Barrista
@onbluskysku.bsky.social
Lawyer, Pittsburgher, reader of too few books, enjoyer of too many jokes
This got me thinking about whether Sellers is right about this because the predominant and operative view of the law is that he definitely is wrong (see footnotes 35 and 36 of the attached), but Nathan Chapman has a lot of work on why, at least at the founding, this was not the case.
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This got me thinking about whether Sellers is right about this because the predominant and operative view of the law is that he definitely is wrong (see footnotes 35 and 36 of the attached), but Nathan Chapman has a lot of work on why, at least at the founding, this was not the case.
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The judge should order everyone involved to be held in contempt *behind bars* until Belloza is returned to her home.
Beyond depraved: "Hours after her detainment, court documents obtained by ABC News show that a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts. But Lopez Belloza was deported to Honduras the next day."
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
The judge should order everyone involved to be held in contempt *behind bars* until Belloza is returned to her home.
Lotta people pointing out this is a fundamentally selfish move in that he’s only pissed now cause it’s about his own family, and while this is correct, it’s also the overwhelming mode of interaction with politics. Most people care about stuff because it hits them. You gotta work with that
h/t @adamwren.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Lotta people pointing out this is a fundamentally selfish move in that he’s only pissed now cause it’s about his own family, and while this is correct, it’s also the overwhelming mode of interaction with politics. Most people care about stuff because it hits them. You gotta work with that
Ukraine doing an anti-corruption sweep in the middle of a hot war on its own territory is also evidence that the fortress communism excuse that governments can be excused for their corruption or authoritarianism because of the looming threat of imperial capitalist powers is bullshit
November 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Ukraine doing an anti-corruption sweep in the middle of a hot war on its own territory is also evidence that the fortress communism excuse that governments can be excused for their corruption or authoritarianism because of the looming threat of imperial capitalist powers is bullshit
Historian: you know that battle where a salient formed like in a lot of battles?
Historian’s Assistant: Yeah boss I named it real horny just like you asked
Historian’s Assistant: Yeah boss I named it real horny just like you asked
my husband, as we drive north of Philadelphia: “battle of the bulge monument? I can’t believe they built a monument to me putting on my pants everyday”
November 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Historian: you know that battle where a salient formed like in a lot of battles?
Historian’s Assistant: Yeah boss I named it real horny just like you asked
Historian’s Assistant: Yeah boss I named it real horny just like you asked
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Every time I read an FDR speech it breaks my heart to see someone who assumes his audience is actually capable of understanding complex ideas and interested in learning more.
We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
![I confess that I always had difficulty with interpreting the Biblical precept to love our neighbours “as ourselves” until I read some of the words of C.S. Lewis. He pointed out that we don't exactly love ourselves when we fall below the standards and beliefs we have accepted. Indeed we might even hate ourselves for some unworthy deed.
None of this, of course, tells us exactly what kind of political and social institutions we should have. On this point, Christians will very often genuinely disagree, though it is a mark of Christian manners that they will do so with courtesy and mutual respect. [Applause] What is certain, however, is that any set of social and economic arrangements which is not founded on the acceptance of individual responsibility will do nothing but harm.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xbnsfdtxoothg654ujxe3p25/bafkreicrdgbtvm54qnmttwe6crhxwt4be5v3izjmqtnvlxmaljwg5wolai@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Every time I read an FDR speech it breaks my heart to see someone who assumes his audience is actually capable of understanding complex ideas and interested in learning more.
