Nothing in basketball should be the color of Pepto Bismol. And definitely not the court.

The government’s position is literally that the government itself is “irreparably harmed” by distributing funds What it means is that Trump’s political position is “irreparably harmed” by disbursing SNAP funds. This conservative SCOTUS majority won’t need any help to understand this.

Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system" Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla. Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207 Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765 www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...

While small colleges will have higher per-student operating costs, New College of Florida is blowing that out of the water. The state is asking more questions as their US News ranking is down 60 spots in recent years. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

In December 1865, 2500 Black Washingtonians petitioned Congress for the right to vote. "Experience teaches," they wrote, "that all reforms have their opponents. The same experience also teaches that apprehensions of evil arising from reforms founded in justice, are but seldom if ever realized."

Did Women Ruin The Workplace

Okay, a thread. (thanks to @mjsdc.bsky.social for posting on this case). The Court is lying through its teeth (precedent) - subtly changing its quote extractions to rewrite animus law and produce essential a new pro-animus "equal protection" doctrine. Here's how...1/

The requirement that challengers must show that a gov’t action “lacks any purpose other than a bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group” basically would mean all animus discrimination is constitutional. There is always some other “purpose.” This standard would overrule Romer and Cleburne.

My weight at birth is also a historical fact but I'm pretty sure it doesn't irreparably harm the United States not to include that on my passport.

FYI. Buses have been free in Chapel Hill and Carrboro North Carolina for over 20 years. See: chapelboro.com/news/news-tr...

This coming out at the same time as that Douthat what-ever-it-is is a chef’s kiss

Certain Fedsoc folks: “weeeelll, it depended on whether he owed allegiance to the United States as to be within its jurisdiction in a way not really intended by the framers…why do you ask?”

Shot: Chicago

This is an incredible opportunity to spend a year at CAC developing progressive constitutional scholarship. Apply to come work with me and my brilliant colleagues.

Don't worry about the Thanksgiving turkey costing too much, your relatives won't be able to get there so you can just buy a smaller bird 😀

We are think in the middle of “this election proves all my priors” takes and 🤢

Doctrinal mess. But if you stick to the idea that the Roberts coalition on the Court is pro-business, anti-regulation yet also pro-executive power, the tariff case cuts down the middle, with the balance probably tilting toward the pro-business (anti-tariff) side.

Oh my..just..wow

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Getting ready this AM for the Really Major Question Exception to the Major Questions Doctrine

The unitary executive theory allows the executive to lie to and defy the courts because...separation of powers...Madison said something or other one time to a friend...vigorous executive...

We are all living in Russ Vought's fever dream and it is a complete hellscape. Two of the main things that got people through the pandemic economic collapse (Trump I, if you recall) were UI and SNAP.

Linda Greehouse with an excellent piece on the tariff case (Learning Resources Inc. v. Trump) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

Priest, working legally in the US, serving prisoners and staff in Texas state prison system, detained by ICE The White House could start addressing the persecution of Christians if it noticed that it's lodged a big old timber in its eye

Judge VanDyke dissent in the eventual appeal

We’re backdating indictments now.

“'Narco-terrorist' is not a status in American law — not in the narcotics laws, not in the terrorism laws, and not in the laws pertaining to armed conflict." Federal definitions of terrorism do not refer to drug crimes and no U.S. narcotics or terrorism law authorizes the use of military force. /1

Mark Graber has a terrific review of Amy Coney Barrett's memoir in the @washingtonmonthly.com : washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/a...

A 2020 study found that Amazon—which shares owner Jeff Bezos with The Washington Post—is one of the largest employers of people on SNAP.

Plainly the admin is using a provision designed to *help* recipients to instead harm them. The problem is the reg's language may support that result. Here is the regulation. Note the final sentence: "No retail food store may single out coupon users for special treatment in any way." 🧵1/

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

Re-upping

Nice to see this in the WSJ

Apparently ICE didn't get the memo on anti-Christian bias. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Another Kavanaugh stop

NDAs should be void for public policy absent very limited use cases - closely circumscribed in scope and time to only the clear need for secrecy in way that has public benefit in aggregate

“More than 100 federal judges have now ruled at least 200 times that the Trump administration’s effort to systematically detain immigrants facing possible deportation appeared to violate their rights or was just flatly illegal …” Straightforward even for Politico. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

"'Much of the proposed instructional material is 'straight up John Birch talking points,' Cotlar said."

On this day in 1609, Matthew Hale was born. He became an English judge & lawyer. Hale thought husbands had a right to rape their wives & that women could be witches. While overruling Roe, the Supreme Court repeatedly cited Hale as a “great” and “eminent” legal authority. #WeTheMen wapo.st/3Yoia2F

Lincoln’s bathroom, originalism version www.waymarking.com/gallery/imag...

There are basic issues of democratic legitimacy when armed and masked men are defying the wishes of neighborhoods and cities of America.

BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the Trump administration likely illegally suspended SNAP benefits, ruling that at least reduced distribution is required to go forward under law using the $6 billion reserve fund. Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

Meanwhile… “Swalwell said he has referred multiple people to the DOJ for threatening his life and the lives of his family members. He added that the DOJ sent him a letter saying they were not going to prosecute the cases.”

Can we please dispense with mid-game interviews with coaches and managers?

A reminder here that these men and women have jobs, lives, and families they’re away from.

Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.

What are they expecting people to be so disturbed about in 2026 that they will need a military anti-riot squad?

This is good, but when people talk about this I want to emphasize: we have not run out of money for SNAP. The money is there, it has been allotted and saved specifically for this instance. Trump refuses to release the billions of dollars that Americans have already allotted to continue food stamps!

Wow. "Months after law firms made deals with President Trump to ward off punitive executive orders, the ethics committee of the District of Columbia Bar is warning that such arrangements may require firms to drop or obtain waivers from all clients who have interests at odds with the government."