Happy pride to everyone in the queer community except for Jared Polis.

The writers, as always, are not subtle

eponym | noun | one for whom or which something is or is believed to be named cardigan James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan. boycott Charles C. Boycott, an English land agent in Ireland who was ostracized for refusing to reduce rents 🧵⬇️

NYT featuring our client in the opening grafs: “For nearly three decades, Raquel Molina — an immigrant from El Salvador . . . — swabbed the toilets, wiped down the seats and vacuumed the aisles of airplanes at Boston’s Logan International Airport. . .” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...

La vina para la vida www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/w...

My latest blog post, part of @knightcolumbia.org's Reconstructing Free Expression project, on how best to make use of diverse information flows. knightcolumbia.org/blog/toward-...

A useful, if somewhat frustrating piece. I guess I want the corresponding essay from the public defender or immigrants’ rights attorney. And those do exist, though not at such length. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...

Inspiring to see a clinician in this important role. Unmentioned in the article: members of the House Education committee, not even a year ago, told CUNY's chancellor to fire Prof. Kassem merely because of his representation of Mahmoud Khalil. An upside-down world... www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/n...

Good result, although let’s see what the Second Circuit has to say.

😑 • midsummer surprise?

It's going to be hilarious (in the soul-crushing way) to see how fast Alabama goes to #SCOTUS for a stay of this ruling under Purcell, after obtaining relief from the Court from a similar injunction <checks notes> 15 days ago on the ground that it *wasn't* too close to the election.

In addition to the fact that hundreds of land-grant colleges exist, Deep Springs has TWENTY-SIX students, and a 4.6% acceptance rate. It’s not the opposite of an Ivy League school, it’s literally an Ivy feeder program for a tiny group of elite students.

A newborn baby abandoned in Union Square subway station in New York was found and adopted by a gay couple. The baby is now 26. Beautiful story. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A striking, clarifying fact not noted here is that, per Reuters yesterday, all but 3 of the 6069 refugees admitted to the US under Trump have been white South Africans. Trump isn't focused on whether immigrants are "legal" but whether they're white. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/u...

This is a big deal. Kudos to Judge Waverly Crenshaw, who saw this case for what it was. I wrote background on the vincdictive prosecution motion for @theintercept.com here: theintercept.com/2026/02/24/t... and covered the evidentiary hearing in Nashville here:

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

Genuinely appalling that Dick Durbin, the highest-ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, keeps (accurately) calling Trump's judicial nominees "MAGA loyalists," and has also personally voted to confirm NINE of them. What are we doing here, man.

You come to me, on the day of my son's wedding, which I am not attending

An excellent article by @cristianfarias.com on the execrable Callais opinion: nymag.com/intelligence...

This is literally true because I can personally attest to the fact that Cornell Law has not offered a course on Critical Race Theory in the last two academic years.

Should have waited til tomorrow afternoon to throw a little more soil on the grave.

This is great. We are lucky to have fusion voting here in NY (I am in Working Families; the downside is I can’t vote in the Dem primaries) and I hope my home state adopts the same.

I talked to the head of the Commonwealth Foundation and to one of the accused writers in the Granta AI scandal — & also had the past 15 years of the prize run through Pangram, which flagged only four stories as containing AI: all from this year and last. [gift link!]

Sanctions were lifted after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction in a suit brought by Albanese’s husband and daughter, who is a U.S. citizen. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Just imagine the absolute contempt that the people who planned this must have for everything they purport to care about, including the freedom and lives of Iranians and the memory of the Holocaust. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

scoop with @jessicatesta.bsky.social: James Murdochis acquiring roughly half of Vox Media, a dramatic expansion in American media www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/b...

They think the level of opposition the base is demanding is stupid and unreasonable and they’re not afraid of losing them or getting primaried. (For some reason when I point this out people get mad but it’s true) bsky.app/profile/dave...

BS all the way down 🙃 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...

Jared Polis should resign today and never return to politics.

This suggests a lack of internal alignment among political appointees as to legality. Needless to say, it takes a lot of illegality for this administration to get to that point.

A very interesting and important new piece from Dave Pozen and Daniel Hemel! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

promises made promises kept

"Congress needs to pass new voting rights legislation and reform the Supreme Court, so that this hyper-ideological majority cannot use a skewed reading of the Constitution to block laws that protect democracy." Eric Holder knows ball www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/o...

Trump’s Willing Functionaries

There is a wonderful NYT profile of Lisa Ann Walter from "Abbott Elementary" (and of course "The Parent Trap") timed to her new comedy special, and I am still thinking about a quote from her co-star Sheryl Lee Ralph who produced the special. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/a...

The cover for this week’s issue is “Plein Air,” by Kadir Nelson. See what’s inside: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/xPRUIo

This is extremely disappointing to me given how much progress was made on EDMI in particular under Obama and Biden. I daresay my home state’s Senate representation has not been inspiring since the days of Carl Levin.

Breaking News: President Trump withdrew his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, in an apparent effort to effectively settle the case, which stemmed from the leak of his tax returns in 2019.

Our free speech infrastructure was cracking even before the 2d Trump admin attacked it. Fixing long-term problems (mostly resulting from tech) may call for some measures that the autocrats can exploit. I discuss the tradeoffs on the blog (in an essay cross-posted at the Knight Institute website). 👇

Instituting a viewpoint neutral policy that’s not content neutral is… odd, to say the least.

seems like jared polis thought this would make him look like an enlightened and humane centrist instead of a dumbass

Whether it’s Ken Paxton committing multiple felonies or James Talarico ordering a vegetarian taco, both Texas Senate candidates have troubled pasts.

Congratulations to our @cornelllaw.bsky.social grads of the Class of 2026! Can’t wait to see what’s next on your journey.

Beloved, The Great Gatsby, One Hundred Years of Solitude (I have a 20th century bias)

Yes Seth.

I listened to the recording yesterday and I was definitely like "... did he just say that?" 😬✂️😑

No surprise, but with no public dissents, #SCOTUS denies Virginia’s long-shot request to reinstate its new congressional map: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

The singers/musicians are… pretty good? That’s the best I can say about this. I hope they do FISC next (the sheet music would all be redacted).

As I just mentioned to @jaywillis.net, I listened to the recording this morning and in addition to this gaffe there was a lot of discussion of severability…

Not a particularly surprising result.