I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

When the second case of a lawyer getting caught using synthetic text extruding machines hit the news, I wondered: Don't these people gossip?? I would have thought the first case would be so embarrassing as to make things very clear. www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c... >>

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

Important thread

Didn't wake up thinking Joseph Gordon Levitt would be a source of inspiring moral clarity for me today, but here we are. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

A friendly reminder: US billionaires have gained $968 billion in wealth so far this year—that’s 30X the annual cost of ACA subsidies Congress is fighting over in the shutdown talks. That $968B is enough to send every single US household a $7,300 check.

a copyright *is* an opt-out from this sort of use

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

So proud of my collaborators @noamlupu.bsky.social @carnes.bsky.social @eugenian.bsky.social and all our amazing research assistants across the world for having used our Covid lockdown to collect an award-winning dataset! www.instagram.com/p/DPNEGA5kmG...

Sounds like they're still looking for a problem for their solution

Shouting "Get 'im!" is not a law enforcement move, it's an angry mob violence move.

🤷🏽‍♀️ Yet another way LLMs damage the social fabric hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

I need some people to stop treating public opinion as an un-moved mover of politics, and instead identify strategies not for following public opinion but for leading it.

we need evidence of two things: first, that trump can distinguish fantasy from reality and second, that trump is actually president

@nberlat.bsky.social: “Comey was arguably one of the first consequential establishment figures to comply in advance with Donald Trump. For his trouble, and his pivotal role in vaulting Trump to power, he has now been targeted by Trump’s Justice Department for a politically motivated indictment.”

There is a difference between righteous anger, directed at injustice, and hateful anger, directed at those who are different. Authoritarian regimes deliberately conflate the two to silence criticism and create false equivalence. It's important we don't let those in power succeed in this endeavor.

"Infrequent voters are voting. It's a very low-trust environment. So the traditional left-right spectrum and going moderate on issues, it's not as clear. Anybody saying, 'I can win the election by tweaking positions" slightly is selling you something," says @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social.

We have allowed the lazy, grifting Silicon Valley charlatans into the front door, & in doing so, we have learned just how many of our own colleagues & administrators simply are not interested in the actual business of education. It's incredibly demoralizing. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

I'm *genuinely* not sure whether this is a terrible ad for a real product or the most clever ad ever made for a new season of Black Mirror: friend.com h/t @owasow.bsky.social

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Magazines. The only thing you can say from nine months of 2025 data is that right-wing terrorism appears to be sharply down this year. I wonder why that is? 🤔🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Good points if you exclude validity of task-accomplishment, increasing fraud potential in teaching / research & associated time costs, dependency on non-academic AI producers or exploding energy costs for universities, & increasing over-use of natural resources from "AI's role in science".

When I first became vegetarian, it wasn’t because I thought killing animals was always wrong. It was because I learned about factory farming and the immense suffering we inflict on sentient beings when we raise and slaughter them for food.

I will say this--from the banking houses of the Renaissance to the entertainment megacorporations of today, when a large money-making enterprise underwrites great art, it's usually by accident. We shouldn't be surprised when the people at the top turn into the bad guys of their own stories.

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

Meet the New 2025 APSA Council Members Congratulations to the newly elected APSA Officers and Council Members! Officers and Council Members began their terms in September following the conclusion of the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting. The Rules and Elections Committee report on the election is available…

Far from being self-aware, Google Chrome's new "AI" mode doesn't know its own name or that it exists. Also problematic: like all products being marketed as "AI" right now, it is in no way AI.

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

watching kimmel tomorrow

I'm quoted here on an issue I've been raising for years now: the dire economic implications of democratic decline. Business has been painfully slow to recognize the risks --- so it is really, really good to see business reporters covering the story.

My book w/@profsorelle.bsky.social will be out in January! These ideas have brewed since I interned at Queens Legal Services 20 years ago. The book is for anyone who cares about people, justice, power & democracy. Much more to share more in the coming months! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Writing by hand activates your brain differently than typing. Taking a walk or a drive lets your mind wander. Has A.I. fixed these problems for you. Do you no longer need to activate that part of your brain. Is there no longer a creative benefit to leaving the house and taking that walk.

It finally happened. My 16yo just rolled his eyes at me and said “Whateve!”

To "accelerate high-impact, curiosity-led research and innovation, and to facilitate breakthroughs" - let me tell you my students using genAI are NOT curious and what it is accelerated so far is lying, cheating and data fabrication

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Technology making great strides in beyond the grave elder abuse.

I will as well.

Super easy way you can send a message, right now, from whatever device you're viewing this post on. #boycottdisneyabc

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

You can check out DVDs and audiobooks for free at the public library. It’s how we survived being a young military family trying to make ends meet when we couldn’t afford cable and long before streaming existed. Thrift stores also have tons of dvds. #BoycottDisneyABC

Here’s all the ways you can take action against Disney, ABC, Sinclair, and Nexstar for silencing Jimmy Kimmel and attacking free speech. Share WIDELY. #BOYCOTTDISNEYABC

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

More breaking news: standing up to bullies is still the right thing to do, always.

Breaking news: Standing up to bullies is the right thing to do, always.

This is sad for me -- Marvel movies and shows are pretty much the only thing I like. But I wouldn't be a good Marvel fan if I just turned a blind eye and refused to make a tiny sacrifice in the face of actual fascism. Stan and Jack and the rest taught us all better than that. #BoycottDisneyABC