Side note: just hearing that publishing does not, in fact, stave off death and I am outraged

...Election Day turnout across other major counties statewide. Dallas County is the second-largest Democratic stronghold in Texas and serves as U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s political base. These observations coincide with claims from the Texas Democratic Party that “nearly a third” of voters... 2/6

Austin FC beats DC United 1-0 thanks to a goal from newcomer Christian Ramirez. What did you like? What didn’t you like? Admin starts. Didn’t like Jared Stroud

This is like the worst Onion article ever. The End Gun Violence banner that travels around to the last mass shooting

#AustinFC supporters with righteous anger amid the joy of the game

¡Un domingo de fútbol! It's MATCHDAY! #ATXvDC | 1:30PM CT | MLS on Apple TV

77 and windy and I'm freezing on a patio. I may need to buy a jacket at #AustinFC. Hard times here

undefeated home season 🤘 #HookEm

An apoplectic facebook post is claiming that James Talarico's ad lied about passing a TX law capping insulin at $25/month. The poster pays nearly 3x that. I calmly explained how ERISA impacts state insurance regulation and showed the Am Diabetes Ass'n cheering the TX law. Surely this will go well

A customer service rep just congratulated me on my "twenty-three-year journey" with American Express. And I both laughed out loud and feel depressed

"I have seen three executions. I hope I never see a fourth." - @brianlyman.bsky.social, alabamareflector.com/2026/02/23/a...

All the grads on the court for senior day. Going to miss watching these awesome athletes #TexasWBB

Back to business #AustinFC

Love Is Blind friends, are we sad or proud that our instincts about clown ass men are spot on?

Texas's bathroom bountyhunter law at work. Ghouls, absolute ghouls

Sitting outside in 70 degrees watching Love Is Blind. The perfect Sunday afternoon

every two hours of 2026 equals ten days confirmed

Boom. Don't need to read this to want to believe it's true (Coffee does seem to be one of the few decadent things that is actually good for health)

My apologies to whomever has the room below mine. But this has been jumping up and down basketball. 🤘

Humanities folks interested in law and religion, Emory is hosting a NEH-funded Summer Institute on Law and Religion: An Interdisciplinary Toolkit for the Humanities Scholar this July. Info/application below. “[L]aw is too important to be left to the lawyers.” - Harold Berman & Samir N. Saliba

So the other thing about this SD9 race is the money. Here’s the back of the envelope math I did after the general. www.dmagazine.com/micropost/mi...

Found a favorite sign from the ICE walkout protest

We're now seeing a steady march of Catholic prelates with obvious backing from the Vatican saying hat it's time now to defund and liquidate ICE.

I hate every bit of this. He shouldn't be remembered. He should just get to be.

Can't wait for all of us to talk about the Veronica Mars rewatch we all started tonight. All of us around the TV on a late January Saturday evening

Also they should make up their minds. Are we mindless wine moms or people who do professional grade logistics?

We are all working whole ass jobs while coordinating summer camp spreadsheets across multiple kids, their friends (read friends' moms), and varying times and places. PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS is our middle name

How all my best work gets done

Immigrant families protest inside Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota www.texastribune.org/2026/01/24/i...

Conversations w middle schoolers: Who plays Indiana Jones? Harrison Ford Wait, what, and he was the president? That's Gerald Ford. Are you sure? Ok, i guess that makes sense

This is extremely suspicious, for sure. www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-n...

There is plenty of protest music that is neither white nor Boomer coded, but folks probably don't know the words. The way forward is sometimes--as Minnesota shows--backward and Christian (non-Catholic) heavy. I'd suggest Jean Battiste's Freedom, Tracy Chapman's Revolution, Janelle Monae's Americans

I cannot stop crying at these videos of Minnesotans singing together. It is the least cool thing I have ever seen. And yet so inspiring. So here I am, tears on the keyboard

Today, @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social and @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social challenge the idea that law review articles should conclude with a set of actionable prescriptions. This convention, they argue, constrains ambition, sidelines critique, and conflates near-term feasibility with rigor.

This is a more accurate metric of impending bad weather than the Waffle House Index

Cardinal Cupich of Chicago: “We renounce war as an instrument for narrow national interests and proclaim that military action must be seen only as a last resort in extreme situations, not a normal instrument of national policy”

I don't care at all about this football. But I am happy for all of you. Or sad that happened to you. But still glad that we are a site for joy as well as rage

"ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval. And the noise has the added benefit of drawing large crowds of bystanders who can quickly outnumber the ICE agents"

9 yr old got sent to the principal's office today "for being too good at football"

I'm very serious about this. Who knows when sanity will return to the federal government. But when it does, I would sure like every victim of ICE, CBP, and the rest to be able sue their attackers into personal bankruptcy. Let that be known, and who knows--it might change at least some behavior.

"Mom is Catholic. She talks about hell a lot. Mostly about people who should rot in it." - kid #1, rude but honest

Morning ☕️ The Senate HELP committee is holding a hearing this AM on the "dangers" of mifepristone. Mife has been safely & effectively used by millions since the FDA approved it in 2000, but we likely won't hear about that today. Follow along for updates below.

College students across the street are starting a Tuesday night party. They gave us 6 small cookies with a note to warn us. Beginning to suspect we need more cookies

Oh no. I kind of want to read this and hate review it

Block: If they're right about the facts, we should lose. This is a great point: IF trans women are actually men who are bad at mens sports, than they should lose. CAN THE BIGOTS PROVE THAT? NO? THEN THEY SHOULD GET THE FUCK OUT.

Further, the conservative justices give a lot of weight to what they call "uncertainty" over the efficacy of puberty blockers and hormone therapy (notably, only when used for trans youth) but little to no weight to the lack of scientific support showing athletic advantages pre-puberty. 4/

Sam Alito, showing his Fox News grandpa as usual. Suggests women overwhelming oppose trans athletes playing with them. Asks counsel "are you calling them bigots?" STRONGLY suggests that trans athletes are overwhelmingly successful and strong when they participate in women's sports

Thread from a top-notch scholar on LGBTQ law

This morning (9CT/10ET), the Supreme Court is hearing arguments in two trans rights cases. Do bans on trans girls playing girls sports violate Title IX of the Education Amendments? Do they violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment? (Or are trans people protected by the EP at all?)