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SimpsonsQOTD @simpsonsqotd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Take her away, boys." "I thought you said the law was powerless." "Powerless to help you, not punish you."

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Taylor Koles @kaylortoles.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Byron was an unacknowledged early master of the Response to Reviewers genre

"I have now waited till almost all our periodical journals have distributed their usual portion of criticism. To the justice of the generality of their criticisms I have nothing to object; it would ill become me to quarrel with their very slight degree of censure, when, perhaps, if they had been less kind they had been more candid. Returning, therefore, to all and each my best thanks for their liberality, on one point alone I shall venture an observation."

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/09/2026

sometimes on here i see inane ideas like "the idea of a nation defending itself is pseudofascist." instead consider

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

logging on to the earnest high-info neurotics website every day during the everything going wrong decade: 'you know, the vibes here could be better'

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Taylor Koles @kaylortoles.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm so mad about this I can't stand it. Scrooge justifies himself in ways that are recognizable to both us and Dickens's audience. The hollowness of that rationale is the point.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One thing Woke 2.0 needs to do is completely erase and replace every doctrine of standing we have. The entire field is corrupted with politicized nonsense. None of the existing judicial output can be trusted nor used to create new doctrines that are consistent and appropriate.

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Taylor Koles @kaylortoles.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Suppose two facts - A) There has been a violation of a good norm (e.g. an academic freedom norm) in case X. B) Many of the people who are trying to uphold the norm in X wouldn't try to uphold the norm in cases that were less ideologically or practically convenient (or only to a lesser extent)

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

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geb @geb1999.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

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@Kali_de_Armas
feudal MF DOOM:
on the mic, he's a freeholder
known to lift an ox over each shoulder
ahem... wheat sower and a wif stroker
can't plant the crops if it gets one degree colder

*woman's voice says "Villein"*

his work is agricultural
everything he makes, the lords tax it multiple

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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

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Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Some good news to share for once. Leah Trueblood has apparently won the Wedderburn Prize for her article 'Public Functions of Political Parties in the United Kingdom' (2025) 88(4) MLR 660. Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Public Functions of Political Parties in the United Kingdom

Political parties are both private and public bodies. Some actions of political parties must be categorised as private to protect freedom of speech and association. This article argues, however, that...

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Raffael Fasel @raffaelfasel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Tragic that Happy has had to die in a zoo rather than in a sanctuary, where she should have been moved to.

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

i dunno, seems bad arxiv.org/pdf/2603.18161

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

In my view, the window to *forestall* autocratization of the US political system is basically closed. We're now in the consolidation phase of a new authoritarian constitutional settlement. The question is how far it'll get (will it achieve its apparent goal of fascism?) & at what pace. Here's why:

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc.

There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation.

There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism.

No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get:

The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

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Joy of Arc @amethystjoy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Forever evergreen

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/07/2025

i'm reading this charles sumner speech from february 1866 and my dude is cooking

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syn @syn.horse · 25/06/2025

oh no

A plush Jean-Luc Picard next to a 5-pack of lightbulbs showing only four bulbs in the illustration

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

this is as good as turning the Constitution off. If this is what congressional leaders are going to do when an executive just seizes power from the legislative branch, we do not have one.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.

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Taylor Koles @kaylortoles.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Maybe one day we'll get together and and amend the Constitution so that it contains Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution. But until then, our hands are tied.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

A few words about “peaceful protests.” 1. At least 5% of people are uncontrollable assholes and will behave badly in any situation, let alone a high-tension one. So a large protest without ANYONE throwing shit, yelling slurs or for violence, etc. is likely not achievable. /1

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I've been thinking about this C.S. Lewis quote for the last few days as we head into some dark times.

Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice. Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would have never begun. We are mistaken when we compare war to "normal life." Life has never been normal. Even those periods we think most tranquil, like the nineteenth century, turn out on closer inspection, to be full of crises, alarms, difficulties, emergencies. Plausible reasons have never been lacking for putting off all merely cultural activities until some imminent danger has been averted or some crying injustice put right. But humanity long ago chose to neglect those plausible reasons. They propound theorems in beleagured cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on scaffolds, discuss poetry while advancing on the walls of Quebec, and comb their hair at Thermopylae. This is not panache; it is our nature.
— C.S. Lewis

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

generally speaking, the median voter has the memory and political knowledge of an amoeba. if you think that the coverup of Biden’s cognitive decline is going to resonate in 4 years, fine, but your explanation should be good enough to overcome basically everything we know about voters

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 30/04/2025

more and more people are recognizing: our system has degenerated into an overweening court pitted against an overweening presidency, with congress nowhere to be found. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-present-...

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The Present Crisis and the End of the Long '90s

The constitutional settlement that governed America from the end of the Volcker Shock in 1982 to the re-election of Donald Trump in 2024 encompassed three profound domains: politics, economics, and cu...

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

This is gonna be four years of the dumbest motherfuckers alive painfully discovering why things worked the way they did before they broke them, then reinventing a shittier version with more nazis.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

[FDR, December 7th, 1941, off-mic]

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

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Taylor Koles @kaylortoles.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Optimus Prime explaining to me that Trump take toy is bleak

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

What it feels like reading the Econ nerds’ posts now:

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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

So the Supreme Court’s strategy seems pretty clearly to be forestall admitting we have a constitutional crisis by giving Trump huge victories on narrow procedural grounds. This is akin to having engineers move the Rubicon River closer and closer to Rome to avoid Caesar crossing it.

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 08/04/2025

for those without petitions already on file, I think a next friend petition in the last district in the U.S. where the petitioner was present arguing that he is constructively in U.S. custody would be the next step

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