WATCH — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Every dollar we spend bombing people in the Middle East is one we’re not spending here at home. We’re always told we don’t have enough money for schools or healthcare or for veterans, but there’s always enough to bomb people on the other side of the world.”
Court cases alleging unlawful immigration detention skyrocket in Louisiana lailluminator.com/2026/03/10/i...
My PhD supervisee, Xiang Zhang, did a lovely job writing up this year’s thought-provoking Grafstein Lecture by Jessica Silbey @jessicasilbey.bsky.social: “Copyright’s Edges and the Ethics of Expression in the Digital Age”.
Read about it on the #IPOsgoode #IPilogue:
www.yorku.ca/osgoode/ipos...
Estefany Rodríguez of Nashville Noticias was arrested March 4 by ICE in Nashville, Tennessee.
The Spanish-language reporter is still being held and has filed a federal suit alleging the arrest violated her constitutional rights and was in retaliation for her reporting.
I'm thinking Katz v. US AND Superman. I actually saw someone dressed in a Superman costume standing outside his house (although maybe it was someone else's house) as I was driving home yesterday. He was with some other people and IDK what they were doing. I was tempted to stop but I thought, no...
Yes, you do.
Yum.
Gov. Landry calls for more school voucher money, judicial overhaul to open legislative session lailluminator.com/2026/03/09/g...
Walk a mile in his shoes!
Good for your mom. May she have many more years of happiness and health.
UPDATE: The Rep. Jody Barrett & Sen. Mark Pody abortion death penalty bill FAILED in the house
Reporter seeking freedom of speech in the US arrested for exercising freedom of speech in the US
I think about it a lot.
Trump DOJ official Ed Martin formally accused of ethical violations over letter he sent to Georgetown Law about its diversity programs https://cnn.it/4ukHhS7
He is a dignified leoncito. He would like to own a bar—At the Sign of the Rampant Lion. That’s all I need. A parade of drunken felines lurching home in the wee hours from his establishment, set up in the garden.
Image shows the cover of the book A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire by Emma Southon
Day 10: A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire by Emma Southon. A fantastic history written with humor and wit. I’d never given much thought to early Christianity and the cultural shift from community-centric polytheism toward individual salvation.
Important work exploring Rogan's audience:👇
"...younger, male, & with low educational attainment"
More "conspiratorial" thinking & "conservative media consumption"
"politically diverse yet culturally unified"
intensifies "cultural polarization."
Preprint: preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...
🧸 🍯 Winnie the Pooh, the self-described bear of "very little brain" who has charmed generations with his homespun and heartfelt wisdom, is turning 100.
➡️ u.afp.com/Suti
Full disclosure: I met with the minority staffers and helped strategize and explained the history.
Ilan is taking his historical fiction on the road. It’s amazing what sloppy and methodless historical scholarship can do for one’s career.
Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii, but its graffiti survived. New tech just revealed what it’s been hiding.
A gray and white cat is napping. Please admire his toe beans.
“I’m not malicious. I’m dignified.”
Congratulations and thank you for what you do.
A gray and white cat looks into the camera. He thinks he needs a makeover.
“And I would like a day at the spa. Just LOOK at my FUR!”
"But Schlapp is repeating an unfortunately common trope in the U.S., particularly among conservatives: Muslim and Arab lives are cheap, especially when we are at war with them."
He was a little bit more cooperative tonight although he took a swipe at the last syringe. Now he's helping me with committee work. "I'm ignoring your committee work, which is what YOU should do."
Is that why he greeted me at the door?
Chicago stood behind Miss Diana, who was eventually released after a judge determined that she had been unlawfully detained. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/06/f...
Louisiana’s law contradicts communal dignity of the Ten Commandments lailluminator.com/2026/03/01/l...
When my mother was alive, she used to like watching fake wrestling (and she didn't like watching sports, except gymnastics and ice skating). Me: Mom, it's fake. My mother: Oh, I know, but it's fun. She loved theater.
