For the last few years, I've had the students in my seminar on criminal punishment read Eichmann in Jerusalem. The final passage of that book has been much on my mind lately, especially when I consider the people among us now to whom it could be...
Adam Serwer summarizes where we are on free speech now: It is one thing for Trump loyalists like Carr to make threats. It is another for the targets of the.
Let's get an update on the Peace Administration: Trump didn't just mainstream political violence when he started running for president, he also mainstreamed bloodlust.[image or embed]— Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social).
https://twitter.com/ishapiro/status/1968449083984511051 I dipped a toe in the cesspool and found a bunch of comments along the lines of they were going to fire Kimmel anyway so the "we can do this the easy way or the hard way" threat, sorry, off the cuff remark, from [checks...
As I have stated on occasion, talking about Trump on this site or anywhere on the internet is worthless in creating change. Frankly, the internet has been a disaster for.
Noah Smith on the plight of being Bari Weiss: Whether this particular pile-on had long-term negative consequences for Weiss’ life isn’t clear, but she encountered an increasingly hostile climate at.
I do! https://twitter.com/BulwarkOnline/status/1968475050073268645 People say the American right wing has this or that superpower, but it has many, like [insert appropriate MCU figure here]. Shamelessness. Hypocrisy Ignorance Cruelty Most of all, it has the thing that enables all these other things, by blinding it to these...
Not that it's relevant to the free speech issue, but it's worth noting that Jimmy Kimmel didn't even say anything negative about Kirk at all, let alone celebrate his assassination..
https://twitter.com/JBFlint/status/1968440879451930750 Disney’s ABC is taking Jimmy Kimmel’s late night talk show off the air indefinitely amid a controversy over his recent comments about Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer. “Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Dropping some political science on Brett Kavanaugh [free link]: Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh says good judges are like good referees. “Am I calling it the same way for labor and management, for the business and the environmental interests, for the Republican and the Democrat?” he asked...
Donald Trump is well-practiced indeed at the art of deception, and critical to his only popular vote win was united marginal voters whose top priority was brutalizing immigrants and marginal.
My friend Michael the Atlanta Lawyer focuses on something to which I hadn't been paying sufficient attention, because it's just impossible, as his first sentence notes: It's trite to say.