If Joe Biden had done this he would have been impeached and if Kamala Harris had done this it would have set back feminism 50 years. I am not pointing this out for anyone's benefit but my own because I feel like I am going insane.

At least one of these things has to be true: 1) US intelligence was dead wrong about the strikes taking out Iran’s nuclear facilities in July 2025, 2) the administration lied about the strikes in July 2025, or 3) the administration is lying to Congress and the public now.

I refuse to use AI to generate illustrations so my students are unfortunately stuck with the most cringe and poorly made memes that a geriatric millennial can produce.

The strikes on Iran are blatantly illegal. I explained in June why the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities were unlawful under US and international law. Everything I wrote then is true today, but this is a far larger assault with far graver consequences. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

One thing nobody stresses enough on the academic job market is how incredibly fun it is to see your students and mentees succeed.

I really cannot stress enough how a decade ago private business rallied to prevent this from happening in North Carolina and now a well funded campaign against that situation means the federal government will now bar trans people from using bathrooms consistent with their identity.

Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten

This is straight up cruel and unusual punishment.

It's Title VII sex discrimination day in my seminar!

I’m sorry but Donald Trump absolutely does not know the word “deleterious.”

Me to Matthew over dinner: “Yeah but Kavanaugh was a surprise to me because -“ Ellie (interrupting): “Everybody talk about our day? I took a nap.”

BREAKING: The Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN Trump's "emergency" tariffs. The vote is 6–3. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

This is a brutal rundown of a series of ever more cruel and wholly unjustified and capricious attacks on people who simply wish to be who they are.

BREAKING: Trump admin issues new policy aimed at ending transgender-related care in federal prisons. "It's a really dangerous policy,” an ACLU lawyer representing trans people in federal prison suing the Trump administration tells Law Dork of the new Bureau of Prisons policy.

I say it a lot but I’ve never seen anyone actually do it:

And yet we cannot pay our dues to the UN, which is for all its flaws an actual organization with operational capacity.

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

What a slap in the face to the zero other nominees for the FIFA Peace Prize. 😔

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

I wrote with @yaseminsmallens.bsky.social about the Philippines Supreme Court’s good ruling this month recognizing the property rights of same-sex couples - an important step toward broader equality. www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...

Grateful to everyone at Louisville Law for the generous engagement with my summer project today, which was a very welcome break from the pre-spring-break grind!

Ridiculous. Anodyne statement, recorded over a year ago, and trotted out for chilling effect. This sets terrible precedent – for NC State, the UNC System, and higher ed generally.

Every year the 3L class puts a fake summons on our office door to get us to donate to the hooding auction and every year without fail I briefly think my office has been raided by law enforcement.

Me: “Ellie, you can pick out one toy.” Ellie:

A trans doctor is hounded out of her job by transphobes and still the Telegraph manages to make it seem like she is the villain not the victim. This is exactly what the gender critical brigade want, for trans and non-binary individuals to be forced to "self exclude". archive.today/2026.02.15-1...

Happy Valentine’s Day to my favorite person to be exhausted with and my favorite person to be exhausted by.

Excuse me as I go into a dissociative fugue state.

This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old

I have too many thoughts about why this is messed up to articulate them succinctly but suffice it to say this is very messed up.

I called up one of the White House's "special government employees" involved in the Fulton County FBI raid. I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...

NEW: In 2003, Texas Republicans backed strict limits on medical malpractice lawsuits. Now, 2 decades later, many are urging the TX Supreme Court to reinterpret that statute in cases transgender care. And the court appears very open to doing so. #txlege www.expressnews.com/politics/art...

So far, Pokémon Go has taken more concrete action on the Epstein Files than the US Department of Justice.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

“The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently rolled out a new policy that permits university officials to record classes without notifying the instructor. It’s a practice administrators have used in the past to investigate professors but have now formalized in writing.”

Is there any progress on healthcare premiums doubling or no

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

Star realized something important a few months ago: She didn’t want to waste time pretending to be someone else. So at 36, she sought out gender-affirming care. But since she's on Medicaid, she can't go to the one place near her Ohio town where she feels safe at the doctor: Planned Parenthood

america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Should letting your child enter a building where drag performers exist be a felony crime, on par with burglary and assault? At least one Arizona lawmaker thinks so! We'll find out later today if any of his colleagues agree.. reason.com/2026/02/04/a...

Giorgia Meloni to Vance at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony. #olympics

these people have a moral rot

We often forget that these people are fundamentally losers and wouldn’t know the good life if it broke down their door to arrest them for human trafficking.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

New York City joins UN health network after Trump withdrew US from WHO reut.rs/4qehA2l