In Germany, the police academy is 2.5 years. In Finland, 3 years. Even the NYPD is 6 months. ICE is was already 3 months. Now 1.5 months. Pure indifference to any actual skill or ability. Makes them both more dangerous and less effective. Hell of a double-edged sword.

WashU in STL just announced, in a university-wide email, that we will NOT be signing The Compact. This statement, I believe, exists thanks to the tremendous energy generated w/in our community by, among others, the Faculty Senate, the revived AAUP, and student journalists. I'm proud of everybody.

New evidentiary privilege just dropped.

I would email my students to let them know Canvas is down but guess what

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

You’ll be pleased to hear that I am a verified adult in Ohio for Bluesky purposes.

Brown's rejection of the compact would not have been possible without the amazing mobilization of faculty, students and staff last week! When we fight, we win!! Score this as another victory for workers and students! @aaup.org

Some good news.

Tell you what, they can have country star Zach Bryan come out and sing “Bad News” to open.

To put it another way, I have represented thousands of people. I cannot think of a single instance in which the initial police report was entirely correct. Not one. Journalists, please stop copying them down as if they were. Or at least give context re credibility!

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

Hugo Black Sabbath.

Nothing more Seattle than signing a permission slip for my kids to do a protest walkout at school tomorrow.

I have 15-year-old twins who are boys and athletes. In light of a lot of the obvious things going on in male youth culture, I worry. Today, they came through the door and said mom, there are police detaining a guy on our street, you should go make sure that guy is ok. I think they are all right.

w/o downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

How quickly do we think I can cross-stitch this for my door?

Look, kid #5 is like half Kettle brand salt-and-vinegar chips based on what I ate while pregnant, that’s mine.

Just got an email from the UK crafts company I’ve subscribed to for years letting us know that end of the de minimus tariff exception means they are pausing US purchases and will hopefully resume in a month with customs fees included in their pricing.

thanks to the New Yorker

Referred to the facts of a case in class today as “lore” and I stand by it.

Literally nothing is going to ruin my day as fast as getting an email from the president of my alma mater entitled “Brown and U.S. Government reach agreement.”

Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them. https://tomlehrersongs.com

Look I am a Broadway person abs I need a musical tonight about people who come together because it is the right thing to do.

I want you to know that I typed out a lengthy petty professional email tonight that I deleted without sending because I reflected and realized that what I was actually angry about was ~~all this~~.

I don’t want to get too optimistic but did it happen??

Sotomayor, dissenting, says the majority "does irrevocable damage" to the equal protection clause and "invites legislatures to engage in discrimination by hiding blatant sex classifications in plain sight." She fears the damage in Skrmetti will go well beyond gender-affirming care, and she's right.

I have come out of barre class to find that my kid is less safe and welcome in this country than she was when I went in.

My 20something barre classmates who never talk politics are radicalized, and they all have core strength.

I’ve seen that Gypsy production twice and I am still sitting here crying.

Today is a day that will live in filtered infamy.

I am saying something when I tell you even Patti LuPone has a better idea of how to deliver an apology.

Video stills of Rümeysa Öztürk being released from ICE custody via NBC 10 Boston

We’re disappearing mayors now too.

Every family needs one person to send all the social media content, and one one person to berate everyone for not responding to the content. That person is the same person. (Me.)

Some good news!

I have said it before and will keep saying it, my grandmother (b. 1920) died from an E. coli infection, you don’t want to go that way.

My primary group chat is about my dog.

Love this from parents who write checks for college.

One of the projects here has long been “criminal” as a description of character and social position, not as an indicator that a person has factually committed a crime.

Me in the 2nd national security group chat.

So glad he is alive and so glad the Senator confirmed this.

INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Brief from the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and more than 80 universities says arrests and deportations of student protesters create a “climate of fear” at universities across the country. This is a big deal—the first time universities have weighed in. knightcolumbia.org/documents/eh...

So do you just designate a student to jump in during class with any breaking news or

Today, I am proud to announce our second round of pardons and commutations for 93 individuals, bringing our total number of grants of clemency to 129. Granting each of these individuals a second chance to rebuild their lives is truly one of the greatest honors of my time as Governor.

On the plus side I now have a lot of vanilla and crispy chili oil in my house.

Pretty sure being Ever True involves signing this :).

Suddenly that Tenement Museum tour I booked for my kids over spring break is looking really timely.