The tobacco industry has become increasingly worried that the Nicotine Free Generation movement here and in the UK is a real threat to their grotesque business model. So they are escalating their work in opposition, a telling sign that we’re on to something with this reform. Health above profits.

Boston University School of Law@bulaw.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#BULawProf @katesilbaugh.bsky.social discusses the growing resistance to the adoption of statewide generational nicotine restrictions in Massachusetts, explaining that the legislation “wasn’t going to go anywhere until more towns and cities passed it.” ➡️ spr.ly/63324B80tpO

#BULawProf @katesilbaugh.bsky.social and Henry L. Dorkin discuss the value of ‘nicotine free generation’ policies, which have been enacted in communities across Massachusetts and recently adopted by the UK. Read more ➡️ www.statnews.com/2026/05/19/n...

Britain embraces a Massachusetts experiment on tobacco regulation — just as the state might roll it back

Britain embraces a Massachusetts experiment on tobacco regulation — just as the commonwealth might roll it back.

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I feel honored to receive this university award.

Boston University School of Law@bulaw.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Congratulations to #BULawProf Katharine Silbaugh on receiving the 2026 @bostonu.bsky.social Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award, which honors outstanding scholars who excel as teachers inside & outside the classroom & who contribute to the art and science of teaching and learning.

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Britain embraces a Massachusetts experiment on tobacco regulation — just as the state might roll it back

Britain embraces a Massachusetts experiment on tobacco regulation — just as the commonwealth might roll it back.

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Delighted to review @azizaahmed.bsky.social's terrific book "Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of Aids" at JOTWELL: health.jotwell.com/public-healt...

'Corporate Childrearing' is forthcoming in Duke Law Journal (26-27). Corporations play a huge role in children's identity formation. The piece reshapes the family law triangle into a square to make their influence and their intrusion on family relationships explicit. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Such a pleasure to team up with my #BULaw colleague @sshermanstokes.bsky.social Sherman-Stokes to tell this important story of race, immigration, and tax law.

Sovereignty for Some: Racism, Immigration and the Global Tax Order - Truthdig

How an obscure 20th-century tax rule ensured that newly decolonized nations would never fully escape the orbit of their colonizers.

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Kagan apologizes for citing herself in Paxton dissent ❤️

Mahmoud v. Taylor upends the law allowing parents to direct their child’s education by choosing their child’s school, *not* by creating a buffet of content at the public school that parents can choose. Completely misrepresents Yoder precedent.

For every millionaire household that would get a tax break from Republicans’ big, ugly bill, 19 Americans would be stripped of their health coverage. Their priorities couldn’t be clearer. We must stop this devastating bill.

Thrilled to host this amazing group at Drexel for another wonderful Family Law Scholars & Teachers Conference! Most grateful for the generous feedback, new ideas, and supportive community #FLSTC @drexelklinelaw.bsky.social

Oh, you useless lib females eat BRUNCH? With FRIENDS? Leftist vanguards of the REVOLUTION only eat BREAKFAST ALONE AT AN HOUR BEFORE TEN AM

They are only "Attack Plans" unless they're from the "War Plans" region of France.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · last yr.

This is REALLY the lame-ass defense they are going with? They were “attack plans” not “war plans”?

Cut off checks and see who complains to identify fraudsters? Why not just throw them in the lake and see if they float or sink?

Social Security Works@socialsecurityworks.org · last yr.

BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.

You can't just be right, you have to know you're right. Good advice for LLMs, according to new Johns Hopkins research. Sometimes no answer is better than a wrong one - life or death choices in medicine, for example, or big financial decisions. 🧵

Machine learning paper says the longer the machine thinks the better its answer; a second thought is usually more accurate.

William Jurayj@williamjurayj.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 You are only evaluating a slice of your test-time scaling model's performance! 🚨 📈 We consider how models’ confidence in their answers changes as test-time compute increases. Reasoning longer helps models answer more confidently! 📝: arxiv.org/abs/2502.13962

The Pope drops a diss track on JD Vance

Mollie Wilson O'Reilly@mollieoreilly.bsky.social · last yr.

When you get your Catholic teaching so wrong the pope himself has to issue a correction ☠️

Thread on the 28th Amendment by ERA scholar. It’s in.

Kate Kelly@katekelly.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’m seeing a lot of confusion about the Equal Rights Amendment online. I've been working on the ERA for 13 years & literally wrote a book about it. So, let me help answer some questions. 1) Yes, it really is a real amendment & fully part of the U.S. Constitution. Full stop.

Laurence Tribe on 28th A: it is now part of the Constitution. Congress’s date is not binding. To be binding, it would need to be in the Amendment text, per S Ct case law known before Congress of 1960s/70s ratified, and Congress chose not to put deadline where it would have power.Celebrate the 28th!

The Equal Rights Amendment at Long Last

Thanks to President Biden, the Constitution will finally guarantee equality for all

open.substack.com

Check out Stanford Law School professor Deborah Siva’s discussion of the LA fires, climate change, and insurance nightmares.

California Burning: LA Fires, Climate Change, and Insurance Nightmares with Environmental Lawyer Debbie Sivas | Stanford Law School

In this episode, Professor Deborah Sivas joins Pam Karlan for a discussion on California's fire crisis, examining how climate change and urban development are making residents more susceptible to the…

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our furniture and construction materials are full of plastic even when it doesn’t look that way. Plastic burns faster (harder to escape) and is more toxic in the smoke.

What Happens When a Plastic City Burns

Most modern couches are basically blocks of gasoline.

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hello darkness my old friend

“By every metric, Bidenomics was a roaring success.” The issues then are not economic? Alternatives: social/cultural, psychological, or informational?

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2y ago

"The strong economy and tight labor markets that Biden has overseen have dealt workers their best hand in decades." From @brycecovert.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/1892...

I think one reason why a lot of women resist feminist insights about the extent and vehemence of men’s misogyny is that they can’t accept how stupid it is.

Forthcoming from my amazing colleague Aziza Ahmed.bluesky.social

Kim Krawiec@kimkrawiec.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today @azizaahmed.bsky.social joins me & @uvalaw.bsky.social 3L Nia Saunders to discuss her forthcoming book, Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS, forthcoming Cambridge University Press, 2025. A great time! www.buzzsprout.com/1227113/epis...

The new Brolagarchy

Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 2y ago

The official portraits of the 17 House Republicans elected to chair committees in the 119th Congress:

1/2 More people should talk about this: both houses of Congress have passed the ERA, and 38 states have ratified it. That makes it an amendment. Congress has put additional conditions of a time limit on an already absurdly difficult amendment process.

Gillibrand Presses Biden to Amend the Constitution to Enshrine Sex Equality

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is leading the charge for Democrats to persuade President Biden to adopt the Equal Rights Amendment, which would invite a Supreme Court battle.

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For better or worse, I think New World contracts are here to stay. Given my view that consumer consent is a fiction, contract law should be retooled with this understanding in mind. This means far more guardrails on contracts to address power asymmetries.

Dave Hoffman@hoffprof.bsky.social · 2y ago

Oh that's interesting; I'd say (and we argue) that contract law thinks the right model is old world contracts and worries that real world contracts are the dominant experience (and should thus be resisted and rebooted). New World Contracting isn't a practice that folks have thought a ton about.