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Mar 31 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
For those who are wondering why the #BeastOfTheDay has been, uh, less than daily these things, the reason is that I am shut out of my Facebook and Instagram accounts, both of which are mainly used to discovering beasts. I have a conflict of interest here. I am really enjoying...
...not being on Facebook, and am seriously considering using my lack of access to the account to, well, just not use Facebook any more. That said, this approach to life requires a certain rebuilding of beastly material. All of which makes your nominations all the more...
...important. Remember the rules for submissions, please:
(1) The beast must be a member of Kingdom Animalia. No plants, ice-breaking boats, machines, or people.
(2) The beast of the day is an honorific status, not a criticism.
(3) No domestic dogs or cats ...
without a demonstrated act of valor on the part of the nominee.
(4) Mythical beasts are not considered for BOTD status.
(5) Extinct beasts are considered for BOTD status.
(6) Nominees can either be individual beasts or species.
(7) The #beastmaster reviews beasts according to
his own criteria of beastly excellence and all choices of #BeastOfTheDay are subject to his unreviewable discretion.
(8) @jsbalek is allowed to nominate no more than one capybara per month, lest the #BeastOfTheDay becomes a daily capybara feed.
(9) Nominations that have been accepted are placed in the #BeastlyQueue for future use.

Them's the rules.

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Just filed this #FOIA request in reference to my article from earlier this week. Image
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Mar 31
Just listened to oral argument before Judge Cooper on the Michael Sussman motion to dismiss on materiality. The judge played his cards close to the vest and promised to rule sooner, rather than later. He clearly thinks that dismissal on this basis presents a serious question.
I would guess there's about a 60-70 percent chance he lets the matter go to the jury, but I'm not at all certain of it. Keep your eye on this issue.
A further thought on my I think there's a high percent chance Judge Cooper let's this go to trial even though there is a serious question as a matter of law as to whether the alleged false statement can be material.
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Mar 31
Very proud to announce the addition of @scottjshapiro to @lawfareblog's masthead. We normally do these things on an unconditional basis, but with Scott, we added one non-negotiable condition to his accession, which is that he shitpost ironically on the subject.
For all of you who don't know this from his Twitter feed, Scott is actually a genuine authority on legal philosophy and, believe it or not given his evident technical incompetence on @inlieuoffunshow, a cybersecurity expert with a forthcoming book on the subject.
He is also, with his frequent coauthor on the subject @oonahathaway, one of the most interesting theorists of the development of the modern international rules-based international system.

And yeah, he's funny. Really funny. And he doesn't take himself too seriously.
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Mar 29
It’s really maddening when Westerners speak about a “negotiated” solution to the Ukraine war. Let me translate that lingo into plain English for you. The subject of the “negotiation” they speak of is how much of Russia’s conquest Ukraine should have to accept. If you are not a 👇
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sovereignty they need to swallow. I’m sorry if you don’t like war. I don’t either. But this one is not your war or mine to end. Asking people to negotiate when their army is starting to turn the tide is presumptuous in the extreme. It’s up to them whether to take risks to take 👇
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Mar 28
Fact-check: True.
There is only one other country in Europe that did as impressive a job as Denmark in saving its Jews during the Holocaust. The story is less famous than that of the evacuation of Danish Jews to Sweden but in some ways more impressive—as it involved saving 50,000 lives.
The story of Bulgaria during the Holocaust is well worth the world's attention too: encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…
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