Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

OOP

New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

1) congrats!!
2) I will never forgive John Henry

Nothing I could say about the GOP base is as illustrative as the fact that Trump understands that posting black people in what his audience considers a “white space” will make them incandescently angry bsky.app/profile/atru...

Is there room for incoming Minnesota Law 1Ls? I just paid my deposit!

halibut?

lfg @danielsuitor.com !!!

i’d like for some people to grapple with the fact that “the most important election of our lifetime,” if you actually mean it, implies that the governance period following it is also the most important governance period of our lifetime, and adjust their demands/expectations/behaviors accordingly

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

My friend Emily (raised in Newton, Mass) will randomly sing this as a duet to the utter bafflement of all our Minnesota friends

Not a perfect fit, but teleological might work. It's how I describe the evolution of originalism, for example.

Like, the song isn't good, no one's arguing that. But taking a line about a child's internalized homophobia, clip it out of context, and make a joke as if it's the genuine perspective of an adult is failing at basic media literacy.

OP here neglects that the absurdity of homophobia is the point of the line.
He was pointing out that any behavior outside the narrow boundaries of acceptable masculinity (including things like art, cleanliness, etc.) got coded as "gay", was often punished, and that he had internalized this as a kid.

oh hell yeah. I just watched Repo Man last week and it looks *
stunning*

ooh, we gotta talk 4Ks.

He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason

from what I can see, the video shows a beating followed by an execution.

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

They are canceling youth sports across the city in Minneapolis this weekend because lawless masked armed federal paramilitaries are targeting the children and families.

They hate us so much but we love each other more

phenomenal record. I drove from mpls to omaha to seen Worriers a few years ago when they toured with Thin Lips in 2017. absolute magic

This approach, of course, is quite familiar to communities that have been dealing with police abuses for as long as there have been professional police forces. In 2000, then–New York City Mayor and future Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani justified the killing of the Haitian American Patrick Dorismond by police by quipping that he was “no altar boy.” Embarrassingly for Giuliani, whose capacity for shame was overestimated even then, it turned out that Dorismond had literally been an altar boy. Dorismond’s mother responded to the campaign to justify her son’s killing with an observation that continues to haunt me decades later. “They kill,” Dorismond said, “and after that, they kill him the other way—with the mouth.” Taking Good’s life wasn’t enough. The moment she died, it became imperative for the administration to also destroy her memory.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Caribbean cask is one of my all time favorites. Come on a Monday and I'll let it slide

America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

Brings me back to my days working at the Middlebury College Library!

Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51 The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels.

The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels. n.pr/47WGe0m

i'm a very biased party here but pretty much everything about the Mamdani campaign and the discourse around it thus far is a pretty thorough vindication of Africana Studies

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?