Thrilled to see that Bluesky -- the microblogging site that I'm reliably assured is full of radical leftists -- has just re-invented Wellington & Winter's The Unions and The Cities.

felt like there was not much reporting on Trump's investigation of Yale Med School, and the reporting that did exist undersold how batshit the investigation is I have attempted to remedy these errors ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Breaking: The New York Times has filed a second lawsuit against the Defense Department, this time challenging the escort requirement for journalists covering the Pentagon.

This book looks interesting, but I am uneasy with the way its thesis is framed here. (IDK whether the framing comes from the author of the column, or the authors of the book) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

Now is a great time to order my book! 40% off! dukeupress.edu/the-business...

Thanks for the shoutout @mjsdc.bsky.social! "They've made Sam Alito very mad" - this should go on our resumes. w/ @greerdonley.bsky.social @rebouche.bsky.social

— come — and — get — em —

The Supreme Court takes up a case over whether employees of federally funded schools can sue to enforce Title IX’s sex discrimination bar. Cert petition: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

AI will pry my em-dashes out of my cold, dead hands

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

Nice, succinct thread. “Politics, not race” is meaningless when politics is endogenous to race.

What a time to be alive "Still, it’s hard to overlook the irony: as rising wealth inequality fuels growing interest in socialism, the AI models built to weaken worker power are themselves absorbing the Marxist analysis that builds it."

Wow. Just as the bourgeoisie hopes. Divide and conquer the proletariat.

‼️ Attn: We've got some union cats here ‼️

He‘s outraged that the gnat he was chasing flew out of his reach, and he wants to know who will remedy this injustice

He‘s outraged that the gnat he was chasing flew out of his reach, and he wants to know who will remedy this injustice

you’re not going to want to miss this one

Super interesting! Congratulations to you both and thanks for the work! 🎉🎉🎉

Yesterday, the Texas Tech Faculty Senate passed a resolution condemning Chancellor Brandon Creighton and his moves to censor teaching and research at the university. 🧵 of the full resolution. Professors are standing and fighting ✊

>Today, over 5,000 faculty across Penn State campuses, including University Park and the Commonwealth Campuses, won their faculty union, the Penn State Faculty Alliance, SEIU Local 668, with 2,510 faculty members voting Union Yes! www.pennstatefacultyalliance.org/news/2026/05...

Any song can do this if you play it loud enough

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

Just casually listening to the United States Government claim that the President could strip all Catholics, African Americans, and/or Asian Americans of security clearances and the courts can't do one damn thing about it.

The year is 2026: The magazine industry has collapsed and we no longer have fun food mags to buy on impulse at the grocery store. But wait, a newcomer arrives! www.weareravenous.com

In my new column for @justiaverdict.bsky.social, I argue that a future Democratic Congress and prez should repeal the requirement of single-member geographical districts & replace it with at-large congressional elections from party lists, thereby preventing both political & racial gerrymandering. 👇

If accurate, this is a massive own goal by @abigailspanberger.com. Public-sector employees in VA worked their butts off to elect her last year. More importantly, they deserve the job security and a real voice at the table that come with collective bargaining. vadogwood.com/news/labor/b...

sorry, i work at a university in a red state, and it’s illegal for the women & gender studies faculty to spend research money to attend their conferences. what in the fuck are they talking about

Round of applause for @alexhanna.bsky.social @veenadubal.bsky.social, Catherine Lhamon, and Laurie Palmer for being invited to speaker at a UC Berkeley commencement but refusing to cross the picket line until AFSCME 3299, the union for staff, gets what they need.

this is a bummer

Happy Frances Perkins feast day (Episcopal Church calendar, May 13)! Witness to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, later FDR’s Labor Secretary; she wrote the Social Security Act in her church’s rectory kitchen. She pushed to admit Jewish refugees. Known as FDR’s conscience and author of the New Deal. ⚓️

"Explore the data: 10,000 rulings against Trump in ICE cases" www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Not to hijack Erik’s interesting thread, but: let’s see your animals who aren’t working exactly but still cause total chaos

Every fucking day of covid I was battling this kind of misinformation in my videos and now the calls are coming from inside the house I used to live in.

Hey r/wallstreetbets wrote a comment letter on the SEC's proposal to eliminate mandatory quarterly reporting: www.sec.gov/comments/S7-... I don't know who is authorized to speak for r/wallstreetbets but I am amused

I read these words and I hear Bull Connor and George Wallace saying them.

Idk why I’m more annoyed about the outright lies in this short form video than I am about outright lies in text-based opinion pieces, but here we are.

If we are sincerely worried about AI-driven job loss, we have to address the fact that our unemployment insurance system is unfit to the task. Built for an earlier industrial era, it has been seriously underfunded for 50 years. But it's fixable! Nice to see people putting some ideas on the table.

The fantasy of a university that is “cutting edge” without disciplinary basics and does football but not history and produces knowledge first but also profit first and makes expertise but improves nothing and saves the sector by cannibalizing it is incoherent, besides being a project of social harm

some really, really exciting news. we're hiring a two-year reporting fellow to cover higher ed in NYC but especially CUNY!! come work with me and dive into an amazing, complicated and under-covered beat

Wait, is the technical claim true? The ways I can think of for it to be true are either easily circumvented, or privacy nightmares. But I’m not (at all) knowledgeable here.

Brings to mind that WSJ story about the guy who came to believe he’d invented a new field of math bc an LLM told him so

We looked into the “business courts” that are sweeping the nation. We found that nearly half the judges are former corporate lawyers, even though many of these courts hear cases involving workers and consumers. In some states, it’s 100%. newrepublic.com/article/2102...

Professor Defended a Postdoc Who Was Deported. Now His Lab Has Been Suddenly Locked Down. www.chronicle.com/article/a-pr...

That guy didn't go to college in Boston...well near Boston...no not Tufts...to copy-edit his own chyrons

My therapist: “this is the second session in a row that you’ve mentioned the concept of Odysseus binding himself to the mast. Should we explore this?” Me: “Oh I’m a law professor, this is a standard reference in the field.” Therapist: “Should we explore that?”

Enjoyed meeting @raskin.house.gov at a fundraiser in Haverford, PA. We talked abt @thelap.bsky.social ‘s judicial accountability work + urgency of conducting rigorous oversight over the judiciary + reintroducing the Judiciary Accountability Act to FINALLY extend Title VII to 30k+ exempt employees.

Having worked on this matter during the Biden Administration, I am just apoplectic. Saving people from raw sewage is basic decency, not illegal anything.

Come work with us! Are you a *great* litigator with a love for teaching? We are launching a formal federal Indian law clinic--and are looking to hire a two-year clinical fellow to work with us and the great Professor Deborah Archer (also President of the ACLU). apply.interfolio.com/186544

1. This is way more attenuated than the (rejected) standing theory from Allen v. Wright 2. I assume there is a convo going on in conservative legal movement circles about whether to make a concerted push for broader standing doctrine, and I would really love to know how it is playing out