I believe the Hudson-Quebec power cables have come online and they appear to be saving our bacon today. www.nyiso.com/real-time-da...

You hear a lot of talk from conservatives about DSA candidates hating America and the West and so on, but I have never heard anything this anti-American from a leftist

When employers hire "union avoidance" firms to try to prevent their workers from unionizing, they usually try to work behind the scenes. But these anti-union lawyers at Ballard Spahr picked the wrong fight when they tried to intimidate Matt Bruenig into taking down a pro-union website.

Andrew Cuomo's new gig is shilling for legislation described by Elizabeth Warren as "a pro-industry crypto bill that will grease the skids for the president of the United States' crypto grift." Experts say Cuomo's involvement might run afoul of state ethics laws. hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

I’m not saying impeachments shouldn’t happen, but as a means of reforming the Supreme Court, I hope people understand that court expansion is a simple matter with a trifecta and any other proposal, like impeachment, is at best uncertain to affect the court.

There's an awkward tension in today's SCOTUS decisions between the right wing's conservative & reactionary projects: in Watson, the 4 conservative dissenters want to give long historical practice the force of law. In Slaughter, they overturn a century of settled law & practice.

Some very smart observations from the very smart Michael Kinnucan in this week’s New York City primaries. (thread, all quotes from him)

Immigrants’ rights activists have proposed to dissolve a town in Arizona, in an effort to block the opening of a nearby immigration detention center, The Arizona Mirror reports:

Interesting "internal process" set of opinions from the Washington Supreme Court today. Recall, a few months back, Justice Madsen concurred in an opinion from Justice Montoya-Lewis, but declined to join a footnote in which Justice Montoya-Lewis thanked a law clerk. bsky.app/profile/djsz... 1/

Also worth comparing — again — the sensitivity with which the Court approaches supposed insults of religion. Masterpiece Cake Shop rested on a local civil rights commissioner committing the unconscionable calumny of saying that religion has, at times, been used to justify bigotry.

Extremely proud to be part of the @uaw.org, the best union in New York City, which has been listening to members when engaging with elections, taking big swings, and winning big the past few years. Now we’re sending two of our members to Congress.

Technically, they’re Remains now.

What a miserable embarrassment this is. The @nydailynews.com isn't endorsing anyone in this race, but that won't stop our trashy hedge-fund owners from extracting a few bucks out of our reputation and running this front-page ad, from an Anthropic-backed PAC, for two days right before the election.

In today's post, I survey the presence (and then absence) of militant democracy arguments in U.S. First Amendment law. tomkeck.beehiiv.com/p/militant-d...

I think @mtsw.bsky.social has made the point that managers' attempts to force workers back to the office are about control rather than, say, productivity. Wharton psychologists confirm this in today's NYT: executives' opposition to remote work correlates mainly with "narcissistic personality traits"

Mayor Mamdani speaks at Rikers Island high school graduation. ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

Since RCV started, there haven't been many high-profile examples of contests where it actually mattered: where the final winner trailed among the first-round preferences. (Think Eric Adams, Mamdani, all the Peltola & Murkowski races.) Until suddenly it happened TWICE in Maine last night.

Strongest argument for Democrats packing the Supreme Court is that we have never, in the whole history of the republic, had a Court that votes on almost all major decisions on a straight party line the way the Roberts Court does now. /1 nathannewman.substack.com/p/weve-never...

Immediate contender for the political hall of fame.

A real comment from a bike lane meeting I attended

Theme of today’s SCOTUS opinions: Right-wingers infighting over their individual idiosyncrasies while Kagan tests whether she still has the dealmaking juice to harm-mitigate with the majority

Happy to be corrected by others who know more about this hypertechnical legal doctrine, but my take is the dissenters are right about Rooker-Feldman being a questionable-to-bad rule, but the issue presented in this case (about trial court vs. high court judgments) is a weird place to draw the line.

I voted for @lydiagreenbk.bsky.social for New York state assembly. If you live in assembly district 52, you can too!

I'm onboard with Evan's abolish-conspiracy-doctrine take, but there are some problems with accomplice liability mens rea that would need to be fixed to make a conspiracy-free system work. 1/

4 judges of the PA Supreme Court don't like how reformist Philadelphia DA @dalarrykrasner.bsky.social has conceded that some past convictions were flawed, so they've decided to run against him for DA. No, just kidding, they've instead empowered the state's Republican AG overrule him, and only him.

