Wallace

@wallace

Professor of Constitutional Law at Princeton Law School, specializing in the 18th Amendment. Former legal analyst for Crossfire.

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Wallace@wallace· 20d

Just discovered I’ve inexplicably had this sitting in my shower for an unknown number of years. Throwing it away to see if that fixes anything

A picture of a hotel shampoo bottle from “The Spa at Trump”

Wallace@wallace· 28d

I got dinner at this sports bar once a few years ago and now they send me emails inviting me to celebrate National Mac & Cheese Day

An email from Replay Andersonville that says "Celebrate National Mac & Cheese Day At ..."

Wallace@wallace· 28d

There are some bad drafting choices in this complaint, but the overall story is one of clear retaliation for protected speech. EG this paragraph actually happened--Republicans in congress asked Northwestern why Thrasher still had a job after participating in a protest

80. On March 27, 2025, Committee members Rep. Tim Walberg and Rep. Burgess Owens sent
a letter to President Schill and Chairman Barris reminding Northwestern of the Committee’s
continuing investigation into Northwestern’s “response to antisemitism on its campus.” The letter
complained about Northwestern’s inadequate suppression of speech related to Palestine, including
that the University “recently allowed the return to campus of journalism professor Steven Thrasher .
. .” despite his role at the encampment.

Wallace@wallace· 28d

Conservatives really can publish whatever they want in the Times op-ed page

NYT Opinion article.

headline: "The Constitution Has Clear Limits on Eligibility to Serve as a U.S. Senator. "Being Alive" Isn't One of Them."

Byline: Lindsey Graham

Wallace@wallace· Jul 7

Obsessed with the contrast between Columbia’s manager and Switzerland’s manager

An extremely suave looking dude with cool glasses

An extremely dorky looking dude in a blazer

Wallace@wallace· Jul 6

Checking to make sure I never said anything dumb about Graham Platner and, well, sort of

Two Posts from me: “Not sure how Platner planned to keep his tattoo hidden from the other candidates. They would have seen it eventually in the locker room before the debates”

And

“The Platner thing shows the importance of one of my most strongly-held beliefs: political debates should be conducted in the nude”

Wallace@wallace· Jun 5

2. I clicked through the link on Loudoun and you have not accurately represented what that article says. Among other things, diesel in VA = 5 large power plants, not 1. And that's as of 2024.

The 10,500 generators attached to data centers in Virginia produce enough pollution to harm public health even if used rarely, according to a new analysis of emissions permits for The Washington Post. Operating them for less than an hour per week, on average, creates the same public health impact as five power plants the size of the large Possum Point gas-fired power station near Quantico, according to the analysis by Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Washington.

That’s enough to worsen lung and cardiovascular conditions for people in the region and cause at least three premature deaths each year, the analysis found, based on state air permits and reported emissions from the data center owners.

Wallace@wallace· Jun 3

Fixed it

Wallace@wallace· May 8

look, you may disagree with graham platner's choice to get a nazi tattoo, but you have to admit he sounds like an idiot talking about the gas tax

“Gasoline prices have reached crisis levels for Mainers, many of whom commute long distances,” Platner said in his plan, which would indefinitely halt taxes on both gasoline and diesel.

"Relying on fossil fuels to fund basic infrastructure does not make sense if we want to reduce fossil fuels used in transportation,” Platner said.

Wallace@wallace· May 7

tfw you're definitely not a political actor

Donald Trump smiling and pointing at John Roberts

Wallace@wallace· May 4

Also he ended up getting a job building the school that he had opposed. Just perfect

"My father lost his herd. There was no milk check. And along came the superintendent of the works building the new high school, so [my father] became a laborer," Edgerton said. "He worked a week and they suddenly found out that farmers really get the job done. So [the superintendent] made him the staging crew leader for the rest of the project.

"So he helped build that school that he voted against."

Wallace@wallace· May 4

today I learned that the freedom of speech guy in the meme was a real guy who opposed rebuilding a school after the old one burnt down because it would increase his taxes. this country is so consistent sometimes

Freedom of Speech depicts a scene of a 1942 Arlington town meeting in which Jim Edgerton, the lone dissenter to the town selectmen's announced plans to build a new school, as the old one had burned down,[9] was accorded the floor as a matter of protocol.[10] Edgerton supported the rebuilding process but was concerned about the tax burden of the proposal, as his family farm had been ravaged by disease.[11] A memory of this scene struck Rockwell as an excellent fit for illustrating "freedom of speech", and inspired him to use his Vermont neighbors as models for the entire Four Freedoms series.[12][13]

Wallace@wallace· Apr 30

my wife when I leave two spoons in the microwave and start it from the back yard

Jennifer Lawrence in American Hustle looking at a burning microwave

Wallace@wallace· Apr 29

[clint eastwood voice]

Text that says "You've read your last free article."

