Greg Gentry
@greggentry.bsky.social
A lawyer living in MN, licensed in MO. Specializing, now, in litigation support, but have written about FDA regulations.
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Greg Gentry
@greggentry.bsky.social
· Jun 24
Let me start to answer my own question - a reading list of the use of history to square the circle of a social contract that binds people who had no input into its drafting:
- Memory and Authority, Jack Balkin
- Reva Siegel, The Politics of Constitutional Memory.
law.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
- Memory and Authority, Jack Balkin
- Reva Siegel, The Politics of Constitutional Memory.
law.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
Okay, this is adorable!
December 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Okay, this is adorable!
Here is an interesting file which contains the records of Wong Kim Ark's case before District Court judge Morrow. It includes the amicus brief from George Collins arguing against citizenship.
www.archives.gov/san-francisc...
www.archives.gov/san-francisc...
December 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Here is an interesting file which contains the records of Wong Kim Ark's case before District Court judge Morrow. It includes the amicus brief from George Collins arguing against citizenship.
www.archives.gov/san-francisc...
www.archives.gov/san-francisc...
Earlier today I got into an absolutely exhausting argument about the scope of the shield that Section 230 gives U.S. tech companies — even in the face of extremely bad conduct.
Let me state my argument clearly up front 👇
Let me state my argument clearly up front 👇
December 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Earlier today I got into an absolutely exhausting argument about the scope of the shield that Section 230 gives U.S. tech companies — even in the face of extremely bad conduct.
Let me state my argument clearly up front 👇
Let me state my argument clearly up front 👇
Favorite thing I learned in Duolingo is this translation:
Qui sème le vent récolte la tempête.
Hosea 8:7 (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.)
Qui sème le vent récolte la tempête.
Hosea 8:7 (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.)
December 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Favorite thing I learned in Duolingo is this translation:
Qui sème le vent récolte la tempête.
Hosea 8:7 (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.)
Qui sème le vent récolte la tempête.
Hosea 8:7 (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.)
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Christ, what an asshole.
Per @garretthaake.bsky.social, the extremely tacky "presidential wall of fame" that lines the colonnade to the West Wing now has obviously-Trump-penned plaques insulting or praising the presidents.
December 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Christ, what an asshole.
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I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 16, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
TIL there were THREE "Defenestrations of Prague!"
The third defenestration was in 1618 and led to the Thirty Years' War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenes...
The third defenestration was in 1618 and led to the Thirty Years' War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenes...
Defenestrations of Prague - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
TIL there were THREE "Defenestrations of Prague!"
The third defenestration was in 1618 and led to the Thirty Years' War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenes...
The third defenestration was in 1618 and led to the Thirty Years' War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenes...
Reposted by Greg Gentry
Seriously, though, reposts are the lifeblood of this site and you should be generous with them.
December 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Seriously, though, reposts are the lifeblood of this site and you should be generous with them.
It seems like it should be dispositive that courts immediately after Wong Kim Ark didn't look to domicile in determining citizenship, but birthplace. For example, in the Chinese Appeal Case, the United States cited Quock Ting v US (1891) as the controlling standard of proof to determine citizenship.
it is also just hilarious to insist that eight months of rush job “scholarship” outweighs decades of settled history and 140 years of settled law
Giving the game away. he has more “scholarly ammunition” than he did in January because a bunch of professional bootlicks and liars who have never had real jobs started lying about birthright citizenship in January.
December 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It seems like it should be dispositive that courts immediately after Wong Kim Ark didn't look to domicile in determining citizenship, but birthplace. For example, in the Chinese Appeal Case, the United States cited Quock Ting v US (1891) as the controlling standard of proof to determine citizenship.
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all i'm saying is that there were better options
December 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
all i'm saying is that there were better options
Just throwing this out there - anyone know where I could get good scans of the briefs in Wong Kim Ark?
I have some very bad scans. Switches orientation every other page, poor legibility, etc.
I have some very bad scans. Switches orientation every other page, poor legibility, etc.
December 12, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Just throwing this out there - anyone know where I could get good scans of the briefs in Wong Kim Ark?
I have some very bad scans. Switches orientation every other page, poor legibility, etc.
I have some very bad scans. Switches orientation every other page, poor legibility, etc.
Who out there is seeing a specialist without first seeing a primary?
For all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates.
