Jonathan A Neufeld

@jneuf.bsky.social

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Philosophy professor, critic, book review editor, recovering violist. Interested in aesthetic disobedience, democracy. Some opera, bit of Melville, more dogs than strictly necessary.

Poussin's Adoration of the Golden Calf

Laser thermometer reads 99 aimed at leg with Hattie and deck in background

bundle of Twizzlers

Clipped picture of the text quoted, along with the Greek facing: Βυζάντιοι δέ, ἐπειδὴ τῶν τε σεισμῶν1 ᾔσθοντο καὶ τὰ ξυμπεσόντα ἀμφί τε τῷ Νείλῳ καὶ τῷ κήτει τούτῳ ἔγνωσαν, προὔλεγον αὐτίκα ξυμβήσεσθαι ὅσα δὴ αὐτῶν ἑκάστῳ ἤρεσκε

tray filled with pennies that says "LEAVE-A-PENNY TAKE-A-PENNY" on it

Stringer Bell asking "Is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?"

John Rawls's head badly photoshopped onto John Travolta's body in the famous white suit photo from Saturday Night Fever

Bright yellow poster of Little murders. Chaotic scent with Marcia Rodd swinging a handbag at people beating up Elliott Gould.

trump, in a caricature of a men's clothing catalog pose, sitting in a hideous gilded chair surrounded by shiny stuff

Pot of beans, a halved eggplant on a grill. Scruffy terrier lounging in the background

But the ‘historical-critical consciousness’ which saves us from the
‘thoughtless formalism’ of interpreting the provision of the Reich’s constitution
that ‘the budget is to be determined by a statute’ and that ‘such
an appropriation as well as the offering of sureties by the Reich may take
place only on the basis of a statute of the Reich’ as making the claim that
the budget must be determined by a statute, and that the taking of loans
or the offering of sureties may take place only on the basis of a statute,
this ‘historical-critical consciousness’, according to C.S., must not prevent
us from adopting an ideology of the constitutionalist doctrine that,
more than any other, clearly wears its indebtedness to a particular
historical-political situation on its sleeve: the doctrine of the pouvoir
neutre of the head of state! C.S. even turns this formula of Constant’s into
the main instrument of his interpretation of the Weimar Constitution. It
is only with its help that he can arrive at the conclusion that the ‘guardian
of the constitution’ is not, as one should expect on the basis of article 19,
the Staatsgerichtshof or some other court, but only the president of the
Reich; and this according to the constitution now in force, not according
to a constitutional reform that is yet to take place.

It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all. The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody
that there is nothing that can be done.

This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear.

skeet from ron filopkowski showing a Truth (sic) Social post from DJT "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT" 4 hrs before announcing the tariff pause.

Yes another picture of Fox news's "Tump's Manly Tariffs" chyron with Jesse Waters holding his hand up with thumb and forefinger touching.

Scruffy terrier sleeping on my leg.

Scruffy brown terrier with "STAD UP FOR SCIENCE" on one side of his shirt/sign

Little jerk of a dog sleeping under a quilt with his face sticking out a hole in it.

Peter Falk as Columbo

Poster for Martin Lawrence's TV show "Martin" with Martin Heidegger's head badly photoshopped over Lawrence's.