This is part of the reason Loyola's been running Journalist Law School (4 days, basic legal frameworks, time for questions) for 20 years now. And I see we've got plenty more work to do.

The paragraph before seems equally detached from events—this would-be stumper of a question about the Court overturning executive orders is a lot less of a stumper when the executive orders keep violating laws passed by Congress!

Quinta Jurecic@qjurecic.bsky.social · last mo.

this take was understandable in 2024 but is absolutely bananas to publish in Sept 2026. the South Lawn MMA fight polled at 16%. Trump's approval numbers on immigration and handling of the economy are not good and have steadily gotten worse since his inauguration www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky

Hiked from Yonkers north to Dobbs Ferry — the Hudson Valley Museum (a few minutes outside town) and the Untermyer Gardens (a few more) are worth a visit

One of the (many) problems with chest-pounding sloganeering like "maximum lethality, not tepid legality" is that you're less likely to get any benefit of the doubt when you're accused of attacking civilians.

like, i know there is basically a secular cult around this institution but who do these people think they are? who do they think they work for?

Traded a $1 bill for a copy of Victor S. Navasky’s Naming Names the other afternoon — already well worth it to read passages like these where the Sixth Amendment remained perfectly fine and intact

As a court, we’ve done a great job not constraining the president. If only we had some big, ugly, hugely unpopular monument to commemorate it with.

Hiked upstate this afternoon — Cold Spring to Beacon on the Breakneck Ridge — rocks up high and mushrooms down low

Oh shit, declarations? Well why didn't you say so.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · last mo.

#BREAKING: By a 5-4 vote (with Chief Justice Roberts joining the three Democratic appointees in dissent), #SCOTUS grants a stay pending appeal in the ballroom case, clearing the way for Trump to continue building the ballroom indefinitely while the litigation proceeds.

They want us to move away from ownership to electronic access only, so they are forcing us into it with unsustainable price increases. Then they can easily dictate what we do with the online, access only versions. 3/5

The gig is up in the very first sentence of the Supreme Court's per curiam opinion on the Trump ballroom (emphasis added): "In October 2025, the *federal government* started a project to replace the East Wing of the White House." They've collapsed the legislative branch into the unitary executive.

Up late reading @historianheather.bsky.social’s Blood in the Water on the Attica prison uprising in upstate New York in 1971 and was compelled to tab this scene — incisive writing

absolutely gorgeous reflection on Dolly here from Peter Coviello

Dolly, Josephine, And Me | Defector

Like all people not gravely deficient of soul, I teared up a little when I heard Dolly Parton died. I am by nature something of a patch of soft pavement—easily impressed upon —and so there’s not much ...

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I read “In Search of Lost Time” during the pandemic. When I finished it, I put the entire hardcover set in a backpack, and used it as a makeshift weighted vest while running up and down the staircase in my building. The latter was easily a more rewarding use of that particular roman fleuve.