This is one deeply reported, beautifully written (or edited) story, and you should find time this Sunday morning to read every word of it. 1/2 Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...

How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee (Gift Article)

Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...

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SCOTUS reform won't just simply happen if Dems take Congress & the White House. A case has to be made for it—to a skeptical public, to reluctant politicians, to a hostile media. The blowback from the right will be intense and terrify a lot of weak-willed pols. The case has to be made starting *now*

David Nir@davidnir.com · last mo.

I'm not criticizing these responses to dunk on Dems. I'm saying that powerful people utterly misunderstand the moment and are missing a critical opportunity to make the case for SCOTUS reform. I even wonder whether they understand the need for it.

I left the Church years ago. I can’t go back. I do not demand that the Church change for me. But when the Holy Father says stuff like this I feel so connected to the depths of my faith, to the part of the Church that I did not and cannot leave, and I am so happy to feel that way

Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · last mo.

“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. “You are not numbers or case files. “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

“We propose that state supreme courts amend their rules of professional conduct to impose a uniform ‘hold open’ date for offers until Oct. 1 of students’ 2L year for 2L summer positions.” @marklemley.bsky.social & I have an op-ed in Bloomberg on early recruiting news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

State Supreme Courts Can Resolve Early Legal Recruiting Mess

Opinion: Imposing a uniform "hold open" date for job offers to law students would likely put much-needed brakes on accelerated recruiting.

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When I started in public libraries TWO DECADES AGO we were already lending: Jigsaws Video games Kids’ toy packs Dressing up costumes Laptops ….why will nobody TALK TO LIBRARIANS or even do the most cursory of searches before sharing their Extremely Hot Takes 🫠

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Libraries could be community centers that offer more than just books.

i think boarding school teenage masculinity is a part of masculinity but not of manhood. we have to get away from the concept of the opposite of "man" being "woman." the opposite of "man" is "boy"

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 2mo ago

well def one of those posts that's inadvertantly revealing about the person posting it!

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Aliza Shatzman ✡️@alizashatzman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today OSCAR opens On-Plan federal clerkship hiring for 2Ls. My advice? 1️⃣Subscribe to @thelap.bsky.social ‘s nationwide Clerkships Database. 2️⃣Heed its warnings. 3️⃣Take agency over your life + career. Don’t let yourself become another statistic the federal judiciary tries to conceal.

I love people at the airport who stack the security bins of other travelers. Just nice, decent people helping out people they’ve never even met. ❤️

They help you out, your mom and dad They really want to, and they do! They fill you with the fun they had And add some extra vibes for you!

John Self@john-self.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I regret to inform you that they’re making Philip Larkin cuddly.

This whole clip is infuriating, but the statement “it would be like poetry without rhyming, it’s too easy” seems designed to make English majors everywhere spontaneously combust.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

SORKIN: Why lay people off at the Post? Why fire people? BEZOS: The Post needs to be a profitable enterprise that stands on its own 2 feet S: Does it? Some people say it should be a trust BEZOS: Yes. It's a measure of its relevance. If people aren't paying for our product, it's not good enough

Johnson may be too Protestant to know this, but the Just War Doctrine in Catholicism is codified in Canon Law. Trump's assault on Iran satisfies literally none of the conditions of it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

Mike Johnson on the Pope: "If you wade into political waters, you should expect some political response & the Pope has received some. Frankly I was taken a bit aback by him saying something about 'those who engage in war, Jesus doesn't hear their prayers' or something. There's 'just war' doctrine.'"

Interested in a state supreme court clerkship? @statecourtreport.org has a database featuring clerkship opportunities from 25 states and more than 80 justices. We hope it's a good starting point for applicants! statecourtreport.org/state-judici...

SoCal spring blooms on our morning hike.

We pack a handful of folks into a tin can loaded with explosives. The computers are running Windows and the toilet is malfunctioning. We hurl them at a distant rock. Everything about where they are is deadly. And it is sublimely beautiful, one of the greatest things we’ve done as a species. #Artemis

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 4mo ago

We are so, so small. #Artemis

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

During oral args today, Justice Sotomayor mentioned the post-Thind denaturalization campaign when noting the risk of retroactive application of the birthright citizenship EO. Our amicus brief tells that story. @korematsuctr.bsky.social @aaldef.bsky.social @ccrcj.bsky.social

#nokings in Newport Beach.

@spoth56.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Newport Beach, CA

Newport Beach, CA

Paloma perfectly captures my morning mood.

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

I am beyond proud to be a part of the team that drafted this amicus for the Korematsu Ctr & other nonprofits/race & law ctrs in the birthright citizenship case. In it, we tell the stories of the concrete harms when the government has stripped citizenship in the past and the retroactive risks now.

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

@jrabrams.bsky.social changed my law teaching for the better with this book. Highly recommend.

Jamie Abrams@jrabrams.bsky.social · 8mo ago

So grateful for the insightful Book Review of "Inclusive Socratic Teaching" (@ucpress.bsky.social) authored by @suemcmahon.bsky.social and infused with all the wisdom, expertise, savvy, and experience in law teaching, wellness, and justice that she brings to all things! alwd.org/lcr-archives...

1/ A few thoughts about @williambaude.bsky.social’s comment in yesterday’s NYT chat that, “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...

Opinion | At the Supreme Court, Scenes From a Judicial Backlash

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Look, I know this weaponization of male academic interest is the oldest story in the book, but it’s just so, so pernicious. It’s awful to the women directly involved, but it’s also awful to *all* women in the academy, who have to live in its shadow all the time.

Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I mean

The fact that many Democratic Senators are profoundly trapped in an unreal matrix of DC-media assumptions is a disaster on an epic scale. But it’s also an opportunity. You have to wait years to primary most Senators, but you can fight to change those assumptions now. Let me explain…

much of this stems from a gross misunderstanding of writing as “the act of sitting down to write”. writing is the 10,000 other things that you do before you sit down. it is light cast through a window hitting the far wall, it is the memory of that time you saw that one bird, it is the act of living

Jill Murray@jillmurray.bsky.social · 9mo ago

People who aren’t writers think writer’s block is at least as big and real a problem as I thought quicksand would be, as a child.

Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.

Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide?

"It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.

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