Notices by Jacob T. Levy (jacobtlevy@mastodon.social)

Probably worth emphasizing, over and over and over again, that the final vote in Kevin McCarthy's one-vote margin for his bill to hold the full faith and credit of the United States hostage was provided by indicted fraud George Santos.

Heading toward a surreal event horizon

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Two things have become extremely clear over the past few weeks:

(1) Donald Trump is facing several forms of serious legal jeopardy, both criminal and civil; and

(2) Short of what is statistically a highly unlikely health-related event of some sort, he is going to be the Republican nominee for president next year.
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https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/04/heading-toward-a-surreal-event-horizon

The controversial article Matthew Kacsmaryk did not disclose to the Senate

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/15/matthew-kacsmaryk-law-review/

CFA: open discipline in the liberal arts, endowed chair, rank of Associate Professor, deadline April 21

Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy, McGill University

https://mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill_careers/job/Arts-Building/Associate-Professor_JR0000038659-1

By 5 years into the financial markets boom of the 1980s, the broader cultural image of Wall Street was already the Gordon Gekko character. Whatever one thought about their economic productivity, no one thought that they *as people* were morally upright geniuses who were good candidates for being philosopher-kings leading us to the stars and the future, rebuilding moral philosophy, revitalizing politics.

The people who brought us Theranos, FTX, NuTwitter, and the Silicon Valley Bank, though...

"Ilhan Omar is too anti-Semitic to sit on House committees," says House Homeland Security Committee committee Marjorie Taylor Greene before opening the first hearing into Jewish space lasers.

Well, this is comforting, for those of us who've walked away from birdsite.

@davekarpf
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/twitter-tumbleweed-watch

Obviously, the time has come for the Republican Party to take advantage of its long tradition of respected elder statesmen. It's time for this generation's Barry Goldwater, James Baker, Bob Dole, and George Schultz to step up and solve the BWAHAHA sorry, sorry, I thought I was going to make it through that with a straight face.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Hugh Hewitt is no mere hack or flack, repeating catchphrases and talking points. He's America's leading sophist, putting actual intellectual energy and even a kind of artistry into his regular high-profile arguments that down is up and wrong is right.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/20/trump-escape-prosecution-agnew-option/