Really happy to have done a very small thing to help make the Supreme Court's historical records and briefs freely available. Thank you to the @archive.org for doing the hard part. blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

Super proud of myself (and my kids) for clocking that something was amiss with the Geese hype last December.

As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means

"Goddamn it, Leo! You haven't made an arrest in months! I've had enough. Put your staff and mitre on my desk and get the hell out of here."

The more I think about it, the more I am pretty confident that "The Pope is weak on crime," is going to go down in history as one of the most batshit things any President has ever written. There is just so much stupidity wrapped into six words.

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

for sure, congratulations to magyar. but the real heroes imo are those in civil society & journalism & rank-and-file opposition & academia who have fought against the disintegration of rule of law, the weaponization of the courts/media, & so much more for so long. 🇭🇺

A commenter notes that "Trump managed to be both Hitler and Chamberlain in the same negotiation. An unprecedented feat." 😭

The civilization that would die if such threats were carried out is our own.

people split hairs about the genocide classification all the time, but Trump unambiguously wrote down his intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national group, and then he broadcast it out

"The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes... It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched." —Robert Jackson, Nuremberg

“AI, like mathematical rationality more generally, has a sweet spot: problems that are complicated enough that they can’t be solved by other computationally cheaper approaches, but that have enough regularities to be workable.”

Told my kids these are the pictures from when NASA went to the moon in the 1900s…

The obscenity of a budget that cuts the forest service to fund the re-opening of Alcatraz as a prison.

I love this and think the same is true for legal research. You build your legal analysis skills by doing the boring grunt work of research. It is how you try out ideas to build arguments. Using AI to shortchange the struggle with research is going to harm lawyers' abilities to formulate arguments.

Hey, I know her! And she is right. We still have to teach students how to be ethical and competent legal researchers even with AI, because just telling them that AI will do it for them puts them at the mercy of a tool and erodes their analytical and reasoning skills that good research builds.

This, on page 1, tells you all you need to know: "Congress cannot preserve presidential records merely for the sake of posterity."

Reminder: the administration previously attempted to install the now-acting Attorney General as the acting Librarian of Congress (currently in litigation limbo before SCOTUS)

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Donald Trump's assessment of the situation around the Strait of Hormuz is one of the most deluded things a US president has ever said about a matter of foreign policy. And historically, that's quite a high bar to clear.

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

also don’t let spencer cox’s PR team fool you into thinking that he is anything other than a reactionary

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

Top Trump Donor and Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Revealed as Funder of False, Racist “NO” Ads; "The same megadonor network backing Donald Trump and JD Vance’s agenda is now trying to manipulate Virginia voters with lies." bluevirginia.us/2026/03/top-...

I am at the phase of life where my weeks are measured by the number of dinners I eat in my car and the number of bags of Trader Joe's branded "Takis" that my kids consume. From those two bits of information, you know the approximate ages and gender of my kids.

Yes, we will all die one day -- and perhaps sooner than anybody expected because *waves hands all around* -- but watching Duke bottle a double-digit lead on the national (nay, international) stage makes it all fucking worthwhile

William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:

If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US servicemembers by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.

There is wrong, and there is whatever this is. Look, I am currently very angry with UNC over the firing of Hubert Davis and the NCAA for ruining college basketball. But there will never, ever, ever be anything as detestable in college basketball as the Duke Blue Devils. That hate transcends.

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

I can't return this car I stole because I'm currently driving it.

the only thing that appears to give our aging, rapidly declining ruler meaning in his life is his ability to inflict death and suffering on others www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

New study finds notion that humans can "double-check" AI to be flawed. Participants trusted AI 93% of the time when it was correct, but still trusted it 80% of the time when it was wrong, while being *more* confident in their conclusions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Emily Tucker is the executive director of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law. And she is magnificent medium.com/center-on-pr... Remember: “there is something that learning is for, that thinking is for, that work is for, and that you are for, the discovery of which belongs to you.”

I am hard pressed to think of any prior President who was solely responsible for causing such immediate unambiguous, and completely foreseeable economic pain. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

The U.S. has become a country that openly targets the most vulnerable. There aren't two decent viewpoints on that. There is the right side to be on now, and the side for people who will someday lie about what side they were on, if they live long enough.

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

Lucky enough to do this tour last spring and it was the best.

This is what every elected official should be saying.

Nothing says “we are liberating you from a bad regime to give you a better life” like bombing desalination plants and oil refineries

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist. He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

"You're right, my answer was based on outdated information. My bad! I sincerely apologize for targeting hundreds of children, and hope you'll forgive me for the error. Upon further research, I have identified another epic target and launched missiles at the coordinates 33°48'45.9"N 117°55'08.4"W."

Apt characterization of the Article I Crisis

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them. I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

We are all complicit. If you are an American, you paid your government to murder those little girls. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ira...