Truly honored to see There Is No Place for Us included in courses like @motorres.bsky.social's Race, Place & Inequality. So grateful to faculty who are bringing the book into their classrooms.

The NYT photo desk FTW. www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...

this shit is just beyond parody, man

JD Vance is that one unemployed friend who hits up the chat group at 2:26 a.m.

www.bojack2.com/2025/12/the-... #Portland #PDX

Ummmm Moses Mike said this without choking Ummm Elise Stefanik would like a word with you Pedo Protector

The Supreme Court yesterday issued a ruling allowing Texas to proceed with their new voting map, which shifts five Democratic districts toward the GOP in next year's mid-term elections. Last month, a lower court found the map to be racially gerrymandered.

A ridiculous coda to this story: A USTA source tells me that Trump wanted to hand out the trophy to the winner of the US Open men's final but the organizers said no and compromised by displaying the trophy on the balcony of the Rolex suite where he was sitting.

It has long been clear that unalloyed racism lies at the core of Trumpism, and he is becoming increasingly explicit about this. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...

www.rawstory.com/patel-girlfr... The guy who writes on bullets to implicate Democrats is using America as his personal ATM. Remove this putz, now. I don't have to use my taxes to help him get laid. Enough

An American journalist helped facilitate RFK Jr's ingratiation into Trump's world and kept secret disqualifying information on him that could have kept him out of major policy, which impacts millions of people.

STARES IN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE PROFESSOR MODE

Exactly. It's disingenuous to call it a purity test to say "You shouldn't be beholden to right-wing billionaires pushing right-wing policies and right-wing candidates." newrepublic.com/article/2039...

The CEO of Palantir.

The victimy no one understands me bullshit from the very rich and powerful is not a good look. Their comms advisers are failing to rein them in. Trust me, Alex, hush.

It might be funny coming from a person who does interviews for a living, but these tech guys need to sit down (in this case actually) and shut up. The more they talk, the more we see and what we see is unearned aggrievement and deep insecurity that manifests as exhausting arrogance.

Hassett on affordability: "We're making progress but it's gonna take a little bit more time to get the hole that Biden dug to be completely filled."

This turn can't come fast enough. This is such a deeply embarrassing time for educational leadership. Their priorities have no been student learning or wellbeing. The lack of due diligence is on them. Outsourcing decision-making to consultants, tech, & the MBA crowd was bad decision making.

Congress used to have the power of the purse and the power to declare war.

It's clear the administration thinks AI is a magic wand to be waved at the economy to stop it tanking.

cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans

Trans people suffer the most violence in prison. PREA was never enough but it’s just disgusting to roll it back.

Kevin Hassett on Trump: "He's the best communicator I've ever seen ... he's solving it seems all the world's problems, stopping wars and everything else"

The soundtrack to “O Brother, Where Art Thou” turns 25 today. Classic T-Bone. 🔥 @michaelsantoli.bsky.social

This is absolutely terrible from a media consolidation standpoint. These conglomerates need to be broken up. However, it does mean the Ellisons will not consolidate control. So there's a silver lining. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

This is no different than refusing to allow Obama to appoint Garland to the Supreme Court because a new president would take office in ten months, and then confirming Barrett eight days before the 2020 election. There are no laws, no rules, no norms, only Calvinball.

Kash Patel on Newsmax claims on Newsmax that the Biden FBI intentionally did not solve the pipe bomber case

Challenging article that I'm likely to distribute to my students. Don't agree with all of it, but it has some tough but on point observations about institutional culture in DOD, excuse me, D-O-WAR

BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.

If you’re curious about how our campaign livestream-fundraising strategy is going, @nathangrayson.bsky.social did a FANTASTIC deep dive. Especially appreciate him giving my producer, @ashadotb.bsky.social, the credit she deserves.

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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

I was listening to The Daily (bc someone else near me was), and they were talking abt ICE in Minneapolis, and they were saying it’ll be tougher for ICE there than in Chicago or LA bc a huge % of the Somalis there are US citizens. And I was like, why on EARTH do you think that’ll influence ICE?

"The District Court improperly inserted itself into an active primary campaign." It must be refreshing to wake up with each day a tabula rasa, with no awareness of anything that happened in between 238 years ago and 7am. electionlawblog.org/wp-content/u...

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

just an utter joke of a court.

Republican speakers 1996 to today: Newt Gingrich: Resigned in shame. Dennis Hastert: Child molester. John Boehner: Chased out by Freedom Caucus. Paul Ryan: Quit in disgust. Kevin McCarthy: Forced out by Freedom Caucus. Mike Johnson: To be chased out by Republican women.

something something Hunter Biden something something popular.info/p/update-tru...

There was no way this was gonna go well lol

"Thank you for putting a certain name on that building" -- Trump thanks Marco Rubio for naming a building after him

The former president of Honduras was sentenced to 45 years in prison for importing 500 TONS OF COKE into the US. Trump, who allegedly hates drug traffickers, pardoned him. The reason may have to do with a Thiel-backed, tech-right deregulated zone in Honduras. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year. Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

"Does this feel like or look like a well-run competent administration? It took them 10 months to discover that the United States doesn't grow bananas and that therefore if we tariff bananas that that's not going to bring banana factories on shore."

Everyone is twelve theory strikes again

I spoke to the New York Times in this great explainer piece by Charlie Savage www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

This one has always stuck with me, from November 2012. Truly cursed with the gift of prophecy

Bipartisanship is alive and well at [checks notes] a defense lobbyists’ holiday party. #hohoho