irishjayhawk
@irishjayhawk.bsky.social
In house attorney. Strong opinions, loosely held.
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that many people consider weiss a serious commentator is one of those things that will always be unbelievable to me.
July 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
that many people consider weiss a serious commentator is one of those things that will always be unbelievable to me.
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Wait. Marc Thiessen has never heard of batteries? And he's still employed by the Washington Post?
Thiessen: Just so people understand wind and solar only work when there is wind and sun. We don't have technology to store the energy from wind and solar…
July 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Wait. Marc Thiessen has never heard of batteries? And he's still employed by the Washington Post?
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Thiessen has always been my go-to to demonstrate how right-wing media presence works in established papers. He has never done anything other than being a GOP shill, his columns are not only false but *boringly* false, with zero impact, and yet he had a permanent slot in one of the biggest papers.
Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis have driven a ton of talented writers out of the Washington Post @postopinions.bsky.social page, yet this dolt (the one on the right) still has a weekly column there.
Thiessen: Just so people understand wind and solar only work when there is wind and sun. We don't have technology to store the energy from wind and solar…
July 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Thiessen has always been my go-to to demonstrate how right-wing media presence works in established papers. He has never done anything other than being a GOP shill, his columns are not only false but *boringly* false, with zero impact, and yet he had a permanent slot in one of the biggest papers.
Indeed, “[w]hat happened here is not a close call”.
Reuters: Chief Judge "Boasberg said on Thursday he may initiate disciplinary proceedings against Justice Department lawyers for their conduct in a lawsuit."
If you don't see the connection to Emil Bove, you're missing the extra import of this.
www.justsecurity.org/116777/bove-...
If you don't see the connection to Emil Bove, you're missing the extra import of this.
www.justsecurity.org/116777/bove-...
Whistleblower Documents Implicate Emil Bove in Criminal Contempt Order by Chief Judge Boasberg
Email released by whistleblower would presumably implicate Bove in the “contumacious conduct” identified by Chief Judge Boasberg.
www.justsecurity.org
July 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Indeed, “[w]hat happened here is not a close call”.
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This is a crucial flaw in “free speech culture” mindset, which tends to presume against all evidence that everyone is participating in good faith. It’s one thing to say the wolf should have a fair chance to eat me; it’s another to say I have an obligation to make the wolf feel comfortable about it.
Good intervention from @brianbeutler.bsky.social demonstrating that liberals need to internalize and act on the idea that right wing bad faith actors "view liberal freedoms as loopholes to exploit in their pursuit of power."
www.offmessage.net/p/how-libera...
www.offmessage.net/p/how-libera...
How Liberalism Sabotages Itself
Our intentional blindness to bad faith is a loophole fascists use to gain respectability and power.
www.offmessage.net
July 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This is a crucial flaw in “free speech culture” mindset, which tends to presume against all evidence that everyone is participating in good faith. It’s one thing to say the wolf should have a fair chance to eat me; it’s another to say I have an obligation to make the wolf feel comfortable about it.
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In 2016 this guy went to a law office with the goal of killing his wife’s lawyer. He hacked a woman to death with a machete and bludgeoned two other people to death (including a man he falsely thought was that lawyer), then set fire to the building to cover his tracks.
Anyway, Trump just freed him.
Anyway, Trump just freed him.
The America First geniuses managed to send hairdressers and soccer players into a gulag and *import* a triple murderer into the US. Nice work.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
Convicted Murderer Released by Trump From Venezuelan Prison Is Free in U.S.
www.nytimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
In 2016 this guy went to a law office with the goal of killing his wife’s lawyer. He hacked a woman to death with a machete and bludgeoned two other people to death (including a man he falsely thought was that lawyer), then set fire to the building to cover his tracks.
Anyway, Trump just freed him.
Anyway, Trump just freed him.
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Fascism wields hypocrisy as a shield and absurdity as a cudgel against institutional power and society in the first efforts to undermine social order and start the process of malign social construction and the erosion of the democratic systems that underpin government.
It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
July 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Fascism wields hypocrisy as a shield and absurdity as a cudgel against institutional power and society in the first efforts to undermine social order and start the process of malign social construction and the erosion of the democratic systems that underpin government.
