Faculty doing what the administration won't- defending the institution.

The Supreme Court once again butchers equity and the law of stays in the course of making the world a worse place. And Justice Jackson is once again there to call them out on it with an opinion that will be a must-teach in any Remedies class www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Interesting article in Mother Jones: Eugenics Isn’t Dead—It’s Thriving in Tech. In her book Predatory Data, Professor Anita Say Chan looks at the history and current use of data in devaluing human beings along eugenicist lines. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

That’s the second reported and sourced story on US soldiers not being fed today

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

It feels a bit weird to post right now in light of what has happened to @teenvogue.com and so much of the incredible team there. What sources shared here is important, & I’m grateful I got to work on this. I reported on how young people are being impacted by delays to SNAP: “It’s about survival.”

Abominable.

Over 70 million Americans are set to lose SNAP benefits on November 1 if the shutdown continues. 86% of households receiving SNAP benefits include children, elderly and/or someone with a disability. If you can, please consider donating to a food bank.

Upon reading this: omfg

every university admin that is selling out trans people now—just like every one that sold out anti-genocide protestors before, with UCLA maybe more disgusting than any of them—is telling you what they will do to literally any other group of people in the way of their salaries & privilege

At long last, and after untold legal fees, UC has released the DoJ's proposed settlement terms to UCLA. Over $1B in fines, invasive monitoring, ideological vetting of international students, exclusion of trans athletes, etc. This would destroy the university as we know it. ucop.edu/communicatio...

Here is the source - which used government docs for their reporting: popular.info/p/ice-boosts...

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

Millions took to the streets yesterday to be heard and that matters. But the real work happens everyday in our communities. Get organized, lead with love, and move in solidarity. We got us.

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

We have a choice: 👉Deploying National Guard to D.C.: over $1.8 million per day 👉👉Deploying National Guard & Marines to LA: over $2.2 million per day 👉👉👉Deploying 20,000 National Guardsmen for one year: projected to cost $9.9 million per day Voting in midterms 🗳️: Priceless and you #savedemocracy

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

In a response essay invited by Ohio State Law Journal, co-author Michael Nunn @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social '24 and I address labor activism that embraces bold new organizing models amid political polarization, steep corrosion of the rule of law, and open antagonism toward LGBTQIA+ communities. /1

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025

🚨: "allowing ICE to use to spyware 'threatens Americans’ freedom of movement and freedom of speech'”

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

A 🧵 for a wholly positive task, for a change @academic-chatter.bsky.social. For an awards nominations committee I've joined, what rubrics have worked well for your review committees? Here, #disability books, by junior +senior scholars. Global reach and a range of awards, so all welcome.

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.

The question journalists need to be asking is: WHY is the government trying this? It’s because they want to control universities in unlawful ways that courts will not allow; it’s not working; so they’re trying to get universities to sign up “voluntarily” for unlawful levels of government control.

It appears that my employer, Dartmouth, one of the Trump 9, has said no to the compact. All the better given that our president is cited within it. But she’s saying no. Count the small victories when they come.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

that's so weird, john roberts assured me the immunity decision meant this would not happen??

Four reporters to come up with this absolutely unhinged framing. People with autism are not a "problem to be solved." They are human beings who should be supported. Polio debilitating and killing thousands of kids annually was a "problem to be solved," and Jonas Salk did that... with a vaccine.

These Project 2025 videos were intended to train a second Trump administration’s political appointees "to be ready on day one." Last August, ProPublica & @documented.net obtained 14 hours of the videos, which covered everything from passing new regulations to rooting out left-wing language:

#ICYMI: The Trump administration has been pushing its anti-trans agenda globally at the United Nations. U.S. delegates objected to use of the word “gender” in U.N. documents during forums on topics as varied as women’s rights, science & tech, global health, toxic pollution and chemical waste.

Next up from Society for Disability Studies, 🍂 Mon. October 6th: "Disruption & Strategic Engagement: Bridging Critical Pedagogy and Disability Activism" feat. Sara M. Acevedo and Suzanne Stolz. Register here: bit.ly/4gtwiiQ

If having a felony conviction on your record doesn’t disqualify someone from being the President, it shouldn’t disqualify someone from voting. People with felony convictions should be able to vote.

@joyannreid.bsky.social is asking the right question.This may be the most dangerous period.When the dog catches the car & realizes he can’t open the doors or satisfy its hunger. Now there’s rage, snarling and vicious humiliation at having exhausted itself pursuing something that has no real meaning.

Such wonderful convos and questions in presenting Race-Conscious Data @apsa.bsky.social #APSA2025. And glad I brought print-outs of the piece - old tech to go with the new!

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Enjoying a few gems already from Du Bois Review, courtesy of @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org Open Access journals at #APSA2025. Poli sci journals should be an easy crossover for @cambup-law.cambridge.org at AALS2026.

Courtesy of APSA2025, I learn of Canada's alt-Heritage Foundation, the Fraser Institute: "Economic Freedom of North America 2024" ranks degree govts "permit their citizens to make their own economic choices." NY + CA ranked second to last in freedom, while FL, TX, and NV ranked as "most free."

There's now a name for (some of) what's going on with the anthropocene: defensive disbelief.

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.

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Immigration agents this week arrested at least two people in the vicinity of the county’s domestic violence-focused courthouse, sparking fears that the enforcement action would have a chilling effect on people seeking orders of protection and other forms of help at the downtown courthouse.

graphic that i think about when i need motivation to keep masking and encouraging others to mask

This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...

9. Michigan’s AG has shown one path forward: warning institutions that capitulation itself may be unlawful. If more AGs follow that lead, they could tip the balance, compelling schools and hospitals to resist rather than retreat, and ensuring that trans lives are not treated as bargaining chips.