Great review of Anna Law’s excellent new book:

Jotwell@jotwell.bsky.social · 3w ago

Jotwell Conlaw: Ilya Somin, Federalism, Originalism, and Immigration, JOTWELL (July 17, 2026) (reviewing Anna O. Law, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants (2026)), conlaw.jotwell.com/federalism-o....

US legal history is not linear and one of inexorable progress. For wins like the Voting Rights Act and Roe v Wade, there will be a long fight to roll it back, and we must fight anew once more. There is no "deep precedent" that can stand the test of time if the losing side doesn't stop fighting.

Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · last mo.

There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause

194 pages to decide birthright? Fuck you. Skimming now.

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...

hsph.harvard.edu

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 3mo ago

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

I'm really excited that we'll be welcoming @unlawfulentries.bsky.social to @marktwainhouse.bsky.social on June 25 for a conversation about her new book! Join us in person or on the live stream! marktwainhouse.org/event/migrat...

They know he’s a crook Trump-backed Board of Peace fund remains empty months after launch: Report www.cnbctv18.com/world/donald...

Trump-backed Board of Peace fund remains empty months after launch: Report - CNBC TV18

According to the report, the organisation — set up through the World Bank — remains in limbo, with no funds yet flowing to projects in Gaza.

cnbctv18.com

The situation for the political theorists at Essex in a travesty. Please read and share.

Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought @biapt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We have released a joint statement (below) with @psapolthought.bsky.social to express our alarm about the compulsory redundancies @universityofessex.bsky.social Business School. Please share widely if you share our concerns.

Call for Interview Participants! My @researchireland.ie study exploring women’s experiences of online harassment and abuse in Irish academia is seeking insights from those impacted to help increase awareness and support. To share your story please email: gboastudy@universityofgalway.ie

Breaking: South Carolina Senate just failed to invoke cloture on 7-0 gerrymandered map eliminating Jim Clyburn's majority Black district. It appears redistricting is dead for real this time as early voting begins today & 32,000 ballots already cast

Once again, please remember that DOJ has other important business beyond pursuing political vengeance. If the people's business is not being competently conducted, we are all at greater risk.

Sean Hecker@sean-hecker.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Part of the problem…is that Mr. Trump has hired inexperienced loyalists to fill senior roles [DOJ] even as hundreds of career prosecutors have departed — either by their own choice or because they were forced out for having worked on cases that ran afoul of the president.” Alan Feuer nails DOJ.

if your opening gambit is an obviously false assertion — that there was an entire literature challenging the conventional view of birthright citizenship — and then you work your way backwards into an argument, you are a hack and a liar no matter how certain you are that you are right

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In which Professor Wurman candidly admits why he sees the history of the common law differently than anyone who has honestly studied it, and why rather than doing scholarship he just wrote and op-ed and a (terrible, demonstrably wrong) article about the common law that should have been rejected.

Members of the Scottish Parliament are expected to back a call for Westminster to hand over the powers to allow a second Scottish independence referendum

Scottish Parliament to move on new independence vote

Members of the Scottish Parliament are expected to back a call for Westminster to hand over the powers to allow a second Scottish independence referendum.

rte.ie

Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2mo ago

Pope Leo XIV called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war.

Left-wing Irish government ‘within touching distance’, says Holly Cairns

Left-wing Irish government ‘within touching distance’, says Holly Cairns

Social Democrats leader says party will work with others to provide ‘real alternative’ to current Coalition

irishtimes.com

Within his first encyclical, Pope Leo apologized for the role of the Holy See in legitimizing slavery.

Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery

Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery.

apnews.com

“First thing that you learn is that you always have to wait.” - Lou Reed Hanging out in the Dublin airport, getting ready for the short hop to Edinburgh. Food should be amazing, Get over here Anna! @unlawfulentries.bsky.social

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Friendly reminder — Individual faculty can do this by opting out. I did this semester. I assigned books, gave paper handouts in class, and put nothing on canvas save the syllabus. The result? Better engagement and a better grade average. www.chronicle.com/article/kill...

Opinion | Kill Canvas. Now.

We are dangerously dependent on a system that doesn’t serve our interests.

chronicle.com

Librarians literally saved my life

Congrats to Penn State faculty on unionizing.

Penn State Faculty Vote in Favor of Unionizing

Penn State faculty have voted to unionize in what was Pennsylvania's largest public sector organizing election in nearly 50 years. Organizers said on

statecollege.com

The Callais ruling is the latest evidence that the real problem with #SCOTUS is that it can do whatever it wants without any fear of pushback from Congress. The way to fix that is by making the Court *accountable* again, something that expanding it or imposing term limits won't actually accomplish:

Bonus 223: "They Are Who We Thought They Were"

The Callais ruling has prompted renewed calls for Court reform. It's also a reminder of why the most popular proposals *aren't* how we should fix the Court.

stevevladeck.com