The thing about living in this country, in this time, is that it is intolerable to contemplate personally suffering the scale of blowback our leaders have unleashed and it is intolerable to contemplate moral universe in which there are no consequences for this evil.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday. Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection. A tooth infection. 1/3 tucson.com/news/local/b...

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

I somehow thought they wouldn't be *this* blatant but I am just running at a football held by Lucy I guess.

this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying

Honestly might prefer if stuff I was working on felt less salient, as commentators debate the role that oil plays in Trump’s actions in Iran. Law review editors, this paper is still looking for a home, and I will certainly update it to include this week’s events!

The president didn't bother to make the case for war in a marathon State of the Union address and then he fucked off to his sweaty gilded country club so he could literally phone in an unconstitutional war. Every single Democrat needs to be screaming about this at full volume.

Solidarity to trans folks in Kansas. What is happening is horrifying, compounded by the silence from too many national Democrats.

I see the Epstein files are really triggering the ol' "anti-semitism is the socialism of fools" adage.

i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts

Apparently the cool kids are posting their law submissions under review & I'm joining in: While Trump et al. take an axe to environmental regulations, here's One Weird Trick to decarbonize our power grid at the state level and reclaim it as ours at the same time! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Bet you a 1GW gas plant in Wisconsin you're wrong.

Hey wow Larry Summers finally had to give up reproducing gender hierarchy within academia from a position of authority and trust, only 20 years too late.

If you woke up this morning and thought, "I want to read 4,700 words on the Neapolitan novels, motherhood, feminist ambivalence, and Larry Summers," then wow have I got the essay for you. cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/disappeari...

The whisper network accusation/panic of #metoo was 100% projection. How I wish women had the kind of gender class solidarity of entrenched men in academia!

My 13-year-old self is extremely excited.

Alysa Liu‘s gold medal portends a Coogler ‘Sinners’ Oscar sweep, after which caretaker mayor Barbara Lee unleashes full Maoism to an eager populace as Oakland CA becomes the vanguard of the Woke 3 cultural revolution

"You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth. This is not a hypothetical."

FWIW LARB published an anti-Zionist piece I wrote in November 2023 (and accepted it even earlier) with no substantive editorial changes or pushback.

Also went to court on behalf of Nestle to defend the company from claims that it enslaved children at cocoa farms, but who's counting?

Gary Wills, Bomb Power (2011)

Lots of ways to read the various tariff case opinions but I think one not unimportant one is as a threat to a future Dem president not to try any funny business and attempt to address climate change in a meaningful way.

Last night, I was notified that another person has died in ICE custody. That’s 39 people who have died on ICE’s watch during Trump’s second term. We cannot grow numb to this. There must be immediate oversight and accountability.

So you know how you're supposed to limit how much tuna you eat to avoid mercury pollution? That's because of coal plants. Not exclusively, but about as close as you can get with any combination of pollution and source at national scale. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/c...

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

I received notification of yet another death at an ICE facility, meaning 38 people have died in custody since Trump returned to office. ICE is failing to ensure the health and safety of the people it is responsible for. We need immediate oversight of this entire operation.

I don't know why, but the judge is now citing the historical precedent of Charles I of England. This is an incredibly ominous sign for Yoon.

Well done...senate democrats?

Michelle Obama. Distant second: Wachowski sisters. Honestly? Pretty proud.

Going to mull on this (much of which I agree with) but was not expecting the Beyond Coal shout out at the end b/c so much of the campaign *is* driven by technical expertise and legal strategy, which sits in uneasy tension with the author's widely shared assertion that authority comes from proximity

I'd forgotten the shadow docket began with a climate case.

If you've ever wondered how a Kentucky judge could threaten to bankrupt Oakland for the crime of bankrupting a coal company, have we got the long read for you: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/unpaid-debts/

I wrote a long thing I'm really proud of and which @zunguzungu.bsky.social made infinitely better as a patient and on-point editor.

I wrote a long thing I'm really proud of and which @zunguzungu.bsky.social made infinitely better as a patient and on-point editor.

The "around" here just fucking kills me. The whole fucking *thing* about Epstein is *how* these girls came to be "around"! The files include pages and pages of investigation documents describing how they were solicited from K-12 schools! This isn't just apologia it's either delusion or a lie!

Today's adventures in "I'm old": Made a 30 Rock reference in class today ("Lemon, it's Wednesday") that landed with a thud and so I asked and only two students were familiar with the show.

I hate the use of "global elite" because it elides having cultural status with material power, but I'm wondering now whether the number of profs in the Epstein files challenge that objection. Are those profs in the convos because they are useful to the wealthy or is powerful within the university...

Wrote a longer and angrier version of this tweet: open.substack.com/pub/cooperat...

Important and underappreciated tip for fellow anti-ICE normies: no touch to unlock and no face unlock. Arguably biggest bang for your OpSec buck. It's a bizarre artifact of US jurisprudence that you can be forced to unlock your device with your body but NOT forced to share a passcode.

For those who don't remember, this is the academic who gained national prominence for shaming undergraduates' reaction to his wife's defense of culturally insensitive Halloween costumes and contributing to the moral panic about free speech on campuses.

If you can watch this without crying tears of admiration and gratitude, well...you're not me.

Just a litany of lives disrupted, perhaps damaged irreparably. We are nationally fixated on the murder of citizen protesters and some have criticized the way this seemingly ignores the disappeared immigrants but the magnitude of this harm is so huge it boggles the mind, is *too much*

And the next martyr is named Pretti and worked as a nurse.

Shit is extremely scary but MPD breaking from DHS is a good sign and everyone who froze their ass yesterday holding signs deserves credit for it.

Just a rootless cosmopolitan Jew sitting here on transit in the 50 degree Bay Area openly crying while scrolling through photos of people out in -20 temps in MN defending their neighbors from my generation's gestapo. I wasn't sure in November 2024 but this country is so worth saving.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Thomas Wentworth, First Earl of Strafford, would like a word.