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We literally executed Germans after the war for doing what Bradley and everyone else involved did, and the Germans had a better justification (u-boat plausibly being targeted based on info provided by survivors vs.......whatever the hell pete was worried about here)
Given the justification was in part because they might communicate with someone, pete could ask Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and his XO what the law of armed conflict says about that, except oops, the allies shot them dead in 1945 after a trial
WaPo with reporting that Pete gave an explicit order to JSOC during the first strike post impact to immediately follow up in order to, and I quote, "kill them all"
November 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
We literally executed Germans after the war for doing what Bradley and everyone else involved did, and the Germans had a better justification (u-boat plausibly being targeted based on info provided by survivors vs.......whatever the hell pete was worried about here)
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So I'm pretty sure a three star knows that an order to strike alleged combatants who are hors de combat is facially illegal, in case anyone's still having any hangups on whether Bradley needs to be in the dock after this
November 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
So I'm pretty sure a three star knows that an order to strike alleged combatants who are hors de combat is facially illegal, in case anyone's still having any hangups on whether Bradley needs to be in the dock after this
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so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
In retrospect giving law students 3 drinks at every social function and then hosting events on dealing with alcoholism was kind of ironic
The work party gave out free champagne on arrival and then gave us all SIX drink tickets which could be used on anything including cocktails and some of my coworkers still did a pre drink. I gave 5 of my tickets away because I don’t need my coworkers to see professor karen do the splits
November 28, 2025 at 3:51 AM
In retrospect giving law students 3 drinks at every social function and then hosting events on dealing with alcoholism was kind of ironic
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Not the peak oil we expected but I'll take it
Clean power growth is now covering all new global demand. Solar and wind generated 635 TWh in the first nine months of this year, exceeding the 603 TWh rise in global electricity demand, and holding fossil generation flat for the year. buff.ly/zRmwAmg
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November 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Not the peak oil we expected but I'll take it
Little known story the Puritans didn't go to the colonies first (because that would be nuts). They went to nearby Holland, and were not persecuted there! They just left because the Dutch were offensive what with their not being Puritans.
how about, the puritans didn't flee religious persecution, they fled so they could persecute other people for their religion.
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Little known story the Puritans didn't go to the colonies first (because that would be nuts). They went to nearby Holland, and were not persecuted there! They just left because the Dutch were offensive what with their not being Puritans.
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I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War.
November 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War.
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Everyone using this should be shunned and probably jailed and those who created it should go to The Hague.
your 14yr old nephew is addicted to at least 4 different gambling apps on his phone where he's actively betting daily on the outcome of individual skirmishes in a real life war happening on the other side of the globe
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Everyone using this should be shunned and probably jailed and those who created it should go to The Hague.
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What the fuck.
November 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
What the fuck.
You cannot be mad at someone loansharking you for a hundred grand truck. Capitalism is not failing you here. Not doing math is.
November 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
You cannot be mad at someone loansharking you for a hundred grand truck. Capitalism is not failing you here. Not doing math is.
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Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
November 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
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imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry
The only manly way to eat an ice cream cone is to put the entire head in your mouth n suck on it that's right
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The only manly way to eat an ice cream cone is to put the entire head in your mouth n suck on it that's right
Even if Van Epps wins by 2, and there’s no guarantee of that, that’s a disastrous result for the GOP. 5 alarm fire territory to sink by TWENTY
Y'all, this race is going to come down to who shows up at the polls. Trump carried this district by 22 points, and @aftynbehn.bsky.social is within 2 points in this poll!
If you live in 7, GO VOTE! Today is the last day of early voting, or you can vote on December 2nd.
If you live in 7, GO VOTE! Today is the last day of early voting, or you can vote on December 2nd.
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Even if Van Epps wins by 2, and there’s no guarantee of that, that’s a disastrous result for the GOP. 5 alarm fire territory to sink by TWENTY
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I am willing to accept the surrender of my culture war opponents at any time if they lay down their arms. They will be treated well. The culture war will be over for them.
Bret Stephens downloaded every malware, ransonware, shitware and now wants to reboot America
November 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I am willing to accept the surrender of my culture war opponents at any time if they lay down their arms. They will be treated well. The culture war will be over for them.
Too many people need to get a hobby
my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Too many people need to get a hobby
I do think it's kinda ironic that a large thrust of the Clinton 2016 primary campaign was saying that you needed to Listen To Black Women by voting for the candidate supported by most black women (which, yeah! Hillary Clinton was!) and a lot of people on the left pointed out that this was nonsense.
I don't know it is "discredits social justice" exactly but you know, you *know* that every time it happens in its most lurid forms you've pushed a wavering conservative back into the fold.
this kind of "throw every random social justice accusation at the wall and see what sticks" approach actually just discredits social justice. come on. let's do better
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I do think it's kinda ironic that a large thrust of the Clinton 2016 primary campaign was saying that you needed to Listen To Black Women by voting for the candidate supported by most black women (which, yeah! Hillary Clinton was!) and a lot of people on the left pointed out that this was nonsense.
Don't go. What are they gonna do, arrest you? (Ok, maybe. But don't go anyway)
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Don't go. What are they gonna do, arrest you? (Ok, maybe. But don't go anyway)