Wurman should explain to Wurman how the 14th Amendment works.

"America’s slide into authoritarianism is reversible. But no one has ever defeated autocracy from the sidelines." —Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, and Daniel Ziblatt.

As all CGCs, he doesn’t care what the text or history says; he cares only to impose his values onto the rest of us. Because CGCs are fundamentally not pro-democracy.

If this is not satire, it is truly unhinged.

This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.

Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take

Universities face a funding problem, so we should make them less accessible and further perpetuate inequality, by depriving people of the possibility of receiving an education at the institution that is for education. Makes total sense. 🙃

AI can't count, or do math, and hallucinates citations, can get concepts completely wrong, and so on. Somehow we're supposed to think this is.... better?

Appealing to people on the basis of liberal values, meeting them where they are, communicating in their native language. These are apparently 'extremist' and 'the death of liberal democracy.' Appealing to people on the basis of exclusionary politics, revocation of human rights? That's democracy!

UK government inquiry into the use of “AI” in education is accepting comments. Have at it friends: committees.parliament.uk/work/9642/th... (yes I will do the housework in a bit)

Labour's/Starmer's "unity" at it again.

Starmer today putting out messaging that the by-election is about unity vs division. Somehow, weirdly, I don't see the anti-immigrant and anti-trans views from the Labour Party as pro unity. Odd that.

"Unlike educators, who can interpret context, cross-reference prior performance, and recognise deeper insight beyond rubric descriptors, AI operates strictly within the limits of its prompt logic and rubric constraints." Oh, so. You mean. It doesn't actually work? How surprising.

I think people should know that the person who took the position below is a member of the Texas bar and that her name is Mary Larakers.

Here's @genevievelakier.bsky.social on some of the ways in which First Amendment doctrine should evolve in recognition of "the free speech dangers that are created by authoritarian structures of control in civil society" knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-ant...

At this stage, I feel fairly confident in saying that the NHS/national health agencies have been taken over by dangerously anti-scientific cranks and that it will probably take at least a generation (and several changes of government) to fully wash them out.

SCOTUS actually did its role and checked executive power? I thought we loved the unitary executive, he can do whatever he wants theory? (Though it may now be the he can do whatever he wants until he starts messing too much with the money machine theory).

What, and when, is a purported law ‘the law’?

Everything bad about tyranny & the arbitrary exercise of power, that republican political theorists warned about, is demonstrated endlessly by Republican politicians.

Palestine Action JR ✔️ EHRC Interim Guidance 😐 *sigh*

"We accurately misreported the information, why are you coming for us?"

In a functional country, this would be a scandal. A service suffering only from chronic underfunding was ripped apart because the media created a myth of 1000s of complaints of malpractice. The truth - as in my family’s experience - was very different. www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

Passed my Life in the UK test today. Was it easy? Yes. Is it a dumb test? Also, yes.

You mean, wait for it... hormones change the body? You don't say. (This is just how biology works. I'm also tired of the 'unfair advantage' argument when athletes are quite literally praised for genetic/biological advantages over other players).

Sorry, I can’t find the originalist. Can some point me to who the originalist is?

The tech bros are all creeps. Can we finally stop listening to them now?

Opened Bluesky. Saw this. Will now be closing Bluesky for the day.

Anyway congrats to our Free Speech Champions(tm) who helped usher in the most censorious American government since the Palmer Raids

Sex Matters v City of London/Hampstead Heath judicial review full judgment. Permission REFUSED. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/se...

And this is why we need philosophy & humanities.

Such a disingenuous “offer.” ICE isn’t after criminals. They’re going after anyone they want, including US citizens.

But we were assured citizens wouldn't be deported. And ICE would behave according to the law! 🙄 To the surprise of 0 people, an authoritarian regime with untrained agents, provided immunity, sent to occupy a Democratic city on the basis of political retribution, is not acting lawfully.

I don’t know, last I checked, that’s very wrong. But, what do I know; I just do law 🤷🏼‍♂️

OR. And this might be wild. Don’t use chatGPT for research? Or work? Or trust it to store all of your research? Because, uhhh…. This is a problem of your own making.

Since we've changed the Department of Defence to the Department of War... Are we changing the Department of Justice to the Department of Injustice? Department of Authorising Kidnappings? Department of Unlawfulness? Department of Unconstitutional Actions? I'm open to suggestions here.

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

It’s like she’s never seen the film Minority Report. Or perhaps she’s confused and didn’t realize that it was a dystopian film, not a goal.

Unhinged

Everyday the news is some new horror. I’ve had enough of my 2026 free trial. I’d like to return it, thanks.

Citing to originalist sources is disingenuous here, since modern 1A is fundamentally unoriginalist. Even worse, forms of dress and expressive conduct ARE protected under 1A. The Court saying that this isn’t expressive conduct is simply wrong on the law.

Abstract accepted for presentation at SLSA on Wicked and American authoritarianism. Somehow I’ve convinced people talking about musicals is academic discourse about authoritarianism. 🥴 See you all there!

This. Fascism is ALL about aesthetics. Remember: the Nazis had uniforms by Boss; cars by Mercedes. Propaganda is used to project a very particular imagery of power, masculinity, control, etc. that is supposed to look like competence and success.

Originalists have long been criticized for their inconsistency in not applying originalism to the First Amendment. So, now they’re doing that. Also, please don’t. 😬

Not on my 2026 bingo card: Kidnapping the leader of a foreign country with no legal authority whatsoever. So, that’s fun.

Am I...am I understanding correctly that while we were sleeping the Trump administration attacked Venezuela and kidnapped its president and is saying Venezuela's president (and *not the US president, never that, no) is going to stand trial for crimes

I don't know how you can put your name to a plainly wrong statement like "unlawfully present people don't have access to courts" as a constitutional law professor unless you don't know what you're talking about or have a reckless disregard for the truth. It is inexplicable to me.

This. And it’s evident especially — to my mind, anyway — in First Amendment speech; originalists are not demanding the reversal of Brandenburg to a pre-20th century understanding. Most of their free speech demands are fundamentally anti-originalist. Originalism for me, not for thee.

Easy: yes.

I get the basic idea. I’m sympathetic to the notion that reasoned empathetic engagement can be persuasive. But, when it’s a “you (because you’re LGBTQ+, an immigrant, etc.) don’t deserve human rights” or “I’m okay with genocide” conversation…. It’s more than acceptable to get up and walk away.

Seems like the first attempt to use the case against the Northumbria Police earlier this year, which ruled that participation in pride was contrary to impartiality, and apply it elsewhere. The problem, of course, remains that this logic demands public services refrain from articulating 1/