completely outside of politics, this is so charming

The Federal Government under Trump: You will be fired for attending a diversity training or having a pride flag in your office But maybe not for displaying a symbol of racial terror and annihilation

The repeated mistakes are egregious, but it's important to understand where they're coming from It's not just inexperience or incomptence It's putting the president's personal revenge and power grabs ahead of the facts, the law, and justice

A legislature dictating policies to Americans who have no vote in it. Where have we seen this before...

Evidence that there are still sometimes consequences for incredibly bad lawyering DOJ's Civil Rights Division sought to pressure Texas to redistrict, as the White House wanted. It did so by demanding an obvious racial gerrymander.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

This framing by the Washington Post... Trump hasn’t chipped away at the wall between DOJ and the White House on enforcement actions — he bulldozed it. And early on. We’re just seeing it in its fullness now because he put it on social media.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk’s record. archive.ph/2025.09.16-2...

See the forest. Per new @brookings.edu analysis yesterday, "The Trump administration’s broader economic agenda threatens to drastically reduce the financial capacity of Black students to attend college." www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

Yes, this is unconstitutional. It’s also legal malpractice: the Attorney General just served up smoking gun evidence that the enforcement actions DOJ is about to take are in direct violation of the First Amendment. Expect these words to be quoted repeatedly in motions and briefs

This 1863 photograph of Peter Gordon's back rebutted the lie that slavery was a "benign institution." It galvanized public support for the Union cause. Slavery's defenders understood the photo's power. They tried to slow its circulation, calling it fake. In 2025, another attempt to hide the truth

Trump is scrubbing national parks of material demonstrating "corrosive ideology" like... "how bad slavery was" If you're surprised, you have not been paying attention.

Pay attention. Something dark might be coming. The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent. 1/ Here's what's happening.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk is utterly reprehensible. All political violence -- which this looks very likely to be -- should be stridently condemned. Anyone celebrating the killing -- and any opportunists using it to stoke a war on "the left" -- should also be condemned.

It’s transparently pretextual Transforming the Fed from a sober, data-driven, independent entity into another servile mouthpiece for Trump will not work out well for us

Trump never cared about safety in our city. He pardoned 1600 January 6 rioters, including many who brutalized police officers. This is an attack on DC’s right to self-rule and a desperate attempt to distract from the Epstein files and his job-killing, price-spiking tariffs.

This stay stops a badly wrong turn in the Eighth Circuit, which departed from decades of case law in ruling that voters can’t sue under the core of the Voting Rights Act (…even though the Supreme Court has repeatedly heard such cases)

Understand how calamitous this is. Given that Trump controls DOJ—the only entity the 8th Circuit says can file Section 2 lawsuits—this means the core of the Voting Rights Act is effectively dead in 7 states.

“As violence erupted, his charging document said, he told other rioters who were attacking law enforcement officers, ‘Kill ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em!’”

This has to stop. The point of these increasingly public attacks is to terrorize and intimidate. We’ve got to collectively condemn antisemitism and all forms of hate fueled violence.

A new State Department politburo is yanking Fulbright grant offers from people whose projects involve diversity or climate change. Who is behind this? Undersecretary for public diplomacy Darren Beattie, who posted on X in Oct. "competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work."

Powerful article from @danfarbman.bsky.social on what we can learn from those who resisted the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 @lpeblog.bsky.social

In its first major voting lawsuit Trump DOJ resurrected claims Republican judicial candidate used to try to overturn Democratic victory in NC Supreme Court race. This is extremely dangerous & shows how Trump weaponizing DOJ to advance his voter suppression plans www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is not the way to restore confidence in government www.notus.org/health-scien...

ICYMI: @vera.org & other grantees are now suing the Trump admin over DOJ's abrupt cancellation of funding for victim services, gun violence prevention, and other public safety programs. Represented by @democracyforward.org and Perry Law. More here: www.vera.org/news/were-su...

80% of Americans want the U.S. to be made up of people from all over the world 86% think schools "should teach American history that includes both our best achievements and our worst mistakes" from PRRI survey, per @axios.com : www.axios.com/newsletters/...

