Lee Kovarsky
@kovarsky.bsky.social
Professor of Law, University of Texas. Habeas corpus, death penalty, some other law stuff, sentient space robots, kids who don't listen to me, and hot sauce. BIO: https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/lee-kovarsky/
I think this has been teased out before but these are basically two different cohorts stuffed into an inherited bucket designation. Below 52 is basically millenial in its voting behavior whereas above 52 is basically boomer.
Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 3h agoSomething is deeply broken in that 45-64 cohort. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/u...
adam this is not how economists deploy that concept THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
Cato Institute@cato.org · 3d agoMost billionaire wealth isn't in yachts or jewelry — that's just a few percent of it. Most is productive business capital: companies that employ people, build things, and fund research. Tax that wealth and you're taxing the businesses that employ us all. Cato's Adam Michel explains.
Others have pointed this out but dade phelan, given who he is, is not trying to manage expectations here and is authentically furious at the crazies
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 6d agoI’m conspiratorial enough to wonder whether the gop freakouts are an attempt to manage expectations so that anything short of a blowout is a disappointment www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
I called this FWIW. I just think the national snuff film festival is too much, too unpopular, even for that coalition.
Drew Magary@drewmagary.bsky.social · last wk.God dammit now I have to cancel my watch party www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/u...
counterpoint: elon musk will just drop 50 million for paxton before he takes the day's first line of ketamine
VoteHub@votehub.com · last wk.NEW — James Talarico’s campaign says it raised $64 million in Q3, a record third-quarter haul for a U.S. Senate candidate. Republican nominee Ken Paxton’s campaign reported $18 million.
Could you basically say “hey, ratify this amendment that caps the court at N justices or here’s this legislation that will give us N + 4 justices.” It would required Ds to sacrifice short term advantage tho, and Rs to sacrifice a right of response.
Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · last wk.Given the replies, it may have been too much to hope that folks would *read* the post before responding to it, but here’s a pass-through link just in case: www.stevevladeck.com/p/73acf087-4...
Would people get it if I dressed as Jackson Lamb for Halloween, or too obscure?
TFG is like "let's credit Hegseth for his humanity" meanwhile Hegseth is out there saying "I don't give one shit about his suffering."
Mike Masnick@masnick.com · last wk.Alex Kozinski, once a troll, always a troll.
i swear you could vanquish these people with salad tongs
Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · last wk.James "Tricky" Talarico tricksed us!
Elementary school, I had to eat lunch with a psychologist once a week with other “problem kids”
Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · last wk.QUESTION OF THE DAY: This sounds like a joke question, but it isn’t. If it doesn’t apply to you, fine. But it’s a serious question with different levels of meaning. And I am genuinely curious. When did you first realize you were weird?
If nothing else, Donald Trump has turned us into a Snuff Nation. His political project is to get us to stop, gawk, and take pleasure in the presentation of suffering and death. Writing about this re: execution livestreaming.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.The president is now posting snuff videos of animals maiming humans
About 5 years ago I wrote about how Trump uses executions as a vice signal, and it feels pretty on-point today:
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan
also if i looked like i got just got knicked in "to catch a predator" i might just sit this one out
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 2w agoMichael Tracey is not a journalist, he is a stalker
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoQ: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports
ok but what if the AI could scream "put your fucking shoes on" over and over until compliance
🎃👻🧙♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙♀️👻🎃@viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 2w agothis is so fucking sad
Is this from October 7? What a fucking monster. On fucking 10/7.
Justin, but halloween pun@sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 2w agoare you fucking kidding me
If you could pick one republican ti lose this cycle it would be Greg Abbott. No other kids would send an equivalent shockwave through the GOP, and no loss would relax the mad king grip on the party in the same way.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2w ago"If I could pick just one Republican to lose this cycle—the one loss that would give me the most psychic, intellectual, moral satisfaction—it would be Collins. Because she is the living worst." @jvl.bsky.social explains why in today's Triad:
Read Keri. I don't think Americans realize how improvisational & sketchy these lethal injections are. Even for cocktails w/ some history of efficacy, the drugs are of uncertain compounding provenance or could be expired. & that's before we get to issues with effectively administering the drugs.
Keri Blakinger@keribla.bsky.social · 2w agoI’ve covered death row cases for nearly a decade and witnessed several executions. What happened to Christa Pike wasn’t an anomaly. It could happen anywhere. With another execution planned for this week in Texas, let me explain why. THREAD 🧵
