we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

One week from today, I begin my 21st(!!) year of teaching (my second at @georgetownlaw.bsky.social) with a "mini class" for the 119 1Ls I'll be teaching in Civil Procedure this fall.

For the first day, I'm giving them @orinkerr.bsky.social on how to read an opinion, and ... a very specific opinion:

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

I was, of course, pleased to sign this letter from a wide range of esteemed Supreme Court reporters calling on the justices to live-stream audio of opinion announcements. There is no reason this audio should be withheld for months, as the court does now. www.scotusblog.com/2025/06/repo...

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.

There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.

They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.

Today the United Healthcare CEO gunned down in NYC in broad daylight.

Every single customer of United Healthcare is currently considered a suspect.

arguments in Skrmetti

i think this is right and i will observe that this is essentially the position the court took in plessy v. ferguson, which held that the constitution has no bearing on inequalities of social power

Let’s start a Baja Blast happy hour. First of every month - today can run through the 2nd.

Cocktail and mocktail recipes + photos welcome 🚀

I love that @imillhiser.bsky.social transformed his preview of today's big vape case at the Supreme Court into a catalogue of the many, many blatant errors and outright fabrications in the opinions of Judge Andrew Oldham—whom Trump may soon elevate to SCOTUS. www.vox.com/scotus/38752...

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment

In today’s “One First,” I wrote about #SCOTUS’s 1866 decision in Ex parte Milligan—and the limits on martial law and military rule for which it still stands. (It’s also a good excuse to talk about the first “class photo” of the justices—from February 1867):

www.stevevladeck.com/p/111-ex-par...

🦶 Fossil footprints from 1.5 million years ago reveal Homo erectus & Paranthropus boisei walked the same paths – with distinct gaits.

A @science.org study shows how early humans coexisted, raising questions about competition, niche sharing, & evolution.

doi.org/10.1126/science.ado5275

#SciComm 🧪

Interesting story about Americans who moved to Florida expecting sun and fun but instead discovered rocketing insurance premiums and ultra-toxic right-wing politics that infected every aspect of life www.nbcnews.com/politics/eco...

i had no idea this existed and it is very cool www.amazon.com/Ralph-Elliso...

Five judges on the 5th Circuit are embracing Texas’ claim that it faces an “invasion” of unauthorized migrants and can therefore take control of border security in defiance of the federal government … s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...