I don’t like this race to the bottom but if you get a head start i don’t think you get to complain if you get overtaken

They’re stealing our jobs!

Remarkable framing. Alt: "Trump's Terrible Judgment of Character and Utter Lack of Management Skill Leaves Him Fighting Fires Everywhere".

"Not gonna lie, Donny and Ben had a strong start, and we were off our game, but we came back strong in the second half and showed them that we know how to lob missiles in. We belong in the big boy league."

The moderate position might now be "extradite Pete Hegseth to Iran in 2029 so they can try him for war crimes."

What just happened in Dallas County is one of the most blatant voter suppression operations I've ever seen—and it happened in a *primary*. In March. Imagine November. I broke it down here: open.substack.com/pub/objectio...

the current ironclad rule at the supreme court is that you must always assume the government is acting in good faith unless the government is democrats

1. According to multiple reports both Saudi Arabia and the UAE lobbied Trump to attack Iran. Both countries have increased their influence with Trump by investing billions in projects that personally enrich Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

I appreciate the sophisticated security arrangements for the Mar-a-Lago situation room, which forces you to pull back the curtain if you want to penetrate high-level military discussions.

Chopin, schmopin. What we should be remembering today is that, although he didn't write it, Neil Sedaka sang the greatest two-line rhyming lyric in popular music: "Yeah, yeah, my heart's in a whirl / I love, I love, I love my little calendar girl."

Once again, in actual democracies, people do not need to engage in permanent litigation & political mobilization to retain the basic right to vote, because none of the major political parties make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform. We also don't have to live like this.

“You cannot attack a house of worship!” Meanwhile:

A wonderful tidbit about the by-election voting tonight is that the Monster Raving Loonies finish as the median party.

So, we're being told that the problem with pdfs is that they don't play nice with AI? That's actually awesome news. If someone creates a document format that is impervious to AI scans, it would be *huge* for privacy and teaching (ensuring that students must read it). SIGN ME UP.

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

It's no longer obvious to me that the Patriots of 1774 had stronger grievances against London than the Minnesotans of 2026 have against Washington.

The Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to spend taxpayer funds, and no law allows the president to halt if he feels some US states aren’t being “good stewards” of the money. In case there’s any confusion on this, the Impoundment Control Act forbids it. Taxation without representation.

Zelensky has super-human strength to be able to continue to thank these shysters. Obviously, when your country is at stake, you do what you need to do, but so impressive in any event.

The CIA should not have, and does not need, access to a database with 770 million records, many concerning US citizens.

I love the line from the Bulwark's commentator on youtube: "This is nice. This would be great if it were, you know, SportsCenter."

Today I had a meeting about funding I received for a November 2025 (!) presentation. Part of the agreement requires me to present the talk at a university-wide event in March 2026. I was told today I could either censor/change my talk’s title and receive the funding, or withdraw. I withdrew.

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

So companies might get massive rebates from the government on tariffs that consumers actually paid for? Cool cool.

Wouldn't you want to be at least a *postmodern* law firm, if not metamodern even, rather than being stuck in the mid-twentieth century?

I have found AI to be increasingly handy for circumventing paywalls. With many niche publishers, I can see headlines but can't get the content anywhere else. But since AI has trains on those companies' content, asking about it turns up the content. Compare below.

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

The fascists learned that the mistake wasn't gassing Anne Frank. It was leaving behind her diary in the apartment.

There's a joke in which a man tells his friends that he's vegetarian. One day they see him eating bacon. "What kind of a vegetarian are you?!" "The kind that eats bacon." I teach that joke to raise for debate whether words can be the foundation of law if we allow them to be infinitely flexible.

And how can a band that covered "Roll Over Beethoven" be considered part of the same project as Beethoven? 🤔

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.

I tend to emphasize nuance and complexity, but see Wilhoit's Law as the most elegant account of politics: great power in few words. The struggle now is for Wilhoit's anti-conservative rule: Law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

In the next American constitution, policing, prisons, and the military should be marked out as state functions that may not be run as for-profit enterprises.

The denaturalization project, no matter how it is cloaked in law, is inherently a politically targeted abuse of power until they go after the single most prominent case of naturalization fraud in the country: Elon Musk obtaining his citizenship by lying about his prior immigration status violations.

My suspicion is that a drawdown is happening in Minnesota because they're not getting the numbers they want. They are buying massive warehouses. Those aren't going to fill themselves. The plan hasn't changed. They need softer, bigger targets. They only question is where that will be.

Brett Kavanaugh: "Hold my beer." ("But please return it, because I like beer, if I haven't mentioned that already.")

I would like to thank Donald J Trump for making every old principle of constitutional law easily relatable to students. Next Fall, my students will easily understand the contemporary bite of Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837).

I don't usually post about sports, but Wembanyama just scored 25 points. In the first quarter.

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

I'm at a faculty meeting where a debate has broken out over the implications of an "and/or" in a curriculum document. I love being among my people.

Becky Ringstrom was heading home after following federal immigration officers in her gray Kia SUV in suburban Minneapolis when she was suddenly boxed in by unmarked vehicles.

It was pretty special tonight to see a quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings win the Super Bowl.

I'm going to predict that the Super Bowl ratings will be way down. It's normally my favorite evening for grocery shopping because the store is dead. Not this year. It's hopping here! Could be a Taylor Swift effect or the absence of KC affecting interest in my Minnesota sample.

“CBS LA: Video shows immigration agents clashing with protesters in Ventura County” This ICE-hole picked up this small woman in a hat and dress, then slammed her on the concrete. Then, when a male bystander tried to help her, they blasted him with pepper spray! #FuckICE #ProudBlue #ICE

As you curse MAGA judges, also curse the Democrats who put them on the bench. archive.thinkprogress.org/amy-klobucha...