Tapping the sign

Thrilled about GSU’s all-star faculty exchanges and distinguished workshop invitees this spring!! @andrewkjennings.com, @profloriann.bsky.social, @yeargain.bsky.social, @fsanei.bsky.social, @matiangai.bsky.social, @eileen.sunriseparabellum.org, @jctate1215.bsky.social, @drniajohnson.bsky.social!

Next week, we start off with a bang! I look forward to @eileen.sunriseparabellum.org joining us in Atlanta. And many thanks to @monicavisalam.bsky.social who will be her faculty host.

We’re so looking forward to hosting @eileen.sunriseparabellum.org next week at GSU and hearing about her important work on prosecutorial appeals!

I may not actually want to know the answer to this, but WHAT did Ad-Rock do to the Sheriff’s daughter with a wiffle ball bat?!

What is the number one best fruit and why is it mangoes?

So exciting to get helpful feedback from amazing colleagues and see all the really cool work they’ve got going on! And so grateful that we have a wonderful Associate Dean who puts so much time into fostering and promoting our work.

This brings up something I'm genuinely interested in getting responses to: for me separating the person from the work often depends on whether the person is living or dead, and thus whether a choice to buy/engage with their work one way or the other might have some influence on their conduct.

real hotdogguy.gif moment here

ayyy

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

There’s no way around this: They will lie to justify the killing of their political enemies. They are doing it. This is a fascist regime. It is also a weak and unpopular one, and it won’t last.

“sundry actual congresscreatures” is my new punk band

Oh come on Sam

I'm at the civil war I'm at the NATO war I'm at the combination civil war and NATO war

Our worth is determined by our shared humanity, not our immigration status. Carry MLK's work forward by choosing empathy, practicing compassion, & standing up against a militarized & deadly mass deportation agenda. ACT: https://www.aila.org/advocacy-tools/aila-s-advocacy-action-center #MLKDay

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. . . . Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 16, 1963, Birmingham, AL

Waking up on MLK Day to <gestures broadly>

Absolutely screamed on that TD, completely forgetting that my poor spouse (who's battling a cold) was already asleep. But I think he's going to forgive me when he wakes up and reads about it.

Tabla. (Rest in power Floyd Cardoz you are so missed.) I only went once, but I'll never forget tasting a mung bean salad amuse and instantly being transported to my family's home in Bombay. It meant so much to see Indian food elevated like that (back in the day when it was the only one in NYC).

I’m embarking on new cross-stitch projects soon (just finished this peacock feather which took me forever). Anyone need anything cross-stitched?

Oh hey, the Australian Open is here! Yay! But that also means it’s time for one of my periodic reminders that Sasha Zverev has been credibly accused of domestic violence by multiple women and no one in the tennis world seems to care!! 🙃🙃🙃

“Worst foreign policy decision in US history” yet…

Are you a badass law librarian with amazing administrative skills and a particular interest in legal tech? Do you want to work in the coolest law library in the whole wide world (objective assessment)? Boy do I have a position for you!

Look, I’ll put up with a lot in service of the American imperial project, but invading Jodie Foster has to be where we draw the line.

🚨 Publication alert! Very happy to see our paper "Unlocking the benefits of transparent and reusable science for climate risk management" out in PNAS today. With @crispapoll.bsky.social @jdossgollin.bsky.social @bobkopp.net and many others. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Look, there are many many more important things to be mad about but trading AD just underscores how incredibly stupid the Luka trade was and THIS TIMELINE IS THE STUPIDEST

Yesss! Looking forward to seeing old colleague-friends and meeting new ones!

Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

Time to reup the real National Security Strategy:

I’d argue that it isn’t about profiting from the oil, it’s about the perception that controlling the oil makes you strong and rich and manly.

My mom as we drove by a gas station today: $2.02?!? I don’t think we need Venezuela’s oil.

This is a really useful and cogent discussion of many of the international law issues here (and unsurprising that if anyone can do a Chotiner interview well it's @oonahathaway.bsky.social)

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

The end of the post-WWII international order. Bananas in pajamas. Grapes?!

Petro-masculinity in everything

At 1pm this Thursday at AALS we have a panel on “The Trump Administration 2.0 and International Law,” in case anyone would like to join me for some incoherent screaming.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

I thought we all agreed that getting a few germs from the subway helps build up a strong immune system. Isn't that why we all lick the poles?

Excellent spectacles game/ability to rock a tweed blazer with elbow patches

Salvage the Bones

Ok fine I did it because all y’all were doing it. And ok, fine m-w, I’ll strive to live up to your goals for me.

no tunnel but the tunnel whose contours we identify for the purposes of finding its exit, no light but the one we follow to better times

lol quite the contrast between first book and last book

Just the loveliest New Year's thread. I wish all of this for all of us as well!

My sweet friends here in Denver are letting me join their friend group’s annual NYE party. I have been told that there will be great people, good food, multiple dogs, and that the festivities will wrap up by 12:15 at the latest. I am so happy.

Me: I have done way too much online shopping recently, time for a break Also me: [sees this post] TAKE ALL MY MONEY DR. MCANULTY

So where and when are the good parties at AALS? @lsepper.bsky.social, any insights?