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
December 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Who out there is seeing a specialist without first seeing a primary?
Want to know just how intellectually bankrupt this conservative project is?
In the amicus brief from some Congressional members, they cite George Collins, with the parenthetical that he was "later appointed amicus in Wong Kim Ark" without mentioning that HE LOST in WKA!
In the amicus brief from some Congressional members, they cite George Collins, with the parenthetical that he was "later appointed amicus in Wong Kim Ark" without mentioning that HE LOST in WKA!
![Quote from the Congressional amicus brief: "George Collins, who was later appointed amicus in Wong Kim Ark, explained in 1884 that “[t]he phrase … ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ does not mean territorial jurisdiction, as has been held in some cases, but means national jurisdiction; that is the jurisdiction which a nation possesses over those who are its citizens or subjects as such.” George D. Collins, Are Persons Born Within the United States Ipso Facto Citizens Thereof?, 18 Am. L. Rev. 831, 837 (1884)."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4uksimnter5crzbei2uspny3/bafkreigkf2rhpigdcbaqmnwn5zosqqp33hyx2p6w6qw7v2tr5hdmdilwsm@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Want to know just how intellectually bankrupt this conservative project is?
In the amicus brief from some Congressional members, they cite George Collins, with the parenthetical that he was "later appointed amicus in Wong Kim Ark" without mentioning that HE LOST in WKA!
In the amicus brief from some Congressional members, they cite George Collins, with the parenthetical that he was "later appointed amicus in Wong Kim Ark" without mentioning that HE LOST in WKA!
It’s hilarious that this doofus wants to go to Mars but also lives in a place with no winter.
The equator can get up to 70°F but the temperature drops 170 degrees at night!
Mars is a VERY BAD place to go!
The equator can get up to 70°F but the temperature drops 170 degrees at night!
Mars is a VERY BAD place to go!
December 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It’s hilarious that this doofus wants to go to Mars but also lives in a place with no winter.
The equator can get up to 70°F but the temperature drops 170 degrees at night!
Mars is a VERY BAD place to go!
The equator can get up to 70°F but the temperature drops 170 degrees at night!
Mars is a VERY BAD place to go!
Oh, FFS!
Delaying the birth dose of the hep B vaccine was just the beginning. Trump is ordering RFK Jr to overhaul the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s a preview of the dishonest, Denmark-infused MAHA strategy to harm as many kids as possible.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-vaccin...
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-vaccin...
The Vaccine Disinformation to Descheduling Pipeline
Make America Denmark Never
rasmussenretorts.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Oh, FFS!
Reposted by Greg Gentry
Before he was the justice that wrote Wong Kim Ark, Horace Gray was reporter for the Mass Supreme Court. (He’d later become its chief justice.)
As reporter, he wrote a scathing critique of Dred Scott - grounding his analysis in its rejection of birthright citizenship.
www.loc.gov/resource/lls...
As reporter, he wrote a scathing critique of Dred Scott - grounding his analysis in its rejection of birthright citizenship.
www.loc.gov/resource/lls...
Image 17 of A legal review of the case of Dred Scott, as decided by the Supreme Court of the United States
"From the Law reporter for June, 1857." Written by Horace Gray and John Lowell. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
www.loc.gov
December 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Before he was the justice that wrote Wong Kim Ark, Horace Gray was reporter for the Mass Supreme Court. (He’d later become its chief justice.)
As reporter, he wrote a scathing critique of Dred Scott - grounding his analysis in its rejection of birthright citizenship.
www.loc.gov/resource/lls...
As reporter, he wrote a scathing critique of Dred Scott - grounding his analysis in its rejection of birthright citizenship.
www.loc.gov/resource/lls...
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I love it when people talk to me as if I neither am disabled nor actually study this in my own work. But let me pitch someone else's work here, Doron Dorfman's "Fear of the Disability Con."
Sharing it for everyone feeding the fear of the disability con right now:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Sharing it for everyone feeding the fear of the disability con right now:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I love it when people talk to me as if I neither am disabled nor actually study this in my own work. But let me pitch someone else's work here, Doron Dorfman's "Fear of the Disability Con."
Sharing it for everyone feeding the fear of the disability con right now:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Sharing it for everyone feeding the fear of the disability con right now:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Tipper Gore played the drums in an all-girl group called the Wildcats in high school. She's played with the Grateful Dead, Herbie Hancock and Willie Nelson.
