In about two weeks, I’ll receive 57 exams to grade. This wouldn’t happen if I had a ballroom.

The merged Paramount/Warner Bros company will be 49.5% owned by foreign interests (including the Chinese), and 38.5% owned by Middle Eastern countries Brendan Carr, who was positively apoplectic about foreign ownership of companies like TikTok, won't make a peep about it because he's a hack

Current FCC rules prohibit foreign investors from owning >25% of company that holds US broadcast licenses. However, foreign investors (mostly Gulf funds) expected to indirectly own nearly 50% of Paramount equity post-WB deal. And Paramount now asking FCC to approve "up to 100%" foreign ownership

Notice how a book can make you gay, a vaccine can make you autistic, a mask can make you sicker, and a poster of the Ten Commandments can make you moral, but guns don’t kill people.

Did Trump write this? I've seen pro se sovereign citizen filings with better arguments and less ridiculous rhetoric.

Was having a conversation at dinner tonight and my kid in the next room kept interjecting questions like that Jimmy Fallon/Will Ferrel Journey sketch.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star wars, star trek, lotr, dc, marvel, disney, pixar, dreamworks, spielberg, cameron, wachowskis, or ghibli. (To be fair, this is a bit of a cheat due to being on TBS like 24/7 sometimes)

SCOTUS summarily reverses the lower court order striking down TX’s Republican gerrymander that SCOTUS let go into effect back in December on the shadow docket. IOW, SCOTUS reversed a case on the merits with no reasoning other than saying they were bound by two paragraphs on the shadow docket.

Whoa whoa whoa. This JUST happened. It’s not the time to politicize this near tragedy.

Why does he want people, particularly his fellow Americans, to fear him?

Love a trip to the plant store. Today, I went to two.

I've written and reported a lot on presidential security over the years, and wrote a quick analysis of what we know so far and some background about security at the Washington Hilton: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/a-quick-an...

Global energy markets are on the verge of a disaster www.economist.com/finance-and-...

I really think it’s important to underline that there was apparently no security breach. The gunman was confronted and stopped where he should have been according to the design—at the magnetometer perimeter. What this piece argues for is an *expansion* of the security perimeter in time and space.

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

"Having DACA status is no longer an automatic blockade on being deported, the Board of Immigration Appeals has ruled, tossing hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant “Dreamers” into a new and more complicated situation"

So traumatized they're having the dinner anyway?

This is not the time for wild speculation about what happened. It’s time to bet on Kalshi about what happened

If only there were some reporters there who could tell us what actually happened.

Next time, if you want to fool anybody other than your idiot supporters, move the clouds.

NEW: A BIA order says valid DACA is not a reason for an immigration judge to prevent deportation. DHS said DACA doesn’t confer legal status + can still be removed. The order, on Catalina “Xochitl” Santiago’s case, is precedent for immigration judges to follow. www.npr.org/2026/04/25/n...

Pretty weird these days to watch a movie with a satirically bad Presidential character when you have to acknowledge “Well, it’s actually pretty cool that President Satirically Bad stayed awake for the entire cabinet meeting.”

NEW: Trump's winning run at the Supreme Court has ended, he's increasingly disgruntled with the justices, and the administration is filing fewer emergency applications on the shadow docket. Today, we explore the reasons why the narrative is changing: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Apr 25th - The perfect date, it's not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket. 📽️📅 Miss Congeniality (2000)

Looking at all the back and forth over the NYT story about the Clean Power Plan order and whether the Court was being consistent or not is missing one huge point, IMO. We only know what Roberts and the others were thinking because of a leak a decade later. We never got an explanation AT THE TIME

A federal judge in Minnesota threatened criminal contempt against the U.S. Attorney's office for ignoring a habeas corpus order in an ICE detention case.

Getting really sick of reading briefs that insist on adding a parenthetical like (It does not) every time they are making an even if argument. The "even if" (and the prior argument you're making) do that work for you.

The ADL permanently sacrificed its reputation to get in good with a massively dangerous antisemite and white nationalist. They defended him and stood up for him even after his Nazi salute. Here's how he repays them. This is what happens when you think you're using bigots. They're always using you.

One of my favorite species of concurrence is where a judge decides to issue an advisory opinion on an issue after concluding he lacks jurisdiction to consider it

New Jersey Rep. Tom Kean Jr. has been missing for weeks nypost.com/2026/04/23/u...

The Access of Evil

We're hiring an Editorial Assistant @justsecurity.org! This is a support role at the heart of a small, high-impact law and policy publication. Work closely with senior editors; help manage workflow and day-to-day operations. It's a great fit for someone who excels at helping a team run well.

This is illustrative. But also, he's the President. He doesn't have to "truth" through it. The Supreme Court said he can just pick up the phone and order the DOJ to bring treason charges against Obama and Clinton. (He shouldn't and they'd be no billed, but c'mon).

stop making me cheer for the atlantic

Cleaning up my "Current Writing" folder, archiving projects I'm never going to get to and haven't looked at in years. Came across a little chart I made called "Writing Priorities" - it's a 2x2 chart with Easy and Hard on one axis and Short (articles) and Long (books) on the other.

uses AI to introduce typos into AI writing Sinceerly.com

NEW: Pope Leo XIV told the world’s press today that the Catholic Church’s moral imagination has long been too narrowed to sexual ethics — and that war, migration, and human dignity are the “much greater, more important issues” of our time.

I run a patient advocacy site on low-dose buprenorphine for BPD and I'm looking for a healthcare attorney with FDA/regulatory background to review our prescriber guide for liability. Denver-based, but location-flexible. Boosts and referrals appreciated! #HealthLaw #BPD

The Pentagon fired an ombudsman whose role is to preserve a military newspaper's editorial independence because she spoke out about efforts to undermine that independence. These people behave as if someone else pays their legal fees when they get sued. Oh, right...

How are Lauren Boebert and Thomas Massie the two members of Congress getting out in front on mass surveillance and the Fourth Amendment?! massie.house.gov/news/documen...

This is the point at which you strike and shut down the school until they back off. It doesn’t matter that you’re vulnerable, that they can fire you. This is where you have to draw the line or there is no university left.

My attention has been drawn to this delightful image.

So suddenly this Administration is against insider trading on prediction markets?

Holy crap, guys. His approval rating is down 300%.

Blow it up like the whale.

I couldn't put this on my Con Law II exam because my students would think it was too easy and therefore a trick question.

NEW: Here are the two DOJ orders relating to marijuana. 1. Medical marijuana products-related order that is effective now: www.justice.gov/opa/media/14... 2. Notice setting the hearing for June 29 for broader reclassification: www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...

Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.