Went to a graduation ceremony yesterday that was the very opposite of doomscrolling. Congrats, @sheabaumgarner.bsky.social and the rest of Rutgers JD ‘26!

happy mother’s day

congrats to the bishop of kabul

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

This year, I started what has been my actual dream job, teaching in an incredible MFA program at Rutgers-Camden. Last month, our funding was unilaterally pulled, threatening the MFA's very existence. Please consider signing this letter in support of saving our program docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

My beloved #WriterCamp child @molliecgordon.bsky.social has a staged reading of her new play WITH THE LIGHTS OUT in NYC this weekend! Get tickets now! www.ticketleap.events/tickets/with...

what’s- what’s the good way

you got onto harvard law review? what, like it’s hard?

this is an example of a nightmare fact pattern to get on a law school exam

mahmoud v. taylor (whether parents’ religious exercise is burdened when their children are read books pertaining to queer themes in schools because the parents are not provided an opt-out option) oral argument is up today. 🧵

Wow penguin unemployment has hit 100 percent. These tariffs are devastating

went to the law review symposium for the leftover cheese boards

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

a rare hopeful legal read: “Even a rogue marshal’s service, in other words, is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law. If courts have the courage, the legal tools are there.”

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social please!

We finally watched emilia pérez last night (sigh) & had to leave multiple friends 15 min long voice messages to process it. Thinking of starting a podcast.

if i ever teach a legal ethics class, the final exam fact pattern will be the plot of emilia pérez, and there will be two questions: 1) what legal work did rita even do? 2) issue spot everything to bring rita before an ethics authority for.

(absolutely no slight at all if you’ve left or are planning to leave) CAREER FEDERAL EMPLOYEES, YOU ARE SO SO SO APPRECIATED BY SO MANY PEOPLE.

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

REAL 👏 CHILI 👏 HAS 👏 BEANS 👏

If you’re a 3L suddenly jobless bec the Administration broke with tradition to include and revoke DOJ honors fellowships in their hiring freeze, please follow and connect with @ksvesq.bsky.social! She’s gathering firms and others interested in hiring you! #appellatesky #SkyLaw #appellatetwitter

If you’re a firm that is looking for junior lawyers coming from DOJ or elsewhere in the federal government please reach out. I’d like to start creating some resources to give to the junior lawyers I can’t work with.

“you put this pillow here for me, right?”

My kid: “Happy new year! Good luck, everybody!”

for christmas my girlfriend got me a bunch of books about how america’s democracy crisis has been in the works for decades, 25 geodes to break open, and a flannel

as of today, i’m halfway through law school 🤠😦

“may it please the court.”

everybody taking and grading exams these next couple weeks, lisa says, “well don’t just sit there. get to work!” (you’re doing great, though!!! take breaks and eat well. you won’t do your best without breaks and good food.)

i had somebody apologize to me today for the fact that “this is the world we live in.” it was weirdly comforting and depressing.

don’t neglect the edges of what you’re working on. sweep a room starting against the walls, start at the crust and work to the middle when topping a pizza, scrub the toilet starting from the top edges of the bowl down to the trap pipe.

weekly law library find

he’s a low information voter (he can’t read)

10pm at your parents’ house as an adult feels like 3am at your own apartment.

Post-thanksgiving dinner vibes

me at 1am last night: hey wake up, there’s a UFO outside gf: so what?? 😴🥱💤 me at 1am about a year ago: hey wake up, taylor swift just won a VMA gf: 🗣️📢‼️LEMME SEEEEEEEE‼️📢🗣️

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

Nah sorry Mariah, Ellen Griswold is the true queen of Christmas let’s be honest here

“how about YOU go sleep in the cat tree tonight?”

i’ve been drinking stupid chocolate protein shakes when i could have been drinking pancake batter protein shakes???

To be fair she does look like a chicken.

TV choices of others at my gym recently: harry potter, star wars (phantom menace), godzilla, adult swim cartoons, and football. basically, going to the gym is like visiting my parents, but there’s more ellipticals.

this week’s law library find:

been thinking about her lately

i can’t decide if fiction writers would make legal fictions better or worse