Is being able to refine AI-generated text an important long-term lawyer skill? I'm thinking about introducing a "correct this essay" question on an exam, having a students comment on infirmities an AI answer to a fact pattern. Presumably, errors range from finding hallucinations to plausible slop.

That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

I wrote about The Corporate Power Reset aka The Montana Plan—a surprising legal theory that could end dark money and corporate election spending—for Liberal Currents. @thmoore.bsky.social championed this idea at The Center for American Progress. I hope I got the intellectual history right!

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · last wk.

“when Hawaii’s State Senate Bill 2471 goes into effect in 2027, it will be illegal for corporations to spend money to influence elections in Hawaii.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-corporat...

When super PACs (which must disclose their donors) get money from groups that don't disclose their donors that leave people in the dark as to who is funding them. Another example of this increasingly common problem in #MISEN via the Detroit News www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...

Dark money group emerges to bankroll pro-Stevens ads in Senate race

The group A Stronger Michigan is mostly funded by Center Forward, a nonprofit organization that has ties to major corporations and industry groups.

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shout out to The Strand bookstore staffer who did this

one of the supposedly damning docs the White House released tonight says Russia tried to undermine BIDEN. Also says China "prefers that President Trump be defeated" but actually "Beijing did not intend to try to affect the election" (!)

Today, President Trump made remarks asserting that China and other foreign nations attempted to meddle in the 2020 election. In response, @michaelsozan.bsky.social, senior fellow at CAP, issued the following statement: https://ampr.gs/457nnP3

STATEMENT: Trump Dredges Up Debunked Election Conspiracy Claims To Distract Voters

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This speech is quite literally an impeachable offense. The President is trying to undermine faith in US elections and to delegitimize the elections of public officials.

I realize i'm trying to find a thread and we're like in a waterpark of bullshit but Trump's claim that the "people in charge" did not tell him things "as president" - this needs a reminder that the president does not have a role in election administration

I guess it doesn’t hurt to ask. But that’s where they should’ve left it.

Trump just gave *Israel* a great reason to kill him and make it look like Iran did it.

Trump threatens to 'decimate' Iran if it tries to kill him, as Treasury sanctions alleged Iranian financier

Trump says 1,000 missiles are "locked and loaded" and will hit Iran if it carries out its threats to assassinate the U.S. president.

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Every now and then I get a little bit restless And I dream of something wild.

Time for Stephen King to step up for his state and his country.

Everything Trump touches turns to shit. Now he's clouded any further World Cup success the US might have by intervening with FIFA to overturn Balogun's suspension. It's cheating. USMNT Coach Pochettino could clean this up by benching Balogun. Otherwise, the US will have an asterisk on any wins.

July 5 might be even more American than July 4. The 5th is the day we roll up our sleeves and say, "OK, that was cool. Now we work to make this happen." I'm looking forward to my share of the work it will take, starting today, to make our next 250 years better than the last.

CAP’s @thmoore.bsky.social explains how the Supreme Court’s decision on National Republican Senatorial Committee vs. FEC does not impact Hawaii’s Act 11, the first-in-the-nation law to get dark and corporate money out of politics.

This is dire, sad, and 100% accurate. The estimable Bob Bauer forecasts "the likely final collapse of bipartisan civil enforcement of federal campaign finance laws, and the prospect of an expanded weaponization portfolio at the Department of Justice."

The Federal Election Commission After Slaughter

Bipartisan, independent civil enforcement was already collapsing, but formal presidential control will end it—and a weaponized DOJ may fill the vacuum.

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The odd thing about the Hawaii Act 11 fight: it's a corporation-law statute, but the plaintiffs so far have skipped the foundational corporation-law doctrine that actually matters — reserved powers, ultra vires, Dartmouth College. It's all very inconvenient, maybe. But it *is* in play, guys.

Center for American Progress@americanprogress.bsky.social · last mo.

“Plaintiffs challenging the Hawaii law are bringing a Citizens United knife to a corporate-powers gunfight,” writes CAP's @thmoore.bsky.social in @wsj.com: https://tinyurl.com/ynu42fdb

“Plaintiffs challenging the Hawaii law are bringing a Citizens United knife to a corporate-powers gunfight,” writes CAP's @thmoore.bsky.social in @wsj.com: https://tinyurl.com/ynu42fdb

Opinion | In Defense of Hawaii’s Corporate Redefinition

The Center for American Progress says the law is viewpoint neutral and applies to unions just as it applies to chambers of commerce.

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Every day that we get closer to removing these corrupt fascistic to-their-core-un-American bastards from office is a good day.

A full 83% of U.S. adults “feel America has strayed from the ideals the country was founded on” 250 years ago. This number should be close to 100% — it stretches from those who think women should vote all the way to those who think we shouldn’t have ended slavery. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Poll: Most Americans think the U.S. has strayed from its founding principles

Most Americans believe the country has moved away from its founding principles as the nation prepares for its big 250th anniversary, a new PBS News/NPR/Marist poll finds. Eighty-three percent of U.S. ...

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In its decisions this morning, the Supreme Court majority showed what it cares about most. It ruled that the President's authority over independent agencies like the FEC is absolute — except for the Fed. SCOTUS cares more about the stability of the financial system than it does about our democracy.

CAP's Corporate Power Reset has hit the big time: The Wall Street Journal has taken aim at it, mockingly (I think) calling it "dazzling." But that may well be accurate; they're apparently blinded to the fact that Hawaii's new law exercises the most basic of state corporate-law authority.

The Trump Administration is so overwhelmly corrupt and authoritarian that it’s sometimes a surprise to be reminded of how thoroughly racist it is also.

This metaphor is overused, but I really and truly didn’t have the U.S. going to war with Italy on my 2026 bingo card.

‘Not Good!’ Trump Ramps Up Feud With Italy’s Prime Minister in Scorching New Post

Trump kept his feud with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni going on Sunday while simultaneously bashing NATO for being a bunch of freeloading ingrates

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I suppose I could’ve read the box a little more carefully, but I really thought this was going to have a FIFA trophy in it.

What a nice-looking screen there! Where's @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org when you need him?

Kennedy Center exterior remains covered after Trump’s name is removed | CNN Politics

Large striped tarps remained on the Kennedy Center’s exterior Sunday, prompting confusion and frustration from some visitors who arrived to the renowned arts venue to see President Donald Trump’s name...

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OK, so the mystery's solved: Americans for Prosperity Action are the bastards who rang my doorbell at 3am.