I wrote this analysis for @justsecurity.org on the Trump Admin's retreat from voting rights enforcement and its efforts to restrict access to the ballot. The piece details 8 cases DOJ has dropped. It also discusses a new legal strategy to undermine the Voting Rights Act.

In the latest edition of The Rooftop, @NewAmerica.org 's @ypanfil.bsky.social speaks w/ former White House aide @chiraagbains.bsky.social on housing antidiscrimination protections that have been rolled back by the Trump administration. 🏠 go.newamerica.org/the-future-o...

My post after the shootings last night in DC.

Unconscionable, even if predicted. The timing is likely intentional: they want to directly contest the public outrage over police brutality and systemic racism that erupted after George Floyd’s murder.

🏠 Fridays on The Rooftop 🏠 In the latest edition of The Rooftop, @NewAmerica.org 's @ypanfil.bsky.social speaks w/ former White House aide @chiraagbains.bsky.social on housing antidiscrimination protections that have been rolled back by the Trump administration. 🔗 go.newamerica.org/the-future-o...

The Trump Administration is making it easier to get away with white collar crime. Why isn't this part of the public safety agenda? www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

Trump is making us less safe. Lots of big talk, but the administration cut support for sexual assault victims, gun violence prevention, reentry, even law enforcement. I wrote about this for @contrariannews.org.

Watch this common-sense, clarion call to defend our core American liberties

This is deeply unethical conduct The American people don’t realize how close we are to seeing widespread abuse of the criminal process against protected speech. Career employees who take their oath to the Constitution seriously are standing in the breach. And they are quickly being driven out.

“Trump’s appointees at the Department of Justice have removed all of the senior civil servants working as managers in the department’s voting section and directed attorneys to dismiss all active cases” The anti-DEI con was always about rolling back civil rights

Remember when the law firms that settled with Trump said their $100 million pro bono ransoms wouldn't alter their work? Trump is now going to make them defend against police brutality and racial profiling claims From last night's "Unleashing Law Enforcement" EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

100 days in and free speech is under assault in America Here's my analysis in @slate.com on the 10 most significant ways Trump has weaponized federal power to suppress dissent

This would be a farce if it wasn’t so dangerous. Also the press really has to stop crediting their assertions that they’re going after antisemitism. They just gutted funding to prevent hate crimes.

I spoke to @bloomberglaw.com about Trump's perversion of DOJ Civil Rights: abandoning voting rights, police accountability, and the rights of Black Americans and pushing his political agenda Nonprofits & firms should snap up fleeing career attorneys to continue the fight -- now against the feds

And now they say agents can *enter your home without a warrant* if it’s impracticable to get one. There’s no general impracticability exception to the 4th Am. Police can enter in rare “exigent circumstances” like to prevent injury/death, destruction of evidence, or escape. This is not that.

Um, this is not “erosion.” Trump has been directing DOJ enforcement since Day 1. This is thuggish targeting of his political opponents to ensure he stays in power.

At $0 savings, to be clear

In a 120-page opinion, a federal judge just BLOCKED Trump's attempt to require people to show a passport to register to vote with the federal form. Also blocked: making it harder for people receiving public assistance to register to vote. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...

Like with woke, CRT, and DEI, the right is now twisting disparate impact, claiming it's racist. Hogwash. I wrote this explainer as part of a call for disparate impact liability for biased AI. Hope it's helpful. www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

Trump's EO says disparate impact requires "racial balancing" No. Plaintiffs can't just point to a statistical disparity. They win only if there is a less discriminatory way to achieve the goal. The doctrine also helps smoke out hidden intentional discrimination All explained by Justice Kennedy:

self-described defender of free speech chokes off social media traffic to those who disagree with him www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump's DOJ just ripped away 365 public safety grants mid-year. That's money for domestic violence shelters, victim hotlines, gun violence reduction, preventing opioid overdoses, even mental health services for cops -- all gone. He's putting lives at risk.

I'm thrilled to contribute to The Rooftop, a new housing blog series from @futurelandhousing.bsky.social In conversation with @newamerica.org, I discuss Trump's attacks on fair housing, what we do about it, and the importance of building a bold progressive vision of affordable housing for all.