💪🏻 MacKenzie Scott donated $7 billion in 2025 bringing her five-year total to $26.2 billion, even as she stays out of the spotlight. fortune.com/2026/06/25/m...

Wong Kim Ark mural unveiled in Chinatown ahead of Supreme Court birthright citizenship decision localnewsmatters.org/2026/06/26/w...

Here’s Kaplan’s BAR® Question of the Day. I . . . really don’t think that this is a good question, and if I were running a bar prep service, it’s definitely not one I’d trot out as an example of the kinds of questions I offer. Curious what others think here. www.kaplanquizzes.com/bar/?id=3373...

Fresh off of endorsing Chris Rufo —by name—and his vision to destroy higher education, Yale is rushing to help the Trump admin resegregate education. An absolute disgrace.

At least we know that the 5th Circuit and Supreme Court will impartially and evenhandedly apply Mahmoud to protect religious rights of ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ba ha ha ha ha sorry it will just say people who object are anti-Christian bigots.

The Temple 10-Q made it to Capitol Hill. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) cited Blowing the Whistle: A Primer on the False Claims Act during a House Science, Space, and Technology Oversight Subcommittee hearing on grant fraud. https://law.temple.edu/10q/blowing-the-whistle-a-primer-on-the-false-claims-act/

“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

Law school faculty: please consider submitting information about your school's 2026-2027 hiring plan and hiring committee. Requested information, plus link to Google form to submit info, at prawfsblawg.com/hiring-plans... - once I get initial set of info I will make it sortable, filterable, etc.

I was sick of seeing JD Vance's memoir get all of the book coverage. So I asked a bunch of writers I know and love what recent books they think should get more attention. These are books for people who actually like to read. Please check them out! lithub.com/40-great-new...

Aaaaaaand we’ve crossed the threshold and the celebrations have started! More info over on Instagram. www.instagram.com/abeeinthebon...

Kagan points out in the dissent here that Alito is too much of a coward to even put Trump’s supposedly non-racist statements in his opinion.

I uncovered a bombshell that hasn’t been reported anywhere else. It’s a new rule DOJ quietly adopted which gives the Attorney General tremendous new power to punish political enemies and reward friends and donors. Please watch and share. youtube.com/shorts/rcee4...

“This isn’t about any individual story,” civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo, who said the project took her two months to complete, told me. “This is about the whole corpus of how they’ve covered trans issues over time.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

“We propose that state supreme courts amend their rules of professional conduct to impose a uniform ‘hold open’ date for offers until Oct. 1 of students’ 2L year for 2L summer positions.” @marklemley.bsky.social & I have an op-ed in Bloomberg on early recruiting news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

"Ms. Adams was investigated under a controversial law passed in Indiana meant to further “intellectual diversity” and prevent students from being subjected to political views unrelated to the course." The course: “Diversity, Human Rights and Social Justice.”

Yikes

BREAKING: A federal court just blocked the DOJ from seizing private data on millions of Maryland voters. In 9 out of 9 attempts, courts have prevented the Trump administration from accessing voters' data.

BREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz has quashed several DOJ grand jury subpoenas aimed Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey, saying they were part of a retaliatory effort over their refusal to aid Trumpa dmin immigration enforcement efforts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I'd like to shout out prison litigators, who perform the vital yet thankless task of protecting constitutional rights behind bars. They are in the trenches fighting to secure basic decency and safety for a deeply vulnerable population whom most would rather ignore. It's courageous and heroic work.

It kinda got lost in the madness, but the federal conspiracy case against anti-ICE activists in Minnesota - the Minneapolis 15 - is a big deal It's not just the 1st Amendment abuse. It's part of their plan to crush dissent ahead of a stolen election My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Behold, the future

NOPE (yes, I am ignoring that email about book orders sitting in my inbox, why do you ask?)

The Phillies should save some of these hits for other games.

Pretty remarkable to me that as a 24-year-old law student, Sonia Sotomayor made The Washington Post for reporting a law firm partner to Yale after he asked her racist questions during a recruiting dinner ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/clarence-t...

11-0 and it’s only the third inning! What?!?!?

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

They're gearing up for mass compulsory indtitutionalization. Worth noting that this is out of the Dept. of Justice, the department to which the Office of Civil Rights overseeing special education rights violations was just relocated.

I completely agree. I am going to keep pushing at this nd hopefully can get some others to join me in asking questions and raising awareness. This censorship is like nothing I have seen in years of living and working online. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBpUmcWD/

holy shit????? ICE is getting rid of seven of the 11 would-be concentration camp warehouses they purchased and sec. mullin indicates new mass detention centers are not priority. huge!

I made a joke about James Bond on Instagram the other day, and this is what AI has generated since then. Obviously, there’s literally nothing true about this, and it is fucking hilarious. As a certified AI hater, I LOVE when it gets it things so incredibly wrong.

Third (and *last*) #SCOTUS ruling is the Rooker-Feldman case (T.M.). For a very strange 5-4 majority, Justice Sotomayor holds that federal jurisidiction is not available to state-court losers even when state appeals remain pending. Barrett dissents, joined by the Chief Justice, Kagan, and Gorsuch:

Justices Gorsuch, Sotomayor, and Jackson concur in Hunter v. US to get pretty close to saying that plea bargaining is unconstitutional. Worth a read.

The second, but not last, SCOTUS decision is Hunter v. U.S. Kagan has the 8-1 decision vacating the Fifth Circuit and holding unenforceable a plea agreement when it would result in a "miscarriage of justice." Thomas dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Look at me; listen to me: It is exactly as structurally impossible to remove all "jailbreaks" (cleverly constructed workarounds) from a "generative AI" system as it is to prevent all "hallucinations" (instances of bullshit), and for exactly the same reasons.

The implication of this "New York Times" headline is that "goy" is simply a slang term used by Generation Z now, no longer attached to antisemitic implications. I think this is not only wrong, but rather dangerous for the newspaper to be printing.

Yet another reason LLMs are not actually helpful tools in the research stage either

This is the actual public sentiment around AI. Every corporate survey I’ve encountered is careful to ask “how we can help you use AI” instead of “how do you honestly feel about AI” for precisely this reason.

Our investigation into the small number of billionaire networks funding amicus briefs to the Supreme Court. Couldn't have done this without the incredible work of @melissa.news

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

This does. Not. Happen. The government does not agree to pay defendants’ legal fees. It is not done. They are doing it in the hopes of avoiding discovery, because they are hiding something that is somehow even worse than what we already know.

This is a murder

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

Yet another in the hundreds of stories of "buy up a competitor and then shut them down." It's almost as though there's a pattern here . . . www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This whole thread up & down is important and insightful. I want to add one linguistic point here:

475 million of them are accidentally clicking on a link in Instagram and getting annoyed

So it turns out you *will* lose your job to AI… but it will be because your employer broke the bank investing in a very expensive product that does not lead to demonstrable increases in productivity or revenue. archive.ph/2026.05.26-1...

Making me happy today

What an amazing journey for our neighbor, our friend Nok Suntaranon. 8 yrs ago, she was a caterer—she and her partner handled a small wedding lunch and larger dessert reception at our home in February 2018. (I think Lisa found her on NextDoor.) Now Kalaya is the best restaurant in America. Wow.

This guy bringing his deal across the bridge was such a huge moment for Philly. So proud of Jesse.