It’s all happening on X, the everything app.

This isn't quite McCubbins and Schwartz 1984 - but "alarm" is used more in official congressional e-newsletters by the party that doesn't control the executive branch:

Every headline nowadays is either "judge rules that Trump Administration must follow the law" or "Supreme Court rules 6-3 that laws are for suckers"

It rocks because a) it was his not Kamala’s campaign promise that the Files would be released, b) he is mad that this is biting him in the ass in a way that among other things diverts resources from his election rigging schemes, and c) he repeatedly said that his “friends” are the ones in the Files

insert jokes about soft and hard power

Evergreen tweet.

Dude: "it's in my DNA" to physically change everything about myself to prove I'm evolutionarily superior. Also Dude: I hate women who use makeup, clothing, and plastic surgery to hide their authentic selves. I want a natural girl (who somehow with no effort fits my arbitrary beauty standards).

As @ryanmckeen.bsky.social said recently: values are what you do when it’s inconvenient and doesn’t maximize profit. “Financially devastating but morally exhilarating” is a line that will stick with me. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...

lol rip covert

Mmmmm yep theonion.com/rift-widens-...

Raped veterans can't get heath care. These people are sick

Yep this is it:

Narrator: no, they have not.

Saw Mike Lee’s execrable proposal a few days ago—it’s bad. Sadly in line w/ the increasing momentum to expand private actors’ privilege to use violence. Darrell Miller & I wrote about this regrettable right-wing movement that we called “the new outlawry” www.columbialawreview.org/content/the-...

When she actually changes, let us know.

The block button has gotten a lot of use today

if I were elected mayor of a city I too would insist that every ceremony took place in an abandoned tunnel or secret passage of some kind

Reminds me of another New York Times piece

SO very tired, we, the Jews of the world, are Again, one very easy way for the NYT to escape the constant criticism it has found itself subject to these last years would be to stop acting in ways that <completely justify> all of the constant criticism it has found itself subject to these last years

Sorry but you do not, under absolutely any circumstances, gotta hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...

Prigg v PA (1842) a slavery case, that I learned in Con Law I, is about enslavers going into free states to retrieve people. It shows the human cost of slavery and the conflict of federal/state laws. Prof. Shapiro draws parallels in current politics. The case is discussed in my forthcoming book.

Palantir, Sauron … It’s like they skimmed LOTR but didn’t understand it, particularly the warnings.

Sigh

New article: "Legislative Control and Partisan Disparities in Dyadic Representation" in @lsqjournal.bsky.social w/ Dan Butler and @steverogersinfo.bsky.social. GOP leadership doesn't shy away from policies where GOP constituencies disagree with the party platform, impairing dyadic representation!

my demands are simple, mr. bond

early discworld is not as polished as later discworld but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it's still pretty good

The same person who told you that immigrants eat cats—and tripled down on that filthy, idiotic lie when challenged—regrets to inform you that immigrants also cause nuclear war.

It's a fascinating profile, but there's something a tad ... rich ... about having Toobin write about someone else's double life, no? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/m...

TIL that Chubby Checker is still alive

When I’m dead, I want the @washingtonpost.com to lower me down into my grave so I can be let down one last time.

my great grandma was widowed in 1934 with three children & worked as a night cleaner walking 3 miles to and from work to save the bus money for her kids her great grandkids have a PhD, a DVM, and a masters in engineering these people can get all the way fucked

Make a Bond fim academic. No Time To Do Research

Make a Bond film academic. The Spy Who Plagiarized Me

Make a Bond movie academic Tenure is Forever

Stephen Miller is a horrible racist in the sense that he is actually not that good at being racist.

Live and Let Cite

At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.

My “we” is bigger than hers. It includes non-Christians. As our nation ALWAYS has.

We talked about running these numbers at UM soc when it became so obvious that women TAs got more complaints for the same classes. Glad someone tested it formally.

You will be visited by three spirits

Sure hope the ADL is feeling good about their decision to go all in on working with this administration right about now.

This is spot on 🔥

Really sad and totally unexpected to see the America First ethos devolve into bigotry, who could have predicted?

Die Hard

It was an important issue for worthy clients.

Like, literally since the ancient Greeks, education has been recognized as one of the best things you can do for human beings