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Robert L. Tsai

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Author of DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE, amzn.to/45LFzNg, PRACTICAL EQUALITY, AMERICA’S FORGOTTEN CONSTITUTIONS, ELOQUENCE & REASON | Next: BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF COAL COUNTRY | Prof @ Boston U | constitutionalism, legal history | https://linktr.ee/roberttsai

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Death toll in Gaza > 75,000

10.03.2026 22:13 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Day 11 of US-Israel Not-War Against Iran

10.03.2026 22:06 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Tiny bit of good news. Whether it actually makes a difference to offset philosophical, partisan, and institutional trends against addressing the needs of poor people during mass incarceration will require future study.

10.03.2026 18:01 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

True

10.03.2026 20:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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forever strikes ✈️💣

09.03.2026 19:22 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

At the moment we all are trapped within an insufficiently represented order. Where we might disagree is how much pain we’re willing to inflict on fellow citizens and residents as well as which party/institution needs to collapse first before realistic conditions for multiparty rule can reemerge.

10.03.2026 18:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

But realize these are back-end kinds of reform, not the ex ante changes in policy that are more likely to address inequities at every stage of the criminal process.

10.03.2026 18:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tiny bit of good news. Whether it actually makes a difference to offset philosophical, partisan, and institutional trends against addressing the needs of poor people during mass incarceration will require future study.

10.03.2026 18:01 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Trumpism distilled into a single run-on sentence

10.03.2026 16:51 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Talarico would fry him

10.03.2026 15:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Would seem consistent with Trumpian foreign policy: do flashy things at untold costs, declare victory despite empirical reality

10.03.2026 15:53 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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After winning the 2026 Big10 tournament, the UCLA Women's Basketball team is ready for the Big Dance. #sheerjoy

10.03.2026 01:46 👍 35 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1

Miami Beach!

10.03.2026 03:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hello from the Republic of Florida

09.03.2026 02:40 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It’s wonderful to see them play such fine teams but the travel has to be terrible

10.03.2026 03:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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After winning the 2026 Big10 tournament, the UCLA Women's Basketball team is ready for the Big Dance. #sheerjoy

10.03.2026 01:46 👍 35 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
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I look forward to speaking at Roosevelt House April 20. Join us in NYC if you’re in the area! @huntercollege.bsky.social @cuny.edu @bulaw.bsky.social

09.03.2026 14:32 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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forever strikes ✈️💣

09.03.2026 19:22 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Rly good. “We are called not just to do charity but to challenge the systems that make charity necessary”

09.03.2026 16:57 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

😂

09.03.2026 14:51 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I look forward to speaking at Roosevelt House April 20. Join us in NYC if you’re in the area! @huntercollege.bsky.social @cuny.edu @bulaw.bsky.social

09.03.2026 14:32 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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James Talarico says it’s time to start flipping tables

08.03.2026 16:58 👍 939 🔁 193 💬 51 📌 92
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Hello from the Republic of Florida

09.03.2026 02:40 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Chasing Phantom Constitutions? — IACL-IADC Blog Tom DALY In his book Phantom Architecture , Philip Wilkinson of fers that “some of the most exciting buildings in the history of architecture are the ones that never got built”: a mile-high skysc...

Excellent. “If the myth of a monolithic US constitutional tradition must be challenged, as Tsai offers, it also seems necessary to problematise and disaggregate Western liberal constitutionalism as a joint point of reference for both narratives.”

07.03.2026 22:40 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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James Talarico says it’s time to start flipping tables

08.03.2026 16:58 👍 939 🔁 193 💬 51 📌 92
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Without a draft, a prosperous society will only feel the sting of war at the gas pump.

07.03.2026 22:19 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
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Chasing Phantom Constitutions? — IACL-IADC Blog Tom DALY In his book Phantom Architecture , Philip Wilkinson of fers that “some of the most exciting buildings in the history of architecture are the ones that never got built”: a mile-high skysc...

Excellent. “If the myth of a monolithic US constitutional tradition must be challenged, as Tsai offers, it also seems necessary to problematise and disaggregate Western liberal constitutionalism as a joint point of reference for both narratives.”

07.03.2026 22:40 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Without a draft, a prosperous society will only feel the sting of war at the gas pump.

07.03.2026 22:19 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
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“A sustained war with Iran won’t stabilize the region. It has already ignited the region. It will radicalize new generations of terrorists.”

05.03.2026 02:22 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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alternate legal reality

05.03.2026 18:21 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0