Murder is wrong. Pogroms are wrong. Using a murder to incite a pogrom against a small and vulnerable group in society is wrong. (If I’m not mistaken, an assassination was the excuse for the wave of mob but state-sanctioned violence in Russia in 1881 that gave us the term “pogrom.”)

apnews.com/article/bost... If Kraft is this far behind after spending tons of his own born rich money on ads that offer nothing positive to Bostonians, maybe he should get the hint. Boston likes its mayor and doesn't need another entitled gazillionaire who thinks he knows better. #Boston #WuTrain

In one of the debates in New York mayor's race, Mamdani (and Lander) both praised Boston Mayor Michelle Wu. She has been one of the most passionate voices defending cities and urban life as Trump trashes them. And she's stayed popular in way Brandon Johnson has not. newrepublic.com/article/1997...

When I'm in a Francophone jurisdiction I don't know what restroom to use because I'm not a dude, but also not a "femme."🤨

for many of the worst people in our politics, the only real belief they have is that it should be illegal for us not to like them

Senate Democrats could have united behind Mangi and called out the GOP smear against him as religious bigotry. Instead, ~3 Dems decided to buy into that smear (and Schumer declined to fight), and now Bove has a 3d Circuit seat. There's an obvious lesson here...

Climate deniers have made summer suck.

This is why the Bove seat was vacant, and there’s a real throughline from the forces that defeated the previous Democratic nominee to where we are today. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

If the Trump administration wants more than another temporary cease-fire, "it needs to stop feeding the Israeli right’s dream of conquest," @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social argues. "It must make clear that neither nation is going anywhere":

"Palestinians face a Hobson’s choice between starvation and the real possibility of being shot down for no intelligible reason." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to massively reduce the size of the Department of Education Amy Howe has the context:

Screams in fed courts professor: YOU. DO. NOT. HAVE. TO. WAIT. FOR. YOUR. CITIZENSHIP. TO. BE. STRIPPED. TO. HAVE. STANDING.

Bostonians! Help Kraft to learn what Cuomo learned the hard way. Mayorship cannot be bought. @wutrain.bsky.social Josh Kraft Hopes Billionaires’ Help Can Unseat Boston Mayor Michelle Wu - Bloomberg share.google/60KsMOORBMKl...

Here's @carolejoffe.bsky.social and me in @msmagazine.com talking about what we know three years post-Dobbs.

Bingo

1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so. 🧵

If you read the NYT coverage of Skrmetti, you should really read this, too.

I am getting multiple reports that the Trump admin is NOT complying with the court order requiring passport updates for transgender people. Some passport agencies are being told not to give trans people passports with their correct gender marker, for now.

Great explanation from @chasestrangio.bsky.social on the legal arguments that remain to challenge anti-transgender policies after Skrmetti. Do not obey in advance!

Thank you David. Please everyone--do not overread Skrmetti, and do not obey in advance!

😂 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

Bondi cuts out the ABA from the judicial nominations process.

This will go directly into the briefs.

Holy cannoli

Fighting antisemitism by increasing it, because this was never about antisemitism

Professor Rachel Rosenbloom has submitted a co-authored amicus brief to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in a case challenging the legality of President Trump's Executive Order on birthright citizenship. hrp.law.harvard.edu/amicus-brief...

People who never read books now in charge of books.

The editorial completely omits the fact that the Trump has nuked nearly $400 million in LGBTQ related research and has explicitly banned any and all funding for transgender health. But they ignore all that while they call for "better research" that is now banned and defunded.

Hed could also be: “Trump plans to accept a bribe from a foreign state in violation of the explicit text of the Constitution” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

Super excited for this forthcoming book (Sept) by @azizaahmed.bsky.social ! www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

"We, a diverse coalition of Jews at Columbia and Barnard, wholeheartedly reject the invocation of Jewish safety as a pretense to persecute, detain, and deport fellow students and community members without due process of law."

💥 Trump says DEI initiatives undermine merit. Decades of research show this is flawed. His argument is "conceptually flawed and will actually entrench the very biases and barriers that have kept institutions unequal." theconversation.com/trump-says-d...

I Can’t Believe Anyone Thinks Trump Actually Cares About Antisemitism www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o... Thank you @michellegoldberg.bsky.social! Cld I add the quiet part? Jews are disproportionately in fields trump's targeting (university faculties medicine, law). He's targeting us disproportionately.

In the latest Ask a Feminist, @libbyadler.bsky.social & K.J. Rawson of Northeastern University speak w/ Carla Kaplan about the Trump Administration's anti-trans, anti-gender executive orders. Listen in your favorite podcast app or read the transcript on our website!

Surprised and honored to be voted Emerging Scholar of the Year by Yale Law Journal’s volume 134! It’s a hard time for trans people, hard time in higher ed, so this vote of confidence in the work ahead means a lot. www.yalelawjournal.org/news/announc...

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

An innocent man who committed no crime but is the same race as the person who murdered your daughter should have to spend the rest of his life in a concentration camp is the argument?

BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds district court order that the Trump administration "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was improperly sent to El Salvador. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

I kind of want to go

Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.

There is no strict Constitutional prohibition against sending your political opponent to prisons in El Salvador, so it’s hard to see what liberals are so upset about. by Jonathan Turley

congratulations to john roberts who is as responsible for the current state of affairs as any single person in the country

The “Dr Oz Paradox” is back in the news: “In short, the law imposes liability for giving bad advice to one patient, while it permits giving bad advice to millions of YouTube or television viewers, which may result in significant physical harm.”