For the third time this year, we have a post about faculty members fired for challenging their students in ways that made the students uncomfortable. I reflect a bit on the uses of confronting law students with fact patterns that make them uncomfortable. www.contractsprofblog.com/2026/08/firs...

If you told me one year ago that my next big law review paper would be about breastmilk, I would have laughed. Or maybe cried.. I was about three weeks postpartum. In honor of World Breastfeeding Week, I am debuting my draft: Property Rights in Liquid Gold (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....)

Thank you to our 2026 summer law clerks for your hard work, dedication, and commitment to advancing Tribal sovereignty this summer. Your passion and fresh perspectives have contributed to NARF's mission. We're excited to see the impact you'll continue to make in Indian Country: buff.ly/MHZLJs3

I saw yesterday that some right-wing outlets were running stories about me, which I’m used to. But this time I’m going to say something about it, because these were framed to imply that I was aligned with their own transphobia. ⬇️

So that’s the thing to know, if you’re a tabloid that’s going to name-check me in another round of transphobic shit about Bluesky discourse. I don’t stand with you. I stand with my trans friends and family members. ⏹️

My TV job is apolitical, but I’m proud that one of the things we make is a space that’s trans- and nb-friendly, and that’s not going to change either. ⬇️

Anyone who knows me even a little, or has even followed me long on social media, already knows this about me. Our institutions are literally trying to erase trans people right now, and it pisses me off. A snarky reply to one bad take on Bluesky doesn’t mean that’s changed at all. ⬇️

For the record: NOPE. Honestly, I don’t think there’s an issue today I care about on a personal level more deeply than trans rights. And it’s rough out there right now. Bigots on one side of the political aisle and too many cowards on the other. ⬇️

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.

riley gaines is at the minnesota lynx vs indiana fever game posing with people courtside as they line up for photos

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 3d ago

a few anti trans activists are protesting outside of target center ahead of the minnesota lynx game against sophie cunningham’s indiana fever… they are being drowned out

People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

Mr. Soliman says 17 are still imprisoned there, so most of the 43 known TCNs have been sent back to their countries of origin, despite ALL having protections in US courts. THIS IS CHAIN REFOULEMENT. IT IS ILLEGAL. Still don’t know how many in newest group. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...

Tracking All of Trump’s Known Third-Country Removals

Trump's ICE has expelled an estimated 22,000 people to countries where they have no ties. Find out where they are going, what happens to them, and who profits.

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With the first negotiated draft decisions for the #CBD COP now adopted in plenary, attention remains on whether decisions on the review of collective progress on Global Biodiversity Framework implementation will cross the finish line. #SBSTTA28 #GBF #biodiversity ➡️ enb.iisd.org/cbd-subsidia...

Highlights and images for 31 July 2026

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I contributed video clips to this very important investigation!!!

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3w ago

Increasingly looking lie the vandals who damaged the Reflecting Pool...were Trump's hand-picked contractors who got a no-bid contract www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

The more I read about the extremely foreseeable and preventable with proper planning issues which led to the July 2026 Washington Bar Exam getting cancelled, the angrier I get. This is going to harm applicants so so much, financially, career-wise, emotionally, and mentally.

David Ziff@djsziff.bsky.social · last wk.

"Dear Applicant, With deep regret, I write to inform you that Washington’s July 2026 administration of the NextGen bar exam has been cancelled. We will not continue tomorrow. . . . We do not have sufficient confidence that the technology issues have been resolved . . . . We sincerely apologize."

I see that it is officially "Im panicking, the summer can't be nearly over, what do you mean the semester begins again, I haven't finished what I had planned, I need a time machine" time of the year

As of this week, hundreds of thousands of Haitians lost their legal status. Most have lost work permits as well. That's left many people unable to support themselves. Here is a verified link to a fundraiser supporting Haitians in Springfield. Please drop links to other fundraisers in the replies.

Stand with Haitian Families in Crisis

Build the Emergency Fund that protects families when everything feels uncertain. The end of TPS. Increasing ICE actions. Families losing work authorization overnight. For Haitian parents and children ...

