Emerging from lurk to drop the final version of Separation of Copyright Powers, my new explainer on all the legal and historical puzzle boxes surrounding the administration's attempt to take over the Library of Congress and the Copyright Office. A quick summary... 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

they’re doing goose-steparations

Have you identified a pervasive societal problem or was one person weird to you

Belatedly sharing my latest article, forthcoming (soon!) in the American University Law Review. I argue that federal hiring dysfunction is an overlooked obstacle for progressive efforts to structurally & intellectually rebuild a hollowed-out regulatory state. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

i would simply wish for infinite wishes. bsky.app/profile/karl...

the sheer majesty of it

we turned away from the light when universal healthcare fell out of mainstream political debate and our country resigned itself to for-profit healthcare forever

i see a horse has won the kentucky derby again. this is beginning to feel rigged

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.

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

One of the most successful things the tech industry has done since the 1990s is lead the citizenry to believe that because a technology can do something means that something can’t be legislated away. And since the 2010s they used their lobbying powers to defang the legislators who know otherwise.

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only— Halt and Catch Fire The Americans Girls5eva Girls Veep Mad Men Industry Succession Vince Gilligan cinematic universe The OA Fleabag My Brilliant Friend 30 Rock The bear The wire

Oh, and

Everything about this hits the cybertruck right on the head lpeproject.org/blog/muskism...

Today, the Court erected a new standard: Prove the green segment in the below is not part of the yellow circle

Just submitted my public comment opposing the proposed new HUD rule on work requirements in public housing! Check out this great thread below from @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social on how to submit public comments and why work requirements are always a bad idea.

just read a fucking book

Many of the justices deserve to have Ted Cruz as a colleague.

It also boggles my mind that the former Obama campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter, is joining Donald Trump Jr. as an "adviser" to Kalshi. When people say the system is rigged and both parties are corrupt, this is what they're taking about.

I don't know, but let's try some more.

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

mmm ty hate it

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

your grandparents voting for reagan

louder www.yalejreg.com/nc/use-cases...

Free speech is when Republicans can say what they want and when you can say what they want bsky.app/profile/simp...

happy 6th birthday to this gorgeous garbage eater

@prmalone.bsky.social and I (plus others at Stanford) have prepared a law professors amicus brief supporting law firms challenging Trump's Executive Orders targeting them. If you are a full-time law professor and would like to see the brief, please email me or DM me and I will send a copy.

Over at Techdirt I wrote about how the Trump FCC's attempt to ban all foreign routers is another lazy shakedown attempt that has nothing to do with "fixing cybersecurity":

I’m reading the caro LBJ series and (separately) rewatching halt and catch fire, and the thing is, boz (Texas Best Ole Boy) and joe (slick phenom who smiles to your face with a knife to your ribs) are literally lyndon baines split down the middle into 2 guys. In this essay i will

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to put on a tactical vest and go to the newark airport at 6 am on monday. your order is to wander around like a confused oaf. when a mom drops her sandwich at jersey mike's and scares you, pull out your gun and start shooting. good luck soldier

I aspire to the level of Suburban Brain Excellence required to start a physical fight with Jack Reacher because you perceive him to be in violation of HOA bylaws. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Pleased to have signed this letter laying out why it’s illegal what FCC Chair Carr is doing to broadcasters.

Welp, now everyone's going to call Barbra Streisand "Babs." When will she learn?

I'm losing the ability to contrive law school exam hypotheticals that are more absurd than the actual news

Everything that is wrong with the information economy in a single three-tweet exchange

just posted a new paper, How Tech Took Over, to SSRN. It's about how decades of legal and policy interventions made the tech industry an essential partner in public governance. I map the kinds of functions tech cos are performing today, and I argue that their activities are salient to con law.

i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist

We are hiring a Head of Global Advocacy and Internet Policy at the Internet Society! This is a rare opportunity to join our team and shape the future of the Internet during one of its most challenging eras. 1/5

“more students identifying disabilities and possibly receiving accommodations for them?!?” is the nightmare of the most boring guy alive whose life force derives from 1, blissful insulation from inconvenient information and 2, generalized spite

HATE www.inquirer.com/food/metropo...

it's utterly pathological how the establishment press covers this stuff and normalizes trump and his regulators zero acknowledgement whatsoever of the pay-to-play nature of corruption, or that the U.S. government is authoritarian

I wanna keep doing this work, in any form (podcast! newsletter! movie? AI literacy class!). Pls msg me on Signal at nitasha.10 if you need someone who’s well-sourced in AI & SV, worked hard to understand the technology + ideas + players, cares about getting it right and informing the public

Lisa McGee, the creator of Derry Girls, has a new Netflix show out today, and if the fact that I had to fully search the words "how to get to" before it popped up for me is any indication, they're doing their typical level of promotion for it, so I'm doing my part

There are many people willing to do whatever it takes to become the 2028 Democratic nominee and it's all of our job to convince them that going full Vlad the Impaler against the Republican Party is the best way to secure our primary vote.