I feel like UPenn’s athletics department would be surprised to hear that.

Scott Bessent, raising the bar for the most embarrassing thing a gay man has accidentally shown someone on his phone.

Indiana has turbocharged a crackdown on anyone who has criticized Charlie Kirk after his death. Top officials have been channeling public anger into a kind of internet hotline, where submissions are displayed publicly on a government website.

What makes our academic institutions vulnerable to this sort of attack is (a) our openness to discussion and debate [e.g. this professor let the student stay in the class for some time], (b) our strong internal protections against discrimination [which can be pretty easy to weaponize, as here], +

They should retaliate with a 100% tariff just on Home Alone 2.

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.” Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins? www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

We’ve very rapidly moved from “just asking questions” to “do not discuss this topic or you will be punished by the state,” and that should alarm even the most ardent critics of trans rights. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/26/t...

Tim Curry is truly such a unique treasure that he should be designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The most expensive, inconvenient, and pointless corporate training ever, brought to you by the same people who lost their minds over DEI webinars.

👀 www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

I learned today that the 1Ls have been taking bets on what kind of car I drive and I’m very pleased that the top guess was a Subaru.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is really great reporting from Mother Jones - the "godfather" of evidence-based medicine disavows the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine for misusing his work. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is such a shameful period in civil rights history and I still firmly believe it’s going to be remembered as such.

This piece by Robert Post is excellent. I especially like that he traces the Trump Administration's authoritarian trampling on the First Amendment to, in part, the Roberts Court's extreme unitary executive theory. verfassungsblog.de/turn-against...

There are few institutions I trust to do the right thing anymore but my faith in Lilith Fair has never wavered.

If someone is going to call me a f*ggot on a long run I think it’s in poor taste to do it on mile 17.

After years of this insanity I’ve built up a tolerance to my old drugs (Great British Bake Off) and need stronger stuff (Indigo Girls concert).

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Part of the success of “cancel culture” as a meme is that it makes dissimilar activity look the same. Protesting a speaker is not the same as shunning sexual predators is not the same as the federal government silencing dissent.

Matthew: “I was reading today about the lipstick effect, where people splurge on small luxuries during economic crises…” Me: [surreptitiously hiding a pot I just bought just because it looks like a pierced nipple] “oh interesting”

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

He couldn't save himself by firing professors. The cultural revolution marches on. You won't escape it by cowardice. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

This is a 9-0 Supreme Court decision from just last year.

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

Auburn now.

Anyway in other news today is Constitution Day

At least we’re not being asked to rally behind James Corden.

Some of these longevity pioneers have never seen Goldie Hawn poignantly discussing the original ending to the cinematic masterpiece Death Becomes Her and it shows!

Lawyers and law profs should check out this letter, in which the attorney general of South Carolina purports to waive state law to allow Clemson to fire faculty over their political views. This is the logic of the TikTok ban spreading outward--that the executive branch can just waive criminal law.

A UN commission of inquiry has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and accused senior Israeli officials including Benjamin Netanyahu of inciting it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

New PEN America statement: “The firing and suspension of multiple journalists after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk should alarm anyone who cares about free speech and a free press. Taken together, these measures risk creating a chilling effect that extends beyond those directly targeted..."

Here is Stephen Miller clearly indicating that we're about to see a McCarthyite campaign of state-sponsored persecution against the liberal-left, all fake-justified by the murder of Charlie Kirk:

JEFF HILLER! *So* deserving of the Emmy and makes my favorite story of this awards season even that much better.

"we cannot express our regrets profoundly enough, but it is our hope that you will use these two free passes to return to jurassic park"

I’m finally finishing the last season of Ultimatum: Queer Love and it’s a real masterpiece of the genre for making every* character a hero and a villain at some point in the series. *except Kyle’s mom, who is an icon and a legend and deserves her own show

Universities are likely the last major private setting in the US that fosters and encourages substantive debate. But Bari Weiss is still fighting the war she started as an undergrad (getting professors she disagrees with fired) under the banner of free speech. It's beyond disingenuous.

UC Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty, and staff as part of an investigation into antisemitism on campus. One of them is Judith Butler. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Excited to be joining the Ved Nanda Center next week to discuss Rehan Abeyratne's excellent new book on LGBTQ+ rights and the decline of global constitutionalism - if that ticks your boxes, a link to join the webinar is below! www.law.du.edu/nanda-center...

…by creating lists of people he disagreed with so they could be doxxed or threatened or fired? Kirk’s death is awful *and* I think one can hold that belief without lionizing the divisive and often violent politics he espoused.

Utah was the first state to allow open carry on campus. A would-be assailant could walk right onto campus armed as they please and nobody could’ve done a thing about it.

This is better than the alternative. But the conservatives in the majority likely added that unusual caveat ("not a ruling on the merits") to clarify that they do NOT intend to side with the transgender boy in the end. They just don't think keeping him out of the bathroom is an emergency right now.

My parents took me out of a country where this was the norm and where it led to the execution and imprisonment of millions of innocent people. They brought me here, to America, believing that it would not happen here. And yet here we are.

Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

...the same AI that can't add?

I really feel for Con Law profs. How are you supposed to teach anything based on principle? What exactly can you say about the Court ignoring 90-year old precedent with an opposite ruling on the shadow docket with no explanation? How can you do or teach any common law reasoning about Con Law now?