Kate Klonick

Annotating the Judge’s Decision in the Case of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-Year-Old Detained by ICE Our critic annotates the barbed wordplay of a decision challenging the Trump administration’s theory of executive power.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Unpopular opinion: Meme law is bad and if you have the New York Times movie and poetry critic writing your legal analysis it’s still the bad place even if the outcome is righteous.

The Real Reason ICE Agents Wear Masks Face-coverings may work less to protect federal agents from danger than to make it easier for them to do unconstitutional things.

No masks on cops. No masks on cops. No masks on cops. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Here’s a tell: when you point to their hypocrisy it doesn't move them.

Hypocrisy is a feature not a bug of autocracy. Because it proves that the rules apply to you but not to them.

America’s Digital Empire Has a Trust Problem One year into Donald Trump’s presidency, foreign nations are increasingly skittish about their dependence on U.S. tech companies.

America's digital empire has a trust problem. U.S. hyperscalers' future may depend less on the commercial deals they strike and more on their commitment to protect the democracy that made their global dominance possible. My latest for @wpr.bsky.social
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/us-hyperscal...

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

It's a well placed fear.

Brilliant writing by @adamserwer.bsky.social in The Atlantic

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I’ve been thinking lately about this experience and the immense gratitude I’ll never stop having for the nurses who helped us through it as the #NYCnursestrike stretches on.

In solidarity ✊

5* and windy now. Tomorrow will be perfect tho :)

Watching the skid steer plow with snacks

I’m not sure how many more people I can watch die on social media.

@klonick.bsky.social

This guy is basically inviting China to take Taiwan.

Lots of stunning data in here. There's a reason Trump has been a manic, impulsive mess these last few days.

Right of publicity question of the day, Fed edition

It was so good. Like a great set of coworkers.

Too soon, Ken

Even before I had children, Leslie Odom’s “Dear Theodosia” moved me to tears every time I heard it.

“When you smile, you knock me out, I fall apart;
And I thought I was so smart”

God that solo is 2 minutes of absolute emotive perfection

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
— George Orwell, 1984

Everything we’ve predicted from science fiction about police weaponization, constant surveillance, misinformation, and the threat of AI to truth is in this moment.

I've made this point elsewhere, but it seems bananas to me that in the state where I live, I would have to enter a valid ID to watch consensual, ethically produced pornography but if I want to watch actual, honest to gawd CSAM all I have to do is log on Twitter and holler at Elon's little bot.

The United States uses 20 M barrels of oil a day.

This is at most 1.5 to 2.5 days worth of oil.

Sure sounds good though!

Liars dividend

It's Tuesday on the east coast, but lucky for you, we're based in California, so this offer is still good for a few more hours...

Since I first began pubic speaking on freedom of expression issues in the 1990s, I never use the word "censorship" because the label itself has no significance and everyone has their own meaning for the word. The key is whether what you are doing promotes or hinders the freedom of speech.

I wrote section 230 to protect user speech, not a company's own speech. I've long said AI chatbot outputs are not protected by 230 and that it is not a close call. Given that the Trump administration is going to the mat to protect pedophiles, states should step in to hold Musk and X accountable.

@nycbarassociation.bsky.social condemns the illegal use of force in Venezuela and calls on Congress to fulfill its constitutional duties.

My latest with @ichotiner.bsky.social.

Next press conference we hear that Trump is going to deal with the guerrillas in Venezuela by drafting veterinarians

We're going to need a bigger Hague.

Guess we shouldn’t be surprised when the Department of War starts one.