As many of you know, my wife is a trans woman. The last few weeks have shook me as I've always found the W to be the most welcoming place, and the anti-trans rhetoric has had me questioning things. With this shirt, Cheryl Reeve is reminding me what this league is about.

Cassidy Hettesheimer@cassidyhett.bsky.social · last wk.

Cheryl Reeve’s shirt today:

They hate education at *every* level. They hate children. Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It

The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.

nytimes.com

yall (writers, researchers, etc) are using zotero, right. open-source bibliography software that saves all your sources & notes? i realize i sound like an insta influencer but it's the only thing in my life that is even slightly organized. i still have my notes from grad school!!

Thanks to @wyden.senate.gov for signing yesterday. 🙏💪 Our Haitian friends and neighbors need us. Only 27 senators have signed on. We need to push all the Democrats and pressure Republicans. #ExtendTPS #SaveOurHaitianNeighborsFromDeportationAndDeath

Alyssa S.@drsepinwall.bsky.social · 2w ago

THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS & we can still stop it. Please call your Senator NOW & ask that they sign onto S.4814 & extend TPS for Haitians for 3 years. This will be a catastrophe for our neighbors who have been here legally!! Here's the call script! drive.google.com/file/d/1XXEs...

It used to be that I'd skip over long threads or worse yet save them to come back to. Now I just unroll them with this simple tool. Case in point: colarusso.github.io/bluesky-thre... Also, useful if I want to capture the content of a long thread I wrote.

Jess Miers 🦝🦞@jmiers230.bsky.social · 2w ago

More thoughts on the AI / law school discourse. I'm trying to pinpoint the problem(s) we are trying to solve. Is the problem AI or is it that AI is revealing to us deeply rooted issues with law school education? I suspect the latter.🧵

Over at his personal blog, Emory Law Professor @matthewsag.bsky.social offers some very interesting thoughts on structuring law school exams in an era of AI and common extra-time accommodations. matthewsag.com/ai-accommoda...

Our wizard masters no longer feel the need to explain themselves when they issue edicts to us

Lauren Harper@laurenleharper.bsky.social · last mo.

Secrecy 🆘: This was the first term where SCOTUS decided more substantive cases by secret ballot (63) than it did in open court (56). Great reporting from @propublica.org @kbmorales.bsky.social

Once again, if you have never been to a WNBA game, I am pleading with you to go. The best vibes of any sporting event I have ever attended. The nonbinary lawyer who got presented with an award during a timeout for their work with LGBTQ kids seeking asylum got a standing ovation.

Thank you all for the kind words, they mean more to me than I can say. Here’s our union’s statement about what happened yesterday: bsky.app/profile/scia...

SciAm Union@sciamunion.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The American Library Association is auctioning off a bunch of the classic celebrity “READ” posters along with a bunch of other full sized literacy posters. This is going to fix so many of my problems, I just know it. movieposters.ha.com/c/search/res...

Brooklyn. 🏀 (via Paul Williams) 💕

"The organization of the world’s biggest sporting event is in turmoil, bringing together racism, restrictions, discrimination, and visa selection based on ability to pay."

Africa Is a Country@africasacountry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Between the visa bond, the digital surveillance requirements, and the 74 percent rejection rate, the Trump administration has made it nearly impossible for Senegalese fans and journalists to attend the World Cup. africasacountry.com/2026/06/the-...

If human editors can’t control who reviews science, it’s no longer peer review — it’s a rubber-stamp machine designed for volume and profit, not quality. I have no intention of attaching my name to it. So I’m out.

“The United States… is hosting its own Hitler Olympics.”

Drew Magary@drewmagary.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“The Trump administration's goal is not to make the world think none of this is happening, or to make the world think what's happening is fine. It's to show that nobody can stop it.” @redford.bsky.social defector.com/the-state-of...

In Mississippi, lawyers on both sides of a court case were caught using AI, essentially two LLMs arguing against each other. The judge dismissed all lawyers from the case and canceled the trial: www.404media.co/judge-learns...

Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case

When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.

404media.co

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

“To work for a library in a city where somebody who is that publicly supportive of what reading and literacy can mean for someone is really inspirational.”

Mirin Fader@mirinfader.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Thank you for bringing awareness to how important connection is with the written word and literature is.” My newest @theathletic.com on the 'Read Like Wemby' campaign at San Antonio Central library: www.nytimes.com/athletic/730... free and unlocked to read

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com · 3mo ago

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Let us peer into the soul of the nation, via a staged non-discussion about a contentious tax measure for library funding in El Cerrito. And then let us heal: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/we-dont-deba...

We don’t debate the library tax

At the El Cerrito Democratic Club’s meeting to discuss Measure C, April 28, 2026

oaklandreviewofbooks.org

Um...so I accidentally stumbled onto the UVA law library's collection of 6,000 drawings by courtroom sketch reporter Ida Libby Dengrove, who worked in NYC mostly in the '70s & '80s, & they're kind of...amazing..?? This one is tagged "Clown Attack" (thread) archives.law.virginia.edu/resources/18...

This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.

Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo@0lsi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Chicago made it so every public school student can use their school ID as a #LibraryCard 📚. No forms, no extra steps. It gives over 300k students instant access to #books, #tutoring, and online resources 🙌

NEW: A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.

The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...

propublica.org

“AI systems cannot reliably explain their own reasoning. While they produce plausible legal arguments, it’s not clear that the reasons are the motivations for their actual decisions” news.uchicago.edu/story/how-do...

How do AI 'judges' compare to human ones? It's complicated, says a UChicago scholar

In annual Ryerson Lecture, legal scholar Eric Posner examines AI's growing role in legal decision-making—and why human judgment still matters

news.uchicago.edu

THANK YOU, @reckless.bsky.social for saying it. “… I'm just going to say it. AI does not have a marketing problem. People experience these tools every single day […] You can't advertise people out of reacting to their own experiences.” This entire monologue is 🎯 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION

Podcast Episode · Decoder with Nilay Patel · April 23 · 19m

podcasts.apple.com

The Wolf Law Library at the William & Mary Law School is a library of wolves, raised by wolves, for the wolves!

🧵 The arguments behind landmark Supreme Court rulings have never been freely available… until now. More than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs (1830–2019) are now open on the Internet Archive. Full announcement ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u... @wolflawlibrary.bsky.social

“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption. It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”

Opinion | Trump Corrupts, and Absolute Trump Corrupts Absolutely

nytimes.com

Some job news: I now work in the newly-established Federal Department of Metaphors. How are we doing so far?

Sickos Committee@sickoscommittee.org · 4mo ago

We got the video of the parachuter at Virginia Tech. They have rescued him at this point and he’s down off the scoreboard. Working to get more info.

A thought for Superman Day. #SupermanDay #inspiration #fypシ

Also, important obligatory update from Vermont: Today — April 14, 2026 — is @benandjerrys.bsky.social Free Cone Day, if you find yourself close to a scoop shop: www.benjerry.com/scoop-shops/...