About to start this four-hour exam. Let’s go, girls (halfhearted).

Aww, remember Thapar's little manifesto about the BYU Corpus Linguistics Clinic? So recent, and yet so long ago, and yet so right now. Good times

DePaul University announced Monday that it’s laid off 114 staff members to address a budget shortfall caused by rising costs and a significant drop in enrollment among international graduate students.

I found a pack of peanut M&Ms under this table in the atrium and I'd like you guys to vote on whether I should eat it; let me know the results, polls close at 6 PM central thanks

Oh my dog. Not only does Pentiment allow you to pet the dog it has different animations for different dog sizes!

Much like Finnegans Wake itself, I have no idea what this website is about. And I've read some of both. maybeday.net/night/

I am going to read every footnote no matter how terrible this article is just because of this prompt

"Are you wearing a grocery bag?" "I have misplaced my pants."

The press published the name of yesterday’s person of interest who has since been released. Do better.

Featuring Gowder *and* Koppelman?! They’re spoiling us!

I just read that liking a post is a gesture of romance. And, honestly, any excuse for the poor performance of my skeets will do. Y’all are playing coy.

I think about this every day

I should be studying, so naturally here’s a tour.

👇 it me 👇

10 hours of studying + 4 hours of exam ahead today. + kidney stone, still

I’m bad at games but was able to make it all the way through this one. AND it’s hilarious. 10/10 no notes

That’s the thing about the insistence of the government to do nothing about student debt and not focus on affordability. Be moralistic, be snarky, and be ridiculous all you want, people will just stop paying.

for example, the series of shrieks and howls emitted by Elliott when the tarantula is dropped on his face

Awestruck by the performances of Chris Elliott and Joe Pesci in “Home Alone”

I have taken a slice of the baguette. I mean, the “law stick” 😊

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

THE MEMO IS DONE IT'S DONE OUT OF MY HANDS

The thing about this dude is that he was a star NFL running back and also a Supreme Court Justice

See also papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We laid dad to rest on Friday. Here is the euology I gave. Thanks to you all for giving somewhere to grieve in words. It's really helped.

Under Trump, the SEC has eased up on more than 60% of the crypto cases that were ongoing when he took office in January. Many of the firms that benefited from the leniency had financial ties to the Trump family. The SEC is no longer pursuing any cases against crypto firms with Trump ties.

oh my lord

“I uploaded the problem set, do it for me. Remember not to use em-dashes”

1. Closed book exams 2. Oral defenses of research and more formative assessments on research projects 3. Endorse use of AI where helpful in learning process: for example, my students put class notes into Gemini and created a “Friedman Torts podcast” which they listened to on their commute.

Emoluments for my Clause, emollients for my paws is a thing I sing to my dog every day as I apply Musher's Wax to her toe beans.

“At least two of the Brown University students who were on campus when a deadly shooting unfolded there on Saturday have survived school shootings before.”

Dog play afternoon: dachshunds overrun Hyde Park for Christmas walk

Hate to say I told you so, but he's back at it. Recidivism rates out of control.

I’m quoted in this story. www.cbs58.com/news/sen-joh...

I'm cold and tired and sleep deprived and my dog has decided she is IN LOVE with a new dog down the block and is whining nonstop every minute we're not outside. He's 2 and she's 15 and I told her it's probably not going to work out, but she says you're as young as you feel.

Sharing this because it's funny.

You have to admit that Bari Weiss taking over CBS News and instantly turning it into her personal Tiktok page is freaking funny as hell

Technically yes.

Oh my god, a Pardon Attorney exists?! A Pardon Attorney in the Age of Trump. Kinda like Love in the Time of Cholera.

I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC. There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI. Spread the word. www.ribc.org/donate-blood/

It’s abhorrent and dangerous for the President of the States to post that the mass shooter at Brown University is in custody when in fact they were not.

We love a Gowder thread. 🧵

Not a novel observation, but I'm going to run it through my students next month so I'm trying out my student-level explanation here first: The vesting clause theory of presidential monarchism (uh, "the unitary executive") is in tension with no less than Marbury v. Madison. I'll explain. 🧵

Last year I ran into a great-great-great (or thereabouts) niece of Helen Palsgraf in an Instagram comment thread and my greatest (ha!) regret is not taking down her username.

I feel like the ALR is too much for my brain to handle. It's definitely too much for Westlaw's processing power to handle; I can feel the life draining from my body as it tries in vain to filter by circuit.

Idk, I've got the same old sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach that comes up every time there's an ostensibly imminent day of reckoning for powerful men.

Even a young(er) Sam Alito agreed having a REAL ID would establish legal status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We've moved beyond a "papers please" society to a "you think you can prove your status? Fuck you, you don't get to prove your status, <racial slur>" society. Well, back to that society. Next stop, paying immigration "judges" twice as much to deport people as to let them stay?

Sweet fancy Moses.