Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Commit to packing unless something like this is agreed to: www.hydratext.com/blog/2018/9/...hydratext.comThe Way Forward on Supreme Court Appointments — HydraText 000
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026This results in yet another application of leverage (export ctrl act) to replace law with deals. But this one doesn't seem sustainable (and maybe more bumbling than calculated, unlike mergers, tariffs, etc.). See Andy Hall (at the other place) and Dean Ball (www.hyperdimensional.co/p/what-shoul...). 000
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 29/04/2026The legal analysis of the Comey indictment is only interesting as evidence of mens rea to establish govt officials’ criminal violation of 18 usc 241, 242 and 1513e. Dems should be drafting articles of impeachment, not arguing that the case against Comey is unsound. The issue is what you argue about. 000
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 29/04/2026My new AI detector startup is just “grep goblins“ 000
Reposted by Christian TurnerMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The matter-of-fact way she asks what investors should do if Trump destroys Iran. Absolutely wild. "Let's talk about tonight, this deadline that President Trump has set 8 p.m., has threatened to destroy a civilization. How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk?" 3252905758
Reposted by Christian TurnerAtrios @eschatonblog.com · 07/04/2026only the Marshal of the Supreme Court can save us now 6712
Reposted by Christian Turnerconputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026“I am violating the first amendment” truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT... 0141
Reposted by Christian TurnerKathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 10/03/2026this hearing is a fucking bloodbath 2155580
Reposted by Christian TurnerOona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social · 07/03/2026“The harm is felt in the wars that haven’t happened yet,” Professor Hathaway said. “It’s felt in the unleashing of other states who want to use military force against our neighbors, or against others, but might have felt limited in the past.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/w...nytimes.comHow Good Intentions Helped Pave Trump’s Road to Iran 1189
Reposted by Christian TurnerOona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social · 07/03/2026“The Unwillingness to Call This Illegal Is a Terrible Mistake” Five Questions to Oona A. Hathaway Read it in English here: verfassungsblog.de/the-unwillin... And in German here: verfassungsblog.de/die-weigerun... 112658
Reposted by Christian TurnerOona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Even if it is a "mistake," it can still be a war crime. A person who acts recklessly in causing disproportionate civilian deaths can be found to have acted “wilfully” and thus responsible for a war crime. Read "'Mistakes' in War": papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...nytimes.comAnalysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base 28937
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Thanks so much to @lsolum.bsky.social for the kind words. I only hope some journal editors agree! I've made an audio version of the paper available here: www.hydratext.com/blog/2026/2/... — and a critical faculty workshop made with my app enTalkenator here: entalkenator.com/podcast/arti... 182
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 03/03/2026@ssrn.bsky.social Is there anything I need to do to get my paper approved? Thanks! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.com 330
Reposted by Christian TurnerMonica Iyer @monicavisalam.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Honestly might prefer if stuff I was working on felt less salient, as commentators debate the role that oil plays in Trump’s actions in Iran. Law review editors, this paper is still looking for a home, and I will certainly update it to include this week’s events! 0296
Reposted by Christian TurnerDavid Noll @david.noll.org · 28/02/2026This makes some good points, but the through message is that if Trump had just offered a more compelling public narrative to justify his war of aggression, the whole thing would be a-ok. 25312
Reposted by Christian TurnerPaul Gowder @gowder.io · 28/02/2026So real. We got W's dumb Middle East war, Nixon's dirty tricks, Harding's corruption, Reagan's random adventures in Central America, Andrew Johnson's brutish and dumb "white working class" racism... 111637
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 28/02/2026The trick to not getting bogged down in an unpopular war is to do a lot of destruction and just leave. Taking no accountability for the foreseeable results of his actions is his signature move. Once he realized this “works” with war, he was happy to do war. Blow stuff up, leave, do the next thing. 000
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 26/02/2026My new paper on modern AI. I argue: (1) It thinks, and denying this is dangerous. (2) Models are individual alien intelligences. (3) They deceptively activate the intentional stance. (4) We need a socially-supported alien stance to meet this challenge. (5) This includes "analog zones" in law.papers.ssrn.com 110
Reposted by Christian TurnerDavid Noll @david.noll.org · 20/02/2026People really need to check the opinion for statements like "we are not saying anything about other statutory tariff authorities" before writing that the Court delivered a blow to the administration; if you don't, you are just doing PR for the Court. 11613124
Reposted by Christian TurnerLori Ringhand @loriringhand.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Very excited to get my author’s copy of “We the Voters: The Constitutional Choices that Shape America’s Elections.” This was a labor of love, and it is thrilling to see it materialize in the real world. 162
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Our district judges are doing good work. 000
Reposted by Christian TurnerAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 24/01/2026My friends, we are in a serious constitutional crisis. The government is racially profiling, suppessing free speech, killing our own people in the streets— and lying about every fact along the way. If we don’t use our natural talents and voices to say “no,” then what’s the point of law at all? 181014275
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Murder is not the only crime that is punishable under Minnesota law and that is not pardonable by any president. www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cit...revisor.mn.gov Sec. 609.495 MN Statutes 110
Reposted by Christian TurnerScott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 24/01/2026There is evil and then there is this 643313944
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 04/01/2026The tactical approach here is basically Escape from New York. 000
