Can’t Stop Twinkling 💕💚

The people who wear flip flops on an airplane are God’s bravest soldiers

Ninth Circuit Panel Seems Skeptical of DOJ’s Attempt to Force California to Segregate Ballots from Purported Noncitizens [Updated from Just Completed Oral Argument] electionlawblog.org/2026/ninth-c...

“The Department of Justice is putting its formidable thumb on next week’s elections in a way that seems clearly intended to call into question the legitimacy of any result that is especially unfavorable to Republicans—before those results have even come in.” Me on DOJ’s California and Alaska suits:

This is...not a thing.

To say "I am a legislator so I know the law" is wild in this day and age

well, in her defense

Not the onion

The woman who plays Eden on Best Medicine deserves an Emmy 😂😂😂

Sitting here pretending that I wouldn't even know where to get a dog if I was inclined to get one.

I've watched this too many times

Letting people get potentially tortured while you decide if it is actual torture is a hell of a position to take.

A commercial that starts with Martha Stewart saying, “I like rules,” is either tone deaf or assumes that people have short memories.

I’m not getting another dog. I travel too much and they are expensive and they eat my lunch. No. No. NO.

I’ve watched this more times than I am comfortable admitting

Any insight on how I can save my plant

I still love my son despite his best efforts to make it not so

I am going to treat myself to a second cup of coffee is the most middle aged thought I have had in awhile.

Last post in the ELB series on my book, In Congress We Trust? Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era, is now up: “Jim Crow Did Not Win Because the Federal Government Was Powerless” electionlawblog.org/2026/elb-boo...

Third post on my book, In Congress We Trust? Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era, is up at Election Law Blog: “Reconstruction Was Not Just About New Rights. It Was About New Federal Power.” electionlawblog.org/2026/elb-boo...

Dolly Parton passing away made me realize what a big Sally Field stan I am. That movie with her and the octopus was really fantastic.

Blog post #2 on my book, In Congress We Trust? Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era, now up on ELB. Check it out!

Fun conversation with @mikesacks.bsky.social on the Legal AF podcast about my book, “In Congress We Trust?: Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era.” Check it out: youtu.be/mLT8YUtracM?...

Writing about “In Congress We Trust” on the Election law Blog this week. Here is a link to the first of four posts. Check it out!

For those following the panic about the German election - in which an overtly neo-Nazi party declared an extremist group by Germany's intelligence service won big in an election in one of Germany's 16 federal states . . . here are some reasons not to panic:

all of these icons are dying because we got on their nerves

Me to a sandwich “I wish i could quit you”

If you put your ballot into an official election drop box, it will not have to go through the USPS.

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

The reaction to Dolly Parton's death is one of the best advertisements that I have ever seen for living each day with kindness, generosity, and love.

FFS

This week is too much 💔

My copy of @proftolson.bsky.social’s book just arrived! I can’t wait to dig in!

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

Omg 😩😩

I have made some missteps in my life, but right now, nothing feels more wrong than thinking that peanut butter M&Ms could be a valid substitute for peanut M&Ms 😞

In today's episode of when did I become a nerd, I just invited an incoming group of 1Ls to get a look at my anime collection.

Summer 2026 issue of Journal of American Constitutional History is out! jach.law.wisc.edu/volume-4-iss...

It's PUBLICATION DAY

I loved this book! Rarely has this history been so relevant. And there is still time to pre-order before its August 13 release! In Congress We Trust?: Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era (Cambridge Studies on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties) a.co/d/0hW9Cmdw 

Very grateful for the invitation!

Book is out in three days. THREE DAYS! Read the excerpt or pre-order your copy. Details below.

Yes, they should.

The ghost of my dead plant watching me go to Lowe's gardening section

"An extraordinary historical account of the untapped reservoir of congressional authority over elections." In Congress We Trust? by @proftolson.bsky.social, Coming Soon #LawSky #BookSky #PoliSci 🗃️ https://cup.org/3T3UPU8