When the online publishing platform Typepad launched more than two decades ago, it became a hub for a then-growing community of law professors and legal bloggers. Its closure marked the end of an era.

Once again reminding myself the hard way that Bluesky is NOT a safe place to search for "horse"

In light of Judge Immergut's ruling, there's a lot of noise today coming from the President's advisers and supporters about courts not having the power to provide prospective relief against domestic uses of the military. Via "One First," me on the rather significant early precedent to the contrary:

Feds charge woman shot by Border Patrol on Southwest Side @chicago.suntimes.com story from @kwashburn.bsky.social @vimiller.bsky.social and Kade Heather: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on protesters in the city. Troy and I were on the ground:

This is Chicago. Where a heavily armed agent of the federal government in a combat ready vehicle is pointing a long gun at peaceful protestors. This is CHICAGO, not Fallajuh. chicago.suntimes.com

Philly wrote about this post in the dang newspaper

UPDATE: DOJ has filed a notice that it is appealing tonight's time-limited TRO — an order that is generally not appealable — to the Ninth Circuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A. ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why. A judge has ordered his immediate release. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“No self-respecting university could ever accept something like this,” said Lee Bollinger, a First Amendment scholar and former Columbia University president. “Trying to protect conservative ideas against being ‘belittled’ — that’s about as violative of the First Amendment interests as you can get.”

My favorite actor is not human

Was curious about JFK’s health so I asked google. TIL he was pregnant in 1960 but only put on 15-20lbs

I really want to have a hot take on this but I am too much of a Sweaty Guy to wear sweaters. I need a layer that can be yeeted quickly, like a flannel shirt or a zipper hoodie.

Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš wins Czech parliamentary election

I asked a Christian baker to write Charlie Kirk on a gay wedding cake and we've been staring at each other for 39 straight hours now

This is perhaps the most cursed party imaginable

David Barton calls church-state separation a myth. He’s now an adviser on state social studies curricula. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/david-barton-texas-public-school-curricula/

U.S. Border Patrol agents shot a woman on Saturday morning in Brighton Park marking the second shooting since President Donald Trump’s administration launched an aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the area last month, the @chicago.suntimes.com reports

Request: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS a new ICE policy that went into effect last week to automatically detain unaccompanied migrant children on their 18th birthday when they “age out” of shelter care. The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.

“I love life more than ever,” Dando said. “And it’s not so bad being an old rocker. You know, old rockers never die — they just smell that way.”

My favorite actor is not human

talk about hard to handle

Dartmouth response to the Trump Administration Compact president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...

2026 internships available in my team at The LEGO Group! Internships in Story, Ideation, Concept Model Design (ie, building with bricks), Prototyping (3D printing etc), Hardware (soldering and weird sensors!) Physical (springs and spinny things) Digital (code for doing stuff with bricks)

Enjoying a nice perch.

My wife and I still say 'babby,' which led to calling the baby 'the bab' and then 'the Babadook' (non-derogatory)

Japan’s governing party elected former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi as its new leader, making her likely to become the country’s first female prime minister.

NEW: A leading Texas political scientist told a federal court Friday he saw “evidence of intentional discrimination” in the state’s new gerrymander, which “aggressively seeks to roll back minority power.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Kraft Singals: The official cheese product of transphobia

FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk, four people familiar say www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

Temperatures, however temporarily, have triggered Velcro Mode in Cats

Trump take bougie Canadian shaving cream

keywords “nazi porn lieutenant governor republican“ now insufficient to narrow down search results to a single person

Another Friday afternoon, another #SCOTUS grant of emergency relief to the Trump administration—this time to allow it to continue eliminating Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan migrants. The three Democratic appointees all dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

When Trump started talking about acetaminophen use during pregnancy causing autism, I immediately thought of refrigerator mothers and Bruno Bettelheim. I am grateful @bcrodriguez.bsky.social and @slooterman.bsky.social wrote this for @19thnews.org 19thnews.org/2025/10/refr...

BREAKING: Federal judge in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case finds that "there is a 'realistic likelihood of vindictiveness' that entitles Abrego to discovery" in response to his motion to dismiss the case for vindictive or selective prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: The First Circuit rejects Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In the New Jersey-led multistate case, the appeals court, in a 100-page ruling, keeps the nationwide scope of the injunction blocking the EO in place. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

If anybody wants a project to make Bluesky better, I've got one: On Twitter, when you posted a CourtListener PDF link, it would try to get the preview of it, and we'd serve up a little thumbnail and some metadata for the PDF. Bluesky doesn't do previews for PDFs at all, so this doesn't work.

Trump take travel

My most jingoistic opinion is that we should not respect foreign laws when US citizens are arrested and threatened with draconian punishments for acts that would be legal or a misdemeanor in most places. Seal Team Six should be busting Shaw out of prison if Indonesia won't release him.

Commentary: New Jersey residents deserve a public broadcast station newjerseymonitor.com/2025/10/03/n...

New videos capture tense moments before and after arrest of Newark mayor newjerseymonitor.com/2025/10/03/n...