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Joshua Katz

@jalankatz.bsky.social
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Paramedic turned teacher turned lawyer. Work in government; political appointee. Globalist liberal institutionalist. NeverTrump, NeverTreason, Free Ukraine. Follow for law, politics, philosophy, and pro wrestling. Vaccines are good.

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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 31/03/2024
Just ran into the most thin-skinned college professor I've seen around here. Also had no idea why statistics are useful to people, which is fine, but you don't get to not understand it and be arrogant about it. But it happens when your day-to-day is students.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 31/03/2024
The response to "we'll be violent if you lock him up" is "yea, that's scary, but you're also violent if the coffee siren doesn't say Merry Christmas, so we've decided just to fight back."
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 31/03/2024
Do people realize how easy it is for ordinary people to get their release revoked?
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
A lot of religious texts just talk about real things in symbolic ways (which is why Hugo's use of religion as symbol for reality is so powerful). For instance, the Antichrist is shrouded in mysticism, but it's just really about a guy like Trump.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
I used to teach very basic crytography as part of my math classes, so I want to understand what happened, but there's no way I'm going to. I'm so glad I'm not teaching that anymore and getting questions on it.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
I wake up most mornings in a rage that Ds in control of both chambers took no steps whatsoever to not seat/expel under 14a insurrectionists in their ranks. Big mistake to have chosen leadership based on seniority rather than seeking wartime leadership. We needed a war cabinet.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
I feel like we already lost. Even if Biden wins in 2024, which looks harder to do every day, does it matter? When this much of the population wants fascism, and this many will threaten whoever he wants threatened, how do we work as a county?
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
There's a certain logic out there that says, well, stupid libs care about preventing fascism, we don't, so nominate our person and the libs will vote for them, but we don't give a shit so we won't vote for a lib. Hostage-taker logic.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
God, not everything is about you...but this particular thing? Yea, that's about you.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/03/2024
the thing with caving to bigotry, besides being unconscionable, is that it actually makes things worse for you politically it signals to people that the bigots have a point - and if that’s true, well, why wouldn’t they go with the people screaming about it the loudest if it’s such a problem?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/03/2024
you could even look at everything coming out of the right since 2016 as an effort to prevent an obama from ever happening again
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
Obama both a) was us breaking the contract they imagined we had, where "they" can vote, with suppression, but not be in charge, and b) a thoroughly traumatic experience for them that broke their brains and left them unable to participate in society rationally. You need to acknowledge both.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28/03/2024
Yep the next time they want to make a Black person the editor of the Harvard Law Review they’re going to have a *long* conversation about optics and politics etc. and they’ll probably have to spend some resources if they follow through. They’re raising the cost of accepting Black people in spaces.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
Had to scroll back up to see if it's fake, because I remember when they poisoned a guy making Wizard of Oz.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
When I was in law school, a clerkship was the thing, and a Supreme Court clerkship the ultimate. Not just for the types who knew the AmLaw rankings by heart, but for the real nerds. It's hard to imagine that type even wanting one anymore, gotta be all people looking for $400k from JD or KE now.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
This is what we all need to be doing. Not because they'll be shamed, not at all, but because there are people out there who can be convinced.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
What they ignore is that if anyone wanted to engage in terrorism to shut down transportation, it would probably be the sorts of people who engage in terrorism to shut down power grids and who regularly plot to shut down transportation in other ways, i.e. the right.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
Just take Trump off the general election ballot close to the election. When people say the Supreme Court said not to do that, scream "Purcell" in their faces.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
"Christie may seem anti-Trump, but he's still a Republican/conservative." That's what we want. We want conservatives to recognize the danger. I don't understand gatekeeping opposition to fascism.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
He's on bail!