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Because many of them believe what he believes.

Eric Rauchway@rauchway.bsky.social · last wk.

“Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project”

More evidence that the Climate apocalypse is already happening in many places like Africa. Africa facing $10bn to $20bn economic hit from ‘super’ El Niño, AfDB climate chief warns www.sowetan.co.za/news/africa/...

Africa facing $10bn to $20bn economic hit from ‘super’ El Niño, AfDB climate chief warns

Humanitarian crisis looms in vulnerable countries amid mass displacement fears

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Malawi installs first utility-scale battery to store solar power www.sowetan.co.za/news/africa/...

Malawi installs first utility-scale battery to store solar power

Malawi has completed the installation of southern Africa’s only utility-scale battery storage system outside South Africa and Namibia, a 20-megawatt facility designed to help stabilise power supplies.

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Africa is smashing all the solar records. The continent installed more grid-connected solar in the first half of 2026 than in all of 2025, and with projects under construction the year could finish at triple the previous record. buff.ly/NirgzLn #ShareGoodNewsToo

African 2026 on-grid solar additions surpass those of 2025 | African Energy

The latest analysis from African Energy Live Data shows despite a slow 2025, solar capacity additions in 2026 have already surpassed each previous year. Falling costs and several recent agreements…

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Altman is a lying con artist with zero scruples. Also, have these people never read or seen a single story about a genie? They always trick you and twist your wishes into something bad.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last wk.

“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.

⚖️🤓 For decades, climate politics has shaped climate law. But something is changing: increasingly, the law is reshaping what is politically possible on #ClimateChange & it’s doing so because of the #PeoplePower behind it. Read more in our latest blog: www.ciel.org/how-climate-...

And for everyone, I am not saying that the elections *will* be compromised, but at this point with the Trump Administration, I am like Sansa Stark with Peter Littlefinger: when I am trying to figure out people’s motives, I assume the worst.

Last month @thefordon.bsky.social, @jenwon.bsky.social, and I got to present at CALI Con on vibe coding for Legal Ed., and the video just went live. Enjoy. Note: this is partially a behind the scenes look at how I made some of the simulations for my algos & bias lesson (quoted thread).

Law as code: vibe coding for legal education — Suffolk LIT Lab

Vibe coding for legal educators, a working session presented by David Colarusso, Rebecca Fordon, and Jennifer Wondracek at CALIcon 2026.

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David Colarusso@davidcolarusso.com · 6mo ago

1/ There has never been a more concentrated distillation of my teaching than this lesson: Algos, Bias, Due Process, & You. It is the apotheosis of what I do. I very much hope you enjoy it, share it, and make bits of it your own.

I am not sure how @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social stays on the immigration beat, but it is getting grimmer. We should say—you know what—send people back to Guatemala and Haiti—is objectively horrible, and the glee by which the Trump Administration views this prospective, as evil.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last wk.

Ugh. Just awful. Unclear what happened here but the implication I get from the article is that they’d fallen into deep debt and maybe owed money to some very bad people. And once they’d been deported, paying that money back was probably very very hard.

The big tell on this has always been that the plexiglass lockups largely don't exist in white suburbia.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last wk.

As good as many of you said. I really appreciate the unambiguous point that this primarily a racist moral panic before unpacking the nuanced second-order explanations. dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...

Notice how this is cast as a freakish weather aberration when in fact this is what climate scientists have been warning us to expect for over 20 years now. France and Spain are preparing for even higher temperatures, after wildfires driven by an intense heatwave forced the evacuation of hundreds of

France and Spain brace for more extreme heat as wildfires rage

Blazes ‘far from being under control’ as another heatwave approaches, says France’s civil security agency

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As Europe’s largest carbon capture and storage (#CCS) project prepares to start operating in the Netherlands, fertilizer giant Yara is claiming a major climate win. But our expert Lisa Tostado pulls back the curtain on why this project is a dangerous distraction. 🙅 1/2 👇