Mosaic of Theodora (approx. 547 AD):

In a world filling up with Officer Obies, be an Arlo Guthrie, Alice's Restaurant: youtu.be/LNLE5z7jNaM?...

A Justice Department memo seeks to assure military officers of the legality of Donald Trump’s orders for striking boats—but the protective value of this memo “may be no greater than the value of the paper it is written on,” Paul Rosenzweig argues:

Sorry. I've been away. Albrecht Durer, Nude (1493!):

Tilting the Playing Field: Trump and his allies seem to want to transform American politics into a system for producing Republican victory. (@rosenzweigp.bsky.social) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Gift link Tilting the Playing Field Trump and his allies seem to want to transform American politics into a system for producing Republican victory.

This is a sadly accurate analysis of an institution I used to be a part of and which I no longer recognize.

Yup www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

My latest in The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The Map of Places by Laura Riding The map of places passes. The reality of paper tears. Land and water where they are Are only where they were When words read “here” and “here” Before ships happened there. /1

Jason Healey and @rosenzweigp.bsky.social explore how the Trump administration's use of the military on American soil increases the possibility that cyber tools will also be used against Trump's adversaries and how Big Tech may respond. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/cybe...

Cyber Operations on Domestic Networks Redux www.lawfaremedia.org/article/cybe...

Never send an insurance lawyer to do a prosecutor's job: assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

You’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire. Beijing insiders’ plan to play Donald Trump www.economist.com/internationa...

Why I am disgusted with Congress and the SCOTUS. Top 10 things Trump is doing that they could stop if they wanted to: 1. Extrajudicial military murders 2. Bribe taking corruption of gifts to Trump and family 3. Abuse of the pardon power 4. Race-based targeting of Latinos for immigration /1

Search the Epstein files for mentions: journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/sea... Anyone surprised?

"There are many innocent reasons why a late-middle-aged man might hang out alone at a sex criminal’s fuck palace with a presumably attractive young woman. Young women — especially teenagers — are famously engrossing conversationalists. /1

'I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man' -- Tom Paine via the great Jill Lepore www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...)

Utter Brilliance ...

Alexander Calder, National Gallery of Art:

@mls1776.bsky.social question. There are 218 signatures now on the Epstein discharge petition. What happens when one of the signers, Mieke Sherrill, resigns?

Trump's new Truth Social AI won't be one he likes:

Harrison Ford, Sword v. Gun (Raiders of the Lost Ark): youtu.be/vdnA-ESWcPs?...

Tasteful, I promise ...

Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."

I will never ever give another penny to the Democrats

This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.

Put bluntly, can a law firm really represent a client zealously against the Trump’s administration when, at the same time, it is seeking to stay on Trump’s good side through an settlement agreement? ICYMI @rosenzweigp.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/big-law-bi...

Happy Caturday

By "affordable housing" Mamdani clearly meant "establish a caliphate." You may hate it, but this is top tier analysis from the ol' ball coach.

Paul Giamatti, John Adams (Boston Massacre): youtu.be/LHnPaDapwhQ?...

That's a wrap! Thanks to in-person speakers Nancy Weiss and Jim O'Donnell (filling in for Ann Okerson) and remote speaker @rosenzweigp.bsky.social #chsconf2025

Topics for first speaker, Paul Rosenzweig @rosenzweigp.bsky.social -what exec orders are -history & use -unitary executive theory -overview of changing topics today #chsfonc2025

Sakura Sakura, Nihon Buyo (trad. Japanese dance): youtu.be/De6JpSsVqNw?...

Hariett Bart, Forms of Recollection: Storied (1989)

Could President Trump Be Punished for Killing Suspected Drug Traffickers on the High Seas?: verdict.justia.com/2025/11/04/c...

Me on CBC today re: the tarrif cases: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Taken seriously, this opinion is a quiet earthquake that might shake the foundations of several law firms which made agreements with Trump. New from @rosenzweigp.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/big-law-bi...

A Heritage staffer wrote: “This is ridiculous, on the one hand,” Roberts says “we can’t ‘cancel our own people,’ referring to Tucker & Fuentes, when, on the other hand, he literally cancelled the Boston College Republicans by calling them a bunch of ‘soft men‘ to whom the future doesn’t belong….” 1/

This is a stone cold lie. If the officer was, in fact, wearing a ballistic vest (designed to stop a bullet) there is exactly zero possibility that the impact of a thrown sandwich could be felt through the vest.

The EI-ISAC "tried to set up its own ...version of [CISA's] situation room for this year’s election. The effort failed because the organization, which lost federal funding this year, couldn’t afford the software licensing fees required to collect and share data..." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I know that there is going to be a lot of criticism and vitriol directed at Cheney today — particularly on this site — but we should endeavor to recognize when those with whom we disagree, however vehemently, stand up and do the right thing. We won’t defeat authoritarianism if we can’t do that.

Seems bad (Also, has Ben listened to what some of the hosts on his own network say?)

The European Commission’s Rejection of Latombe www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Join me tomorrow at 12 Noon ET for a discussion of "Legal Ethics and the Rule of Law." Here's the link: www.youtube.com/live/ikiZWMG...

Big Law’s Big Choice www.thebulwark.com/p/big-law-bi...