My little conspiracy theory has always been that Neil had a Native girlfriend in college who absolutely broke his heart by leaving him and telling him he could never understand her and he’s been trying to prove otherwise ever since

Happy to report my essay in the Yale Law Journal Forum has been published yalelawjournal.org/essay/the-ch...

The amount of made up (hallucinated) quotes from real cases in briefs lately has been a lot. And I’m someone who has a pretty limited practice and has seen it and have been texting with friends who are seeing it. GenAI isn’t it for *actual* legal work, I am sorry

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Under “neutrality” policies, universities are failing to take sides to *protect democracy* and they will ultimately regret it. There is no freedom in academia under fascism

The UMN leadership - ultimately my bosses - has failed this test, as they have failed every test except, perhaps catering to the needs of power. Gift link.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

This is an incredible interview. I will be thinking about it and Tsurkov’s resilience for a long time

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Listen @peters.senate.gov you said your phones were full, so here’s a heads up on what I’ll be calling about next. Time to forecheck, bud cc @slotkin.senate.gov

It's time to abolish Trump’s ICE.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

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Shot/chaser

This is something that for some reason has been hitting me hard recently. To endorse state violence, use state violence, say we should capitulate to state violence is just cowardly. From the actual agents to those saying to just submit to state power—cowards all

Scrooged holds up and also (obviously) shows a rich person as bad AND corrupting of the people around him

Some people have parasocial relationships and other people have been reading @kentremendous.bsky.social since Fire Joe Morgan and can’t stop laughing and crying at A Man on the Inside

It’s a starlight tour, and it’s horrific www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...

This is a really cool fundraising idea by @boltsmag.org and @russ41.bsky.social! I love creative ideas like this. (Also go follow Bolts. I already was or I would have joined in the effort here).

USPS lost my gorgeous halibut in the mail and I will still never shop Amazon again if this happens (it’s pretty rare as it is but STILL).

Hey hey RFK How many kids did you kill today

Hey Hey RFK how many kids did you kill today

Literally no one wants you to keep your “teaching obligations” ffs. Certainly no women students benefit from your largesse here. God I have hated Larry Summers for 20+ years and Harvard for letting him have access to students. Way to go everyone www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

THIS. SO MUCH THIS

In what amounts to Mark Wolf’s resignation letter from the federal bench in Massachusetts forget more than 40 years—he was already a senior judge, so it creates no vacancy—he says he “intend[s] to advocate for the judges who cannot speak publicly for themselves.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

Watching this happen both writ large and locally, and listening to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social ‘s words about Black women paying the price for radicalizing white women sits heavy with me tonight.

Had a beautiful afternoon at the Keweenaw Bay Ojibwe Community College working with manoomin. @michiganstateu.bsky.social

On the @michiganstateu.bsky.social bus tour for the next three days. First stop was Up North Arts Cadillac where we supported arts and living wages for artists. #bustour

The Capitol lawn is now full of signs, flags, and cheering protestors.

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

I need to get off here because between the BREAKING posts with no link/proof and the “no one is covering it” posts when they demonstrably are, I’m going nuts. Everyone is getting worse at the internet and the internet is getting worse

FWIW I didn’t see this at DTW this morning. Just the usual RealID one

This. Whole. Thread.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

This isn’t nothing in these days for a Hilton property

When corporations surrender in the face of that pressure, they endanger not just themselves, but the right to free expression for everyone in this country. The duty to defend the First Amendment does not rest with government, but with all of us.

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries could hold a press conference right now and announce that they will not fund a government that is engaged in an organized and unconstitutional effort to silence any criticism.

"Yes, Yes, to Ta-Nehisi Coates, you listen."

The Washington Post now has no Black Opinion columnists - none - at a time when white nationalism is ascendant in our nation. I am grateful to Karen for the truth and fearlessness her work has always shown. Keep shining that light, my friend.

This is my position as well. You want my vote? You need to salt the earth this administration walked on

So I'm grumpy that we seem to be once again creating a dynamic in our party where the people who got to the right answer sooner are marginalized for doing so, while people who were wrong get credit for changing their minds once it became obvious they were wrong. (See also NAFTA, Iraq War, Gaza.)

Today I found out my parents had never seen Terriers. Watched the pilot with them, and I had forgotten how perfect it was. I loved that show Justice (and another season!!) for Terriers!! @sepinwall.bsky.social

Hey hey RFK How many kids have you killed today

@alanrozenshtein.com discovering Cranbrook has me howling. Imagine your regular MI public school kid heading there for a hockey tournament.

I just want people who try to make everything easier for everyone, not harder. Life is hard. Bills like this are evil, because they make everything harder for all of us, but especially for those who lives are already hard

Every day Democrats need to make it clear that practically everything that sucks in American life is the result of the Republicans. They aren’t your friends or colleagues or just folks on the other side of the aisle during a polite dispute. They are evil motherfuckers who are on your enemies.

the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history