Thank you @alliancehighered.bsky.social for this wonderful discussion about higher education as a pillar of democracy. @bakerdphd.bsky.social @kevincarey1.bsky.social @michaelgavin.bsky.social

"Parents must realize that refusing vaccinations doesn’t just put your own child at risk. It puts other children at risk" - A mom who lost her kid www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

"We are pleased to share more than 125,000 U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs. These materials which span nearly two centuries of American law are now freely accessible online." "Includes records and briefs spanning cases from 1830 through 2019."

We cannot ignore this. Our government is engaged in extra-judicial killings for alleged criminal behavior. How is this different from what Duterte did in the Phillipines? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

Institutions and faculty owe Professor Keyishian a debt of gratitude. Now, it's our turn. In the words of John Adams, "Libert once lost, is lost forever." #academicsky #lawsky www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020. She missed these trials by a few months. One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here. I feel such a hole inside. In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.

I know there is a lot of serious stuff going on but I checked a bucket list item today.

I love seeing the #WNBA surge. In the 1940s, my mom played on the first women's basketball team at St. Francis College - 3 students & 2 secretaries. In the 1980s, I was still playing half court girls basketball in Iowa. In 2026, I the #WNBA draft and saw women get a chance to play professionally.

It would now only be fair for a community college to issue a damning report on Ivy League colleges

Yes, we are having this discussion. “There is no constitutional right to wear a total erect penis on the side of the road,” he said. “I’m sorry.” "We don’t think she has a First Amendment freedom to wear a penis costume. It was in the middle of the day, and during a (youth) baseball season.”

It’s a telling indicator of media desensitization that the US government’s ongoing program of murder on the high seas—which according to the perpetrators has killed fourteen (14) people this week— is no longer a subject for much serious or sustained news coverage.

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

✅🗳️⚖️ It finally happened. #Eastman #disbarred www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Senate Republicans vote down a resolution pushed by Democrats to prohibit President Trump from taking further military action in Iran. The vote was 47-52, largely along party lines.

This year, like every year for the last 16, I have paid my tax bill to a government in which I have no representation. This year, it feels far worse than in previous years, because of the things done with that money that zealous representation might have been able to curb or stop. Statehood for DC

Really? This is a question? "And they have raised inevitable questions about whether other lawmakers have gotten away with similar conduct in a male-dominated institution powered in large part by the work of young aides, including many women." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕 *All four astronauts went to public schools!

It took over a year to negotiate the Iran nuclear deal that Trump threw in the trash. But after ONE DAY of negotiation, JD Vance and the rest of the Trump team said "They won't agree to all our demands, screw this, we're going home."

The stole this from Depeche Mode. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1xr...

It's really this simple. 👇

If it was an "open secret" then it begs the question why congressional Dems lined up to back his candidacy? I appreciate thow quickly dems pulled their support but perhaps we should ask why they supported him in the first place. @schiff.senate.gov @gallego.senate.gov @repraulruizmd.bsky.social

Just a reminder: We had an Iran deal.

Quite a line from a lengthy article with detailed information about what happened in the Situation Room. "The gathering had been kept deliberately small to guard against leaks." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

@kenwhite.bsky.social @rickhasen.bsky.social @kewhittington.bsky.social Is a government requirement of "intellectual diversity" on campus a First Amendment violation if imbedded in an accreditation standard? (Putting aside the definitional problems.) www.highereddive.com/news/whats-i...

If you’ve accepted an entry-level tenure-track law professor job, please consider submitting your info to Sarah Lawsky’s list. Among other things, it’s a great way to let other scholars in your field know about you. prawfsblawg.com/lawsky-entry...

Listen closely to what far-right figures are now saying about immigration, and you will find few differences from the xenophobic debates of the 1920s. www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/in-far-rig...

I’m in DC today, ready and able to vote to rein in this out-of-control war. Republicans control the Senate and the House – they need to have the courage to call us back into session and then vote to hold this President accountable.

God this poem is haunting me again.

Yes, this is a good moment for invoking the 25th *and* for Congress to remember the War Powers Act. Alas.

Because apparently Congress isn’t.

God help us.

God Bless the people I'm about to murder en masse? That's a hell of an interesting message. It would be REAL nice for Congress to literally anything right now...

We don’t even have a declaration of war and the President of the United States threatening ”a whole civilization” with death. I would say that this constitutes an emergency that Congress and Cabinet must deal with asap before he can follow through on this insane threat.

It is a total failure of every individual and institution of government and society that this diseased man is not stopped from speaking, much less acting, this way in the capacity of president of the united states — trash-talking us all to the brink of genocidal nuclear annihilation.

@samcehrlich.com thanks for the College Sports Litigation Tracker. It is incredibly helpful. Here is one you can add, although it is unlikely to go anywhere due to standing issues. It www.nj.com/rutgers/2026...

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

When Clinton was threatening to left the ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military, the military brass went to Congress to pressure them to stop it - we got DADT. I hope the military brass is flexing their muscle for a War Powers Resolution.

Journalistic malpractice and democratic betrayal.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

I'm looking for a Black woman photographer in the DMV and/or Baltimore area. Can you all do me a solid and repost this, please? Thank you 🫶🏽

Trump’s latest budget would slash higher ed support: eliminate TRIO, GEAR UP, and FSEOG, cut work-study by 90%, and gut MSI grants, OCR, and research funding. It preserves Pell, but overall, it puts college access and equity at risk. Congress should reject it. www.highereddive.com/news/how-hig...

Someone needs to tell the American people what's going on in the Pentagon, and it obviously won't be Pete Hegseth, who is at war with America's senior military officers. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

i just think Watering Flowers While Black should not be an arrestable offense nor do i think this should be controversial ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Two points about the downed F-15 crew in Iran: 1. Hegseth threatened “no quarter” against Iran, making the situation worse for those downed fliers. 2. Media speculation that the fliers could be used as “hostages” is sloppy language. They'd be prisoners of war taken during combat. Not "hostages."

@evanbernick.bsky.social and his @bsky.app thread about Sauer's inaccuracies in the birthright citizen case makes into the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/o...

There are so many great free libraries in DC. Which one would you nominate? @51st.news may be able to elevate this!

We are now calling unconstitutional policies, “provocative.”

John Sauer had a bad day at work