Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

Meta may have paid enough to get a mostly favorable federal regime, but I wonder whether the "content moderation is viewpoint discrimination" state AGs, who also have interests in blaming youth troubles on platforms, will react to this or let it pass

I have seen one good example of this plate

A fake yoga brand opened 50 yards from a Lululemon. You can't buy anything, but you can watch a billionaire-backed athleisure giant get owned by a non-profit on a shoestring budget. For anxiety.eco, I dive deep into what's been missing in accountability campaigns: www.anxiety.eco/p/lululemon-...

"In a field dominated by open-ended standards refined across thousands of disputes, a court that decides fewer than one copyright case per year is structurally ill-suited to act as a central planner" - @guyrub.bsky.social

Reading list: The Vanishing Enforcer: Consumer Protection in an Era of Dual Retrenchment

FDA warns sellers of GLP-1 dupes www.kelleydrye.com/viewpoints/b...

prefacing statements with "allegedly" or calling them "estimates" doesn't make them nonfalsifiable opinion

We could do this with voter registration, but too many people are committed to voter disenfranchisement.

Expressive association strikes again! For more on its mounting deregulatory force in work law, see “Expressive Association at Work” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... cc @lsepper.bsky.social @charlottegarden.bsky.social Final version soon in @michlawreview.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lega...

Transformative work of the day, oldie but goodie

Love my CIA governor. (laudatory and unironic)

The US doesn't need to actively want this. It just needs to lack the institutional capacity to recognize it as a threat, and the crypto has done so. Ideological capture has made the administration unable to distinguish between Iran's sanctions-evasion strategy and its own monetary policy aspirations

ASTM loses again: the Third Circuit holds that it's likely fair use for Upcodes to post standards that have been incorporated into law. www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/242...

The President, White House, and FCC's Brendan Carr are calling for action -- and implying a criminal investigation -- against CNN for... accurately reporting what Iran's state media shared as a statement from Iran's Supreme National Security Council.

Mother Jones has similar reporting: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I created a bombastically detailed visualization of every single comment filed in the eight rounds of these triennial rulemaking proceedings. Five foot long posters are available for those of you with a love for elaborate governmental ritual. 1201.nyuengelberg.org/burdenofproof/

Coincidentally, I was about to click a link to a ProPublica article aboutt the Pretti shooting for a citation in a draft of mine. But, I'll save it for another day. ProPublica does amazing work and I hope they meet the workers' demands.

The Chicago Tribune honors the best thread on Bluesky: "The world is more interesting — more engaging but also more wondrous — when thought and care for aesthetics is built into even the most mundane tasks and objects."

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

new report on the burdensome 1201 exemption process: Michael Weinberg wryly comments, "To a first approximation, one could argue that the entire triennial process is in service of Dassault Systèmes adding additional claims to a handful of enforcement actions."

two cases reach opposite results over whether "health" claims are misleading if products are lead-contaminated

"carbon neutral" not plausibly misleading where D bought offsets from 3d-party certifiers, despite methodological disputes

the continuing merger of TM and the right of publicity: court can't tell the defenses apart

Washington Supreme Court rejects private standing for discount misrepresentations

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

As I watch people who do not live in this country get real smug about how Americans have not "risen up" or whatever, I feel compelled to point out: We have and we are. People have been killed. Maimed. This is a thing that's happened. And yet millions still protest and take direct action.

I thought it would be a one-time post, not evergreen

Kind of a flex, you gotta admit

Important 🧵 Science is a natural political target of all authoritarians. Telling scientists to be quietly apolitical is asking them to passively accept science’s demolition (now happening at pace in the US, with great losses everywhere else). This doesn’t earn trust. It displays indifference.

Beyond the Dog's tactics in employment dispute may have been beyond the pale

Netflix's promotion of fictional team does not constitute trademark use

naked licensing could constitute false advertising of origin

"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

Wealthy leader, threatening to attack Persia, announcing that a great empire will be destroyed if he does, and not realizing that the prophecy is ambigous about which empire. I have many criticisms for the writers, but in particular could they stop plagiarizing from Herodotus?

“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.” Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)

Me when it’s snowing in April

He may not be “mincing words” but he definitely didn’t answer the question asked.

There is a path. It’s the path that Michael Vick walked. He has worked with the Humane Society for the last 17 years to educate folk about animal cruelty. He says he’ll do that work for the rest of his life. Call me when Louis or Kanye devotes even one weekend to making reparation.

the first rule of bean club is that bean club is generic for bean clubs so you can't tell other bean clubs not to say bean club

Last semester our Westlaw rep very confidently told students that CoCounsel doesn't hallucinate, which I found out when giving a research presentation later in the semester (It does in fact hallucinate and also misstates/mischaracterizes case law frequently, which I have proof of!)

I'll note that this is one reason why defendant pinching and pressing are bad. #ScheduleA plaintiffs are moving their cases away from judges who might write decisions that persuasively criticize their business model.

When ads came to ChatGPT, users were mad — those who had been using it as an editor or therapist suddenly saw ChatGPT as vulnerable to manipulation by brands and marketers. The reality is that it was happening the whole time. I wrote about the new SEO gold rush: www.theverge.com/tech/900302/...

New: Florida's wildlife police are giving ICE access to Flock from thousands of cameras around the country & performed dozens of lookups for immigration enforcement per month. Shows ICE is still accessing and also shows that access often comes from unexpected places: www.404media.co/floridas-wil...

While federal enforcers are largely standing down from fighting false advertising, they aren't the only enforcers in the US; we'll see how this goes.

So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it: International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft

Provocation is not a complex form of politics. Let’s not imagine Trump is not smart enough to have thought of this. He is. And exploiting a wartime incident to try to seize total power is normal tyrannical behavior. It’s on us not to dodge that historical fact. (3/17)