We are well and truly cooked. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
In the last 18 months, Congress has given DHS $240 billion — a quarter of a trillion.
As expressed on the pod with @mbkplus.bsky.social, I have missed feelings about FIRE. They do some genuinely important work. But their surveys are unscientific and agenda-driven. This one of law faculty had a 6% response rate, with no apparent testing for non-response bias.
Arizona is the only state to authorize non-attorney (i.e. investment) ownership of law firms. The latest MSBA newsletter included a propaganda opinion piece on one. The 2nd search result is a judge calling them “a fraud of immense proportions" and "extortion"
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Milan Markovic
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
A new survey of nearly 2,000 faculty members at U.S. law schools concludes that law professors strongly support free speech but often struggle to put it into practice on campus.
FIRE: great at lawsuits that protect first amendment rights, terrible at understanding numbers and doing other advocacy on "free speech". (Besides Milan's example below: they report information split by conservative / liberal but 1/5 of the *self-selected* respondents left this information blank.)
This was an interesting read even though my working theory is "AI will be good for lawyers but bad for the law."
Milan Markovic
BREAKING: The House passes a $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement for three years, sending the measure to President Trump.
this actually happened!!!!
Netanyahu and the Trump administration are united in their opposition to "lawfare"—that is any attempt to hold them accountable under the law.
something that really struck me while doing this episode is just how deeply the "intellectual diversity" project is wrapped up in institutional power and ultimately in a rejection of the very "marketplace of ideas" it purports to hold near and dear.
Milan came up with the very apt "The Weissing of Higher Ed" because a lot of the same forces at play with the Scott Pelley / 60 Minutes situation also hold at universities. The 'intellectual diversity' push is not about rigorous adherence to truth, it's an exercise of power & one-sided standards.
Milan Markovic
House Republicans have passed a nearly $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies for the next three years and the rest of President Donald Trump's term in office.
<p>The following article was drafted by Anthropic’s large language model Claude Fable 5 (Max) on June 9, 2026, with a single prompt:</p>
<p>You are going to wri
As expressed on the pod with @mbkplus.bsky.social, I have missed feelings about FIRE. They do some genuinely important work. But their surveys are unscientific and agenda-driven. This one of law faculty had a 6% response rate, with no apparent testing for non-response bias.
Daniel Suitor
Mike Boylan-Kolchin
Mike Boylan-Kolchin
Mike Boylan-Kolchin
Jonathon Booth
Brian Finucane
A new survey of nearly 2,000 faculty members at U.S. law schools concludes that law professors strongly support free speech but often struggle to put it into practice on campus.
