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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Will if you were on the hiring committee of any university in the country would you hire a professor who admitted to this conduct under any circumstances?

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

But as with Rahimi: alcoholism, like domestic violence, has always existed and was recognized at the Founding, and just like the absence of laws specifically disarming DV abusers isn't dispositive, neither is the lack of laws specifically disarming alcoholics while sober.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Didn't the Fifth Circuit say that the Founding generation didn't disarm alcoholics while they were sober, though, even as they disarmed other types of mentally ill people? That's the rub.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

On this point you may be able to distinguish between different types of drugs. A person addicted to bath salts is more likely to resemble those whom the Founders called "lunatics" than someone behaviorally addicted to marijuana. But that would be an as-applied issue I think

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Also, again, explain how "addict" is unconstitutionally vague.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I really disagree with 3 as applied to "addicts." The Founding generation institutionalized and disarmed the mentally ill. Drug addiction is a form of mental illness that can make someone unfit to possess a weapon for the same reasons that other forms of mental illness recognized at the Founding can

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Elon is right though, the choice is between being a woke liberal and being mechahitler. That is a good argument for being a woke liberal.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I wonder if the Columbia leadership realizes (or cares) how much blowback there might be from *within* the academy. This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading: 3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...

I pledge that I will not provide any service to Columbia University. I will not speak at conferences held at or organized by Columbia. I will not publish with Columbia publications or provide peer reviews for them. I will not provide outside tenure evaluations for Columbia departments. I will not contribute in any way to the institution until everyone who is responsible for this week’s shameful decision has resigned, retired, or been fired, and until Columbia repudiates their catastrophic choice.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

This is both antisemitic and genocide-denialist. Well done Plenty of Jews, like me, had enough of a moral conscience to oppose this horrific massacre from the beginning. Biden and Trump actively facilitated it. Trump’s Jewish family had nothing to do with that; he supports Israel because he is evil

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Who are you and what have you done to Jennifer Rubin? I agree with your take, of course.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

This account is so obviously an AI bot it’s painful

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

“Viewed by CNN”? Yeah, I bet!

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The areas that Cuomo won were those that had the least diversity, such as places that were overwhelmingly white (like the UES) or overwhelmingly Black (like parts of the Bronx). People of all races who lived in more mixed and diverse neighborhoods voted for Mamdani.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Mamdani’s coalition was multiracial and middle-income. His coalition looked like the city and looked like America. It represents the diversity that both MAGA and Cuomocrats despise.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Saying Mamdani was elected by higher income voters is untrue. Cuomo won voters making $150K+ Mamdani won the majority of POC due to winning Asian and Hispanic voters. He also won Black neighborhoods in Harlem, Bed-Stuy & Crown Heights The main divide is age and college attainment, not race/income

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

If they get Joe Biden on record endorsing Mamdani, it’s game over.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

On X, Elon Musk Has Trained Grok To Be Overtly Anti-Semitic. But On Bluesky, Some People Say There Should Not Be Genocide Against Palestinians. Do American Jews Have Anywhere To Go? We Asked Stephen Miller Tomorrow In The New York Times

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Universal Childcare Now @notandrewcuomo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

There are also these statements on the DC and Boulder attacks.

I'm horrified by the deadly shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington D.C. last night. My thoughts are with the victims and their families—as well as all those who must contend with the appalling rise in antisemitic violence. We owe it to one another to confront hate with the urgency and solidarity it demands, and to ensure our Jewish neighbors can live safely and free of fear. May the memories of both victims be a blessing.

I'm devastated by today's horrific attack in Boulder and condemn it in the strongest possible terms. Throwing firebombs at a peaceful event for Israeli hostages only adds fear and suffering to a world already too full of both. I am praying for the six victims and their families. As political violence grows sickeningly familiar, let us redouble our efforts to banish hate from our society.

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Zohran Mamdani is very much not an antisemite. Signed: Your very very Zionist and Jewish friend.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

1) Acting as a shareholder of private companies is not among the powers that Article II confers to the office of the president, particularly in the absence of enabling legislation. 2) Because the president vetoing U.S. Steel changing its name would violate the First Amendment.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

This is clearly unconstitutional and one of the shareholders should sue.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Tens of thousands in a city of 600K. Likely single-digit pctages. That tracks. It doesn't explain why there are 377,000 missing from the current numbers or permit the inference that they are living in the rubble of Gaza's least-populated areas, under exclusion orders and w/o viable aid distribution