Wallace@wallace· Apr 19

Periodic reminder that the only actual assassination attempt on a member of the federal judiciary in recent years was perpetrated by a lawyer who shares Sam Alito’s “anti-feminist” ideology

Esther Salas
In 2020, a man disguised as a FedEx delivery driver gained entry to the North Brunswick, New Jersey home of Judge Esther Salas of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and murdered the judge's son, also critically injuring the judge's husband. 16) The suspect was 72-year-old Roy Den Hollander, a self-proclaimed "anti-feminist" lawyer who had appeared before Salas and was dissatisfied with the disposition of his case. Hollander was discovered dead the next day of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. (17) The FBI matched Hollander's gun to the murder of a rival lawyer who represented a men's rights group in California, and police found a list of other potential targets, including three more female judges. 16)

Wallace@wallace· Apr 16

this is the most recent batch of Trump judicial nominees

The three lead actors from Superbad, wearing suits. They all look like teenagers (because they are)

Wallace@wallace· Apr 15

How did she know

A New Yorker headline that reads: "The Algorithmic Emptiness of Allbirds Shoes"

By Rachel Syme

Wallace@wallace· Apr 7

Wearing this hat to work tomorrow to honor the real winners—the B1G conference

Wallace@wallace· Apr 6

Excuse me? Aaron Rupar makes $13 million dollars a year from substack subscriptions??

Rupar is a one-man news agency, running accounts with a million followers on X and another 930,000 on BlueSky. He also writes a Substack, where 274,000 subscribers pay $50 per year. He sees it as his duty to keep the world informed of almost everything Trump and members of his administration say and do. He clips videos of Trump’s noteworthy remarks and shares them instantly on social media, monitoring 12 different TV channels simultaneously. His clips bounce back and forth across the internet.

Wallace@wallace· Apr 5

Inside you there are two Michigan branded cobras

A Michigan fan with his head on his hands in defeat

Michigan fans with their hands on their head celebrating a big lead in a basketball game

Wallace@wallace· Apr 4

Birds in early spring

Meme from the wire: “I want you to put the word out there that we back up.”

Wallace@wallace· Apr 2

just reading wikipedia man

Screenshot of text from wikipedia:

Return to private life
Lobbying work
In 2019, after her final term as Florida attorney general, Bondi was hired by Ballard Partners and she began working as a registered foreign agent and lobbyist for Qatar.[47] Her work with Qatar was related to anti-human-trafficking efforts in advance of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.[48][49] She left the Qatari project in 2019 to work in a temporary position for the White House Counsel for President Trump's first impeachment proceedings.[48]

As a partner at Ballard Partners, she also became a lobbyist for KGL KSCC, a company incorporated in Kuwait.[50] Bondi was lobbying for the Kuwaiti company to help with a case of claimed extortion.[51] During her time at Ballard Partners, Bondi lobbied for for-profit prison operator GEO Group, Amazon, Uber, General Motors, the Florida Sheriffs Association and others.[52]

Wallace@wallace· Apr 1

D. John Sauer should not be welcomed back to any of these universities for talks, honors, etc. He should be a pariah (he'll probably be invited to give Harvard Law's commencement speech next year)

Screenshot of text:

Sauer graduated from Duke University in 1997 with a double Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering, summa cum laude. He won a Rhodes Scholarship to study in England at the University of Oxford, where he earned a second Bachelor of Arts in theology from Oriel College, Oxford, in 1999.[4][5] After receiving a Master of Arts in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 2000, Sauer then attended Harvard Law School. He was an articles editor of the Harvard Law Review and graduated in 2004 with a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude.[6]

Wallace@wallace· Mar 12

Who’s gonna tell him

Picture of a page of text from a book with the following sentence highlighted:

The tragedy inspired a well-known limitation on free speech: It is illegal to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater.

Wallace@wallace· Mar 9

if only inflation had been a central issue in the last election, nobody would have voted for the inflation guy

A chart showing oil futures prices for the last six months, doing the hockey stick thing right near the end. Current price is 101.44.

Wallace@wallace· Mar 6

some (presumably) right-wingers have launched a project called "More Monuments" to "build landmark monuments and awe-inspiring megastructures that define a new era of American artistry and craftsmanship." their first project looks like absolute shit lmao

Screenshot of webpage that says

TOWARD THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE

We build landmark monuments and awe-inspiring megastructures that define a new era of American artistry and craftsmanship.

With a "completed project" called "The Wellspring of Progress"

A picture of a decidedly unimpressive wooden tower with a banner hanging in the background that says "the wellspring of progress" monument with a QR code

Wallace@wallace· Mar 6

Retvrn

A black and white photo of a bunch of cars from the 1970s queueing for gas.

Wallace@wallace· Mar 3

Yet again thinking about the CHKN crypto coin created by a candidate for Illinois comptroller (responsible for the state's fiscal accounts and investments). She named it after her back yard chickens.

SPRINGFIELD — Months before Lake County Treasurer Holly Kim announced her bid for Illinois comptroller, she used about $8,300 in previously contributed campaign funds to invest in a cryptocurrency she founded called CHKN token — a digital asset inspired by her backyard flock of chickens.

By the end of 2025, the investment — totaling roughly 8.87 million tokens — had lost nearly all its value, dropping to just $34.59, according to filings with the Illinois State Board of Elections.

Wallace@wallace· Feb 23

Chicago when New York gets a blizzard

Meme of an angry little boy with superimposed text: congrats, happy for you, nice

Wallace@wallace· Feb 21

Sourdough loaf