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · Aug 26

Comp Barn, Alfriston, August 2017

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · Aug 25

Wow 300 of the DOJ civil rights division’s roughly 400 lawyers have left since the start of the Trump administration, per its head Harmeet Dhillon

Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · Aug 25

Exclusive from @suzannemonyak.bsky.social & me on continued upheaval at DOJ civil rights division:
- 2 probationary attorneys fired
- Others forced into sections focused on voter fraud & anti-DEI probes
- AAG Dhillon hires "new class of civil rights warriors"
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

DOJ Fires and Reassigns Civil Rights Lawyers as New Hires Arrive

The Justice Department civil rights division’s much shrunken career staff is facing new firings, forced reassignments, and demands for summaries of recent work as its leaders hire outside attorneys an...

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · Aug 23

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏

The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information:

The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations.

The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past

Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.

All collections are of equal importance. Every letter, photograph, or other artifact has an important story to tell.

The collections and their contents are not edited or censored. Our role as historians is not to judge the past in light of the present, but to present everything in its entirety at the time of its creation.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · Aug 23

Philosophy gazes calmly into the distance, unmoved by present troubles. Good night all! 😴

BL Royal MS 6 E IX; Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia; c 1335 CE; Italy (Tuscany); f.27r

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · Aug 23

Knows what she wants: unusually assertive young woman, her portrait painted by Thomas de Keyser of Amsterdam. Today is his day.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · Aug 23

I’ll be sharing this and Orin’s “How to Read a Legal Opinion” with my prelaw students.

Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · Aug 23

Are you starting your 1L year this fall? Here's my explainer for what is ahead and what you should and shouldn't do.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayl3...

"So You're About To Start Law School": A Law Student's Guide with Stanford Law Professor Orin Kerr

YouTube video by Law School Videos

www.youtube.com

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Noah Chauvin @noahchauvin.bsky.social · Aug 11

New from me on SSRN: a review of Eric Kasper and Troy Kozma's excellent book "The Supreme Court and the Philosopher."

I think Kasper and Kozma make a compelling case, but have some thoughts on how their thesis could be applied with greater specificity.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The abstract for "Understanding Free Speech Values at the Supreme Court," by Noah Chauvin.

This essay is a book review of The Supreme Court and the Philosopher: How John Stuart Mill Shaped US Free Speech Protections, by Professors Eric Kasper and Troy Kozma. The book argues that John Stuart Mill had an indelible impact on the Supreme Court's free speech jurisprudence, and that through the power of precedent, we have come to have a "Millian" First Amendment.

As I explain in the review, Kasper and Kozma have made a compelling case. However, because Mill offered an expansive defense of freedom of expression, it is not enough to say that the Court's free speech jurisprudence is "Millian," because that could mean many different things. Understanding with greater precision what motivates the justices in free speech cases is crucial for attorneys, advocates, and scholars.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · Aug 21

Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.

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