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The sheer amount of work seems to be increasing exponentially, and not just in terms of scale but the number of vectors it’s all happening on too. It is impossible to be a top-line manager and ...

Story here. (A "go fund me" campaign for his legal fees has been started here.) "Fuck Landry" and "fuck Trump" are admirable sentiments, but it's not clear they fall within the scope of his academic ...

As of this writing, the United States Health and Human Services is still under a communications embargo. Agencies such as the CDC, NIH, FDA and 10 others remain ...

The effect — and I believe purpose — of these pardons is to encourage vigilantes and militias loyal to the president, but unaccountable to the government. Illiberal democracies and outright ...

Law professor Steven Vladeck explains the constitutional and legal issues; a few excerpts: In essence, the Trump administration is claiming the unilateral power to at least temporarily “impound” tens ...

Political philosopher David Owen (at the University of Southampton in the UK) posted about this topic on FB, and then kindly offered to draft something for the blog, since it seemed to me this is ...

The Senate will vote this evening on the nomination of Christian authoritarian Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense. All the media blather has focused on the fact that he is a drunk and a ...