Could someone on Martha’s Vineyard please buy Alan Dershowitz lunch? Or a drink? Or some Beluga caviar?

The 80-year-old Harvard Law professor emeritus, who now makes his home on the island and has been summering there for a quarter century, has been bemoaning his apparent ostracism among the social set because of his willingness to go to bat for President Trump. Because it clearly couldn’t be because of his propensity to wear thong bathing suits or go naked on the nude beaches. Or his desire to Alansplain things to everyone. It has to be Trump, he says.

For those caught up in the heat and the holiday, Dershowitz wrote an oped for The Hill last week saying his forecast of being shunned on the liberal enclave has come to fruition.

“I never thought I would see McCarthyism come to Martha’s Vineyard, but I have,” Dershowitz wrote. “I wonder if the professor who refuses to listen to anything I have to say also treats his students similarly.”

Dershowitz says his liberal creds are fully intact because all he is doing is defending Trump’s constitutional rights and not his policies. But you’d have a hard time convincing his former friends and neighbors on the rock.

“You defended and gave cover to this president who relentlessly disrupts and destroys all that we value and causes massive and lasting damage to our political system, our courts, our standing in the world, the environment and more,” Walter Teller, a prominent Hollywood lawyer and longtime Vineyard vacationer, wrote in an email to his one-time friend sent out to a wide network on the Vineyard and obtained by the Boston Globe. “In all of that, you are complicit.”

Despite Dershowitz’s insistence that he’s more simpatico with Hillary Clinton than Trump, Teller and others say his constant appearance on Trump-favored Fox News, his frequent calls and dining with the president at the White House and Mar-a-Lago, and his emergence as a “Trump whisperer” on Israeli policy undermine his civil liberties claim.

Dershowitz, though, is having none of it, saying he “could not care less” and writing 1,000-word opeds and talking to any and every reporter who calls to tell them how much he could not care less. Dershowitz insists his dance card is full, which makes his claim to be shunned somewhat curious.

“I’ve gotten invited to like 25 4th of July parties,” Dershowitz told the Boston Herald. “I have more people welcoming me now than ever before.”

Dershowitz has become the target of mocking near and far for his “fine Vineyard whine” about his Scarlet Letter treatment.

“EXCLUSIVE: My niece, spotted yesterday on Martha’s Vineyard shunning Alan Dershowitz,” WGBH contributor David S. Bernstein posted on Twitter beneath the picture of the young girl playing on a beach.

“Socrates was forced to eat hemlock,” Jeet Heer of The New Republic tweeted. “Ovid, Dante, & Emma Goldman were sent into exile. Margaret Sanger was jailed. Rosa Luxemburg, Gandhi and Martin Luther King were killed. Spinoza was excommunicated. Alan Dershowitz can’t find anyone to dine with at Martha’s Vineyard.”

But at least one notable Islander and high profile Trump supporter is putting out the welcome mat. Car-dealing billionaire Ernie Boch Jr. says the famed lawyer is always welcome at his casa to break bread.

“Tell Alan if he needs a friend, he can call me,” Boch told the Herald.

Dershowitz says this has shown him who his friends are. He said he would rent a hall in Chilmark and set up chairs for anyone to come debate him on civil liberties. And even if the chairs are empty, he will not be silenced.

“I’m going to continue to do this,” he said. “I’m going to continue to be controversial. I’m going to continue to provoke people. That’s what I do.”

Yes, it is.

JACK SULLIVAN

BEACON HILL

Bill Weld and Thomas Birmingham, the former governor and Senate president, lament the state’s retreat from the standards embodied in the 1993 education reform law. (Boston Globe)

Debbie Rambo, the president and CEO of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Boston, says it’s time to do away with the state’s failed family cap policy. (CommonWealth)

State lawmakers want to take anti-abortion laws off the state books — just in case. (Boston Globe) They also are looking at changes in pension laws that would allow former public employees to retain at least a portion of their pension benefits if they were convicted of job-related crimes. (Boston Globe)

As expected, Gov. Charlie Baker signed into law a bill that gives judges the ability to take weapons away from people identified by their families as a danger to themselves or others. (Boston Globe)

