The 7th Circuit's opinion today reinstating Indiana's prohibition on student IDs as voter IDs accidentally admits what voter ID critics have said all along: that these laws are not about preventing fraud, they are about stopping *eligible*, *lawful* voters (from the "wrong" communities) from voting.
Doesn’t this inadvertently state the truth about these sorts of ID laws—that they change *who* can vote (rather than ensure only eligible voters vote)?
In (naive) theory, every voter eligible to vote in Indiana’s primary should still be able to vote with the ID laws in place. In practice of course…
I’ve literally been blogging for more than half my life.
I wonder if avoiding “we appreciate” is due to implicitly associating it with form letter rejections. I can feel myself wincing at it!
“You ain’t gotta go home but you gotta get the heck up out of here!”
Also, speaking as a Portlander: please don’t go home. Go somewhere else. Anywhere else.
Somewhere, Steve King is *fuming*.
I choose to harmonize these stories: Magyar will arrest Bibi if he comes to Hungary, and also Magyar invited Bibi to come to Hungary (in the same way the spider invites the fly to walk into her parlor).
Also, "this tech kills the market for entry level jobs but doesn't make the need for people who were trained through the entry level jobs go away" is a clusterfuck for the industry.
According to a Yale University commission, misuse of the faculty lounge refrigerator is a large part of why academia has lost the trust of the American public.
I’m curious about “particularly”. Is there a dash of Islam or a sprinkle of Hinduism I don’t know about?
1) Academic specialists make jargon when studying [thing]
2) A few activists/posters use [jargon] when criticizing [thing]
3) Right-wing media says all Dems’ want to [caricature using jargon]
5) “To win, Dems must stop saying [jargon] all the time, normal people don’t talk that way.”
6) Repeat 1
Inception: If the drugs are powerful enough, you can stay asleep forever!
*Confess to a killing spree*
“I am the world’s best homicide detective!”
I’m a level seven susceptible.
BREAKING GOOD NEWS: There is a house at @carleton.edu where you can bake cookies at basically any time. I spent 12 straight hours in the kitchen and came back for breakfast the next morning: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/d...
Best place in the world.
Yes, Carleton College is the best place in the world. Hail the Maize and Blue (and Dacie Moses House)!
Yep, I had to add this one to my "Things People Blame the Jews For" series.
A third of America went into open rebellion over taking a safe vaccine for free and wearing an extra scrap of fabric on their face during a lethal pandemic. The era of “shared sacrifice” is over.
See also: the shadow docket nonsense. Who needs well-developed records? Who needs full briefing and argument? Who needs district court appraisals of the facts? We already know the right answer -- let's cut the wasteful nonsense and just skip to the end already!
The problem is that many judges today (like Judge Oldham) *do* think they know everything and basically think of the standard processes of legal argument and advocacy as a giant, pro forma time-waste that stands between them and their ability to tell the rest of us what is Right.
The quaint assumption is that judges don't know everything and will learn important things from advocates they wouldn't think of on their own. So they should not be so confident in their ability to reach correct legal conclusions simply austere, brain-in-a-vat, non-solicitous reasoning.
In concept, the reason why we want args to only be addressed when they're raised by parties is the same reason why we don't allow advisory opinions: we think judges benefit when issues are actually *argued* by entities with skin-in-the-game, not as abstract hypotheticals or thought experiments.
Milestone alert: Nathaniel has officially bricked his first expensive household electronic (my Apple Watch).
We're so excited to see him grow and thrive!
Don’t don’t work harder, don’t work smarter!
Yeah, I was in the right lane and didn’t realize until it was too late that it fed onto the highway instead of continuing across the bridge like I intended.
The greatest petty indignity is accidentally getting on a highway going the wrong direction and then getting stuck in traffic on said highway.
(How is your day going? I’m fine.)
At the same time it runs through a greatest hits of judicial fretting over the fragility of the presidency, and of the dangers posed to it by meaningful oversight, particularly in the national security / wartime context. In a (presumably unintentional) nod to Justice Robert Jackson's warning 2/x
I do not know any Jews who complain that Romani communities have a Memorial Day for Roma victims of genocide or think that it disrespects murdered Jews. Nor do I know any Roma who believe the opposite. A lot of people who are neither Jewish nor Roma have a lot of angry opinions about this though.
Nathaniel in front of the date and time
I genuinely think the background image on @jillrodde.bsky.social ‘s phone is a work of art.