I think the plan for this is just to have Kennedy in charge of public health.

Please stop putting screenshots of AI shit in my mentions.

Sometimes I think not much has changed, but then I write a footnote about the man-in-the-house rule and law students ask me whether it applied regardless of gender identity.

I just keep looking at the approved list and wondering how they decided which ones would be adjectives and which would be nouns.

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Seeing another round of hope vs. despair discourse play out in climate circles, so allow me to once again put a plug in for rage.

This one is really bad. They put in writing that she should have censored her class b/c the complaining student was known to have filed multiple complaints.

Clarifications from SSRN. I continue to think that these changes aren’t that substantively bad but are being rolled out in a ham-fisted way that illustrates just how much control over its scholarly communications the legal academy has ceded to a for-profit corporation. blog.ssrn.com/2026/06/04/s...

Interesting that it's feminine coded both times but with much more implied frivolity and less agency on the current one.

well, shit. No more weekly journals, work can't be posted after publication, and posting requires an unrevocable creative-commons license that extends to commercial use (i.e., AI).

So, like three bikes? (I live in Boulder.)

I just discovered that I spent actual time in my life preparing to give comments about a paper at a conference, and it was written by fucking Claude. "I used it because I don't know anything about Family Law," so he decided to just whip up some slop then bring it to a family law

move over Hemingway

The Talarico discourse reminds me that when liberals want to vice signal, they often go after vegans.

Law profs/students/anyone doing legal scholarship: If you're not using @zotero.org to manage cites and research, you should. An unbelievable time saver. I've revised the Bluebook style for rendering footnotes, w/ detailed instructions on using Zotero: danepps.github.io/bluebook/

Thing is, if you don’t want to deal with this issue you shouldn’t try to be governor (or mayor). The fact that police have become an independent political force untethered from civilian control is a central, existential issue in our politics. Someone has to face it, & you worked hard to be the one.

But sure, keep telling women not to question doctors' orders.

"hundreds of gold bars worth over $40 million..., a small fortune that he apparently brought home from work" What are they paying reporters at the Times these days?

authors getting paid a living wage

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Steve is finishing up his next book, and he has a concordance of adjectives and adverbs so that when he's editing a passage and about to add a modifier, he can check whether he's used it elsewhere and how many pages away.

In which gross abuse of power is called "errors," "blunders," "breaches of protocol," "missteps," "mistakes," and "transgressions." "Flagrant misconduct" and a decent quote from Judge Perry show up in paragraphs 28-30 (out of 30) after a long walk through "lack of training" as the explanation.

It turns out taxing the rich along with prosecuting white collar corruption, investing in universal basic income, and just about every progressive policy, are both outrageously effective and and popular.

Happy BolderBoulder Day to all who celebrate! (sign posted at the last mile)

Um. "... enamored of a woman 20 yrs his junior. Their nearly decade-long friendship became strained after she failed to repay a loan .... Worried he might lose her entirely, he confessed his feelings, offered to take care of her financially and let her live with him. She turned him down."

"When someone offers you a seat on the rocket, don't ask questions." -Eric Schmidt.

Counterpoint: No I will not

As a naive investor who has no business buying anything but index funds--can confirm. I want off this train.

Scrolling through every lawyer on Bluesky live-posting how their eyes are melting as they read The Transcript, and here comes ...

I keep seeing that USA Boutros "was 'completely unaware' of the misconduct until late last month." Sir, today is May 21.

What is this pull-out sentence even supposed to mean? A liberal arts education consists largely of "resonating" with other people--past, present, and future. Oh, she went to Stanford.

This is brilliant.

I want the federal government to create a key-word searching search engine modeled after Google in its heyday and make it available for free as part of the infrastructure of the modern economy, like the Interstate Highway System.

Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing

Thank god this is getting ratio'd. Most of it is calling out the wolf-resurrection b.s. I've written about the fantasy of artificial wombs (link in next post). One of the important upshots is the ideological work that the fantasy does in the here and now to dehumanize pregnant people.

Academics: Please consider joining this academic boycott of @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social until it stops pressing charges against protestors. Swarthmore is my and my child's alma mater.

When our data gets leaked, we get a subscription to a shitty identity fraud insurance scheme. When Trump's data gets leaks he gets a two billion dollars to give to pedophile insurrectionists and a get-out-of-jail-free card.

This is peak America [laudatory]. I nominate him for president.

Intellectual life quickly taking on the character of tiresomely predictable performance art

People use this sort of finding to dunk on ICE, etc., but it's worth remembering that, for any given set of skills that society values at a given time, half of us are below median. That doesn't mean we deserve stunted, unfulfilled lives. Society needs to offer something besides the "meritocracy."

Billionaires, you DO have agency in your future. Of course, the question is not WHETHER the rich get eaten, it's how. SOMEONE will make decisions about whether your wealth is whittled away through a wealth tax, or through hefty lawsuits and fines finally holding you to account for externalities.

The thing I would say right now is that continuously engaging in learning, keeping your brain doing things, will be the most important skill for the future. Whatever it is that you're doing.

no, you dipshit, before you get on you ask SAY, WHERE IS THIS ROCKETSHIP HEADED

It's a good thing the law school has a LEED-certified building in which to run giant screens all summer, 24/7, advertising our environmental events to an empty building.

I am once again asking that people creating mini White Houses adhere to the proportions. No wonder the bees swarmed the real one instead. They, at least, can recognize the golden ratio when they see it.

I wonder, if you tossed the question out to a listserv of public defenders in Colorado and gave them 24 hours, how many people they could name who are more "over-sentenced" than Tina Peters?

Now that I'm attuned to it I see it everywhere: Law profs can't read statutes. The main mistake I see is that the cited provision says what the prof claims it says but is in a completely separate portion of a big, complicated statute, so it doesn't have the effect they're claiming.

In addition to fighting back against GOP gerrymandering, here’s another reason why state-level races so important in 2026: if Dems win trifectas in combo of MI, PA, WI, NV & AZ they can put National Popular Vote Interstate Compact over 270 electoral votes & elect next president with popular vote

Three things I've heard people say in literally every place I've ever lived: (1) The water here is so hard. (2) We have so many homeless people b/c our services are so generous, so we're a destination for them. (3) You know what they say about [name of state]: if you don't like the weather ...