https://bsky.app/profile/leahlitman.bsky.social/post/3mpjb6mv2ys2l In a bizarre story befitting of the bizarre times in which we live, NPR reported this morning that Sam Alito was retiring, only to withdraw the story thirty-seven minutes later. FWIW I think that what's going on here is that Alito is going to retire...
"Flame of Udûn" by Weirling (2025) The last thing that Pippin saw, as sleep took him, was a dark glimpse of the old wizard huddled on the floor, shielding a.
The legal brain folks at LGM are toiling hard in the Hot Take mines, so let this serve as a thread for discussing the latest catastrophes handed down by our.
Story here. He pulled this off by routing the secret contract through a White House office that deals with minor repairs and building maintenance issues, and which is therefore exempt from government disclosure and competitive bidding requirements. We of course don't yet know anything about the...
This is the grave of Oscar Handlin. Born in 1915 in Brooklyn, Handlin grew up in a Jewish immigrant household. Both parents had come from Russia, but I think they.
A small favor: The Supreme Court refused to hear famed law professor and attorney Alan Dershowitz’s defamation claim against CNN on Monday, effectively upholding long-standing protections for the news media.
I've been in Argentina and now Chile for three weeks now and have been to both of the museums for the relevant dictatorships: ESMA in Buenos Aires and the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago. And let me tell you--whew......Those museums are a lot....
As was almost uniformly expected among Court sickos, the Court overruled a perfectly sound 90-year-old unanimous precedent on executive power, while underscoring the incoherence of the holding by carving out.
https://bsky.app/profile/jamescdownie.bsky.social/post/3mpgolx6mok23 Of all the doctrines of Tlön, none has caused more uproar than materialism. Some thinkers have formulated this philosophy (generally with less clarity than zeal) as though putting forth.
A friend who read my latest rumination on the fickle transitoriness of fame pointed out that by his estimate 2% or less of Americans today would be able to identify Aimee Semple McPherson, who was without question one of the most famous people in the whole...
Have been spending some time back on the airpower beat, thinking about the execution of Russian and Ukrainian airpower strategies. During that journey I've picked up some errata on the.
This is the grave of Joseph Berliner. Born in 1921 in New York, Berliner grew up in Rockaway Beach, Queens. He was a very smart kid and got into Harvard,.