Jay Willis
@jaywillis.net
I write about courts, democracy, media, and the raccoon family living in a tree behind my house. Bluesky’s ONLY fantasy football guru. EIC @ballsandstrikes.org, more writing at jaywillis.net.
The hand signal for intentional grounding is really underrated. One of the most powerful ref gestures, in my view.
January 11, 2026 at 3:22 AM
The hand signal for intentional grounding is really underrated. One of the most powerful ref gestures, in my view.
Elon Musk needed three years to transform Twitter from maybe the world’s most important news source and a vital tool for real-world change into a weird right-wing AI slop machine generating on-demand bespoke nonconsensual porn. A real innovator in the space!
Why Elon Musk is laughing off Grok’s flood of deepfake AI porn
When you own the regulators, creating sexualized images of women and children isn’t a bug—it's a business model.
www.fastcompany.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Elon Musk needed three years to transform Twitter from maybe the world’s most important news source and a vital tool for real-world change into a weird right-wing AI slop machine generating on-demand bespoke nonconsensual porn. A real innovator in the space!
Checking in on the Washington Post editorial board’s take on the new RFK-approved food pyramid, and I really cannot believe how lazy these people are www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
January 10, 2026 at 4:12 AM
Checking in on the Washington Post editorial board’s take on the new RFK-approved food pyramid, and I really cannot believe how lazy these people are www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Not many people know this, but Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Fernando Mendoza is actually an alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Not many people know this, but Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Fernando Mendoza is actually an alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley
really good
January 9, 2026 at 9:51 PM
really good
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I sat in a fucking court room and heard Apple imply that a naked cartoon banana was somehow inappropriate but somehow Grok non consensually undressing women and children is ok?? www.theverge.com/policy/85990...
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?
www.theverge.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:30 PM
I sat in a fucking court room and heard Apple imply that a naked cartoon banana was somehow inappropriate but somehow Grok non consensually undressing women and children is ok?? www.theverge.com/policy/85990...
The Washington Post editorial board is publishing analysis that is not distinguishable from, like, Breitbart www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
January 9, 2026 at 7:50 PM
The Washington Post editorial board is publishing analysis that is not distinguishable from, like, Breitbart www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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I didn't sign up to run for Mayor or Governor because I don't want to be responsible for the lives of millions of people because I'm just not cut out for that job but if you WANTED the job you DO the job
January 9, 2026 at 7:21 PM
I didn't sign up to run for Mayor or Governor because I don't want to be responsible for the lives of millions of people because I'm just not cut out for that job but if you WANTED the job you DO the job
I would like to see more elected officials calling for the arrest of the masked creep who executed a lady in the street because she made him mad
January 9, 2026 at 7:20 PM
I would like to see more elected officials calling for the arrest of the masked creep who executed a lady in the street because she made him mad
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the ICE officer calling a woman he just murdered a “fucking bitch” is visceral, but imo the most material new information in the latest video is that she very clearly turns the wheel away from the officer right before it happens
January 9, 2026 at 7:15 PM
the ICE officer calling a woman he just murdered a “fucking bitch” is visceral, but imo the most material new information in the latest video is that she very clearly turns the wheel away from the officer right before it happens
I think it should be a bigger deal that Trump's federal judicial nominees can't bring themselves to say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election or that the January 6 insurrection was bad
Trump’s New Judges Have Nothing Bad to Say About January 6
Trump is trying to erase evidence of his attempt to overthrow the government. His recent judicial nominees have been happy to help.
ballsandstrikes.org
January 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
I think it should be a bigger deal that Trump's federal judicial nominees can't bring themselves to say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election or that the January 6 insurrection was bad
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Judicial candidates should be people "whose goal isn’t to get onto a bench, but to get into heaven," writes James Ho.
January 9, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Judicial candidates should be people "whose goal isn’t to get onto a bench, but to get into heaven," writes James Ho.
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I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
January 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM
I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
I am trying to write a newsletter about James Ho's latest desperate, sweaty law review article, but this thing is so weird and incoherent I'm having trouble pinning it down. It's like reading a Tumblr written by Antonin Scala on quaaludes journals.law.harvard.edu/jlpp/wp-cont...
January 9, 2026 at 12:58 AM
I am trying to write a newsletter about James Ho's latest desperate, sweaty law review article, but this thing is so weird and incoherent I'm having trouble pinning it down. It's like reading a Tumblr written by Antonin Scala on quaaludes journals.law.harvard.edu/jlpp/wp-cont...
Seven Dem senators voted to confirm a Trump judicial nominee today, and I really do not think I'm asking for much when I say that Democrats should not be doing favors for a president whose masked thugs murdered a woman in the streets 24 hours ago www.senate.gov/legislative/...
January 8, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Seven Dem senators voted to confirm a Trump judicial nominee today, and I really do not think I'm asking for much when I say that Democrats should not be doing favors for a president whose masked thugs murdered a woman in the streets 24 hours ago www.senate.gov/legislative/...
Hard to watch Trump flood Minneapolis with stormtroopers and not think of his simmering rage over the George Floyd protests. Conservatives blamed his 2020 loss in large part on a nationwide backlash against police violence, originating in a liberal city in a blue state. This is their revenge.
January 8, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Hard to watch Trump flood Minneapolis with stormtroopers and not think of his simmering rage over the George Floyd protests. Conservatives blamed his 2020 loss in large part on a nationwide backlash against police violence, originating in a liberal city in a blue state. This is their revenge.
you will not see heaven
January 8, 2026 at 3:09 AM
you will not see heaven
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love to be a libertarian whose response to the summary execution of an american citizen is “you shouldn’t say bad words”
January 7, 2026 at 11:34 PM
love to be a libertarian whose response to the summary execution of an american citizen is “you shouldn’t say bad words”
Just learned that the little dweeb who used to show up and get absolutely, disproportionately hammered at Cal alumni events in D.C. in 2009 now has a fancy job at Mike Pence's think tank
January 7, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Just learned that the little dweeb who used to show up and get absolutely, disproportionately hammered at Cal alumni events in D.C. in 2009 now has a fancy job at Mike Pence's think tank
The gap between what your average January 6 rioter believes and what your average second-term Trump judge believes is getting narrower by the week
Trump’s New Judges Have Nothing Bad to Say About January 6
Trump is trying to erase evidence of his attempt to overthrow the government. His recent judicial nominees have been happy to help.
ballsandstrikes.org
January 7, 2026 at 11:39 PM
The gap between what your average January 6 rioter believes and what your average second-term Trump judge believes is getting narrower by the week
In light of recent developments, I am instituting a complete and total ban on law professors posting on this or any other app until we can figure out what the hell is going on
January 7, 2026 at 11:35 PM
In light of recent developments, I am instituting a complete and total ban on law professors posting on this or any other app until we can figure out what the hell is going on
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masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.
This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.
January 7, 2026 at 7:36 PM
masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.
Yes, I have seen the Bad Law Professor Post of the Day and am choosing not to engage with it
January 7, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Yes, I have seen the Bad Law Professor Post of the Day and am choosing not to engage with it
The ICE officer who pulls the trigger is already out of the car's path when he starts shooting, and he keeps shooting into the car after it goes by him. Arrest him now.
NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed
January 7, 2026 at 6:29 PM
The ICE officer who pulls the trigger is already out of the car's path when he starts shooting, and he keeps shooting into the car after it goes by him. Arrest him now.