- The DLC gets tactical: if the Democrats win, it’s because of Dean’s 50-state strategy, because of insurgents like Tester in Montana, and because the electorate treated this as a parliamentary referendum on Bush. How weird to have increasingly irrelevant DLC Democrats trying to spin the victory as theirs. Joe Lieberman is not the future of the Democratic party. Being a Republican is not the future of the Democratic party. Populism — with a strong dash of social libertarianism — is much more likely to be the future of the Democratic party.
- Brad DeLong has been reading the news and it makes him shrill. You will be too.
- Politicians think we, the public, are dirty. Given that people wash their hands much less than they used to, it might even be true…
- DOD official says some Guantanamo detainees may be imprisoned for life. Not to mention that it may take that long before they get a fair trial.
- Morton Mintz: Will We Stay Forever in Iraq? The White House Won’t Say
Recent Bluessky Posts- Official CFP for We Robot in Oxford, UK, April 22-24, 2027 is now available at easychair.org/cfp/WR27. Submission deadline is Oct. 5, 2026. Also, AI disclosure requested and "papers may be reviewed by AI detection, whose feedback will be instructive but not determinative." September 8, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- For a chilling analysis of where we stand see Professor Kim Lane Scheppele on "What is a Constitutional Crisis?". And that was almost a year ago! www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-8A... September 8, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- @miamilawschool.bsky.social does a feature on @jotwell.bsky.social, "Jotwell: the journal legal scholars turn to for research that matters" news.miami.edu/law/stories/... September 8, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Private right of action (in court) vs government-must-initiate enforcement (before court or via agency). So the difference from the econ or polisci dichotomy is less than it may seem? September 8, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Is it not the case that as new LLM models are trained on the corpus of academic articles and internet posts, they learn about ways of breaking out of alignment? Plus that "cheating" can help "success"? So shouldn't we expect more and more of it? #AI September 7, 2026 Michael Froomkin
