I guess we'll see a lot of B-Ball Paul here on out.

25th Amendment cause Canada is the last place you’d find the Stanley Cup.

Had enough of this shit yet, Michigan?

Arne Duncan gets it. I hope the leaders of my university and so many others take this to heart. wapo.st/4qomlXe

"Eliminate presidential immunity" needs to become as common a refrain as "eliminate Citizens United"

Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.

Rob Flaherty is right. And don’t underestimate the data center backlash, as well. Dems need a strong, smart AI policy. The future of AI needs to be determined democratically, not by and for the tech overlords. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...

I absolutely adore that he grabbed this opportunity with both hands and used the performance to open a window into the current state of Puerto Rico, his own arc, and make an argument — to situate the US as just one of many nations in America.

And while everyone is feeling good about Benito giving a Grammy to someone who is not Liam Ramos: Congress can pass a personal bill to grant citizenship to Liam Ramos, his family and Kilmer Abrego Garcia.

a bit late, but why did a rapist tell me I should eat apples

Yep. For those who don't remember, he was convicted of raping an 18 year old, and years later said this: abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=...

Mike Tyson + MAHA = the perfect combination of horrible person and horrible agenda.

Big divide Chez Schlangenstos over the Good Will Dunkin' ad.

I just cried at an ad. I'm not going to buy any fucking potato chips. Jesus.

Wow, this Paraguayan pizza is ... something.

Yes, a potato chip ad made me cry.

Keytars in two unrelated ads? I'm sensing a trend.

world's least normal man can't just eat chicken wings at a super bowl party while on an all meat diet

In appropriations law tomorrow, I'm teaching the necessary expense rule. (Nerdy!) The reading includes my favorite footnote in the GAO Red Book.

Thank you for sharing! We have also posted it on our site blog for anyone who doesn’t use Substack. I agree with your point and we have heard from several reliable sources that OMB doesn’t intend to obligate appropriated funds above Trump’s asked. www.standupforscience.net/blog/an-infl...

This piece is well worth your time. The only thing I'd add is: It remains to be seen how much of a win the "restoration of funding" in appropriations bills actually is. (1/2)

Nothing is more frustrating than some factions in nominally your team ("team science") appeasing the fascists in hopes of a return to status quo. First, status quo wasn't great. Second, you undermine reformers. Finally, appeasement always emboldens, not deters, fascists.

GOOD TRIUMPHS OVER EVIL BABY

Court storm twice in one night? Sure why not

I’m a Tar Heel born, I’m a Tar Heel bred, and WHEN I DIE I’M A TAR HEEL DEAD! rah rah Carolina-lina rah rah Carolina-lina rah rah Carolina-lina GO TO HELL DUKE!

Rushing the court twice. Awesome.

I love basketball.

It was great to speak to Ford School students and alums on Thursday. Huge, engaged crowd!

Download of the Week: “The Dismantling of Civil Rights Protections and Thoughts on Rebuilding” by Bagenstos & Katz The Download of the Week is The Dismantling of Civil Rights Protections and Thoughts on Rebuilding by Samuel R. Bagenstos & Ellen D. Katz. Here is the abstract: Over a few months in…

Important: Expert Survey on DHS, CBP, and ICE Reforms at www.justsecurity.org/130972/exper...

Cameras in some classrooms won’t actually save students with disabilities. Other kids will. Just another reason why inclusion and community matter so much.

So you’re telling me the AI boom is driving up the cost of smartphones and new construction, and it’s stifling other innovation? AI can be very useful, but we need to be sensible. wapo.st/4qqatnA

Not that it would be okay to do this to an undocumented immigrant either but THIS GUY IS A LEGAL IMMIGRANT and also his lawyer hand delivered his medication and they REFUSED TO GIVE IT TO HIM. Enraging! How do ANY of these people live with themselves?

My suggestion is that the NY Times profile politicians who are not just thinking about kids detained by ICE, but actually doing something about it, rather than enabling it.

The extent to which this administration personally targets and continues the assault on people who embarrass and shame it is particularly despicable.

They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.

The Public Health Service Commissioned Corps contains some of the most expert, committed public servants I know. They signed up to help people live longer, better lives, not to be part of the inhumane mass deportation machine. www.npr.org/2026/02/05/n...

They're such incredibly dim bulbs. All they know is whom they hate. They have no idea what anything is for, why we had it, what it did while we had it.

The glibness with which these people are dismissing what is, fundamentally, an extensive record of elite atrocities makes me think it’s better if I don’t finish this sentence

At a moment when we need the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division more than ever to hold officers accountable for violating the Constitution, Trump is taking a bulldozer to the place. That is not a coincidence, of course.

I'm super excited for the LPE conference starting tomorrow, but I'm already despairing that there are multiple panels I really want to attend during each time slot (including the time slot in which I'm chairing a panel!).

RFK is using his position to push things that have never shown any benefit in autism & have shown serious harms, including numerous dead kids thru the years. Why push for things known to harm instead of looking for things that could actually provide benefit? Because the harmful things are profitable

One of the things I try to instill in my students is that "constitutional" and "unconstitutional" are not legal terms of art. It's OUR Constitution. We're empowered to have views on it, and to view government action or inaction as consistent with our country's norms, values, and traditions—or not.

Remember the big foreign aid cuts? Estimates are that more than 760,000 people, including 500,000 children, have died over the past year since American assistance suddenly vanished - figures cited by Senate appropriations member Sen. Schatz.

The appeal to the federal circuit court ALSO costs $600. So now anyone who loses in immigration has to pay $1,000 to be automatically denied in nearly every case, and then $600 to seek an emergency stay of their imminent deportation. AND THIS APPLIES EVEN TO PEOPLE IN DETENTION.

The goal is clear; mass deportations over due process. An order of removal does not become "final" until the Board of Immigration Appeals denies an appeal. After that, ICE can deport the person unless they file ANOTHER appeal to a federal circuit court AND get an emergency stay.

The Trump admin is ALSO changing the rules so that rather than 30 days to file a Notice of Appeal, people will now only have 10 days (in most cases). That's just 10 days to find $1,000 and appellate counsel for an appeal the government says it will likely automatically deny!