I will be live-posting Oregon v. Trump, which will be heard before the 9th Cir. shortly.

It's awful how the administration has turned the language of discrimination around and is using it to amp up discrimination to save billionaires some tax money. I taught at one of our MSE's for 7 years and can tell you a little support goes a long way.

I keep seeing Kerrygold commercials on TV as if we're all going to be buying delicious Irish butter three months from now.

Kind of wonder what the media reaction would have been if Biden accidentally publicly ordered Garland to prosecute his enemies.

Slight variation: I overlapped with my older bro for a few years in college. Different schools in Boston. Dinner together every Sat. One week I get there and he's freaking out, forgot about an assignment. 15 mins in, I idly pull open his desk drawer to find the assignment he'd done and forgotten.

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

I was told we were going to fight the terrorists abroad instead of at home. Also I was not told who exactly would be declared the terrorists.

They should give Trump the Peace Prize so then they can retire it forever.

Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI is now available in physical form! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece. It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out. 1/2

Americans are being far too complacent about masked government agents in unmarked vehicles grabbing people and taking them to unknown destinations.

Mind-boggling that they can't make money in Paramus.

I wonder if the supremes are thinking through what it would mean if they give licensed medical providers "free speech" rights that don't have to match standards of care. Heck, our health insurers might suddenly gain those rights too. coag.gov/2025/colorad...

The Trump administration's attacks on civil service are profoundly personal. Today at @jhppl.bsky.social, I outline the "science of standing up for science;" how we can use social science research to restore health agencies' regulatory authority. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

It would be wild if the Court strikes down our no-conversion law based on *free speech" rights of licensed therapists, while the current administration is engaged in total war against words they don't like.

Podcast ass newspaper.

I don't know if it will happen to ICE, but Denver wound up paying out a lot of money after 2020 in part for reckless use of less-lethal munitions, i.e. shooting people in the face and torso with pepper balls, baton rounds, etc.

Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago

everything about the attempt to co-opt the language of social justice to promote AI personhood makes my skin absolutely crawl that people are doing it in the current political environment, where the most basic human rights are crumbling before our eyes, is as bleak as it gets for me

It's the first Monday in October which means the Supreme Court is back in session. Here's my preview of all the cruelty and evil they will visit upon us this term. My *cover story* in @thenation.com :) www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

Delighted to announce a hybrid event to launchThe Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory: ed Richard Bellamy and Jeff King UCL 13 Oct 2025, 18:05 – 19:30, followed by a wine reception. Event details and how to book an on line or in person place – are here www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

NEW: Colorado General Assembly Democrats are calling on Colorado's congressional delegation to ensure that funds already appropriated for Minority-Serving Institution (MSI) programs are awarded. More about it below ⬇️ www.cohousedems.com/news/joint-r... #coleg #copolitics

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

Our job as mentors is to identify our students' strengths and areas that can be developed. My PhD student (psych), Sydney Tran, has deep substantive interests, but also enviable methodological range. Her first, first-author publication is tagged below. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Speaker Johnson continues to stall the swearing in of Rep.-elect Grijalva so as to avoid having to deal with the Epstein discharge petition. Why shouldn’t Dems make support for reopening the government contingent on adding to the funding measure a provision mandating release of the Epstein files?

A federal district judge said Kilmar Abrego Garcia can proceed with his claim that human smuggling charges filed against him in Tennessee were done in retaliation for successfully challenging his deportation in another court and should be dismissed. marylandmatters.org/2025/10/06/c...

A lack of respect for opposition parties and checks and balances led to the unraveling of Bolivia's Movement Toward Socialism (MAS). muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

And a fish-gray hand with a lurid bruise reaches for the brocade rope that tinkles the little bell across town in CJ Roberts' chambers.

DOJ: But Your Honor Judge: Turn the radio on turn the radio up

DOJ: I strenuously request a stay Judge: You say I only hear what I want to www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9HG...

DOJ: I strenuously request a stay Judge: You say I only hear what I want to www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9HG...

And a fish-gray hand with a lurid bruise reaches for the brocade rope that tinkles the little bell across town in CJ Roberts' chambers.

Meanwhile in Russia: State Duma member Andrey Lugovoy urges Russia to undermine America and Europe by buying journalists and politicians, interfering in elections, infiltrating the opposing parties and amplifying divisions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYgK...

Oooh. Maigret begins on my local PBS tonight. Between this and their documentary lineup they're fighting to stay around.

Well I got rained on anyway for the last hour of my run. But I'll take soft rain in the woods next to the creek. What a gorgeous run. LOL soooo (runner's) high right now . . .

Of course the sun is gone now that it's time for my long run.

“The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

As part of the truth & reconciliation process I think we'll all have to agree to prohibit baseball caps with messages on them.

There has to be a penalty for lying in a SCOTUS ruling (if emergency orders are even rulings). Like impeachment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

If you can skate and you know the rules of hockey and you're at least 12 years old, you can make more per hour than your uncle Steve-o, PhD.

My ex-coach hot take is that my favorite running creators train way too hard.

Since 2015, huge swathes of the media platforms people use as their windows into "reality" have been bought up by MAGA-aligned billionaires. Is it any wonder that the Trump admin has been fairly successful in getting millions of Americans to buy into his framing of "reality" while the Dems struggle?

We shouldn't allow tear gas to be used, but if we are, it should only come in bright pastel colors that rob the police of their desired visual outcome.

Just texted my Eagles-fan friend to heckle her about being down to the lowly Broncos (it's early in the game) but she's not watching the game, she's watching her son's hockey. But her son *quit* hockey, and is now the REF. She sent video. You know those "cool" refs? He's going to be one of those.

Colorado really coloradoing hard today.

I don't think the ICE guys are big readers but they might want to dip into some of Masha Gessen's work. A gem from this morning: "Stalin's terror machine executed its executioners at regular intervals."

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