This is a disturbing but important project. Black Churches were a major organizing hub of the Civil Rights movement so of course white supremacists targeted them.

It would do scientists well to learn more about policy. This is a shockingly naive way to understand the current political and policy changes occurring in science

Canady has no higher ed or history background. He was in the Florida House of Representatives, then the federal House, then a judge in Florida, and just retired from the Florida Supreme Court. This is Charlie Kirk shit: culture wars on campus from people who have no idea what happens in college.

this is critical race theory

"no matter the intent or how many pro bono cases it handles, what a Big Law firm spends the overwhelming majority of its time doing is fighting to create legal precedent that will entrench the power of those who already have it." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...

James Talarico really does have a path to victory. It's narrow and difficult, but it's doable. I talked to Texas Dems and tried to boil down what it will take in really simple terms. These screen caps lay it out: newrepublic.com/article/2109...

This is an extraordinary story, and like a lot of extraordinary stories about wrongdoing and corruption, will become much harder to report if the Trump administration succeeds in requiring NDAs of all federal employees. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-want...

we finally got a pro-trans opinion piece in the mainstream uk media (by @transsolidarity.bsky.social's alexandra parmar-yee) worth sharing www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

you can hear the nerves in his voice, and yet there he is, so young. speaking truth to power. doing what journalists should do, not what too many who are much older and have much more power have absolutely failed to do. incredible.

Hero shit right here.

"While some reporting has taken the view that Yale has successfully defended the institution and its finances from the present administration, our data show that all is not well at Yale."

Here's a chart showing responses to that section of questions:

This new @yaleaaup.bsky.social report on academic freedom at Yale is horrifying if not surprising. One number that jumped out: "21.5% reported that they had been asked by a “department chair, Deans, or others in university leadership” to make changes to their courses, research or website".

DC-area friends: this Tuesday evening, I'll be in conversation with David Lat, Eugene Volokh, and Emerson Sykes about free speech, "DEI" and America at 250

Because they're not true?

one problem with building consensus for this sort of thing is that when you say, "fund this public works thing" people kind of immediately want to fund something else instead?

"somehow"

"It is illegal in Nebraska to drive with a loaded shotgun in your vehicle." You don't say.

As Jabba the Hutt's son I'm often gatekept from progressive spaces due to preconceived notions about my family. At the same time, I acknowledge the reasonable concerns my presence would raise, and I'm working every day to unlearn the harmful attitudes instilled in me on my father's pleasure barge.

God bless America

(He also wrote an entire book on the Fourteenth Amendment which shows no indication, whatsoever, that he had questions or doubts about the settled reading of the birthright clause.)

He proclaimed the existence of a literature vindicating his support for the Trump policy and then, when it was clear that literature did not exist, tried to produce it. . I think that is a bit different from researching a topic because of the news.

C’mon snakes

I'm old enough to remember when a highly regarded senior scholar accused me of "cynical framing" (and worse) for suggesting that Wurman's "scholarship" was generated entirely for the purpose of being cited, and not because it was the result of sincere scholarly exploration. Whoopsies.

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

I don’t know about you, but I prefer educational reformers who don’t cover up the police murder of Black kids.

#1. This is a lie. #2. Lots of dollars don't go to people who are lawfully, correctly, eligible to receive them. This administration wants to increase that total. #3. This admin has gutted professional anti-fraud tools (e.g. Inspectors Generals) while fueling massive fraud by cronies.

It’s astoundingly embarrassing that we put this snake handler in charge of the nation’s health.

I want to know who sees it when I leave a bad review. Is the CEO sitting in a room watching survey responses roll in on like an old-timey stock ticker

I helped on this one. I found one of the shooters active in an incel forum complaining about being short, attacking women and giving advice on self-harm. The shooters weren't nihilist. They're representative of the ties between incels and white power that's fueled by the great replacement theory.

The teenagers behind a shooting at a San Diego mosque last week wore patches associated with Atomwaffen Division, a defunct neo-Nazi group, and drew clear inspiration from "Terrorgram," a loose network of neo-Nazis that supports the use of terrorism. Latest: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

Breaking: South Carolina Senate just failed to invoke cloture on 7-0 gerrymandered map eliminating Jim Clyburn's majority Black district. It appears redistricting is dead for real this time as early voting begins today & 32,000 ballots already cast

Legally, if you know which federal judge got formally reprimanded for having loud, frequent lunchtime sex in their chambers with a cop who arrived in full uniform, you have to tell me. My DMs are open. Happy to keep you anonymous.

UPDATE: Alabama is appealing this morning's three-judge redistricting ruling to SCOTUS. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Today, the AAUP Yale Chapter releases our report on The State of Academic Freedom at Yale. Uncertain that university leaders will protect academic freedom when tested, Yale faculty are managing risk alone and making changes that narrow what Yale teaches, researches, and communicates to the world.

been waiting to make my @splitzoneduo.com debut since forever. it's been one of my favorite podcasts for a long time. so glad to hop on and talk about something that i care about a lot — and that I'm currently writing about.

Wow 3-judge panel with two Trump appointees restores second majority Black congressional district in Alabama for midterms. "We cannot see our way clear to requiring Alabamians to cast their votes in the 2026 elections under a districting plan tainted by intentional race-based discrimination"

Duck fat is more delicious than beef tallow - but to the pure American mind, it stinks uncomfortably of Gallic perfidy and (therefore) of Communism

Over the past year the Trump Administration has frozen, canceled, or slow-walked billions in funding for the sciences. We outline the dire consequences of those decisions — for the rule of law and the American economy. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Unexpected breakthroughs like this one are the reason that the Federal Government funded basic research. This funding contributed to America’s post-war economic growth and created the world’s greatest system of higher education. Now, racist fools are dismantling the system to own the libs.

[chud senator voice] can you bee-leeve that these GOVerMENT S-EYE-en-tists are using YOUR taxpayer dollars to study lizard spit?

"Musk is not just some asshole complaining about Hollywood casting choices. He is one of the most horrific mass murderers in history. He hates and fears non-white people, and so—like the Nazi leader he admires—he took deliberate steps to kill as many of them as possible."

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

The Supreme Court says this is legal partisan gerrymandering.

”No one is encouraging Black women to have more babies” AND I remember a time when there was a concern globally that Black women were having too many babies. The North remembers.

You may remember Republicans absolutely losing their mind when Obama released $1.7 billion in frozen Iranian assets.

I remember when my family became permanent residents we spent a year in Cairo & and we were questioned when we came back for spending too much time outside of the country. Permanent residency is designed to settle people here to stay. Just nonsense unless your goal is ethnic cleansing.

I’d like to add something else to this convo: many of people who qualify for permanent residency in the United States would no longer qualify if they went home — because their existing visa is on the basis of refugee status (fear of home) or a job they’d lose. Like it’s absurd at every level.

the thing you gotta understand about opinion pieces is that what drives it all isn’t who has the best ideas it’s who is most inclined to relentlessly churn out copy that makes them a main character and ensures hate clicks. this is the lifeblood of a dying medium. it’s a kind of self-cannibalization.

this is the same shit late 90s hipsters were doing with pabst blue ribbon but with extra pretentious pseudo intellectualizing