As a teacher, I assigned papers on nonlinear escalation but honestly students would have gotten a better understanding from readings on gender and fascism.

Expanding the Supreme Court is the moderate position.

Under section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, that’s supposed to be the ballgame.

I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims

Why it matters: when the paper of record calls your existence a debate, that framing doesn't stay on the page. Republican officials, judges, Supreme Court justices, and anti-trans groups have all cited the Times to justify stripping trans rights. The coverage by the paper of record matters.

It wasn't just framing. It was who got to speak. As coverage turned, trans voices in the stories dropped sharply while opponents of trans rights rose. By 2026, opponents were quoted more often than trans people themselves. Trans people were spoken about, not to.

The utter failure of this war - and the surrender document Trump just signed - was completely predictable. This war was unwinnable and that's why so many of us opposed it from the start.

If you want to understand what the US is doing to Cuba right now as a result of the complete energy blockade since the beginning of the year. apnews.com/article/cuba...

omg ffs we just want healthcare

You know what’s also a time-honored tradition? Voting on whether or not to authorize a war.

This, side by side with news that the US may have killed victims of human trafficking in an illegal boat strike. The United States has a deep and abiding war crimes problem. It is morally intolerable. Demand that any national candidate have a plan for accountability and reform.

We need a new US foreign policy that promotes peace and solidarity Mu conversation with @ezraklein.bsky.social @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...

I've spent months speaking to current & retired Black service members about being part of the military in this political moment. What I found were officers and soldiers despondent at the resurgence of racism, yet often insistent that they were fighting for what this country could be, not what it is.

Read this whole piece.

“study of around 8,000 respondents concludes that women’s lower uptake of generative AI tools has little to do w/ skills or access. Instead, it is driven largely by how women perceive the broader societal risks associated w/ the new technology.”🧪 @josiecox.bsky.social

No, we have not fixed the mess we made.

NEW report shows Trump is spending $1 billion a day on war with Iran while military families pay the price at home. With sky-high grocery prices, military families are relying on local food pantries and emergency grocery support programs to put food on the table. Disgraceful.

Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

Serial killing as background noise.

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy.

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

Trump's aides are telling him that destroying Iran's infrastructure is fair game. They are wrong. They are advocating war crimes. Unfortunately, the targeting of infrastructure is far from new. See: "The Dangerous Rise of 'Dual-Use' Objects in War": papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

People don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced

“Three Hundred Habeas Cases in Which the Government Has Defied Court Orders” An extraordinary database of non-compliance, from @katherinepomps.bsky.social and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org for @lawfaremedia.org. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/thre...

Today, the Archive published a Disappearing Data Chronology--a timeline tracking changes in access to federal information under Trump, including major data losses and restorations, legal challenges to information takedowns, and threats to archival collections. nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi...

Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

Illiberal democracies often rely on formally democratic institutions like courts to maintain a false image of the state as protective of democratic freedoms.

As former CNO William Pratt said of Iwo Jima in 1945: "The expenditure of manpower to acquire a small, God-forsaken island, useless to the Army as a staging base and useless to the Navy as a fleet base ...." That expenditure, by the way, was almost 7000 dead Americans.

"the decline in [academic freedom in] the United States has been more rapid and pronounced, particularly in the last year. It has deteriorated by 50% from 2015 to 2025 and is now evaluated as moderate autonomy by country experts" academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Hurst, when asked if the Defense Department would have difficulty absorbing the planned 50% increase, said he was “pleasantly surprised” by how easily the Pentagon could spend it. “We had to cut down significantly to get to" $1.5 trillion, he said.

The restrictions Miller and Hegseth railed against were designed to prevent us from doing things like slaughtering children en masse.

I wrote about the US strikes on Iran in June for @nytimes.com. It seems that we're about to watch a replay, but this time it could be far worse. Like the June strikes, new strikes would be blatantly illegal under the U.S. constitution and international law. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up

Cannot repeat the Obama-era dodge of saying "we tortured some folks" and not holding accountable the torturers and especially the chain of command. You want to stop state-sanctioned crimes? Trials not words are the only way.

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

Presidents have said and done many terrible things: imperialist violence, regime change, and human rights violations. Trump unprecedented power that lets him act at speed, at home and abroad, in the digital age. Hobbes all the way down. @dandrezner.bsky.social www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Join me Monday to discuss "Conventional Deterrence of Nuclear Use" at Harvard Belfer MTA with @matthew-bunn.bsky.social! The piece always leads to fascinating conversations.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Of course we can win, over time. But so much has been lost.

The unemployment rate for Black workers soared to 8.3% in November. That's more than double the rate for white workers.

NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...