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To complement the pardons of war criminals and January 6ers.
July 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
To complement the pardons of war criminals and January 6ers.
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One way to think about it: Executive orders tell you very specifically what the executive branch thinks that the law is and how they will act like the law is.
July 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
One way to think about it: Executive orders tell you very specifically what the executive branch thinks that the law is and how they will act like the law is.
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Look I can put on my law professor hat and reconcile this with evolving case law and all that. But at some point you have to ask: is this a Court worth rehabilitating? They are failing to meet the moment. Just the opposite even: they are undermining the rule of law. (2/2)
July 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Look I can put on my law professor hat and reconcile this with evolving case law and all that. But at some point you have to ask: is this a Court worth rehabilitating? They are failing to meet the moment. Just the opposite even: they are undermining the rule of law. (2/2)
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I’ve gotten some negative feedback about the language I used about Columbia. Although I accept people choosing their own tone, I decline to accept tone critiques from people who wish to follow decorum obediently into a ditch. Columbia’s leadership is contemptible Vichy scum.
July 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I’ve gotten some negative feedback about the language I used about Columbia. Although I accept people choosing their own tone, I decline to accept tone critiques from people who wish to follow decorum obediently into a ditch. Columbia’s leadership is contemptible Vichy scum.
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The Trump appointee dissent also takes pains not to declare that birthright citizenship necessarily applies as the plaintiffs and majority state. This creates the impression that there is a school of judges ready to agree with the Executive Order by limiting the landmark Wong Kim Ark case.
The alarm here is the dissent from the lone Trump appointee on the panel, who would have dismissed the case due to lack of standing of the state plaintiffs. That analysis would virtually preclude any state challenge to a federal Executive Order. At least some SCOTUS justices will agree with that.
BREAKING: 9th Circuit panel, 2-1, upholds injunction for states against Trump's anti-birthright citizenship executive order. Majority: Gould (Clinton)/ Hawkins (Clinton). Dissent: Bumatay (Trump). Doc: cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
July 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The Trump appointee dissent also takes pains not to declare that birthright citizenship necessarily applies as the plaintiffs and majority state. This creates the impression that there is a school of judges ready to agree with the Executive Order by limiting the landmark Wong Kim Ark case.
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Lucy Ends Uncertainty With Promise Regarding Football, Charlie Brown Says
Columbia ends uncertainty with Trump deal, head says
Columbia ends uncertainty with Trump deal, head says
Columbia University's agreement to pay over $200 million to the U.S. government in a settlement with President Donald Trump's administration to resolve federal probes and restore most of its suspended federal funding ends a period of "institutional uncertainty," the university's acting president said.
reut.rs
July 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Lucy Ends Uncertainty With Promise Regarding Football, Charlie Brown Says
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The fact this keeps happening reveals more about the profession than anything interesting about Generative AI because what do you mean you submitted fake cases to a court of law what???
July 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The fact this keeps happening reveals more about the profession than anything interesting about Generative AI because what do you mean you submitted fake cases to a court of law what???
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Look at this one astounding sentence in the NY Times. It says so much about their failure to rise to the current moment.
1. Todd Blanche is of course a Trump crony and fixer, but the Times can't say that. Let's just say he was Trump's personal lawyer.
1. Todd Blanche is of course a Trump crony and fixer, but the Times can't say that. Let's just say he was Trump's personal lawyer.
July 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Look at this one astounding sentence in the NY Times. It says so much about their failure to rise to the current moment.
1. Todd Blanche is of course a Trump crony and fixer, but the Times can't say that. Let's just say he was Trump's personal lawyer.
1. Todd Blanche is of course a Trump crony and fixer, but the Times can't say that. Let's just say he was Trump's personal lawyer.
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The State Department is confused - no one is being 'convicted' on the basis of the Digital Services Act, because it is not a criminal law
Also, an outfit that detains and tries to expel people for criticism of the Israeli govt has zero moral high ground on free speech issues
Also, an outfit that detains and tries to expel people for criticism of the Israeli govt has zero moral high ground on free speech issues
The United States has ramped up criticism of a key European Union tech law, irking European diplomats as both sides attempt to land a tariff deal.
