No it the fuck was not.

Since falling behind 2-1 to the Hawks, the Knicks have won 10 straight games by 225 points combined, the highest point differential in any 10-game span in NBA history, *regular season or postseason*

Berkeley law prof Chris Hoofnagle: "And if that lawyer cannot use their own analytical judgment to assess an AI output, that lawyer has very little value. And so, this is what our policy is about."

Let me tell you a story about the "Great American Crime Decline" (still ongoing) ...

That’s why they killed direct file defector.com/free-easy-de...

This morning, reporters asked why the prosecutor at the heart of the Broadview Six scandal — who could face sanctions for misconduct — was working on a DOJ detail with Senate Judiciary Committee democrats. Sen. Durbin's office just announced she's been dismissed. www.notus.org/courts/durbi...

Wild story @jesspish.bsky.social

look forward to this guy being deposed like... "what discipline did you mete out to these attorneys?"

I would simply locate the nearest window and jump.

dropping this right into my syllabus (with attribution)

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

So the sticking points are the same underlying impetuses for this conflict. Good good.

this isn’t a troll, they’ve got a good case for standing and might be able to take the whole thing down. We are entering heretofore unknown galaxies of Finding Out

Reading about the DOJ

Some great new music for your afternoon open.spotify.com/album/3skYxK...

better be

jfc

These folks should all apply to the weaponization fund

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My public research university literally has a cattle ranch

Hamsters likely next, the way things are going

NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

Inbox: The 5,000 strong faculty of Penn State, including faculty members across all departments, full-time and part-time, and at the main and satellite campuses, have unionized with SEIU Local 668. The union says its the largest public sector win in 50 years.

Gov Jared Polis told a Colorado Sun event that his decision to give clemency to Tina Peters "will be remembered fondly." He was later interrupted by protesters carrying an enormous banner reading EAT SHIT POLIS coloradosun.com/2026/05/19/j...

NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party's State Central Committee (400-600 members) will vote Wednesday night on a measure to reprimand Gov Jared Polis and ban him from speaking at party events after giving clemency to Tina Peters

Watching the Knicks tonight was great, but also helped me to learn that Quinta Brunson divorced the guy she had married, who I hated in high school

Thank you Jared Polis

I'm not a big basketball fan but I think the Cavs should have scored points in overtime?

It isn't "racial pride." The manifesto, which I'm reading right now, is a total slop-bucket of neo-Nazi accelerationism with misogynistic rants and multiple sections that are completely unfinished. It lionizes Brenton Tarrant, who murdered 51 people in a NZ mosque in 2019. nymag.com/intelligence...

Someone should ask if Comey or Tish James qualified

Thanks to The Ohio State University for getting me a copy of an MA thesis from 1917 by a man with the wonderful name Bliss Magly

first long-form interview about *Mississippi Law* with Michael Stauch @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! hear abt policing under Jim Crow authoritarianism, liberal collaboration, and the ways folks fought/fight back. grateful to Mike for his deep engagement with the book. open.spotify.com/episode/4cMJ...

Here's a good actus reus hypo

I’m calling on the General Assembly to vote to reconvene for special session to impeach or censure the Governor. Governor Polis commuted Tina Peters’ sentence after the legislative session, likely in an effort to avoid accountability for misconduct. The people of Colorado demand accountability.

here's a fun one. woman posts in a Bad Dates Facebook group about dumping a guy for being clingy. he sues her, her parents, meta and the admins of the group she posted in. Dismissed. He appeals despite no grounds for reversal... except what he gets from AI hallucinations. BTFO by the 7th Circuit.

It’s hard to square Polis’ concerns about overly long sentences with his own, very recent history: www.denverpost.com/2026/01/16/c...

chaser: bsky.app/profile/colo...

shot: "While Peters has not publicly shown contrition for her crimes, Polis said she did so in her clemency application"

My thoughts on the Tina Peters commutation in the paper

The section in Making the Second Ghetto on the rat cull is one of the most memorable pieces of history I've ever read

Will just reiterate that in the many years I covered Polis closely, he never showed particular interest in the topic of over-sentencing, nor in criminal justice reform generally. This decision would read a lot differently if Polis had any sort of record as an advocate for clemency.

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Anyone have any recommendations for good new books on the history of policing of the post Civil War US that I should buy to use up my remaining research funds?

As someone pointed out to me offline, this is a really funny typo in Alito’s mifepristone dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Anyone have any recommendations for good new books on the history of policing of the post Civil War US that I should buy to use up my remaining research funds?

BREAKING: #SCOTUS extends status quo for access to abortion pill mifepristone. Mail-order and virtual access will remain in place while 5th Circuit rules on merits of appeal. Could be a year. Thomas and Alito dissent & write separately. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...