"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

The new John Roberts portrait just dropped

The targets were litterally the team tasked with negotiating a cease fire. Israel’s leadership doesn’t want to end the conflict. They want it to continue.

It seems Israeli leadership wants to fight a war on all fronts.

The IDF just struck Qatar. An American ally armed with F15s and capable of striking back against Israel. I fear this doesn’t end well. Not that it’s been going well up to now.

"They caved in about five seconds": Jon Oliver on @columbiauniversity.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk94...

They're now saying it out loud: The Administration's goal is to undo the political independence that Congress granted the Fed, so that the President can directly set rates.

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

This quote from the Times piece on Trump’s plans to try to ban mail-in voting is the real story. By starting with the premise that Democrats can never win a plurality, he argues that whenever they’re elected it’s illegitimate. He’ll try to prevent a Democratic House from taking office after 2026.

📌 Be the one calling them out. History has it’s eyes on us.

the degree to which these guys are just literal, straight up Nazis is both shocking and massively undercovered by the media

One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.

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Grand Jury nullification? Purposeful Incompetence? Just incompetence? Or the evidence is lacking? Or all of the above.

Last I recall, the entire Trump Presidency is unconstitutional under the 14th

They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.

If you’re a cable host interviewing a Republican this week and you don’t come prepared with the crime stats from their home state or city, you’re missing the easiest dunk imaginable.

Sadly, DC sandwhich guy is probably the hero America deserves.

No Jury in DC will convict him. He should fight the charges.

I hope someone saved that sandwhich to put in the Smithsonian one day.

When I worked for a Member of Congress the first thing we told people coming to DC was “so we scheduled a White House tour and a Capital tour for you…” cause I didn’t work for a fear mongering bum. Instead, I worked for someone who believed in serving his constituents…

I honestly wonder if the president can explain what “the rate” he wants Powell to cut actually is, and what role it plays in debt markets. (I know the answer, but I do wonder)

I am far from a Luddite, but AI is polluting our information space in an unprecedented scale and is being used to justify cruel decisions by this administration. The effects of the practical use of this technology far outweigh any niche applications in this moment: we must acknowledge this.

How do I get invited to this conference?

Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.” This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over. Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

What a banal way of describing the march toward fascism.

Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

This morning, ICE rolled into a Home Depot parking lot using a moving truck loaded w/agents, like a Trojan horse, to snatch up Latino workers. Whoever they could find. No idea if they were undocumented or not. That’s not enforcement. That’s racial profiling, and violates a standing court order.

Any person whose vision of human progress includes getting coffee delivered to them by drone should be marooned on a desert island...without coffee.

This is why Charlottesville melted down its Lee statue. If the statue is removed and simply put in storage, it remains what @artcrimeprof.bsky.social calls “America’s strategic racism reserve.”

“America’s strategic racism reserve.” Brilliant @artcrimeprof.bsky.social.

Wow

The Lost Cause and its advocates have a long history of just making stuff up…

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Hearing Trump speak is often like hearing the voices of enslavers echoing down the centuries.

Imagine thinking Albert Pike deserves a monument?

Hi, former Foreign Service Officer here The Secretary of State might be interested to learn that visa requirements and terms are generally reciprocal. We do it to them, they do it to us.

Again: In 1866, Congress wrote and passed the 14th Amendment, sending it to the states. It *also* created Black regiments in the Regular Army, to force it to take Black troops. But the majority on the U.S. Supreme Court is really big on the “living Constitution,” right?

I’ll add that Congress was aware of the argument that it was wrong to make special provisions for certain classes of people. President Andrew Johnson objected to measures to help Black people, as in his veto of the reauthorization of the Freedmen’s Bureau. Congress did it anyway. And wrote 14A too.

My least favorite holiday: “I have to write a syllabus in the next two weeks day.”

So who did Trump pay for an endorsement? It’s always projection.

"He's in the process of establishing a dictatorship." It's a simple 8-word sentence. News media could tell the public that. They know it's true. They report on the various steps toward autocracy every day. But they're afraid to utter that 8-word sentence. Which is more evidence of how true it is.

When you’re being compared to Pinochet it’s a sign you aren’t the good guy…

One of the best descriptions of AI I’ve seen.

Ethnic cleansing is a crime against humanity.

I’d like to see Democrats do something, anything, besides fund raising texts.

I want to live in a world where “tightened bathroom security” isn’t a phrase that’s needed.