Looking to the future, the recommendations in this report are crucial. Will the Democrats listen? I’m not holding my breath. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Yet another blatant First Amendment violation by the Trump administration. At this point, I guess, who’s even counting? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/u...

Almost every day, The Guardian publishes detailed, credible reports of Israel’s ongoing crimes against humanity. Almost every day, The New York Times doesn’t. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Please avoid Starbucks starting today. Union baristas are striking over employment terms and unfair labor practices. Unionizing service industries is massively important for the future of our national politics, let alone the well-being of workers. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Trump is firing non-MAGA civil servants in blatant violation of federal law. He wants the Supreme Court to validate this power grab. He must be stopped. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/o...

My friend Alan Greenblatt — a profile in courage. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

I really wish our country had a political system that let us align with a party that actually reflected our values. But I guess a two-party system is essential for forcing broad coalitions that marginalize extremists. Oh wait. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My Labor Day reflections on solidarity and democracy: www.acslaw.org/expertforum/...

“How did big holes appear in shooting victim?” It’s basic writing, NYT. Subject, verb, object. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Conservative Rep. Andy Ogles used images of his stillborn baby to steal money from donors. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

I wrote this essay for Governing magazine about the ominous resonance of Kent State 1970 for L.A. 2025. www.governing.com/politics/fro...

Here’s an op-ed I wrote about Trump‘s attacks on free speech. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

If you’re one of the people who falsely tarred last year’s overwhelmingly peaceful protests against Israeli genocide as pervasively violent, you’re a MAGA foot soldier. This is your fault. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...

“So this is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

Here’s a fascinating piece by Jill Lepore about the historical roots of Muskism. It connects the dots of bro culture, tech libertarianism, capital, apartheid, and fascism. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...

Can Israel do anything that will make the liberal democratic world stand up and say “no”? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

It’s taken Trump less than three months to tank his party. Keep fighting! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“If . . . universities fail to defend free speech and scientific research now, future generations could lose their treasures to creeping authoritarianism.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...

Columbia and Paul Weiss have the First Amendment squarely on their side. When they cave to Trump, it’s because they’d rather thrive under fascism than stand up for democracy. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

I found this electoral data dive very enlightening. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...

I highly recommend this essay by my friend Jeff Melnick and his daughter Jessie Lee Rubin, which links the Trump assault on DEI, the anti-Palestinian assault on free speech, and the failings of liberal anti-racism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Palestinians are human beings, and starvation by blockade is the moral equivalent of taking hostages — except that starvation by blockade affects an entire population and denies even the possibility of keeping the victims alive. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...

The oligarchs are closing ranks. To be clear: The Democratic Party is fully complicit in this moment. For 30 years the party has run from working people and indulged big donors. Well, billionaires gonna billionaire. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Can people please stop acting like Trump’s support for Russian aggression in Ukraine somehow departs from the norms of U.S. foreign policy? Are we not in bed with Israel and Saudi Arabia? Did we not invade Iraq? Did we not train and arm Central American death squads? This is just what we do.

Here’s a great reminder of what the first amendment is for. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/u...

“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.” - Justice Robert Jackson

Weakness. apnews.com/article/dona...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/u...

I did not see “Joe Biden, hero to Rastas” coming. www.axios.com/2025/01/19/b...

Summary of the Supreme Court’s unanimous Tik-Tok decision: the government can wave its arms, yell “national security,“ and make the First Amendment go away.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The only reason our MAGA overlords don’t actually identify as Nazis is branding. Musk is a Boer. They have no moral qualms about killing whichever immigrants they can’t expel. Every person who voted for these monsters is another “good German.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/w...

If the French far right is so dangerous, why won’t Macron line up his supposedly centrist faction behind a left-of-center prime minister? Because his differences with the far right, like his entire political program, are far more about style than substance.

I wrote about Seth Moulton, Rahm Emanuel, James Carville and other more centrist Democrats blaming progressives for Harris's defeat. Their arguments, in terms of election analysis, are weak. But we are in the midst of an intra-party conflict with high stakes. wapo.st/3ZGh5UV

The NYT is bursting with breathless stories about Brian Thompson’s murder. I don’t recall a single NYT story about any of the countless people who have died from United Healthcare’s willful neglect. Some lives clearly matter more than others.

New happiness policy: If a post shows up in my feed by some person I don’t follow, making some bold declaration about a matter I think is arguable and then insulting anyone who disagrees, I’m muting the account. People like that are egotists who need to lose the attention they crave.

“I don’t know how your family will do under this fascist regime whose rise my many errors have enabled. But I still have power, so I’m taking care of mine. Good luck!”

Holy crap I never knew that this 1987 A Split-Second track, unreleased in the U.S., is an industrial disco rendition of Nixon’s resignation speech. MY WORLD NEEDED THIS.

I talked to SLPR’s Harshawn Ratanpal for this excellent story on the legal and political obstacles to minor political parties.

Barely a week, and victorious Republicans are literally covering up pedophilia. Great work, America!

I mean when BEN DOMENECH thinks you’re bad. BEN DOMENECH.

Summary: Trump’s going to attack universities, and they have it coming. The NYT’s toadying to our new MAGA overlords is a thing to behold.

This is exactly what genocide looks like.