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Timothy Ryan @tjryan02.bsky.social · 5d

My wife's roots are in Georgia. I've thought about how it's quite possible that one of her relatives killed one of mine, or vice-versa.

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Timothy Ryan @tjryan02.bsky.social · 5d

No doubt you've seen the movie Glory. (I rewatched it recently.)

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 6d

Somebody actually sat down and wrote these two sentences, one after another. www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

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Timothy Ryan @tjryan02.bsky.social · 6d

Neat! Here is a history of my relative, written by someone in the National Archives, many years ago.

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Timothy Ryan @tjryan02.bsky.social · 6d

AI tools helped me finish a replica of the regimental flag that my 3x great grandfather fought (and died) under during the Civil War. It's based on a photo of the deteriorated flag that I got from the New Jersey State Museum.

I like how it came out! And what it symbolizes.

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Timothy Ryan @tjryan02.bsky.social · 6d

Yes. (See p. 8)

www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/...

www.irs.gov

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Timothy Ryan @tjryan02.bsky.social · 6d

Today's cute teaching example of the kind of policy that a federal bureaucrat would need to make: when a blind person hires someone to groom their seeing eye dog, is this a tax deductible medical expense? See below for the answer.

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Timothy Ryan @tjryan02.bsky.social · 6d

Nice mention of my Free Expression work, three paragraphs from the bottom.

The Myth of the Campus Snowflake

The students I encounter as a university president aren’t afraid of free speech—quite the contrary.

www.theatlantic.com

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Timothy Ryan @tjryan02.bsky.social · 8d

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Timothy Ryan @tjryan02.bsky.social · 8d

Apropos of nothing, here is a montage from the great 2008 series Generation Kill where John Sixta--the battalion yutz--bangs on and on about adherence to the "grooming standard." (NSFW)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQr9...

Sixta and the grooming standard

YouTube video by Taran Axethorpe

www.youtube.com

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Timothy Ryan @tjryan02.bsky.social · 13d

You want my letter of recommendation to be answers to six questions that you came up with, and that are specific to your organization.

I want to write one general purpose letter that covers all the same substance and that I can upload to *any* organization.

We are not the same.

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Brian Guay @brianguay.bsky.social · 14d

UNC Political Science is hiring in methods!

UNC has an amazing department and the triangle is a great place to live.

Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Methods (Deadline Oct 24)

link to the posting👇
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

#polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs

unc.peopleadmin.com

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Timothy Ryan @tjryan02.bsky.social · 14d

UNC is hiring in Political Methodology. Please spread the word and encourage people to apply.

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Assistant Professor

This tenure-track position includes 40% teaching, 40% research and 20% service to the department/college. The service portion includes, but is not limited to search committees, review committees and a...

unc.peopleadmin.com

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Timothy Ryan @tjryan02.bsky.social · 14d

Happening at UNC.

Former Provost Sues UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees Over Closed Meetings

Chris Clemens accused the trustees of "hiding matters of grave public concern,” including tenure debates, using a Signal group and closed session.

www.theassemblync.com

Timothy Ryan @tjryan02.bsky.social · 15d

I'll credit Thomas as a committed originalist when he points to the clause in the Constitution that grants the president near-blanket immunity from criminal prosecution.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 15d

Cass Sunstein: not the man for the moment

But you believe that all nine of the Justices are committed to liberalism of the sort that you outlined in your book and are trying to uphold it?
Yeah. Oh, yeah. I’m not going to name any names, but there is a conservative judge who did read the first couple of chapters of the book and did say, I agree with all of this.
Wow. I would just say that I find it very hard to believe, especially with Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, who seem to me to be kind of out-and-out partisan Trump supporters.
This is completely fair to question. Alito is an extremely careful lawyer and a very precise judge. He is clearly taken with a certain view of our culture that is shared by many of Trump’s supporters. But is it possible to find an opinion in which he says, I’m going to go this way because the President is the law, or anything that verges on that? I think that’s very hard to find. Is there anything in his opinions that shows disrespect for freedom of speech or freedom of religion? I think that’s impossible to find. Thomas is an originalist. He’s the most committed originalist on the Court, who believes the Constitution should be understood in accordance with its original meaning. I don’t like that view much, but you can hold that view and be a liberal in the sense of believing in the rule of law, believing in freedom of speech. He does want to overrule New York Times v. Sullivan, but he’s not the only one who thinks that and that doesn’t make him illiberal. [That decision, from 1964, raised the standard for defamation lawsuits in a way that is seen as crucial to press freedom.] So I do agree with you. There are concerning things about political connections that appear, but in terms of the liberal tradition I’m not giving up on Justice Thomas.

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Timothy Ryan @tjryan02.bsky.social · 16d

Of all the times in history that someone was handed $50,000 cash in a takeout bag, what percentage of them do you suppose were completely legitimate and above-the-board?

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Timothy Ryan @tjryan02.bsky.social · 26d

"Preregistration isn't handcuffs" ~ Me.

If it were, Alexander Fleming might have to roll back his happenstancial discovery of a bacteria-eating "mold juice" (penicillin).

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Timothy Ryan @tjryan02.bsky.social · 27d

In NC, you need a prescription for Covid. My PCP wants me to come and visit the office to get said prescription. It's so bananas.

My mom got sent home from CVS because her doc gave her an Rx for Pfizer and that CVS only had Moderna. She had to get the Rx updated and go back.

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Timothy Ryan @tjryan02.bsky.social · 28d

Political violence is bad. That’s it. That’s the tweet. (Skeet.)

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