The tobacco industry has become increasingly worried that the Nicotine Free Generation movement here and in the UK is a real threat to their grotesque business model. So they are escalating their work in opposition, a telling sign that we’re on to something with this reform. Health above profits.

#BULawProf @katesilbaugh.bsky.social and Henry L. Dorkin discuss the value of ‘nicotine free generation’ policies, which have been enacted in communities across Massachusetts and recently adopted by the UK. Read more ➡️ www.statnews.com/2026/05/19/n...

I feel honored to receive this university award.

Britain embraces a Massachusetts experiment on tobacco regulation — just as the state might roll it back www.statnews.com/2026/05/19/n... via @statnews.com

Delighted to review @azizaahmed.bsky.social's terrific book "Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of Aids" at JOTWELL: health.jotwell.com/public-healt...

'Corporate Childrearing' is forthcoming in Duke Law Journal (26-27). Corporations play a huge role in children's identity formation. The piece reshapes the family law triangle into a square to make their influence and their intrusion on family relationships explicit. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Such a pleasure to team up with my #BULaw colleague @sshermanstokes.bsky.social Sherman-Stokes to tell this important story of race, immigration, and tax law.

Kagan apologizes for citing herself in Paxton dissent ❤️

Mahmoud v. Taylor upends the law allowing parents to direct their child’s education by choosing their child’s school, *not* by creating a buffet of content at the public school that parents can choose. Completely misrepresents Yoder precedent.

For every millionaire household that would get a tax break from Republicans’ big, ugly bill, 19 Americans would be stripped of their health coverage. Their priorities couldn’t be clearer. We must stop this devastating bill.

Thrilled to host this amazing group at Drexel for another wonderful Family Law Scholars & Teachers Conference! Most grateful for the generous feedback, new ideas, and supportive community #FLSTC @drexelklinelaw.bsky.social

Oh, you useless lib females eat BRUNCH? With FRIENDS? Leftist vanguards of the REVOLUTION only eat BREAKFAST ALONE AT AN HOUR BEFORE TEN AM

They are only "Attack Plans" unless they're from the "War Plans" region of France.

Cut off checks and see who complains to identify fraudsters? Why not just throw them in the lake and see if they float or sink?

You can't just be right, you have to know you're right. Good advice for LLMs, according to new Johns Hopkins research. Sometimes no answer is better than a wrong one - life or death choices in medicine, for example, or big financial decisions. 🧵

Machine learning paper says the longer the machine thinks the better its answer; a second thought is usually more accurate.

The Pope drops a diss track on JD Vance

Thread on the 28th Amendment by ERA scholar. It’s in.

Laurence Tribe on 28th A: it is now part of the Constitution. Congress’s date is not binding. To be binding, it would need to be in the Amendment text, per S Ct case law known before Congress of 1960s/70s ratified, and Congress chose not to put deadline where it would have power.Celebrate the 28th!

Check out Stanford Law School professor Deborah Siva’s discussion of the LA fires, climate change, and insurance nightmares.

our furniture and construction materials are full of plastic even when it doesn’t look that way. Plastic burns faster (harder to escape) and is more toxic in the smoke.

hello darkness my old friend

“By every metric, Bidenomics was a roaring success.” The issues then are not economic? Alternatives: social/cultural, psychological, or informational?

I think one reason why a lot of women resist feminist insights about the extent and vehemence of men’s misogyny is that they can’t accept how stupid it is.

Forthcoming from my amazing colleague Aziza Ahmed.bluesky.social

The new Brolagarchy

1/2 More people should talk about this: both houses of Congress have passed the ERA, and 38 states have ratified it. That makes it an amendment. Congress has put additional conditions of a time limit on an already absurdly difficult amendment process.

For better or worse, I think New World contracts are here to stay. Given my view that consumer consent is a fiction, contract law should be retooled with this understanding in mind. This means far more guardrails on contracts to address power asymmetries.

State Voting Rights Acts are a new effort to enshrine stronger voting rights in state law. Check out this episode of my podcast, Democracy Optimist, to learn more about them: open.spotify.com/episode/0FJs...

Good read here. www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

How fun was it to have a completely unanimous faculty vote yesterday to promote @jpygold.bsky.social to full professor with tenure? Listen to his podcast! He’s the best.

Hooray!!

If your rebuttal to a humanities professor's objection to students using gen-AI writing is to compare it to using a calculator in a math course, you should have taken more humanities courses to sharpen your critical thinking and reading comprehension skills.

ash.org/volunteers-k... According to Action on Smoking and Health, I (and my squad) are kicking the tobacco industry’s butt.

Your Academic 2024 Wrapped is here: - You downloaded 249 article PDFs onto your desktop, but only read 3 of them - Your reviews were late by an average of 6 days - You attended 48 meetings that should've been an email - You wrote the word "lacuna" 11 times - You should've been writing more

It’s so hard to grasp why anyone would think that the company’s whose lobbyists are blocking KOSA are the actual champions of the well-being of teenagers rather than the champions of their ability to exploit the vulnerabilities that are a proven attribute of adolescent development.

Too often techie’s seem to feel that parents are an obstacle to a child’s well-being rather than the party more trustworthy with it than a commercial actor. Wishing tech people would resolve their own parent issues enough to evaluate whether parents or corporations are more self-interested.

Not tech??? What do we call the ubiquitous cameras that yielded multiple photos across the city?

Happy to share that @mspecter.bsky.social and I will be speaking at ShmooCon in January! We've been working on a piece for while now on how software reverse engineering informs the work of the FTC and other algorithmic regulators. We're excited to share our findings. (Draft paper posting soon!)

Agree. It would at least include information a person provides that is self-serving, knowing that it is not accurate.

Day 3 of my Texas Hates Mothers and Children Advent Calendar: Since SB 8 ended most abortion in Texas, the infant mortality rate has increased almost 13% (compared to 1.8% nationally). publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/analysi...

Fun!

Very important quick read by Jonathan Feingold of BU. Connects lots of dots, including between higher ed & K12. Cites our research on K12 policies in Florida. #edusky @theemancipator.bsky.social @jpygold.bsky.social @hiroyoshikawany.bsky.social

Periscope (objects around the corner)

Your 4 followers may find this upsetting

Coffee house is two words.

Yesterday, the Massachusetts State legislature passed a resolution commending me and some others for advocacy work on a Nicotine Free Generation birthdate phaseout regulation. The big news is that some legislators announced a plan to introduce a bill to take NFG statewide at the event!

My late 20s daughter and I took a trip to Toronto yesterday for show 5 #eras tour #taylorswift