SCOOP: The Trump administration is paying millions to quickly cover four enormous bronze horses with extra-thick 23.75 karat gold leaf. The money for the rush job is coming from National Park Service funds. In total, I found ~$100 mil spent on new DC beautification projects.

How I Uncovered Teapot Dome

How I Revealed the Pentagon Papers

How I Got to the Bottom of Watergate

Hmm, can a judge just pre-grant the motion for dismissal due to vindictive prosecution?

I feel like this is the downfall of America in one blogpost right here: people defending institutions and abiding by norms that one side has abandoned.

at what point does he start tanking the reputation of u. of minnesota law school?

the way every law professor who actually gives a shit about being a law professor and intellectual honesty is immediately reacting to this like, hey quick question: what the fuck Ilan Wurman should not be treated as a serious scholar ever again

/22 Heads should roll. Careers should end. If DoJ won’t do it, the legal community should do it for them. This is appalling and unacceptable behavior throughout, at all levels of this office. The lower attorneys committed misconduct. Boutros was complicit in hiding it from the court.

He promised to release his tax returns as soon as there were no more audits pending, and now there are no more audits pending.

There was an attack to try to get me fired for being a “pro assassination” professor last fall (someone wildly mischaracterizing my Bluesky posts, resulting in like 200 calls to fire me and having to get the police involved), so to get this student eval about that this term feels a bit poetic.

The $1.7BB has become $1.8BB. Damn, I guess inflation really is up.

Uhhhh

“The VRA wasn’t just the nice move — it was the smart one. Its purpose was to keep legitimate grievance inside the system rather than outside it. “Now they’ve put it back outside.”

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

MIT President Sally Kornbluth said that the school’s research enterprise has shrunk 10 percent from a year ago and warned of a persistent drop in graduate admissions as the university grapples with federal funding challenges and policy changes. www.statnews.com/2026/05/14/m...

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

So one 277th of a ballroom

*clears throat* literatibookstore.com/book/signedl... in a TX case, SCOTUS said federal courts were wrong to pause a map they found illegal *in Dec 2025* bc that was too close to election. now, in a LA election already underway, SCOTUS jumps in to alter the state map - & free LA to do more.

Pulitzer Prize winner Pablo Torre Finds Out!

known, and hoped to make happen

Knowledge Fight RIP 😔

This looks like a crime. Based on the videos included here, the president of Cornell should lose his job.

The idea that "86 47" is not protected free speech is so insulting that a copy of the First Amendment in the National Archives spontaneously combusted upon the filing of this indictment.

Priceless post from the official White House social media

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Another entry on my list of startups at which I would not want to work without having retained my own criminal-defense counsel:

NEW: We obtained the government’s settlement agreement with Michael Flynn. As previously reported, DOJ agreed to pay $1.25 million to settle Flynn’s claims that he was wrongfully prosecuted. But docs suggest a separate settlement could be in the works: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/u.s....

A short bedtime tale by the 4yo: "Once upon a time there was a little boy who really wanted a unicorn. But every day, no unicorn came to his house. He would shout, "UNICORN!", but no unicorn came to his house. He wished EXTRA SUPER HARD but still no unicorn came to his house! Only tigers."

cc: All Dem POTUS aspirants. Also cc: all centrist DC pundits who have already pre-written their "no accountability, we must all come together" drivel pre-set to publish in November 2028.

First Plato—now Dr. Peterson—out the door at Texas A&M! Who’s next? Here is Dr. Peterson’s letter of resignation, which he just shared with the faculty.

MELANIA: You want me. Out of nowheres. To remind every one. Of my best friend, and child sex monster. Jeffrey Epstein?? (squints evilly) NATHAN FIELDER: (voice over) The First Lady loved my idea.

Infrastructure week.

One day, "It" will happen, by which I mean sudden and unexpected news that you want to celebrate. In such cases, you will want the right outfit. 🧵

WATCH: Cherise Doyley, a mother of three, was in labor at a Florida hospital when a nurse brought her a tablet. On the screen were a judge and several lawyers, doctors and hospital staff. Doyley wanted to have a vaginal birth. They wanted to force her to undergo a C-section.

This executive order about mail-in ballots is obviously and nakedly unlawful and I expect that every part of it that actually does anything will be promptly blocked by federal courts.

Fun fact: If you ever find yourself thinking, "wow there sure are a lot of federal court rulings today," the odds are decent that the day is March 31 or September 30 www.uscourts.gov/data-news/re...

1/2 This memo identifies absolutely no source of legal authority for paying TSA. It does not point to an appropriation that is available for this purpose, nor does it point to any legal authority to transfer some other appropriation to TSA. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The Department of Justice denaturalized 2 more citizens for fraud: www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi... Watch this space carefully. @brennancenter.org research is a good starting place: "The only situation in which citizenship can be revoked without the citizen’s consent is if it is unlawfully procured."

Uh. “Ms. Dhillon on Wednesday afternoon posted a picture on social media of her signing one of the letters with her fountain pen, a Pelikan Souverän with an 18-karat gold, extra-fine nib.”

Ok, what’s going on at Interior?

Bike lanes are woke.

Fetterman is doing tremendous damage to the reputation of the Big Oaf community. Big Oafs did not ask for this kind of toxic representation. Now we must lumber back into the shadows, hiding under bridges wearing our most somber JNCO jean shorts, drowning in both our sorrows & voluminous denim

SCOOP— Trump wants a 24k gold coin w/ his face on it for America 250, but an official at a late February coin advisory committee meeting called it something only done by "nations ruled by kings or dictators." After NYT reported the criticism, US Mint yanked online vid of the meeting w/o explanation.

It is really cool to have PTA and Coogler’s first Oscars back to back.

😳☠️

BAM!!

worst day of the year. hour stolen from night time given to the smug idiot breakfast eaters. the rise and shine clowns