Sam Kamin
@profsamkamin.bsky.social
Lawprof posting about food, travel, politics, policing, drug policy, Liverpool FC, and poker.
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All views are my own.
Or not at all, probably.
All views are my own.
The Legal Profession is not sending our best.
December 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The Legal Profession is not sending our best.
I dropped my airpod on my way out of the apartment this afternoon. This is where it landed. My hands are still shaking. This is a horror movie.
November 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I dropped my airpod on my way out of the apartment this afternoon. This is where it landed. My hands are still shaking. This is a horror movie.
This is completely bonkers. David Brooks has lost his goddamn mind.
October 24, 2025 at 9:46 AM
This is completely bonkers. David Brooks has lost his goddamn mind.
There's only one King of America
October 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
There's only one King of America
Berlin is asking the right questions.
October 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Berlin is asking the right questions.
These people aren't very smart. The NFL is the last thing Americans agree on.
October 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
These people aren't very smart. The NFL is the last thing Americans agree on.
That was the second part of the chart that I had to cut off.
September 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
That was the second part of the chart that I had to cut off.
Important reminder: people are wrong about everything. Innumeracy is real.
September 20, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Important reminder: people are wrong about everything. Innumeracy is real.
Almost word for word in the New Yorker
August 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Almost word for word in the New Yorker
"The states are merely an agent of the Federal Government. They must do what the Federal Government... tells them."
If and when this is all over, no member of the Republican Party ever gets to use the phrase states' rights again.
If and when this is all over, no member of the Republican Party ever gets to use the phrase states' rights again.
August 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"The states are merely an agent of the Federal Government. They must do what the Federal Government... tells them."
If and when this is all over, no member of the Republican Party ever gets to use the phrase states' rights again.
If and when this is all over, no member of the Republican Party ever gets to use the phrase states' rights again.
I had to read this many, many times to decide whether it's parody or not. And honestly, I'm still not sure.
August 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I had to read this many, many times to decide whether it's parody or not. And honestly, I'm still not sure.
Yes. Who could have predicted mass deportations?
May 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Yes. Who could have predicted mass deportations?
Why is this the funniest New Yorker cartoon of all time?
May 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Why is this the funniest New Yorker cartoon of all time?
Why don't more journalists talk like this??
April 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Why don't more journalists talk like this??
Important story.
But shame on NBC news for this. The Fourth Amendment protects citizens and noncitizens ("The right of the PEOPLE to be secure ... against unreasonable searches and seizures").
And this is because, at least in part, the police don't know whom they're searching when they search them
But shame on NBC news for this. The Fourth Amendment protects citizens and noncitizens ("The right of the PEOPLE to be secure ... against unreasonable searches and seizures").
And this is because, at least in part, the police don't know whom they're searching when they search them
April 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Important story.
But shame on NBC news for this. The Fourth Amendment protects citizens and noncitizens ("The right of the PEOPLE to be secure ... against unreasonable searches and seizures").
And this is because, at least in part, the police don't know whom they're searching when they search them
But shame on NBC news for this. The Fourth Amendment protects citizens and noncitizens ("The right of the PEOPLE to be secure ... against unreasonable searches and seizures").
And this is because, at least in part, the police don't know whom they're searching when they search them
This is hardly the most important 10th Amendment issue facing the nation at the moment, but I love that trump thinks he can order the governor of Colorado to take down a portrait the president doesn't like.
March 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is hardly the most important 10th Amendment issue facing the nation at the moment, but I love that trump thinks he can order the governor of Colorado to take down a portrait the president doesn't like.
If someone ran a picture of me looking like this in the newspaper I would quit my job and move.
March 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
If someone ran a picture of me looking like this in the newspaper I would quit my job and move.
We elected a person president who thinks it's illegal to not buy cars from his friend.
March 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
We elected a person president who thinks it's illegal to not buy cars from his friend.
So we've learned that this, one of the worst people in a very deep pool of bad people, is a #LFC fan.
What part of Fuck the Tories does this guy not grasp?
What part of Fuck the Tories does this guy not grasp?
March 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
So we've learned that this, one of the worst people in a very deep pool of bad people, is a #LFC fan.
What part of Fuck the Tories does this guy not grasp?
What part of Fuck the Tories does this guy not grasp?
Describe your account in one Simpsons image.
March 1, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Describe your account in one Simpsons image.
Imagine getting a note from the principal for calling this guy a dick.
February 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Imagine getting a note from the principal for calling this guy a dick.