If Peter Shor wins the Nobel Prize in Physics tomorrow, please do not waste the “Who’s On First?” potential of the moment.

I’ll be there in Manhattan, with signs so angry they (probably) won’t have puns! Join us!

Friends, I think I’m ready to call it: I have enough tote bags.

Physical inactivity? I am prepared to not do whatever’s necessary. 🫡

We’re at the last stop of the #ZcavengerHunt! Very fun excuse to run (and train and bus) around NYC and learn about some mayors!

Glad to see Mamdani is finally putting in the effort to earn the votes of the puzzles, games, and trivia community.

Friends, you’ll never guess what’s happening at this very moment.

It’s once again time for the greatest crossword tournament held on a Saturday in August: Lollapuzzoola! #lpz18 Here with @jesse.lansner.com

A woman who graduated from my high school was detained by ICE after a visa renewal hearing. She was transferred to Louisiana and now, according to this report, to parts unknown. Outrageous. abc7ny.com/post/scarsda...

Alas—he went without us! youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs

I love that this diner is playing the music of my youth: “She’s Not There,” “Daydream Believer,” “Walk Away Renee.” Sure, I was born in the 80s. But this is what I listened to in my youth.

This really is horrific:

A nice old man sat down next to me at the pharmacy. He told me about his upcoming trip to Cape Cod, he mentioned that he studied the brain, and he was just starting to tell me about his research with his wife, when he had to leave. This was him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Ka...

Has the Court ever given a justification for issuing orders without reasoning, other than lack of time? I get "we don't have time to tell the state why they can't execute this man in an hour," but if there was time to write a dissent, isn't there enough time to give basic reasoning for the order?

Spent a few hours this weekend playing through this fun and increasingly fast-paced text-only “puzzle-mystery game.” I enjoyed it quite a bit, and perhaps you will, too: william-rous.itch.io/type-help

Cuomo did *less well* in the Upper West Side than he did in some neighborhoods that Mamdani "won," like East Harlem and Flatbush. Lander had his strongest showing in the UWS. Once RCV plays out, and lots of those votes (like mine) ultimately go to Zohran, the neighborhood winner might change.

So sue me.

Check out summer book recommendations (and what we're reading now) from me and my colleagues. I recommend the wonderful and wild Stag Dance by @torreypeters.bsky.social: news.law.fordham.edu/blog/2025/06...

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

#NoKings NYC with @david.noll.org! Some good signs and such follow.

Bros before Cuomos

Glad to see Brad Lander is the top mayoral choice of the New York Times Opinion panel, with 7 of 15 giving him their #1 vote!

U.S. law panel at Girona Evidence Week!

I’m having a blast at the 2nd Michele Taruffo Girona Evidence Week! Great talks today by Georgi Gardiner and Martin Smith, and we took a group photo (I look my best at 15 pixels wide).

I can't imagine this will be a productive inquiry, but...does anyone know what excluded evidence he's referring to?

“My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said, ‘No. But I want a regular banana later. So yeah.’”

Allow me to hawk the “Don’t Rank Cuomo” t-shirt I designed. A clear message to your friends and neighbors! www.bonfire.com/don8217t-ran...

I thought that “In case of fire, use stairs,” meant that just in case there’s fire—you never know!—you should probably be taking the stairs.

Only question is whether I’m the second or five-hundredth to do this…

The opposite of conclave is convlex

The best day-and-a-half of the year is always the Evidence Summer Workshop! We had everything from formal modeling to queer theory to analytic philosophy to doctrinal analysis. Thanks to my co-organizers Ed Cheng, Julia Simon-Kerr, and @alexnunn.bsky.social.

Guys, it happened. It actually happened: I found the cable I needed in the Drawer Full o’ Cables.

Good Rule-of-Law rally today!

Tuesday is 801d2A day

Finally realized why the pharmacy keeps the stress balls next to the prescription counter.

NYC

I'm late to the party, but wow, Judge Wilkinson: "We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A beer for any Harvard philosophy professor who, this Fall, debuts a Hate and Stupidity seminar.

Highly recommended! Read it while it's hot! I enjoyed contributing to this excellent Symposium but enjoyed everyone else's work even more.

Very sad to hear the great William Finn has died. If you haven't listened to his music, here are a few recs: Let Norm Lewis seduce you with "Sailing" from A New Brain: www.youtube.com/watch?v=At1l... "Heart and Music" is the joyful final number from that show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz0-...

A good excuse to repost a great tweet.

Guy I’m picturing standing in front of the Wisconsin Supreme Court building: “Hey Elon, how do you like THIS Madisonian Compromise?”

This has been great thus far, and I’m looking forward to much more Critical Evidence scholarship tomorrow!

In Manhattan? In matte black? With Jersey plates? Is this a social experiment??

A highlight from my mother’s button collection.

After the next round of deletions, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure will simply be "substantive."

The deep hurt when one of your favorite songs comes up on the coffee shop playlist…and after 30 seconds they skip it.

I hate to brag, but I just bought eggs.

Excited to get my cheap, mail-order CDs from the Freedom House Record Club.