Thrilled that my article, Forgotten Framers: Black Conventions and the Second Founding, is forthcoming in the Stan. L. Rev. @stanlrev.bsky.social. It discusses Black Conventions held during Reconstruction and how these conventions are critical to a proper understanding of the 13, 14, & 15th Amdts.

Sunflowers, by Joan Mitchell, 1990-91, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

now seeking ideas for magazines to which I can pitch profiles of musicians

Feathering their nests. Big PR win for "maverick-y" coequal branch

Bad personality Friday out here in the world

The thing about the press conference is that Trump didn't say he would ask Congress to override the Court's decision, which is what a strong president whose party controlled both houses of Congress would do.

The sovereign is grumpy

Do not let Brett Kavanaugh's increasingly reactionary politics distract you from the simpler fact that Brett Kavanaugh is a dullard and a shitty writer whose colleagues all (albeit for different reasons) very obviously have nothing but contempt for him

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

Alysa Liu, daughter of a Chinese refugee and pro-democracy activist, brings glory to the USA. 🇺🇸 🥇

I never mind a random Cornel West sighting

Happy everyone's on vacation in Mexico week to all who celebrate

In a country not unstrung by John Roberts and his sick rogue scotus even members of an actual royal family remain beholden to the law www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

rather than "a lot" you could rightly say "nearly all"

phenomenal nile rodgers interview here, so much going on in this paragraph www.vulture.com/article/nile...

Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...

Went back this morning and read @dissentmag.bsky.social's coverage of the Jackson campaign in 1988; I think it is Michael Harrington's "A Case for Jackson" that holds up the best dissentmagazine.org/article/a-ca...

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

joyce is going after elon again

Miller is in a tier of his own, but this guy is neck and neck with Vance for my most hoped for ignominious end

The NBA tanking crisis is not great podcast content

CHUCK: Look, I loved the Muppets and Fraggle Rock, but Jim Henson and those hippies killing all them people was wrong. SHAQ: I don’t care what you say, you look like Black Professor Honeydew. KENNY: [laughing] ERNIE: You mean Charles Manson, Chuck. Jim Henson was a puppeteer.

interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”

🎶Wife with fajitas Holding her knee as she waits for the late shredded cheese She is displeased🎶

How to end an interview: In 1889, Frederick Douglass told a visitor to his DC home that any government that would "grant the right of suffrage and deny itself the power to protect that right is...a sham and a fraud." Then he grabbed his violin and played the Star Spangled Banner.

I adore the structure of Brothers Karamazov, a murder mystery that totally forgets there’s a murder

Diner-style restaurants that are not 24 hour should all either close at 3 pm or at midnight.

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight. The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Know-it-all undergrads of the world, with your considerable gifts comes the responsibility not to be a pain in my ass

reread this morning to prepare for class & teared up at “harm / will not fall, his perfect hand”

Not only did the administration not accomplish its stated goal of targeting Somali fraud, it caused the US attorneys who were actually prosecuting the fraud to resign in disgust

"Surge operation," christ these assholes.

Operating Systems. Byte Magazine, June 1981. Cover by Robert Tinney.

There's a weird kind of feral mood that sets in when it's been deep cold for multiple weeks in NYC

BANGER

“Tsai argues that a public defender movement ought to be revived; racial justice acts need public support; and a lot of work can be done to end the death penalty.”

Yessir that's my colleague Jorell Meléndez-Badillo (@jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social) and here's his history of Puerto Rico - available in English and Spanish press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

🎉Happy Birthday to the Maestro of Fantasy, Frank Frazetta, who was born on this day back in 1928! Frazetta is beloved the world over for his pulpy paperback and comic book covers, featuring brawny warriors in bold acts of heroism.🧵

So weird that these aren't all the same guy.

Some bleak shit

theres a video of jon hamm dancing on the sidelines and people are calling him tío jamón

I have entirely too much fun teaching Marbury v. Madison