Somehow this seems especially telling. Not in a good way.

Trump admin continues scorched-earth policy re: spending any money that might conceivably benefit a foreigner, a non-white person, and especially anything when those sets intersect. Duty to implement laws is now just a pleasant fantasy. See also Epstein files. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This. So totally this. Except I'm OK with functional hats.

NYT published obit of analyst whom Merrill Lynch fired for being right too early about Enron. (He landed on his feet.) As far as I can tell from Web searching, unsurprisingly only good things happened to the guy who fired him. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...

As I predicted, making JAGs into immigration judges increases the independence of immigration judges because JAGs have other jobs to fall back on, not to mention a sense of honor. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

1984--We're behind schedule: Rutherford County, TN Library Board not only wants to ban books, it wants lists of who checked then out. www.advocate.com/news/tenness...

Weird article about high car prices in the Atlantic. Doesn't mention either tariffs or protectionist blocks on cheap Chinese EV imports. Block cheap competition, tariff steel and other inputs, what do you expect? Could changing those not be the 'easy fix'? www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Jotwell Equality: Ann E. Tweedy, Iver’s Poetry as an Antidote to Law’s Weaponization Against Trans Folk, JOTWELL (December 19, 2025) (reviewing K. Iver, Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco (2023)), equality.jotwell.com/ivers-poetry....

As we saw with the Abrego Garcia case, once their screwup becomes public, this administration doubles down and tries to destroy the life of their victim with a campaign of slander and brutality. Just watch how they're going to go after this woman and her family.

If they repeal sec. 230 I'll probably turn off comments on every site I control. At least we'll be able to sue Twitter, though?

It almost goes without saying, but this is illegal. The name "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" is established by law and the board doesn't have the power to change it. 20 USC 3 §§ 76h - 76s.

Is there a good way to embed my Bluesky posts via a feed that auto-updates into WordPress, akin to how I would do it for an RSS feed? Or maybe, better yet, something that will create an RSS feed from my posts? Haven't found anything that is free, or even reasonably priced, and reliably updated.

Jotwell Tax: Emily Satterthwaite, Do Rich or Poor Prefer International Redistribution More?, JOTWELL (Dec. 18, 2025) (reviewing Yehonatan Givati, Income and Preferences for International Redistribution: Theory and Evidence, 22 J. Empirical Legal Stud.. 438 (2025)), tax.jotwell.com/do-rich-or-p....

Pritzker-Warnock 2028

Kristelia García, Copyright for ̷D̷u̷m̷m̷i̷e̷s̷ Humans, JOTWELL (December 17, 2025) (reviewing Cathay Y. N. Smith, Copyrighting Nature, 79 Vand. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2026), available at SSRN (May 22, 2025)), ip.jotwell.com/copyright-fo....

Joys of home ownership status report: * Alarm: need part and/or v. expensive replacement * Fan/heater in bathroom: waiting for expensive replacement * Fridge: waiting for expensive part * Washer: waiting for 4 (identical) parts; not so expensive but installation will be (3 repair firms over 4 jobs)

I hate to think how many law review Articles Editors do this.

I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Where have all the frogs gone? No, not the ecological disaster, important as it is. I'm asking about the frog-costumed protestors: not seeing pics of them anymore?

Yes! I hope this becomes common. This makes me happy to be in the lawyer-training business.

I have a closet full of stuff that looks too much like this, and I didn't start accumulating computer gear until the early days of the home PC. 80286 chip for the win!

Jotwell Health: Wendy Epstein, When Primary Care Wait Times Become a Legal Problem, JOTWELL (December 16, 2025), health.jotwell.com/when-primary....

know I'm a bit of a broken record on this sort of thing, but the entry of (part of) the evangelicals to a movement already well populated by liberal protestants, and the Pope and most bishops, means we have a major social movement brewing.

I know I'm a bit of a broken record on this sort of thing, but the entry of (part of) the evangelicals to a movement already well populated by liberal protestants, and the Pope and most bishops, means we have a major social movement brewing.

Jotwell Family: Josh Gupta-Kagan, Before Meyer and Pierce, JOTWELL (December 15, 2025) (reviewing Laura Savarese, The Origins of Family Rights and Family Regulation: A Dual History, 78 Stan. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming, 2026), available at SSRN), family.jotwell.com/before-meyer....

Why if the diners' exit was impeded was this not a classic false arrest?

Trying to do more chilling (Florida style, no actual chill required) and less doomscrolling.

Talking a weekend break.

Your moment of schadenfreude.

Jotwell Equality: I. India Thusi, Ruination as Policy: The Legal Architecture of Food Waste, JOTWELL (Dec. 12, 2025), equality.jotwell.com/ruination-as....

ICE's behavior is disgusting. Any normal person would be engaged. But they have to hear about it. And they need to feel they can channel the rage into more than despair. What do we tell them? "Vote" is a start but national elections are a year away and even then subject to delays and veto gates.

Jotwell Crim: Maximo Langer, Warranted Doubts: An Empirical Study and Critique of Fourth Amendment Practice, JOTWELL (December 11, 2025), crim.jotwell.com/warranted-do....

When did "coup" get euphemized into "regime change"?

Seized oil tanker owned by Russian oligarch? With a history of transporting sanctions-busting Russian oil? Does this mean Trump will be giving it back? www.cbsnews.com/news/what-we...

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

"Oil tanker seized" - Houthis in the Gulf? No. Western government gets tough on sanctions-busting Russian ghost fleet? Dream on. It's this: www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Jotwell Courtslaw: Roger M. Michalski, Conflict of Laws as Pedagogy, JOTWELL (December 10, 2025), courtslaw.jotwell.com/conflict-of-....

I wish they were exaggerating.

This list in this article of things the Trump administration is doing does a great job of capturing why I go around in a sad daze criticalread.substack.com/p/new-york-t...

Jotwell Corp: Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci, A Time Traveler’s Guide to Business Organizations: Barry Hawk’s Journey From Assur to Amsterdam, JOTWELL (December 9, 2025) (reviewing Barry E. Hawk, Family, Partnerships and Companies: From Assur to Amsterdam (2024)), corp.jotwell.com/a-time-trave....

This seems wild.

Jotwell Contracts: Daniel Barnhizer, Planning for Bargaining Power, JOTWELL (December 8, 2025) (reviewing Albert H. Choi & George G. Triantis, Designing Contract Modification, __ U. Chi. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming), available at SSRN (Feb. 02, 2025)), contracts.jotwell.com/planning-for....

Trying to imagine what horror is next in this administration's topping exercise: "Trump invites Putin to send national guard troops to help patrol Washington"? Too much? How about Portland? Add your over-the-top prediction below. Some may come true...

The next phase of the resistance begins. See also Minneapolis, www.ms.now/news/minneap...

Yes. Slumbering public is slow to wake but once it's, er, woke, watch out!

Parody is dead.

It's petty, yes but somehow I think we need a stronger word...sick?

This chart deserves wide circulation. Given the effort it takes to get even smart law students to feel the diff between mean and median, and to beware when fed one and not the other, it might take a lot to get people to look at the distribution. But it validates what wallets are telling people.

What's astonishing is how many people say neither vaccines nor masks protect patient/wearer or others (herd/nearby breathers). I fear no amount of evidence may persuade them, which doesn't mean we should stop trying. (FWIW the ones I meet seem perfectly normal otherwise.)

Kavanaugh Stop. Stop the madness: vote, then pack the Court.