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
🍎Killing the thread.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
We need more people voting for Biden for this specific reason. It's not enough to support Biden, and it's not enough for Biden to win. He needs to win because of what Trump is, or else we'll continue to live with this sword over our heads.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
We need people to wake up to the threat. It isn't enough to win. If Biden wins on other messages, there will not be pressure from voters to do something about this, and there will be another 4 years of fear before an election that may tip us into fascism. We need people to care about this.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
No, because issues are only important to certain people until progress is made on them, then it's "fuck you, what about this other thing?" forever.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
It's a standing argument that made it to the Supreme Court, Michael. How bananas can it be? Ten dollars?
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
Just out here demanding the right to go low with no consequences.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
Does the spider take insurance?
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
Just think, all this time has gone by, and so much has happened, and still I have no idea what an NFT is.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Leaving a presidential candidate off the ballot is so "draconian" that most candidates fail to make 50 states and DC. So draconian it happens to the vast majority of candidates. Who do not engage in insurrection, by the way.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Four months after his ex-girlfriend accused him of sex trafficking, feds raided the homes of Diddy Combs. You see where I'm going with this.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
"Ill Appeal this Supreme COURT all the way to the Court of APPEALS" sounds like something Trump would say, but it's actually correct in NY.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
I'll admit I don't know when the Rs became this, in part because "became" and "this" are hard to pin down, but I do know it was absolutely undeniable that they were a threat to democracy and all the norms that surround it by the day after Scalia died.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
What's the word for when it's been a year after a breakup and you can't stop thinking about her? Other than "pathetic."
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 24/03/2024
Happy Purim. This year, we drink until we don't know Trump from Biden.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 24/03/2024
Trump is in a position no one ever should be - protected by norms but not answerable to them. Literally in at least one sense - Congress did not take away his detail and other perks, treating him like a normal former President, which he is not. This began during the election.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
I think around 2008 was the first time I saw "I want my country back" as a common talking point. It was more Paul and Huckabee than McCain but it eventually was all the right. They can say it meant whatever, but it obviously meant, I don't want a country where a Black man can be President.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
"She's so brave, she's well-behaved, she's not afraid." That can't be right. If she's not afraid, what's there to be brave about?
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
Pointing out people-with-family-privilege is not about wanting your leave to go away. It's about wanting some equivalent form of leave. It's fine to cover for you when you're gone, so long as you'll return the favor, on average.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
Me: is an appellate attorney. Also me: has a tab open to look up how to spell certiorari.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
Look, I want to, but if I emailed Westlaw every time I found a way their optical scan screwed up, it's all I'd do all day. Plus of all the times I emailed from chambers, I only once saw it get fixed.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
Playing the game of pretending it's about plagiarism and acting serious and sober and saying "well she just should have phrased it differently then" is also choosing a side, btw.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
Lots of problems, but it's amazing how much better off we are bc Rs nominated so many crazies for winnable Gov/SOS/AG offices and lost. If they'd have run normal people, they could have easily pressured/threatened them later to go along with a coup plan.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
Four more Bidens! Four more...wait, am I doing this wrong?
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
"Well, you've been here a few weeks, how are you finding the new workplace?" "Thanks for asking. I actually live just up the road, so I take the bus, and as long as I get off at the right stop, it's pretyt easy."
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
Actually, the Trump era has, on average, made your vote more valuable. Previously, the value of your vote was roughly the probability everyone else would tie and you'd decide. Or, if you voted third party, the value was a contribution to getting matching funds.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
"But any undergrad prof would call it plagiarism." No. Turnitin would flag it. You're right about that. Some profs would just go along with that, bc of 1) the myth of objectivity, 2) we let software run our society, and 3) overwork/adjunctification. But those are all problems. We need less, not more
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
In addition to everything else, this shines light on the prison "counselor" who is entirely integrated into the guard staff.
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
Can we just fast-forward and get them to oppose antibiotics?
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
Noteworthy dynamic with Roe that we need to think about. Lots of good-faith people thought it was a state issue. Other bad-faith people said that. The first group joined the second in working to overturn Roe. Now they'll protest when Rs ban it nationally. But be careful who you help!
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Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
I see the free speech warriors are banning speakers again. Yet the media and too much of our government insists we must treat them as serious people. Despite them literally detailing the ways they lie to us, in public.
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