”And I helped!”

@cmorten.bsky.social returns to NYU Law this fall. He brings with him the Science, Health, and Information Clinic, which provides legal services to researchers, patients, consumer groups, and others in the health and science space: ow.ly/gcj550X1EkL

current mood

I may not smoke anymore but I love a matchbook and so was very excited to acquire these at Phenomenal World last night

“so just to make sure I got this, the war criminal is your friend because he liked your star wars book“

A crackdown on gay cruising inside the Penn Station bathroom by the federal Amtrak Police has landed one person in ICE custody. Amtrak Police, unlike the NYPD, are not bound by local sanctuary protections. www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/24/a...

In the US, thalidomide was never widely used BECAUSE FDA experts (one in particular, actually) stopped it from going on the market after a close review of early evidence. It actually led to the FDA getting more robust pre-approval authority--to avoid such close calls in the future. anyway

Superb essay by @jamellebouie.net on how the hyped-up unitary executive theory is built on a distorted conception of the President’s superior democratic legitimacy, and why it’s extreme application would fundamentally upend our constitutional order. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Once again begging outlets to stop calling what they did a "cost-cutting" effort

DHS itself has confirmed that the victims were detainees but Noem and Vance have already jumped to reframe the attack as anti-law enforcement violence.

I have said it so many times before, ABOLISH. THE. ATLANTIC.

“i should buy a boat”

Come work with me, pals! #hiring

can we PLEASE keep him as court jester-like character in the Mamdani Administration?

the thing about laryngitis is you are supposed to rest your vocal chords but I have a REALKY hard time not talking, at this rate it’s gonna last forever

Say what you want about this But he's well-cited and his articles are well-placed and, in the legal academy, apparently that's all that matters. #Satire www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Please read this amazing essay by my dear friend Saher Safi, who discusses his childhood in Bureij Refugee Camp, Gaza, and the pain of now witnessing genocide. Saher worked for months on this essay, which was a difficult process for him. He ended up producing some exceptionally powerful writing.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

this article by Sunstein from the late 80s is great (it’s on Lochner’s legacy and the Court’s imposition of free market fundamentalism) and I still don’t know what happened to him between then and the late nineties to give us what we have today. Who hurt you, Cass? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

surprising no one, this is excellent www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Freddie doing a sit

the most cited legal scholar of all time, out here saying this nonsense about the Supreme Court. The line about Alito in particular KILLED me lol

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

funny finale. "maybe don't put how much I liked Kissinger in the paper? 👉👈"

Really enjoyed writing this; hope making some of these latent (apparent) diasagreements explicit is helpful to anyone else. Appreciate @gabrielwinant.bsky.social for doing so! Btw i don't think *all* the disagreement dissolves on inspection, but do think the vibes version of it is a lot stronger.

ngl, you LOVE to see it!

Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Man if this superposition of Trump headline vs actual Trump speech doesn’t speak volumes about how the last ten years have gone for us

And ICYMI, here's the opening salvo in the exchange:

Today, in a response to Gabe Winant, @sanjukta.bsky.social reflects on whether capitalism operates by quasi-automatic mechanisms, the salience of the labor-small capital distinction, and the nature of the constraints limiting our current political horizon.

I knew they didn't want to fund doing anything about it, but I am not sure I realized we were still in "global warming hoax" territory

To kick off a series on @lpeblog.bsky.social exploring the perverse use of antidiscrimination law by the Trump admin, I wrote about the radical interpretation the admin has adopted of Title VI and what it means for TItle VI's past & future. lpeproject.org/blog/title-v...

Freddie unsure about the greatest slippers in the history of the world

maybe instead of putting it in her fucking book, she should be out there doing whatever she can to create meaningful opposition and action among the Dems

Emory Law is conducting an open-rank lateral search for a Business Law professor! faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/151442/...

Eat. Sleep. Exercise. Nurture the relationships that sustain you. Protect your health. Find joy. Don't mistake any of these for the resistance itself. Joy isn't resistance, neither is rest. But you need to be whole to resist for a lifetime.

2025 List of Worst Law School Subjects to Teach in Order of their Lack of Existence: 1. Public International Law 2. Constitutional Law 3. Administrative Law 4. Immigration Law 5. Antitrust Law Before you object, note I deliberately added the word LAW.

SCOTUSblog is now run by a conservative news outlet, so this should surprise exactly zero humans. no one should expect it to be neutral.

political news is fucking bleak today. but I feel like maybe that’s just gonna be true going forward for the foreseeable future

I, personally, do not like that John Roberts treats precedent as meaningless when it comes to whether you have five votes on the shadow docket.

This is a wild parallel, honestly. And now I’m looking forward to the Restoring Our Bench to Ensure a Return To Sanity Act. Immortalize Roberts by naming what I hope will be his greatest accomplishment—forcing Congress to add more (dozens more?!) to SCOTUS—after him.

YES PLEASE

I was so honored to be asked to speak at the remembrance Duke did for Fred Jameson. Here are my brief remarks. But the ones you should really watch are Nate Mackey's who comes right after me (18:53) and are incredible! youtu.be/8Yrv2cqoRbQ?...

Congress passed a fucking law. The Supreme Court affirmed its constitutionality. This lawless majority hasn't ruled that the law is unconsitutional. It has not overruled its precedent. But these hacks are so eager to impose their will that they couldn't wait. So they didn't.

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements

fredric jameson died one year ago today. i wrote this about him earlier this year: www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...

SCOOP: An MIT professor canceled an Israeli military funded research grant after pressure from students. “This concession shows that student campaigns do have an influence,” one student said. "These ties cannot survive transparency." theintercept.com/2025/09/22/m...

Growing opposition to @AFT @UFT partnership to push #AI is apparent in this article. Context to consider is political role @the74.bsky.social plays - mouthpiece for neoliberal policy in education. Big money sees the project is contested: www.the74million.org/article/will...

I look forward to the day they search my social media for words that indicate “terrorism” and they just find a bunch of tweets about abolishing The Atlantic

So I have laryngitis like I thought only happened in cartoons and sitcoms…