Good news for transgender people at MIT. Unlike some prestigious universities, MIT has defied the Trump administration and refused its attempt to pressure the university into banning transgender people from bathrooms. The latest from reporter S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

It disturbs me how many of my Yale Law School classmates are working for this Administration. I learn of another one every week. A shameful and cynical choice that should be a permanent black mark for them after democracy prevails.

Presidents? SCOTUS gives them immunity. Corporations? SCOTUS makes it easier for them to pollute. Billionaires? SCOTUS says they can buy elections. But if you look Latino, speak Spanish, or work at a low wage job, SCOTUS says you can be abducted by masked agents. The legacy of the Roberts court.

the case against comey is an illegal, selective, vindictive prosecution. Trump vowed vengeance and retribution; prosecutors concluded there was no case against comey; Trump forced out the prosecutors & replaced them with a loyalist who got an indictment. The case should be dismissed before trial.

The 2020 Vanity Fair article about how Stephen Miller and Katie Miller (née Waldman) met lives rent-free in my head:

Wherein the pro-business party creates a stable and predictable regulatory environment

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents. But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.

I can’t speak for other professions, but I do know elite law schools teach anodyne conformity, not moral courage

ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/they...

This is all Jimmy Kimmel said:

The Ford Foundation -- which JD Vance expressly targeted in his speech -- hired Heather Gerken, constitutional law scholar and outgoing Yale Law School dean, as its next president. The selection looks prescient in retrospect.

Another underreported angle to ICE’s LG-Hyundai battery plant raid: The detained Korean workers were socioeconomic elites. Most were highly skilled workers from blue-chip Korean companies. That multiplies the impact of this blunder.

An underreported angle to ICE's LG/Hyundai battery factory raid: Three Japanese nationals who were assisting LG Energy Solutions were among those rounded up by ICE. Obviously, Tokyo isn't happy about this, either. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09...

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

“South Korea’s labour minister has said ‘not even prisoners of war’ would be treated as badly as hundreds of Korean workers detained by US immigration authorities following a raid at a Hyundai-LG battery plant in Georgia.”

This is indefensible. You can commend Kirk for engaging with dissenters in discussion and debate without preposterously elevating that to a full-blown positive appraisal of the way he practiced politics, which, in the main, involved being an indefatigable reactionary provocateur.

The following should be uncontroversial: The assassination of Charlie Kirk is a terrible crime. Political violence is corrosive to our democracy and only leads us further down the dark path we’re on.

Imagine how terrified you'd be as a Latino resident of L.A. If you go to Home Depot and look even slightly blue-collar, that alone is enough for ICE thugs to stop you and whisk you away from your family in an unmarked van. That's the on-the-ground reality that the Supreme Court refuses to see.

The thing about investing in public transit is that it *scales* — the more people use it, the better it gets. For everyone. Whereas the more cars there are, the *worse* everything about driving gets. Traffic. Parking. [Ever noticed that in just about every car ad it’s alone on the road? Yeah.]

Why strict readings of the Constitution make no sense: If you were drafting a new Constitution today, would you believe that you can draft rules that anticipate the state of society, the economy, and technology in the year 2263? (Heck no.)

You wonder if there’ll be a third rule to constitutional Calvinball: “The Fed is special, even if we can’t explain why.”

New research: 90,000 Americans die prematurely every year because of needless, preventable air pollution. Cheap clean energy (solar, wind, batteries) is the way to make this senseless carnage a thing of the past. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @jonathanpatz.bsky.social @howardfrumkin.bsky.social

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man? Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

If we emerge with a non-fascist society, each and every university administrator who Chamberlained or Vichied to any degree must be ruthlessly expelled from any position of responsibility or influence. Let their name be stricken from every tablet. They shouldn’t run a hot-dog stand.

Harrowing @spiegel.de cover story (in English, no paywall) on the starvation in Gaza: “Gaza - A Crime” www.spiegel.de/internationa...

ICE is sweeping up people with disabilities now, making no accommodations for them. www.latimes.com/california/s...

“May every day be another wonderful secret.”

The Texas officials' ineptitude contrasts with Kotaku Wamura, a Japanese mayor who insisted on building a floodgate to protect his town from tsunamis. He passed away in 1997. In 2011, the floodgate saved the town from ruin during the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna43018...

DOGE cut hundreds of jobs at the National Weather Service, but experts who spoke to WIRED say the agency accurately predicted the state's weekend flood risk. What’s more, they say it underscores the need to sustain funding to the crucial agency.

..there's no doubt that: As climate change supersizes weather extremes, we need MORE info to keep people safe, not less. More experts, instruments, models, research, etc: much of which is being reduced or cut. Timely, accurate science helps assess risks + make informed decisions that save lives.

And people told me I was overreacting in comparing the concentration camp to Auschwitz. They're not being subtle about what they want to do

As a San Diegan, it’s such a weird feeling to root for the Dodgers — but damn, they got it right.

The United States must not be drawn into Netanyahu’s illegal war against Iran. I will be introducing legislation to prohibit the use of federal funds for any use of military force in or against Iran without specific Congressional authorization, with an exception for self-defense.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

Every time I learn something about Minnesota's DFL politicians -- whether it's the late Speaker Melissa Hortman, Senator John Hoffman, or Governor Tim Walz -- I'm impressed by how good and decent they are. The rest of the country could stand to learn from them.

Turnout at the No Kings protest in San Francisco is estimated to be about 50,000 people. I was there, and I believe it: protesters as far as the eye can see. #nokings #sanfrancisco sfstandard.com/2025/06/14/s...

The Minnesota assassinations, the attempted arson at Governor Shapiro's home, and the violent arrest of Senator Padilla are all straight out of the Jim Crow terrorism playbook. Same goes with cops aiming for journalists covering the ICE protests. None of these are new tactics, just a new iteration.

Melissa loved her caucus and fought hard for them and Minnesotans. The world lost a great human being today and a great leader. (2/2)

"It gets somewhat lost in all the other high octane dimensions of this story that a raid on a Home Depot is literally an effort to arrest people who are eager to work and whose labor is in great demand. It’s about as far as you can get from just going after the bad guys, as the WH routinely claims."

Last night at the Governor’s Residence, we experienced an attack not just on our family, but on the entire Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This kind of violence has become far too common in our society, and it has to stop.

An overwhelming majority of Yale Law School's tenured faculty, as well as Dean Gerken, speak up to denounce the ongoing attacks on the rule of law. As a relatively recent alum, it's heartwarming to see our faculty -- whom I sincerely respect -- do the right thing.

Meanwhile, career federal employees have -- for decades -- formed water and coffee clubs because GAO policy prohibits using government money for water and coffee. Plus, those federal employees always pay the summer interns' share without making them pay.

The most on-the-nose subplot of the Trump tariff crash

⭐Attention Law Students⭐: Several student leaders have penned a letter calling on the legal profession to defend the rule of law. "The time to speak out and act in defense of the rule of law is now." You can review and sign the letter here. ⬇️ forms.gle/361fWqrhpEqJ...

Booker, Kim, and Murphy -- three good Senators who love their country. Baffled why there are not more in the chamber.

If these men had any sense of honor, they would already have resigned. The fact that they are all still in their jobs is just as damning as their terrifying and lawless incompetence.

It is an extremely dark moment for lawyers, the rule of law, and the country.