lolz

Weird that Schumer & Mamdani are from the same place. Maybe the difference is Schumer is 74 and Mamdani is 40 years younger and has his whole life in front of him.

I wanna know what the Hanukkah counterpart is! Do I need to get decorating? 😂https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/style/ralph-lauren-christmas.html

Time and time again Democrats snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

reminder to any ambitious Dems waiting in the wings: announcing a primary challenge right now to a squishy Democrat who’s up in 2026, whether they voted tonight to shine Trump’s shoes or not, will almost instantaneously be awash in cash. fortune—and a primary challenge—favors the bold.

After all this they just gave up? What the fuck?

As you can see, we like to go to ritzy places to eat when we travel.

Current scene, playing on this hopelessly uneven table 😂

Trade offs have to be made. Sometimes you've just got to sacrifice the safety of American commercial aviation on the eve of a mass travel holiday in order to keep the neediest people unfed and uninsured

And the memorial was to recount the service of African-Americans to bury the dead that fought in the fields. My great Grandfather William O. Walker served as a chaplain during WWI and he named his daughter Lorraine after his experience.

The article itself makes it sound like he just gave up the lease to the island? It's a little unclear. But how many of you have seen this total dog of a movie? I tried but had to make the pain stop halfway through.

Soldiers are going to food banks while Trump rolls out a mortgage you can’t pay off until you’re 90 and the New York Times is still convinced that this whole socialism thing is a fad like the Labubu.

Boy are all these ICE stormtroopers going to be surprised when they learn that murder and kidnapping are also state crimes that can’t be pardoned by the president

Hello; I am in Mexico

Exactly. I’ve been bitching about this to my crim pro students, to be honest. It’s fascinating seeing all these lawyers and law profs thinking it’s nullification when they haven’t even considered that it was just a plain insufficiency issue.

We went to the wine bar at Emeril’s after this year’s Tulane Research and Achievement Awards. I figure we were all dressed up. Drinks and food were incredible. I love that they’re using these ancient plates.

I love this so much www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Law Profs teaching First Amendment: I have put together a FREE, recently updated, and easy to use casebook for use in free speech classes. If you are interested in using such a casebook, send me an email or DM and I would be happy to share!

Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.

Apparently I’ve been awarded a PhD! 😂

Tired: two-factor authentication Wired: n+1-factor authentication, where successfully authenticating on a new device just allows you to log in again, triggering another authentication request. Repeat ad infinitum

I do not know what a Labubu is. Should I care?

It’s always fun when people like to casually remind me that I have no children and therefore cannot understand their problems.

The Court calling sex assigned at birth a "historical fact" is insidious. It feigns neutrality by not adopting the govt's "biological fact" framing, but sends the same message. It suggests that others' mistaken beliefs about trans/nonbinary people's identity are as, if not more, real than their own.

Ran into someone today who thought I was still married to my ex 🤮

Women should have jobs, but Ross Douthat shouldn’t.

Your faith says you can't eat dinner with Jewish people?

Sigh...why must bacon be so delicious? I'm generally pretty good and don't really eat pork much otherwise!

Current vibe

I have to imagine far-right Catholics are really struggling with the fact that they can now hear this stuff in English directly from the pope.

Hot take: I hate slide decks made with Canva.

Guess who had another failed transfer? Uuuugggghhhhh. Ready to drop kick this reproductive system stuffy.

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

I mean, he is an expert in dumb ideas

So, how soon will it take him to move to Florida, already?

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

YIKES

oh no anything but that

Thanks to @carlelliott.bsky.social for publishing this important piece about how research scandals occupy too little of the bioethics literature -- and for his extensive discussion of exploitation of disabled people in the Willowbrook hepatitis experiments. www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc...

Z"L www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/w...

Monday vibes, with Lady Coatlicue looking over my shoulder.

Please let this be true. Mark Walters is a principal owner of the Dodgers AND owns a slice of private immigrant jails & prisons throughout the country. He is taking serious dollars from Latinos while making money off of destroying their families and the lives of immigrants & refugees.

YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE

Bring back Ektar and Portra already

I like to call Speaker Johnson Magic Mike b/c he has has one trick: tinkering with House rules to stop Democratic time. Whether it has been holding votes open for 17 hours or calendaring certain rules, or keeping the House in permanent adjournment: he is like ta-da I just made the House disappear!

Uh, I'm an evening person. I'd much rather answer emails at 10 pm than 10 am.

Easy. Mashed, stuffing, gravy, collards, pecan pie.

My obnoxious self out and about town today

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto