We must hold on to the original intent of our environmental laws but acknowledge where they have fallen short. The future of the state depends on it. For Yale Law & Policy Review, I write about CEQA & the recent UC Berkeley enrollment fiasco: ylpr.yale.edu/when-statute-l…

I miss riding my bike.

Always be skeptical when you see stuff like this. It turns out that: 1) all those scary sounding chemicals are not particularly scary 2) wind turbines actually do get recycled and 3) the amount of waste is tiny compared to coal ash and impacts are tiny vs burning fossil fuels

These are solvable problems. The answer is building new places for people to live nytimes.com/2023/02/03/us/…

It would be impossible to overstate how lawless it would be for a district court judge to ban mifepristone nationwide slate.com/news-and-polit…

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Richard Avedon American 1923-2004 𝘓𝘦𝘸 𝘈𝘭𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘳, 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳, 61𝘴𝘵 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘮𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘢𝘮 𝘈𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘦, 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘠𝘰𝘳𝘬, 𝘔𝘢𝘺 2, 1963 1963 (printed 1990) Gelatin silver print The GOAT

'Holistic' admissions are code for: We want a progressive-sounding way to stop poor kids getting in

Pain

The moment you’ve been waiting for is finally here! Graduate workers at the University of Minnesota are signing cards in support of unionizing because we know we are stronger together–and that the U works because WE do! Learn more at umnglu.org

Graduate workers deserve fair pay. We deserve respect as workers who make the University function–as teachers and researchers #GradUnionUMN

What a day!

As our first day comes to a close, we owe you a bit of an update. In a word: incredible. In only about 12 hours, more than 1,700 graduate workers signed a union card to affirm our demand for fair working conditions at the University of Minnesota.