James Fallows Tierney
Associate dean for academic affairs and Associate professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law (Illinois Tech). I study financial markets regulation & law of capitalism. But this ≠ IIT. DSA Fund board 🌹🤝, Rstats, NLP, Phish dad, etc. Semper ubi sub ubi.
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- This may reveal more of my 10 year old’s psyche than I mean to, but there are few more tender moments than the closing credits of TOP GUN where “you’ve lost that loving feeling” is playing over the credits
- Reposted by James Fallows TierneyAccording to FOX 9, a Minneapolis federal judge demanded to know why DOJ is missing deadlines & AUSA Julie Le said, "The system sucks, this job sucks" & asked to be held in contempt so she could sleep. PACER shows she got assigned to defend the govt in 88+ cases since Operation Metro Surge started.
- Who’s up for the Beanpot semifinals. #EagleSuperfan
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- Reposted by James Fallows TierneyDo you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
- Reposted by James Fallows TierneyYeah this is real bad for the GOP. Southern whites behaving like Midwestern whites kinda bad.
- Reposted by James Fallows TierneyBREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
- Reposted by James Fallows TierneyLarry Summers complaining to Epstein that his kids admire Bernie Sanders too much
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- Reposted by James Fallows TierneyMayor Mamdani names criminal justice reformer Stanley Richards as NYC’s new Department of Correction commissioner Richards is the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city’s jails system @gothamist.com @wnyc.org gothamist.com/news/mamdani...
- My wife suggests I should not describe a restaurant, in a google review, as a “simulacrum of fine dining.” I disagree
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- May as well dive right in. Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball? According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’” Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
- Reposted by James Fallows Tierney"Abolish ICE" was submitted 9,200 times for Chicago's snowplow naming contest, records show. blockclubchi.co/3ZAnDTZ
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- Reposted by James Fallows TierneyStanding with 65 of my UMN Law colleagues (and counting) to condemn ICE’s lawless conduct towards Minnesotans: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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- Flying a Greenland flag outside my house in a game of one-upmanship with my flag-flying neighbors
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- Reposted by James Fallows TierneyThis must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.
- Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges. This leaves in place a federal judge's ruling that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules. (Via AP) apnews.com/article/dei-... #ncpol #nced
- Reposted by James Fallows TierneyAttn junior admin law scholars--submit your abstracts by 2/27 for the annual new scholarship roundtable--a fantastic venue for getting feedback & making connections in the field--this year at Vanderbilt Law. Details at the link: www.yalejreg.com/nc/call-for-...
- I think I found a solution to my “too many emails” problem. I’m going to start working off an old Apple Mac Plus with a floppy drive and no WiFi access. “Oh sorry it took me a billion years to get to your email with this dial up speed”
- Reposted by James Fallows TierneyAngry Sun = pretty skies! If you're in a position to do so, it's worth looking for some aurorae with this one!
- Me: “oh it’s snowing but not much” Son: “yeah at least it’s not slinting” Me: “…” [racking brain] “do you mean sleet bud” Son: “yes”
- Reposted by James Fallows TierneyDid everyone else watching the game also see the Applebee’s commercial for a cheeseburger you dunk in a fajita skillet full of molten cheese or am I having a stroke
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- Reposted by James Fallows TierneyIf you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head
- Ran a topic model on some court opinions. This family law topic, for instance, might identify sources of marital discord: Topic 78: child, home, wife, tesla, family
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- Reposted by James Fallows TierneyThis is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...
- Reposted by James Fallows Tierneyevery single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
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- Reposted by James Fallows Tierneysemi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
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