If this doesn't make you smile and laugh (and maybe even tear up a bit), well, not sure why we're connected online at all.

“Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a savior. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection. Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead.”

For what it’s worth, as a commander and officer it was my duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to first question and then to not obey any illegal order I was given. The same is true for everyone who swear their oath. Hope that clears things up.

Thank you to Charlotte Indivisible for sharing this toolkit tinyurl.com/CIPAjobs 🤝 #Charlotte #NorthCarolina #CommunityDefense

Charlotte-Mecklebburg Schools, according to reports, saw 15% of its students absent today amid Border Patrol operations in Charlotte. If that percentage of 15% happens Tuesday in Wake County due to the Border Patrol coming to Raleigh, 24.000 students could be absent from school. #nced #ncpol #wcpss

It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

I am not being hyperbolic when I say that how Harvard and the economics profession respond to Larry Summers will determine who makes up the next generation of economists. #econsky #news #harvard

This asshole is out here saying, as president of the most prestigious university in the world, that women don’t advance in academia because they’re not intelligent enough while he’s telling a pedophile he won’t mentor this woman unless she sleeps with him. My rage is without end.

The fact that @harvard.edu's Larry Summers is teaching three courses this semester while Texas A&M Professor Melissa McCoul was fired tells you all you need to know about what "gender ideology" is allowed and which is not. @aaup.org

Like, every Pres gets a Hollywood Handshake on their signature bake?

Extremely messed up, racist, and will destroy science as we know it. This would literally destroy the careers of most US-born researchers I know, in addition to all the foreign-born scientists. Every paper Ive been on has had coauthors from prohibited countries and I have learned so much from them.

Excited for this new role!!

“Lawyering Without Law” — @knightcolumbia.org call for proposals. knightcolumbia.org/blog/call-fo...

A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

This is not weird, just basic Gen X. Yes, I’ve done them all. And nobody was watching.

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

Hey fellow alums: if you'd like to voice your displeasure, here is the contact info for Cornell President, Michael Kotlikoff. (607) 255-5201 [email protected]

Fam, I’m so proud of this one: the first comprehensive empirical study of disability in law school. Did you know 20% of law students have disabilities? And while they outperform their peers on engagement, they need more institutional support. Learn about their backgrounds, behaviors & experiences👇

The Law School Survey of Student Engagement released its 2025 report, Disability in Law School. Among many helpful findings: 1/5 students report having a disability. This serves as an important counter to what NALP has found (1-2% in offices/firms). Well done, @meeradeo.bsky.social!

Virginia Gov, Lt Gov, AG Virginia HOD ~supermajority NJ Gov Mandamj in NYC Two Georgia PSC seats Prop 50 in CA PA Supreme Court— 3 seats It does not appear that blue and purple parts of the country are enthusiastic about the direction of the country under Trump at the moment; Dems are motivated.

Woohoooo!

“More than 100 federal judges have now ruled at least 200 times that the Trump administration’s effort to systematically detain immigrants facing possible deportation appeared to violate their rights or was just flatly illegal …” Straightforward even for Politico. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

It’s giving Four Seasons Total Landscaping

Basically all brown women—even strangers—are “aunty” to my kiddos.

I am going to go on a limb here and suggest this was not where Dominguez wanted this pitch against Ohtani

14th inning stretch!!!

Just some of what the administration did this week while many Americans struggle to afford basic necessities:

Love this!

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

I have an opinion piece in @insidehighered.com arguing: “No university leader or trustee can truthfully say that it fulfills their fiduciary responsibility to sign their school up for this.” Whereas rejecting the compact—even simply by doing nothing—is an opportunity for all of higher ed.

A desi in AZ on Diwali 🪔

Dude, I am the least athletic person you’ll ever meet and I could do this: “More than a third have failed so far, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.”

SoCal 🙌🏾

“We seek no special treatment in exchange for our pursuit of [shared] foundational goals.” 🙌🏾

I am proud to say that MIT has rejected Trump's poison compact. MIT President Sally Kornbluth: "Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education." @aaup.org @aft.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @uaw.org links.mit.edu/nl3/N5Jy2cKq...

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

contracts professor / torts professor / constitutional law professor

There is a graphic edition & it’s lovely. #DoNotObeyInAdvance #ResistingOvercompliance

Watching w my kind girl. Anyone else?

UC Academic Council letter to UC Regents and President calling on them to “reject governmental demands that compromise institutional integrity and academic freedom.” Personally, I’d say reject all demands, since the demands are being made unlawfully.

Dean of the UC Berkeley Law School has seen the Trump Administration’s “compact” for universities to receive preferable consideration for federal funding and says it amounts to First Amendment violations in blistering op-ed — www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

If you want to sue the government, are thinking about filing a request, drafting an appeal, or have been waiting for a response for months and don't know what to do, give us a shout: freeinformationgroup.com

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

this most "this could have been an email" thing i've ever heard

“Civility is a cage that we’re supposed to lock ourselves into and then we are expected to be grateful for our incarceration.” HARD PASS

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...