Too many treat loss of public education as unfortunate collateral damage. But there is no greater democratic institution than the one responsible for renewing faith in and principles of democracy for each generation.

The Supreme Court made up the "major questions doctrine," under which the Court gets extra powers when things are a Big Deal and what's a Big Deal is up to the Justices. Why not make up a new "signature policies" rule where a president can put things beyond the court's reach, like a franchise tag.

“Eva has entered the chat: Ohio debuts AI election assistant” electionlawblog.org?p=153038

1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵

New from @francescadnunz.bsky.social: Texas Department of Public Safety and ICE signed a pair of agreements that will authorize state police within DPS’s Criminal Investigations and Highway Patrol divisions to effectively operate as ICE agents, on a statewide basis.

"The longest government shutdown in history....threatened food assistance for 43 million Americans, a stark reminder that the people affected are often not those in the halls of power," @kornbergmaya.bsky.social, author of forthcoming book Stuck, wrote in @thehill.com. bit.ly/3Xz0obS/

Tuesday's the big day

The biggest little scandal in Washington right now is how bad Patel is at being FBI director.

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youngkin serving the commonwealth by conspiring with the white house to destroy one of its flagship educational institutions

Such an important point, from p. 11 of Jim Ryan's letter (link below). Universities, law firms, & NGOs have been inundated w EOs & other demands since Jan. 20th insisting that they cease any behavior inconsistent w the "president's priorities." But the president is not the law, not in this country!

my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia

No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs

“Lawmakers who once championed hemp now want to criminalize it again—not because it’s dangerous, but because they don’t trust adults to make their own choices. That’s not public health; it’s paternalism dressed up as policy.” Jeffrey Singer @cato.org #drugwar

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

NEW: The Nevada Supreme Court has revived the criminal case against the Trump 2020 fake electors, ruling that AG Ford was correct to bring the case in Clark County. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Tremane Wood is alive in spite of the Supreme Court, which, this morning, rejected his request to block Oklahoma from executing him at 10am as punishment for a murder he did not commit Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt commuted the sentence to life in prison at 9:59 ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trema...

Today was publication day for my new article! "How Workplace Equity Laws Perpetuate Inequity": arguing that when work laws benefit some people but not others, the burden to prove membership in a group perpetuates the inequities that the law wanted to solve. open.mitchellhamline.edu/cgi/viewcont...

“Texas A&M University System regents voted Thursday to limit how instructors may discuss matters like gender identity and race ideology in classrooms, tightening the rules in a conservative state where debates over academic freedom have flared for months.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

"The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about random vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in illegal US military strikes." Funny how more honest language is also more concise.

What an incredible honor and privilege it has been to teach American Constituonal Law at the University of Warsaw. Our common bond— a love for democracy and appreciation for the rule of law— is important to foster and strengthen, especially when there are challenges to our shared cherished values.

Jesus Christ, I would have been fired into the sun by the US Attorney if I pulled this shit

Ninth Circuit hands down revised opinion in US v. Steinman, the cross-enforcement case from March, on panel rehearing. Revised op: cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op... #N

NEW: An overlooked detail in SCOTUS' recent 2nd Amendment decision may provide a solution to the constitutional uncertainty surrounding state-issued domestic violence restraining orders. Eric Ruben explains:

The Epstein emails make clear how little powerful people care about victimizing girls. There's also this NYT story on a 17 year-old girl (allegedly) victimized by Matt Gaetz. The girl turned to sex work to afford braces. She also lived in a homeless shelter. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

I was excited see that my new book, We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality, received a “highly recommended” review from Choice Reviews. #WeTheMen

Remember the last time a candidate for New York City Mayor proposed eliminating fares on city buses? Yes, I am talking about Michael Bloomberg in 2009. archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blo...

Justice Sam Alito was v disturbed yesterday by the mere possibility that judges might be using the federal compassionate release statute to *checks notes* grant incarcerated people's requests for compassionate release ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ferna...

For far too many families, the cost of childcare is driving them out of the city they love. New Yorkers deserve to be able to afford to raise families here.

The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

More cruelty: "The Trump administration has developed plans for a wholesale shift in homelessness policy that would slash support for long-term housing programs.. it could quickly place as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people at risk of returning to the streets." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

"On the first question, several jury members struggled to stifle laughter as Lairmore expanded on the hoagie’s alleged explosive properties. 'It was like, Oh, you poor baby,' the juror told me." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Oh. I see. Brett. ⚖️‼️

If you'll be in Austin for @texastribune.org's #Tribfest2025, don't miss @aliciabannon.bsky.social on stage and in conversation with the Texas Supreme Court's three most recent former chief justices. Saturday November 15, 1-2PM CT bit.ly/4i0gNQj

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

Catholic bishops nationwide recently announced “You Are Not Alone,” a program that lays out ways for Catholics across the country to provide direct aid and solidarity to immigrants in the U.S.

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

To that end ...

Two days after the 2016 election, Epstein returns to New York City from Paris. "trump gives many new things to do"

It really is strange how little Epstein coverage there is, and how much of the stuff reported this year was available in some form for years before. Like, DropSite News is the only one covering this part of it? www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-sp...

Kim on AI and the Collapse of Civilization Yoochul Kim has posted AI Chernobyl and the Collapse of Civilization: Diagnosing and Rebuilding the Architecture of Trust in the Age of Artificial Intelligence on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper argues that unchecked advances in artificial…

Looks like Epstein was on his way to a brilliant law review article. #Satire

Epstein on the travel ban: "he won and his people won, this is what his people want. cant be sore losers."

This appears to be Epstein's response to @jkbjournalist.bsky.social's Miami Herald report — www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a... — and involves a discussion with Michael Wolff about "plac[ing] a story." Wolff: "They've won the high ground—young, vulnerable, poor girls."

Here’s the single frame from the video where you can see clearly a masked Border Patrol agent with one hand on the steering wheel and the other hand outside the window spraying pepper spray randomly into the open window of a passing car.