Working on the edits a journal wants, I find a comment that questions whether I came up with a certain analogy "from my own thoughts," suggests citing another source, and even suggests a source they found saying something similar - apparently not noticing that it was a source I wrote & already cited

Does the Supreme Court's Hemani case, addressing the federal ban on unlawful drug users possessing guns, present problems under the canon of constitutional avoidance? Read on for more today on the blog... firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/11/shou...

Check out parts 4-6 of our extensive defensive gun use series, exploring the shoddy research and lax academic oversight of the gun lobby's defensive gun use claims. #DefensiveGunUse #disinformation #gunviolenceawareness #DGU #gunlobbylies #CrimeStatistics

As far as I can tell, this is the first time someone has used an LLM in a principled, systematic way to place voters on a multi-dimensional ideological space — and also think it's the first time this poll question has been asked in open ended form on a major national survey. Cool!

I thought this was cool youtube.com/shorts/zp22V...

I mostly use Google Gemini for quick research questions, but today I discovered that Microsoft CoPilot is much better (seemingly perfect) at formatting my rather messy list of sources into proper Blue Book citation format for law review articles for a footnote.

This started as an interesting article and then suddenly took a dark turn near the end 😬

I'm 17 years late to this, but this line in Heller is pretty clearly wrong, right? -- "Under the auspices of the 1671 Game Act, for example, the Catholic Charles II had ordered general disarmaments of regions home to his Protestant enemies." Charles 2 wasn't Catholic (until his death bed).

Wait, some people LIKE this look?! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

What we need now is a good Bob Dylan song about Clay Higgins

Some good news: yesterday, the 2nd Circuit upheld the federal law requiring guns to have serial numbers, 18 U.S.C. § 922(k), against a 2A challenge. United States v. Gomez, 2025 WL 3199468. Gomez argued it was irrelevant under the 2A that he could easily get a legal gun to use for self-defense.

Proud to be a source for this one. hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...

News that surprised me this morning federalnewsnetwork.com/unions/2025/...

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Epstein survivors just dropped a powerful message for Congress, and it hits like a warning: no more waiting, the truth is coming, ready or not. Watch till the end @housedemocrats.bsky.social @houserepublicans.bsky.social

Reposting for the weekday New paper on signal theory and patents papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Yes, Larry Summers = 100% nepo baby. Uncle Paul Samuelson won the Nobel Prize in Econ. Uncle Kenneth Arrow won the Nobel Prize in Econ. Mom & Dad (Anita & Bob) were tenured economists at Penn.

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans: Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet. So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

I'm in Plano, TX visiting my mom for her 92nd birthday

Can anyone confirm Heritage’s strange claim that Montpelier has no exhibits on James Madison? And also, the Constitution protected the institution of slavery in several ways, an institution that made Madison’s entire economic existence possible. Madison owned ~100 people and freed none of them.

This would not be his first rodeo:

My AI told me today that I'm giving my dog WAY too many dog treats every day and it is urgent that I stop. It doesn't understand that Lucy is a good dog and deserves it

Hey look, it's late Friday afternoon, time for SCOTUS to do something terrible

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So check out this list of the Best 10 Gun Violence Podcasts, created by the PR site, Million Podcasts. #GVP #podcasts #politicalpodcast #gunviolenceawareness #ICYMI

Law profs: if you use D2L, tell me one favorite feature or trick you use, or one thing you did with your D2L course that you are/were really happy about. Aesthetic suggestions welcome!

Larry Summers to Jeffrey Epstein. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

This is chilling to read roddreher.substack.com/p/what-i-saw...

🙄 abcnews.go.com/Politics/man...

Any of my friends on here using Libib.com to keep track of your books in your personal library? I started this weekend. Scanning barcodes with my phone is super-easy, but older books don't have those and have to be entered manually.... 1/n 🧵

#2A #GVP Yesterday, a federal district court in RI became the first court to discuss the AG's new firearm rights restoration program in the present tense, without mentioning that the program was dormant for decades until this year. United States v. Reynolds, 2025 WL 3140576. See comment for more...🧵

This recent opinion piece from The Colorado Sun lays out the seemingly obvious folly of the gun lobby’s cynical school shootings “solution,” arming teachers — why it’s not just insane, but implausible, ineffective, and, did we mention insane?

When it comes to how voters feel about the economy, Trump's numbers are now as bad as or worse than Joe Biden's across the board www.gelliottmorris.com/p/donald-tru...

"He's playing a very dangerous dual role inside the DOJ, and he seems to be egging the president on to test the boundaries of his presidential authorities in a way that is really destructive to the rule of law." @lizoyer.bsky.social and @samsteindc.bsky.social discuss presidential pardon corruption.

These threads never disappoint.

Really horrible case. In no just society should this be anything but murder. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I've started using this to keep track of my #books, which end up all over the house, etc. LMK if any of you have tips or tricks for using this

I need recommendations for: 1. A bar code reader for Android phones 2. Easy-to-use app for inventory of 2-3 thousand books (a small library) #books #library

🔥 NEWS: A coalition of 16 GOP Attorneys General has warned tech giants, including Microsoft, Google, and Meta, against complying with the European Union’s landmark ESG and DEI regulations. Are AGs illegally interfering with corporations' ability to conduct business? senecaesg.com/zh/insights/...

Nice video by Lina Khan posted about four months ago.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation’s work with a leading suicide prevention organization was celebrated as a breakthrough public health effort. @mikespies.bsky.social reveals that the NSSF touted deceptive numbers about a crucial part of the collaboration.

In "The Redistribution of Sex," Douthat suggested the solution to incel violence was for society to give them women to have sex with. Really. www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/o...

Did any admin law profs listen to oral arguments today? Is MQD still a thing? Or was it just for Biden?

Remember how SCOTUS applied the nondelegation doctrine in only 2-3 cases early in the New Deal era and then kinda forgot about it? Wondering if MQD will have a similarly brief role in history.

Another recommended read from Andrew Winston: “I show how post-WWII neoliberals and libertarians could employ ideas of “innate intelligence” to promote the reduction of government funding of social programs….IQ data could also be employed in the fight against “egalitarianism.”

Bold of Zohran to murder Dick Cheney as his final campaign stunt

VICTORY: Virginia voters elected gun sense champion Ghazala Hashmi as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia! As a former educator and state senator, @senatorhashmi.bsky.social has the experience it takes to help keep Virginians safe.

2026 is going to be a good year to run for office, no matter how long the odds. runforwhat.net

looking like a dem sweep in Virginia and New Jersey folks

A young, good-looking, high-charisma candidate beats a couple of mean, ugly older guy candidates with scandals in their past, so naturally there's a dozen essays and columns analyzing what this means for Democratic voters everywhere in terms of their policy preferences and priorities.