I think it's important for people to read the kind of comments a judge has to make to extremely vulnerable people in order to get sanctioned.

Truly an unreal moment, as a crowd gathers at 10:30pm on a Friday night outside the Kennedy Center as a crew puts up scaffolding to take down Donald Trump’s name.

This is a desperate move and unlikely to work. It's the equivalent of someone holding a gun to their own head and threatening to shoot if the court won't lift an injunction. But I can see why they're desperate: Trump will be utterly humiliated if he's forced to take his name off the Kennedy Center.

democrats finally decided they don't like presidents having unlimited warantless surveillance powers

Hey all, quick update on my campaign. I’m standing still in the middle of a bike lane, crying

The New York state senate confirmed 28 judges last week. Are they any good? Who knows—certainly not the senators voting on the nominations, which Governor Kathy Hochul sent over immediately before the vote. Would be nice if the legislature at least had time to google nominees before rubber stamping.

In Mamdani’s universal childcare plan is a little-known milestone: The city will open what appears to be the first free daycare for municipal workers in the country. It could be a model for cities that are childcare curious, but not ready to take the big universal swing. 19thnews.org/2026/06/mamd...

We acknowledge that manual coders and engineers, including C, Haskell, and Java speaking peoples, have stewarded through generations the compilers and datasets of what is now Claude Code. We honor and respect the enduring relationship that exists between these peoples and nations and this LLM.

i can't stop thinking about the total absence of our kidnapped neighbors in this. why do you think alex pretti kicked that tail light, scott

If I hadn’t already read in the news that my congressman @repdangoldman.bsky.social was losing badly to @bradlander.bsky.social in his own internal polls, this mailer he just sent out would have made it pretty clear.

The last day for Trump to announce nominees who will have a chance at confirmation before the midterms is July 8. Although it’s possible, it would be extremely difficult to find nominees for a vacancy occurring between now and then, which means Trump’s 2-yr circuit judge total will top out at 11.

This year, the UAW is holding its second-ever direct election for president. Incumbent Shawn Fain is running for reelection, and I just got an email from Tricia Geiger, who's running against him. This is her website, which I'd say is summed up by her pledge to "step away from divisive politics."

Mangroves, vital for protecting coastlines and storing carbon, are making an unexpected comeback due to increased legal protections and public awareness of their importance. Since 2010, the rate of mangrove loss has slowed down, with more forests being restored than destroyed.

I’m curious, so, historians (broadly defined), give me two book titles: One: the one history book IN your field (however you define it) that is the absolute best, that everyone should read. Two: the one history book OUTSIDE your field that you think is absolutely the best.

When admin scholars talk about the Court’s attack on functional government, we have in mind not just high profile cases like Cook and Slaughter, but rulings like today’s decision in FCC v ATT. Decisions like this and — what they reveal — are death by 1000 cuts. 1/8

The London plane ensures essential infrastructure remains in place, like this postal box in Hammersmith.

Most amazing defense I've ever come across in years of looking at Old Bailey records today from a man accused of stealing sheep in 1815:

Either the art directors at these right wing outlets are secret DSA members or this man has simply never had a bad photo.

The NY Court of Appeals released a telling decision last week about sex offender registries. Like all states, NY passed sex offender registration laws in the 1990s when that was all the rage. There's now far more studies on what factors affect recidivism, but no one dares update the laws. [thread]

On LinkedIn, a lawyer posted a Brazilian judgment sanctioning counsel for "prompt injection"! In white on white text, the brief instructed any AI reading the brief to respond "superficially." That's ... very very interesting. www.linkedin.com/posts/jinyos...

I have searched through right-wing judge Justin Walker's dissent and cannot find any reason why his rationale would not allow the Trump administration to ban, for example, Black people or Democrats from the military.

tl;dr: Alabama's ability to administer a new congressional map disenfranchising Black voters has been complicated by the fact that Alabama is celebrating Jefferson Davis's birthday today.

the reason that the whole world will suffer is primarily because, astonishingly, no one is picking up the crown we threw in the gutter

didn't think I'd be saying this in 2026 but: the eyes of the country are now fixed firmly on Flo Rida bsky.app/profile/alex...