Rocco's Clairvoyant?

A recent graduate who took one of my seminars just sent me a picture of the heading of a self-described “gowder-style outline” for a brief he’s working on, and that picture is *absolutely* going into my next annual review as evidence of teaching excellence

Will someone PLEASE preemptively ban the mindreading ai???? naomibashkansky.com/blog/telepat...

I did not know this---really casts a different light on the existence of the bar exams

Dru Stevenson@drustevenson.bsky.social · 4h ago

TIL something (recommended reading): www.linkedin.com/posts/charle...

I'm legit curious how this all plays out. If corporate insurance policies are anything like civilian ones (are they?) they might not cover this (acts of war exclusion imagine). Does Trump corruptly pay Bezos back out of the treasury in exchange for his support? Do the companies just eat it?

Futurism@futurism.com · 5d ago

That's one way to deal with data centers.

Please circulate: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/call-ap... Seeking 10 Early Career Fellows to participate in 2 summer academies to be held in Berlin June 14–18, 2027 & June 26–30, 2028: SCIENCE IMAGINES ITS FUTURE. How have scholars deliberated about investing scarce resources in an uncertain future?

this is what they took from you

men should be able to have hobbies

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 11h ago

Man arrested after dressing as Grim Reaper on hospital roof and staring at patients

When we in the @debtcollective.bsky.social started to organize around this in 2014, the attorneys we talked to were supportive but skeptical that Dept of Ed would ever actually cancel even some of this debt. ...

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11h ago

Congratulations to everyone who worked their asses off for something that any semi-decent and ultimately self-interested government should have done in penance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

Does your syllabus contain suicide and mental health resources? Here is the language I'm using for my course syllabi: ctrlaltdissent.com/2026/08/04/s...

Sample Language for Suicide & Mental Health Resources From My Syllabi

Does your syllabus contain suicide and mental health resources? A 2021 survey of more than 5,000 students at 39 U.S. law schools found that roughly one in nine had seriously considered suicide duri…

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In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/

Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC

Our Team

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Politico@politico.com · yesterday

26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court

Today, the AAUP & Texas AAUP sued Texas Tech Chancellor Brandon Creighton over directives he gave that mandated the censorship & thought policing of thousands of faculty & students leading to the suppression of academic freedom & the pursuit of knowledge. More Here: www.aaup.org/news/aaup-te... 🧵

Uh? Family law folks, is there ever such a thing as a court-ordered parenting plan that bars emergency room visits? (Maybe a hyper aggressive interpretation of some provision about shared responsibility for medical decisions??)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Rep. Max Miller: "When I was reported for child abuse of my daughter for a broken collarbone, my daughter was in my ex-wife's care 9 out of the last 11 days and she took her to the emergency room, which is a contempt violation from our shared parenting plan."

Fellow academics: I know a Haitian PhD student who due to TPS termination needs another institutional affiliation not in the USA. Do you or someone you know have an avenue for them? If so, DM me.

Everything that @chinmayiarun.bsky.social writes is a must-read papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Ok trying to figure out, on a whim, why whenever I'm at the gym there's always someone with a locker right next to me, even when it is otherwise not crowded. At least 3 candidate explanations: psychology, ergonomics, and statistics. Micro-thread:

This is a great set of proposals for congressional reform: wethedoers.org/how-to-fix-c...

How to Fix Congress

In our last post, we described the two primary drivers of Congressional dysfunction: over-centralization of decision-making, and lack of capacity.  Party leaders have monopolized the procedural tools ...

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Somehow simultaneously outrageous Christian nationalism, quasi-crusader warmongering, and I assume blasphemy as well?

Just learned that the DOT is scheming to fuck over consumers by letting airlines make it harder to see real prices. Thankfully the comment period was extended. Go make it very clear to those corrupt fuckers that we won't tolerate a conspiracy to lie to us. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Enhancing Flexibility of Air Fare Price Advertising

The U.S. Department of Transportation (Department or DOT) is extending the comment end date for interested persons to submit comments to its proposed rule on Enhancing Flexibility of Air Fare Price Advertising from July 31, 2026, to August 21, 2026.

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Livin on the wedge

Who wants to live dangerously?

The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe

The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.

reut.rs

Unitary Executive was always just a skill issue

the executive doesn’t seem very unitary today

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 4d ago

Oh my. Pirro v Burgum is on people. (Cannot see how they both stay in their jobs)

We will, in fact, go through every fucking file

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 5d ago

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

The immigrant union troops who defended their adopted country from slaver traitors are in fact, proof of concept of American higher ideals having nothing to do with “blood” or “heritage” or whatever cowardly euphemism is in vogue among these pathetic losers

Golly get Willikers what a shock that people who don't like immigration also think that the confederacy was the right side in the civil war. Nobody [everyone from Douglass onward] would have predicted that!

Stephanie Kollmann@slkollmann.bsky.social · 4d ago

wake up, babe! new Unassimilated Germans angst just dropped (Added alt text) bsky.app/profile/nied...

😂

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d ago

FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"

While I'm bitching about things. Every rental car these days seems to have some horrible feature called "lane assist" that drags the steering wheel around against your will when, eg, you're driving down a winding rural road. (If I'm ever renting a car it's probably because im going somewhere rural)

“Americans for Equal Opportunity” appears to be yet another zombie organization (like FASORP) founded by legal reactionaries to sue entities for not being 100% white. Oh goodie. www.law360.com/articles/250...

Advocacy Group Says Law Firm Fellowship Program Biased - Law360

A legal advocacy group said Thursday it had lodged U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charges against a nonprofit and law firms including Jones Day, White & Case and Morgan Lewis, claimi...

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