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Our legal understanding of the constitution as settled and clear does not mean that the policy issue is settled amongst the public. The idea of birthright citizenship should be defended as a matter of policy as well as of constitutional law. Constitutions, after all, can be amended.

Trossard has been quietly critical to Arsenal’s success—sad that the club isn’t keeping him.

It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.

I rarely feel shocked by the Supreme Court, but the birthright citizenship case being 5–4 on the constitutional question is so, so much worse than I thought it would be.

The UFC White House show, which various UFC and administration officials claimed had done or would do Super Bowl-type viewership, turns out to have not been the most-watched MMA show of the past month.

Wait, hold up, I'm sorry - the actual data supporting the conclusions of your 'academia is politicized and not data-based enough' report may or may not be published at some point? Proof is for the peasants at public universities, I guess.

The AAUP chapters at Vanderbilt & Wash U have issued a joint statement denouncing the “State of Scholarship” report commissioned by their chancellors. Please, let’s make this as widely read as the gaslighting to which it responds.

still trying to figure out how this happened

My column today for @insidehighered.com criticizes the new report on the decline of the #humanities and all its flaws. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Brick by brick, we are collapsing the foundations of Russia's war economy. Today, we are presenting our proposals for a 21st sanctions package against Russia. Thread ↓

New Businessweek feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews

Department Of Labor Cracks Down On People Getting Paid For Work https://theonion.com/department-of-labor-cracks-down-on-people-getting-paid-for-work/

"Did you direct any regional staff to pursue a settlement with Amazon in Palmdale, California?" @ilhanmn.bsky.social asked at US House committee hearing today (bloomberg.com/news/article...). "Yes, that is my job," NLRB GC Crystal Carey answered.

our pool is bigger than skyscrapers bigger than cars bigger than the moon! you can tell, at night! the moon falls all the way in you can see it at the bottom our scientists are working on a way to extract the moon from the pool and unlock its resources (cheese, footprints, discarded flags)

I also find the lack of response to be shocking. Would people react more viscerally if they were shooting planes out of the sky? It doesn’t seem too far removed from shooting up a car full of people if they have drugs inside.

The budget for the entire NLRB is less than $300 million.

Trump sued the IRS over the unauthorized release of his tax returns, then he dismissed the frivolous lawsuit so that a judge wouldn’t have to sign off on the terms of the agreement. It's not really a settlement. He's just ordering the DOJ to give him money.

"At a time when Congress is diminished and American democracy is in decline; Tolson’s book is a timely reminder of Congress’s constitutional authority to mandate a more participatory and egalitarian democracy." In Congress We Trust? by @proftolson.bsky.social, Coming Soon https://cup.org/46q2Wy3

A similar article could be written about the NLRA and federal labor policy.

Over at “One First,” I wrote about how the redistricting chaos we’re seeing in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Virginia is something #SCOTUS *chose,* and how it belies both the entire purpose of the “Purcell principle” and the Court’s claim that it’s staying out of the political process:

@matthewtbodie.bsky.social spoke to @bloomberg.com about the power of the NLRB to seek preliminary injunctive relief in unfair labor practice cases. Comparing the recent SCOTUS decision in Starbucks Corp. v. McKinney to an "inkblot test," he raised the potential for varied approaches. z.umn.edu/bb3n

3 actual quotes from this piece: “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

politicians & press alike insist we can never tell anti-immigrant voters they're wrong—but they are, & we should! my latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...

I have a theory that people dislike the media because it’s something of a superego to public consciousness and people get tired of being told the right thing to do, even if they know it’s ultimately the right thing to do, especially if it’s painful and requires sacrifice. The id is more fun.

This is an inaccurate and frankly despicable thing to say.

There is not enough discussion of the EEOC's lawsuit against @nytimes.com for discriminating against a white man. Here's a gift link. Let's get into it.🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

BREAKING: SCOTUS grants the Callais plaintiffs' request to issue the judgment now, meaning the ruling goes into effect and back to the district court immediately. This was done over a strong dissent from Jackson — prompting Alito (w Thomas & Gorsuch) to author an opinion concurring with the grant.

The old saw is that SHs have three rights: vote, sell, and sue. All 3 are disappearing: states rush to eliminate litigation rights; all these are controlled companies; and now they're being forced into the indexes.

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

so excited to see my favorite franchise given the Hollywood treatment!!!

Norm Green has to be one of the biggest villains in all sports history.

@matthewtbodie.bsky.social co-authored, “Collegiate NIL Collectives: Context, Structure, and Future” in Harvard Law’s Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law. The article addresses changes in policies governing college athletes’ right to profit from their names, images, and likenesses. z.umn.edu/ba6p

Here’s my piece on the “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act in @thenation.com The VRA is the most important piece of legislation in American history. It more than anything is what ended American-style apartheid. And now Republicans have killed it.

I wonder if anyone is really surprised by the amount of self-dealing involved here. What I find surprising though is that there are sophisticated investors (VCs) all around and none of them said a word on behalf of their LPs. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/t...

Meta will begin keystroke logging US employees at work -- complete with mouse movements and periodic screenshots -- to train better AI agents. This comes after Boz posted about a future in which AI will "primarily do the work" at meta. It's a new era for tech labor. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

🚨🚨Revised paper 🚨🚨 The Balance of Power in Franchising w/@ulrichatz.org, Blake Eliason, @mikelipsitz.bsky.social, @pnorlander.bsky.social, & @stpinto.bsky.social. We built the 1st comprehensive panel dataset of franchise contract terms: 46,000 documents, 4,500 chains, 20+ provisions, 2009-2024. /1

Workers have a right to form & join unions and to bargain first contracts but the reality is it’s still too hard. Proud to stand with workers, NYC unions, @flyingwithsara.bsky.social, @sanders.senate.gov, Manny Pastreich, Henry Garrido @dc37nyc.bsky.social, @mayor.nyc.gov at the launch of Union Now.

So the Clean Power Plan was never implemented. Now, want to hear something funny? The targets in the Clean Power Plan -- for growth in clean energy, for retirements of dirty energy -- were exceeded. Before the deadline. *Without the reg being passed.*

The Enron Corpus—over 500,000 emails, calendar invites, etc. made sent by Enron employees—has been used repeatedly by machine learning models, especially in natural language processing. Workers deserve voice and ongoing control over the use and sale of their data.

So proud of Senator Tina Smith who is holding the Senate Floor right NOW to protect the Boundary Waters. Watch here www.youtube.com/live/omq2Jyg...

Pope Leo is answering the question, “What if the church followed the teachings in the Gospels, rather than the Diet of Worms?”

this is the most AV thing that has ever been AV’d

Gen X!! WYD!!

It seems like Apple is relocating employees of two other stores that it is closing, but requiring employees at the unionized store to apply for open positions. It could be that the CBA *allows* Apple to do this, but there's no way it *requires* Apple to do this.

NEW: Archbishop Paul Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, responds to Trump’s post attacking Pope Leo. Says he is “disheartened” and argues that Leo is “not a rival” but rather “the Vicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the Gospel." www.usccb.org/news/2026/ar...

I feel like this is a recurring problem. Not sure there are clear answers either way: nymag.com/tags/shitty-...