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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 2h

I like the idea that the Domesday Book included a record of who was an idiot.

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 2h

No. He was already corrupt going in.

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 14h

They've got something similar on our campus (George Mason), too. Some people think they're cute, but not I.

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Help Minneapolis win the Nobel Peace Prize! #mpls #fuckice actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...

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Thank You - Action Network

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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

————————- Nobel Peace Prize—announced Friday: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/ Minneapolis was nominated by The Nation: tinyurl.com/mrnzxv6d The odds of it winning are only 1%—the same as Trump: kalshiview.com/markets/2026... Nominees confirmed by news agencies: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_No...

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Trump dealt humiliating blow as Minneapolis nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

The Nation magazine is formally nominating Minneapolis and its people for a 2026 Nobel Peace Prize following Trump's immigration crackdown and fatal ICE raids that killed US citizens

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have started doing this in my classes, with one big exception: I let students bring gadgets when the reading is in electronic form, l.e. a PDF. I fear all the printing would cost more than some students can afford. #academicsky #highered #ai

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This paragraph builds and builds the insane comedy but you're not ready for the kicker.

Atelier Missor, active since 2021, describes itself on X as a “classical foundry in Paris, on its way to building a new Rome.” Its founder, Missor Movahed Ghaleh Nouri, has claimed he was drawn to pursue classical sculpture after receiving a vision of Napoleon I while wandering the Place Vendôme in Paris. His staff wear identical tan suspenders, billowy shirts, and unkempt facial hair, and—per previous versions of their website—spent much of the first half of the 2020s producing bronze and clay busts of such figures as (of course) Napoleon, Nietzsche, and Jordan Peterson.

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WOFAVA @wofava.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thank you to Arlington County Board member and community leader, @jdspainsr.bsky.social , for standing with Arlington! We want to make it crystal clear, NO ARCH. #Virginia #arlington

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

He didn’t actually say that. If you look at the money quote in its context, he’s saying that the (stupid, illegal, immoral) Iran war is a small price, not the bombing of an American city.

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

He didn’t actually say that. If you look at the money quote in its context, he’s saying that the (stupid, illegal, immoral) Iran war is a small price, not the bombing of an American city

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I just have to trust that Muse wants what’s best for me.

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What a disgusting story. It makes me so angry.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’d be interested to know what contemporary conservatives (Trumpers?) make of Nietzsche.

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There are some good books on here. I directed an independent study on Burke for a curious student. Relevant for our current situation.

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As an attorney once said to me in a Very Serious Situation at work, he is “coo-coo for Cocoa Puffs.”

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As in, if we didn’t bomb Iran we’d be letting them bomb San Diego. Crazy, false, horrible, but not please-bomb-our-cities horrible.

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you look at the money quote in its context, he’s saying that the (stupid, illegal, immoral) Iran war is a small price, not the bombing of an American city.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...

In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.

The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.

The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He didn’t actually say that. If you look at the money quote in its context, he’s saying that the (stupid, illegal, immoral) Iran war is a small price, not the bombing of an American city.

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s sad when bad things happen to good people.

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My parents swore by that stuff. Made me eat it, too.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026

Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A city. Maybe they would also hit a base.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Isn't that the guy from the Sharpie ad?

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

11-yo Andrés lived with his dad in Texas—but was deemed “unaccompanied” by ICE and sent to foster care. “They’re kidnapping people’s kids and keeping them in government custody,” a former Biden official told us. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“You kidnapped my son”

ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Corruption and socialism are not the same thing.

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

God damn, that was a great at bat.

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m not even Catholic but he’s my favorite saint, too.

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I read a (summary of a) study the other day that found that high exposure was one of the things correlated with expression of white supremacist ideology. The other was having gone through some personal hardship.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This breathtaking NYT story about Trump's Russian entanglements includes three people who've been part of the operation to cultivate Trump since 2015: Bryan Lanza, Sheikh Tahoon, and Kirill Dmitriev. This is literally the culmination of the original plan. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...