Mike Masnick of Techdirt:

"But at a time when the Supreme Court keeps telling us we shouldn’t believe that they make decisions on partisan grounds, it sure would help if they actually stopped doing things differently depending on the partisan valence of each case – something Alito seems to do quite regularly."

Absolutely right.

🔗 techdirt.com https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/19/alito-helped-normalize-unreasoned-shadow-docket-orders-now-hes-mad-about-one/

Paul McCartney, in an interview by The Rest is History’s Tom Holland:

"You would know certain chords. And then someone would know an extra cord. So you would go to his house and learn this extra cord, and you’d build up your knowledge through things like that."

It’s wild to find out that Paul McCartney and I learned how to play guitar in basically the same way.

🔗 overcast.fm https://overcast.fm/+ABClHgREOPE

Jeremy Yurow, writing at Courthouse News Service about Hawaii’s new “anti-Citizens United” law:

"The bill takes aim at the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling, which allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money in elections. Lawmakers, drawing from a legal theory developed by the Center for American Progress, argued that because states create corporations and grant ... https://joeross.me/2026/05/16/jeremy-yurow-writing-at-courthouse.html

Matthew Haughey, who has a masters degree in soil chemistry, writes about why some farms plant red clover in the spring.

Haughey jokingly swears he’s fun at parties, but people with specialized science knowledge are precisely the folks I want to talk to at parties.

🔗 a.wholelottanothing.org https://a.wholelottanothing.org/why-do-oregon-farms-plant-red-clover-every-spring/

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The fact that there is no statutory ban on the government commercially sourcing personal location data without a warrant is a mockery of the Fourth Amendment.

🔗 arstechnica.com https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/fbi-started-buying-americans-location-data-again-kash-patel-confirms/

This ruling seems to be shocking parts of the tech web, but all the court did was apply the plain language of Apple’s developer agreement. The company has never needed cause to expel an app from the App Store.

🔗 arstechnica.com https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/judge-upholds-apple-delisting-of-free-musi-app-that-streams-songs-from-youtube/

🔗Jay Willis in his Balls & Strikes newsletter:

"Although the force of the Republican Party’s response to Scalia’s death felt like a “shocker” to some, the reality is that the right had been quietly putting in the work–of building a judicial pipeline, of championing a particular vision for the Constitution, and of making sure the base understood the stakes of every Supreme Court vacancy–for a long time. The left had not."

The long ... https://joeross.me/2026/02/14/jay-willis-in-his-balls.html