Do not vote for any budget that gives one dime to the agencies or agents who are inflicting this terror on an American city. This is not a budget negotiation. This is a moral imperative. Do NOT fund this. www.fox9.com/video/fmc-bv... @cantwell.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov @adamsmith.house.gov

@tylerjfisher.com hey! Huge fan. I'm getting an internal server error when trying to login this evening. Just a heads up if it's a more general issue.

COINAGE ALERT

Any Democratic votes to fund DHS later this month as Minneapolis is being terrorized by DHS is going to be a major slap in the face to Americans living here. Demand major reforms or shut the government down.

Perhaps of interest to my friends in Washington government, legislative, judicial, or executive branch. 1. Some information on creating a state-law cause of action against federal officials for federal constitutional torts. Sort of a state-law Bivens. statedemocracy.law.wisc.edu/featured/202...

Everyone is focused on the negative aspects of AI here. But wouldn't it be easier to catch the monkeys if we just used information on monkey behavior to create a custom MonkeyGPT and then asked the GPT to predict the locations of the escaped monkeys?

States can also enact statutes providing tort liability for violations of constitutional rights by state or federal officers. State legislative sessions are gearing up now, so it’s a good time to call your state reps!

Generalizable advice: When seeking relief from a Court, you need to make it *easy* for the judge to rule in your favor. Making it easy means making the law and facts easy, of course, but also making the practicalities and mental decisionmaking easy. Sometimes that means helping the judge save face.

I'd love to see this as one of the demands to get any Dem votes for the next funding bill.

Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... TRO motion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul sue Noem and others over DHS immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, seeking TRO to block the surge and stop unlawful actions detailed in the complaint.

Not a recent change! But not a big deal. Folks likely won't think the unital comma looks *too* weird since Supreme Court style (and others) only italicizes e.g., not see or any other signal. So the pre-e.g., comma in See, e.g., in SCOTUS opinions is *not* italicized. (Neither is the See, of course.)

I did not expect this graf in the middle of a story about 401(k) plans: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/b...

My baseball team's podcaster is better than your baseball team's podcaster. #IceOut

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

Every time somebody says "AI tools can improve access to justice," a thorough reporter might want to note the piles of federal court orders where pro se plaintiffs have been dismissed (and sanctioned) for using AI to write slop briefs.

There's a lot going on but I just read an ABA Journal article in which a federal judge "suggests judges use AI to detect hallucinated cases before they send out orders, a practice she and her clerks now follow."

Yes, Dear Reader, a federal judge, in the ABA's magazine, recommends first to generate orders with AI, then to use AI to check for errors in that order. Does anyone have any idea how anything works at all? Do they even care?

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I think YouTube Music should reconsider the photo it's using for Tchaikovsky.

For the Bluebook nerds: No, they didn't have small caps for "Const," and yes, I ordered it with a lower-case "a" for "amend" but they changed it to upper-case. Editors! Happy 2026, everyone.

I mean they're doing it for above-the-line substance so why not citation format too?

I think YouTube Music should reconsider the photo it's using for Tchaikovsky.

I am officially an Old. I will be sick for that kicker for days.

Lord David Ziff! I don't have to work because of my vast inherited wealth, so I help solve crimes as a hobby, what?

Hey @uwlaw.bsky.social folks: Are we bringing the party again this year? Or was last year a flash in the pan? We're building a reputation here! (I have no idea; I've never been.)

My best guess is that there are some serious errors and omissions in the Blinkist version of the trilogy.

Excited to announce GOLLUM, an app that helps you focus on your most precious possession!

cc: @fdostoevsky.bsky.social

I have an established practice for when I want to cite a source I haven't read.

I gotta stop playing when I'm hungry.

I gotta stop playing when I'm hungry.

"Like a furry Santa Claus...." #WetRatWinter www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

"Like a furry Santa Claus...." #WetRatWinter www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

"I'm seeing a show at the Kennedy Center" "Don't you mean the Trump and Kennedy Center?" "No, the Trump is separate, it says so right on the building"

With the double "The" I'd actually read it differently. It's not that Trump is dead; it's that the signage now indicates two separate things. There's a Trump and then, separately, a Center for the Performing Arts.

Everyone should watch this video. Everyone. Judge Salas is a person of extraordinary bravery, at a moment in our nation’s history when bravery is vital. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Duuuuuuuuumb Sorry for not offering better analysis

Just to be clear, this ban would have prevented me from coming to the US, had it existed in 1983.

@jrabrams.bsky.social changed my law teaching for the better with this book. Highly recommend.

So grateful for the insightful Book Review of "Inclusive Socratic Teaching" (@ucpress.bsky.social) authored by @suemcmahon.bsky.social and infused with all the wisdom, expertise, savvy, and experience in law teaching, wellness, and justice that she brings to all things! alwd.org/lcr-archives...

Apropos of nothing, Rule 18.7 provides guidance on citing audio recordings of pop songs from the 80s. #originalism #executivepower #scholarship

Now this is scholarship

I mean, I was already going to see this movie. But now I'm really going to see it.

Putting aside the merits of corpus linguistics, it's interesting when judges talk about *methodological* precedent like this, i.e., "Our circuit has embraced" some method. It's not precedential in the sense that the method is accepted or required. More like just saying "I'm not weird to do this."

It's an obvious and fitting WOTY choice. Jess & I also both chose it. I love how it's used to make so many other words: — slopaganda — sloperations — slopographers — sloptimists

Restaurants across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-food lifestyle.

I always misread underserved as undeserved.