There are colleagues, there are friends, and then there’s @cmorten.bsky.social — primus inter pares. 🙌🏾😍🎉

So glad to welcome my former student back to NYU as a faculty member. Circle of life.

Big if true

Ideological consistency, like stare decisis, is for suckers.

I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Join us virtually on Monday, Sept 29 @ 1pm ET for the @acslaw.bsky.social’s National Annual Supreme Court Preview. Register at the link: www.ali.org/news/article...

Honestly, he got it. This is an impossibly hard thing to get right. I can quibble about some parts, and it’s impossible to do normie content that’s also sufficient for the moment, but he did as good a job as is possible. Especially glad he rightfully called out the threat to journalists.

ABC has posted the first 28 minutes of @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

The "Tacos Chotiner" tweet remains undefeated

Struggled for a bit on this one but: Ratataft

Facts not in evidence 😵‍💫

BREAKING: In place of Jimmy Kimmel’s return, Sinclair and Nexstar will broadcast 90 minutes of Ezra Klein criticizing you for not reading “The Bell Curve”

this is the most chotinered a chotiner interview has ever chotinered

Whomever argues the case for Commissioner Slaughter has some interesting choices to make.

Don't think I've ever felt this embarrassed to be an American. There's shame and anger too. But mostly embarrassment. We're the laughingstock of the developed world. And we should be.

It would be much easier to understand the TikTok "deal" if it weren't so obvious that the insiders leaking about it to the press don't understand the technical details.

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

We've literally been waiting since 2016

IT IS TIME.

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

Today, @genevievelakier.bsky.social explains how Title VI, perhaps the crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement, has become one of the most powerful forces against desegregation.

i was just thinking about how much of a bone deep racist you’d have to be to even think of this. i know hegseth belongs to a religious cult whose leader thinks slavery was good. how about someone ask pete what the thinks the proper station of black people is.

“What unites the many actions of the Trump administration, from the sledgehammer it has taken to government programs to the demonstrative cruelty it has built into immigration raids, is that they transform the daily physical, economic and psychic experience of life…”

The person quoted here by Baker makes both factual and legal misstatements to a degree that would get you in major trouble in court (I would hope).

We’re finally getting that government-run social media platform we all used to joke about in the teens.

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

That's literally false. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that praising someone's death is protected speech, including in Snyder v Phelps (2011), where protesters at a soldier's funeral held signs that said "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" & "Thank God for 9/11" rollcall.com/2025/09/19/s...

TikTok has gotten the green light to spin off a US version of its app under different ownership, after Trump and Xi blessed the outlines of a deal today to avert a ban signed by President Biden, @drewharwell.com reports: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

“In 1963..Supreme Court drew a constitutional line. The gov’t is free to encourage and persuade private entities to support its policies…But the First Amendment forbids the government from using coercion backed by threats of punishment to suppress speech.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

The marvelous thing about this short opinion (which you should read in full) is that it is a reader’s lament. Any writer or editor who has been forced to get through a tedious manuscript will relate.

JUST IN: Bitter exchange as 2nd Circuit denies DOJ's en banc petition on Ozturk/Madhawi, even though no one publicly dissented. Menashi/Park think courts must stay out of immigration detention & stay decisions aren't precedent. Nathan & 5 others would keep powder dry for merits

Genevieve Lakier is who everyone should be reading on the risks of government jawboning in the Jimmy Kimmel case. @genevievelakier.bsky.social

Ben Smith continues to be Ben Smith

I wrote about what the desperate attempt to find a trans connection to the Charlie Kirk assassination tells us about the deep psychological impulses at work in Trumpism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

@latenightseth.bsky.social just now: “this is a pivotal moment for our democracy and we must all stand up for free speech.”

Update: ACLU of Northern California and EFF have sent San Francisco a letter reiterating that the sharing driver locations with out-of-state entities is illegal. It also demands proof they’ve come into compliance. Read it here: www.eff.org/files/2025/0...

You threaten to conquer a country a whole bunch of times and all of a sudden people get all mad bsky.app/profile/step...

Horse, barn, etc.

When people first hear about "jawboning" -- meaning government pressure to suppress speech through threats and other extra-legal measures, like what the FCC is doing now -- they always want to talk about "coercion" by the govt. I've always thought this is a red herring. Current events show why. 1/

People will never stop beclowning themselves.

I am weary, but unbowed.

The First Amendment forecloses the government from imprisoning and deporting people for their political advocacy. Here’s our just-filed brief in support of Mahmoud Khalil. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

"A superfluous amalgam of middle school-level history and selective judicial philosophy that reads like a tuneless, 250-page version of 'Schoolhouse Rock.'"

By making jokes about killing innocent brown people at a political rally, JD Vance is doing politics the right way. —Ezra Klein

Ed Blum simply will not rest until there are no more people of color in places he doesn't think they should be

It’s so disappointing that this is coming from the former chief proponent of ending the filibuster

compelled speech says what