MUNICIPAL MATTERS

Worcester is preparing to publish the names of those who dump trash in the community. The shaming campaign is designed to crack down on the practice. (Telegram & Gazette)

Braintree Mayor Joseph Sullivan is proposing to add an associate member to the five-person Planning Board to satisfy state requirements for a “super majority” when a regular member is absent or has to recuse himself during votes on special permits. (Patriot Ledger)

A commercial fishing boat that broke loose in Provincetown during the March nor’easter and crashed into a breakwater  has been refloated and returned to the town pier. The owner has been charged with littering and ordered to pay for the removal costs or lose the boat. (Cape Cod Times)

The Pittsfield Police Department shuts down its shooting range in response to neighborhood complaints. (Berkshire Eagle)

The Swansea animal control officer abruptly resigned the position she held for 20 years during a contentious disciplinary hearing, saying she was forced out by the “arrogance, manipulation and bullying” of the the town administrator. (Herald News)

WASHINGTON/NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL

When it comes to deadly drugs, alcohol tops opioids by far. And yet the nation is making it easier to drink alcohol (Sunday sales, grocery store sales, etc.). That’s why some states are getting more aggressive in policing drunk driving, with Utah leading the way by lowering the legal blood alcohol limit from 0.8 to 0.5 in December. (Governing)

President Trump’s push for tariffs is undermining the industries he embraced during his campaign and promised to help if elected. (New York Times)

Trump has reportedly pared the list of candidates to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy to three people, Judges Brett Kavanaugh of the D.C. Circuit; Raymond Kethledge of the Sixth Circuit in Michigan; and Amy Coney Barrett of Indiana, of the Seventh Circuit. He is expected to make the announcement Monday. (Wall Street Journal)

Massachusetts ranked dead last in patriotism by WalletHub but locals say the survey weighed too heavily on military service and not enough on civic engagement. (Boston Herald)

ELECTIONS

Sen. Elizabeth Warren buffs up her foreign policy credentials with a trip to the Middle East, including stops in Kuwait and Iraq. (Boston Globe)

BUSINESS/ECONOMY

People cutting the cable cord and using smart TVs to watch internet programming are having that used against them without their knowledge or consent as new technology sends data about their viewing habits to advertisers who then bombard their other devices with targeted advertising. (New York Times)

A new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development finds that US workers lag behind their counterparts in other countries, with at-risk and unemployed workers receiving little government support and those in the workforce hampered by a weak collective bargaining system. (Washington Post)

EDUCATION

The Boston Public Library is digitizing high school yearbooks and putting their contents on the internet. (Boston Globe)

Joyce Ferriabough Bolling argues in a Boston Herald oped for a return to an elected School Committee in Boston to bring back accountability and transparency,

HEALTH/HEALTH CARE

Is there a mental health condition called “gaming disorder?” To find out, the Globe talked to a 40-hours-a-week gamer.

TRANSPORTATION

The Boston Globe explores an MBTA idea to put up barriers on subway platforms in an effort to cue people for boarding trains, but the approach is expensive and doesn’t seem to come with a lot of guaranteed benefits.

Hull has launched a free weekend trolley service for the summer with the help of a state grant. The trolley runs from the Pemberton Point MBTA ferry dock at the tip of the town down to Nantasket Beach with stops at popular points of interest along the way. (Patriot Ledger)

ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT

International space agencies are planning explorations back to the moon to search for resources for clean energy on Earth. (U.S. News & World Report)

CRIMINAL JUSTICE/COURTS

At least 10 more State Police troopers are expected to be indicted in the overtime scandal. (MassLive)

Eileen McAnneny of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation says the Supreme Judicial Court’s ruling on the millionaire tax was the right one, in sync with the state’s constitution. (CommonWealth)

MEDIA

Dan Kennedy hands out his annual Muzzle Awards, given to those who he deems have abused the First Amendment rights of others, and among the usual suspects such as President Trump, the list includes the city of Cambridge, Boston Police Commissioner William Evans and Attorney General Maura Healey. (WGBH)

The newspaper industry has fallen faster than many of the other industries associated with collapses, including coal mining, steel manufacturing, and fishing. (Boston Globe)