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Joe Dunman
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Asst. Prof @Louisville Law (torts, writing, religion, employment)
Former: Mng. Attny @Ky. Comm. on Human Rights, prof @MoreheadState, and lawyer for KY plaintiffs in Obergefell.
Scholarship:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2147917
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When liberals secured a majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2023, they changed internal procedures—over the objection of the conservative chief justice, who claimed they were taking away her power. Today the justices released MESSY details about the affair...
www.wicourts.gov/sc/rulhear/D...
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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EXCLUSIVE: Jury trials to be scrapped in most cases to tackle court backlog - in @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
Jury trials to be scrapped in most cases to tackle court backlog
David Lammy, the justice secretary, is proposing that judges hear cases alone for crimes that could result in a sentence of up to five years
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This is sobering analysis that confirms what many of us have known or at least suspected for a while now. The old “poverty line” math is obsolete and hiding a true economic crisis.
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Did you know a gallon of decent interior latex paint costs around $50-80 now?
elmo is surrounded by flames and the word inflation is on the bottom
Alt: elmo is surrounded by flames and the word inflation is on the bottom
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
You can simply ignore the anonymous account with the cartoon avatar instead of falling for its obvious argument bait.
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Did, uh, anyone notice that when Carville claims in his NYT piece that “defund the police” was bad that the link takes you to an Appeal story about why ”fund the police“ was bad? Any editors, perhaps?
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
6-0. Still need to work on free throws.
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Any time corporate executives are in a room together and don't know they're being recorded, the transcript is like: "Christ, I hate our customers. We're agreed that we all hate our customers? Let's lie to the IRS, criminally. Did I mention the Holocaust never happened? Put more lead in our soda."
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Go Cards, go Krogering
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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A rare judicial misconduct complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice that accused a judge of bias in her handling of a challenge to President Donald Trump's ban on transgender troops has been dismissed.
US DOJ's misconduct complaint against judge in transgender military ban case gets tossed
A rare judicial misconduct complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice that accused a judge of bias in her handling of a challenge to President Donald Trump's ban on transgender troops has been dismissed.
reut.rs
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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CALL FOR PAPERS! The University of Louisville Law Review is hosting a symposium on Defense of Democratic Institutions and is seeking contributing scholars. Paper deadline is December 15. uofllawreview.org/symposium-1
University of Louisville Law Review
The University of Louisville Law Review holds an annual symposium that features the works of authors in a specific area of the law.
uofllawreview.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Crazy stats in Tennessee:
-From 2019-22, 40% of companies paid only $100 in franchise tax, including 12% of companies with income over $1 billion.
-63% of corporations paid no excise tax
-over half of state revenues come from a 7% sales tax
-one of 11 states that tax groceries (at 4% rate)
Aftyn Behn: Running for Congress in deep red Tennessee
Aftyn Behn is trying to flip a seat Donald Trump won by 22 points in a December special election. Grocery bills and corporate taxes dominate.
prospect.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I love when people ask me why I don't drink. I get right in their face and scream the lyrics to Straight Edge Revenge as loudly as I can.
Asking strangers or near strangers why they don’t drink is both incredibly rude and incredibly common.

If you do it, I *will* make unflattering assumptions about your upbringing.
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:

Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.

If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.

Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I've been very patient but I'm starting to worry that converting all my retirement savings to Dogecoin four years ago isn't going to pay off.
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I get asked a lot about what it's like for the Avalanche to be the best team in the NHL right now, and I try to be honest when I say, "It rules. It rules so hard."
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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More US adults identify with no religion (29%) than with the Catholic Church (19%) or evangelical Protestant denominations (23%).
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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40% of Democrats are religiously unaffiliated (Republicans are half as likely to be unaffiliated).

Across measures, Republicans report more religiousness.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/11/20/religiousness-varies-a-lot-by-race-among-democrats-relatively-little-among-republicans/
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.

The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Nothing more than a bullshit generator.
November 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM