In other words “We didn’t lose the war. We were stabbed in the back by our cowardly leaders.” This feels familiar. Where have I heard it before?

Not liking the direction Google is headed? Come to the Duck side. www.duckduckgo.com

I grade exams in random order and I'm weirdly happy that I now randomly get to grade the exam that has been sitting at the top of the file folder for the last week.

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Launch­es Inves­ti­ga­tion Into Meta Glass­es to Pro­tect Tex­ans’ Pri­va­cy From Unlaw­ful Mon­i­tor­ing and Col­lec­tion of Facial Data www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/release...

Raskin says the fund is unconstitutional. Congress didn't structure it. 14th Amendment prohibits obligations in service of insurrection. Raskin says Dem House will shut it down and compel transparency on payments. He's calling on Rs to legislate against it now. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2105...

Here's the rub. The slush fund will be drawn from a larger Treasury Department fund. The latter compensates actual victims of the government. But the new one will be put under Trump's direct control in a new way and untangled from any oversight, Raskin notes. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2105...

“Trump DOJ negotiates $1.7 billion gift to his political allies in IRS case” would be a better headline here. The initial $10 billion demand is just anchoring. It’s the first thing they teach you in sleazy business deal school. And it worked on the AP and NYT here.

Just out: a discussion of how Grok exposed limitations in the legal regulation of AI sexual abuse. Quoting some leading figures in the field, and also me. thepolitic.org/grokaideepfa...

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

Sadly, this is probably a great idea. The standard does mention an “incontrovertible evidence” standard, which is reassuring given the problems of AI detection and the all too human “oops” factor with making citation errors. But we need to scare people straight on AI hallucinations.

sorry, i work at a university in a red state, and it’s illegal for the women & gender studies faculty to spend research money to attend their conferences. what in the fuck are they talking about

I'm supposed to be grading and Aaron is inviting a breaking news alert.

NEW ARTICLE: 4th Amendment law recognizes a buffer zone around the home—so-called "curtilage," that cops can't enter outside an "implied license." SCOTUS says this is intuitive & everyone knows the line. But is it? @mbkugler.bsky.social and I decided to ask people. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson sent letters today to more than a dozen prominent technology companies reminding businesses of their obligation to comply fully with the Take It Down Act (TIDA) no later than May 19.

NEW: Cybercrime group ShinyHunters claims to have hacked education tech giant Instructure again. The hackers say they defaced the Canvas platform login pages of at least three customers. ShinyHunters is using this apparent second hack as another chance to extort Instructure and its customers.

A must-read from UCLA law prof Dave Marcus, who was actually in the room when it happened. www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/05/mean...

One of my students emailed me asking if I might want to cover it in class next year. Thankfully my exam was yesterday.

It’s stunning to think how little the staffers writing the laws that regulate a state’s economy get paid. Like, the legislators themselves are less than half a junior associate.

When you wonder why literally no one got a MC question right and realize that it is because you reordered the choices after writing the questions and the answer key is wrong :P.

Two different technical, procedural moves from #SCOTUS yesterday have one thing in common: The Court is behaving differently in otherwise similar cases based upon the ideological/partisan valence of the dispute. Via "One First," me on why, results aside, that's a serious indictment of the Court:

Nature retracted a paper that claimed ChatGPT had a positive impact on student learning. it's not the only paper making this claim that has this problem www.404media.co/nature-retra...

May the 4th be with you.

When reality is like this, satire needs to be clearly labeled.

A thought on the Chatrie oral argument: Most SCOTUS-level search cases are asking for advisory opinions. We all know that the evidence will almost certainly be admissible under the good faith exception. See Carpenter, for instance. So Alito is right to point that out, but silly for it.

My overall reaction to the Chatrie argument, screenshotted from the other place b/c can't do long tweets here.

These two things can be true at the same time: 1) You should never believe a word Trump or his minions say; 2) The shooting event last night was probably not a set-up

Texas Tech and Texas A&M are no longer universities and we should not treat them or refer to them as such.

Support human art!

This story is crazy! The Jim Dolan had a Knicks fan obsessively monitored at games just because she was trans.

When teaching Dobbs, I sometimes show my students two graphs. One depicts public support for gay marriage, which went from 27% in 1996 to 68% in 2024. The other shows attitudes toward abortion, which remained more or less steady for decades until Dobbs.

The premise of everything that the administration does is that January 6th was legally legitimate, the Biden Administration was not, and crime in the sense of stuff meriting state punishment is committed by people of color and their allies.

Those smiles are just like EVERYONE THIS IS MY DAD, MY DAD WENT TO SPACE Except the dog. The dog is like "why is the photographer waving a squeaky toy? Maybe she will throw it."

Astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of the #ArtemisII, and his family. They must be so friggin proud.. www.nasa.gov/learning-res...

D&D's so fun, y'all. Fun enough I end up drawing a stained glass window representing the fictional saint of journalists and dangerous truths who's honored in one of the cities in our campaign. . . .I totally didn't create another new alphabet just to make newspaper sheets for it. Not at all >.>

The Kid, patron saint of the exploited, abused, unheard, who's honored in a city in my D&D campaign. This is apparently a series now :) #myart #dnd #d&d

The problem with the data broker loophole is not that the government can buy the data, it is that anyone at all can buy the data.

The Union was far too lenient on the traitors after the Civil War. Happy Confederate Surrender Day (or whatever it’s called)

After Trump wrote, in reference to Iran, “A whole civilization will die tonight,” the entirety of the House Democratic leadership issued this joint statement:

Hopefully Ted Lieu isn't the only or even the first politician holding a prominent office to say this, but I think it's the first one I've seen, this explicitly, so I just wanted to highlight it.

Bragging about an intent to commit war crimes.

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

we said what we said @anthonymkreis.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I know ppl on dunking on this, and you do not in fact have to ever hand it to Homan, but appropriation law is a complex area of law that we … generally don’t ask cops to enforce. I think it’s good for ppl to admit “this area of law is not my lane.” It’s a lesson SEVERAL law profs could def learn.

Crime in the United States has dropped immensely in the last 35 years

I maintain that AI-aided writing has limited utility for anyone trying to generate novel analysis. You know, like a journalist (or most academics).

Cops in Laredo were tired of Priscilla Villarreal reporting stories they did not like. In 2017, they arrested her for texting two questions to a source in the police department. She sued, but a lower court gave the cops qualified immunity. The Supreme Court rejected her appeal this week.

The early responses to Wolf Worm are hatching! Highlights include “What is wrong with you?!?” “WHY?!” and “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, KINGFISHER!”