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There’s also this commemorative beer can that I’ve got on my shelf at work

Why isn’t Taveras in the lineup today? Make it make sense

Box score for Alonso, Beavers, and Cowser: 12 plate appearances, 11 K’s

Yikes the 3, 4, 5 spots in the O’s lineup put the ball in play a total of once tonight

This is just straight up lawless behavior and I don’t ever want to hear about Roberts as an institutionalist again

Per Kevin McMahon, Thomas, Alito, and the 3 Trump appointees are the only examples of this in the Court’s history

Graphic showing JJ torching lefties, night games and games at OPACY

Small sample size of course but Jeremiah Jackson’s splits are um catching my attention

Thesis 4. Viewpoint diversity undermines disciplinary and specialized knowledge and standards as well as the autonomy of academic reasoning and scholarship. This thesis captures another way of conceptualizing the first three theses. Put most bluntly: Viewpoint diversity is anathema to academic freedom. Louis Menand makes this argument in "The Limits of Academic Freedom" (1996): "When we talk about the freedom of the academic to dictate the terms of his or her work, we are also and unavoidably talking about the freedom to exclude, or to limit the exposure of, work that is not deemed to meet academic standards.... In being free to regulate itself, the profession is free to reject what does not intellectually suit it." This is why the triple-helix view of DNA structure can be ignored, and also why, as the AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure correctly observed over two decades ago, no chemistry department is obligated to hire "a professor who teaches the phlogiston theory of heat, if that theory is not deemed a reasonable perspective within the discipline of chemistry." Rejecting intellectually unsuitable ideas is what specialized knowledge and the autonomy of academic reasoning, and thus academic freedom, are all about. Disciplinary standards are settled upon by the collective expertise of the discipline.

Thesis 6. Viewpoint diversity has already been used, both in the United States and abroad, to attack higher education and stifle academic freedom. After Indiana's Senate Enrolled Act 202 went into effect last year-a law requiring faculty to teach "intellectually diverse ideas" - Indiana University received nearly fifty complaints against faculty. Those investigated included Professor Ben Robinson, who is Jewish, who said that "he discussed being jailed for civil disobedience while protesting at an Israeli Consulate" for a lesson on the master-slave dialectic and the prisoner's dilemma. As another faculty member at Indiana observed, the point seems to be to create "a snitch system" to empower anyone to accuse faculty of violating the new law. To see the long-term results of this strategy we need only look to Hungary. As Tamas Dezso Ziegler writes, the Viktor Orbán regime argued that academia had become "the hotbed of liberal thought, and the state must fight this by restructuring these institutions, thereby defending pluralism and 'conservative' opinions." These arguments led to the restructuring of universities, attacks on the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the expulsion of Central European University from the country.

The @lsiraganian.bsky.social piece is great on this point. I would only add that the incompatibility with academic freedom is equally present when universities themselves seek to impose viewpoint diversity mandates on their academic units

This incompatibility is particularly clear when state actors seek to impose viewpoint diversity on private universities, as when the Trump admin sought to require, as a condition of receiving federal grants, that Harvard certify that _every teaching unit on campus_ was viewpoint diverse

Viewpoint diversity mandates are incompatible with academic freedom.

I will die on this hill

The one thing I’d love to see her add is that it’s well within Congress’s power to regulate the Court’s emergency standards and procedures

I’ll be there

The good news is that our right-handed bats finally get to go against a lefty starter (first time this year!)

The bad news is that most of those hitters are green as the hills and the lefty starter is Eduardo Rodriguez

O’s lineup for today’s game

The O’s starting outfield today is like what?

Abstract: This article explores the distinctive pathologies of free expression jurisprudence at the Supreme Court of the United States and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). On the United States side, modern First Amendment law has effectively guarded against state censorship, particularly content-based censorship, and has cleared space for a diverse array of private speech platforms to operate in the marketplace of ideas. But First Amendment law’s single-minded focus on state suppression leads it to over-police certain state actions whose threats to free expression values seem minimal and to under-police certain private actions whose threats to free expression values seem substantial. On the European side, article 10 ECHR doctrine maintains more space for European states to regulate speech in order to correct market failures and ameliorate inequalities in private power, but it tends to impose insufficient limits on content-based state censorship and sometimes mandates overzealous forms of content-based private censorship. Given the harms associated with some aspects of both First Amendment and ECtHR free speech law, civil libertarians are left with the options of picking their poison or attempting to bridge the divide.

New from me on the distinctive pathologies of U.S. and European approaches to free expression, writ large
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O’s manager with giant welt on his face

Alby back in the dugout with this cheek

The butcher of Ajax still got it

Taylor Ward

Though he’s raking, so no complaints

Free speech and democratic backsliding

I’m looking at how a variety of courts around the world have responded to some key recurring free expression conflicts under conditions of democratic backsliding

Give me your favorite example and I’ll try to work it into my current book, which has a chapter on the STF

lol I know Justice Mendes

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Asked directly about Mr. Trump’s comments on Truth Social, Leo said: “It’s ironic — the name of the site itself. Say no more.”

There’s no shade like papal shade

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Yeah for sure. Though at least they get to do it on a Sunday

Show me what democracy looks like

Taveras in the lineup again!

Last night in Budapest. Sound on for the west coast hip hop beats

Taveras with .556 OBP

At least until another outfielder starts hitting, play Taveras everyday. I’m begging you Albernaz