Greg Caldeira
454 posts
I am in tractor shopping mode. This is my happy place.
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@ProfRobAnderson There are lots of late 1940s early 1950s Ford tractors still in circulation. They are a good size for a small property and our bulletproof.
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@PrawfBainbridge Does this thing have any windows? It certainly stands out. I gotta admit that.
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Stun: “astonish or shock (someone) so that they are temporarily unable to react.”
Ann Ashley Zavala@Ashl75
The Obama presidential library really is stunning.
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@NAChristakis It is important to note that only a fraction of the faculty anywhere make Political contributions. The lions’ share of the faculty are bystanders in these culture wars.
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Yale’s governing body, the Yale Corporation, counted zero registered Republicans among its membership. There was a similar divergence in political donations at Yale, with $5.8 million given to Democrats and just over $102,000 to Republicans, a 50 to 1 ratio.
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I believe two things are true of right-thinking civilized people: 1. They use the serial comma but call it the Oxford comma. 2. They realize that decision making is correct rather than decisionmaking unless it’s being used as an adjective, in which case it takes a hyphen. Only the barbarous do otherwise.
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It is a sad commentary on the state of the nation that I am more inclined to believe what the Iranians say about the co-called peace deal than anything Trump OR the Democrats say about it.
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@dilanesper What has gotten lost in all of the commentary is that the case against Newman is an HR matter, complaints by staff and law clerks about Judge Newman and her behavior.
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One reason I don't comment on the Pauline Newman case is I haven't read her work product. If it's fall-on-your-face-she-doesn't-understand-the-cases bad, I'd have a different reaction to this than if it's she's-still-exercising-some-judgment-but-reaching-bad-results bad.
Carrie Johnson@johnson_carrie
Just in: the Supreme Court denies to take up the case of Judge Pauline Newman. Background here: npr.org/2026/03/29/nx-…
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@ProfRobAnderson A second edition was published in 75 wasn’t it? believe it or not I own it
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I just read a district court opinion that described Gilmore & Black's Admiralty opus as "a treatise from 1975." ☠️
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@ProfRobAnderson By the way, what is the best history of the Maritime industry of the United States?
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It’s the summer, so I’m indulging in some poolside reading just for fun.
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@ProfRobAnderson I thought as much, but I wanted to make sure it wasn’t real because otherwise I might’ve ordered it!
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@vkoganpolisci @seanjwestwood NK is probably not a good example to put forward as a positive case for light regulation
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@seanjwestwood I'm curious if they paid prevailing wages, put in wheel chair accessible door ways, and energy certified appliances? And brought in archeological advisors to check for ancient remains on site?
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"Last year, North Korea built 10,000 new homes in Pyongyang—more than either Los Angeles or Chicago."
There has to be a midpoint between can't build anything bureaucracy and fascism...
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I hadn't been following the Gino vs Harvard drama once it became obvious Gino was guilty, but this from Harvard's latest filing is nuts. They imaged the laptop at the start of the investigation, so they caught her when she made a fake, backdated file with "data" from her research
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@JoshuaJPrince But completely unrealistic. The ship on this one has long left port.
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Justices Thomas and Alito continue banging the drum about the Court's obligation to hear cases that are left to the Court's exclusive original jurisdiction.
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@maya_sen @ATabarrok The problem isn’t staffed, but rather low level and middle level administrators. These people make work for chairs and faculty.
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There’s no one-size-fits-all rubric here but Sean speaks the unflattering truth — the ratio of staff to faculty has spiraled at some institutions
My own institution has a staff-to-faculty ratio of about 6 to 1
That blew me away when I first arrived
Sean Westwood@seanjwestwood
It is uncomfortable, but this needs to happen at nearly every university. The bureaucratic bloat is mindblowing. thecrimson.com/article/2026/5…
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@PrawfBainbridge @BernieSanders I’m pretty sure it isn’t true. I’m very certain he doesn’t fly private.
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Is it true that @BernieSanders "has three homes and flies private. He told Bret Baier about his 'Fighting the Oligarchy' tour: 'Think I’m going to be sitting on a waiting line at United?' and added, 'No apologies.' Joseph Stalin had 20 dachas while the proletariat went hungry."? If so, no shame either. wsj.com/opinion/our-ch…
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@kevinrkosar Not to mention that Congress requires it to deliver many unprofitable types of mail.
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Oh, it is a wholly governmental agency. See 39 USC.
Palmer Luckey@PalmerLuckey
It is insane that America has given a monopoly on letter delivery to a quasi-governmental agency that then uses it to flood our homes with useless garbage against our will. America would never allow FedEx, UPS, DHL, or anyone else to force this on us.
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@JohnHolbein1 Much better. David m O’Brien, uva, however, can’t be right. I’m pretty sure he never published a paper in the APSR.
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Data is cleaner from 1980 onward.
APSR leaderboard for the modern era.
John B. Holbein@JohnHolbein1
Grad student: "I want to have the most APSR's of all time!" Ahem; Frederic Austin Ogg and his 169 APSRs would like a word.
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@JeffreyLax In principle, not a bad idea, but it’s probably a reach to go to 54
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Do it
Judicial Hub@judicialhub
NEWS: According to the New York Times, some Democrats are proposing a plan to overturn the state’s Supreme Court ruling that invalidated the referendum: 1) Invoke the circuit court ruling that invalidated the referendum due to county officials not posting notice of it at courthouses 3 months before the election to invalidate the 2020 constitutional amendment that created the independent redistricting commission by arguing that the courthouses also did not post notice of it at the time either. 2) Lower the mandatory retirement age for justices from 75 to 54 (or less). That would remove every justice on the court. The Democratic majority in the legislature can then appoint 7 new justices. 3) Democrats would then be able to redraw the map. nytimes.com/2026/05/10/us/…
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@JohnHolbein1 I guess Hiram Stout did exist, but he didn’t publish nearly that many papers in the review and most of them were notices rather than articles
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I'm very well aware that APSRs in the 1910s, 1920s... were very different from APSRs today.
But this is still hilarious.
Here's post American voter.
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Grad student: "I want to have the most APSR's of all time!"
Ahem; Frederic Austin Ogg and his 169 APSRs would like a word.
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