Good for you!

I like SLJ's version better....

Don't want your AI slop It's ruining education, hurting the labor market, undermining artists, and heating the planet. What's not to love?

I've gone full old-man-yelling-at-cloud on AI

Justin Walker (one of the Trump judges on the panel) was a law prof at my university and worked very hard to advocate for Kavanaugh publicly during that nomination....which got Walker appointed to his federal post. I think he's angling for Alito's seat!

"Virginia joins a national effort to ensure only popular vote winners become president" #ELB NPR: A national effort to circumvent the Electoral College has gained another state. Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a bill Monday that adds the state to the National Popular Vote Compact, an ...

“Virginia joins a national effort to ensure only popular vote winners become president” electionlawblog.org?p=155426

Interested in a state supreme court clerkship? @statecourtreport.org has a database featuring clerkship opportunities from 25 states and more than 80 justices. We hope it's a good starting point for applicants! statecourtreport.org/state-judici...

It's so needy!!

#polisky share far and wide: @apsa.bsky.social Statement on the Proposed Elimination of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation

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shrouded figure on CBS

CBS News has a bombshell interview with a U.S. soldier who survived the deadly attack in Kuwait on the first day of the way -- he says Pete Hegseth is lying about the attack and that the base "was unprepared to provide any defense for itself." www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

Donald Trump is completely unhinged. His statement threatening to eradicate an entire civilization shocks the conscience and requires a decisive congressional response. The House must come back into session immediately and vote to end this reckless war of choice in the Middle East before Donald Trump plunges our country into World War III. For years, Republicans have enabled and excused Donald Trump’s deeply dangerous and extreme behavior. Enough is enough. Our brave men and women in uniform have been put into harm’s way in the Middle East. Over a dozen have already been killed and hundreds injured. Gas prices are skyrocketing, the cost of living in America is out of control and billions of taxpayer dollars are being wasted on a reckless war of choice. It’s time for House Republicans to put patriotic duty over party loyalty and join Democrats in stopping this madness.

After Trump wrote, in reference to Iran, “A whole civilization will die tonight,” the entirety of the House Democratic leadership issued this joint statement:

From another political scientist, thanks for writing this.

Waiting for the Americans Notes from the brink

Waiting for the Americans -- my notes on being here, out of control

💯 my sentiment today

"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

Cool cool cool cool cool

13 minutes 🤡

@nytimes.com

And Gorsuch..."I don't think you want to rely on Wong Kim Ark"

A line graph showing awards over time at NSF's SBE. The line for this year, 2026, is extremely FLAT compared to prior years. By this time in 2025, 179 grants had been awarded. In 2021, it was 243. This year... 16.

NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate has awarded only 16 grants since October.

No big budget cuts went through. No freeze. The courts have acted to keep funds flowing at every turn. The money just isn't going out.

Why...?

1/x

source: grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
🟦🧠 #academicsky

That APSA forever changed how I pack for work trips! Both in terms of sleepwear and footwear that I can flee in.

“.. More Republicans are retiring ahead of the midterms than at any point in nearly a century, according to an ABC News tally ..”

abcnews.com/Politics/rec...

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵:

These protests are important b/c:

1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

Alexandra Petri: "This is like asking a tarantula to watch your laptop. It won’t help, and now everyone is scared. No, I’m sorry. This is unfair to tarantulas, who are not known for their racial profiling."

Paying Our Great Transportation Security Administration Officers and Employees MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET SUBJECT:       Paying

1/2 This memo identifies absolutely no source of legal authority for paying TSA. It does not point to an appropriation that is available for this purpose, nor does it point to any legal authority to transfer some other appropriation to TSA. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal.

It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.

Whenever a news story about something Trump is doing declares that it's "a first for a sitting president" or "a change from tradition," replace it with "yet another authoritarian move from the president," and see if it sounds more accurate.

Answer: it is a flagrant violation of federal law. Full stop. End of conversation (under 18 U.S.C. § 592, which bans armed federal forces from election sites).
see @brennancenter.org info here:
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Not sure whether you should show up on Saturday? @timothysnyder.bsky.social (an expert on authoritarianism) explains why historic protests like No Kings Day really matter.

"An American Problem" is now available for pre-order at online bookshops!

The project traces the rise of the Voting Rights Act. And then we show all the ways that SCOTUS's Shelby County decision has been a disaster.

As the Court considers attacking the VRA again this term, we hope it's insightful.

Same

DOJ guts office that helps indigent immigrants obtain affordable legal aid, sources say The DOJ's Recognition and Accreditation program enables non-attorneys to assist immigrants with needs including naturalization petitions and immigration court appearances.

CBS is reporting this: www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...