That's just kinda interesting.
That's just kinda interesting.
December 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Tipper Gore played the drums in an all-girl group called the Wildcats in high school. She's played with the Grateful Dead, Herbie Hancock and Willie Nelson.
That's just kinda interesting.
That's just kinda interesting.
This is the “find 50 errors” example of architectural drawings!
December 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is the “find 50 errors” example of architectural drawings!
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Evergreen post
Maybe someone should tell Pete Hegseth he’s not actually a villain from True Blood or The Boys. He’s too committed to the bit.
November 29, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Evergreen post
What? “I’m under orders not to disclose whether there’s Brady material?”
That’s not how this works!
That’s not how this works!
MORE: Under questioning by the judge, prosecutor Tyler Lemons said that he’s under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether there is a declination memo recommending against the prosecution of Comey
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
What? “I’m under orders not to disclose whether there’s Brady material?”
That’s not how this works!
That’s not how this works!
Okay, how come nobody mentioned this?!?
In the Epstein files released by the House, they have a folder “natives,” most of which are Excel files, but at the end, a movie of a doggo chewing on a Trump stuffed animal. A Hillary one nearby.
drive.google.com/file/d/19MEn...
In the Epstein files released by the House, they have a folder “natives,” most of which are Excel files, but at the end, a movie of a doggo chewing on a Trump stuffed animal. A Hillary one nearby.
drive.google.com/file/d/19MEn...
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026678.mov
drive.google.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Okay, how come nobody mentioned this?!?
In the Epstein files released by the House, they have a folder “natives,” most of which are Excel files, but at the end, a movie of a doggo chewing on a Trump stuffed animal. A Hillary one nearby.
drive.google.com/file/d/19MEn...
In the Epstein files released by the House, they have a folder “natives,” most of which are Excel files, but at the end, a movie of a doggo chewing on a Trump stuffed animal. A Hillary one nearby.
drive.google.com/file/d/19MEn...
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1) An administrative burden party is a brilliant idea.
2) This mundane crap is the stuff AI *should* be helping us with for a happier and more productive society, but capital prefers to weaponize it against us, including to make bureaucratic mazes more confusing and impenetrable.
2) This mundane crap is the stuff AI *should* be helping us with for a happier and more productive society, but capital prefers to weaponize it against us, including to make bureaucratic mazes more confusing and impenetrable.
November 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
1) An administrative burden party is a brilliant idea.
2) This mundane crap is the stuff AI *should* be helping us with for a happier and more productive society, but capital prefers to weaponize it against us, including to make bureaucratic mazes more confusing and impenetrable.
2) This mundane crap is the stuff AI *should* be helping us with for a happier and more productive society, but capital prefers to weaponize it against us, including to make bureaucratic mazes more confusing and impenetrable.
@yrfatfriend.bsky.social @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
When you said you listened to “Milk!” I knew the author must be Michael Kurlansky, author of such classics as “Salt!” and “Cod!”
Good stuff!
When you said you listened to “Milk!” I knew the author must be Michael Kurlansky, author of such classics as “Salt!” and “Cod!”
Good stuff!
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
@yrfatfriend.bsky.social @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
When you said you listened to “Milk!” I knew the author must be Michael Kurlansky, author of such classics as “Salt!” and “Cod!”
Good stuff!
When you said you listened to “Milk!” I knew the author must be Michael Kurlansky, author of such classics as “Salt!” and “Cod!”
Good stuff!
Pretty amazing mis-reading of the mood on Bluesky from Nate here.
Maybe it’s just my feed, but I’m pretty sure the site is about to join @kevinmkruse.bsky.social in burning Democratic defectors in effigy.
Maybe it’s just my feed, but I’m pretty sure the site is about to join @kevinmkruse.bsky.social in burning Democratic defectors in effigy.
the hipsters, they’re ordering double frufru mocha soy frappuccino. doesn’t anybody order a black coffee anymore
November 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Pretty amazing mis-reading of the mood on Bluesky from Nate here.
Maybe it’s just my feed, but I’m pretty sure the site is about to join @kevinmkruse.bsky.social in burning Democratic defectors in effigy.
Maybe it’s just my feed, but I’m pretty sure the site is about to join @kevinmkruse.bsky.social in burning Democratic defectors in effigy.