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#Vote2026 For your children

The magic of Donckers has graced Marquette for over 130 years! Let's ensure small businesses like this one can last another 130 by passing Medicare for All. 🍬🍭🍫

Netherlands withdraws from Eurovision over Isreal's participation

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Newborn foal comforting its mom: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

Hegseth is a member of Oath Keepers, a far right ultra religious terrorist group. For that alone his nomination should have failed. However, he keeps people like the following on his staff. Time to rectify your error, Congress. www.rawstory.com/ryan-higgins...

On the blog, I note that the ironic yet predictable result of French rioting instigated by anarchists and leftist will likely be the election of Marine Le Pen. I then draw some contrasts with and lessons for democratic mass movements in the U.S. 👇

This sounds a lot like Russia and China. We are truly lost. I hope we can find ourselves soon.

That quote is taken out of context all the time. I blame Jack Balkin: www.dorfonlaw.org/2021/09/labe...

This country has gone completely insane.

That scrupulous application of Bruen leads to results like this is proof positive that Bruen is insanity. Reading a Bruen decision, I’m always thinking, “this can’t be real. I’m having a nightmare, I’ll wake up soon.” Talk about “egregiously wrong from the start.”

This statement is 100% true. The original meaning of the Second Amendment is much closer to allowing individual ownership of nukes than knives. One could stop a federal government’s standing army, the other cannot. Personal self-defense is a constitutional right but not a 2nd amendment one.

Last week, Steve Vladeck raised four questions about expanding the Supreme Court. This post address each and explains why expansion to 13 justices in 2029 remains essential.

Preventing the federal government from impairing the states’ ability to man armed militias: *That is what 2A was for. Federal takeover of the states’ plenary police power to regulate arms would’ve been the farthest thing from anyone’s mind back then. No state would’ve ratified it.

The people who want states to force a woman to have a child against her will and kidnap her body while doing so think the states can’t take lethal and non-lethal killing tools away from dangerous people or keep them out of sensitive places. Our country is insane.

On a visit to a Buddhist monastery in Japan, I was surprised by my visceral unwillingness to participate in a ritual. On the blog, I reflect on that reaction and how it might inform efforts to reform antidiscrimination law. Also, there's a picture of a cute deer in front of the subway entrance.👇

Any day now the Fifth Circuit is going to hold that the GOP has a constitutional right to win elections because doing so is self-defense under the Second Amendment, and the Times will seek Josh Blackman’s opinions on the subject.

Atlanta folks! Important constitutional law history— and LGBTQ history— is in danger. The house where Bowers v. Hardwick all started is on the verge of being demolished. Email the Zoning Board and your council member asking them to protect it. Application # V-26-135 bza-hearings@atlantaga.gov

The DOJ is doing this crazy thing mostly to create more doubt about the election not in the hope of winning in court. Expect more of this. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

From my @slate.com piece on Alaska: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Nice to see you are a. baseball fan, Barb. You're probably a Tigers fan. I am a lifelong Brewers fan, but I hate listening to Smoltz! I should say I have always enjoyed your input on MS NOW!

Absolutely! No NYC vs. LA. Big money doesn’t build a team. A great fan base and a team with “heart” does.

Me too ESPECIALLY since neither the Dodgers or Yankees are in it. Let the fucking advertising companies cry over money lost.

I read the Federalist Papers & Washington's Farewell for answers to all my questions It's how i know that Obstructing Congress, creating 100's of Judicial Br vacancies & then packing them w FedSoc stooges (w putin's help) was anything but "the efficacious management of our common affairs"

If only there were a Con Law Center to combat such historical errors!

The President gives completely incoherent talks and the GOP and most of the media pretend this is normal.

I give Blanche about two more weeks of Scaramucci’s.

This is just pure racism. Republicans objectively are campaigning on little more than bigotry.

That's just not how it works. And AG Blanche knows it. He's not holding the line against Trump's attempt to subvert the election outcomes. He's facilitating it. The federal government remains the greatest threat to free and fair elections in November.

If the Roberts Court does the Roberts Court thing, November is going to get very, very dark.

AI could kill us all, but the game theory of international relations implies that might be a reason why some countries choose to develop world-ending AI. With analogies to the nuclear arms race, @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social provides analysis on the blog. 👇

Court rules firing of Maureen Comey without cause or due process violated the law. The president’s duty is to execute the law “faithfully.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Is expanding the Supreme Court constitutional? Would it take an amendment? What about term limits, legitimacy, or “court-packing”? Fair questions. And they deserve real answers. See how the arguments stack up. Check out the FAQs: supreme13.org/faqs/

This week's Research Dean spotlight! Prof. Deepa Varadarajan has an exciting new symposium piece, "Whistleblowers and Trade Secrecy's Long Shadow," examining how whistleblower protections in the Defend Trade Secrets have fallen short of their potential. Have a look! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

THIS. THIS IS EXACTLY IT.

"I believe that no Iowan should face discrimination." *explains which group of Iowans - trans people - should face discrimination in sports and healthcare* Either he has 0 self-awareness, or he doesn't count trans people as people who could be discriminated against.

Gotta wonder if there's a consulting firm advising him to do this bc it's something some have been pushing, I think. Regardless, he is the candidate & will be responsible for his own choices. What a shame he's hedging on the principle of rights. Which others will he compromise?

Can’t fathom why you’d open the door to anyone, let alone these trolls

All Republicans must be voted out of office now. We cannot abide a moment more a fascist, pro-pedophilia, pro-Kremlin political party that appears to be *explicitly* focused on collapsing the American economy, betraying all our friends, and stealing hundreds of billions from us.

Melon and the first felon will do anything to stay out of prison. Anything.

This guy was President of hisCollege Republicans. Here he is opposing Sharia law! It is amazing how many stories of "ordinary Americans" are Republican political operatives

NEW from me: Beth Fuller was a 10-year CDC contractor when she was DOGE'd last year by Trump + Elon Musk, a mass layoff process cheered by the GOP. Now she's a candidate in a key swing district that could end the GOP’s decades-long grip on total power in Georgia. www.huffpost.com/entry/beth-f...

"Shylock" and "Mongoloid" in consecutive days. What slur will the Trump administration use next?