@jamesftierney
Associate dean for academic affairs and Associate professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law (Illinois Tech). I study financial markets regulation & law of capitalism. But this ≠ IIT. DSA Fund board 🌹🤝, Rstats, NLP, Phish dad, etc. Semper ubi sub ubi.
The fundamental mistake that the conservative legal movement made in looking at the Warren Court was assuming that it was all power and zero parts persuasion, so all they had to do was capture the institution. They were, I think, half right, but that other half is very important.
Lots of fun hail and lightning stories from Nebraska. The plains!
It’s a fun time of year — homeowners insurance claims adjusters’ season
Do we think this is allowed on metra. My dog would love this
Option 1 looks like one of my second grader’s reading prompts.
THIS IS INSANE
Today in 1977 astronomers discovered a faint but distinct ring around Uranus, which is a true sentence I want you to enjoy.
Ed hear me out. Guano Islands Act but for guano planets
Well, however you make it work, keep up the good fight!
In seriousness how do you make this work. Grant funding?
At their 2026 organizing conference, Young Democratic Socialists of America focused on organizing student workers, building campus movements against ICE, and preparing mass action for May Day 2028 to confront Trump’s authoritarianism.
Screenshot from Bloomberg Law with headline "SEC, CFTC Discuss Moving Into Same Building Complex (1)"
One closer step toward merger, eh @smtuffy.bsky.social
This is the natural extension of the Brooks Brothers Riot. Fail-up bros who never did the reading inflicting vengeance on our country's top scholars for some perceived harm.
Kendrick missed an opportunity with this one to send a message about weighted average cost of capital
do yourself a favor folks, if you're 26 or younger, make a plan to dodge the draft. it's not making the problem about you -- the child you don't go overseas to kill will thank you for it in fact. and if it doesn't come to pass, better to have a plan and not need it than need it and not have it
Oil is going to hit $200/barrel
A thicket of dogwood shrub shoots
Batch 1 of 4
Yeah one has to love the pre-consumer safety 1970s aesthetic
On the other hand my kids also totaled the larger of our two tvs today by throwing a Nintendo switch controller at it, so the day is a net loss in value.
Yeah but the degens on r/wsb rarely have good vibes
My dogwood shrubs … are overwhelming in volume that needs to be clipped back
This was a great idea, would totally recommend
Academics do not think losing an hour is a big deal because for them that happens every time they have a faculty meeting.
#Satire
Page of forever stamps with a picture of Alex Trebek and a jeopardy style Answer reading “this naturalized US citizen hosted the quiz show Jeopardy! For 37 seasons”
Spouse who is an immigration lawyer just got the world’s greatest USPS forever stamps for his mail
oh wow, this is a lawsuit by nippon life insurance against openai
Yeah ChatGPT is aware of all internet traditions, as a matter of law
If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question
