Springfield, OH hate crime. Haitian father shot driving his kids to church. "They said he was going to give someone a ride and 'they just shot him. I don’t know why.'" Consequences of hate from our gov't. www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/crime/... @gregsargent.bsky.social @jimswift.bsky.social

If you are not yet familiar with the disappearance and death of Nolan Wells, it’s time, because this case is only getting started and it smells as bad as it gets.

Breaking news: An ICE officer fatally shot a Mexican immigrant in Houston during an attempted traffic stop arrest, authorities said. ICE identified the man as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and said he was in the U.S. illegally and refused to comply with officers.

The family of Nolan Xavier Wells has retained civil rights attorney Ben Crump for representation a day after the 18-year-old’s lifeless body was discovered in the water on Horn Island, south of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. www.mississippifreepress.org/nolan-wells-...

Barnett's boast--we managed to unsettle firmly established law via a rushed literature--is a remarkable affirmation of Critical Legal Studies. He also seems to be signaling that the Court would support a ban on "birth tourism," which seems right to me, alas.

Philando Castile’s family and friends marked 10 years since his killing at a candlelight vigil on Monday.

This is great: Florida was asserting that academic speech was government speech and so there was no problem in censoring it.

New 11th Circuit ruling just dropped. It affirms the Florida district court’s injunction of the state’s “Stop WOKE Act”, which sought to restrict the sharing and discussion of concepts like race, gender, sex, and national origin in the classroom. www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1091...

The second person that ICE "warned" about their protected speech has filed a First Amendment lawsuit. The complaint, linked in this story, does a nice job making ICE look both menacing and incompetent www.npr.org/2026/07/06/n...

I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.

2 years ago, Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard was arrested at @ucirvine.bsky.social as UCI chose to repress its Palestine encampment & fail its constitutional obligations. Her disciplinary case now rests w/the Chancellor. Let's ensure he knows what's right, sign/share! sites.google.com/view/withdra...

Israel/ OPT: Fears mounting for arbitrarily detained Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya amidst reports his life is in grave danger www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

The newly formed coalition US Scholars Speak just published an important and powerful statement titled “Confronting the AHA’s (@historians.org) Palestine Exception.” Fellow historians, please consider signing it if you haven’t already done so. 🗃️ www.usscholarsspeak.org

After nearly three years of surviving the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, I realise that leaving the enclave is not enough to ease the pain of losing a normal life. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/hot-...

The US Declaration of Independence frames Indigenous resistance as aggression and colonial violence as self-defense.

A least one ICE detention facility in Arizona is “closed for measles”. It is not clear how many people are infected or have been exposed, and it seems that there may be outbreaks in two facilities.

Will reverse engineered himself into an Atlantic writer

Long form version of my postmortem on the birthright citizenship case (tldr just listen to Justice Jackson), courtesy of the fine folks at @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/there-is-n...

This will not be effective in the Dem primary, but AIPAC is trying to lay the groundwork to kill El-Sayed's candidacy in the general

AIPAC is already spending more than $10 million against Abdul El-Sayed

So, this is in print now. Title pretty much says it all. virginialawreview.org/articles/abo...

Saying the Bears megaprojects bill "didn’t provide any public money for the stadium" but did "provide property tax breaks" is nonsense that doesn't belong in any self-respecting news outlet, @crainschicago.bsky.social.

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

🎥 Recalling how she was fired from her law firm after refusing to remove a letter defending pro-Palestinian student protesters, Melat Kiros said, “I didn’t flinch because I stood by every word and I always will.” She added: “I know that will not be the only moment where those in power will tell...

Daiana Lilo has no legal citizenship anywhere in the world. The only way she has any valid government identification is through her DACA permit. But, last month, she lost her permit due to the Trump administration’s renewals backlog, throwing her life into chaos. www.thecut.com/article/how-...

Amazon and Google just reported emissions jumps of 16% and 18%, respectively, in 2025 compared to 2024. The main driver is not hard to guess: data centers and AI. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In memory of: Ali Rajab Said Jumaa / علي رجب سعيد جمعه Age: 27 We will not forget you.

Melat Kiros is a refugee from Ethiopia who become a lawyer in the USA. Her law firm fired her because she condemned Israel’s genocide of Palestinians Tonight she won the Democratic nomination in deep blue CO-1 against a 15-term AIPAC entrenched corporate Democrat This is how we make America great❤️

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.

The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. By a 5–4 vote, it holds that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born of unauthorized and temporary immigrants. Roberts and Barrett join the three liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

NEW: The Supreme Court will decide whether Arizona (and potentially other states) may require proof of citizenship on state voter registration forms. A huge case, and I fear the outcome is predetermined. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Basically, the Legislature can pass laws, but the Executive has total power to decide what they mean, or if they mean anything at all.

Springfield, a city including more than 10,000 Haitians, “could become the target of a major enforcement operation. American residents are preparing to protect Haitians, with some making plans to care for their Haitian neighbors’ native-born children & even to hide and shelter immigrants who remain”

Meanwhile, in the US. It just takes your breath away. *50 years* in prison for protesting. Don't imagine for one moment that we are immune to this. Already, the legislative framework is in place in the UK to enable such convictions - before we get a Trumplike PM. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Few people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

“Multiple fascist ideologies are reshaping the federal administrative state; in HUD’s case, a traditionalist return to heteronormative family values is the emotional glue that holds together sometimes contradictory passions.”

Japanese Americans march against ICE detention in South Texas asamnews.com/2026/06/28/j...

There’s been more elite Democrat anger at Democratic primary voters than outrage over the life imprisonment of anti-ICE protesters — including a couple whose only offense was printing zines. Look at what they choose to talk about with the media and what they ignore. It’s revealing!

In fact in some cases it is not even enough to say that it's far to the right of the base, they are also occasionally far to the right of their caucus. Schumer was one of seven (7) to vote to send Israel a bunch of bulldozers for the sole, exclusive and explicit purpose of destroying houses.

"The UAW has a history of left-wing, rank-and-file action, including its divestment from South Africa in 1978. ... [T]he UAW became the first major union to call for a ceasefire in Gaza in December 2023."

Jon Favreau is upset that Darializa Chevalier knew what Israel was going to do to Gaza too soon. That is unacceptable. You have to wait until tens of thousands of children are dead and pretend Biden's doing the best job he can for a year before you finally turn against it.

Some very smart observations from the very smart Michael Kinnucan in this week’s New York City primaries. (thread, all quotes from him)

"AOC has never addressed or apologized for her decision to cover for the pro-genocide wing of her party. For her sake, and for the sake of the left’s political future, she needs to do both." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The hypocrisy of establishment Democrats who are furious over Mamdani’s insurgency www.ms.now/opinion/zohr...

The treatment of trans women in prisons is so exceptionally bad in this country that the standard for unconstitutional neglect of prisoners was set by a supreme court case by a trans woman treated so horrifically by the prisons that even in 1994, a right-wing supreme court ruled in her favor.

Our colleague, friend, and justice-devoted loved one Tiffany is facing significant financial burdens as she defends herself against potential punitive disciplinary actions from the University of California for her support of student protests against the genocide in Gaza. chuffed.org/project/1562...