I had a lovely day in Brooklyn. I was especially excited to get this classic shot. :-) #Dumbo

Take this side quest, you won’t regret it

I’m loving this interview with Kamala Harris on The Rachel Maddow Show. I bet I’ll enjoy her book even more. #107Days

Best friends. ❤️

What a wonderful way to start the day - James Taylor and Carly Simon harmonizing beautifully here.

I was very excited to contribute to this piece. Thanks, @rodgerdcitron.bsky.social, for the opportunity!

This one made me cry.

Friday night vibes. youtu.be/mVsQwJfWzoI?...

The thing to understand is that district court judges have to follow the law and Supreme Court Justices get to just make up the law.

"I’m sorry if I’m not adequately sympathetic to Lisa Murkowski’s plight, but she understands the consequences of her actions. She says the vote was difficult– she voted for it! That’s not difficult. You don’t get credit for doing the hard thing when you don’t actually DO the hard thing."

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It’s important to stand up for yourself. :-)

Wouldn't it be nice to have a Congress with any modern history whatsoever at effectively asserting its authority to limit war powers. But that's not a living memory.

👀 Have you seen the 2025 Scholastica Law Review Submission Insights report? Read it here (new stats on journal decision time frames and acceptance rates): buff.ly/JstKJxP #LRSubmissions

In constitutional litigation based on equal protection, there are times when the government doesn’t have to justify its actions based on what it REALLY wanted to achieve, but rather, can do so based on any plausible justification that might theoretically make sense.

If you, like I did, grew up on “Moments in Love,” and you also never saw a picture of the members of Art of Noise, this is as surprising as the day we learned about Bobby Caldwell. Huh. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_...

Two things about this: 1. Miller is a very dangerous person 2. Miller is nowhere near California and is just making shit up, and sharing images/footage of actual people doing normal stuff is going to be important to break through this nonsense

the vast silent vacuum of space is louder than the free speech warriors right now

If you know this, then you know me. 😂❤️

As I watch this Knicks-Celtics game, I begin to wonder if the NBA needs a mercy rule.

Happy pub day to @michaelluo.bsky.social. STRANGERS IN THE LAND is a sweeping & meticulous account of the history of the Chinese in America, full of suggestive parallels to our present moment, as this terrific @steveinskeep.bsky.social review makes clear: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b...

Yet another example of how large swathes of political elites—esp but not only on the right—have elevated the police to a baronial class. They enforce the laws, but are also above them. Civil rights laws, among many others, simply do not apply to them.

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

BREAKING: On Friday, the federal government issued new demands of Harvard University. The university's lawyers just responded: back off.

If you would like to track the litigation being filed against the current administration, here is an excellent resource for doing so. www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

ICYMI:

The Department of Education, among other things, is what funds special education for children with disabilities. Trump’s executive order will hurt kids and parents in virtually every school district in the country.

Even Jackie Robinson isn't safe from getting labeled "DEI" by the Trump administration. “The erasure of narratives like Jackie Robinson’s isn’t just about a website ― it’s about control over history and whose stories survive," @christinalmyers.bsky.social told me www.huffpost.com/entry/jackie...

Rough day for the it’s-not-a-constitutional-crisis-until-he-defies-a-court-order crowd.

The purging of American history has begun. National Museum of American History (Washington, DC), March 2025

The media can (and should) reject the Right's deceptive frame. This is not about "references to diversity, equity, and inclusion." It is a neosegregationist attempt to erase everyone but white males from the nation's history.

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

Michael was right. When you need a wartime consigliere, you need a wartime consigliere.

Other countries are fully targeting US academics with social media ads now, basically of the form "we still have inclusive liberal democracy and academic freedom here"

There is a vacancy for leadership in the Democratic Party. It's a brand new ball game. Forget the old rules and customs. No one "deserves" anything due to age and seniority and donors. It's up for grabs, Democrats. Time to step up. Whoever is a fighter will be rewarded.

Ossoff is a NO ON THE CR. What is Schumer’s excuse

New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451

@schumer.senate.gov is not built for this moment. Replace him as Senate Minority Leader.

Thus is brilliant and necessary. Make them explain.

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

Okay, Schumer's speech was a head fake. This is the Senate D caucus trying to fool their own supporters. Sorry to say that but that's what's happening.

More of this!

Good. It might seem small - and some will say meaningless - but organized pushback has to start somewhere. I hope her district is papered w/these notices and that more actions are taken that will make her face her constituents. You’re doing it wrong if you’re hiding from the people who elected you.

This "immediate cancellation" violates the law. If the Admin thinks Columbia has violated Title VI by being deliberately indifferent to antisemitic harassment, it has to give Columbia a chance for a hearing first, make findings on the record, & wait 30 days. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

@repjasmine.bsky.social: "It's not the trans people who made you lose your job... who started a tariff war with Mexico or Canada or China... who are taking away the Department of Education... it's also not the immigrants. And it's definitely not the Black folk."

This is an excellent response from Bill Treanor.