Sam Kamin
@profsamkamin.bsky.social
Lawprof posting about food, travel, politics, policing, drug policy, Liverpool FC, and poker.
Or not at all, probably.
Or not at all, probably.
MTG gets a pension?? She got there in 2021.
November 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
MTG gets a pension?? She got there in 2021.
This is adorable. Love a politician who can admit he doesn't know something.
Also, only one of these men is married to a law professor. Let that be a lesson to you...
Also, only one of these men is married to a law professor. Let that be a lesson to you...
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is adorable. Love a politician who can admit he doesn't know something.
Also, only one of these men is married to a law professor. Let that be a lesson to you...
Also, only one of these men is married to a law professor. Let that be a lesson to you...
With friends like these...
Mike Pence wrote an opinion piece for Fox News. Reading the headline, I was like, "Okay, seems like a normal take."
Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?
Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
With friends like these...
I dropped my airpod on my way out of the apartment this afternoon. This is where it landed. My hands are still shaking. This is a horror movie.
November 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I dropped my airpod on my way out of the apartment this afternoon. This is where it landed. My hands are still shaking. This is a horror movie.
open.spotify.com/album/6Cd23z...
I've listened to this all the way through and it's great but we waited 43 years; I was really hoping we'd find out what them racket boys CAN do. SMH.
I've listened to this all the way through and it's great but we waited 43 years; I was really hoping we'd find out what them racket boys CAN do. SMH.
Nebraska '82: Expanded Edition
open.spotify.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
open.spotify.com/album/6Cd23z...
I've listened to this all the way through and it's great but we waited 43 years; I was really hoping we'd find out what them racket boys CAN do. SMH.
I've listened to this all the way through and it's great but we waited 43 years; I was really hoping we'd find out what them racket boys CAN do. SMH.
This is completely bonkers. David Brooks has lost his goddamn mind.
October 24, 2025 at 9:46 AM
This is completely bonkers. David Brooks has lost his goddamn mind.
Reposted by Sam Kamin
If you can't imagine how to make "Trump is literally bulldozing the White House" a message that is memorable to normie voters, maybe it's time to give up work in politics and pursue another field.
October 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
If you can't imagine how to make "Trump is literally bulldozing the White House" a message that is memorable to normie voters, maybe it's time to give up work in politics and pursue another field.
There's only one King of America
October 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
There's only one King of America
Berlin is asking the right questions.
October 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Berlin is asking the right questions.
No person of good faith actually believed this.
Thinking of all the people who insisted that this admin was serious about "ending antisemitism on college campuses."
I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.
The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.
The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.
October 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM
No person of good faith actually believed this.
This obituary does mention the reason he became a household name in California. The fact that he sued the Berkeley rent board and won, leading to what everyone at the time called Searle Rent Increases.
John Searle, a philosopher who was best known for a thought experiment he formulated, decades before the rise of ChatGPT, to disprove that a computer program by itself could ever achieve consciousness, died at 93.
John Searle, Philosopher Who Wrestled With A.I., Dies at 93
His blunt debating and imaginative theorizing about artificial intelligence and the human mind made him a leading scholar. But sexual-harassment allegations ended his career.
nyti.ms
October 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This obituary does mention the reason he became a household name in California. The fact that he sued the Berkeley rent board and won, leading to what everyone at the time called Searle Rent Increases.
“The only solution.” Dude is so close to saying it.
The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.
‘The only solution’: Elon Musk backs call to deploy federal troops to San Francisco
The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.
bit.ly
October 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
“The only solution.” Dude is so close to saying it.
These people aren't very smart. The NFL is the last thing Americans agree on.
October 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
These people aren't very smart. The NFL is the last thing Americans agree on.
Important reminder: people are wrong about everything. Innumeracy is real.
September 20, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Important reminder: people are wrong about everything. Innumeracy is real.
I never really bought into the whole "words are violence" think when the left was doing it. It feels particularly silly coming from the "fuck your feelings" movement.
the person behind this unhinged, anti-factual editorial is set to decide coverage at one of the nation’s major news networks
September 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I never really bought into the whole "words are violence" think when the left was doing it. It feels particularly silly coming from the "fuck your feelings" movement.
This might be the most depressing story I’ve ever read.
I’ve never for one second wanted to go to a theme park and this story confirmed every last one of my priors.
I’ve never for one second wanted to go to a theme park and this story confirmed every last one of my priors.
Opinion | Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class
www.nytimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This might be the most depressing story I’ve ever read.
I’ve never for one second wanted to go to a theme park and this story confirmed every last one of my priors.
I’ve never for one second wanted to go to a theme park and this story confirmed every last one of my priors.
August 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
You really have to visit these in the right order.
yeah sure there is definitely some demographic crossover going
August 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
You really have to visit these in the right order.
Please shoot me before I get to this level of entitlement.
New award winner for Most Tone Deaf article.
No, Emeritus Chaired Full Professor, you don't get to make actual faculty share offices so you can have one on campus.
No, Emeritus Chaired Full Professor, you don't get to make actual faculty share offices so you can have one on campus.
August 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Please shoot me before I get to this level of entitlement.
Almost word for word in the New Yorker
August 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Almost word for word in the New Yorker
"The states are merely an agent of the Federal Government. They must do what the Federal Government... tells them."
If and when this is all over, no member of the Republican Party ever gets to use the phrase states' rights again.
If and when this is all over, no member of the Republican Party ever gets to use the phrase states' rights again.
August 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"The states are merely an agent of the Federal Government. They must do what the Federal Government... tells them."
If and when this is all over, no member of the Republican Party ever gets to use the phrase states' rights again.
If and when this is all over, no member of the Republican Party ever gets to use the phrase states' rights again.
When "no rise in sycophancy" is progress.
“You'll notice small, genuine touches like ‘Good question’ or ‘Great start,’ not flattery. Internal tests show no rise in sycophancy compared to the previous GPT-5 personality.”
August 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
When "no rise in sycophancy" is progress.
Sports are good, sometimes.
Mohamed Salah in tears as the Anfield crowd sings the Diogo Jota song.
August 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Sports are good, sometimes.