I’ve read a lot of takes on the shutdown cave, but this one is really important

“DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT”

Great @mashagessen.bsky.social on the true purpose of Trump's cruel passport gender marker rules: exerting social control. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...

You know who else refused to swear in democratically elected members of congress? Nicolas Maduro (2015) Just saying…

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ffs

This whole thread

Please tell me this was a rogue headline writer trolling Douthat

Here’s a fun fact: More than 1000 people have signed up at runforwhat.net to run for office since last night. 😈😈😈

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17th century pamphleteer who’s been scrolling Bluesky for 400 years with the ancestors: Finally!

Good grief, I just remembered we’ve got SCOTUS arguments this morning

CNY peeps, @taniel.bsky.social is shouting us out

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University of Virginia AAUP calls to immediately rescind the standstill agreement with Trump admin! It poses these threats to academic freedom: ❌Divergence from Existing Civil Rights Law ❌Unconstitutional Coercion ❌Conflict with Virginia Law ❌Lack of Due Process ❌Preventing Legal Challenges

Earth shaking is confirmed by local media (gift link): www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...

Zohran opens with quote from Eugene Debs! I was just teaching Debs’ Canton speech this morning. I hope some of my students are watching

If these results hold, this will be _wild_ earth-shaking result for local politics here in Central New York

Looks like we’re finally getting our first Black mayor in Syracuse

Whoa yay!

So sorry to hear this

Just donated! CNY peeps, please spread the word

I’ll be there

Federal appellate courts kneecapping federal district courts’ efforts to rein in executive lawlessness, exhibit one million

Yes though it feels like Kantor has never heard of good cop, bad cop

3 of the Times’ 12 warning signs are about free speech or free speech adjacent. Guardrails for dissent, independent media, and universities haven’t fully collapsed, but they’re wavering for sure

Federal District Judges are, on the whole, slow to anger. But the Trump administration's flagrant lawlessness has woken them the eff up and I'm here for it

Horrifying

Glad this is still on the DOJ's webpage: www.justice.gov/storage/Repo... Please download it while it's still available.

#SCOTUS denies a stay of execution to Alabama death-row prisoner Anthony Boyd, over *quite* a dissent from the three Democratic appointees, written by Justice Sotomayor, about the problems with nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Wait Pepi subbed on in the 85th minute today and got a goal and an assist!?!

Actual lol

Working on a guest lecture for tomorrow. Anyone got a handy list of issues on which U.S. District Courts have ruled against the Trump administration so far this year?

National protest numbers from Indivisble: April Hands Off: 3 million at 1,300 events. June No Kings: 5 million at 2,100 events. October No Kings: 7 million people at 2,700 events. There were also the May Day and John Lewis events in May and July, but those were on weeknights and hence smaller

I love these photos from Saturday so much

9th Circuit panel joins SCOTUS’s war against FDCs

Compelling case from Chris Hayes that Dems’ problem is not messaging but eyeballs: Not what they say, but how many people see/hear it www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/o...

Let’s go Rehoboth!

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

love it

Avengers assemble!

lol

Whoa

lol

Syracuse #NoKings was beautiful

I’m ready

I’ll be there

Trump admin will very likely get some takers on the compact—public unis in red states & maybe Vandy and WashU. Then there will be some tough questions for the higher ed associations about helpful ways to respond—how best to shame the schools that take the deal without harming the scholars therein?

Admirably clear statement from politically diverse set of scholars that Trump's compact for higher education violates fundamental principles of institutional autonomy that are core components of academic freedom www.chronicle.com/article/our-...