Ouch SCOTUS

NEW—Earlier this evening agents from ICE/other fed agencies were outside Rhode Island Ave metro in DC asking people exiting the station for their IDs, per someone who experienced it. When the person presented their Real ID license, an agent said that wasn't sufficient. Luckily they had secondary ID.

NEW Andrés Castro Araújo, Nicolás Restrepo Ochoa, "How to Make a Functionalist Argument." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

I am a bit of a broken record on this, but are local DAs going to let this continue indefinitely? The ICE agents didn't have any kind of warrant, didn't identify themselves, and then recklessly started firing. Let them argue federal immunity.

Just picked up @ositanwanevu.com ‘s really good, accessible book on democracy. This passage, which is key to his argument, captures what’s wrong with strong versions of the unitary executive theory as well as some versions of abundance liberalism.

we need a loving term for papers that are like 50% brilliant and 50% batshit

The BLS is legit a national treasure. Or was until now.

The conventional wisdom swing on non-pharmaceutical measures during COVID has tilted toward "doing nothing, like Sweden did, was good." @ryanlcooper.com puts this through the ringer: prospect.org/health/2025-...

i believe that at 18 every american should be entered into a draft, not for military service, but for one year of mandatory retail or restaurant work

Have you heard the good news? A forthcoming conference will launch the The Association of Law and Political Economy: a membership organization with a regular annual conference, elected leadership, and an architecture for open participation and collaboration.

Dick Fallon was my Con Law professor and set a standard of humility and generosity in the classroom and with students that I try to follow. He was also deeply thoughtful about many things, including the public responsibilities of scholars, as in this essay. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

RIP Dick Fallon. A devastating loss professionally and personally.

The majority may think: "We're not ruling on the legality of Trump's actions; it's just a stay." Bullshit. With the injunction stayed, Trump and McMahon will be able to effectuate their evisceration of the Department of Education and it will be impossible to put Humpty Dumpty back together.

As someone who has been on the business end of nationwide injunctions that I thought were improper, I find the question of what rules we should adopt for them to be genuinely hard. But yesterday's decision deserves massive criticism, for at least two reasons. (Thread.)

.@CBS8 in San Diego reports that due to Bishop Michael Pham’s presence in the courtroom, in effect, cases of migrants today were postponed.

Thank you, Justice Jackson. Textualists claim their methodology constrains them. But it doesn't meaningfully do so.

The law in its infinite wisdom bans trans and cis people alike from being trans

Not sure what to make of the fact that the best account of law's role in class relations is the postscript to a study of 18th century rural England! Maybe Thompson was being presentist. Yet it reads prophetically, and has not been matched or topped by generations of legal scholars IMHO.

i personally do not think the administration is actually prepared for what happens if they are facing mass protests in every major city in the country

BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

PS: funding for travel is available and we have great discussants lined up including organizers such as Suresh Naidu, Adam Reich, Kate Andrias, and @brishen.bsky.social - with more to come!

I’m actually really glad the anti-trans Republican candidate lost in Nebraska the very same night after a bunch of Very Serious People people spent all day “yes, yes, Dems need to be serious about moderating on social issues to win”-ing across the internet.

Why are political reporters, like, the only people *on earth* who take politicians’ statements at face value

Young Men in Crisis

It’s time to reconsolidate a counterculture and politics against this shit. Science, art, medicine, poetry, philosophy as the beautiful life, the fullness of human civilization, that they want to destroy. Humanism, not cynicism, not slop, not tech “””nerd””” culture

2020: AI is going to replace all the teachers 2025: AI has replaced all the students

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

AI’s only general purpose use is to control labor. Thank you.

darthconclave: dogs to pet fried potato dishes to sample pick a new pope

I wrote a piece in The NY Times about global economic stagnation and the way it is shaping politics today, less visibly perhaps than other factors, but more deeply.

Nice work @aclu.org

SEIU stands with our @seiu509.bsky.social union sister Rümeysa—today at her hearing and every day after. She spoke out and ICE tried to silence her. But we won’t back down—and we won’t stop showing up until she’s free. #FreeRumeysa 💜✊🏽 Artist: @show.n.tll Original Photo: @reuters.com

Good to see Rutgers and Georgetown supporting this effort. Lots of liberal arts colleges and Catholic universities. Ivies remain AWOL. Embarrassing.

AAUP has written a letter to NW U explaining why it has no legal obligation to comply with the request from Congress to hand over an incredible amt of info—including a professor’s performance reviews!—about its legal clinics 🧵https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/AAUP_Letter_to_Northwestern.pdf

As pro-Palestine students & faculty around the country are increasingly being tarred with accusations of terrorism, universities must protect their community members, as well as their missions, by refusing to operate on the basis of fear lpeproject.org/blog/free-sp...

“There is nothing curative in this essay, but diagnosis is a first step. And our symptoms are many.” www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...

A random aside about what and why I think so many people in formal orgs are doing this: 1. Remember the neologism “intrapreneur”? God awful word but its politics were even uglier. It tried to brand the externalization of risk from state/firm to workers as SEXY.

A Statement on Recent Events lpeproject.org/blog/stateme...

A blatant violation of the law': Judge blasts Trump's firing of NLRB member www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Wilcox wins!!!

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

"Our main principle will be personal liberties and freedom, and if you don't agree with me you're fired."

Since 2000, Dem presidential candidates’ support from white voters only fluctuated 6pp (max was Obama 08 at 43%, min was Clinton 16 at 37%). Biden got 41%, Harris got 42%. Latino support has fluctuated 10pp (max 65% Clinton 16, min Kerry or Harris 55%) Smaller shifts than you’d think given punditry

Legal academia should embrace a little more "basic science" for professors of all levels. It would produce less fluff.