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Gun lovers may soon have the right to bear bongs
www.vox.com/policy/48125...
And it is a very old point (1916 version)
The subtext has become the text
Had an incredibly powerful experience discussing America's concentration camps with the great @andreapitzer.bsky.social.
Andrea is America's leading expert in concentration camps and has been an essential voice in response to Trump since his first administration.
Discussion starts at 9:00.
It is such an honor for @ssrn.bsky.social to feature my work! Thank you to Apoorva Anand for getting to know my scholarship and for writing this up!
Two of America’s most astute thinkers—Andrea Pitzer and Jamelle Bouie—on our slide into a concentration camp society and how to fight it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...
In an earlier era it was called "scoundrel time."
“The greatest nightmare for this administration is [ordinary people] paying attention.”
Here's another
Thrilled that my article with William ("Chip") Carter, An Originalist Critique of Fetal Personhood, is now forthcoming in the Pennsylvania Law Review!!! It was weirdly fun to spend months buried in 19th century dictionaries & Locke's writings. We are still editing but hope to have it online soon!
Take it up with William the Conqueror.
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There is nothing new here we didn't see in the 1920s. MAGA agenda is eugenics down the line: Immigration restriction, white supremacy, reproductive control.
and Dan Vergano reported it in USA Today, adapted and reprinted by ABC News:
"Myth of 'The Jukes' offers cautionary genetics tale" 6/30/2012
abcnews.go.com/Technology/m...
I wrote about it in The Journal of Legal Medicine in 2012: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Louisiana legislator renews eugenic proposal he first pitched more than a dozen years ago:
www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/arc...
The 1985 article can be downloaded from ResearchGate for free:
N Y Univ Law Rev
. 1985 Apr;60(1):30-62.
"on the other hand...."
Donald Trump is racist. His cabinet and vice president are racists. His entire administration and its goals are motivated entirely by white supremacy.
KL: He did it. But it was harmless.
White House: It was a mistake. It was an intern.
Random observers: He really didn’t see what he posted.
Trump: YOURE GOD DAMN RIGHT I ORDERED THE CODE RED
My take: it is “simply misleading to suggest that we know that ketogenic diets can improve schizophrenia symptoms, much less that they can ‘cure’ the condition.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
A one-day workshop hosted by the Centre for Medical Humanities (Oxford Brookes University), exploring the history and legacy of eugenics and commemorating Daniel Kevles’ major contribution to the field. 📅 Thursday 19 March 2026
World turned upside down: 1) Jews protesting genocide are "anti-Semites"; 2) U.S. citizens trying to stop ethnic cleansing are "terrorists"; and 3) "The Mismeasure of Man" is "an example of pseudoscience about race and IQ," and (presumably) Murray's "The Bell Curve" isn't.
Think single malt
The Times article made it sound like was all about data integrity but the more important culprit here is the ongoing--formerly subculture, now MAGA mainstream--white supremacist "research" we have been writing about for 30 years, done by groups like the Pioneer Fund.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/01...
