Highly recommend this episode, especially the interview with Kim Lane Scheppele!

1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox Eversource Energy Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft

Endless Column, by Constantin Brâncuși, 1938, 📸 by @stephenmally

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

Excited to share that we’re hiring! We are now accepting applications for two full-time Research Fellow positions in modern/contemporary history in Washington, to begin in June 2026. More details available here: www.ghi-dc.org/news-show/tw...

Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall

I hope this reaches you.

It's driving me batty that nobody except Heather Cox Richardson, the Washington Monthly, and myself is covering Trump's race to sell off (for likely demolition) "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal," w/ murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, etc. I've furnish links below to help reporters get started.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

“Incredible”. Only a year after the last dam was removed, Chinook salmon have reached the headwaters of the Klamath River to spawn. A River Restoration in Oregon Gets Fast Results: The Salmon Swam Right Back www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/c...

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

To say what is happening makes you sound like a crackpot on a forum. A federal judge is enjoining the president from unlawfully sending federalized soldiers to invade the states of his political opponents against their will.

One of the delights of working for the Voice of America in the Cohen Federal Building was the New Deal era frescoes and murals. Along with VOA and its staff, it now appears these treasured American works of art are to be a DOGE casualty. newrepublic.com/article/20120... #SaveVOA

Judge SLAMS the masking of federal agents in ruling finding Trump admin violated pro-Palestine protesters' rights: "To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Is there an app to keep track of American mass shootings

Distributed in North America by @uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

On my library’s lucky day shelf: Leah Litman’s “Lawless” next to “Never Flinch” by Stephen King. Note the drawing of Lady Justice. @strictscrutiny.bsky.social @leahlitman.bsky.social

When I feel on the edge of burnout, I remind myself to listen to what the soul needs—the soul, that ancient thing that we silence, ignore, and deny. I hope this poem helps you find a moment with your own soul amidst the madness of our world.

Issue-specific targeted checkpoints like DUI checkpoints can be constitutional, but a generalized roust-everyone-for-anything checkpoints are definitely not. There may be an exception for a special purpose to help a career sex pest and rapist evade attention to his connection to a serial pedophile.

The Michigan @aclu.org is looking to hire a senior staff attorney. These jobs don't come around that often, and they've got a great team -- wanted to make sure folk saw it! www.aclumich.org/en/jobs/staf...

A new mural has been unveiled in the French city of Roubaix to mark #July4th. (🎨 Judith de Leeuw)

Today, the Getty Villa Museum reopened after nearly 6 months of closure due to the Palisades Fire. We've missed you, Los Angeles! So happy to see you again.

Holy shit, New York! Here’s the full view. #NoKings #50501Movement

Oklahoma receives about $3 billion more in federal spending than it pays in federal taxes. That's nearly $8,000 per Oklahoman--only 9 states have a higher per capita balance of payments. Subsidies from MA, NJ, WA, CA, and a few others are how OK remains a "low tax state."

Re-reading Justice Robert H. Jackson's famous speech on the dangerous discretion of federal prosecutors in light of the dubious indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This section stood out. www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-w...

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

Federal funding, university scientists, decades of research before discovery - all things this admin is committed to eradicating. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

He died shortly after completing this and is buried with her, at the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. I didn’t realize until today that he was the son of Joseph Story, legal scholar and US Supreme Court justice.

After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/5)

If you're confused about the process of the papal conclave, I've written a simple guide that answers (most of) your burning questions. Enjoy! charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/my-simple-...

Any human mood can be described accurately by a Mark Rothko painting.

Trump's dismantlement of the Civil Rights Division, and its transformation of the rump that remains into a right-wing grievance engine, was a big motivator for my newsletter last week arging for the importance of the private plaintiffs' bar. buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

Very eye-opening piece here. In a nutshell, Bukele cut a deal with MS-13 to operate freely but with less violence, Trump sends indicted MS-13 bigwigs back to El Salvador for kid glove treatment and dismisses charges that would have exposed all this. Security theater for all involved.

Reminder: this is the same plan Russian operatives offered to Paul Manafort in exchange for their help getting Trump elected in 2016. (See Manafort’s testimony in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report.)

Crazy crowd of 35,000 at the AOC & Bernie Sanders rally in LA. 😳👏 #FightOligarchy

Sign of the day…Chicago

“The American age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it.”

If you are not watching @booker.senate.gov right now, drop everything and turn him on. History in the making.

So a politician is convicted of a serious crime, and then can't run for the presidency. Weird idea, but worth a try. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/w...

As usual @vermontgmg.bsky.social gives us the most cogent and understandable analysis. Worth your time to read this.

In re: absolutely nothing going on in the world: The SLA team at Earthjustice is looking for an early-career attorney to join us as an Associate Counsel. DC preferred. 1-5 years of experience including any clerkships. Salary is based on experience; range is $106,400-$125,300 in DC.

In effectively a single blink of the historical eye, we’ve seen our entire constitutional system simply … stop. We can clearly see what’s happening is wrong—illegal and unconstitutional—and the actors who can do something about that just … aren’t. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-s-...