“yesterday’s misconduct”

I don’t see any sign that the old-guard Democratic elites can hear it. But my question is which of the younger Dems can speak it in a way that will resonate with voters and break through the toxic information environment

Oof

What I learned at this year's Law & Society Association conference tomkeck.beehiiv.com/p/what-i-lea...

Always read or talk to American Political Development scholars. They know the history. Matt Grossmann interviews @tmksyracuse.bsky.social on whether the courts undermine democracy.

Lots of good lessons in this piece from Gessen, as per usual

The Supreme Court’s voting rights decision is upending the midterm election and raising concerns about its role in democratic backsliding. @mattgrossmann.bsky.social speaks with @tmksyracuse.bsky.social and Albert Rivero. (@niskanencenter.bsky.social) opiniontoday.substack.com/i/199575199/...

I’m in this panel right now. Props to the team for shepherding this amazing journal through difficult times

En route to #LSA2026. Anyone got SF recommendations near Union Square?

I make three points in this short piece: 1) There is now lots of excellent English-language work by Brazilian scholars on democratic backsliding under Bolsonaro, so nobody has a good excuse to be relying on one-sided accounts from U.S. sources

Oh wow, this is horrible news

Oof

Activating Holliday for the 3-game Rays series and then playing him for half a game is a choice

@mchangama.bsky.social & @jkosseff.bsky.social say we're living through a global free speech recession. I think this framing obscures more than it illuminates. Here's my take on their important new book tomkeck.beehiiv.com/p/is-there-a...

This surely means that newsletters are soon to disappear as a relevant medium of communication, but ... I have launched a newsletter tomkeck.beehiiv.com

I’ve been recounting this Reagan quote in class for years. Now I’ve got this banger follow up

Viewpoint neutrality mandates are inconsistent with academic freedom, exhibit one million

Is anyone writing about the fact that grassroots Indivisible and related groups are all of a sudden unable to purchase or renew once-routine insurance policies?

@congressmannion.bsky.social voted for this bill

Sound up

Thinking about launching a newsletter. What’s everyone’s favorite Substack alternative these days?

Thinking about launching a newsletter. What’s everyone’s favorite Substack alternative these days?

Reinforcements on the way lol I’m sure we can find room for another corner outfielder who can neither hit nor field

Sound up

Oh man www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Combined AAUP and AFT statement - articulating what should be an obvious application of the most basic values, which the university admin itself purports to stand for www.aaup.org/news/aaup-af...

Did the Orioles just sign an 84yo golfer to boost the bullpen?

Among other things, this episode is a good reminder that university policies on institutional neutrality will always be selectively ignored

O's 2025 and 2026 records by month, just to check my memory. The last few days got me worrying we were repeating a May collapse from last year. But last year we were already quite bad in April. This year, we were very consistently .500 until the last 4 days

I want every one of my Dem friends to read this piece. The Court has gutted the Voting Rights Act and done so much other damage. The justices want to insist that they get the last word. But don't take for granted that they do. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/o...

And didn’t like the whole bullpen pitch yesterday?

Eugene Debs still hits

I’ll be there, sharing a few words about Eugene Debs

Here are young Reagan DOJ lawyer John Roberts's memos from 1982 opposing the VRA Section 2 amendment that Congress still passed and his Court just gutted 44 years later: www.archives.gov/files/news/j...

Everyone is discussing CONGRESSIONAL districts. But the VRA's effects were up and down the ballot, with huge implications for who holds local power. Here's a story on how a Tennessee community was bracing for SCOTUS. boltsmag.org/voting-right...

Cowser has been bad but he went 2-4 last Wednesday and hasn’t started since. Anyone got a reasonable explanation?

Whoever’s running on this platform has my vote

Is yesterday’s discourse just an elaborate bit to advertise Boots Riley’s new film?

🧵 The arguments behind landmark Supreme Court rulings have never been freely available… until now. More than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs (1830–2019) are now open on the Internet Archive. Full announcement ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u... @wolflawlibrary.bsky.social

Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality is finally out in the world! Combining nationwide survey evidence, state administrative data, and 111 interviews with patients, physicians & others, it tells the long-overdue story of coverage barriers and their deepening of burden an inequity.

My colleagues Gail Bulman and @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social on the shortsightedness of eliminating foreign language programs in an ever-diversifying world dailyorange.com/2026/04/lett...

There’s also this commemorative beer can that I’ve got on my shelf at work

Why isn’t Taveras in the lineup today? Make it make sense

Yikes the 3, 4, 5 spots in the O’s lineup put the ball in play a total of once tonight

This is just straight up lawless behavior and I don’t ever want to hear about Roberts as an institutionalist again

Small sample size of course but Jeremiah Jackson’s splits are um catching my attention