US, Europe clash over free speech as trade talk finale looms
U.S. State Department is running a months-long campaign pushing back on the landmark EU social media law.
www.politico.eu
July 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The State Department is confused - no one is being 'convicted' on the basis of the Digital Services Act, because it is not a criminal law
Also, an outfit that detains and tries to expel people for criticism of the Israeli govt has zero moral high ground on free speech issues
Also, an outfit that detains and tries to expel people for criticism of the Israeli govt has zero moral high ground on free speech issues
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In evaluating Brett Stephens’ claim that it is inappropriate to use the term “genocide” to describe Gaza, bear in mind he once complained to a professor’s provost when the professor jokingly called him a bedbug.
July 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
In evaluating Brett Stephens’ claim that it is inappropriate to use the term “genocide” to describe Gaza, bear in mind he once complained to a professor’s provost when the professor jokingly called him a bedbug.
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This really captures the audacity of what the current Supreme Court is trying to do.
SCOTUS is so contemptuous of the lower courts, it thinks that lower courts *following the Court's own precedents* is an abuse of equitable discretion.
This is enraging.
SCOTUS shadow dockets the end of another agency’s independence.
The majority refuses to call it precedent, because they know that would be laughable on its face. They just say one like ruling “control[s]” another. And you, district judges, need to figure out if it’s so.
SCOTUS shadow dockets the end of another agency’s independence.
The majority refuses to call it precedent, because they know that would be laughable on its face. They just say one like ruling “control[s]” another. And you, district judges, need to figure out if it’s so.
July 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This really captures the audacity of what the current Supreme Court is trying to do.
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new kind of precedent just dropped
this is my favorite bit - dcts should ignore existing law in future cases, and instead divine SCt's intent from its opinion-less orders
July 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
new kind of precedent just dropped
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I'm sorry, am I supposed to accept that Trump v. Wilcox, a virtually unreasoned shadow docket stay, has precedential value, but Humphrey's Executor, a near-century-old unanimous merits decision saying presidents can't fire agency heads willy nilly, does not?
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
The majority includes a short explanation largely tracking its order in Trump v. Wilcox involving dismissals at two other federal agencies. Kavanaugh writes a concurrence.
July 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I'm sorry, am I supposed to accept that Trump v. Wilcox, a virtually unreasoned shadow docket stay, has precedential value, but Humphrey's Executor, a near-century-old unanimous merits decision saying presidents can't fire agency heads willy nilly, does not?
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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1/ Fantastic @jamellebouie.net column today on Vance's rather selective invocation of the Civil War as it pertains to citizenship. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Opinion | JD Vance Claims One of Our Worst Traditions as His Own
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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“Altman is backing a tool called The Orb, built by Tools for Humanity, that says it will offer “proof of human” in a world where AI makes it harder to distinguish what, and who, is real online.”
phew so the guy who helped create the problem happens to also have the solution what are the chances
phew so the guy who helped create the problem happens to also have the solution what are the chances
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a "fraud crisis" because of how artificial intelligence could enable bad actors to impersonate other people.
Read more: cnn.it/3GVwPg7
Read more: cnn.it/3GVwPg7
July 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
“Altman is backing a tool called The Orb, built by Tools for Humanity, that says it will offer “proof of human” in a world where AI makes it harder to distinguish what, and who, is real online.”
phew so the guy who helped create the problem happens to also have the solution what are the chances
phew so the guy who helped create the problem happens to also have the solution what are the chances
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If you have not read Rich Hill’s personal essay about losing his son Brooks please do so now. But I warn you that you will become a lifelong fan and maybe even cry sometimes when you watch him keep chasing his dream at 45: www.theplayerstribune.com/articles/ric...
July 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
If you have not read Rich Hill’s personal essay about losing his son Brooks please do so now. But I warn you that you will become a lifelong fan and maybe even cry sometimes when you watch him keep chasing his dream at 45: www.theplayerstribune.com/articles/ric...