I can't decide which is worse; normalizing the surveillance state or Prego pasta sauce.

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Where is your IR theory now?

wpde.com/news/local/f... Things are going well here in SC. We have our own Schitt's creek here.

Given we keep coming back to lawns in my environmental law course this semester, I'm adding a section for next time about lawn laws. Calling this part of the syllabus: "Why you should take your lawn out back and shoot it, put it in your car, and bury it under Giants stadium, but you legally can't"

Imagine being this useless at your job, the administration is launching illegal wars and you're over there trying to shame them for lying. Absolutely useless, each and every one of them.

Ban the fucking polymarkets. Betting on death. Betting on war while Incentivizing death and war. Shaping foreign/domestic policy by rewarding the rich people already in the know and encouraging them to make decisions that destroy the world while padding their pockets. Burn it down.

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times. I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

this is what I hear whenever I hear AI proponents hyped about their products

The Court does enough already to threat its own legitimacy, but also if the Court wants to play in politics then they can be treated like politicians and face criticism.

Be right back, scrapping all my end of semester writing assignments to instead be "whomever trolls AI the best gets an A in the course."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u... Gallup are cowards

Adding this into my slides on manufactured consent. Dogs: 11/10 Surveillance state: 0/10

Small teaching wins: My students called bullshit on that Ring 'help the dogs!' ad as just an excuse for more surveillance.

I think a lot of us who laughed at Vermin Supreme around 2020 owe him an apology, he's meeting the moment better than most politicians.

I'm sure body cameras will fix this.

My expectations are in the gutter and yet I'm still surprised. This is the liberal equivalent of "thoughts and prayers." Meaningless platitudes you hope allow you get past a news cycle.

Media covering what types of gas the US government against its citizens is not what I had in my 2026 bingo card. Credit to the Minnesota Stat Tribune for their coverage of the killings and protests there, they've been a valuable resource.

The future of Court reform!

Rather than (just) calling your elected representatives about the latest ICE murder, go find a candidate who is wiling to meet the moment and support them in whatever way you can, by knocking doors, making calls, giving money, organizing a house party, and so on.

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

www.politico.com/news/2026/01... We don't have an opposition party, we have cowards and grifters. "Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the House’s top Democratic appropriator, acknowledged that the legislation does not include some of the “broader reforms Democrats proposed,”...

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day. I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.

“University administrators and state lawmakers are saying, in effect, that academic freedom won’t protect you if you teach ideas they don’t like. Never mind that decades ago, the Supreme Court described classrooms as the very embodiment of the “marketplace of ideas” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...

Past Kyle: I'll add in and fix these citations when I'm more done with the paper. Present Kyle: What asshole just wrote "ADD CITE HERE" without any other information?!

"Trump says US will be 'very strongly involved' in Venezuela oil industry" www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 In "Women or Fetuses First?", @profamandaroberti.bsky.social, @profkmorgan.bsky.social & @katiekrumbholz.bsky.social investigate the effects of a pro-woman framing of pro-life policies. 🌟 Available #OpenAccess 🌟 gendersky polisky buff.ly/ugrRv1R

I love asides from students while grading exams for Civil Liberties and Rights. I wonder who they could ever be talking about?

New article from @profamandaroberti.bsky.social @katiekrumbholz.bsky.social and I! We find that changing the framing of abortion restrictions to focus on "pro-woman" language versus "pro-fetus" language has an effect on pro-choice individuals in particular.

Faculty at this point in the semester.

If Trump lashes out and begins bombing his own country, Democrats will have blood on their hands.

From a student in Civil Liberties/Rights this morning: "Because of your class Dr. Morgan, we all now hate the Supreme Court." Welp, my work here is done.

It's the only holiday that matters. Here's to the Great Pumpkin and all the sincere pumpkin patches. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uci_...

Well this one is gonna get weird: apnews.com/article/supr... On the plus side, given the disconnected way in which the Court has discussed pot in cases like Morse gives me some hope this one will at least be entertaining to read.

The surveillance state continues growing like a snowball of shit rolling downhill towards us all.

Writing Civil Liberties exam hypotheticals just isn't as much fun as it once was.

Five years ago, and still some things never change, now we're "terrorists." #RIPCloth

The weaponization of Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project is coming. Together this is going to lay the groundwork for undermining the midterm and 2028 (if we even get there).

Most of us in higher ed right now:

Every day when I'm cranky and cynical while teaching

It's Constitution Day, 'yay'. The Constitution will not save us. Checks and balances are not going to rescue us from fascism, rather we are in this moment because of them. If we want to emerge from this, we must confront the inadequacies of the Constitution and we must build the society we want.

Teaching democratic rights in Civil Liberties/Rights this week just got more 'interesting.'

There is a clutch of pundits who treat the world like it’s an Ivy League seminar course, mostly because that’s the environment in which they emerged. They think debate and white papers are the pinnacle of political action. They fume at anyone who approaches politics in any other way.

www.wistv.com/2025/09/12/a... Things are going well here in SC

basically a generational cohort split here where certain younger people intuitively grasp the irony poisoned context, and if you aren't already up to speed, very hard to explain

Well played lawyers, well played.