I USE SOFT PAWER

“My theory was that we were gonna be sharks. The rest of the cast was like, ‘No, we’re gonna be frogs,’” he said. “And then we just see this bush moving, and we’re like, ‘What?’ And they go, ‘Nah, you guys are gonna be trees.’”

ok this is a bit unfair, thanking the organizers takes at least two minutes

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

so i talked to one of the bushes at the super bowl www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

The Ethicist | I missed Bad Bunny's halftime show because I was on the phone yelling at an immigrant plumber who wouldn't make a Sunday night house call during the game. Can I still tweet some general takes about his performance?

bluesky introduces coward mode

U KNOW WUT TIME IT IS HOOMAN it is not time for walkies, not even close I AM LORGE FLOOFY JUDGE OF DAT

0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.

The radical preacher of Broadview just got his charges dropped...

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

🚨New article in @sociusjournal.bsky.social. Annabel Ipsen & I study how the executive orders in Trump's first 100 days use the logic of reactionary colorblindness to dismantle environmental and climate protections. Open access here - doi.org/10.1177/2378...

*vape-filled room* exec 1: you know how people love dogs exec 2: yeah. well, some people e1: but they also like privacy, ish e2: … but maybe dogs more. e1: exactly. so I saw this weird movie, The Shrouds— e2: —I didn’t see it e1: exactly. no one did.

Ok so this happened

Ok so this happened

Bari Weiss bravely invites us to focus on the real fascism in Minneapolis www.thefp.com/p/mob-rule-c...

I like that baby giraffes look exactly like adults but are smol

Mike Ramsey, an originalist law professor, has a new article out: Birthright Citizenship Re-Examined. He debunks the Wurman and Lash articles. The English common law analysis is a bit thin for my liking, but it squarely lays out the rule and the reasons for it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

when i save "hannah montana implies the existence of 49 other hannahs" as a draft, what good does that do except delay your eventual suffering?

next version will have peer review

U KNOW WUT TIME IT IS HOOMAN it is not time for walkies, not even close I AM LORGE FLOOFY JUDGE OF DAT

Fwiw I was a libertarian warning people about Trump personally. Then I saw that almost no other libertarians were doing that and I stopped being a libertarian because Trump was the least libertarian President we could have and they almost all fell in line. The Times is gaslighting again.

the thing we've learned* is that there were only a handful of principled libertarians and maybe less than a handful of principled neocons. those people remain on the correct side of fighting authoritarianism, even if we don't agree on policy. * honestly it was always pretty obvious

Yes, I take that NYT article about libertarians warning ppl about Trump personally. I was there. I saw it happen. Some libertarians did. Many did not, and mocked and fired those who did. Including the author of that goddamn article.

I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind. This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine. Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.

Thinking of famous libertarian Alex Kozinski at this moment. Also thinking of my libertarian co-clerk who is now *checks notes* credited with coming up with the legal strategy to take Roe down.

Hi, yes, I know some things about libertarianism and libertarians and how it/they reacted to Trump and so does Katherine Mangu-Ward and this article systematically obscures libertarian complicity in his rise.

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I like that baby giraffes look exactly like adults but are smol

In good news, a little one was born in Utah🦒 www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...

My latest, "Free Exercise and the Redistribution of Liberty," is now posted (and forthcoming in @yalelawjournal.bsky.social). It argues that free exercise doctrine uses selective market logic to redistribute both public resources and liberty itself. Comments welcome: papers.ssrn.com/abstract=618...

*historians’ conference* So what are you guys working on? Starting a book. Finishing a book. Advising Bad Bunny.

If you were confused by the part of Bad Bunny’s halftime show where dancers re-enacted Puerto Rico’s economic struggles under PROMESA’s bankruptcy process, here’s a breakdown of what that moment was all about: lpeproject.org/blog/how-ban...

“I don’t know anyone in town that sees a race,“ he added, and I am not making that up

1/x Really delighted to say that my coauthored piece with @jedshug.bsky.social, “Quasi-Judicial: A History and Tradition” just landed with the Columbia Law Review. We really appreciate the editors’ hard work! This is a piece that retells the story of American admin law and Humphrey’s Executor.

I‘m coming around to the idea that this is one of the most politically radical things any pop artist has ever done with that large of an audience

My paper, Habeas and the 1948 Judicial Code, is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review (@stanlrev.bsky.social). I argue that the 1948 Judicial Code, not the 1867 Habeas Corpus Act, should be the statutory focus for inquiry into the scope of habeas review. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

thank you bad bunny for highlighting the importance of critical power distribution infrastructure bsky.app/profile/cost...

Bad Bunny reclaimed América from the United States. And made the United States just one of many in a continent where we’re all americanos. Con minúscula. “God bless América,” he goes. And then the lists all of it: Sea 🇨🇱 🇦🇷 🇺🇾 🇵🇾 🇧🇴 🇵🇪 🇪🇨 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇻🇪 🇬🇾 🇵🇦 🇨🇷 🇳🇮 🇭🇳 🇸🇻 🇬🇹 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇯🇲 🇭🇹 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇵🇷 “Together we are América.”

Na real Porto Rico é uma colônia dos EUA, os cidadãos nascidos em Porto Rico não podem votar para presidente ou senador, por exemplo.

Let me in hoomans! LET HE IN HOOMANS

“I don’t speak Spanish, but I still think I got most of it” (He did not)

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

DO NOT USE DOGGO TO SELL PAWLICE STATE

That halftime show is what people mean when they say "joy is an act of resistance."

*historians’ conference* So what are you guys working on? Starting a book. Finishing a book. Advising Bad Bunny.