Sam Nelson

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Assoc. Prof political science UToledo (law and politics). But also cooking, photography, woodworking, Cubs, & English Setter.

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First sweet corn of the CSA season was in the box today and it is the treat I needed. Yum.

All these calls for Joe to withdraw and I just remembered that Missouri voters chose Mel Carnahan in a senate race in in 2000 after he literally died. Maybe elections are about more than physical vigor?

I really hate decision days at the Supreme Court.

Impeachment is the appropriate remedy under the Constitution. But I'm not going to hold my breath. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Justice Alito tells Congress he will not recuse from Jan. 6-related caseswww.washingtonpost.com Some Democrats asked whether Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. could be impartial after an upside-down flag flew at his home following the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack.

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“We’re not going to be the victims of crime” framing on the right creates justification for engaging in “preemptive” (unprovoked) violence. There is an escalation point after which we can’t stop an ongoing wave of bad things. It requires public social condemnation to prevent us getting there.

"Kari Lake Urges Supporters to Arm Themselves Ahead of Election" www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/u... What would you say if you saw it in another country?

There should be a rule on this site that people aren’t allowed to screencap stupid shit Matt Y writes and sneak it into our feeds. Many of us blocked that absurd pos!

Now into day 2 of a reply-all in house listserv fiasco. We've all been there. All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again - but does it really have to?

Profiles of Mitch McConnell tomorrow need to point out that he devoted his time in power to building a SCOTUS that would do what it did today.

What was I even thinking when I decided to teach about the Supreme Court for a living? Ugh. Just ugh.

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We've focused too much on how students could use AI to cheat universities and not enough on how universities could use AI to cheat students.

“…ASU plans to use ChatGPT to build personalized AI tutors and offer writing help to students in one of its largest classes, Freshman Composition.” 🫠

OpenAI launches partnership with ASU, allowing full use of ChatGPTwww.axios.com It comes as schools at all levels grapple with whether and how to embrace generative AI.

In the late 90s when I was on the poli sci market with a job talk on free speech I would get a (haughty and dismissive) comment from a senior dude in the back "why should we care about this, it is all settled law." Didn't get those jobs. Surely the TARDIS was invented for academic score settling.

So many Harry Potters knocking on our door today. Really more than on a normal Tuesday.

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