MAGA has essentially weaponized “the theory of legal realism” — namely the (originally post-liberal leftist) idea that the law, in the end, is (just) a political construct.

The implication being that law professors are just bullshit artists masking the play of power.

FedSoc LOL.

More on the Los Angeles fires It's not a new problem; indeed, the fact that it's an old problem is a big part of the problem

More thoughts on the Los Angeles fire, with a hat tip to @revkin.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/nilsgilm...

The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.

Syria’s “Human Debris” - Boston Review The new government’s greatest challenge may be rebuilding a just society in the aftermath of barbaric state violence.

Moving and important piece on the situation in Syria. www.bostonreview.net/articles/syr...

So ‘forgiveness’ exists precisely in the gap between what justice needs and what history provides. A grim thought.

Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders's magificent illustrated version of Dante's Inferno being a good case in point