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Sep. 27th, 2024 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kindkit1) I'm planning on doing Yuletide this year! Probably! Maybe!
In any case, I've nominated some fandoms. Links to my fandom promotion posts:
Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature (Podcast)
World Gone Wrong (Podcast)
Our Retired Explorer (Dines with Michel Foucault in Paris, 1961) - The Weakerthans (Song)
2) I've been listening to a lot of What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law in the last couple of weeks. This podcast began in 2017 as What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law, in which Mars discussed Trump's various shenanigans with constitutional law professor Elizabeth Joh. The podcast got renamed in 2021 but continued sporadically, and is now picking up the pace again.
It's highly informative (Joh's very good at explaining complicated legalities clearly), and I feel like I understand a lot of current issues better. I'd recommend it for (a) any US citizen or resident, and (b) anyone who wants to understand why the fuck the US is in the state it's in.
A few particularly useful episodes:
"Fishy Deep State" (27 August 2024), about the dismantling of the "administrative state" apparatus that allows the regulation of e.g. pollution, workplace safety, food safety, etc. by the Supreme Court.
"Law-Free Zone" (16 July 2024), about the Supreme Court's recent grant of near-total legal immunity to presidents.
"The Disqualification Clause" (18 December 2023), about banning insurrectionists from public office.
"Comstock Zombies" (13 May 2023), about the Comstock Act (passed 1873, still law) and the future of reproductive rights after Dobbs. There's also an earlier episode specifically about Dobbs, but I think this one has the advantage of a little distance that allows Joh and Mars to dig deeper into consequences.
"The Second Amendment" (7 June 2022), about the constitutional right to bear arms, and what it means. If you only listen to one episode, it should be this one. I continue to be shocked at how extremely recently the Supreme Court ruled that there's even an individual right to bear arms at all (2008, District of Columbia v Heller, majority opinion written by Scalia may he spent eternity being shot by assault rifles in hell). Before this decision, states had a lot of power to regulate gun ownership. Now they have almost none.
In any case, I've nominated some fandoms. Links to my fandom promotion posts:
Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature (Podcast)
World Gone Wrong (Podcast)
Our Retired Explorer (Dines with Michel Foucault in Paris, 1961) - The Weakerthans (Song)
2) I've been listening to a lot of What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law in the last couple of weeks. This podcast began in 2017 as What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law, in which Mars discussed Trump's various shenanigans with constitutional law professor Elizabeth Joh. The podcast got renamed in 2021 but continued sporadically, and is now picking up the pace again.
It's highly informative (Joh's very good at explaining complicated legalities clearly), and I feel like I understand a lot of current issues better. I'd recommend it for (a) any US citizen or resident, and (b) anyone who wants to understand why the fuck the US is in the state it's in.
A few particularly useful episodes:
"Fishy Deep State" (27 August 2024), about the dismantling of the "administrative state" apparatus that allows the regulation of e.g. pollution, workplace safety, food safety, etc. by the Supreme Court.
"Law-Free Zone" (16 July 2024), about the Supreme Court's recent grant of near-total legal immunity to presidents.
"The Disqualification Clause" (18 December 2023), about banning insurrectionists from public office.
"Comstock Zombies" (13 May 2023), about the Comstock Act (passed 1873, still law) and the future of reproductive rights after Dobbs. There's also an earlier episode specifically about Dobbs, but I think this one has the advantage of a little distance that allows Joh and Mars to dig deeper into consequences.
"The Second Amendment" (7 June 2022), about the constitutional right to bear arms, and what it means. If you only listen to one episode, it should be this one. I continue to be shocked at how extremely recently the Supreme Court ruled that there's even an individual right to bear arms at all (2008, District of Columbia v Heller, majority opinion written by Scalia may he spent eternity being shot by assault rifles in hell). Before this decision, states had a lot of power to regulate gun ownership. Now they have almost none.
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Date: 2024-09-29 06:52 am (UTC)I feel like this just crossed my radar recently! Chances of my listening to an audio drama podcast still currently nil, but the worldbuilding sounds fantastic. I hope someone does write you an unexplored corner of Anterra.
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Date: 2024-10-01 12:10 am (UTC)Thanks for the recs!