I think it’s possible categorizing it as contemp fiction doesn’t do it justice

Gus is looking extremely handsome on the bed waiting for human to turn out the lights

Bedtime!

i'm late to this but is Martyr! the best contemporary fiction novel I've ever read ??? (Cc: #booksky !!)

More to say but, wow, Martyr!-shaped hole on my lil old reading heart.

4. Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar

I think this my new favorite contemporary novel. Of all time. 100 ⭐️s. I savored every page of this perfect book, took pictures of so many pages.

Read if you like poetry, the Brooklyn museum, lucid dreaming, and your heart being ripped out of your chest.

4. Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar

I think this my new favorite contemporary novel. Of all time. 100 ⭐️s. I savored every page of this perfect book, took pictures of so many pages.

Read if you like poetry, the Brooklyn museum, lucid dreaming, and your heart being ripped out of your chest.

The Volokh Conspiracy Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent About The Volokh Conspiracy SUPREME COURT Court Leaks and Attorney-Journalists The professional-ethics implications of making court confidences public. STEPHEN E. SACHS | 4.20.2026 4:11 PM The recent leak of internal Supreme Court memoranda to the New York Times, discussed earlier by Jonathan Adler and Josh Blackman—as well as by Will Baude and Jack Goldsmith elsewhere—was plainly a serious violation of the Court's confidentiality obligations. But it may also reflect serious legal-ethics violations by one of the Times article's coauthors, Adam Liptak, whom I understand to be a licensed attorney in New York and subject to that state's Rules of Professional Conduct.

This is some of the funniest shit the legal academy has ever blogged. 2000 words very seriously explaining why Adam Liptak, who hasn't practiced law in 25 years, should be disbarred because of the NYT's reporting on the Supreme Court memos. Man what are you talking about. reason.com/volokh/2026/...

That said I can’t help but feel kind of disgusted that the media and wider urgency goes down when white people are no longer being victimized as openly.

Brown people dying in concentration camps just doesn’t do the trick, I guess.

i'm late to this but is Martyr! the best contemporary fiction novel I've ever read ??? (Cc: #booksky !!)

More to say but, wow, Martyr!-shaped hole on my lil old reading heart.

+++! Super important. This makes me think, also, of how pro-democracy "rule of law" terminology and rhetoric can be used narratively as we approach elections

The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.

I'm more optimistic about future SCOTUS expansion/jurisdiction stripping/etc., but:

This is a good reminder that too many pundits view "rule of law" as a purely procedural commitment, so the substance of what executive defiance is over is largely irrelevant.

This is one of the lawsuits I mention in my latest report on how states and localities are pushing back on federal ICE detention facilities and other actions: statedemocracy.law.wisc.edu/our-work/sta...

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

“It’s a real example of what the administration is doing in terms of its mass deportation plan and who it’s targeting,”

New today: After 35 years in Ameria, Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now in an ICE detention center.

Some people use "complicated" when they mean 'I don't like what you are saying and I disagree.' You should just say that.

it really is remarkable *how mild* the op-ed that she wrote was. It really shouldn’t matter what she said, but I think they chose to make an example of her precisely *because* she didn’t do anything remotely wrong. They wanted to show they could do this to anyone.

A farewell to Hampshire College, site of my Yiddish awakening For the Forward's archivist, the 1980's in Amherst, Massachusetts, was a little like 'Yentl' come to life

Hampshire College is closing. @forward.com archivist Chana Pollack remembers it as the site of her Yiddish awakening, and the original home of the Yiddish Book Center. forward.com/culture/8188...

They just tossed the jars in a bin!

I found it, the most deranged way a grocery store has ever displayed pasta sauce

See this is why you never run late in LA!! (Except I did make it in time to spend an hour kibitzing about Jewish politics within earshot of Paul McCartney, so, also take your time maybe.)

booking flights these days is a tort. we really should all be compensated. what on earth are these "bundles" and why do i have to pay for a seat--didn't i just ... pay you for a seat?

Band On The Run (2010 Remaster) YouTube video by Paul McCartney - Topic

My dad: did you ask him where his band was? If they were in studio or on the run?

I Am The Walrus

My uncle: did they ask for a name for the order?
(Obviously not)
My uncle: I hope he replied “the Walrus”

See this is why you never run late in LA!! (Except I did make it in time to spend an hour kibitzing about Jewish politics within earshot of Paul McCartney, so, also take your time maybe.)

Can anything beat April? (October, maybe. June. September.)

I’m especially proud of our work at @lawfaremedia.org because we’ve produced what is likely the most detailed contemporaneous reporting on J6 legal cases.

Even as I watch history be rewritten in real time, I still hope it will serve future historians seeking truth.

givebutter.com/journalism/a...

"Popesplaining"

incinerate her. And then again, and then again, one million times, then one million more, and on. Guess that doesn't fit in 280 characters. Show the photos then. They took plenty of them.

How to Hold a City Hostage Historian Stuart Schrader on the untold history of police unions—and how they helped catapult cops to new heights of power and impunity.

“Police learned from—in some cases, literally stole ideas from—organized labor without preserving the fundamental principle of solidarity at the core of the labor movement.”

@stschrader1.bsky.social on his new book, BLUE POWER: HOW POLICE ORGANIZED TO PROTECT AND SERVE THEMSELVES:

D.C. Circuit Trump appointees again block contempt inquiry into Alien Enemies Act flights Rao and Walker hold that Boasberg must "terminate" the contempt inquiry. In an 80-page dissent, Childs makes the case — without saying so directly — for en banc review.

NEW: D.C. Circuit Trump appointees again block contempt inquiry into Alien Enemies Act flights.

Rao and Walker hold that Boasberg must "terminate" the contempt inquiry. In an 80-page dissent, Childs makes the case — without saying so directly — for en banc review.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

I'm so ready to die in the same room as Nicole Kidman