Water not big missiles shoot far.

📣 🎉Today is the official release day of my book, even tho many of you have it in hand already. 🙏 to all who purchased. Availability: Amazon has the paper w/ discount, Bookshop/OUP on back order. Should be an e-version that is missing. I will check w/ my press. More: www.annaolaw.com/book-migrati...

Only a classicist would go for an esoteric bayonet charge.

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

I don’t know if he “found an off-ramp,” really, so much as lied the way he literally always does.

Every time I actually listen to Trump speak, I am shocked anew that anyone actually likes and respects such a complete buffoon.

I'm really curious about a provision in the proposed SAVE America Act. Many provisions of this bill would empower the Election Assistance Commission [EAC], an up-to-now obscure federal agency appointed by Trump, by authorizing it to issue guidance to states on how to enforce the Act. /1

Sure, why not. Operation market garden went so well the first time.

Markets are morons.

This book is just 400 pages of parliamentary hardball. We could learn a thing or two

“A California sheriff seized 650,000 ballots. Election experts say it’s a big deal” electionlawblog.org?p=154988

Hard to imagine a way to make ICE less popular with voters who travel

Great to see @beaubaumann.bsky.social and the @lpeblog.bsky.social in the NYT opinion pages courtesy of Jamelle Bouie.

Graham Platner is going to end up like Fetterman or worse.

We need one of these guys

Siri, what is capitalism?

BALTIMORE—In surprise testimony in federal court Thursday, an immigration officer revealed that more than 100 asylum seekers were wrongfully deported in violation of a court-ordered settlement agreement in a long-running case that has gotten national attention. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

Winning the war so much that you have to lift sanctions on your enemy to save your economy.

Hey #poltheory and #polisky folks, check out this new book on Democracy and Competition from @britishacademy.bsky.social and @livunipress.bsky.social, which I edited with @alfredmoore.bsky.social - www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Check out my Jotwell review of Nathaniel Donahue’s excellent article, “Officers at Common Law.”

Sir Edward Coke was quite the lawyer.

Proud to sign this letter

This letter from 131 (and counting) Jewish faculty and staff tells the Trump Administration we oppose efforts to attack UCLA in our name. Text linked in comments.

Yep, introspection was invented “in the 1910 and 1920s.”

I had never once heard anyone utter the words “quarter zip” until 2026.

There seems to be systemic bias in financial markets that the US government remains basically competent, which prevents them from fully pricing in the risk.

After Habermas’ passing, I cannot recommend strongly enough that you read STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE, one of the greatest works of social and political theory ever written. The critique of mass media applies with spades to the latest iteration—tech monopolies and AI.

I was asked to provide a few words today by NPR: www.npr.org/2026/03/14/n...

"Last Thursday, there was a stabbing attack at the Temple Israel synagogue in Michigan. Today, there was an attempted attack at a Jewish school in Amsterdam and also at a synagogue in Rotterdam. Fortunately, all three incidents ended without casualties...

RIP to one of the great theorists of the twentieth century. His democratic rationalism is sorely missed today.

Doesn’t seem like Iran is “slowing down.”

What a generous puff piece for a war criminal from the NYT

Cool cool cool

UNICEF says that in just 12 days of war in the Middle East, more than 1,100 children have been reported injured or killed in the violence. “This includes 200 children reportedly killed in Iran, 91 in Lebanon, four in Israel and one in Kuwait.“ This lawless war has to stop.

I really wanted to know more about Renee Good, killed by ICE in January. Fortunately, my editor allowed me to take some time to do a deep dive into who she was before she died. Read and listen to what I found out about her from her Colorado tribe here: www.cpr.org/2026/03/11/r...

More of this from our press corps.

Curious to know how much outdated targeting data interacted with, “hey Claude, find some stuff in Iran to blow up.”

It’s remarkable how few of these very fancy expensive weapons we have. Expended half our inventory in a 12 a day war? Doesn’t seem like a good defense strategy if we actually needed to defend ourselves. Rather seems like we’re spending too much money on a few shiny objects.

I don’t know what to say except that I’m ashamed of my government and officials must be prosecuted for any and all crimes committed.

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Maybe one person shouldn’t have control over a multi hundred billion dollar killing machine

I don’t know about this Pete Hegseth guy.

Lord take me now

I’ll never get tired of Asian markets telling me what the immediate future will be. Such a vivid symbol of world history. Well, maybe I’ll get tired of it at some point.

It is the teaching of our ancestors that no man may be displaced from his office or seized of his property therein contrary to law, for as it was said of the King, singularis major, universis minor, so too of President, so that he hath no prerogative but that which the law hath given unto him.