ohlistic

Assistant Professor, University of the Philippines College of Law. Provider of ropes.

[ohlistic @ohlistic]

Someone I know who’s incredibly famous has been able to get around in public in relative anonymity ever since wearing face masks became normal in the Philippines

[Samuel Benson @sambbenson]

"Years earlier, [Romney had] bumped into Zach Braff on a flight and the sitcom actor had given him a useful piece of advice: for most not-quite-A-list celebrities, a simple baseball cap and a pair of reading glasses were usually enough to avoid being spotted in public."

One of the countless gems from @mckaycoppins' ROMNEY: A RECKONING

[David Gibson @GibsonWrites]

In March 2003 Pope John Paul II sent his envoy, Archbishop Laghi, to the Oval Office to implore Pres Bush not to invade Iraq. Bush put the letter aside w/o reading it and asked +Laghi to pray with him.

+Laghi responded: "I prayed before I came here."

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

Cenk, thanks for playing. Everyone knew Lindsey Graham was gay, yes. And since he didn't acknowledge this publicly, we assumed he was invested in keeping it private. This is why the entirety of this platform chided him as Lady Graham. We were not big Graham supporters, if you've paid attention at all. We rightly attacked him for wanting to bomb foreign lands every other week, and I supported his primary opponents. And no, we didn't know of or have some special insider knowledge of tapes or allegations of underage male prostitutes.

The question is how long have you known? Were you planning on releasing this against him during the general before he died? Why are you attacking a dead man who can't defend himself?

But you did release them now, so are you trying to implicate his sister Darline, as if she did anything wrong here? Do you have any proof that she was complicit? Are you suggesting she arranged his encounters? What exactly are you implying?

Isn't it quite understandable, and plausible, that she disagreed with her brother but loved him nonetheless, as many families choose to? And that she likely had no idea about what he did in secret?

How long have you been sitting on this nothing burger of an October Surprise, Cenk?

[ohlistic @ohlistic]

"The curators have indulged the contemporary ideological delusion that art can be experienced without reference to history, culture, context or idea. No museum I’ve visited is as relentlessly hostile to curiosity, exhausting and ultimately depressing." https://t.co/0BDqH1QaPE

[ohlistic @ohlistic]

The physical evidence (ie, non-digital) was found in Cebu, reported by the son to Philippine authorities. The father had already returned to the US. Will Philippine authorities attempt to extradite? Could they? Instant bar exam question.

[Benjamin Butterworth @benjaminbutter]

Meghan Markle’s father ‘found with thousands of child abuse images’ by his son
https://t.co/1xxsNaEfzK

[Rich Raho @RichRaho]

New tonight regarding bishops meeting with Trump in Oval: USCCB spokesman says: “This was not something that the USCCB organized. It is not affiliated with the Conference. I have no further information.” New report suggests Heritage Foundation (author of Project 2025) organized today’s meeting.

[ohlistic @ohlistic]

It may have well been particularly tragic for Lindsey Graham that he never got the chance to serve with Graham Platner in the US Senate.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 BREAKING: Three male sex workers just came forward to reveal that they were paid to have sex with the late Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.

One was UNDERAGE when he reportedly had sex with Graham.

[ohlistic @ohlistic]

There is a relaxed way of doing Socratic. This is disfavored in PH law schools, where the student faces the same kind of scrutiny as if appearing before a judge or a tribunal. That roleplay helps prepare student for those kinds of scenarios, but is that truly Socratic?

[ohlistic @ohlistic]

Socratic method is an effective way to test if the student understood (or read) the assignment for the day. Socratic is usually deployed for that purpose in Philippine law schools. Whether this is truly "Socratic", others can debate about that.

[ohlistic @ohlistic]

The Socratic method, whatever the reason deployed, is time-consuming, especially for courses where the amount of ground that must be covered is not commensurate to the number of units assigned for the subject. This for me is the greatest disincentive to apply the Socratic method.

[ohlistic @ohlistic]

Fixed wall hangings for my office at the Law Complex. A triptych of sorts on Variations on the “Lady Justice” cliche.

[Dax @daxlucas]

Wow! NOT AI-written! 👍🏼😝

[GORM THE OLD @GORMTHEOLD25]

Trump Addresses the U.S. Politburo (1982)

[Tony Annett @tonyannett]

Interesting alternative history:

Imagine FDR hadn’t imposed an embargo on Japan. That would likely caused it to choose the northern strategy (invading the USSR) rather than the southern strategy (the push for the Dutch East Indies to get the oil).

What would Hitler have done? It’s likely he would have brought forth his invasion of the Soviet Union. And I don’t think Stalin could have successfully fought this kind of two-front war.

That would have all kinds of knock on effects on the allied war effort, none of them good.

[Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor]

It's really surreal to imagine the world in early 2029 where Europe has its most far-right set of governments since the 1930s, Latin America is, by and large, dominated by the right, but the U.S. has possibly its most progressive admin in history.

[ohlistic @ohlistic]

The DICT has been the unexpectedly Shakespearean of agencies.

[ohlistic @ohlistic]

Cardinal Bergoglio, pre-pontificate, always also paid for extra-legroom seats for his flights on account of his own lower back issues.

[ohlistic @ohlistic]

The Cardinal’s post makes clear that he was not able to secure an extra legroom seat for either flight, and his criticism of the seeming limited legroom in the emergency row seat was based on sight.

[BusinessMirror @BusinessMirror]

LOOK: Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David criticized Philippine Airlines (PAL) over cramped seating and limited legroom on his Cebu flights, saying the tight space aggravated his osteoarthritis.

“I could not help wondering: Has the ‘Heart of the Filipino’ become a little less compassionate toward the Filipino passenger?”

#KnowMore

[Miya Shay @miyashay]

Neil Bush, brother of one President Bush & son of another President Bush, just posted that he voted for @JamesTalarico. Neil still lives in the same neighborhood as father did for decades here in Houston.