Josh Chafetz
@joshchafetz.bsky.social
Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown Law: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/josh-chafetz/
Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300248334/
Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300248334/
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Josh Chafetz
@joshchafetz.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Congress's Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers: Chafetz, Josh: 9780300248333: Amazon.com: Books
Congress's Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers [Chafetz, Josh] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Congress's Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers
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If you happen to be interested in the separation of powers, Congress, government shutdowns, contempt of Congress, the filibuster, and more, have I got the book for you! www.amazon.com/dp/0300248334/
If you happen to be interested in the separation of powers, Congress, government shutdowns, contempt of Congress, the filibuster, and more, have I got the book for you! www.amazon.com/dp/0300248334/
if not delicious popcorn, why delicious popcorn shaped?
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
if not delicious popcorn, why delicious popcorn shaped?
they said ears couldn’t be cantilevered
November 29, 2025 at 12:48 AM
they said ears couldn’t be cantilevered
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The state fairs show at the Renwick is A+
November 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The state fairs show at the Renwick is A+
The state fairs show at the Renwick is A+
November 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The state fairs show at the Renwick is A+
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am now freelancing with Elvin Jones, hands down the best jazz drummer of all time, and my dark horse candidate for one of the all time great band leaders
November 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
am now freelancing with Elvin Jones, hands down the best jazz drummer of all time, and my dark horse candidate for one of the all time great band leaders
There are two standards of which I think I could listen to infinite variations: Carol of the Bells, and My Favorite Things.
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
There are two standards of which I think I could listen to infinite variations: Carol of the Bells, and My Favorite Things.
The steak has been cooked for the traditional Thanksgiving nachos!
November 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The steak has been cooked for the traditional Thanksgiving nachos!
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omg, I might need this book. I read *all* of Luciano's books multiple times as a baseball-obsessed kid ... also I'm pretty sure ~ 20% of them were not at all appropriate for a kid of that age ...
I spent so much time writing his biography that I think and speak of him now simply as “Ronnie.” (And I did meet him once, long ago.)
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
omg, I might need this book. I read *all* of Luciano's books multiple times as a baseball-obsessed kid ... also I'm pretty sure ~ 20% of them were not at all appropriate for a kid of that age ...
can someone who knows how the computer tubes work make this happen?
wishing there were a gif of Garak saying, "It's a full life, if a trifle banal."
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
can someone who knows how the computer tubes work make this happen?
omg, I might need this book. I read *all* of Luciano's books multiple times as a baseball-obsessed kid ... also I'm pretty sure ~ 20% of them were not at all appropriate for a kid of that age ...
I spent so much time writing his biography that I think and speak of him now simply as “Ronnie.” (And I did meet him once, long ago.)
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
omg, I might need this book. I read *all* of Luciano's books multiple times as a baseball-obsessed kid ... also I'm pretty sure ~ 20% of them were not at all appropriate for a kid of that age ...
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I think that it is bad that the National Guard is deployed in a city for absolutely no reason and today's tragedy could be easily avoided by not deploying the guard for made-up reasons.
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I think that it is bad that the National Guard is deployed in a city for absolutely no reason and today's tragedy could be easily avoided by not deploying the guard for made-up reasons.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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I’m obviously in favor of using middle initials but, like, you don’t HAVE to.
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I’m obviously in favor of using middle initials but, like, you don’t HAVE to.
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NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
I don't want to name any names, but *someone* failed to go through and deal with all the stuff in my email inbox that I had been scrolling past because I didn't have the time/bandwidth to deal with it when it came in.
November 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I don't want to name any names, but *someone* failed to go through and deal with all the stuff in my email inbox that I had been scrolling past because I didn't have the time/bandwidth to deal with it when it came in.
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The threats against Mark Kelly are the Trump administration in miniature: wildly authoritarian ambitions limited by their own terrible strategic and tactical choices www.vox.com/politics/470...
Why is Trump accusing a former astronaut of treason?
How MAGA’s war on Mark Kelly is a sign of a deeper weakness.
www.vox.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The threats against Mark Kelly are the Trump administration in miniature: wildly authoritarian ambitions limited by their own terrible strategic and tactical choices www.vox.com/politics/470...
Bring back Caprica, Teenage Bounty Hunters, and Étoile.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Bring back Caprica, Teenage Bounty Hunters, and Étoile.
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Look, women no longer do shit for free is actually at the root of a lot of social disruption. The question is whether you think the solution is women going back to being unpaid and unprotected by their own labor.
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Look, women no longer do shit for free is actually at the root of a lot of social disruption. The question is whether you think the solution is women going back to being unpaid and unprotected by their own labor.
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BREAKING: DC Mayor Muriel Bowser announces she will not run for a fourth term. x.com/MurielBowser...
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
BREAKING: DC Mayor Muriel Bowser announces she will not run for a fourth term. x.com/MurielBowser...
…. beef?
Trump: "Despite their size, Secretary Kennedy has formally certified that these are the first ever MAHA turkeys. They could be fat, but they're still MAHA. They've been fattened on a steady diet of grass, beef, to allow the smoothies and all the other things they have been eating for this occasion."
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
…. beef?
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A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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A roundtrip LAX-JFK flight in the late 60s was around $3K in today’s dollars. The people who wore suits on those flights were the people who regularly wore suits. Complaining about informally-dressed fliers is complaining that the wrong sorts of people are flying today.
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A roundtrip LAX-JFK flight in the late 60s was around $3K in today’s dollars. The people who wore suits on those flights were the people who regularly wore suits. Complaining about informally-dressed fliers is complaining that the wrong sorts of people are flying today.
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New Paper: Presidential Control of the Civil Service.
Conventional wisdom holds that the civil service sits safely beyond the president's reach. Does it? (1) Not nearly as much as legal scholars think. (2) That's a problem for the execution of the law. 1/12
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Conventional wisdom holds that the civil service sits safely beyond the president's reach. Does it? (1) Not nearly as much as legal scholars think. (2) That's a problem for the execution of the law. 1/12
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Presidential Control of the Civil Service
<p>Conventional wisdom treats the federal civil service as largely beyond the president’s reach. This Article challenges that assumption. Legal scholars too oft
papers.ssrn.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
New Paper: Presidential Control of the Civil Service.
Conventional wisdom holds that the civil service sits safely beyond the president's reach. Does it? (1) Not nearly as much as legal scholars think. (2) That's a problem for the execution of the law. 1/12
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Conventional wisdom holds that the civil service sits safely beyond the president's reach. Does it? (1) Not nearly as much as legal scholars think. (2) That's a problem for the execution of the law. 1/12
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....