Today I'm publicly releasing a paper that answers that question (download link in the comments) using data on 5.4 million local businesses across the US: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... During the first year of the current administration, ICE raids caused serious economic damage in seven ways:

There are a lot of things wrong with the legal academy, but these authors' bafflement at the idea that they should know what they're citing makes me feel unexpectedly proud of our requirement that student editors check every single citation.

Most of the stories in The Wire are straight up anecdotees from Baltimore's Homicide unit and can be found in David Simon's book Homicide:

I loved The Matrix Resurrections and I don't care who knows it.

This is particularly revealing: Dobbs was supposed to be about whether or not pregnant people have a right to terminate their abortions. For Alito, apparently, it was about whether STATES have the right to prevent abortions. That's not how the law works, obviously.

It would be so great to see Alito get even a little bit worked up about all the discrimination that occurs in spite of states' laws against it.

The American Bar Association considers repealing its DEI regulations criticallegalcollective.org/civicrm/mail...

"[i]t’s akin to having a police officer issue a warrant to herself or her fellow officer". @lindsaycnash.bsky.social : www.lawfaremedia.org/article/dhs-...

Six years after this story was written, "Def Leppard Lagoon" is still there on Google Maps, in the middle of Illinois, fabulously unexplained. fox2now.com/news/trendin...

NEW: We've spent 10 months tracking the outcomes in tens of thousands of lawsuits brought by ICE detainees amid an unprecedented detention push. It's not a cose call: judges have ruled more than 10,000 times against ICE, a 9-1 ratio. See the database: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Ghoulish stuff, and deeply counterproductive. The message this sends to immigrant communities is “Do not call the police. If you saw a crime? No you didn’t. If you were a victim of a crime? No you weren’t. If you see a cop? Run.”

Special time. #grickledoodle #duck #night #thoughts #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

"In fact, although it is philosophically deeply annoying, human institutions survive because most of us can live comfortably with wholly contradictory beliefs." --Judith Shklar, "Legalism."

ICE told local law enforcement agencies in Florida not to answer public records requests about their role in immigration crackdowns, reports Monique O. Madan. We’ve encountered similar issues in our investigations into 287(g) partnerships across the country. floridatrib.org/2026/05/06/a...

A truly visionary director would have made them all do Minnesota accents

Did you see this? I think it's a nice idea. The only way back is for students to see the value of the learning for themselves I think through being in a classroom thinking together as a collective enterprise globeopinion.substack.com/p/ai-was-rui...

kate, here is another interesting piece on in-class room writing

Ho's concurrence says--in a case about standing!--that the state of Texas has the "power to engage in war in response to an invasion," by which he means immigration. This is the kind of thing that makes you move slowly away from a guy on the bus saying it.

If I visited Texas Tech, would students be required to look away from me? "The memo bars professors from discussing LGBTQ+ topics . . . if an industry-standard textbook includes content on sexual orientation or gender identity, instructors must skip over it and avoid discussion around it."

Ancient burial mounds emerging from the morning mist, last week near the Mississippi River in Minnesota.

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

I mean, I know we make the 1984/Big Brother comparisons, but this is pretty much 2+2=5

Putting aside how weird it is for Palantir to sound so much like Saruman, these arguments are very dumb. It's not wokeness that prevents us from deciding which cultures are "middling" and which are "harmful"; it's the obvious idiocy of trying to measure a whole culture.

Honest question: Are we sure about this after Chiles v. Salazar? "[O]ur precedents have expressly rejected the [...] notion that 'professional speech' represents some 'separate category of speech' subject to 'diminished constitutional protection.'" www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

"I can’t travel internationally anymore. I can’t use my passport," Caitlyn Jenner told Tomi Lahren in a recent interview.

Legal ethics version of this

"In some cases, immigrants described waiting for police and a tow truck after minor car crashes. ICE came instead." www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/16/l...

Many people don't know this, but lawyers aren't allowed to lie about important stuff. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

fuck em up, professor ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

I'm proud to be in @ballsandstrikes.org this morning: ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.

I saw my husband at his desk with his head in his hands & I thought something was really wrong. I went over to ask him if he was OK & he said, “I’m fine. there’s just not enough time to read all the books I want to read.”

Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.

If anybody needs a metaphor, here's an actual deck chair from the Titanic.

Oh. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

I'll also say that it's hard for me to understand how to think without writing. I know what I think and why (and why not other things) because of the process of writing and working through arguments.To have offloaded that to an LLM means you've offloaded thinking.

It appears that the news has broken that Caden Mark Gardner and I have programmed a series on Trans Filmmakers for the Criterion Channel. These films will be available in April www.criterion.com/current/post...

Here's a non-paywalled account of FEMA's disaster response chief's claim that he teleported to a Waffle House. www.aol.com/articles/fem...

DOJ should be required to post this transcript with its hiring announcements. “Hey, 3Ls with no practice experience! Do you want to be publicly castigated for being soft on child porn and forcibly removed from courtrooms because your bosses don’t know what they’re doing? Come join the DOJ!”

"We are a sad people, without hats." www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it

A notable footnote from Justice Kagan, pointing out that if the court is so into parental rights why didn't it take up the claim brought by parents of transgender kids who want them to get gender-affirming care?

Thanks so much to @melodyschreiber.com for not only writing about this issue, but quoting trans scientists as experts!

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was 'Amtrak wifi.'

What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.

Vanderbilt appears to be discontinuing many major surgeries for transgender adults. It's uncertain exactly what procedures will be discontinued, and the loss of care will have major impacts on trans people in the region. The latest from our writer S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The 3 million-plus people applying for immigration status changes will now be required to provide the government with their social media handles. This expansive new requirement poses a serious threat to constitutional rights. bit.ly/4aE5uKa