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Chrstphr Grdn

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partner • photographer • writer • 2L @ BLS • night owl • he/him summa: prop law, con, due process, equal protection • analytic juris, fregean & performative semantics • cognition, episteme, ontology; parmenides, plato, aristotle

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Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · Jun 13

adding photos in replies here using #FilmRoll

first up, from a winter day in the park

📷 Olympus OM-2, Zuiko 28mm f/2.8
🎞️ Tri-X

#35mm #FilmPhotography
#BelieveInFilm

A lone baby stroller in a park near a leafless try with a wide mostly empty grass field ahead, more barren trees line the park in the distance.

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Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · 11h

But perhaps also, as an american maxim: Ought always be ready to be frustrated by a white Virginian of the era

Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · 11h

He might have been close & could only be so explicit as Publius. Madison was always here writing as a political promotor, not an abstract theoretician even though he's offered fairly adept theoretical understanding on political conflict.

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Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · 11h

(2) Our problem has cont'd to be minority faction, not majority faction? Flame of faction having always been fed by a select electorate there's ease for select interests to capture the office's interests? Thus a fix, per JM's premises, shall remain more & more democratic inclusion to franchise?

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Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · 11h

Two further pts. on this good one:

(1) Wasn't the slave power in the south always the most enduring rebuke to Madison's confidence in moderating effects on the interests of the office? (And evermore why it's progeny & every last incident & vestige ought be stomped out for good?)

Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 14h

I think we have to acknowledge now that Madison‘s central insight in federalist no. 10 has failed entirely. The interests of the office do not determine the interests of the officeholder. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Keeping the House Absent, Johnson Marginalizes Congress and Himself

www.nytimes.com

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 13h

So they have hundreds of millions just lying around that they’ll never miss to give to the government programs immediately, is what they’re announcing

@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 13h

"Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune

Timothy Mellon is a billionaire and a major financial backer of Trump." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune

www.nytimes.com

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Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · 1d

Why are some leftists so committed to individual leader apologetics? People are more than a flawed candidate. No matter how good one's current motives civic leadership is owning your fuck ups & accepting not being the right person for this one role. Find another way to help others. It exists.

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 1d

Establishment Democrats spent a full year complaining the Left forced them to be “woke.”

But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts.

Democrats Cynically Wield “Wokeness” Against Graham Platner

Establishment Democrats spent a full year complaining the Left forced them to be “woke.” But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts.

jacobin.com

Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · 1d

re this: bsky.app/profile/elmu...

Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 1d

A 🧵 on the AI jury:

This morning I watched several talented law students mock-try a robbery prosecution to a jury of three generative AI bots: ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude. The “jurors" were fed a real-time transcript of the proceedings and then "deliberated" in front of the audience.

#AI #lawsky

Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · 1d

"How can we make the spectre of an all white male jury even more horrific to defendants?"

Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · 1d

When there are vocal calls for replacing baseball umpires with video robots, it is slightly amusing to me they didn't experiment with replacing the lead person calling balls & strikes in the courtroom first or was *that* too terrifying

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Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · 1d

These are not *yet* your peers

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Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · 2d

"controversial tattoo" is doing some heavy lifting here, like saying Adolf's "controversial" memoir or "controversial" gas chambers for the "controversial" solution to the Jewish Question

It's a nazi tattoo. Campaign's response or the tattoo's cont'd existence is the actually "controversial" part.

Zeteo @zeteo.com · 2d

'I Hate Nazis': Graham Platner Is Defiantly Still Running for Senate – and Leading in the Polls

EXCLUSIVE: The Maine oysterman talks to Zeteo about his controversial tattoo and the Dem establishment's 'continuous' attacks on his campaign. By @andrewperez.bsky.social.

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zeteo.com/p/graham-pla...

'I Hate Nazis': Graham Platner Is Defiantly Still Running for Senate – and Leading

EXCLUSIVE: The Maine oysterman sits down with Zeteo to talk about his controversial tattoo and the Democratic establishment's 'continuous' attacks on his campaign.

zeteo.com

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Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · 4d

"By the way - everything I ever demolished is in the plan pending review. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know."

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 4d

lol, lmao even www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

Reuters headline:

White House says it will submit ballroom plans for review, with demolition already under way

By Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose

Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · 4d

"Texas is targeting professors"

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

The silver lining is the Professor still has his faculty job, but this is explicitly viewpoint discrimination, a message that there is no such thing as faculty governance.
All admin must be aligned with a political party. For all the talk of leftist indoctrination, this is no different from China.

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Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · 4d

"no Nazi tattoos" is a pretty good line

Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech Meme of a man standing in a crowd to speak.

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Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · 5d

Also: Is there a civil lawsuit here? Kinda feels like there's a civil lawsuit here but maybe that's just the law school setting in

Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · 5d

Just a building for sure but the symbolism here is quite deafening

Limp spin by GOPers to claim this some gilded beneficence on the People is going to be even more disgusting but probably normalized in the press

Seems like an easy W for the next candidate to promise restoration in first term

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5d

Not sure why this image is so shocking, given everything he’s done but: it’s shocking!

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 7d

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

19thnews @19thnews.org · 7d

Our recent poll found that women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average. Nearly 80 percent of Gen Z women want abortion to be legal and seven in 10 want gender-affirming care to be accessible for trans adults.

Gen Z women are the most liberal group in the country

On issues like abortion and gender-affirming care, women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average.

19thnews.org

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7d

Be safe out there today, friends. If you see anything particularly notable or experience any major issues, contact me on Signal at marisakabas.04

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Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · 7d

If you need anything while you're here please let me know, hope you have a good connections and great time

Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · 8d

I waver whether it's any more or less complicated than that. He doesn't advocate barbarism because he doesn't advocate anything beyond each individual's ego. Freedom, limits of society, unions, barbarisms matter (or don't) only if they matter (or don't) to an ego in its present availing interest.

Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · 8d

Max Stirner comes closest but—& it's been some time since I've read his rambling book—his position is there is no right only individual power. What a person has no power over they have no right to claim. Where they have power they need no right of others to secure.

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Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · 9d

(Or markets might respond/prepare w. more production while debts clear and be more resilient to greater purchasing more? 🤷🏻‍♂️)

Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · 9d

Have studies teased out any effects where households have large debts in personal finances before UBI?

Where mass pre-existing debt, UBI could lead to prioritizing paying off debts; possible effects of delayed inflation only later felt because no mass immediate demand on current market supplies?

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Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · 9d

Yes this has always been silly Beck (not that Beck) posturing, but I do wish we had a regular John Oliver type segment somewhere for someone to earnestly chalk board the flow of GOP money whenever any "culture war" issue or rw political movement starts up because this is some real mirror propaganda

Chrstphr Grdn @csgrdn.bsky.social · 9d

I like to imagine they've got the kind of humor to guffaw & assume the mantle of waging a Butlerian Jihad if someone told them about this