it isn’t carceral to say someone shouldn’t be a wealthy public figure. it doesn’t violate your free speech rights when I say I wish you would shut up. you do not have a legal right to be beloved
katie
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opinions are not my own and represent those of your sainted mother. she/her.
fabulous example for teaching deontic vs epistemic modality
had what i thought was a mildly groundbreaking idea in a very hot and developing area of law and my professor was like wow i think this is really promising but did not disclose that he wrote and published the exact same proposal six years ago LOL anyway
it's crazy the things i have survived and overcome to now be absolutely felled by the thought of having to learn about unjust enrichment under the family law act
just here to announce that I’ve had an exceptionally good week
teaching myself to knit continental. WHICH SUCKS. a pox on europe and their stupid inefficient purling methods, every one of them annoying in a new and exciting way
reading the NYT profile of that looksmaxxing guy and I have to say it was a very artful move by god to give him a slight lazy eye
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
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“Ordinary, salt of the earth people would never tolerate a sexual abuser in their midst. Now time to take a big sip of coffee and respond to this group text with my old fraternity brothers.”
spent like half my life going to the mat for Chomsky and I have been humiliated and betrayed beyond measure like actually you know what aspects WAS wack. maybe those lexical functional grammar freaks were right. I can’t do this anymore
not to make everything about me but i do think the fact this was an anti-lesbian hate crime is being somewhat underdiscussed
optometrist asked if I knew what astigmatism was and I said i’m not sure but I think it’s when part of your eye is flatter than it’s supposed to be. he’s like well, no… it’s when your eye isn’t as round as it’s supposed to be. like ok it’s your degree buddy i’m not taking it
biggest lacuna in american education right now is the concept of skits. every day i see someone taking an obviously staged video 100% seriously
never seen the American spelling of this word before and it has shaken me to the core
at every moment of my life i am either writing a cover letter or thinking about how i should be writing a cover letter
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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I can’t be trusted with dry clean only clothes because I start saying stuff like “did you know that wool is naturally odour resistant”
every time I see a picture of Justin Bieber I am chilled to the bone by how much he looks like my brother and how likely it is that we’re related
entire crim exam was about the very last topic we covered for approx ten minutes inspiring work everyone
it’s always “studies show” and never the doi of the studies that show
i am once again asking for scheduled skeets so i can daily spread the gospel of the blessed saint scully the enigmatic
anybody know anybody working on the intersections of linguistics and the law? specifically criminal law? i know about tammy gales at hofstra but i am looking for more and i trust you all to come through for me
