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Chrstphr Grdn
@csgrdn.bsky.social
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partner • photographer • writer • 2L @ BLS • night owl • he/him

summa: prop law, con, due process, equal protection • analytic juris, fregean & performative semantics • cognition, episteme, ontology; parmenides, plato, aristotle
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Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · Jun 13
adding photos in replies here using #FilmRoll

first up, from a winter day in the park

📷 Olympus OM-2, Zuiko 28mm f/2.8
🎞️ Tri-X

#35mm #FilmPhotography
#BelieveInFilm
A lone baby stroller in a park near a leafless try with a wide mostly empty grass field ahead, more barren trees line the park in the distance.
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jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
csgrdn.bsky.social
"Can we bring back the 1970s highest marginal income tax brackets?"

"You can maybe have a little wood paneling on the side of your wallet draining new used station wagon."
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
csgrdn.bsky.social
stations

📷 pentax kx 50mm f/1.8
🎞️ ultramax

#35mm #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmRoll
A series of ascending yellow-white stones each marked with a roman numeral and picture depicting the various stations of the cross, an empty field beyond under a blue sky. A woman in a black coat walks a up a yellow-white stone grotto depicting the stations of the cross. The dark wall behind a catholic grotto near cemetery tombstones. An green painted wood arch with a gold cross and sign reading, Our Lady of Pompeii Cemetery, behind in a concrete path leading down between rows of tombstones.
December 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
csgrdn.bsky.social
New Jersey is a place

📷 pentax kx 50mm f/1.8
🎞️ ultramax

#35mm #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmRoll
A dilapidated brick shed with a faded white door in shadow casts a shade across brown grass, rusted metal from farm equipment in the background. A collapsed shed next to two standing sheds in a brown field at dusk. A white shed in front of a red barn near tall trees in a brown grass field, an American flag lifted in the wind. A blacktop road with faded double yellow line stretches in the horizon paralleled by standing power line poles connected by wire.
December 3, 2025 at 1:19 AM
csgrdn.bsky.social
Will provide a fine set of facts to justify demolition when he leaves, unless they're counting on a variance or other exception
December 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
csgrdn.bsky.social
reason to shoot in color

📷 olympus om-2 50mm f/1.8
🎞️ ultramax

#35mm #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmRoll
Orange and yellow leaves on a tree lit up bright by the sun among a few green leaves left. Another shot of orange and yellow leaves bright from the sun on tree limbs among a few green leaves remaining.
December 1, 2025 at 5:04 AM
csgrdn.bsky.social
experimenting with dusk

📷 olympus om-2 zuiko 35mm f/2.8
🎞️ ultramax

#35mm #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmRoll
#nyc
The dark shadowy corner of an apartment building barely touched by orange sunlight against an orange blue sky at dusk, a wire stretches off to the side to an area near a tree. The dark shadowy sides of apartment buildings seen against the orange sly at dusk, on window is illuminated orange from sunlight coming in from an opposite window inside.
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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apocalypticanow.bsky.social
This is a pretty good slogan
shoe.bsky.social Shoe+ @shoe.bsky.social · 3d
I am voting for Consequences.
November 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
csgrdn.bsky.social
going into a book store "looking for something" I'm not sure what reading first paragraphs for over half-an-hour is the best, the attachment & excitement I feel for whatever I end up with is inexplicable & pure
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 10d
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
csgrdn.bsky.social
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blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 10d
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Former US military lawyers speak out:

"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."

Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes

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• If the U.S. military operation to interdict and destroy suspected narcotraFicking vessels is a “non-international armed conflict,” as the Trump Administration suggests, orders to “kill everybody,” which can reasonably be regarded as an order to give “no quarter,” and to “double-tap” a target in order to kill survivors, are clearly illegal under international law. In short, they are war crimes. • If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder. Highlighted sentence at the end of the document reads: Again, the bottom line is that, since orders to kill survivors of an attack at sea are “patently illegal,” anyone who issues or follows such orders can and should be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
csgrdn.bsky.social
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ndhapple.bsky.social Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 5d
As someone whose spent a decade-plus covering social services in NY and TX, let me say this has nothing to do with immigration — and everything to do with government outsourcing delivery of key services to non-profits it cannot properly supervise and politics: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
csgrdn.bsky.social
also the problem with fetishizing breaking the rule of law is that fascists use law breaking like gasoline & rely on law's corruption. always been the case that state violence & oppression also thrive by acting under color of law only & not in accordance.
mskellymhayes.bsky.social Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d
The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
November 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
csgrdn.bsky.social
performative fascism endangers lives & squanders military resources
November 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
csgrdn.bsky.social
the GOP is going to exploit a murder & and get very sanctimonious about working in the military, this is just a reminder that the Trump administration is trying to deny transgender people that privilege to take the oath & work in the military
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 AM
csgrdn.bsky.social
rooftop views in color

📷 olympus om-2 zuiko 35mm f/2.8
🎞️ ultramax(?)

#35mm #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmRoll
#nyc
A metal rail extending across a rooftop towards a church across the street. The Brooklyn downtown skyline at dusk beyond leafless trees. The dark shadows of a street between houses in Brooklyn below the downtown skyline at dusk.
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 AM
csgrdn.bsky.social
rooftop views

📷 nikon s2 zeiss-opton 50 f/2
🎞️ tri-x

#35mm #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmRoll
#nyc
Black & white photo of the tops of a row of houses in Brooklyn, tall buildings and a church steeple in the background. Black & white photo of a plane high up in the overcast sky above a dark church steeple. Black & white photo of a helicopter hovering above rooftops in Brooklyn.
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM
csgrdn.bsky.social
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kevintmorris.bsky.social Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 10d
As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.

Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
csgrdn.bsky.social
If you're a leftist in the US all of your opponents, except for the President maybe, are unhappy after today & perhaps that's a nice thought to fall asleep to & keep at it for another tomorrow

No small pt. of me thinks today speaks for the bonding power of NYC, this amazing place is people together
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
csgrdn.bsky.social
last 20 seconds of this clip has me completely gobsmacked—with equal pts. relish and unease
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?

MAMDANI: I've spoken about--

TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
csgrdn.bsky.social
the man likes ratings, but also: did they bond over being outsiders who defied & embarrassed coastal party leadership?

did mayor-elect appeal to the real estate developer—"I want to build more housing, your people want to make money building more housing, how can we make this work for everybody?"
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12d
I think this clip is the key to understanding why Trump acted the way he did with Mamdani. His world revolves around TV ratings.

"I tell you, the press has eaten this thing up."
November 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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chadstanton.blacksky.app
Similar logic saw Dems supporting resolutions extolling the police only to see their criminal justice reform bill get spiked and still get 4+ years of “soft on crime” coverage and attacks.
rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 13d
BREAKING: The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.

Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
csgrdn.bsky.social
how calling Trump a fascist is somehow inciting the assassination attempts, but calling Mamdani a socialist or a communist isn't equally inciting a threat?

is it because subconsciously they know fascism is an existential threat to the constitutional republic but not socialism? 🤔
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d
1. lol

2. today's White House meeting with Mamdani is currently scheduled as "closed press," which means it might not be much of a showdown
Fox graphic: SHOWDOWN WITH SOCIALISM
November 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
csgrdn.bsky.social
Anyone keeping names for the pardons list of the first 100 days of the next Dem presidential administration? If you are not promising to pardon these good people, I am not voting for you.
gothamist.com Gothamist @gothamist.com · 13d
A U.S. postal worker on Long Island is accused of trying to help a man escape from ICE custody earlier this month, according to a federal criminal complaint: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/YNagDp
US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island
Police arrested the worker and the man she tried to free.
gothamist.visitlink.me
November 21, 2025 at 2:11 AM