Top recent posts by Legal Academics on Bluesky

Love you DC

This is my point again that the electorate has no idea of what's actually going on. Not in some ideological way, so you can argue whether it's good or not, just in a fact way.

Quite the messaging by the administration two days before the elections!

This is an amazing clip. Trump basically says that he doesn't care what crimes CZ committed, because what matters is that he gave Trump a bribe

Johnson is angry that facts keep rearing their ugly heads, despite Trumpers' best efforts at lying.

So, “humanitarian intervention” in Nigeria? Also, I hear somebody keeps killing Christians on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Might want to look into that.

It is a secret. Just like the list of “designated terrorist organizations” the U.S. is supposedly at war with in Latin America.

The ACA was passed…<15> years ago Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. Don’t host lying liars on the teevee shows to performatively lie in public. If you’ve screwed up & done that anyway, end the interviews immediately & don’t invite the lying liars back again. See above. Repeat.

Trumpcare plan finally revealed

Even the concept of a Republican health care plan has been secret for years (or just maybe it does not exist).

here's why that's bad news for Democrats

Donald Trump moderated the Republican Party on…trade? What, in the name of Hashem are you talking about? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

Want to read what I really think about the Trump administration and the Asia Pacific? Here you go. It’s a goddamn catastrophe for U.S. national interests and for the regional economic and diplomatic order.

Our DC community showed up this weekend at our daughters’ food drive and bake sale. $450 raised (which @stevevladeck.bsky.social and I will match) and TONS of food heading to the Capital Area Food Bank. Trying to make some light during these dark times. 🩷

My face when Cuomo’s “legacy” is mentioned.

In case Ezra Douthglesias is looking for things that voters support far more than the six pet issues with yellow check marks around which to organize the Abundance of Popularism Agenda:

Look, this is what any attention-seeking news outlet would do if they were honest and not captured by ref-working

Honored to be quoted here talking about war powers and the lawless strikes in the Caribbean.

What is the point or journalistic value of hosting these people, week after week, to performatively lie in response to your softball non-questions. What is the definition of insanity?

Somebody was mean to Marc Andreessen on Twitter and he got so mad he decided to deploy all the resources at his disposal to destroy our civilization

Either of the only two possible reasons for him giving this answer requires his immediate removal from office

these charts show the relationship between zip code-level average income and individual probability of voting for democrats in different regions of the country. one of my favorite group fo charts, lots of stories to unearth

I didn’t expect this to come back to Rubio but of course it does

SecDef announcing another illegal strike in the Caribbean against “narco-terrorists.” Says the Pentagon will treat these alleged drug smugglers “EXACTLY how we treated Al-Qaeda.” I can think of a few relevant differences between the two, eg 9/11, etc.

Breaking: Canadians save themselves from additional punishing tariffs by deliberately losing World Series. #Satire

21 years ago today, I cried myself to sleep over the unfortunate conclusion of my first general election campaign, having been pouring my heart and soul into the Kerry campaign. I was convinced that nothing could possibly be worse than a second Bush Administration. Little did I know… ugh.

The global damage this one election inflicted will be impossible to tally www.ft.com/content/4e0a...

We need more data centers! #Satire fortune.com/2025/08/11/d...

The Unitary Executive, ladies and gentlemen. Who is authorizing what in the White House seems like a great topic for congressional oversight.

The French also sensibly imposed a similar requirement

The country we fought our independence against because of their oppressive monarchy has done a better, more public, dare I say more noble job of holding a former prince accountable for Epstein connections than we have our own *president. We traded their king for a worse one.

cultural over economic coverage on cable news mobilizes viewers who would otherwise watch entertainment programming, so cable news emphasizes cultural politics much more than politicians trying to maximize vote share www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/27v4x...

Time to start jailing IcE agents

The signal feature of The Authoritarian Kakistocrats (Trump, Musk, the DOGE boys, etc.) is that they are too ignorant to understand ROI on public investment & government programs. They approach this stuff like the terrible nepotistic businessmen they are & make awful policy decisions accordingly.

