… Before the class I didn’t understand how critical a right it is, and I’ve been worried for years that someone would, like Miller now suggests, try to suspend it in an unconstitutional power grab. Steve Vladeck explains briefly:

At the U of MN Law School I had the honor of taking a class with Prof. Michael Paulson called “Lincoln and the Constitution.” Much of it focused on habeas corpus, because of history referenced in the link.

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Interesting octobass instrument!

Santa Ana winds in popular culture The Santa Ana winds are strong, extremely dry down-slope winds that originate inland and affect coastal Southern California and northern Baja California, and are infamous for fanning regional wildfire...

Los Angeles fires on my mind. Trying to remember in what art/movie I first learned of “Santa Ana Winds;” I remember it was a metaphor for death. Certainly they’re personified in “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.” cultural-phenomenons.fandom.com/wiki/Santa_A...

A Harris County court had 800 eviction cases in one day. Is a solution possible? So many eviction cases were scheduled for one day that tenants and landlords spilled out of the courthouse lobby into the subfreezing parking lot.

Historic high: near 800 eviction hearings scheduled in 1 day (Gulfton area). Precinct boundaries need to be redrawn, or more courts added.

“Nearly 800 eviction cases scheduled to be heard in a single day by a single judge in Harris County”

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An NBC News investigation uncovered that the school did not properly receive consent from the deceased or their family members before dissecting and distributing unclaimed bodies, despite the network finding that said family members were fairly easy to identify and contact.”

Texas mentioned: “The No 10 spot this year went to the University of North Texas health science center in Fort Worth for allegedly neglecting to notify next of kin before selling body parts of deceased people.

Annual ‘winners’ for most egregious US healthcare profiteering announced — Guardian US Selling body parts without consent and billing desperate parents $97,599 for air transport among worst examples

Ethical, nonmurderous way to expose healthcare and health insurance wrongdoing: the annual Shkreli awards.

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Two wood puzzles, a hummingbird and a lion

Taco Deli Poster for Chile en Nogada with a walnut goat cheese crema

Blocking a scarf I knitted for my father with alpaca & cashmere fibers…

Here is the red “Houston” sculpture by Mac Whitney standing strong over a tree felled by the tornado storm in May 2024 at Stude Park, along with some blue sky. Hello, Blue Sky.