“Mr. Johnson underscored that the new fee would also affect workers in the medical & manufacturing industries as well as at universities who receive H-1B visas. “The numbers of companies & industries where H-1B workers play a really critical role is incredibly broad” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...

“Mr. Trump’s unabashedly public and explicit orders to Ms. Bondi were an extraordinary breach of prosecutorial protocols that reach back to the days following the Watergate scandal.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Big story in the battle between Brussels and Big Tech: The EU is poised to exclude Meta, Apple, Google and Amazon from a new system to share citizens’ financial data, in the face of Trump’s retaliation threats @bmoens.bsky.social & @paolatamma.bsky.social with the news on.ft.com/46tA9Yv

Breaking: Gov. Newsom signs laws to resist Trump's immigration crackdown, including ban on masks for ICE agents. Will the state be able to enforce them? https://cal.news/4gyQyiT 📸 Ted Soqui

“President Trump on Friday said that the federal government would begin adding a $100,000 application fee for visas given to skilled foreign workers, a significant overhaul of how the United States distributes what are known as H-1B visas.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

“This new technology is making it harder for me to make a living driving for Uber”, writes Daryush K-Mobarakeh in the Chronicle. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... A lot of chatter on the r/uberdrivers Reddit... Think this would interest you @alexhanna.bsky.social and @veenadubal.bsky.social

“In 1963..Supreme Court drew a constitutional line. The gov’t is free to encourage and persuade private entities to support its policies…But the First Amendment forbids the government from using coercion backed by threats of punishment to suppress speech.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

JUST NOW: NYC Comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social was arrested by DHS police a SECOND time at 26 Federal Plaza. Lander refused to leave the 10th floor until he was allowed to inspect ICE holding cells there. He was arrested with 10 other state elected officials.

Federally funded research prevents violence! The Trump admin’s funding cuts make it harder for researchers like Annelise Mennicke to work with students and innovate new strategies for violence prevention. @aft.org #science #defendhighered #violenceprevention #AcademicSky

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

In Their Own Words: Trump and Top Officials Change Tone on Free Speech: “administration officials promise to go after anyone they accuse of hateful or even uncivil commentary about the conservative activist [Kirk] and his Republican allies.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Interesting: “An extensive body of research shows no correlation—or even a negative correlation—between how students do on objective learning assessments and how they score their professors.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I am very, very tired.

Insanely honored to be associated with these brilliant folks. Still not totally sure this is real.

“A.A.U.P. & a coalition of labor [unions] sued the Trump administration, [to stop] the govt from “continuing to use the unlawful threat of fed funding cuts…to illegally coerce the U.C. into suppressing free speech and academic freedom rights.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

“Mr. Trump and his top officials have promised a broadside against the political left, indicating that they would go after liberal groups like George Soros’s Open Society Foundations and the Ford Foundation” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...

Proud that my @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social colleague @veenadubal.bsky.social is on the papers - The national @aaup.org campaign is extraordinary, as is the number of unions and faculty associations brought together in defense of the UC.

I'd like to commend the lawyers who wrote this complaint on behalf of the professors and employees of the University of California against the Trump administration. It's a sober legal document with strong claims, but also, this is a fight for public opinion, and this reads like the writers know it.

So much joy and unity today! The UC is US!!!!!

Here’s a copy of the 123-page lawsuit UC faculty associations and unions filed against President Trump today: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Facing a proposed $1.2-billion fine and severe medical research grant cuts at UCLA, the University of California has not gone head-to-head with Trump in court. So on Tuesday, groups representing more than 100,000 of its employees did. www.latimes.com/california/s...

[PRESS RELEASE] Broad Coalition of Faculty, Staff, Students, and Unions Unite to Defend University of California System From Trump-Vance Administration Assault ucaft.org/news/broad-c...

Me: “What’s so striking here…is that this is allegedly all about antisemitism, & almost nothing in the demand letter is actually about addressing antisemitism..Nor does it even reference or discuss all the things that universities have done to address alleged antisemitism.” wapo.st/4ns7UQI

“Pam Bondi provoked a broad backlash this week after…claiming she had authority to investigate businesses that refused to print memorial vigil posters for the conservative activist Charlie Kirk” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...

