Faster than you can say “strongly worded letter”…

In Santa Barbara, California, an ICE goon point-blank sprayed a woman with pepper spray while she was filming. The woman required medical attention for a potentially pierced eyeball. 1/28/26

Today, we share an open letter from seventy-two University of Minnesota Law faculty addressing the federal government’s ongoing campaign of fear, intimidation, and violence against Minnesotans.

Here is the child’s drawing.

“Our demand is clear: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem... and Deputy WH Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them" AFGE National President Everett Kelley said in a statement. www.rawstory.com/trump-immigr...

Columbia Selects University of Wisconsin Chancellor as Its President www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/n... Congrats Jennifer!

I was struck today by this from Abigail Adams (writing to John in September of 1776), by the statue of her that stands at Quincy (MA) common

Filibuster murderers.

We TOLD you they were wrong on the facts and the law and would lose in court. We TOLD universities to stand firm on their commitments…1/? www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

globalnews.ca/news/1162087... Powerful speech by our neighbor to the north (and my college classmate)

A sliver of good news in the unrelenting darkness: ag.ny.gov/press-releas...

lots of political space to convert those “not sures” into somewhat supports and those “somewhat supports” into strongly supports on eliminating ICE. also, with a funding battle coming up, plenty of political space to say “no government funding unless we claw back last year’s new ICE funding”

“Minneapolis ICE shooter told longtime neighbor he was a botanist,” @people.com reports. "He said he worked with plants, as a botanist, so he lied about what he did," she said. people.com/ice-agent-jo...

Book I would swear an oath on.

David Myers has an important answer to colleagues who argued that it was shameful for UCLA to host a talk by a Palestinian-American human rights lawyer and law professor discussing whether Zionism is racist: Academic freedom means raising these questions, not silencing them. Link in comments.

ffs

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Here we go California

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Great piece by Amanda Shanor and Serena Mayeri.

As a historian, I have been torturing myself by watching some of the series that the White House in cooperation with Hillsdale College produced about American Independence (tellingly, they avoid the word "revolution"). There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try

Read the @aapf.org report Anti-Blackness Is the Point

“Things happen.” Just when I think he can’t shock me.

When we fight we win!! @uclafa.bsky.social @aaup.org

Larry Summers had an "insight" in an email to Epstein.

‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation

160 faculty from all 5 UC law schools signed this open letter detailing why the Trump demands to UCLA are unlawful, unconstitutional, and wrong: sites.google.com/view/uclawfa... Great to work with @fishkin.bsky.social @blakeprof.bsky.social @seanashiffrin.bsky.social on this statement.

Monday at noon @UCLA

Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor. And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...

@uclafa.bsky.social sued the Regents for refusing to release the Trump Administration’s demand letter and WON. Here it is: ucop.edu/communicatio...

Black? Check. Woman? Check. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

From London to Oxford, Mississippi today! eventcalendar.olemiss.edu/event/ariela...

The kids are all right. Administrators, please take notes. You can do this too!

Bravo MIT. May others follow! orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

www.eui.eu/events?id=58... Wednesday!

calmatters.org/commentary/2... Great piece by @blakeprof.bsky.social !

At Sciences Po Tuesday

Registration link in comments

I’m not even on threads but instagram keeps trying to send me there and this is what I saw! Jesus. “A terrorist group called Antifa”?!

My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

Outrageous.

Even Grok is calling the shooter a groyper. Lmao

Reading T. Thomas Fortune, Black and White. Wow!

If you’re in Paris…La séminaire "Politiques antidiscriminatoires" @ceri-sciencespo.bsky.social le 30 septembre 2025, 28 rue des Saint-Pères, salle Pierre Hassner (bâtiment B, 1er étage). I’ll present “Right-Wing Backlash and the Memory of a Colorblind Constitution in the United States.”

Mamdani is way ahead with NY Jewish voters, but you’d never know it from the @NYTimes portside.org/2025-09-04/w...

Emory announces it is closing its DEI offices. And, they put the responsibility for announcing it on Leah Ward Sears, former Georgia Supreme Court justice and the new interim president of Emory as of yesterday. "The standards are clear, and we must act accordingly." Well, not really, but.

This is a really important piece taking apart the false factual premises of the Trump Administration’s attack on UCLA. There was no “Jew Exclusion Zone” at UCLA.

Los Libros de la Catarata también en eBooks: 'Ser libre, ser negro. Raza, libertad y derecho en Cuba, Luisiana y Virginia', de Alejandro de la Fuente y Ariela J. Gross @arielagross.bsky.social ¿Cómo se convirtieron en "negros" los africanos que llegaron a las Américas? buff.ly/tFcq3tK

There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case. Academics: 1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... 2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...