Ellie Margolis
@elliemargolis.bsky.social
Law professor @TempleLaw, suburban gardener, avid reader. Happy to nerd out about legal writing anytime.
Well this is a delight I didn’t expect to see today.
Towel-holder, oak, with two grotesque heads, Northern Germany, c. 1520-25.
The catalogue notes: "An inventory of Thomas Cromwell's possessions of 1527 mentions that his parlour, adjoining the kitchen, contained 'An image of a fole to hold a towel, painted.'" (V&AMuseum)
The catalogue notes: "An inventory of Thomas Cromwell's possessions of 1527 mentions that his parlour, adjoining the kitchen, contained 'An image of a fole to hold a towel, painted.'" (V&AMuseum)
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Well this is a delight I didn’t expect to see today.
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I’m thinking about something that a very wise longtime lawyer said re firms striking deals w Trump: this is about who we are as a profession. Are we going to become fixers who arrange for bribes? Or will we continue to support and operate within the rule of law?
November 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I’m thinking about something that a very wise longtime lawyer said re firms striking deals w Trump: this is about who we are as a profession. Are we going to become fixers who arrange for bribes? Or will we continue to support and operate within the rule of law?
We are in peak French heist season.
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
November 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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I didn’t want to overreact, and took time to read this. Having done so, I’m adding Northwestern to the list of places I won’t visit or speak. The concessions re: international students and gender-affirming care are not merely symbolic.
Here’s the text of the Northwestern settlement with the DoJ, which includes a $75 million financial component / payoff (cc @profmarkovic.bsky.social):
November 29, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I didn’t want to overreact, and took time to read this. Having done so, I’m adding Northwestern to the list of places I won’t visit or speak. The concessions re: international students and gender-affirming care are not merely symbolic.
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I mean, as fighting words as it gets here from a GOP official against the White House.
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I mean, as fighting words as it gets here from a GOP official against the White House.
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With thanks to my co-author @keitnerlaw.com, we’ve got a new OpEd up @thehill.com with a reminder for Congress about the lessons of the Air Bridge program:
thehill.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
With thanks to my co-author @keitnerlaw.com, we’ve got a new OpEd up @thehill.com with a reminder for Congress about the lessons of the Air Bridge program:
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You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
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Interesting that the University’s public statement did not include its promise to refuse gender-affirming care.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Interesting that the University’s public statement did not include its promise to refuse gender-affirming care.
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Put Northwestern into the group of quisling universities that a future Democratic administration should ensure pay a very steep price for their cowardice.
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Put Northwestern into the group of quisling universities that a future Democratic administration should ensure pay a very steep price for their cowardice.
Well, this is terrible news.
Fuck, Northwestern just caved. Reading the deal now. ( www.northwestern.edu/president/do... )
www.northwestern.edu
November 29, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Well, this is terrible news.
Well, it might be impossible to get in to Kalaya after their Michelin recommendation, but I made the house curry paste from the Kalaya Southern Thai Kitchen cookbook and made a mean tofu curry with it.
November 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Well, it might be impossible to get in to Kalaya after their Michelin recommendation, but I made the house curry paste from the Kalaya Southern Thai Kitchen cookbook and made a mean tofu curry with it.
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This is one logical conclusion to the belief that abortion is murder, which many pro-lifers profess.
S Carolina bill to execute women who have an abortion
November 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This is one logical conclusion to the belief that abortion is murder, which many pro-lifers profess.
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When you hear "ICE," you probably think of federal courts, but state courts are emerging as key checks on immigration enforcement. Cases piling up now could shape what ICE can do on the ground. To learn more, subscribe to our free newsletter: go.statecourtreport.org/subscribe.
November 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
When you hear "ICE," you probably think of federal courts, but state courts are emerging as key checks on immigration enforcement. Cases piling up now could shape what ICE can do on the ground. To learn more, subscribe to our free newsletter: go.statecourtreport.org/subscribe.
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The password to the cold room was escargot.
We are in peak French heist season.
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
November 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The password to the cold room was escargot.
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Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:
The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:
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"The contention “Me Too went too far” is not exactly bearing up under scrutiny. Rather, a year after Donald Trump’s reelection, we are beset by daily reminders of why Me Too, and feminism more broadly, came to exist in the first place."
Wrote about the backlash to the backlash to the backlash to the backlash there are no waves we are swimming through circular currents and why we’re not on the Faludi style backlash of the right (& center and left’s) dreams: www.thecut.com/article/why-...
Me Too Forever
Why the backlash was so short-lived.
www.thecut.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"The contention “Me Too went too far” is not exactly bearing up under scrutiny. Rather, a year after Donald Trump’s reelection, we are beset by daily reminders of why Me Too, and feminism more broadly, came to exist in the first place."
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NEW: ICE’s policy of mass detaining immigrants w pending deportation proceedings has led to an avalanche of rejections in court.
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
NEW: ICE’s policy of mass detaining immigrants w pending deportation proceedings has led to an avalanche of rejections in court.
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
Update: Today I had pumpkin pecan pie. Still a little too sweet for my taste but quite good.
www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/pump...
www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/pump...
November 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Update: Today I had pumpkin pecan pie. Still a little too sweet for my taste but quite good.
www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/pump...
www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/pump...
We are in peak French heist season.
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
stzl.ink
November 28, 2025 at 1:43 AM
We are in peak French heist season.
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Happy Thanksgiving! Let's go to Les Nessman for a man on the scene report from the Pinedale shopping mall:
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Happy Thanksgiving! Let's go to Les Nessman for a man on the scene report from the Pinedale shopping mall:
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Pablo Picasso, The Turkey (Le Dindon), 1936 www.moma.org/collection/w...
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Pablo Picasso, The Turkey (Le Dindon), 1936 www.moma.org/collection/w...
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ICYMI AAUP is starting a PAC news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
Professors Launch PAC to Fight Back Against Trump’s Attacks
The American Association of University Professors, a union whose members are fighting policies from the Trump administration and GOP Congress, launched a PAC this week to spend in federal elections.
news.bgov.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
ICYMI AAUP is starting a PAC news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
Go Owls!
November 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Go Owls!
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Shout it from the rooftops, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social ! Brilliant and much needed feminist take www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...
Opinion | Has Marjorie Taylor Greene Really Seen the Light?
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Shout it from the rooftops, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social ! Brilliant and much needed feminist take www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...