Emma Janger

Reminder that Anne Frank died not in the gas chamber but of typhus.

If you're an adult who was vaccinated, you should get your titers run to make sure you still have immunity. Vaccination can wane and/or you may not have generated a strong immune response. That was ok when we had herd immunity but we're likely about to lose our "measles free" status.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

my modest disagreement is that i think it is important to signal virtue even if, privately, you are a piece of shit. performing decency is an important part of maintaining the norm that decency is part of a well ordered society.

Eric Adams, a gentile, going after Brad Lander, a Jew, for not investing in Israel because Adams is running on the End Antisemitism party line to try to salvage his own corrupt legacy and hold onto power is really giving the game away in a way that I hope people notice

I simply don’t want to be a member of a party which thinks sexual assault is only a fireable offense when the other team does it

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

The majority’s contention that I reject “ ‘pure textualism’ [a]s insuf ficiently pliable to secure the result [I] seek,” ante, at 10, stems from an unfortunate misunderstanding of the judicial role. Our interpretative task is not to seek our own desired results (whatever they may be). And, indeed, it is precisely because of this solemn duty that, in my view, it is imperative that we interpret statutes consistent with all relevant indicia of what Congress wanted, as best we can ascertain its intent. A method ology that includes consideration of Congress’s aims does exactly that— and no more. By contrast, pure textualism’s refusal to try to understand the text of a statute in the larger context of what Congress sought to achieve turns the interpretive task into a potent weapon for advancing judicial policy preferences. By “finding” answers in ambiguous text, and not bothering to consider whether those answers align with other sources of statutory meaning, pure textualists can easily disguise their own pref erences as “textual” inevitabilities. So, really, far from being “insuffi ciently pliable,” I think pure textualism is incessantly malleable—that’s its primary problem—and, indeed, it is certainly somehow always flexi ble enough to secure the majority’s desired outcome.

Whoa. Spicy footnote from Justice Jackson, dissenting in the ADA case. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Another reason I want Cuomo to lose is to shut down the comeback aspirations of his fellow shitheels

One thing that stood out really powerfully in last night's mayoral debate is that Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander both operate from the premise that New York City is a wonderful and beautiful and precious place.

Andrew Cuomo does not.

Some Giant Law Firms Shy Away From Pro Bono Immigration Cases

Big Law capitulation has catastrophic repercussions. Leaving children to “represent” themselves in court because the most powerful lawyers in the world lack the courage to stand up for justice—what a world.

Important reporting by @jsgatnyt.bsky.social + Matthew Goldstein.

This story should go mainstream viral. I do not think regular degular Americans would like the idea of it being a crime to question unidentified plain-clothes officers who are snatching people up

I really hope nobody needs to be told that when the government started arresting judges, it’s a fucking crisis.

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.

It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

what is being done to this family is deeply evil

took a few days off for my brain and one pretty alarming observation i have is just how easy it is to not hear about the bad stuff that is happening if you don't explicitly dip into specific information streams (not a new problem but feels orders of magnitude more siloed than even 2-3 years ago)

I keep thinking about how, even if we brought back everyone from CECOT tomorrow, they're going to be forever scarred. Their families too. It's unbelievably traumatic, what we've done to these people. We can't ever truly make it right again for them.

Which is so weird given how sincere they are in the desire to stamp out anti-Semitism. So weird.

It should go without saying, but this is the antisemitism we should actually be concerned about.

The four law firms that it was announced are now Trump collaborators -- Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Simpson Thacher, and A&O Shearman Sterling -- ALSO agreed today to "Disavow DEI" as part of a settlement with EEOC.

Why would any new associate join such a place? Why would any partner stay?

Right in time for a new student pledge not to work with collaborators docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Also, @abovethelaw.com has put together a #Biglaw Spine Index

And they are looking for tips

abovethelaw.com/2025/04/bigl...

This is right. The fact that they’re doing this to “innocent people” is not irrelevant, but it’s ultimately not the point. People convicted of crimes have rights too. And you can be damn sure that if they want to convict them - or me, or you - of something, they will.

Absolutely not about protecting Jews — literally Nazi stuff applied to the Other by gentiles pretending to be concerned about antisemitism

Sending anyone from this country to a foreign gulag, particularly without a court hearing, should rightfully end a presidency. Full stop.

Costco's Foot Traffic Increases For 13th Week After Reaffirming DEI Costco records 13 straight weeks of increased foot traffic while standing by its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies—despite growing political backlash. Learn why civil rights leaders are callin...

💥 Costco’s board of directors requested shareholders vote against a proposal to dismantle its DEI programs. Shareholders voted 98-2 percent to uphold DEI.

19 state AG’s demanded Costco repeal DEI.

Costco hasn’t caved.

13 straight weeks increased foot traffic.

chicagodefender.com/costcos-foot...

Quoted excerpt from the dissent of Robert H. Jackson in Korematsu v. United States (1944). Except: “But once a judicial opinion rationalizes such an order to show that it conforms to the Constitution, or rather rationalizes the Constitution to show that the Constitution sanctions such an order, the Court for all time has validated the principle of racial discrimination in criminal procedure and of transplanting American citizens. The principle then lies about like a loaded weapon ready for the hand of any authority that can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need. Every repetition imbeds that principle more deeply in our law and thinking and expands it to new purposes.”

And since the current Justice Jackson invoked Korematsu in her dissent tonight, I’m also thinking about these lines from Justice Robert H. Jackson’s dissent in Korematsu in 1944.