"AI is operating at a PhD level" oh, so it's replying 'sorry for the late response' to every email and complaining about its labor conditions?

This was extremely foreseeable (in fact I publicly foresaw it) and I will forever be mad, as a Jew, at my fellow Jews who sold out our hard-fought history of integration into US universities for Bibi and a hyphenated white identity. cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/antisemiti...

The Court is redrawing the boundaries of the US voting public. You can't elect or legislate your way out of a rigged electorate. FDR could threaten to pack a court to end Lochner, to overturn Plessy we needed an extra-legislative mass movement and to overturn Dred Scott we needed a civil war.

Among left legal academics it's become popular to advocate for court reform with the goal of Congressional supremacy. That's fine as far as the evisceration of the administrative state but it's wholly inadequate to the moment we're in and relies on a misplaced argument against countermajoritarian...

Apparently the latest was written by a nepo baby, too. Can we just...not?

I'd like to declare a moratorium on publishing about the gender anxieties of Men With Media Platforms, thanks.

I do not believe in hell but stories like these made me wish I did. I agree with Jay.

Careful readers (or, uh, people who click on the link) may note that the point of the piece is not to endorse AOC specifically but rather to urge folks to do electoral politics differently, but I am thoroughly enjoying being misinterpreted in this instance.

Something fun we learned as we were thinking over this one: the border between Piedmont and Oakland is carved with Flock cameras ... (Image courtesy of @deflock.org)

You may have seen colored maps of the US indicating California has the most expensive electricity in the US (like, say, on the FERC homepage) with the *implication* being renewables are to blame. That implication is, to put it bluntly, bullshit. Renewables are cheaper & more stable than fossil.

I succumbed to fandom and wrote about why I love AOC, which is that she is not primarily out to be loved but to get things done.

let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >

Noting that the timeline described here suggests they met when he hired her and it sounds like he convinced a colleague to hire her about a year later so that they could formally start dating, which may be why his campaign wasn't eager to ID her until now.

ORB's latest entry in what I hope will be an ongoing series of Taxes Are Good, Actually.

Really fascinating new tool that may be a lifeline for attorneys working to file habeas lawsuits to protect their clients' right to bond!

As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says, I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/w...

False like the grand jury returned an indictment for the Broadview Six or...?

Really shocking that this is the approach Project 2029 is taking. I've written about this some in the specific context of PJM but even taken on its own terms, neoliberal utility regulation ("deregulation" is a myth!) is a failure.

Great WaPo article on the **10,000** huge diesel generators at Virginia's data centers permitted to emit 13,000 tons of NOx. The article is based on data crunched here at Sierra Club (1/9) @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Glad for my students to read this but irritates me that a person who saw what Big Law is from the jump & avoided it entirely would never get this platform to say so. Most unpopular folks in US discourse are ppl who were right too early & make everyone else feel bad www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...

If we've learned nothing else from the Epstein files, it's that men who abuse power with women are collaborators and allies. Saw this coming from the jump after Swalwell's abuses came out. How you use power is how you do politics. Creeps out of Congress.

We're just drowning in an ocean of shittiness from the federal government but every couple of weeks there's something that just twists the knife or breaks thru the fog and makes me sick to my stomach and the E. Jean Carroll investigation is the latest one for me.

Trump can't kill higher education if the trustees and admins kill it first, I guess.

Extremely niche meme incoming.

Not my usual posting topic but want to boost this message from the kids' podcast Circle Round. This show immeasurably improved road trips & bedtimes in my family and was the reason I, a West Coast resident, was a monthly donor to @wbur.org (emphasis on the *was*). www.instagram.com/reel/DY2RB8Z...

This is clear and (imo) correct. I'll add my own long-held opinion that US Jews' psychic investment in Israel is about our contingent relationship to whiteness and that intersection with US imperialism makes for truly toxic in-group discourse. www.liberalcurrents.com/israel-is-a-...

I don't want to be mean, so this will be a (somewhat) vague post, but today I gained a new appreciation for Linda Hirschman.

Yeah I know we need a swing state VP but it's gonna be hard to convince me the most morally defensible ticket isn't AOC-Van Hollen.

I will defer to immigration experts on this but on first glance the new green card memo is absolutely terrifying. It seems designed to render thousands of immigrants' otherwise lawful presence illegal and to facilitate unlawful deportations by preventing the return of those who leave to register.

Yes.

For a guy who complains about negative polarization and social media brain among his opponents, Will is sure quick to jump to his priors on candidates without actually doing the reading.

I'm a lawyer so I feel like I should know this but at this point don't all the ICE/CBP paychecks violate the anti-deficiency act? When DHS as a whole was unfunded TSA got stiffed so it's unclear to me how the goons are still getting paid (legally).

To keep people up to date: six people who exercised their first amendment rights had their lives overturned and were forced to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorneys fees because of clear prosecutorial misconduct.

As usual, the debate about capping As at Harvard suffers from the myopia of national education coverage that doesn't look past the Ivies. I think it's defensible in the context of Harvard-like schools *and* there's a broader grade inflation problem *and* the solution in other places is different. 🧵

My contribution to the takeout discourse is that the world would be a better place if we all both pushed ourselves to do unpleasant or hard things and forgave others who find themselves unable to do unpleasant or hard things a little bit more.

I would really prefer my fellow American Jews not (1) raise money from out-of-district donors using an "AIPAC list" and (2) express loyalty to Israel as one of their top political values & equal to the US then accuse others of antisemitism when they point out these facts. It's not helping us, guys.

I seem to recall a project tracking instances where the DOJ violated government orders, perhaps just with respect to immigration cases. If that is something you're familiar with, you could point me there?

one of my favorite facts about the US coal industry is that it employs less people than Broadway

More seriously this is an example of how NYTimes coverage is enabling fascism. 🧵 Nowhere in the article is there a clear statement of these speakers' beliefs (there are a few quotes scattered throughout, but framed as the basis for controversy or disavowal. There's a list of colleges...

Sorry I didn't hear that second part, I'm still hung up on COLLEGE REPUBLICANS INVITE WHITE NATIONALISTS INTO THEIR ORGANIZATIONS and that isn't the story???

We have long constructed the idea of male genius as ineffably above or behind the actual work - how many boys are "smart but don't apply themselves." Instrumentalizing tools is inherent to masculine intelligence, a sign of virtue, but b/c women are supposed to do the work, it's cheating for them

Daily Memo: Hunger Strikes Begin In California ICE Detention Centers As Conditions Worsen Full report: lataco.com/adelanto-hun...

Agreed. Pareto optimal outcome with maximal humiliation and least possible vindication for everyone involved.

Cannot get my head around the magnitude of the theft of the DOJ/Trump settlement. I know it requires an extra-legal response (not in the sense of violence, but in the sense of a direct confrontation in terms of politics/power) but I am really not sure what that can or should be.

Many in the legal profession have, at some personal risk and certainly cost, upheld their oaths to the constitution and served as a bulwark against authoritarianism. Some have...not. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

Ok I have been corrected on this by @msatris.bsky.social - the CO river alfalfa is primarily used for dairy cattle abroad. (This is what I get as an energy policy person wading into water law, pun intended.) I think it is still the case that beef is highly water intensive...

Many people think of politicians' sexual harassment as a personal failing or private or adjacent to their real job or a character flaw. But it *is* how these men relate to power, not a distraction but a crystallization of their self-understanding of authority. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/u...

The third rail of US climate politics is our beef consumption and we really do need to start unwinding our subsidies for the stuff, beginning with CO river allocation.