On the one hand, it's probably bad that the Trump admin threatened the Pope. On the other hand, I've now read the wikipedia article on the Avignon Papacy (which absolutely rules).

For your citing purposes, U.S. law incorporation of the prohibition against genocide: 18 U.S.C § 1091; U.S. law incorporation of the prohibition against wantonly destroying infrastructure 18 U.S.C § 2441 which incorporates by reference Geneva Convention IV art. 147.

At the time, certain “legal” “commentators” called it extreme TDS. At least one of them is currently calling for Trump to get 25th’ed. Good times.

Impeach Trump again from 2020

This aged well.

Congrats to Attorney General–designate Ed Martin.

I will gladly die on this hill with you. So stupid.

Hell ya. That was clearly the smartest juror on the panel.

Laypeople, keep asking legal questions of ChatGPT. Don't worry that your chat logs are discoverable!

Also, transcript or it didn't happen.

oh it's @remygreen.bsky.social . Nice one.

Gooooood god. I'm not familiar with the underlying defamation allegations, but if you ever get this settlement offer, you take it and run (and then maybe hide in a hole for the rest of your life).
Also, lol to anyone who said Ai would make lawyers unnecessary.

@reckless.bsky.social I know you were a lawyer. Am I right you've taken depos or gotten deposition training?

Also, kudos to the sound engineer who left in the audible sighs of displeasure from the interviewee in the middle of questions he could tell he didn't like. You could *hear* how uncomfortable he was. Listen to this interview with headphones.

Nilay might be the best podcaster in the game. One of the few who is willing to ask the same question repeatedly when he's getting BS answers. My guess is he's taken a few depositions in his day. Masterful.

He died doing what he loved.

Tell me you've never read Aristotle without telling me you've never read Aristotle (or any book older than 50 years old).

Big news for Marcus Aurelius.

Ending the Iran war is easy: Trump just needs to withdraw, apologize, and admit that he made a mistake because he didn't fully understand the situation.

Oh god.

I’d rather not…admit this is an outstanding skeet.

If he just renames it the "Strait of America", boom problem solved: no more blocked Strait of Hormuz.

bah, i'm reposting. Stupid mistake.

I don't think it's fair to call @mitchellepner.bsky.social a "boring old lawyer". Rude.

Glad someone said it.

Have we come up with a name for the policy of transferring immigrants to places they have zero connection to, don’t speak the language, and are often active war zones?

I’d vote for “concentration flights.”

A lot of people need to go to jail if we have any hope of going back to the status quo ante.

When Iran retaliates (or Venezuela or North Korea or, frankly at this point, Canada, Mexico, or the EU) against us by nuking DC, in that half second between the blinding flash and total molecular disintegration, I’m going to be SO smug.

🐑

and Nixon (Watergate)!

oil futures above $109

Feeling pretty good about my decision to put solar on my roof and get an electric car.