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

**"military threat" in the previous post is heavily caveated; I think Israel's view is that civilian life in the Gaza Strip is an inherent military threat to Israel's security. But that logic can't be accepted when evaluating whether Israel's actions pass muster under the principle of distinction.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Akiva's point, as I understood it, is that even though the IDF is intentionally targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure (consciously knowing that these targets pose no military threat), it may not constitute genocide.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Regarding the question you asked about whether the IDF is deliberately destroying civilian infrastructure or only doing so with indifference, there is no debate. The IDF deliberately destroys civilian infrastructure, often including already-empty civilian buildings.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Personally, I don't think the most urgent task right now is to relitigate those core principles but to apply them correctly to the Gaza war, which has involved some of the most destructive acts deliberately being carried out by a state against a civilian population in the world.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

These are valid questions to ask about the way international law has been structured for decades, which, for better or worse, privileges collective rights in many ways (including the emphasis on the crime of genocide).

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

(And also the U.S. would object to the prosecution of its citizens before the ICC on jurisdictional grounds, even though jurisdiction would clearly exist on the basis that war crimes were committed in the territory of a state party)

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Of course, even if it's not genocide, U.S. citizens can be prosecuted before the ICC, and should be, but I don't know if there would be a basis to prosecute them under domestic American criminal law the way there would be if we conclude that it is a genocide.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

It's also relevant because U.S. law very specifically makes it illegal to incite, aid and abet, or conspire to commit genocide. Concluding that Israel is committing genocide would mean many U.S. citizens will need to be prosecuted.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

It's relevant because the International Court of Justice has jurisdiction over Israel under the Genocide Convention but may not have jurisdiction over lesser war crimes.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Israel ordered them to do so and made perfectly clear that anyone remaining in the evacuation zone is liable to be killed. It is completely in line with reality that the civilian population followed military orders, give or take a small number of stragglers.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Hamas doesn't count corpses that are undiscovered, i.e. if they are buried in the rubble or starve and aren't taken to a hospital. Some of the unaccounted also include people who left Gaza and people living in literal rubble outside of the concentration camps

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The prewar population of North Gaza Governorate was 270,000, well below the 377,000 who are unaccounted for, and the overwhelming majority of those 270,000 people have been displaced.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The area north of Gaza City (also under a general displacement order) was also continuously cut off from international food aid since November 2024 and is 10km from the nearest food distribution compound below the Netzarim corridor. How can there be hundreds of thousands of people living there?

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Rafah and the area north of Gaza City are under general displacement orders and have been reduced to rubble. The only estimate I can find of Rafah's population is "a few hundred" as of April 2025. Do you have estimates that a significant number of people are living in the rubble there?

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

It is impossible for me to recall any other event in 20th or 21st century history where such a massive percentage of the population was destroyed where there was no genocidal intent.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The IDF estimates 83% of Gaza's prewar population is alive in the Strip's three main enclaves. If those numbers are accurate it would mean ~377,000 unaccounted individuals, signifying one of the worst manmade mass casualty events as a % of the population since WWII. medium.com/@m4xim1l1an/...

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The Grim Arithmetic: IDF Data Reveals 377,000 Palestinians Unaccounted For

A recent report by Yaakov Garb of the Harvard Dataverse presents an atrocious, data-driven analysis of the new “aid distribution” compounds in Gaza1. Through meticulous spatial mapping, the report…

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Jason P. Steed @profsteed.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

An actual opposition party would be climbing over each other to file articles of impeachment, listing his wrongs and talking impeachment nonstop at every occasion, encouraging protesters and showing up with them in the streets

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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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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Questions are political when the constitution assigns them to the political branches. (Whether something is impeachable is a good example.) The president's right to go to war isn't an example of that. The people ratified a constitution that constrains political action there.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Maybe the Declaration of War Clause means the President can't unilaterally take military action against another country. Maybe it doesn't. Maybe the President can do so in some cases but not in others. But there are right and wrong answers here, and they should be for the courts to decide.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Of course the whole concept of "non-justiciable" questions is cowardly and incoherent. Your mind will turn to glue just thinking about it for more than 10 seconds. It's pure nonsense.

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

This is true to some extent and in some places but isn't universally true. "Eric Adams Democrats" don't exist in places like Massachusetts or New Jersey; they just run as Republicans with limited success. NY is unique in the degree to which literal Republicans have taken over the state Dem party

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22 U.S.C. § 2378d @refrmdemocracy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

This is what happens when you have a state where ideological affiliation and partisan affiliation are so delinked. New York is a place where literal Republicans will register and vote as Democrats. You don't get that in, say, Massachusetts.

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