New from me on the distinctive pathologies of U.S. and European approaches to free expression, writ large academic.oup.com/icon/advance...

Alby back in the dugout with this cheek

The butcher of Ajax still got it

There’s no shade like papal shade

Show me what democracy looks like

Last night in Budapest. Sound on for the west coast hip hop beats

At least until another outfielder starts hitting, play Taveras everyday. I’m begging you Albernaz

Has anyone checked on Nate Silver

I’ll be there

Is foot infection a real injury?

Anyone writing about implications of Chiles v Salazar for red-state bans on trans healthcare? Eg, the IN law upheld in KC v. Indiv Members of Med Lic Bd (7th Cir 2024) prohibited docs from providing patients w info about out-of-state providers & discussing former patients with out-of-state providers

This piece from Nakagawa provides some helpful broader context for a lot of the on-the-ground resistance organizing that I’m seeing, all of which falls under his “preparation” phase open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...

Shoutout to "Professor Whittington" from Wang

Has anyone commented yet on Gorsuch's recasting of Holder v. HLP as a landmark of First Amendment liberty?

This is some high level shade from NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

Everyone read this before tomorrow’s oral arguments

I made the local paper #NoKings3

The highlight of the game for sure

Was cold, can confirm

I’m ready #NoKings3

Did the WBC ruin all the pitchers lol? This is gonna be the Orioles’ secret weapon because our participating pitchers are all in the minors

I feel like if Cowser and Blaze can hit just a little bit, this lineup is gonna be strong

Love it

Imma need someone to report back on the crab smash tacos

Good people, please fill out those Anthropic claims. Settlement is going to be around $3000 per book. "Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion plus interest into a settlement fund, equating to approximately $3,000 for each work covered by the settlement." www.susmangodfrey.com/wins/susman-....

My college ultimate team did New Haven to Brooklyn to Baltimore (where I hopped on) to Nashville to Arkansas (where I almost got bit by a cottonmouth while one of our cars was getting fixed) to Tucson. More or less without stopping (other than for the snake)

I'll be there

Are Gunnar, Anthony, PCA, and Turang the only US hitters having a decent tournament? And only two of them started tonight?

New V-Dem data release dropped yesterday. For the first time, V-Dem identifies Trump-era United States as an autocratization episode. Here are 3 of V-Dem's indices for the full scope of U.S. constitutional history. Description of these indices in alt text.

One extra base hit in 9 innings is not gonna cut it against the DR

I wish I had started this a long time ago, but I’m going to start threading examples of First Amendment arguments made with a straight face by US lawyers or judges that are basically impossible to explain to folks in literally any other democracy without pulling your hair out

Shades of Romer v. Evans. Which will not of course come out the same way this time

In hindsight, scoring in only one of nine innings against Mexico was an omen

45 years is crazy! But still holds up

In addition to this grand slam, he also had a single and double. In the first two innings

One worked in a (paper?) mill, the other was a custodian in a steel mill, then a bookkeeper for an egg farm

Sonic Youke reuniting for immigrant support benefit in Syracuse

Big W from Tish James here.

For the past year, we’ve seen many benefits of US-style diffuse judicial review. But today’s shadow docket holding in the NY restricting case, together with last year’s holding on universal injunctions in the birthright citizenship case, reveal a high Court determined to rein in all other courts

And my former student!

My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️

Wow

Let's see if we can raise $10,000 today for red state or national queer orgs. Post proof here in the replies that you donated to a red state or national queer organization and I will share. Who's with me? (I can't donate myself because I'm a journalist who covers these orgs)

Anyone know why Baz hasn’t pitched yet?

Gift article. Opinion piece by Chrystia Freeland

In 2025, the world’s democracies treated the US government the same way domestic law firms and universities did. It was a horrendous miscalculation, but it’s not too late to recalibrate www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...

lol I’m just catching up to this part

I believe that we will win www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

This essay is a year old but still worth reading. The interesting question for me (which incidentally I’m trying to answer in my current book) is whether protecting the speech that we hate at time A makes it more likely that we’ll protect speech that we value at time B