Once again, yes, I'm familiar with the different revenue streams involved. And yet once again, I want to point out that the entire federal budget for area studies & foreign language fellowships <nationwide> was $86 million. bsky.app/profile/mcop... Show me your budget, & I'll show you your values.

Wish me luck tonight on @msnbc @theweekendprime and watch if you can in the 8pm hour!

It’s a cauliflower. I swear. Or a Martian.

University president and head football coach share the distinction of being extremely hard leadership positions that university trustees routinely give to famous nincompoops

The Narrative™️ cannot fail. It can only be failed. There is, quite literally, <nothing> the Republican Party can do to get the media to stop writing that it is concerned about family values, the working class, international security, the debt, etc. It was all etched in stone in 1985 or something.

To the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social canvass team w the film crew in harlem that was me cheering from the car with the tiny dog. Thank you for your service!

Future opinion is uncertain, and conditioning too many of your decisions on current surveys will lead you to craft bad strategies that leave you stuck in the past (in this case, for Dems, that means losing) www.gelliottmorris.com/p/how-much-s...

👇🎯 The Dems' progression from Clinton to Kerry to Obama to Clinton to Biden to Harris is ~a perfect tracking of center-left/median voter policy preferences in 🇺🇸 over 25 years. Yes, Dems moved a bit left. So did the electorate. It's not 1994 anymore. Meanwhile, the GOP: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Hakeem Jeffries is not the future of the Democratic Party.

yes, what i look for when assessing the quality of a poll is crosstab errors that are at least 90 points. preferably more. if your subgroup estimates are close to the result, that’s actually bad

This is what a Bovino thug did to a woman he was kidnapping: “When he tackled me to the ground, I lost a shoe, but it was right there when he stood me up,” Moriarty said. “And I said, ‘Can I just put my shoe on?’ And the guy actually picked it up and threw it.”

Zuni Cafe’s currant and orange scones. Gave most to the neighbors. One informed me I am never allowed to move away unless they move first. chiceats.com/recipe/cookb...

"Let them eat data centers." #Satire

👇🎯💯 Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. Today in the World of Pure Imagination of Ezra Douthglesias. The Narrative™️ cannot fail. It can only be failed. And only Democrats have agency in 🇺🇸 politics. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

In the latest demonstration of this administration’s hostility toward the poor: The Trump Administration has not only dragged its feet in dispensing SNAP contingency funds, but they’re literally obstructing private actors from helping to promote food security when the government will not.

isn't that the argument for why biden's pardons are invalid

Trump is killing education for kids with disabilities. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

What @dandrezner.bsky.social says here: Thank you baseball, for this extraordinary World Series open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

But I’ve got my country’s 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it. I’m swamped.

Wait, CBS edited the interview with Trump?!?! @kamalaharris.com should sue them for millions for emotional distress.

Kid misheard the announcer in the Bengals/Bears game to say “the Bagels are on the march” and candidly that’s a great start to a short story

Congrats again to the prominent elites who told us this guy was a credible Treasury Secretary because he went to the right schools & cocktail parties. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

"Who <actually> controls all branches of government, including both chambers of the legislature?" is rapidly challenging "Who was <actually> president in 2020?" for the title of The Great Political Question of Our Time 🤷‍♂️

👀

I’ve noticed this as well: Starting to see ads for obviously AI products where “AI” is conspicuously never mentioned, as though they suspect clients are getting sick of hearing it.

Kids in foster care being sex trafficked is a real and big problem. A related one is foster kids being used as slave labor. Good foster parents do important work. Bad ones, though… Also: it’s nice to see NCMEC show up on the right side of an issue; happens all too infrequently these days.

Someone should get Comer's thoughts on this stat.

The Article I Crisis (Also, Johnson's invocation of fentanyl is significant because whatever is on those boats, it ain't fentanyl.)

“Enhanced counternarcotics operations” are the new “enhanced interrogation techniques.” www.cnn.com/2025/11/02/p...

