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Nathan Richardson
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Law prof @JacksonvilleU. Climate, air pollution, energy, & institutions. Dad. Formerly @UofSC Law, @RFF. Believe in a better South. Build houses.

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 3d
Sober, precise read of relevant law from Seth Stoughton (who I don't think is on here), a former colleague and the best police lawyer I know:

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The Legality of Deadly Force: Three Critical Questions about the ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
University of South Carolina, Joseph F. Rice School of Law professor Seth W. Stoughton discusses the legal standards and critical factual questions surrounding the use of deadly force by a federal ICE...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4h
Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
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Rachel Rothschild @profrrothschild.bsky.social · 5h
This is contrary to a large body of environmental case law as well as best practices for performing economic analyses of regulatory costs and benefits. It is, however, consistent with this administration's Orwellian approach to governance.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
www.nytimes.com

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 21h
tossing moscato cocktails

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 1d
Kid Q: Why did the Berlin Wall fall?
Dad A: Structural problems.

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 2d
Things are feeling a bit gradually-and-then-suddenly out there.

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 2d
The letters of transit are signed by General DeGaulle himself. They cannot be rescinded, not even questioned!
anneapplebaum.bsky.social Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 2d
We are getting a brand new law review off the ground, maybe the situation most conducive to home journal placement, and I *still* think it should be avoided.
orinkerr.bsky.social Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 2d
One of my least popular periodic tweets: If you're a law professor, you might consider not submitting your articles to your own school's law review. Doing so can be unfair to authors elsewhere, as your home law review may evaluate your scholarship under a more lenient standard.

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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 2d
One of my least popular periodic tweets: If you're a law professor, you might consider not submitting your articles to your own school's law review. Doing so can be unfair to authors elsewhere, as your home law review may evaluate your scholarship under a more lenient standard.

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 3d
Bullet Train Explosion was great.

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 3d
Despite these very real and very high hurdles, it still seems critical to charge at the state level if at all possible. Not (or not just) because federal prosecution is unlikely, but because of the federal pardon power.

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 3d
Seems a little young for vampire stories but I defer to your parenting style

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 3d
Did like anyone normal actually watching the fucking video before they tweeted it out? Or is the administration staffed head to toe with such Milleresque psychos it didn’t even occur to anybody to say “holy shit we need to wipe this footage immediately”?

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Fucking Bitch Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d
Here’s a comment for the people who are upset that MN hasn’t charged Jonathan Ross already:

If you just Leeeroy Jenkins this shit you will lose and you will empower fascism and murder.

It is indescribably hard to prosecute cops for murder. It is even hard when the murder is ON VIDEO.

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 3d
Wondering what the unitary executive folks think about separately elected state attorneys general?

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 3d
More from the party of federalism: "the states are merely an agent for the federal government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the federal government, as represented by the president of the United States, tells them, for the good of the country, to do."

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 3d
(I was being sarcastic, to be clear)

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 3d
Villanova dean:

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 3d
This is a nobel peace prize, luke, not a kidney

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 3d
I have it on good authority that Bolsonaro tried to remove his ankle monitor not to escape to the US embassy, but to get his crew back together and go after the Cardassians.

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 3d
NEW – Q&A: What Trump’s US exit from UNFCCC and IPCC could mean for climate action | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org

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President Donald Trump walks off the stage after speaking at a campaign event on 18 June 2024. Credit: Jeffrey Phelps / Alamy Stock Photo

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 4d
I don't know what's worse. That they incorrectly think that they can do better picking individual stocks (marking them as fools) or that they know they can do better (marking them as corrupt, or at least committing insider trading).

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4d
The US has some of the world’s best climate scientists (and more of them than anywhere else) & has contributed disproportionately to understanding the climate system. It’s idiotic for the US to withdraw from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change & the IPCC but it’s on brand for this regime.
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 5d
Really tired of Presidents only having demand-side housing policies.
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5d
BREAKING

President Trump says he will call on Congress to ban large institutional investors from buying single-family homes.

This is very popular overall, but it’s important to note that the MAGA base has been calling for this for some time, and calls for such a ban have ramped up in recent weeks.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump + For a very long time, buying and owning a home was considered the pinnacle of the American Dream. It was the reward for working hard, and doing the right thing, but now, because of the Record High Inflation caused by Joe Biden and the Democrats in Congress, that American Dream is increasingly out of reach for far too many people, especially younger Americans. It is for that reason, and much more, that I am immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes, and I will be calling on Congress to codify it. People live in homes, not corporations. I will discuss this topic, including further Housing and Affordability proposals, and more, at my speech in Davos in two weeks.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5d
"EU freedom of movement worked. It’s a wonderful thing for people across the continent. One of the great success stories of the modern age. Something to be built upon, not apologized for. And yet this is virtually nowhere said." www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
We Need to Get Off the Defensive About Immigration
Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.
www.liberalcurrents.com

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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 5d
Again, you might ask why. Why not just engage with people who share my views? Again, 2 reasons. First, ignoring people who disagree with you leads to sloppy reasoning. Ideological uniformity produces mistakes. (Empirical research confirms this IMO).

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5d
BREAKING

President Trump says he will call on Congress to ban large institutional investors from buying single-family homes.

This is very popular overall, but it’s important to note that the MAGA base has been calling for this for some time, and calls for such a ban have ramped up in recent weeks.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump + For a very long time, buying and owning a home was considered the pinnacle of the American Dream. It was the reward for working hard, and doing the right thing, but now, because of the Record High Inflation caused by Joe Biden and the Democrats in Congress, that American Dream is increasingly out of reach for far too many people, especially younger Americans. It is for that reason, and much more, that I am immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes, and I will be calling on Congress to codify it. People live in homes, not corporations. I will discuss this topic, including further Housing and Affordability proposals, and more, at my speech in Davos in two weeks.

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 5d
After a successful start delivering calzones, I worry that Mecha-Hitler is going to force him to drive off a dock.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 5d
Put simply, this is absolutely insane—and unconstitutional. Solidarity with Professor Peterson.
Put simply, this means that the Board of Regents has clarified that core curriculum courses, which includes PHIL 111 Contemporary Moral Issues, cannot include issues related to race ideology, gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity. Any non-core course that includes such material will require an exemption, and all indications are that these will be under limited circumstances, namely, when the content is necessary for the integrity of the course.