My 1L Contracts professor introduced contracts with a whole class on surrogacy (bless her) and it was so horrifying I'll never forget

NYC Mayor Eric Adams: "I want to be clear with you: Andrew Cuomo is a snake and a liar. I am in this race, and I'm the only one that can beat Mamdani [mispronounced]." (Full announcement video via Reuters, part 1 of 2)

A woman in Manhattan reported to police that an Amazon delivery man, 5'6'', exposed himself to her. Police did a face recognition search, showed her result, arrested the wrong guy, 6'2''. What did the NYPD not do? Call Amazon. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n...

In its alleged fight against antisemitism, the Trump administration has relied on two groups with murky funders—one of which is in Israel. Here's my deep dive @thebaffler.com into Canary Mission and Betar, two extreme Zionist groups at the heart of Trump's crackdown. thebaffler.com/latest/for-b...

The NYPD falsely arrested a man because of a bad facial recognition match www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n...

Does my trash can get sad when I empty it

I love to box my client in to the stupidest possible defense before the investigation is even over

let your haters become taters in the chip bag of success

McGuinness Boulevard rears its head again: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/n...

It's 5pm(ish) which means it's time to log on, review the output, and send @hassankhan.bsky.social individual texts of all the posts I thought were cute today

The fucking protein powder has a shrink wrap arbitration agreement now? This is like a nightmare law school hypo

lol nypost.com/2025/08/17/u...

Listen normally I do not recommend speaking to the cops but

This should win a Pulitzer www.mvtimes.com/2025/08/06/g...

It's not really summer until there's a new Dershowitz vs Martha's Vineyard story

While this is fucked up, this is also the funniest local news video I've ever seen. "The ladies have been charged with 'writhing'" - Harry Boomer, 19NEWS

When police don’t have access to a tool they want to use, they phone a friend in an agency that does

FDNY helped NYPD identify a pro-Palestinian protestor using the facial recognition tech, Clearview AI — which the NYPD isn’t allowed to use. Manhattan DA used the ID to charge a hate crime. A judge dismissed the case & warned about government surveillance: www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/18/n...

“The way that the NYPD used FDNY to access broader and even more unreliable facial recognition technologies — in this case, to identify a protester — brings up questions about the NYPD following its own policies, the NYPD complying with the POST Act...” @shaneferro.bsky.social said.

Why is FDNY using Clearview AI to identify protesters? GREAT QUESTION and they won't tell me so we are suing to try to find the answer www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/18/n...

Let’s talk about Professor Jonathan Caravello, who teaches math and philosophy at CSU Channel Islands. He’s been detained by the feds based on events at a protest in Ventura County on Thursday. /1 www.pacbiztimes.com/2025/07/12/c...

JNCOs are back so it's not that surprising that skateboarding is criminal again

Mayor's office extended my 2019 FOIL request again, for something like the 28th time. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social can I get a commitment that a Mamdani admin will finally respond to my 6 year old FOIL about bike lane safety???

The NYT's Zohran Mamdani hit piece crosses a line for me as a journalist. here's @lopatto.bsky.social's clear-eyed take on the genuine travesty of it all www.theverge.com/culture/7000...

An incredible assembly of: —New York's most cartoonish billionaire —New York's second-most corrupt former governor —The reddest man in New York City All trying, in public, to come up with a plan to thwart the overwhelming will of NYC voters. Hell yeah! Delicious! hellgatenyc.com/david-paters...

YESSSSSS 🥳 Anna Henderson wins the two-up sprint to the line to take victory on Stage 2 at Giro d'Italia Women 🩷 #GirodItaliaWomen

Our legal system was not designed to bring justice full stop. Ted Talk over

So um how do you (successfully) deploy the military to the middle east while also telling them any kids born abroad are not US citizens?

based, let's have a zohran-cuomo-adams election

I refuse to look up if Bill Ackman actually proposed running for mayor or if people are just making fun of him but either way I am laughing

amazing q&a with paul krugman

Like many others have already said, I didn't think city owned grocery stores were a particularly good idea until everyone lost their minds about it and now I'm supportive and interested

I know he's doing some other stuff at this very moment but this is fr a sign that @hassankhan.bsky.social has to run

I kinda wonder how pissing off a large portion of the military lines up with starting a new war in the middle east??

This should be illegal

I love a causal statement

There are more of us than there are of them. There are so many more of us than there are of them. That has to be worth something. That's worth something right? You would think someone could do something with that fact. www.welcometohellworld.com/there-are-mo...

I need all you well meaning people who keep saying we should protect immigrants "except the violent criminal to clarify what that means to you, especially if you have, I dunno, watched any LA protest footage and compared it to the government's framing on violent riots

important note: the LAPD has figured out it can get footage from Waymos: www.404media.co/lapd-publish...

where Jim Amendments III

Jim Amendments summoned

Wrote this in the summer of 2020, definitely a good sign to be dusting it off now. "Less lethal" weapons are tools of colonial occupation marketed to police, and tools of police marketed to colonial soldiers. Anti-civilian weapons more than "less-lethal" www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

While I'm troubled by the ICE escalation, LAPD shot into crowds of student protesters at UCLA last year under Biden, and tear gassed protesters plenty during BLM. The idea that this is a dramatic change to the regular use of force against protesters in Los Angeles is a stretch

Huge day on the internet for "the military is about logistics nerds" Not that they're wrong they're just all trying to out post each other rn

Damn Peacock is televising women's motocross now lfggggg

Good Brat Summer seems like a decade ago

5th Anniversary issue of the Decrypting a Defense Newsletter is out. @shaneferro.bsky.social discusses the threat from Flock and a nationwide network of ALPRs. Allison reviews cryptocurrency related "wrench attacks." Laura analyzes a recent federal court decision on border searches of cell phones.