Just had a student email this to me unprovoked. The kids are gonna be alright.

yeah so academic conferences need to have virtual options

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

there's a parallel between nonprofit world and academia, where there's a constant tide of idealistic, hopeful people coming in the door, and the people on top are able to lever that commitment to The Cause to extract from them in a way that's harder when everyone's just there to make a buck

Kind of ironic that "where were you born?" is ICE's go-to question

His second term is much worse than his first term, which even then was guided by a white supremicist ethos. In 2018, @michaelhendricks.bsky.social, @lunavives.bsky.social, and I published a paper in response to Trump's 'Muslim ban' and its many implications for crossing the U.S. border....

Come to think of it, and sorry to say, I've seen something similar in feminist scholarship -- the passage I'm remembering was about housework inequality in straight marriages and said something like "no one should have to scrub toilets, the government should take care of it."

omg

the richest people in society should research public executions a bit more before supporting them

DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚

This is on the sign-up page for @theconversation.com, which presents itself as a source for "news written by researchers and scientists" w/ the slogan "Academic rigor, journalistic flare." Current top article is "both sides have strong arguments" about birthright citizenship.

There has been some kind of massive loss of knowledge on how to quote a sentence: Source X: The sun rises in the east. Me: Source X said, "The sun rises in the east." Editor: Source X said, "[t]he sun rises in the east." Now I've started noticing the same thing in published articles.

I am tickled that judges are shocked by obvious bad faith that the judiciary has enabled. There is doctrine that holds that rulings against the government apply only per party, even when an adverse ruling isn’t appealed. It’s absurd. This is the predictable result.

It's fascinating to watch law students go through the transformation of realizing that no one is ever coming to save us.

I need people to understand the truth of this post because literally every week at least once I am asked "so who do I report the judge to when they get something wrong?"

Well, shit, now all my neighbors are going to be negatively polarized into buying even bigger SUVs.

This is hilarious. The subheadline is "Tax accountants and lawyers detail the arduous process wealthy New Yorkers would have to face to avoid paying New York State and city taxes." The "arduous process" is that they would have to actually move.

Tina Peters is in state prison on a state conviction for election interference. Her lawyer is arguing that the president can pardon state crimes.

Wait, they chose it *unironically*? Do you know what's a calming color? Blue. Or maybe a nice green.

Fuck.

The Constitution explicitly DENIES SCOTUS original jurisdiction over nearly all matters, but the court is usurping the functions of a court of original jurisdiction.

Today is the ultimate test of how well you have unsubscribed.

"We have no choice" is my favorite admin refrain, because if we have no choices then why are we paying 6- and 7-figure salaries to a class of executive employees whose sole purpose is supposedly strategic decision making.

It's fun to take things out of context, but the Texas Tech flow chart is in a memo that specifies 3 categories of materials that have to go through the chart. The categories are huge, and the memo also says *all* course materials must be "necessary," but let's use our close reading skills, please.

Irony: Being forced to update your operating system and then spending five minutes trying to get the stupid "Focus" app from issuing distracting notifications.

The neoliberalization of dispensations for sale (from Common Dreams). "You can keep eating meat and donate to 'offset' your impact."

There is no conversation with a Californian that does not eventually turn to the topic of parking.

This piece describes the author, Elizabeth Geddes, as a former AUSA but omits that she's now doing white collar defense and "routinely counsels individuals under investigation by the government." In other words, she's drumming up business with the kind of people who hung out with Epstein.

For once, it really is about ethics in journalism.

Oh come the fuck on. "A conspiracy theory still thrives among some in Trump’s base that Epstein knew the names of other rich or powerful pedophiles."

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Coal is fueling data centers for Amazon, causing hellish levels of pollution in Mumbai. Does anyone need any further reasons to boycott Amazon?? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Ahem.

Laughing in law professor.

I’ve been arguing ever since Trump’s 9/30 confession to US generals that he’s at war with Democrat-led cities that Congress needs to recognize that communicating for the military is a critical goal, and that articles of impeachment can serve as a vehicle for those communications.

She has it exactly backwards. The domestic deployments to date are a much weaker case for being so manifestly illegal as to justify refusal; that's a high bar. The boat strikes are outright unambiguous murder, everyone in that chain down to the one pulling the trigger has had a clear duty to refuse.

help

Hey all! I hope you come to New Orleans for AALS 2026. I know @brianlfrye.bsky.social and I would love to see you. If you are going, stay at the Loew’s rather than the Hilton. ICE is currently terrorizing New Orleans’ immigrant communities, and they’re staying at the Hilton Riverside. 1/2

I'm a purely civil litigation person, and it honestly never quite hit me that there's NO JUDGE in the room when a grand jury indicts. I always just kind of thought of it as ex parte, I guess.

How about gold fillings in teeth? Maybe you can make a heap of their shoes?

"Rooting around to explain [why] UC people [were] given up by their own officials, someone found a Resolution Agreement ... [dated] Dec 18, 2024 with Biden’s OCR." "The Agreement may have served as a template for Trump’s demands of Columbia University and other universities."

Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.

Airport delays, on the other hand, ...

I'm reading Michael Banarjee's work (can't find him on bsky) on academic freedom, and he includes a list of the ancient privileges of scholars, and boy do we need to work on getting some of these back: ● to be able to silence the players of silly games interrupting their studies;

The always pithy Michael Hendricks, quoted in the headline!

A great thing about a quasi-nomadic academic life: I currently have online access to the libraries for three cities, two universities, and one well-endowed liberal arts college.

Money does not represent value in itself: it represents the ability to make unilateral decisions about the uses to which various resources in the world will be put. That our system has produced a kind of central planner in the person of Elon Musk is the greatest indictment of it one could imagine

"Eliminating hunger in America in 2025 would be a simple thing to do, and we don’t do it because we affirmatively, as a society, choose not to do it.