In every Boomer's kitchen is either a can opener that no longer works or a needlessly elaborate can opener that is "more convenient" but incredibly opaque to understand. There will be no other can opener.

Tommy’s chili cheeseburger

Sent off book mss draft today.

The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.

As of this morning 4,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. Don’t cross their picket line. No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!

Corrected link: www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...

A large CBP presence is back in Chicago this morning, with sightings and arrests reported across the southwest side and Cicero. Bovino is also here.

Does anyone have a recipe for a lemon cookie that’s like, punishingly lemony?

A university is so much more than its bricks and mortar facilities. It is also an eduroam network with intermittent access

Attn: @stevehasegawa.bsky.social

What's ominous is all of the trusted women of color who know a lot about AI are saying that a crash is on the way and the white guys are pretending they are taking it to the moon. This means that a crash is definitely on its way.

1/ A few thoughts about @williambaude.bsky.social’s comment in yesterday’s NYT chat that, “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...

modern shirley jackson includes an email reminder

I never travel far without a little

I'm very happy to share that I will be hosting the *Second* Annual Democracy and Public Law Works-in-Progress Conference at the Michigan State University College of Law on April 3–4, 2026! Law scholars (current and aspiring), I'd love to host you! Application: msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???

TODAY IS THE DAY! GET OUT AND VOTE. Polls are open 7 AM - 7 PM WE GOT THIS!!!!!!

Carved out time this afternoon and evening to dig into revisions on this first substantive chapter. Revising the intro paragraphs was way too hard, but it's much better now.

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

The 1980s Mapp & Lucia series, with Geraldine McEwan, Prunella Scales, and Nigel Hawthorne, is probably the finest long-form comedy I've ever seen (dozens and dozens of times), and I have no fear at all that I'm overselling it.

This is a great idea.

Hi #skystorians 👋 I'm hoping to put together a panel for the SHA 2026 Annual Meeting. My paper would analyse Dwight Eisenhower's 1962 visit to South Carolina and assess his (post-presidential) relationship with southern Republicanism. If that fits with your panel ideas, please do get in touch! 🗃️

The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

👏🏾⚖️ Beginning today, the @harvard.edu Law School Library is making available online the first complete, fully searchable, digitized collection of official evidentiary documents and trial transcripts in English from all 13 Nuremberg Trials, at nuremberg.law.harvard.edu.

Lawyers learning history

Quid pro quo.

oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...

Gift link to NYT article about the corruption of DOJ. One former insider says “I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm. … [T]he American people should be enraged.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Extraordinarily honored to receive the American Society for Legal History’s Craig Joyce Medal for service to the Society for my work as editor of @lawandhistrev.bsky.social. Also this replica premier league trophy with Law and History Review regalia! #ynwa #upthereds #legalhistory

Reminder for 2025 Detroit #ASLH people: check out our *new* table for recently pub. legal history books not otherwise represented @ book sale! Authors donate a copy & everyone else can enter raffle for each book. I'll pull names of winners on Sat. morning & winners pick up books before end of day

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Looks useful, but they may not cover an important topic: if you need a #map for your book, where do you go? Many authors, faced with that question, have no idea where to start. If that’s you, I can help! I draw maps for a living, and specialize in maps for academic books. surprisedeelmaps.com

David Byrne As Photographed by David LaChapelle Will Fix You. David Byrne Photographed by David LaChapelle for the New Yorker Will Solve Your Problems www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

We’ve officially launched! Lots of ways to support this new initiative that supports street vendors from 🧊 we keep us safe! Interest form and flyer below! #BikeChi forms.gle/dY931Sxzs6V9...

Tonight was the inaugural ride of our new home buyout program. We connect with vendors too scared to be out, and we purchase from them at home. Tonight we bought 250 tamales, divided into 3 teams to deliver all over the city to folks on the street, Love Fridges, and a youth shelter.

This seems huge, and deserves more attention. SCOTUS has gone out of its way to make it harder to sue Fed law enforcement for damages when they trample—sometimes literally—on your rights. Illinois just made it so their resident can sue the Feds in state court. Feds fail us, states step up.

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

POLLS CLOSE IN 4HRS GO VOTE @YESONAFFHOUSING.bsky.social!!!

With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.

“I find it hard to imagine that we would be having this conversation at all were Platner anything other than a fit middle-aged white guy who dresses like a stock photo of a “real man.’” Straight to the point, as usual from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

This is exactly the shape of it - Trump is reviving the imperial presidency, while Congress is completely dormant. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

the health problems are bad. but the causes? the causes are very good

generally speaking, people should be eating way more candy than they do. next time you find yourself reaching for fresh produce at the grocery store, consider a bag of candy instead

ICE is confirmed to be using tear gas in Lakeview

Ald. Timmy Knudsen reports immigration activity throughout his ward, which is a lot of Lincoln Park, one of wealthiest neighborhoods in city and home to DePaul University