Amidst all the horror of this campaign, the joy of Lin-Manuel Miranda in his SNL performance is a joy.
Recent Bluessky Posts- Trump admin continues scorched-earth policy re: spending any money that might conceivably benefit a foreigner, a non-white person, and especially anything when those sets intersect. Duty to implement laws is now just a pleasant fantasy. See also Epstein files. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... December 22, 2025 Michael Froomkin
- This. So totally this. Except I'm OK with functional hats. December 21, 2025 Michael Froomkin
- NYT published obit of analyst whom Merrill Lynch fired for being right too early about Enron. (He landed on his feet.) As far as I can tell from Web searching, unsurprisingly only good things happened to the guy who fired him. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b... December 21, 2025 Michael Froomkin
- Immigration judges are not true judges, rather they are employees of the justice department who have no tenure in office. In contrast, JAQs are army officers who are detailed to work as immigration judges. If they are fired as judges, they go back to their regular jobs in the armed forces. December 21, 2025 Michael Froomkin
- As I predicted, making JAGs into immigration judges increases the independence of immigration judges because JAGs have other jobs to fall back on, not to mention a sense of honor. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... December 21, 2025 Michael Froomkin
