JCPOA might be the most vindicated foreign policy of all time tbh

If you keep jamming with the Beetles in your spare time, we're going to kick you out of The String-A-Longs. bsky.app/profile/reut...

If ordered to attend a Vanilla Ice concert, our military should consider a violent coup. bsky.app/profile/wash...

Don't let your entirely admirable and exquisitely sensitive moral convictions regarding international law trouble you too deeply, Exxon. Trump will re-brand this as a "safety fee" and give oil companies enough of my tax money to cover it. bsky.app/profile/reut...

This is one of those anecdotes that future students will read and smugly think "people were so stupid in 2026 - thankfully no one today would actually do that." Precisely as my students today read about the buying mania in the spring and early summer of 1929. bsky.app/profile/kate...

I respect this galaxy's choices and identity and will be glad to use its preferred name and pronouns. www.nasa.gov/image-detail...

One of the things that makes being a lawyer bearable is that California law contains very little actual malice. People are sometimes hurt by the law, but that is generally not the law's purpose. American immigration law, as applied, is not like that. bsky.app/profile/chri...

So the plan is that we, the American taxpayers, give $300b of our money to the murderous fundamentalist regime in Iran, Donald Trump takes a fraction of that as a personal bribe or kickback, and Iran gets to control 1/5 of the world's oil supply in perpetuity. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/w...

I remember when Yale Law first employed a Therapy Puppy for students . . . bsky.app/profile/bloo...

To be scrupulously fair, Iran does understand Donald Trump bettet than almost anyone in the American political, economic, or higher education elite. bsky.app/profile/ship...

Post of the day:

Just think - both the decision regarding war or peace and the planned timing of the announcement are largely driven by Trump's ability to make personal gains by front running the reactions of securities markets. bsky.app/profile/reut...

This will last . . . no, sorry - I shouldn't assume the rule of law. This *should* last exactly long enough for a lawyer to find someone harmed, walk to a federal court, and point to Art. I, Sec. 9, Cl. 6 of the Constitution. But during that time it will be staggering. bsky.app/profile/atru...

It is honestly impressive that after all these years, Trump's corruption and cartoonish evil still have the capacity to shock me. Using tariffs to extort Vietnam to desecrate a graveyard for your corrupt personal real estate deal is just unworldly. bsky.app/profile/bgru...

Yea, that's a real shame. Have you seen the outright fascist segregationists who represent millions of African American voters across the old Confederacy? And hey, California doesn't even use administrative tricks to stop the good people of Huntington Beach from voting. bsky.app/profile/reut...

"I made the visit deliberately in order to be in a position to give firsthand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to ‘propaganda.'" - Dwight Eisenhower We are running the concentration camps. bsky.app/profile/mmfa...

Personalist regimes fucking suck. I have a PhD in comparative politics, so I can say that with scientific certainty. bsky.app/profile/fina...

Fucking lawless psychopaths

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Oooh! Oooh! Pick me! Pick me! It's number 2! bsky.app/profile/maxk...

In the conflict between "momentum" and "if a trend cannot continue, it will stop," the latter always wins. It's just a question of how long it takes. bsky.app/profile/reut...

Lectured at West Point once on European politics (way back when I was, after a fashion, a scholar of European politics) - the students were very engaged and asked excellent questions. Glad that their civilian faculty will be able to continue to answer them. bsky.app/profile/reut...

Wish I could show this video to Teddy Roosevelt and watch him personally beat the hell out of Trump. bsky.app/profile/jacq...

Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton has numerous scandals to his name, including affairs, impeachment, and felony indictments. As an unbiased political reporter, it's my job to find an equal number of scandals linked to James Talarico, including but not limited to his ordering vegan tacos.

Computer: "Identify for retina scan." Shatner: "Hooker, Sgt T. J." bsky.app/profile/ryan...

The war in Ukraine has made me so accustomed to just scrolling past huge explosions that it took me a few repetitions of seeing this video before I realized that it wasn't another Russian oil refinery but piles of Jeff Bezos' cash igniting in an enormous fireball. bsky.app/profile/azin...

Wow. The bloopers and out-takes reel of 21st century private spaceflight is arguably as impressive as NASA and the the Soviet space program of the 50's and 60's. bsky.app/profile/usil...

On behalf of Silicon Valley, I would like to sincerely apologize for incubating this Nazi asshole and unleashing him upon the world. I hope that some small measure of justice catches up with this man. bsky.app/profile/nyti...

Not yet willing to say that the great American postwar scientific research apparatus has acquitted itself collectively as well as the legal profession, but at least they will not be destroyed in silence. www.science.org/content/blog...

Wait - that's the kid who illegally kicked Danny's leg at the tournament in The Karate Kid! Not surprised he's a Trump supporter, to be honest. bsky.app/profile/reut...

If it's trained on the kind of precedent documents I've seen from K&E, the $500m Lawbot is going to be the subject of more concentrated legal hatred among corporate lawyers than the plausibility standard under the Iqbal precedent is among litigators. bsky.app/profile/bloo...

Adam Sandler stars in the brain damaged feel-good romantic comedy of the summer - "50 First Conflicts With Iran!" bsky.app/profile/chad...

"[...] an example of an advantage law firms have over tech providers: a childlike faith that nothing could possibly go wrong." bsky.app/profile/bloo...

<Billionaire returning from Porto Cristo to his Manhattan penthouse to attend corporate board meetings flies into Cleveland Hopkins and has to charter a flight to LGA> "This is totally okay - I blame Mamdani for the inconvenience." bsky.app/profile/atru...

Damn, Democrats. bsky.app/profile/gtco...

So, what, this is like a criminal probe into allegations of champerty by some non-profit? What kind of a hook do you hang this on for presentation to an actual federal grand jury? bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Donald Trump is sending the Justice Department after a woman he raped.

Sure, it was always possible that the Trump administration would at some point suffer a complete, collective mental breakdown and try to literally destroy the economy out of general, unfocused cultural resentment. But this is honestly not how I figured that would happen. bsky.app/profile/atru...

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

Just insane. New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherrill says DHS just denied state health inspectors full access to Delaney Hall. She's calling for it to be shut down.

Look at that dog! It bit a man! Maybe we shouldn't have put the dog in charge of workplace safety. Or at least had it checked for rabies before we did. bsky.app/profile/bloo...

It isn't so much a press conference as an "act like an angry middle-schooler and tell people you despise to fuck off" conference. Which would be in some ways more understandable if the White House hadn't already purged everyone with integrity from the WH press corps. bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is the voice of a man realizing that there are only a few more steps to be taken before the ledge ends. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Physician, heal thyself. bsky.app/profile/atru...

E. Jean Carroll didn't just "accuse" Trump of sexual assault. She won a civil lawsuit against Trump for sexual assault. A jury found that Trump sexually assaulted her. She deserves for us to call it what it is.

"Program Executive for the Moon Base" is one of those titles that sounds really cool but is goingbto end up being really, really embarrassing. bsky.app/profile/dkmu...

This deserves nothing but ridicule; if a scholar cannot convince their peers of the value of their work, they shouldn't get a faculty job. Political intervention in hiring will produce corruption & dishonesty in the service of propaganda & a culture of fear. Nothing more. bsky.app/profile/donm...

Just in past 24 hours: -Criminal investigation of E. Jean Carroll -Subpoenas seeking info of ICE critics -Former judges demand inquiry into IRS "deal" -White House intervention leads to $600+M deal to family-linked firm -Monuments, pictures on currency Turning us into a tinpot authoritarian state