From my reading, it seems impossible to have a miscarriage and not somehow run afoul of the law in abortion ban states

This letter should go nowhere but straight into the bin. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Nice. Kentucky will get to waste more money in a futile legal defense of unconstitutional garbage legislation.

Breaking: Judge grants Mark Kelly a preliminary injunction against Hegseth, who is reconsidering his rank: "This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Sen. Kelly's First Amendment freedoms & threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees."

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Three out of four people worldwide consider themselves religious, but rates vary a lot across countries— Most people in the world are religious. When asked whether they identify with any religion, three-quarters of respondents choose one.

Barely mentioned as if irrelevant is that Kentucky judges have discretion to reject jury recommendations for sentencing. She did not abuse the court's discretion, and still gave the guy 30 years. Other Kentucky judges do this exact thing all the time. And yet, she's the target of criticism...

I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.

The Trump administration has rescinded a $47 million grant that was supporting community schools in Kentucky, says The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, which was administering the grant. @mckennahorsley.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/briefs/ky-ed...

In-person LSAT is back, baby. Very interested in how this affects the scores (if at all). There have been suspicions of inflation for some time, some attributing it to being online.

Massie: "She didn't answer anything. She came here ready to talk about the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq, which seems kind of crazy to me."

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

"Yes, children were abused, but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."

Tumbler Ridge, the top story on BBC and CBC, is not even a footnote in U.S. news

UNC Administrators Can Now Secretly Record Faculty The new policy prohibits students from recording class without permission but explicitly allows administrators to surveil professors for any “lawful purpose.” www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Ford’s EV battery plant in Glendale was supposed to be the biggest economic development project Kentucky has ever seen. Now that the plant has shuttered, some former workers feel spurned, but community leaders remain cautiously optimistic. www.wkyufm.org/news/2026-02...

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

The FAA is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport, for “special security reasons." The FAA's notice did not provide additional details.

Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees. "This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, a 36-year-old LA protester, spent six months in jail accused of assaulting a federal officer with a *cloth hat.* A judge tossed out the DOJ’s case, accusing govt of acting in “bad faith” and engaging in “prosecutorial harassment“ that could “chill lawful protest”

Congresswoman @ramirez.house.gov: " Congress designed DHS [Department of Homeland Security] to violate our rights under the pretense of securing our safety." " DHS cannot be reformed. It must be dismantled, and something new must take its place"

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

“You can even use it for legal research and brief writing!”

Habeas corpus actions are the ancient common law writ used to create a legal action to sue for freedom. They were crucial in the early-nineteenth-century efforts to challenge slavery. This graph showing “habeas cases” suddenly leaping in 2025 — is terrifying. dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/

I appreciate this attempt but don't just bring a poster. Put the video on a screen and play it for him. Then demand a response. Otherwise the dodge is too easy.

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

"A threat to anyone’s constitutional rights is a threat to us all. Today, immigrants are being detained without due process. Tomorrow, under the Government’s [view], American citizens could be subject to the same treatment. This Court will not allow such an unraveling of the Constitution."

This is the same problem faced by the “access to justice” argument in the legal field. Chatbots get pro se parties sanctioned and dismissed. It does not fill gaps in legal services, it expands them.

NEW: Federal judges are increasingly furious at what they see as a pattern / playbook of defiance by the Trump administration to court orders in immigration cases — in Minnesota and around the country. Here’s a look at what they’re seeing: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

It simply cannot do what its marketing claims, and the fact that it was so quickly adopted based on marketing alone is a major indictment of the decisionmaking in many, many professions and institutions. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

My latest, "Free Exercise and the Redistribution of Liberty," is now posted (and forthcoming in @yalelawjournal.bsky.social). It argues that free exercise doctrine uses selective market logic to redistribute both public resources and liberty itself. Comments welcome: papers.ssrn.com/abstract=618...

“Fox constructs a version of reality in which none of the most damning facts exist, leaving its audience unable to evaluate power as it is actually exercised. This epistemic divide now plainly extends to the Supreme Court.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

This is important — and very heartening — news: While about a dozen of the biggest firms bent the knee to Trump, hundreds of the most experienced DOJ lawyers have quit, refusing to participate in the abuse of government power for Trump’s illegal ends. gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

At Whipple where expired dicks are being thrown at ICE vehicles and those believed to be agitators. The area has been a place of protest since thousands of federal agents arrived in the city. Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026

Odd moment at Oldham County GOP dinner last night. GOP Congressman Thomas Massie has his mic snatched away by Kentucky House Speaker David Osborne. #kyga26

The only way to eventually achieve some kind of fair system is this. Defeat the cheaters at their own game so that fair play becomes their only option left.

this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth

The archbishop of Santa Fe takes on Speaker Mike Johnson theologically corrupt justification of Trump's secret police tactics against immigrants: " it is deeply concerning when theological language and sacred texts are used to diminish the fundamental dignity of human beings created in the image of

Oops that’s a @lasvegassun.bsky.social headline. Las Vegas NEVADA!!!

It is certainly not necessary to be a tremendously ignorant person to be a big booster of AI but man a lot of AI boosters seem to be tremendously ignorant people.

Roadside snow looks absolutely wretched after sitting unmelted for two weeks.

Republican Party of Kentucky’s response to my question asking about Trump posting the same Obama/money video they condemned a few months ago:

The Republican Party of Kentucky last October condemned a local county party for posting the same Obama video that Trump shared on his account last night.

Outside Nashville’s Homeland Security Office, more than 100 people braved the ice-slicked roads on a snowy Friday to say a prayer in honor of those killed by federal immigration agents. www.lpm.org/news/2026-02...

Number always go back up. No point to anything if number only go down

Some kind of filter on our school's eduroam is just blocking every picture on every website, with no obvious way to stop it.

Tenure Eliminated at Oklahoma Colleges Regional and community colleges professors will no longer receive tenure; research university faculty are spared, with some exceptions. https://bit.ly/4tlEtUq #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd