Speaking of typos, someone should direct Ms. Dhillon to U.S. v. Murphy, 406 F.3d 857, 859 n.1 (7th Cir. 2005), aka the greatest footnote in appellate court history. scholar.google.com/scholar_case...

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example. Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)

"Weiss is following a long-standing instinct to turn every Trump abuse into a debate, a generosity she does not afford targets on the left...impossible to take her objections at face value given the context in which she's operating." [email protected] www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

I’ll just note that the US didn’t do this to China, which outright bans US social media websites

I agree with Frank Thomas. Admit the @mlb.com PED users into the @baseballhall.org and give them their own wing/exhibit to cover the history of the Steroid Era in detail.

Children are being exploited. Let’s respond by dramatically hindering our ability to point out or criticize children being exploited, using methods we don’t understand because we’re old and incurious.

I support both Congressman Gregory Meeks and @repmcgovern.bsky.social’s resolutions to end U.S. hostilities against Venezuela! The Constitution is clear — Congress, not the president, has the authority to declare war. It’s past time we put an end to Trump’s ill-conceived, illegal actions.

And finally, the assault on Section 230. This is the endgame for independent speech. If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.

"The way you re-incentivize political behavior is you get politicians incentivized to appeal to the political center as opposed to the political extremes," Jeh Johnson tells @johnavlon.bsky.social. "Open nonpartisan primaries is a big step in that direction."

hope everyone gets a chance to read this and the whole series it's part of

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/

TOMORROW: Congress is pushing through a package of bills which include an online ID check mandate that would fence off the internet & kill anonymity online. Contact committee members that are considering these bills + make your opposition crystal clear using our call tool at badinternetbills.com

If f you look at the language of these laws, it's entirely subjective and can be employed against a wide variety of content, as it has historically. The vagueness is a problem for speech, but not for censors. The vagueness gives them power.

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

Trump has pardoned: (1) A former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking (2) Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold (3) Binance founder Zhao who failed to stop criminals from using Binance to move money tied to drug trafficking. 1/

Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.

“I kind of feel betrayed, to be honest. We do everything that we can to protect and serve our country. And then they betray us by treating us like we’ve never done anything.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man. We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:

Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children. Committee hearings begin tomorrow.

Who is supporting these settlements? It’s generally not faculty or even long-time university administrators, it’s university boards and interim administrators who they’ve installed after admins with more of a fighting instinct have been forced out. There’s a playbook here.

Age verification is not the way to keep kids safe on the internet. CDT has some thoughts about what kind of child safety policies and features might actually be effective: cdt.org/insights/wha...

NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation. The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate. The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia. Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer. A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro www.propublica.org/article/andr...

So much of the #UVa and Jim Ryan saga makes more sense when you understand that UVa's lawyers were on the side of the Trump DOJ.

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

This is why government transparency litigation matters. Democracy Forward Secures Public Release of Key Details Related to Scheme to Disappear People, “Black Site” Agreement Between the United States and El Salvador. democracyforward.org/updates/us-s...

Perfect live shot of the 8 Senate Democrats tonight.

“Most of the days the federal government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was the president.”— @howtoreadthisch.art www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer. Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss. 'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.

Notably, @royalpratt.bsky.social appears to have gotten his hands on the unredacted copy of the preliminary injunction motion seemingly filed in error yesterday before being deleted and replaced with a redacted version. Here's what that bit looks like in the public filing vs. the unredacted.

Baseball is thriving, but its next crisis is just a year away. Don't blow it, writes @JonLemire.bsky.social.

Assuming the death penalty remains legal, the only method available should be by firing squad.

If you put your ear against the Capitol, you can hear the sound of a man who will do nothing to challenge—and anything to justify—presidential violations of the Constitution, as long as the president is of his own party. ICYMI @saletan.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mi...

This administration has been, by far, the most censorial administration in my lifetime. They're punishing people for speech about Palestine, about Charlie Kirk, about ICE, about the President. It's been nonstop attacks on speech.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go." The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

Well golly it sounds like you should let long-standing precedents stand until you rule on the merits, then. That is not what you’re doing!

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation Depraved. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

This is one of many actions from this administration that's worth some commentary and snark, but more context: apnews.com/article/idah...

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

In Los Angeles and now Chicago, the White House's aggressive deportation operations have one hype man: Greg Bovino. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/greg-bo...

Another Kavanaugh stop

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

The Trump Administration’s “Compact of Excellence” for Universities is... far from excellent! Indeed, it’s unconstitutional. In this post, let me count the ways. blog.dividedargument.com/p/the-uncons...

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Oh, fine. Let me just fire up the Tardis, go back two years, and write the articles you were too lazy (or too busy huffing your own virtue) to look for www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... and www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...