I’ll be there

Is it me or does Povich get rocked in the 6th every time?

Yes. Likely including some Art. III courts

Omg

Y’all if you have a chance to catch David Byrne’s tour, don’t skip it. Trust me on this

This piece by Robert Post is excellent. I especially like that he traces the Trump Administration's authoritarian trampling on the First Amendment to, in part, the Roberts Court's extreme unitary executive theory. verfassungsblog.de/turn-against...

lol

What’s up with Vermont and New Hampshire lol?

I suppose it goes without saying that this statement from the Academic Freedom Alliance doesn’t mention Kirk’s Professor Watchlist

Banksy on point.

I’m just catching up to this, and whoa

Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

"Mamdani and I will both be fearless in confronting the president’s extreme agenda.... And we must never allow Mr. Trump to control our city like the king he wants to be. Anyone who accepts his tainted influence, or benefits from it, is compromised from the start."

I just signed with Cambridge for my book on free speech and democratic backsliding. I guess this thing is really happening. I just have to update the chapters on Brazil and the US. That should be pretty quick, right?

Was curious how media covered the fatal shooting of Malcolm X in 1965: "His Life Story: A Study in Hate" One AP report on the murder opened: "Malcolm X, fiery renegade of the Negro radical movement, was assassinated Sunday..." Philly Inquirer called him a "Merchant of Venom"

I'm just catching up to Judge Burroughs's opinion in the Harvard research funding case from earlier this week. The whole opinion is compelling, but I really hope the media will pick up on this passage in particular www.harvard.edu/federal-laws...

This whole thread is good, but this is the part that I’m most worried about over the next 18 months

Anyone got a gift link for the WaPo interview with Justice Moraes?

Bookmark this

Any of my followers UC grads? If so, check this out

The EU hasn’t backed down on regulating extremist speech, and Brazil is not likely to back down either. It’s ridiculous that the US is trying to impose First Amendment exceptionalism on our allies www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/w...

Nice profile of Hanah Ehrenreich, our next Common Councilor www.syracuse.com/news/2025/07...

Cedric Mullins brought this one back and earned himself the @Chevrolet Electric Play of the Week!

The Columbia settlement is an “astonishing transfer of autonomy and authority to . . . an administration whose disdain for the values of the academy is demonstrated anew every day.” New @knightcolumbia.org analysis of the Columbia settlement, just published. knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-th...

Wow, if the normie, good-government scolds have lost Hochul, ….

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Love these interviews with Karen Finley, Andres Serrano, and a bunch of other censored artists and writers www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/t...

Love this thread

Jeffrey Maier isn’t paying attention when Jeter hits that ball

Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump. Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt. Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:

Sound on

And WTF happened to our brief national obsession with government jawboning? Oh yeah, only when a Dem’s in the White House

I can’t stop watching this one

Most of democratic world thinks US approach to extremist speech is batshit. Trump admin’s odds of successfully imposing it on world are not high. Also, not a good selling point for the merits of the American exceptionalist approach. If it’s so great, surely we wouldn’t have to impose it by force

On both the prosecution of coup-plotters and the regulation of extremist speech, Brazil surely has more support globally than the US. As with domestic universities and law firms, Trump is trying to coerce foreign governments one by one. But they’d be stronger if they banded together

Really good @michellegoldberg.bsky.social column on resistance organizing nationally Key takeaway for me is the linkages, local & national, between direct action immigrant-support work and the normie resistance groups like Indivisible www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

Delgado comes out in support of IONY www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

This holds for when they confirm him for a SCOTUS seat as well

And again

Just to reiterate: What this administration is doing right now is orders of magnitude more dangerous for academic freedom and free speech than anything the right has spent the last 30 years complaining about.

Here’s one of them. Pitch #2

What’s the over/under on how long before we can all shake this piece in the faces of Columbia administrators?

@bgarciaholgado.bsky.social congrats and well deserved!

Sound on

Why the heck is Mayo not in the lineup again?

If a partisan judicial majority is gonna keep reversing longstanding precedents on the shadow docket, w no oral args and no written explanations, they really have forfeited any and all presumption of deference to judicial independence norms