Narrator: They have no plan and never did. Their only goal is to destroy Obamacare

I’m not even a Blue Jays fan and I’m shattered.

After Tuesday, Andrew Cuomo is never again in his life going to set foot in New York, a city he plainly loathes

Did the read The Great Gatsby?

"I think that the people who are making these cuts don’t really understand what it is that these programs do" -- a former official, speaking about some successful substance abuse initiatives that are beloved even in deeply red America www.thebulwark.com/p/drug-treat...

What’s unusual about this story is that Tumwater HS has one of the best modern dance programs in any WA high school, which should suggest at least some tolerance for assigned-gender non-conforming behavior among the students.

👇🎯 In re: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Could be a reason that the U.S. Constitution doesn’t leave the decision to go to war to the whims of one man.

The Menswear Guy never misses.

Or you could do a Friendsgiving with your chosen family which is my fave way to celebrate the holiday (I don’t dislike my family—I just don’t live anywhere near them. It sucks being alone at the holidays so I have friends over.)

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. Don’t host lying liars on the teevee shows to performatively lie in public. If you’ve screwed up & done that anyway, end the interviews immediately & don’t invite the lying liars back again. See above. Repeat.

Health care policy of personal petition to POTUS.

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals— the state's highest court for criminal cases—rules that drug detection dog's unprompted entry of his nose into suspect's car through open window was a Fourth Amendment search. search.txcourts.gov/SearchMedia....

The ACA was passed…<15> years ago Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. Don’t host lying liars on the teevee shows to performatively lie in public. If you’ve screwed up & done that anyway, end the interviews immediately & don’t invite the lying liars back again. See above. Repeat.

definitely a good and real poll for more on the mirage of accuracy among the "best pollsters in 2024," see: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-best-p...

We should abolish the term “off year election.” If there an election, then it’s an election year. Period.

No baseball tonight 😢 Only 99 days until pitchers and catchers report

Great stuff, as always, from @joeposnanski.com IKF's baserunning is the tragic what-if we'll discuss forever. Miguel Rojas twice found lightning in a bottle. Baseball, man. Don't ever let anyone tell you it's dying, or boring, or whatever. They have no idea what they're talking about.

Alterations to the recipe I made: added 1/2 t vanilla extract, cut sugar by 1/4, 2 T if zest, brushes tips with egg wash and sprinkled with turbinado sugar

Almost vegan roasted cauliflower + broccoli w/ pistachio miso romesco sauce. Recipe for sauce www.foodandwine.com/steak-with-m... (which is good with beef, fish, chicken, & roasted veggies). I used a bottle of roasted red peppers in sauce.

I'm watching the 60 Minutes interview of Trump but I don't know why.

Here's their un-gated pie crust. I usually use this crust recipe or the Cooks Illustrated one. Nothing wrong with buying a pre-fab crust to save time. But I prefer the taste of homemade.

The administration can't/won't say who this supposed "designated terrorist organization" is, but rest assured they are like Al-Qaeda.

...and polls suggest if you re-ran the election today, all those shifts among traditional Dem voters would be erased

Starfox 64 Except that a dozen is like an order of magnitude off

Sign up today. Still time!!!!!

Ouch.

You can tell DST was invented by the government because it's basically just the whole income tax racket, but with time. They take an hour from you only to give it back 8 months later and make you think it was for your own good.

Breaking: Heroes have faces blurred out because we ought to be proud of them. #Satire

The labor market is weakening and unemployment is rising cepr.net/publications... Never forget, Trump is refusing to release the September jobs report, and the Epstein files

If you want to crave tacos, let your social media algorithms show you Mexico City tacos.

No a mamdate is <phone rings> yeah, yeah, ok, fine <click> I didn't even know I *had* an HR dept

I will never forget learning about @xkcd.com because comics were taped to the inside of bathroom stall doors at Google's DC HQ.

Murc's law: only Democrats have agency or responsibility in American politics.