Professa Murray

What strikes me is the every time the Trump Administration and the Republicans come into actual contact with the American people, it is toxic for them: grand juries, townhalls, opening ceremonies. Look, the man won with 49.8% of the popular vote; this was not a resounding victory by any means.

MEDIA PEOPLE TALK TO THE PROPERTY PEOPLE: what Bill Pulte has done is make a criminal referral based on the mortgage instrument filed in a public recordation database; (he has not disclosed the applications (although it is clear that they on his desk and that might violate Cook’s privacy rights).

As I said, Republicans are avoiding actual contact with voters, juries, and citizens because despite what everyone is pretending in DC, 49.8-% is not a Mandate from Heaven.

This is totally true. A colleague of mine just told I have already written Infrostructure: The Great (W)reckoning in furious spurts on BlueSky. That said, as a Habermasian, @davekarpf.bsky.social is dead on how the concentration of media shaped the election in 2024 in ways that harmed the Dems.

And why do I stay talking about agricultural issues: www.politico.com/news/2025/10.... Unlike manufacturers, farmers benefitted free trade. And I love the article ends on the real villain: Big Beef.

Shorter version: go watch Matewan! www.criterion.com/films/29461-....

The path of collective organizing in the United States is strewn with an attempt to organize within a multi-racial democracy. The problem, though, is not the multiracial commitment but the real tensions that come from maintaining the multiracial organization when it becomes convenient to ignore it.

Indeed, the great tragedy of the Populists was that it started out as a way to organize agricultural interests against the consolidation of great capital and often explicitly multi-racial in its goals, but the 1920s had foundered because it abandoned its multi-racial commitments.

Everyone, who wants to understand how labor unions work, and work best when organized as a multi-racial collective, needs to read @dieworkwear.bsky.social’s thread. JD Vance’s closest analogue is Tom Watson, who led the Populists in the 1890s, but by his death, was a full on nativist.

Stephen Miller did not go to law school.

Sometimes, I feel this whole Administration is an AI hallucination.

It went kind of dark there in the end, but an interesting read. What I will say is I have a great deal of skepticism that orality is ignorance, ok? I am also in weird place because I have never felt more that law school, where you read and read, mainly due to fear, is a net good.

I am not a criminal lawyer at all but it did seem odd to James’ niece had testified to a grand jury in Norfolk, Virginia but Halligan got an indictment in Alexandria, Virginia? For the criminal law peeps, is that normal? This grand jury switcher-ro also seems to be why she contacted Anna Bower?