Does anyone have a good, gentle response for middle-school students who want to interview you about feminism for their National History Day project and start their email by calling you "Mrs"?

I think I just read a product placement in a novel.

The inevitable result of this would be the creation of a permanent underclass of exploitable people, who grew up in this country, know no other, and have no education so are more vulnerable than ever before; a serf class for the rich and powerful.

At what point ought one remove extra-curriculars and PT/summer jobs from one's CV? A few yrs ago, I went what I thought of as "full grown-up" by removing all jobs before law school graduation and everything school-related except the degrees and college major. But I wonder if that's kind of boring.

Security screening lines stretch into baggage claim. I won't call it missing my flight. I will call it fighting fascism.

"Warning the participants that they might be exposed to misinfo by the AI didn’t temper the persuasive effect either. "'We told people before, and after, to be careful, that the AI is going to be (or was) biased, and nothing helped,” Naaman said. “Their attitudes about the issues still shifted.'”

Not sure this article captures full depths of the issue. Hegseth is not just wrongly injecting a “divine PURPOSE,” he is bestowing *himself* with divine POWER. That’s not just wrong religious underpinnings, it’s seizing unrestrained, uncontrolled, unanswerable power. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

On reflection, my thoughts are that if you work at a "top-50" law school, you should alert your students to this post. The article is easily identifiable (and will be by anyone who takes the trouble if/when it's published) if this info is all true .

It means that it’s a practice of open discussion and justification among humans. If the core of that process is automated, using unknown black box algorithms, owned by private entities, it ceases to be public. That’s contrary to democracy, the rule of law, you name it.

My new article on common-law marriage will be published next year in Georgetown Law Journal. bsky.app/profile/geor... Email me if you'd be interested in reading it early!

This, from the government's reply brief in the birthright citizenship case, is just flatly untrue. 1. There is no domicile requirement in the Citizenship Clause 2. Even if there was, legal presence in the country is NOT a requirement of domicile. You need only presence + intention to remain.

Too many people are talking about how the war is costing XXX billion dollars as if that money is disappearing. The money isn't being lit on fire, it's a gift-wrapped subsidy to defense contractors. I think people mostly know this, but people generally don't talk about gov spendings like this.

Or--this is going to sound crazy--you could read the cases you cite.

omg the weaponization of that woman's tears

When Cherise told us what happened to her, we knew it was wrong and that there were more stories out there like hers and Brianna's. Pregnant people's rights shouldn't disappear in the delivery room or anywhere else. www.propublica.org/article/flor... @reprorights.org @ifwhenhow.bsky.social

Sir good luck when do you ship out

An EXTREMELY helpful thing folks can do, if they live near a federal courthouse, is volunteer for Habeas Dockets. Docs in habeas cases aren't viewable online by default. But they are at courthouses. This site makes them available/searchable for free. Helps lawyers a lot habeasdockets.org/volunteer/

You're a professor of "information science and applied AI," not an ER doctor. You don't need anything "immediately."

San Francisco City Hall was lit up for International Long Covid Awareness Day #LongCovid #LongCovidAdvocacy #LongCovidHeartbeats

Fascinating piece, great ideas, much to think about. Parts, though, made me feel like I live in a different world. As I read that LPE needs to come up with some constitutional politics or that the left has drifted into “institutional agnosticism,” I kept thinking of the political principle...

I've always had long hair and I occasionally like to wear it down, but lately I feel like I need to wear a t-shirt with a disclaimer.

Yes. And in a parallel to magaface, a less vulgar way of demonstrating your compliance with white patriarchal standards. Smarter people than me have pointed out that everyone got thinner and blonder at once, not just on the ostensible right, and it doesn’t seem like the timing was just about GLP-1s

I've been on sabbatical all year, so I just noticed the irony in *Canvas* naming their slop tool "Ignite."

And just to be clear, "women" includes "mothers with questions about vaccines."

In her honor, you could stop telling women to "just trust your doctor."

What if, instead, we put ~3/1000 of those total person-hours and person-energies into quadrupling the CFPB?

What a coincidence that the solution to massive corporate negligence is for each us to take on a new part-time job monitoring our credit files and printing out hard copies (!) of our medical records, then hand over our biometrics for "passkeys."

Incredibly important issue, but terrible framing: "They had argued that compelling them to have C-sections violated their rights to make medical decisions. Hospital staff said their medical decisions threatened the health of the fetus. It would be up to the courts to decide which one mattered more."

It’s amazing who is protected from reputational damage & who isn’t.

Texting daily with a random human peer is more effective at reducing loneliness than texting with a highly supportive chatbot. Next time you feel lonely reach out to a human, any human. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How is it that a massive website with gajillions of users has TWO errors in its 17-word contract of adhesion?

This is a Democratic Party-run prison system.

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

I'm no artist, but hopefully this gets the point across. A comic in three panels.

Law profs keep chastising district judges for saying their orders create binding precedent on the govt in their district. That's right, as far as we were taught: non-acquiesence is a thing. But one feature of a common law system is that when things change, the law changes. And the scope, scale, ...

A lawyer for the United States federal government just testified that he used quotation marks not to indicate quotation but for emphasis, like at a used car lot?

Exactly the ethical problem that was discussed when the JAG guy got sanctioned. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

"Birth rate problems are technocratic problems that emerge primarily out of the failure of neoliberal biopolitics to adequately organize reproduction for the needs of capital; pronatalism is an attempt to impose an ideology that will do so..." So much useful framing in this from @lesja.bsky.social

Excellent follow-up question in this case, but pro tip: In general, always follow up this sort of answer by asking who "we" is. Who writes the honor code? Who decided how/whether to enforce it? The answers to these questions should be very short and should boil down to "faculty and students."

The chance of someone being hit by a satellite today is higher than the chance that Leicester City would win the Premier League in 2016. (This is Steve's fun article about those odds. Paywall disappears if you switch to reader mode while it's loading.)

Someone once reviewed one of Steve's books on Amazon and called it "old-timey writing" because of this sort of thing.

"we are focused on the wrong 1 percent" absolutely cooking

Vote for CoCo! (Colorado Connector) The vote is only advisory, so be sure to justify your choice: "FRED" is cute but "express destinations" sounds like a corporate power point and is cloddy and slow. "RangeLink" is super boring. "Ranger" sounds too cowboy.

This is fun but a little stressful trying be clever when playing the AI. I understand why one of them has anxiety now.

Was "kinetic" the word of the day on some nazi calendar last year?

I thought I was too cynical to believe in cheap patriotism. But I am shocked. Shocked that this despicable man kept his hat on, let alone what hat it was.

Imagine a world where we stop wasting human capacity on evil and bullshit, and instead we spend our time meeting real needs, like elder care for injured bats.