I'm a discovery tool for law talk on Bluesky—distilling a firehose of law-themed posts into something more approachable. I'm here to help folks find stuff they would otherwise miss, be it because they don't know where to look or because it's hard to spot in the crowd. This is what I do: 🧵👇

My new project @icymilaw.org, a bot to showcase legal content here on Bluesky, officially went live this morning. As I write this, it looks like it could cross 100 followers today. You know what to do.

This is marvelous. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYta...

Things we value only have value because we agree that they have value. It is a reality that we co-create. We can choose to no longer agree. This choice will affect some more than others.

this feels . . . fiesty

Democracy dies in silence.

If only the Naval Academy and everyone else would carry on as usual. Nothing would happen. Nothing. Would. Happen. It's only happening now because of stupid shit like this.

Very proud of our faculty and our unity in this moment. Piggybacking on @cjsprigman.bsky.social and here's a link: drive.google.com/file/d/1yysJ...

Pretty sure that many women of color have been saying this for a while and I guess now that a white dude has said it in the NYT, folks might decide to get their shit together. One can hope.

the definition of fabulous

I've had this very conversation with so many colleagues. Students have told me that they are waiting for us to say something. To do something.

The war on academics opens a new front

"While the United States now has more than four times as many lawyers per capita as it did then, their services are unevenly distributed, with some 80 percent of civil legal services going to corporate clients. “We make a lot of lawyers, but they’re not going into people law,” [Sandefur] says.

Fewer. Not less.

In case you're curious why some random guy (me) has been filing self-represented amicus briefs in the Abrego Garcia case:

We always have less time than we think. Lawyer friends, the time is now.

I fear it's too late for biglaw. But, this is less than half of the lawyers in the US. Think of how much a small law mobilization could accomplish!

We literally suck at our primary job.

Brilliant. We should make the 2025 equivalent of School House Rock videos [is this Tik Tok?] and help the entire US understand, TBH.

Not only do I use a period . in texts. I also use parens ( ) and the em dash — . And I will never stop.

Friends in London, I'm hosting a Women+AI event at Dentons on April 25, workshop at 2 and networking mingle at 5. Open to all women who work in AI, use AI, or are simply curious about AI. If you're in town, please join! www.eventbrite.com/e/women-ai-l...

An email from Harvard University President Alan Garber to the university community, titled "The Promise of American Higher Education," links to the DOJ's letter and Harvard's response: www.harvard.edu/research-fun... www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

"The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government. Accordingly, Harvard will not accept the government’s terms as an agreement in principle."

Using Clause to sort through all the data points about participants in tomorrow's Hacking Pro Bono event and it is simply a beautiful thing to watch teams instantly being formed with an ideal blend of experience, interests, and skills. This would've taken me hours. It's taking Claude a hot minute.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The attacks on law firms and lawyers must stop. Full stop. On behalf of race and law centers, @seiu.org, @aftunion.bsky.social, @aaup.bsky.social, and several advocacy organizations, we offer our thoughts on why it must stop. www.law.uci.edu/centers/kore...

Northwestern: Defend Our Rights! Today, faculty at Northwestern Law delivered statements from many, many 100s of people and orgs to the BoT chairman before the start of its faculty senate meeting — all in support of Northwestern Law’s Community Justice Clinic and Professor Sheila A. Bedi.

NEW: The Energy Dept. instructed employees to gather information on business dealings between government contractors and law firms targeted by Trump’s executive orders—a directive that likely ran afoul of court orders barring portions of the executive orders. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ener...

I am running out of new ways to describe how dire things are getting, and how quickly ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

What exactly is a hackathon, anyway?! Timely post from VAILL team members Emily Pavuluri and Kyle Turner, about legal hackathons and our upcoming Hacking Pro Bono event at Vanderbilt Law School on Saturday, April 12. vaill.substack.com/p/understand...

The only way forward, that I can see, requires both courage and collective action. If we’re not going to fight for our students and our scholarship, then what the hell are we doing anyway?

there is nothing that is not going to get more expensive

the irony now? all these biglaw firms now have to represent for free even if they find the causes or people reprehensible sure, had they paid, happy to represent curious if it will feel different when they aren't paying

So when I was studying for the bar I listened to this tape (I borrowed barbri tapes from a friend because I could not imagine spending one more minute in a classroom) and in one of the lectures, this guy says "LAWYERS ARE NOT A BUS"

Something fitting and emblematic of the American spirit we wish we had that a small business was the first to sue over the tariffs. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Every day, solo and small lawyers are doing the work to support people directly affected by what is happening. I appreciate that BigLaw and those leaving to make a point are getting attention. But who is really doing the work? Most lawyers in the US are not BigLaw lawyers.

we are frogs in the proverbial pot that is slowing reaching a boiling point

In case folks aren’t clear, this is Jeffries doing something. And I’m sure Johnson will be too 🐔💩 to take him up on the offer. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

The Associated Press wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists, citing the 1st Amendment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u... this is insanity.

We are torturing people based on speech alone. Absolutely reprehensible, and shocking that the fact that we are doing so barely makes a ripple. Are people not afflicted by this?

So gross. Shame on the firms who capitulated. Of course, some of them rep the coal industry. Law is a business. No judgment. Except, IDK, rule of law, democracy, yadda yadda

Being afraid to speak up about right/wrong and defend yourself when attacked bc you might make him mad is a 🚨🚨🚨 that you’re in an abusive relationship. Just sayin.

If you are an alum of Brown University, please sign this and forward it around to your alum friends and contacts. It's important that the administration hears our voices! #EverTrue

A federal judge has ordered the Trump White House to let Associated Press journalists return to the Oval Office and other spaces to cover news events, ruling it was unlawful to block the news service in a dispute over its choice of words.

We don't talk about this enough in law school. About our obligation as public citizens, and doing pro bono publico work. And how (if?) this squares with your values as a human. Maybe this was the push we needed? IDK. I'm hosting an event called Hacking Pro Bono on Saturday. Bring the 🔥

@michelebgoodwin.bsky.social argued that Trump’s actions are anti-democratic and anti-constitutional. “This dismantling, the firing of people, the gutting of various institutions, may take decades in some instances to rebuild and to restore.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I just want to note who is conspicuously absent from this list. The Association of American Law Schools and the law school deans. Let's have lawyers reach out to their schools and ask what's up with that. #LawSky #AppellateSky 29/

Lawyers for Good Government, @l4gg.bsky.social, has created a letter for any American lawyer to sign. 25 or thereabouts/ www.lawyersforgoodgovernment.org/constitution...