just going to reiterate this. if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...

Very great and admirable democracy where people's citizenship might get stripped based on the extremely serious scholarly discipline of "what I think a dude from 160 years ago really meant to say."

bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it

Nothing says racism, cruelty, hatred and weakness combined in one quite like the orange felon removing all free access to National Parks on federal holidays that honor black people whilst giving free access on his own birthday. He should’ve been sent to jail forever.

The Constitution is very straightforward on birthright citizenship. There's no ambiguity in the language, no other plausible interpretation. The fact that this is a public discussion at all, and that the Supreme Court is taking it up, is on its own anti-constitutional bullshit. Read the text👇

Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.

It is amazing how much elite attorneys' views on the world are shaped by the abusive structures that many of them work in.

I don’t know, man…I think Dems should refuse to cooperate on anything except impeachment at this point. Fundamental violations of constitutional law are happening every damn day. Any business conducted under this criminal regime should take a backseat to removing the regime.

This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.

Hegseth is a war criminal and I think it doesn’t get the attention it deserves because he’s also stupid and it’s hard to reconcile the gravity of his crimes with his clownish persona www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

relatedly, ralph nader deserves to be remembered for the rest of time as someone who voluntarily assisted in a critical attack on american democracy, the importance of which far outweighs any of his consumer advocacy

The Department of Unsubtle Metaphors continues to exceed expectations

this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011

It’s hard to comprehend the amount of courage contained in Ruby Bridges’ six year-old frame 65 years ago today.

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The ability to be "objective" or "neutral" about secret police disappearing kids would, in any rational system, be disqualifying. That the opposite is true is an indictment of journalism, and one reason that the mainstream media is distrusted.

Now that Dems have capitulated, at the very least they should now make every future extension of funding contingent on Trump following the law. Any lawbreaking must be met with: No more votes from us, period. My exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on that point: newrepublic.com/article/2029...

yo, even John Yoo thinks that this shit is illegal www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I used to be a one-issue 2028 voter, which issue being you will prosecute and jail all of them; I add an issue: If that ballroom carbuncle is completed, it must be razed.

There is no difference between Trump destroying the East Wing and using a wrecking ball on the Washington Monument or Smithsonian. Just because he (temporarily) lives there doesn't give him the right to demolish the White House without Congressional approval.

The Supreme Court announcing that a president cannot not be held criminally liable for virtually anything he does in office based on nothing in the text, structure, or history of the Constitution was extremely bad, IMHO

there is a new scandal as bad or worse than what got trump impeached the first time about every 48 hours

On Saturday October 18th, I’m asking you to attend the No King’s March in your local communities. We have witnessed the increasing authoritarianism and its policies in our country. We dissent.

ofc it was Michael Barbaro

THE DRAKE v UMG CASE HAS BEEN DISMISSED IN FULL. Judge Vargas just issued a 38-page opinion dismissing all counts. This is excellent news for anyone opposed to treating rap lyrics as factual assertions, particularly in the context of diss tracks. bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com/sites.uci.ed...

The UCI Law Clinics hosted a wonderful screening of @ninetyminuteslater.bsky.social, Cyndy Fujikawaʻs heartbreaking profile of Vanessa Marquezʻs life and tragic death. With @susanseager.bsky.social. We wrote about it here: ipat.law.uci.edu/uci-law-clin...

From 1851 to 2025. This image shows where we are right now as a country—and it’s not pretty. I can’t believe we’re here. But we will hold onto hope, and keep on struggling, organizing, speaking out, and acting with love and nonviolent resistance. And we will win.

Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism. I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

I cannot emphasize enough that this administration shouldn’t get 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 from the Dems until they start obeying the law. Not. One. Optics matter: if you want people to turn out next election despite troops in the streets, then show them it matters. Do your goddamn jobs and hold the line.

this is as open an admission that an entire agency is engaging in routine constitutional violations that I can imagine

Very Trump-era story. 1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum. 2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property! 3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property. 4. The person who did the right thing was fired. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

Today is Vanessa Guillén Day named in honor of a US Soldier who was murdered by a supervisor who had been sexually harassing her. Her family spent years pushing legislation to protect US military women from SA/SH by changing the process to make them more likely to get justice. Hegseth just undid it🤬

Holocaust survivors today in Yad Vashem Square 🇮🇱 Veronika Cohen, from Hungary “It seems we have lost our soul as a people. Yom Kippur is an opportunity to purify our soul from sins between man and God, but not from sins between man and his fellow — and that is what we need to start working on”

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Pete the ex-minor-Fox-personality does not write history. History will write his epitaph and it will be ugly.

Uh-oh.

Proud to join this brief written by @marklemley.bsky.social. Congress created a procedure for the USPTO to review patents and the interim director just....decided to disregard it just because she doesn't agree with the policy. If you read the statute, it's quite clear: that's not her call to make.

When your claims of executive authority to harm people are too broad for John Yoo: "a broad, amorphous military campaign against the illegal drug trade ... would violate American law and the Constitution"

How Dems (especially Dem Vets) aren't out there saying "to be clear, if these are extrajudicial killings, every single person in the chain of command from the joint chiefs to the person pushing the button will end up in Leavenworth" to at least trigger some hesitancy is beyond me.

Ohhh yeahhhh, @passionweiss.bsky.social’s book is finally here! You can order your own at bookshop.org/p/books/wait...!

I ran into this from the Netherlands. This is the kind of association that needs to get "glued" to Disney. youtu.be/2OlvmjAH4e8

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

Jimmy Kimmel wasn't suspended because of what he said. He was suspended because the FCC threatened his employer. That's state-sanctioned censorship and it is a GIANT RED FLAG 🚩🚩🚩 that authoritarianism isn’t *coming* it’s ALREADY HERE. Today it's Jimmy. Tomorrow it's the rest of us.