All you peacenik liberals wringing hands over what to do: Yes, of course, vote. It's your primary responsibility as a citizen. But now more than ever, fulfill your second civic responsibility: Serve on juries. Never has it been more imperative to thwart rogue injustice.

Oh, goody, look who gets to be thrown under the bus. "As the political scientist Adam Przeworski points out, Polish pro-democracy forces won only when they agreed to leave aside their bitter divisions over abortion until after they had succeeded."

I hear a lot of talk about legislatures in states like Ohio and Missouri blocking the will of the voters on abortion. Colorado is as blue as they come, but that doesn't mean there aren't arms of the state the think they're above the people.

We are beginning trial today in our case on behalf of a class of all those incarcerated in Colorado fighting for their basic right to be free from involuntary servitude. But we shouldn’t have to be here. /1 www.westword.com/news/colorad...

[He wants] his children [to be] self-sufficient ... fixing, variously, a fan belt (using a pair of his wife’s stockings), a coffee machine and the automated cover for the swimming pool. “It’s important to me that they can survive,” he said. Is it the reporter or Clooney who's being sarcastic here?

We went to a concert, and there was a drunk guy who yelled "woo" when he liked the music, put his feet up, and staggered in and out of the concert hall, once coming back with a new drink. Much of which sounds normal for a concert until I tell you it was Beethoven's triple concerto and 5th symphony.

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

there's really a point where i genuinely fear for my own immortal soul, because even as i oppose this administration, i still am a part of this polity and am guilty of its sins

Boulder has a Chautauqua Park with a concert hall--basically a big barn with lots of gaps in the walls. You can buy a ticket, like for a regular theater, or you can picnic outside and listen for free.

Not to be a killjoy, but having watched the video: what exactly is the basis for arrest?

Little known con law trivia for your Monday: if Bad Bunny sings Preciosa at the Super Bowl, Puerto Rico gets two Senators.

By investing huge amounts of money on car infrastructure and underinvesting in everything else, the government is basically creating another tax: you need a car to participate in society. It’s another cost that the government forces you to incur due to its transportation and land use decisions

Capitalism is premised on the necessity of there being (a few) winners and (a lot of) losers. Writing off everyone who is below average on certain skills currently valued by capitalists is part of how we got here.

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say. If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court. I do not say this lightly.

What they want is Dems to join them in dabbling their fingers in the blood. There are absolutely no circumstances under which anybody loyal to the Constitution should vote to fund a government controlled by Donald Trump. They are covering their own asses by demanding that line not be clearly drawn.

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

They've done it. They've turned Iowa communist. "The crowd ended the protest repeating a chant: 'We have nothing to lose but our chains.'"

CU will send the cops if you* make a mistake on your room reservation form! "A CU police report ... said several people in “executive leadership” ... did not want to engage with the student groups before their movie screening and asked the police department to respond."

A few found cars is enough to appease folks that mass surveillance is OK for those small wins but here are the important takeaways: 1. Police are so shockingly cozy with the multi-billion dollar companies that sell surveillance tech that you have to ask who is actually making policy.

Here's how Steve described it in The Unquiet Grave.

New rule for capitals after colons just dropped! CMOS18: Capitalize the first word after the colon whenever the colon introduces one or more complete sentences, because readers didn't understand our old rule. me: [Grumpily hitting ctrl-F-: and discovering that I have 287 colons.]

Someone needs to offer him a subpoena instead.

The number of voice mails I get from people who supposedly want to make movies out of my academic book on feminist theory and the law of pregnancy (which you should totally read! link in pinned post!) is truly astounding. They are pretty much the only people who call my work number.

Gestapo, secret police, and slave patrols were famously made up of lab-grown clones who affirmatively acknowledged that they were terrible people and fundamentally different from everyone else. That's why no one has ever had to reflect on the banality of evil and its implications for humanity.

This is not good enough from the judge. You know perfectly well that they know the rules and are ignoring them on purpose. This isn't qualified immunity; you don't get perpetual oopsies.

We have a grand-kitten!

tens of people are stunned by this completely unexpected development

What are the names of the U.S. Navy officers carrying out these orders to serially bomb civilian boats that pose no threat to their own vessels, killing everyone aboard? Surely they’ll want to take personal credit for this honorable service and perhaps wear a little campaign medal on their chest.

Now seems like a good time to complain about how excited I was the first time I saw a restaurant called Cava, only to discover that you cannot, in fact, buy cava there (let alone corpinnat, which is what I was hoping for).

me: "Shit, JSTOR is down." spouse: "Temporarily or forever?" me: me: "Okay, that's a legitimate question."

Big reminders today that law review student editors make amazing contributions to keeping us honest and accurate and also that you have to check absolutely everything they change.

people will tell you they don't understand gender fluidity then look right at a ship called the Edmund Fitzgerald and call it "her" without missing a beat

Whoever is responding to this... won't you pretty please file a 12(f) motion? I need a better example for class.

Of course, we could rearrange our social and economic & political system such that all jobs are remunerated, basics assured, & our lives aren’t dependent on ruthlessly exploiting a precarious underclass.

I feel like this is where academia went off the rails. Also known as the "deans can't read, but they can count" principle.

Y’all ever think about how one of the very first headlines that came out about Mike Brown (a teenager), was “No Angel.“

This morning I received this in an email from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social. Not a great way to sell your book to an academic audience.

It just occurred to me that we drive for three days and never had to clean the windshield.

This woman thought giving all this information to a reporter would make her look good... hopefully no surrogate ever works with Cindy Bi again

Oh for the love of god.

Why does Rudy Giuliani have enough money to rent a car.

It took cops three hours to finally go into the Pulse nightclub the night of the shooting. If you wander near a crosswalk in Florida with a piece of chalk right now you'll have four cops on you in under five seconds.🤷‍♂️

Giving instructions to a dog sitter can be embarrassing. "If she only eats part of a meal, she prefers it to be stirred when she's ready to finish. She'll stand by the bowl and look at you." "Don't chop vegetables or make any other noise on the kitchen counter while she's eating."

I've been given a "named" professorship (very grateful!) named after a guy who died shortly after getting onto the CO Sct. (His wife's name seems to have been added to the gift retroactively.) There's a park in Denver named after him, and I found a picture online of him and his wife in Hawai'i.

I'm thinking about blocking the word "playbook."

The funny thing is animals actually can suffer and we slaughter them by the billions but sure let’s have an existential panic over whether a software program screams when we turn it off

The collective Hoopla check-out limit for my library does not engender good feelings toward my neighbors.

activists please paint four other crosswalks rainbow colors. every site they watch should provoke four new sites

This is an interesting analysis of US parties' inability to control nominations, versus that being a core function of parties elsewhere. Am I wrong that it omits some history--that the reason for this is that SCt found primaries to be state action in order to abolish white primaries?

Issue spotter: A public law school creates a FB group for discussion of certain topics but threatens an immediate ban for any expression of "grievances, ideologies, [or] negativity." Identify and discuss all First Amendment doctrines that may apply to this scenario.