I am honored to have received the 2026 Edward S. Corwin Award from APSA for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public law. This dissertation reflects the generosity, insight, and encouragement of mentors, colleagues, friends, and family who supported me. For that, I am forever grateful.

I'm so tired man

Might fuck around and learn how to do a proper vinyl set so I can start making videos like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbB4...

Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

New York has become the first US state to enforce a data center moratorium, as governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order today to pause construction for one year.

WHOA indeed. DHS is *not* saying that the officer feared for his life. That is VERY notable in comparison to other shootings.

i appreciate the @pressherald.com granting free access to their crucial live updates on the ICE shooting of a person in biddeford, maine this morning:

youtu.be/z4HMequIiiY

Popularism and populism both derive from the same essential impulse, which is to construct a synthetic version of The People that will cure democracy of the need to adjudicate between competing claims.

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

One of the most powerful narratives of the post-2016 social democratic Left has been "not me, us," or mass politics as an electoral strategy and an end in itself. Platner is what happens when that vision is co-opted to serve the exact messiah politics it was coined against.

This is as true about political content as it is about everything else. "What people are talking about" is not the result of spontaneous distributed decisionmaking, it is the result of the conscious efforts of specific human beings. You should always be asking, why this & not that? Who benefits?

Currently in the "frantically try to sell as many things as possible on FB Marketplace" stage of moving

I really don't know what we do about living in a digital age where "the left" as it is understood and monetized online has basically zero connection-- ideological or otherwise-- to the actual movement in this country. It's a bunch of reactionaries who rode the Bernie train to niche fame.

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Wrapping up my postdoc with the Comparative Constitutions Project, and they have decided to name me as Associate Director, together with one of my talented colleagues. Woohoo!!!

Moving to South Carolina in three weeks

If Platner actually gives a shit about beating Collins and taking back the Senate, he needs to drop out. It’s as simple as that.

he has to drop out, I'd expect him to in the next 24 hours Maine Dems will now have to replace him in a week best option is prob Shenna Bellows who can bridge the gap and campaign w Pingree

Is the U.S. enacting collective punishment on the Cuban people in another, this time more concerted, effort at regime change? Yes. Is the Cuban dictatorship using the crisis as a pretext for another widespread, this time more indiscriminate, wave of repression against the Cuban people? Also yes.

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100 years ago.

Meet SpudCell, a synthetic cell made from lifeless ingredients that feeds, grows, divides, and experiences selection. If it doesn't have all the hallmarks of life, it has a lot! Here's my story. Gift link: nyti.ms/4vCbTih

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

Quick read of the trans sports decision.. *Categorical exclusion of trans athletes from sex-separated school sports is lawful under Title IX and equal protection *A biological-sex law is not a transgender classification *No as-applied challenges under intermediate scrutiny or rational basis

Lot of bad rulings today, but realistically this basically drags U.S. youth sports into a perma-AAU setting. Don't want your kid's dick and balls checked by the state because he grew his hair out? Sorry, the cops can just do that now. Ruling will just privatize and make expensive kids playing ball.

Ahead of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July Fourth, we speak to award-winning Cherokee author and journalist Rebecca Nagle about what’s missing from the conventional story of the American Revolution.

The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.

The bar is in hell. Also read as: *four* Supreme Court justices believe the President should have the power to effectively rewrite the Constitution by executive fiat.

Law and courts scholar here... reasoned judgment is actually something Amy Coney Barrett only does under EXTREME distress

I have a new paper on the Gallagher index: the most common measure of electoral disproportionality. We often assume it runs from 0 (perfect 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺) to 1 (perfect 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺). But I show that in most party systems, 1 is not a possible value. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The Roberts Court in one lede

The right takes academia seriously, and is pouring money into neutering it. Would be good to see left wing politicians taking academia equally seriously, and taking action to support it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Sadie, my family’s dog who I grew up with, is *17* years old

Great video essay that makes an often-neglected point: much of Chomsky’s work on geopolitics, despite his apparent (tepid, at best) commitment to anarchism, is what primes many young people to be lured by pseudo-leftist campism, when they start looking for radical alternatives. youtu.be/Dbkkh6GWn5Y

Mamdani delivers promised rent freeze on 1 million rent-stabilized apartments

Shame and consequences need a renaissance

English-language list of people and orgs accepting donations/volunteers in Venezuela Most of these wesbites are in Spanish and volunteers need to be able to speak Spanish (🧵) 1 -Ayuda Venezuela: accepting donations, supplies and volunteers near Caracas: t.co/2n5nVETWWo

Confusion, devastation, and information blackout after twin earthquakes in Venezuela Offers of international aid pour in from across the region as details slowly emerge of the scope of the catastrophic disaster LATEST for PWS www.piratewireservices.com/p/confusion-...

Today, the Supreme Court delivered a devastating blow to asylum rights in the United States. In a 6-3 decision in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, the Court ruled that the Trump administration may turn back asylum seekers at ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Full story is an essential read www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers

People keep acting like the fascists care about "crime." THEY DO NOT. They care about domination & fear. They will fearmonger re: "crimes" committed by out groups while cheering on the "crimes" committed by "their people" Meanwhile liberals keep bleating on about hypocrisy when hierarchy matters.

RESULT: Darializa Avila Chevalier, a challenger backed by New York's left, has ousted Rep. Adriano Espaillat. An earthquake result, which means all 3 congressional candidates backed by Mamdani have won: Chevalier, Brad Lander, and Claire Valdez.

Blanche v. Lau is devastating for green card holders. It means that if they leave the U.S. then return, a border officer can claim they committed a crime at some point, revoke their lawful status, and confiscate their green card without meaningful evidence of wrongdoing. It's really, really bad.

A quintessential pillar of facism is the fascist and punitive crushing of anti fascist dissent. A few months ago, i was notified that alleged writings of mine were entered as seized evidence in the trial. *writings* Today is a horrifying day, and full solidarity with the Prairieland defendants.

Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.” Additionally, motions 29 and 33 for acquittal and a new trial were denied from the bench.

"The punishment for the protesters exceeds the lengthiest prison sentences given out for the attack on the Capitol on January 6. Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys who was convicted of seditious conspiracy, was sentenced to 22 years in prison." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Excited to have my work featured beside some of my favorite voices on both LGBTQ and anti-trans scholarship. My article looks at how allegedly feminist and anti-gender actors collaborate in anti-trans politics to produce linked but distinct regimes of cisnormativities.