Got a robot vacuum (Shark AV2501S AI Ultra Robot Vacuum, with Matrix Clean) and named it Gerald. It is Wiccan and is down to clown.

Just days after two mass shooting tragedies in Serbia, President Vucic is enacting new gun reforms, including buybacks and psychological checks for gun owners. "Great nations find solutions after big tragedies," he said. cnn.com/2023/05/05/eur…

The world is hard & tumultuous. In all of our own ways, my friends and I have been knocked around by it this year. Which made our soft, sunny, joyful, & silly vacation this weekend all the more meaningful. Life is finite. I sure am thankful I get to live it this way.

It’s not just that the Fifth Circuit is having a bad Term at #SCOTUS (now 2-6); it’s that the reversals are coming in ideologically (if not politically) charged disputes—the very cases in which we’d expect more alignment. That disconnect is a story—and it ought to be a sign, too.

In a nutshell: The majority does not expressly overrule Grutter or formally bar *all* race-based affirmative action, but the Court reconstrues the test in a way that will make it virtually impossible for any university to satisfy going forward. It's ending it without ending it.

Can confirm - this is super true

The court took a break after another plaintiff, Samantha Casiano, vomited while describing what she went through when she was denied an abortion after her baby was diagnosed with anencephaly. She said she had to watch her baby die after giving birth.

“When I first met Emily, the first time I heard All Too Well, she played it and said, I just want you to know that this song is much better written than any speech you've ever written with Barack Obama. And, I listened and I was like it's a pretty good point.” - Jon Favreau

Pause just a moment this evening & appreciate something from 24 hours ago: An Alaska Air 737 had a hole torn in the side of it in flight. The plane was 3 miles up, flying at 400 mph. It stayed intact. The pilots landed in minutes. No one was seriously injured. Incredible. —>

In the Judicial Process in Trial Courts Clinic, Maggie Hopkins '25 saw firsthand the operations of a judge's chambers, assisting with matters from real estate settlements to data breaches. Read more about her experience learning directly from the Judge: hls.harvard.edu/clinic-stories…

Faculty will hold a vote of no confidence in the president, provost and vice provost for faculty and academic affairs Tuesday. Here is a breakdown of Whitten’s controversial tenure as president of Indiana University. idsnews.com/article/2024/0…

GUEST COLUMN: My arrest in Dunn Meadow is IUPD’s mistake and Whitten’s embarrassment idsnews.com/article/2024/0…

The IU Bloomington administration evidently changed a longstanding time/place/manner protest policy and imposed a new one yesterday, in anticipation of the Dunn Meadow protest. This makes it difficult to argue the policy was viewpoint-neutral, as the First Amendment requires.

Notable—unlike other schools, Wesleyan Uni says it will not clear an encampment so long as it remains non-violent: "This morning you can find pro-Palestinian protestors camped out…as long as we all reject violence, we have opportunities to listen and to learn from one another."

White friends, especially white women who did not have an undergraduate sorority experience: In the coming months you’ll likely see a great deal of content about VP Harris’ sorority affiliation and the support from its members. We 🩷 it. Some info & tips for us: 🧵

Mesa, AZ Republican Mayor John Giles: I do not recognize my party. I have something to say to those of us who are in the middle: You don’t owe a damn thing to that party. You don’t owe anything to a party that is out of touch and hell-bent on taking us backward. And by all means,

Once a proud coach, always a proud coach.

The Indiana football program began in 1887. In its first 136 years, the Hoosiers NEVER started a season 9-0. Now in its 137th year, and Curt Cignetti’s 1st, Indiana is a perfect 9-0. And all 9 wins have come by at least 14 points. Historic isn’t even enough to describe it.

An FAA employee I know confirms agency already lacks sufficient air traffic controllers. The so-called “buyouts” and other attacks on federal employees won’t help. Remember that fact when the flight delays (crashes?) commence and Trumpers start falsely blaming DEI or Biden.