Reposted by Christian TurnerKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 03/01/2026you don't need to add caveats agreeing that the head of state abducted is a bad guy before opposing abduction of a head of state by military force. If the rule was any head of government is fair game then the entire world would be a series of decapitation strikes and show trials in foreign courts. 12224624
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 03/01/2026So many failing to think even a single step beyond “yay bad man gone” is as staggering an indictment of our education system as one will find. 000
Reposted by Christian TurnerAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/01/2026Trump on Sheinbaum: "The cartels are running Mexico. She's not running Mexico. We could be politically correct & nice and say, 'Oh, yes, she is.' No no. And I've asked her number times, 'Would you like us to take out the cartels?' ... something is gonna have to be done with Mexico." 2241220534
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Kind of depressing: a sampling of reactions to the crazy Trump post reveals a lot of people think what’s wrong with it is that it speaks ill of the dead. 110
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 05/12/2025this week on crossfire: should we keep flat out murdering people on boats? 010
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 05/12/2025tfw “our legislation is intended to restrict those political processes which can ordinarily be expected to bring about repeal of undesirable legislation, not to discriminate against a discrete and insular minority” is a winning argument. 020
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Very confusing to sort out when we’re going to murder and when we’re going to pardon people involved with cartels, random fishermen, and whole countries. Remember when…nytimes.comOpinion | An Indefensible Pardon (Published 2001) 020
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Moor Mother + Wooden Elephant, Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes. It’s great. open.spotify.com/album/3KsL6E... youtube.com/playlist?lis... 020
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 21/11/2025overcast.fm/+AAHAsqkDczQ one of the greatest musicians talking music. (One battle after another, film and music both, is on another level)overcast.fm559: Jonny Greenwood On His Score For One Battle After Another — Soundtracking with Edith BowmanJonny emails Edith on Monday to say his available to chat about his score for One Battle After Another between Radiohead duties, and we bring it to you at the first opportunity. This is a fabulous dee... 010
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 24/10/2025The only relevant questions at the moment concern what a handful of Republican senators and reps will do in the face of increasingly outrageous violations of domestic and international law. No other takes matter. 020
Reposted by Christian TurnerAlice Campos @ok-sure.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Open the page. Scroll down to the timeline. Go through the timeline. It’s… shockingwhitehouse.govThe White House BuildingEvery president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from... 1641218414
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 22/10/2025can you be considered a serious presidential candidate if you don‘t promise to demolish the ballroom on day 1? 010
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 03/10/2025I guess they call it the emergency docket because they use it to create emergencies. 010
Reposted by Christian TurnerBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Further premeditated killing by the Trump administration. Labelling the victims of these strikes as "narco-terrorists" does not magically make these attacks legal. 781015342
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 03/10/2025It appears that Sec. Hegseth has admitted to murder and implicated others. It looks bad, but he and any co-conspirators deserve a fair trial with all the protections and process due under our law. 021
Reposted by Christian TurnerPaul Gowder @gowder.io · 02/10/2025Ok so this is bad but for complicated reasons. Substantively, much of it is terrible explicitly: the anti-trans stuff, the requirement to use force on student protesters, cap on foreign students, content-based "screening" of foreign students, surveillance of foreign students. But some of (cont🧵) 43519
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Whether a president has effectively unreviewable authority to direct the military to murder someone, in boats in the tropics or on the streets of Portland, if he says they’re a threat to the United States is becoming just another issue about which “reasonable” people can disagree. 020
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 14/09/2025I take it as a bad sign that “what a murderer thinks” is increasingly a topic as to which people have hopes. 010
Reposted by Christian TurnerKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 10/09/2025There is so much that is terrible in what has been reported. But among them is the student’s reference to “our president’s laws.” 1118338
Reposted by Christian TurnerCharlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Not the biggest problem here by a longshot -- but this is an exercise in wasting everyone's time, imposed to bolster the proposition that this is about e̶t̶h̶i̶c̶s̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶g̶a̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶j̶o̶u̶r̶n̶a̶l̶i̶s̶m̶ course-description integrity www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...houstonchronicle.comTexas A&M University System orders audit of courses at all 12 universitiesThe Texas A&M University System Board of Regents ordered an audit of courses at the system's 12 schools amid backlash over a professor’s gender identity lesson. 110022
Reposted by Christian TurnerAAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 10/09/2025chng.it/v648fZ9tKW Solidarity with colleagues at Texas A&M.chng.itSign the PetitionStop the Overreach: Reinstate the Dean of Arts & Sciences Now 02816
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 14/08/2025I have no idea whether this cable-news-pol is sincere. But it’s a big problem that we have so many fellow citizens that are afraid of everyone and everything all the time. Had a contractor absolutely and honestly astounded that we drove across country and backpacked without guns. 020
Christian Turner @christianturner.bsky.social · 13/08/2025If these masked federal agents fanning out across American cities under the control of the mad king even think about delivering broccoli or asking about health insurance, then — and only then — elite libertarians will rise in opposition. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comTrump says he’ll seek ‘longterm’ control of DC police and signals he’ll target other cities nextPresident’s comments come as White House takes credit for dozens of arrests as part of campaign to fight ‘crime crisis’ its leaders say doesn’t exist 120
