Same judge. While Miller rails about judges.

“Are we trying to cure cancer? Obsolete knowledge workers? Build robots? Compete with Instagram? Buy some more runway? For now, the answer seems to be, ‘Hey, check out Sora, the app where you can make Sam Altman dance.’”

"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest"

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

If you wish to what

You have to admit it’s hilarious that literally 6mos ago Argentina was the country MAGA was saying was gonna dunk on all the neolibs and show them how to run a proper economy and now they’re literally begging for (and getting!) a handout from American taxpayers. Clown ideology. 🤡

Rufo's con, his manipulations has now entered its endgame. Want to see what happens when he's in charge? www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

billionaires really will be the ruin of us all, if we let them

The Trump Administration’s “Compact of Excellence” for Universities is... far from excellent! Indeed, it’s unconstitutional. In this post, let me count the ways. blog.dividedargument.com/p/the-uncons...

Now we have the Trump Administration's "nice university ya' got there, shame if anything should happen to it" campaign centered around a mafia-style protection racket they call "The Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." Did we help make it happen? 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

take your wins where you can!!

TFW you've fired all the good lawyers

"There is nothing funny about calling me or Donald Trump a fascist, and if you do, we will ship you to Guantanamo."

The way our society is run is completely fucked, but it developed based on shifting material conditions over the course of centuries. Therefore I would like to propose that we all start over with better material conditions and also a blank slate superstructure while we're at it

welcome to the reformation, Matt Walsh

we Americans are dumb, sure. but we're not this dumb. im sorry but this is the type of shit amerifats laugh at when it's "baghdad bob" and i guarantee you virtually no one is fooled by it. this is weakness and desperation

Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance. "If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Chris Murphy says Dems should lay down a simple marker for Trump: No Dem support for anything that funds his lawbreaking. "if you want our votes, it can’t be for rampant lawlessness. This isn't a normal time...the world [is] watching to see what we stand for." 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Trump told NBC on Sunday that he saw some Portland riot footage on Fox and thought it reflected current events. It didn't. It was 5 years old, from the George Floyd aftermath. And we learned that due to the diligence of a local TV reporter, who got the transcript. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

AI as wage depression tool is a very useful and compelling framing

If you follow AI, you've heard a number of cognitive scientists weigh in with valuable insights and concerns. You may not have heard from one quite like Hagen Blix, however, who describes generative AI as "class warfare through enshittification." My interview with @hagenblix.bsky.social:

The main reason climate policy has failed is that it's opposed by an international coalition of fossil fuel incumbents, authoritarian governments, & oligarch-owned media. That's it. It's the people who killed it who are responsible for killing it! Not the people who supported it! FFS.

It genuinely distresses me how eager people on our side are to believe shitty things *about themselves* that they hear from people who fucking hate them & everything they stand for.

“The Department unilaterally and without staff knowledge or consent, went in and changed the messages to include partisan language,” claims a DOE employee. This is particularly problematic because experts have alleged that the partisan language could be a violation of the Hatch Act.

A good political message for Dems is that Republicans say they are unwilling to hold Trump/Vought accountable, so elect someone who is.

Which university will be the first to fail the latest Lando Test? www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

And it's not a one-time capitulation. If DOJ ever says you violated the vague and unconstitutional terms, they will take back ALL federal funds from that year and you have to return ALL private funding from donors who want their gifts back from that year. It's a never-ending protection racket.

I can’t say I know exactly how it all would have played out, but I would much rather live in the alternate universe where the leaders of Columbia University had stood up for the institution and all of its faculty and students.

yes its obviously bad!

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

I make a joke about weather-control machines in class...30 mins later, shock troops show up dragging me away. academic freedom is saved!

The last podcast touched on political shenanigans at my institution. @mbkplus.bsky.social, looks like it's your turn with news that some UT Regents are "enthusiastic" about the administration's compact. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

one pathway to the national divorce is that blue states have no reason to contribute federal taxes to a government that will arbitrarily, due to political grievance and being seen not as citizens but political enemies, shut off all federal funds flowing back to them.

As I read this "compact," it provides that if School X *expressly* "agrees" to do everything listed--and complies to DOJ's satisfaction--then the Trump Administration *implicitly* agrees that it won't *unlawfully* withhold funding or deny grants. www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

Note that the Trump Administration is already going back to schools with whom it earlier reached "deals" (such as UPenn and Brown) for further concessions. Conceding to a bully has only emboldened them to make new demands.

Chicago, Illinois, 2025: "They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van." "They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other." "I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'" abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

ICE is going to apartment buildings without a warrant, breaking down the door of literally every unit, zip tying & detaining everyone inside, & arresting people for things that have nothing to do with immigration. This is a 5 alarm fire. This is what a secret police force does.

Come to think of it this is basically Sansa’s advice to Jon about Ramsay Bolton and the analogy works for me

like everything this admin does, this is both scary and pathetic. the right loathed DEI for racial and gender minorities, but the affirmative action they're demanding for conservatives is 1000x more sweeping, disruptive, and forced. big loser energy

The core contradictions are right there on the surface. Universities need to adopt strong policies "protecting academic freedom"—and must at the same time blatantly violate such policies by "transforming or abolishing institutional units" that so much as "belittle" "conservative ideas."

this is the way!!

I feel like we've gotten numb to these threats but it really is something to stack them all next to each other www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

There is no federal statute of limitations for Hatch Act violations by federal employees.

this is totalitarian -- its not enough to be in power, you must be taken Very Seriously by all other social institutions and *definitely* not laughed at for your fake science and candy land history

This administration is extorting universities to sign away academic freedom -- nothing meritocratic or "small government" about it www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...