The writers this season aren’t even trying anymore

By religious liberty being "under siege," he means it is an emergency that the American people and much of the judiciary reject his particular heresy, and so his king may rule by decree as an exception to the law.

If they were all documented, it's hard to imagine how this isn't another example of ICE using workplace as a proxy for determining who to bully and harass. I'm just glad Brett Kavanaugh thinks this is all above board.

This chaos also speaks to the growing awareness of the profound corruption of the Supreme Court. The excessive H1B fee is clearly illegal according to the text of the applicable statute. But no one can have any confidence anymore that it will ultimately be thrown out.

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

First time at the Rate

Ohhh . . . my god

FOR THE WIDOWS / FOR THE DOLLS / TIL I'VE ROBBED THE PALACE HALLS / TIL ALL THESE SHERIFFS FALL / AH SHOOT SHOOT MASTER ARCHER / AH SHOOT SHOOT GOOD MAN

99 nights in the forest ass halloween decoration, smdh

Fun Friday thought experiment: I'm not actually doing this, but hypothetically if you were putting together a syllabus for a Law of Railroads seminar, what would you want to include?

Can't wait to have Peter join us for professional responsibility in spring 2026!

Restricting visas doesn’t lead to hiring non-immigrants—it leads to hiring foreigners. For every H-1B visa rejection, multinationals add ~0.4–0.9 foreign employees, especially in R&D hubs like India, China, and Canada. via @florianederer.bsky.social

Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

New: The federal probe of Charlie Kirk’s killing has yet to find a link between Tyler Robinson & LW groups, per 3 sources familiar “Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

The problem with libertarianism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money

Hi @harpers.bsky.social can I pitch a new, updated open letter about free speech?

My colleague @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social had a great op-ed for MSNBC about the First Amendment and Jimmy Kimmel. Check it out!

Can't wait to see how Disney handles this in their next SEC filing.

H-1B extensions also purportedly covered by the $100K fee. That makes it a recurring expense, so many people who are on H-1B now would be forced to leave if this goes into effect. Absolutely devastating for Silicon Valley communities in particular.

becoming fully beaudrillard pilled. realizing the entire project of 5-4 has been in many ways detailing how conservatives have built a simulation of academic and legal scholarship, in order to live in a hyperreal world in which the constitution demands white supremacy

Hi @harpers.bsky.social can I pitch a new, updated open letter about free speech?

Dave Klion did a Harpers Letter where are they now 5 years later piece in May of this year: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Have deleted my academia.edu account (long overdue to be honest). Thread below explains how to do so and why, and I can confirm this method works, even if, like me, you've forgotten your password.

Saving a couple hundred bucks a year with all the subscriptions I’m canceling, so that’s nice.

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

Is this bad

Just putting this out there in case people don’t know of the case: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankin_...

Whatever the merits are here, you really shouldn’t upend the proxy voting system via a no-action letter

Who needs the 34 Act anyway

The first US-born leader of the Catholic church singled out the Tesla chief as an example of the kind of wealth he said was undermining 'the value of human life, of the family, of the value of society' on.ft.com/4653oC8

the gemeinschaft of the bezos fiefdom wapo and the sulzberger family business new york times verus the gessellschaft of the nikkei-owned financial times

Looks like the ICE presence in Chicagoland—and I emphasize the “land” part—is purposefully operating in a way as to avoid media coverage. By grabbing people here and there on city edges, outskirts & random suburbs, they don’t attract activity that generates coverage, let alone protest.

I get the Chicago malort thing. I get the giardianera thing. But I don’t get the Green River Soda thing

As public spectacle, as opposed to disciplinary practice or pedagogical tool, “good-faith debate” is effectively an oxymoron. It’s certainly not a feature of political discourse, which is (especially for champions of “debate”) a matter of hammering home talking points and slogans.

Before 8am is a bit early for the neighbor to have the Bluetooth speaker out

It’s mid September, which means it is time for the short film ROOM ON THE BROOM feat. Gillian Anderson

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

they should invent logging on that is good for you

Hey #FOIA nerds wouldn't it be cool if a bunch of agencies got FOIA requests for all call logs of agency bigwigs to or from this number? @muellershewrote.com @annabower.bsky.social

It would be nice to live in a functioning democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

this is as far as i can genuinely go on this

"free speech on campus" was always a disingenuous lie what they actually mean is our speech should be free from criticism and yours shouldn't be allowed at all, and anyone who claims otherwise is either lying or a rube

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

I think we should all at least prepare for the absurdist humor of overruling Humphrey’s on the shadow docket. Real 2025 energy.

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

NEW POLL says capitalism’s hold over the U.S. population is slipping. Only 54% of Americans view the economic system of capitalism favorably—the lowest percentage since Gallup began collecting data in 2010. trib.al/fDh7kQf

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Fundamental Interests Of United States Of America Would Be Irreparably Harmed If It Race-Based Harassment And Detention By Masked Thugs Were Even Temporarily Halted