Why does Donald Trump hate Nancy Pelosi so much? This is what she says about him in her book

In Opinion | The first step toward building a good jobs agenda requires officials thinking about economic development “to get over their manufacturing fetishism,” Dani Rodrik writes.

An administration that for months claimed unilateral & absolute authority to shutter entire executive agencies suddenly finds without any agency to move money from one internal pot of money to another

But basically this agreement reads to me like one where the administration recognizes they are losing and are desperate to sign any deal to notch a win. Many of the most dangerous elements from the Columbia and Brown deals (and the proposed deals with Harvard and UCLA) are missing from this one.

Why would they give up? Republicans control 28 state legislatures, both chambers of Congress, and the White House They have a 6-3 supermajority on the Supreme Court and a R appointments outnumber D appointments to other fed courts www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Excellent & clear explainer on the oral arguments in the tariffs case Supreme Court Seems Skeptical of Trump’s Tariffs www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/p...

Shout out to Neal Katyal's repeated pleas to common sense in this morning's oral arguments, because really it does feel like gaslighting sometimes

Not every justice has yet spoken, but Roberts and Barrett have and they are clearly against Trump's tariffs. That's five votes.

My hot take is that Mamdani is a very effective communicator and campaigner And he’s funny too Democrats should not just learn from him, but they should use him strategically - send him to Fox News etc, & let him make his policy pitches No more of this weird “let’s ignore him” nonsense

“Alex, I’ll take ‘Supreme Court claims that have aged poorly’ for $200”

Setti Warren, the former mayor of Newton and first Black man elected to lead a city in Massachusetts, has died.

As a purely anecdotal matter, most economists I’ve talked to think SCOTUS will limit POTUS’s ability to unilaterally impose tariffs - b/c they’re simply not an emergency Disconnect between economists and lawyers on this prediction is significant www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Devastated by this news Setti was a very important prescence at HKS - this is beyond awful www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

“Adopting a phone-free schools policy is a more effective intervention than anything we have seen before...” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/30/o...

NEW: SCOTUS holds off ruling on Trump's Nat'l Guard request, leaving troops blocked from Illinois for now. Court orders briefing about a part of the law the Trump admin is using to federalize National Guard troops. Also in Illinois: Protesters indicted and an attempt to protect Bovino. Law Dork:

I continue to think that self-interested ambition is the weakness of the 22A scheme Why should Vance (or any other Republican) willingly give up the presidency that he won? Hard to imagine a scenario where that happens. Don Jr?

Yesterday Trump appeared to rule out a 3rd term, but he also said "we'll see what happens." Given his history of lying and changing his mind, the 3rd-term issue won't just go away. Thus, on the blog, I consider Trump's arguably legal and clearly illegal options for circumventing the 22nd Amendment.👇

Siri, give me an example of a political stunt

“[D]etermining whether a rule constitutes a major rule sometimes has a bit of a ‘know it when you see it’ quality” - Brett Kavanaugh

Gonna be great when SCOTUS changes their own made-up doctrine to apply a "national security or foreign policy" exception for "emergency" taxes on everything from Christmas ornaments to flip-flops to wigs.

“There is some reason to think the doctrine may disappear in the tariffs case.” 😑

Tuesday will be 50 days since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Republican appointees issued an order allowing the Trump administration, essentially, to target working-class Latinos in its massive immigration raids. What has happened since has been as bad, if not worse, than experts warned on Sept. 8.

Check out massive crop of amicus briefs supporting our side in Supreme Court tariff case, from groups across political spectrum, big and small businesses, and experts in many different fields: www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...

Spirit Halloween now has a section devoted to Trump’s economic policies

Identifying legal violations up front, clearly and without mincing words, needs to become standard journalistic practice

NEW: The Justice Department says it plans to monitor polling sites at six locations in California and New Jersey ahead of the Nov. 4 general election for "transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law" www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

Noteable that Bannon recognizes that a Trump 3rd term is completely unconstitutional and yet pushes for it anyway - not via loopholes but by ignoring the Constitution altogether We are watching in real time as the Overton window shifts to a world in which the Constitution simply does not matter

basically all this shit is Roberts' fault, because the immunity made Trump feel like he could break the law as much as he wants without consequences. bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Pleased to share that the Kennedy School has been authorized to conduct a faculty search in American politics This is as an extraordinary opportunity for us - please share widely with your networks and consider applying academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15418

absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

Have said it before but there is a widespread belief on the right that universities are violating SFFA v. Harvard, and this belief explains a lot of their strategy

As this thread also points out, this is both a bad sign and also acting responsibly in the face of a cratering academic market -- it is unethical IMHO to admit large PhD cohorts when the jobs for them simply no longer exist

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

How is this real life? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

I have an opinion piece in @insidehighered.com arguing: “No university leader or trustee can truthfully say that it fulfills their fiduciary responsibility to sign their school up for this.” Whereas rejecting the compact—even simply by doing nothing—is an opportunity for all of higher ed.

Per @politico.com , the lobbyists are basically treating Article I as dead.

When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.” For these Americans, that wasn’t true: https://propub.li/47aawMD

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Attn: Brett Kavanaugh

But let’s see what UT and Vandy do!

hmm. my initial skepticism is at least a little tempered by remembering the Court's quick--albeit slight--walk-back of Bruen in Rahimi upon being confronted w egregious consequences that had em like *laughs nervously, wtf* but can we conceive of any Trump abuse that would go too far for these guys?

Hear me out: we need to create space for the conservatives on the Supreme Court to realize that Trump v. US was a huge mistake and to take steps to rein it in Creating this permission structure would have to be a serious enterprise among legal elites for it to work www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Including these seats, Republicans could target up to around 28 House Democrats in their nationwide re-gerrymandering effort for 2026. A large majority of those Democrats are people of color and/or women. The Republican House caucus remains overwhelmingly white and male

Brown rejected the compact! www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

Aside from losing many Democratic seats, Black representation in Congress will probably drop from around 14% of seats (nationally representative) to maybe 7 or 8% (not representative)? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

will also pre-register this purely political observation - which is that the conservative justices will employ SFA v. Harvard style reasoning to strike down the relevant portions of Sec 2 of the VRA

Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.

Looking forward to John Roberts concluding that majority-minority districts are longer necessary because there are a lot of African Americans in Congress www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...