David Schraub

@schraubd

Sometimes lawyer. Sometimes law professor. All the time awesome. Associate Prof. at Lewis & Clark Law (con law and anti-discrimination).

1,231 Following5,907 Followers5,946 Posts

YouTube Bluesky

Is this your profile?Claim it and schraubd.dirty.social is yours.Claim profile

David Schraub@schraubd· 6d

Good news! I’d say I hope Cori Bush similarly endorses Wesley Bell, but she’s already promised not to. Moral: don’t be smug. This is not a reticence limited to one particular faction of the Democratic Party.

https://www.jta.org/2026/08/05/politics/el-sayed-decried-aipac-now-he-hopes-to-win-over-pro-israel-democrats

David Schraub@schraubd· 8d

What, you don’t like solving a Myst puzzle to turn on your car’s AC? See also:

David Schraub@schraubd· 11d

James Loeffler has a new book out. This was the launch email I got. Admittedly, “here’s my new book on Jewish life: “AAAAAAA [incomprehensible screaming]” does capture a 2026 mood. The real book looks interesting too.

David Schraub@schraubd· 12d

Ahem.

Zoidberg telling Fry "Young lady, I'm an expert on humans." (Futurama)

David Schraub@schraubd· 13d

Part of me is worried about the reading apocalypse among young folk, and part of me is like “my son is going to RULE THE WORLD!”

David Schraub@schraubd· 14d

Not a woodblock print, but a few months ago I picked up an outstanding early piece by Sadao Watanabe (which my wife immediately claimed for her office). Sadao Watanabe, "The Wedding Guests Answer Samson’s Riddle" (from The Story of Samson suite), stencil print, 14” x 18” (c. 1947-52).

David Schraub@schraubd· 16d

Half of Mamdani’s genius is convincing ordinary people that progressive ideas will materially benefit their lives and aren’t scary communism, and the other half is convincing terminally online leftists that basic good government is progressive and isn’t neoliberal shilling for evil corporations.

David Schraub@schraubd· 19d

Cannibals can be very lovable!

Scenes of Caleb and Jake Peralta on Brooklyn 99

David Schraub@schraubd· 24d

David Schraub@schraubd· Jul 10

Jared Golden may not want it, and Maine voters may not want it, but WelcomePAC sure wants it!

David Schraub@schraubd· Jul 10

Someone sent me Moe Tkacik’s take on all this on X, which introduced me at least to the new adverb “aipacfully”.

Tweet by Moe Tkacik:

Racicot:
-Was asked by a friend whether she should set up another friend with platner. She answered elliptically. She said he was intelligent and didn't listen when drunk. She did not say he was a rapist.
-Told Tapper "compliance is not consent." I would be interested to know whether this argument has ever held up in court, with a defendant who was blackout drunk. She didn't come forward the first time because she knew she didn't consider him to be a "rapist" because if she did see him that way she would have told her friend that was the case. She was emotionally blackmailed by Lyndsey Fifield who is a ride or die genocide cheerleader & professional liar, and most assuredly the promise of unlimited pro bono legal representation for her services to the Gratuitous Suffering & Death Lobby. I doubt she fully gamed out the sequence of events her new revelations would set off but Lyndsey Fifield absolutely did. One question is, did the funds that boosted him along the way game it out as well? Remember who funded Hamas to divert support from the PLO, people!! What was Seth Frantzman's role?

Second half of tweet by Tkacik:

Now Abundance Barbie shows up to scoff aipacfully at the desire of Platner's campaign team to have a role in choosing his replacement. These Demonicrat party hacks, the ones who appointed Epstein's best friend Larry summers, the man who oversaw the liquidation of Russia after which Scott bessent modeled the DOGE coup, the one who said unemployment needed to go to 10% in order to discipline the workforce into accepting shittier wages and working conditions, to run the economic policy component of project 2029, these ghouls will crush you, take everything you have and spit on your face. Grow a spine and please decide whether Graham Platner or someone with a similar level of baggage is worse than all that.

David Schraub@schraubd· Jul 10

The cost of war comes for us all.

Headline reading: "US Ceasefire with Iran is Likely 'Over,' and No One is Coming to Save Lloyd Center Mall."

David Schraub@schraubd· Jul 10

David Schraub@schraubd· Jul 7

POV: someone who could pick a halfway decent Senate candidate.

David Schraub@schraubd· Jul 7

“I eat fascists and oligarchs for breakfast [to absorb their essence]”

“I believe women and I forgive Graham Platner.”

“The Zionists really know how to time shit, don’t they?”

David Schraub@schraubd· Jul 7

Voters love a party that gives up [on defending its Nazi tattooed rapists].

Skeet with text:

“Just for the hell of it, given who is occupying the White House, why not leave this up to the voters of Maine? Are they democrats going to do their normal schmuck and immediately fold and replace him with a yet another corporate-friendly milquetoast runner-up? Voters love a party that gives up

David Schraub@schraubd· Jul 7

Posted and pinned two hours ago.

Screenshot of skeet by The Angry Wisconsinite claiming he’s the victim of an AIPAC and Heritage set up and touting his support from Track AIPAC.

David Schraub@schraubd· Jul 1

I get it -- you hate waffles -- but I'm not sure what this has to do with finding "is burning an elderly American Jewish woman alive because one hates Israel antisemitic?" to be a tough question.

David Schraub@schraubd· Jun 30

Guys, he tweeted it out.

Tweet from Ilan Wurman: "A year and a half ago a federal judge in Washington basically said the Trump Administration view was borderline sanctionable. That view just got 4 votes on the U.S. Supreme Court."

David Schraub@schraubd· Jun 29

“It must not speak. It must die!”

David Schraub@schraubd· Jun 28

Did you see what his profile banner pic is? Some people contain multitudes.

David Schraub@schraubd· Jun 27

We can imagine a world where both liberal 2ss and 1ss were viewed by Dems as morally acceptable, but the former was politically expedient too and thus an easy consensus sell. Take away “politically expedient”, though, and there’s no reason for anyone other than a true believer to pick 2ss over 1ss.