Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"ICE officer seen on video pushing woman to ground has returned to duty" www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

FT: Several people said they expected the transaction to go through fairly easily. “.. What regulator is going to say no to the president’s son-in-law?" 🤡 @financialtimes.com $EA www.ft.com/content/61ce...

Moving into your house. If you want me gone you must fax me this notarized form in triplicate on the last thursday of a leap year; bsky.app/profile/abeb...

Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive: 2015: 332 2016: 383 2017: 347 2018: 335 2019: 414 2020: 611 2021: 689 2022: 644 2023: 659 2024: 503 So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days. We do not have to keep living like this.

this business model should be flatly illegal taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome ban it completely

More than 150,000 federal employees will leave the U.S. government payroll this week after accepting buyouts - the largest single-year exodus of civil servants in nearly 80 years, triggering what unions and governance experts warn is a damaging loss of institutional expertise.

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are. My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder. a.co/d/29c7EIP

NEW: Judge says Trump admin is overreading #SCOTUS emergency docket precedents. Judge Royce Lamberth (Reagan) pauses 500+ USAGM/VOA layoffs, says agency leaders may be in contempt. Also he's shocked acting head of VOA didn't know she was. w/@kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

McElroy called on the Catholic Church to “embrace in a sustained, unwavering, prophetic and compassionate way the immigrants who are suffering so deeply because of the oppression they are facing.”

The reason we're rounding up grandmothers and shoving them onto concrete floors for months at a time with no habeas corpus is in part because soft human trafficking is an incredibly lucrative business for some people in this administration.

coming back to this, what are we even doing with this funding bill negotiation or indeed any budget at all?

FBI's domestic terror watchlist expected to DOUBLE in size as a result of NSPM-7, the new presidential directive targeting "anti-Christian," "anti-capitalism" and "anti-American" speech: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Birthright citizenship's scope is not unclear in constitutional law. The words of the Constitution do mean what they mean and doctrinally, the issue has been reinforced by many legal precedents over and over at SCOTUS. Here's a brief by two historians tracing the history. 1/

Taught the Salem witchcraft trials in class last week. Just noting that there is serious concern *in the 21st century* about whether a hex was responsible for someone’s death.

Fascinating stat in this old state dept video about college attendance declining 53% over five years in Germany in the 1930s after the Nazis came to power in 1933. Part of the war on truth.

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

“Is it that the Chief Justice doesn’t accept that the Court is losing credibility on a daily basis; that he thinks the Court doesn’t need that credibility in order to fulfill its intended role in our constitutional system; or that he doesn’t care?” Me on John Roberts as his Court turns 20 today:

Or Russia. Not a coincidence that dissidents from authoritarian nations and reporters that covered those places have been waving their arms over what the Trump White House has been doing since 2017 while most US opposition and media have been sedately concerned. It’s not confusing to us at all.

Media and Dems are still getting this badly wrong: Trump is deeply unpopular! Recent approval numbers: 38-54 (Quinnipiac) 39-60 (AP) 40-56 (Gallup) 41-58 (Reuters) 39-56 (Economist) On the pod, @lakshya.splitticket.org explains these numbers brilliantly. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2010...

Regular reminder that behind damn near every large-scale "Automated" "AI" system is a team of underpaid and otherwise exploited humans. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Congrats to Moldova!!! Russia threw everything to destabilize the election and failed spectacularly. Democracy won 🙌🏼

“When … DOGE initiated its … spree, federal offices lost, on average, about 10% …. Within the Office of Fair Housing, the reduction was 65% …. More concerning … 100s of cases … halted or dropped…. ‘This is a deliberate plan, & it’s about shutting down fair housing.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...

"Presenting music from 1687 through the 1860s in modern treble clef and banjo tablature, along with the rich stories behind each song, Gaddy and Giddens take readers on a journey from the Caribbean across the Americas." This book looks absolutely wonderful for musicians and historians alike.

But the left needs to tone down the rhetoric?

For #CoffeeWithACodex (Zoom, 12pm Noon ET) On October 2, Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 1057, an illuminated Ferial psalter containing the psalms, antiphons, hymns, short chapter readings, and other prayers. It was written in Trento c. 1350. Register here: https://bit.ly/4pAYgx6

Now that Trump and Stephen Miller have ordered troops into Portland based on a laughably manufactured pretext, this exchange with Steve Bannon is newly relevant:

Welcome Week starts tomorrow My excitement for working with our students is mixed with dread: an update from our SMT is expected on Friday 3 October 👇

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

By observing and recording peacefully, we can ensure that any violations of the law are brought to light and those responsible are held accountable.

Whether it be in Broadview here in Illinois or in Portland, Oregon, the Trump Administration is intentionally creating chaos to threaten sending military troops to American cities and suburbs.

Yep.

Captain Dylan Blaha has a message for the fascist authoritarian Trump regime and all military service members. 🙌🙏💪👏✊️👇

Live from "war ravaged" Portland

Political corruption hurts ordinary Americans in concrete ways, and the risk has never been greater given today’s unprecedented mixing of private wealth with political power. Here's what we can do about it: bit.ly/4mbQKqv

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

This is probably my favorite tweet in this genre. We've always been at war with AntifaSuperSoldiersWhoWillBeheadWhiteParents

👇🎯 These people will never stop trying to get rich by telling everyone they can learn & teach w/o doing the actual hard work of learning & teaching. They peddle fake alternatives to the hard daily grind of education because they're greedy & lazy. They're charlatans, & we should treat them as such.

Left: Curtis Yarvin, "philosopher-king" of the Thiel/Vance New Right excitedly shares the 1961 Reuther memo that "exposes" the way Communist liberals have squelched genuine opposition. Right: Billy James Hargis, ca. 1963 excitedly shares the 1961 Reuther memo that "exposes" the Communist conspiracy.

Scientists say Twitter has lost its edge and Bluesky is taking its place | Coverage of our paper in PsyPost

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

This year's Supreme Court term will be a historic one for the future of presidential power and our system of checks and balances. Join us on Sept. 30 at 3pm ET for a virtual event with experts and longtime Court watchers as they break down some of the major cases on the docket. RSVP: bit.ly/4nKeDFP

public goods "47% have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher ed institutions, w a net positive rating of 33—up 13 points since 2023. more confidence in higher ed than in the police (44%), the medical system (38%)+large tech companies (25%)" www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

"Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking. There’s no point in resisting, not at first. You just make do with whatever breathing room you still have—until you lose that too." Read Gisela Salim-Peyer: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Sedition? What are we, a monarchy?

I wrote about John Roberts as the chief enabler of the prosecution of James Comey—and how his jurisprudence gives cover to other sham investigations and prosecutions, like that of Lisa Cook, that judges simply have no power to second-guess for corrupt motive. nymag.com/intelligence...

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

Call for Papers - Legal History in Asia and Beyond: Lessons from the Past for the Present 17-18 March (Hong Kong) & 23 March (Oxford) 2026 (participants can join in either location) Deadline 31 October 2025 www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...

Well, if we’re going to prosecute people for lying to Congress…