Also, I hope every person who made excuses for Larry, looked the other way over many years, and retaliated for him is feeling a little uncomfortable. No one writes crap like that without being untouchable.

Without looking, I can assure you that Professor Senator Warren did not characterize what Summers did as seeking Epstein's "romantic advice" — that's just not how Harvard Law Professor Senator Warren would describe Summer's ask for Epstein's advice on how to sexually harass a subordinate employee

image of flag down from his newly installed flagpole that causes some kind of issue for marine one apparently? kicking himself in the dick.

the people around him have really just said kind of fuck it, huh? not sure how i feel about that.

And I hope they own up to their mess & we see that day that Link is reinstated. He will be warmly welcome back.

I was proud to join a very distinguished group of constitutional law professors organized by @dorfonlaw.bsky.social to file this SCOTUS brief in support of trans rights. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

I really disliked this piece on trans passports by Amy Harmon of the New York Times. It is, admittedly, an "old" New York Times story, one that makes a reasonable effort to cloak its biases and present itself as seeking both sides of a story ("new" NYT stories don't bother). Here's a gift link:

seeing remarkably few posts today, i must have picked all the right mute words for a short hiatus.

I’m sorry to be self promoting but I a) have never been seduced by a fascist with a brain worm b) am capable of crafting a decent sentence and c) wrote a book that did not earn me a fawning profile in the newspaper but is still pretty good bookshop.org/p/books/huma...

Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey

Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do

People who won't do the easy things, don't do the hard things.

He’s allergic to everything except dilaudid

The fact that @harvard.edu's Larry Summers is teaching three courses this semester while Texas A&M Professor Melissa McCoul was fired tells you all you need to know about what "gender ideology" is allowed and which is not. @aaup.org

My wildest WILDEST take Is that the pandemic double scared these people They found out money couldn’t protect them the way they thought, and that they weren’t that great and it’s been the Fox and the grapes ever since

The economic case for phrenology

I....wut

NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about. DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom. Tonight, at Law Dork:

Everything Trump is doing re: Venezuela is pretextual, and none of it would be justified if the lies were true

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

The best health care plan would be the government taxing everyone but especially the rich to pay doctors and hospitals so we have health care. We’ve spent at least 100 years pretending this is not the case.

i’m going to just pretend this is about drag race and sure, go jimbo!

This, from the people who said sending artillery shells to Ukraine would leave us unable to defend Taiwan.

I hope Alice’s memory is never sanitized. She supported free Palestine. She believed in deep pleasure for disabled people, sexual, aesthetic & otherwise. She was unflinching in calling out people’s bullshit. Don’t let the mainstream turn her into some desexualized defanged inspiration porn!!!

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

My kind of bad-tempered rant about the empty-headed nonsense of AI-goon slogans. 10/10 no notes. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

The entire academic world should commit to punishing Larry Summers—professionally and socially—and then study the reaction

everywhere RFK goes he should be confronted with so many duck noises that he develops a case of this

Noam Chomsky was always bad and if you’re surprised you should feel bad.

i’m not eligible bc i’m on tirzepetide already, but i will say that in the 9 months i have been on it, my long covid symptoms have very noticeably improved. if you qualify, worth trying!

it is literally this that causes the biggest rift between me and my extended family. if you refuse to make waves in your community and choose to be near bad people, it doesn’t matter how you claim to be an “ally,” or even how much you love us, you aren’t safe for *my* family to be around.

“Gone With the Wind,” but it’s pedophiles instead of slavers.

I think that some people, particularly powerful men, are under the impression that we underwent a seismic cultural shift in the past 20 years whereby holding 15 year old girls hostage on a private rape tourism island suddenly became beyond the pale and that simply did not happen.

It certainly doesn't HELP that the New York Times feels this is the appropriate tone to strike in 2025, but even if they were to meet the moment the problem would be that the moment was in 2010. (from: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/s...)

Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans. by Megyn Kelly

if i were a nepo baby who would be an anonymous chud if not for my daddy i might stay quiet about accommodations

The US embassy is warning residents about increased bear activity in Japan, and just like that we have another social predicament in which a bear is the obvious choice.

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

This being the last post Alice made for herself makes me incredibly sad. We need more spaces for us. We need more places where voices like Alice’s are uplifted so that others can learn from the wisdom that needs to be shared.

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

Same thing with gun rights ppl, always intentionally missing the tragic, evil point. “15 grade schoolers were killed today with an AR-15 automatic rifle --“ “SEMI-automatic! SEMI-automatic! This is why we can't take you seriously on gun control!"

made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow

This is the advancement of a police state. It’s a one-stop shop for Miller’s authoritarian regime.

it brings me a tiny flicker of hope that someone as profoundly opportunistic as marjorie taylor greene has decided it’s fine to move away from the fold

yup, that’s the feeling.

anyone have eyes on mark epstein, or nah.

my kid just took his butter chicken into his bedroom because he didn’t realize i’m sitting in the foyer (it got dark and i am just chilling and happen to be quiet) and food is definitely not allowed in there but i mean *waves hands* fuck it up dude, whatever

One measure of how sick and unsafe people are is how many are making excuses and splitting hairs over pedophilia and child trafficking. This is a good time to take note, folks

too much things less things please?

1) 'Why I Resigned' from UVa Prez 100% worth reading www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... 2) Events were forced by NYT story w leaked info that he was under pressure to resign. UVa prez has 'no idea' where leaks came from (See below.) 3) FWIW same NYT team did leaked "Harvard will cave" stories