A coalition of higher ed unions jointly filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin for the threats to the University of California including @uaw4811.bsky.social @afscme3299.bsky.social @uptecwa.bsky.social @ucaft.bsky.social @teamsterslocal2010.bsky.social @aaup.org @aft.org @uaw.org and CUCFA.

BREAKING: A historic coalition of national & California labor unions led by the AAUP filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the illegal & coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system & the rights of their members.

Here's the complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Much respect to the AAUP and the other unions who filed this case. Thank you @veenadubal.bsky.social & co!

On behalf of the AAUP, I am so honored to share that today we joined our sister UC unions in a wall-to-wall lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the use of Title VI as a cudgel to bend the University of California in its ideological vision. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Today, I had an amazing, unexpected surprise. My big sister came to UC Irvine and sat in on my lecture! It was an amazing, memorable moment. I’ll never forget it. 😭❤️ love you @denadubal.bsky.social

Wall-to-Wall UC labor union rally tomorrow in front of the UC Regents meeting. Our message to Trump: Hands off our UC!!

“Hundreds of South Korean workers who had been detained in shackles in the United States landed in their home country on Friday, met by their family members who applauded and tearfully hugged them.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...

The Prospect's @emmarjanssen.bsky.social is at a protest at an ICE detention center in Illinois where ICE agents are forcibly removing protesters. Video here:

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

Our grandfather, Chandulal Dubal, was born 100 yrs ago today He died prematurely of a cancer most likely caused by the toxic dyes that the family used to hand dye the bandhani saris they made in the home. I often think of how these tech shifts (from natural to chemical dyes) changed our worlds.

6yo (who ran out of his screen time): “Mommy do you think it would make you feel better to play wee sports with me? I’ll go easy on you.” Nice try kid.

This week the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision that clears the way for racial profiling during immigration raids and sweeps. @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social shares what you need to know 👇

Remembering when Bush said in 2001 that “racial profiling is bad” and “we will end it in America”…& then issued a 2003 guidance that banned racial profiling in fed law enforcement EXCEPT for in the border & national security contexts. At least this administration is giving it to us straight? 😫

New York magazine asked me to explore Roblox and report back on what the hell is going on in there. I found kids are bombarded with covert ads, casino-style manipulation, and nonstop enticements to spend their parents' money. nymag.com/intelligence...

Bernie Sanders is one year older and still alive and fighting the good fight, and I’m thinking of all those people back in 2020 who said he was too old to be President and wondering if the world could be a vastly different place than it is now.

Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care

What are they going to do? Lower the rent?

“Trump suggested…that offenses that “take place in the home” should not count ag his record of crime reduction in Washington, saying his opponents are using reports of “a little fight with the wife” to undermine his crackdown.” Casual condolence of domestic violence. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...

Tripped while lecturing in a huge class, hit my head on the wall, and fell on my bottom. So hard my earrings popped off. Giving the 1Ls something to talk about that’s not contract law 🫠

“What shocked me, when I was kidnapped [by US immigration], was just how reminiscent that was to cases I witnessed in Syria. You would have plainclothed officers without any warrant come and take you just because of your political speech.” @oliverlaughland.bsky.social interviews Mahmoud Khalil

Ten days left to submit proposals for the inaugural ALPE conference in Richmond. Come join us for this exciting launch! lpeproject.org/blog/cfp-ina...

Here is the @uaw.org statement on the arrests at Hyundai (h/t @lfelizleon.bsky.social)

The Resistance Is Inevitable. We’re sick & tired of ICE & FBI agents profiling, harassing, & violently arresting our neighbors. #wearealldc Incredible turnout in DC yesterday, including a strong AAUP contingent. @aaupmason.bsky.social @gwaaup.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social

A Florida court detained a US Citizen for being an "illegal immigrant." He showed the court proof of citizenship. The court agreed—& held him anyway. I criticized the ruling online & a Florida judge responded by trying to strip me of my law license. I fought back www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-florida-...

“A giant Trump effigy was paraded around a festival in the state of Maharashtra, with signs declaring him a backstabber. The blows from the US have been so intense that one Indian official described them as “gundagardi”: straight-up bullying, or thuggery.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...

I wrote this years ago, & it is still true. #SB371 (supported by Uber) & #AB1340 (supported by SEIU). This is a sweetheart deal that only helps the sponsors of the bills.