Why does this column exist?

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

Saying it with your whole chest.

Amazing how upfront and unfiltered he is about his ongoing authoritarian project. The goal is to make sure the opposition can never win, and he flat-out says it.

But see CT: General Sauer, tell me about the Republican President exception to the Major Questions Doctrine.

Listen up! SCOTUS arguments on the tariffs cases is live. Listen here: www.supremecourt.gov

This person took this when they called the race

ALWAYS CHOOSE THE BEAR

10/10

Just thinking back to how I was feeling a year ago. This is better.

Mamdani taunts Trump in his victory speech: "Turn the volume up." Trump replies instantly on social media: "AND SO IT BEGINS!"

TURN THE VOLUME UP! King sh*t.

MAJOR BREAKING: California’s redistricting measure, Prop 50, has PASSED — a major win for Governor Gavin Newsom. The Blue Tsunami is complete. Trump and MAGA have been forcefully REJECTED by the American people.

for a muslim american to become mayor of new york city on the same day that dick cheney died... sometimes the purple prose for future dadbook histories of The American Experiment just writes itself.

“All three Pa. Supreme Court justices are retained following a historically expensive race” electionlawblog.org?p=152909

Congrats to @governor.ca.gov . He put his entire political capital on the line after Texas BS. And won. #Prop50

California voters approve Prop 50, NBC News projects — i.e. Gavin Newsom's redistricting plan to knock out multiple Republican-held House seats in response to the Texas redistricting move.

If true, NYC will be eligible for the Dept of Transportation funds earmarked for districts with high birth rates! #winning

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

Yes and high school teachers!

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 This is the President openly announcing that he will violate court orders - two courts had concluded that the Trump regime withholding SNAP funding was illegal - and that the government had to pay out (at least reduced) SNAP benefits starting this week

Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”

This story keeps getting worse. www.latimes.com/california/s...

"If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter." --Brett Kavanaugh, Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

NEW: Lily Allen sings about the Trump DOJ-"why would I trust anything that comes out of [their] mouth[s]." We recap litigation in the lower courts + preview this week's SCOTUS arguments (including on tariffs) & more (Obergefell threats, federal officer immunity, etc.) crooked.com/podcast/the-...

My book event tonight with the great @profmmurray.bsky.social will be live streamed here: www.youtube.com/live/EXuXG7h... 7pm eastern

Congratulations to Prof. Melissa Murray for receiving the 2025 Arabella Babb Mansfield Award from the National Association of Women Lawyers. The award is the organization’s highest honor, named for the first woman admitted to the bar in the United States. Read more about the award: ow.ly/LYwZ50Xiv2y

ICYMI!!!!

I mentioned @strictscrutiny.bsky.social to my 12 year old and her response was “Yeah I heard it and it is really good.” Shout out @leahlitman.bsky.social, @profmmurray.bsky.social, and @kateshaw.bsky.social for influencing the next generation

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name

The seeds are being planted to rig the midterms. It’s becoming more explicit. (Also note the gratuitous shot at the NBA, aka Black athletes who oppose him)

NEW: The Kavanaugh stop, 50 days later. "What a sick world." I asked Justice Brett Kavanaugh about his September 8 concurrence and the reality that has followed. Because he should be asked. He, unsurprisingly, did not respond. Today, at Law Dork:

Get out and vote! Every election, every time, no excuses.

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage. The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn. No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

Literally making the White House a Potemkin Village.

North Carolina moved closer Tuesday to dismantling a historically Black congressional district in a move one of its former representatives described as “blatant discrimination.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

FRFR, because refusing to seat a duly-elected member of Congress is anti-democratic and a species of election interference.

It’s book launch day for Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual For Keeping A Democracy, my first book. I hope you’ll read it or listen to it. a.co/d/43dbybC

Subbing in for @arimelber.bsky.social on @thebeat.msnbc.com tonight! Join us on @msnbc.com!

I went to college with this guy. But I did the reading.

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

You can get Joyce Vance’s new book GIVING UP IS UNFORGIVABLE: a manual for keeping our democracy from our friends at bookshop dot org: bookshop.org/p/books/givi...

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

reposting with alt-text Zero arrests by NYPD is actually astounding to me

Doesn't lewdness require exposing your actual body parts? Does dressing up like one count? Genuinely asking.

Grantifa is out in force today!

In Santa Monica…

this is why I think the admin spending all week yelling about a “hate America” rally was stupid anyone who tunes in gets to see funny signs, joyful crowds and shit like “an enormous constitution being carried to the White House” this is a crowd that loves America and wants it to be better

I took part in a small town protest today in very very red rural Missouri. Initially, a few days ago 43 people were "going". Turned out to be 640 of us in a tiny town square! I was beyond exhilarated.

Here's an issue from the Purdue Univ. student paper, The Exponent, dealing with the IU censorship of their student paper. Purdue put it in IU news boxes. (Purdue & IU are normally huge sports rivals.) Download link: www.purdueexponent.org/frontpdf/lat...