Here we see @stevevladeck.bsky.social vindicated again bsky.app/profile/prop...

Thank you for your service, @epps.bsky.social

Do not forget the hunger strikers and the deplorable conditions that prompted their protest.

So excited to read this!

52 senators voted in favor of allocating an additional $70 billion to fuel ICE and Border Patrol's campaign of chaos and violence in our communities without any reforms. The House of Representatives must reject this bill and any attempts to give ICE more money to violate our rights.

I found it frustrating to do legal/policy epidemiology with non-lawyers, because most non-lawyers don't care about or understand the legal idiosyncrasies that can prevent a law from having the effect you think it will. I was often encouraged to pay less attention to these types of variables.

This is why Elizabeth Emens calls "life admin" an invisible cost of being disabled. It always incenses me that no one I talk to recognizes that time I spend talking to them is time I'm not able to spend working, relaxing, or doing literally *anything else*.

New at Sally Franklin’s Bookshelf, @unlawfulentries.bsky.social stops by to preview her new book, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship. #VastEarlyAmerica #history #newbooks #immigration www.cliodigital.media/sally/anna-o...

USPS shouldn't even calculate "profit." It's an essential service that should be fully funded by the government.

The lane is open for a 2028 candidate to pledge to accept jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court

Good.

Is anyone surprised that Trump is targeting the women in his cabinet? (like really...)

Can politics be more than taking down bad faith hot takes from boys I would have beaten in high school debate? I hope that, one day, it is. But today is not that day. open.substack.com/pub/heathers...

Everyone's an originalist until it comes to the Reconstruction Amendments...

Honestly the justices (particularly Justice Sotomayor) sound ... somewhat taken aback that they're even hearing this case. And ... same? Also - you didn't have to! You could have just issued a summary op saying "See the Fourteenth Amendment"! Even last year in the nationwide inujunction case!

alito’s birthday being april fool’s day is the surest sign yet of a cosmic order and a maker with an indulgent sense of humor

Hating the SCOTUS arguments right now, but at least I got Lily Allen tickets?

It might not surprise folks to know that legal scholars that are new to the birthright citizenship debate are also new to federal Indian law and are also horrendously bad at it.

Note: *they* are saying it! They are the ones promising to use ICE to throw the election to the GOP.

I wonder how much of some people's discomfort with "eugenics was a science, and framing it as outside the histories of science is dangerous" is because they need to believe in science as moral/good. Ive yet to meet a historian who would believe this, though (I am happy to be corrected).

Like, the takeaway is to encourage ethical and humane scientific practices. Not to imagine a new version of history where the iterative process of science was not impacted by the social and political structures of the places and times in which it was happening

Today is World Tuberculosis Day. TB is the world's most deadly infectious disease and devastates millions globally each year. It doesn't have to be this way, but we need to counter the dismantling of the U.S. public health system to ensure cross-border leadership, investment, and action

"eugenics and scientific or medical racism etc wasn't real science™" Be for real, come on. Science has always been part of heinous things, was implicated in and facilitated colonization, slavery, the Holocaust more. All of this IS part of the story of science. WHY are you sanitizing this?

I had a lot of fun writing about insurance and disability this week. Apparently, you can take the girl out of insurance coverage litigation, but you can't take insurance out of her work. open.substack.com/pub/heathers...

Just re-upping this new target article I co-authored w/ the incredible @elangmann.bsky.social It integrates insights from 3 fields that generally aren't working together much: aging studies, disability studies, & #bioethics in context of #EpistemicJustice Let us know if you'd like a PDF!

The NYT presents this as an either-or situation and it is not. We can protect women and girls from predators and have justice for the common worker. We can protect women and girls while providing the civil rights to ALL. Rights that many shed blood and lost their lives for us to have.

Am teaching a course on Pain & the humanities this yr, and I can't stop thinking about this 1950 experiment conducted in New York hospitals and Cornell University hospital, where physicians burned the hands of women in labor (IN LABOR) to create a measure for pain/study pain thresholds. #histmed

My new Substack post, based on a speech I gave recently. Some musings on how to navigate the current "moment" as disability advocates.

As reported by @cnbc.com, there are over 83,000 public servants still waiting on PSLF relief. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/09/p...

"In the coming months, the court is expected to decide whether to take up two cases [of] doctors ...accused ...of spreading misinformation about Covid-19 prevention and treatment." (a case already heard is about conversion therapy) www.politico.com/news/2026/02... @politico.com

It’s about that time of the year again to remind professors that law review editors do so much free labor for the profession, and it costs you nothing to extend some grace/not shitpost them on here. :)

I have no interest in policing other people's personal health choices in any way. If you're taking a GLP-1 and happy with it, then I'm happy. But we're never going to be a country without fat people — or the need to treat each other with grace and humanity regardless of size.

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

Disrespect is not reasonable fear for one's life and not a reason to murder a civilian. Law enforcement officers are ostensibly trained, whereas civilians aren't. The asymmetry alone is why courts have held that, e.g., fleeing law enforcement is not an excuse to use deadly force.

Per the speaker at tonight's rapid response meeting, ICE agents are booking hotel rooms in the Twin Cities for 60 to 90 days.

Just emailed to cancel my Hilton Honors account. I said specifically that it was because of their support for ICE.

… Bernie Sanders statement: “Donald Trump has, once again, shown his contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law….”

SO excited to read Anna's book!

Stumbling through anti-vax Law Review world is certainly a mood...