This entire spectacle has been proof of how the legal system is fundamentally unable to handle bad faith actors and ill equipped to provide meaningful justice to victims. Now to find out the DoJ is now getting involved is both entirely expected and incredibly depressing. apnews.com/article/newt...

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.

open.oregonstate.education/open-judicia... Hey Elected Democrats, your base is responsive to messages that the Supreme Court via its decisions is a threat to democracy and the democratic process.

Remedies will always be available for him and those like him, the rest of us not so much.

I’m telling you.

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor... "There is strength in numbers." The only way to win this fight this is through mass mobilization and politics.

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

The court decision against Trump's use of military in LA is really acting as a deterrent against future abuses

Using AI, as a "synthetic sample" or to generate responses, as a replacement for polling people should be considered professional misconduct akin to data fabrication. We have to drive this shit out of our industry/discipline or lose any shred of credibility we still have.

Apple is sneaking AI into everything. Turn off enhanced visual search on your photos:

The moment demands a candidate that will fight for people and democracy, even if that means telling Roberts to fuck off.

Teaching Reno v. ACLU this week and I might need to interject some "culture" into the class with some Broadway theater: youtu.be/LTJvdGcb7Fs?...

"Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total isolation, warm in the womb of the algorithm, nourished by hungry machines."

Spotify Wrapped, but for when "shit has hit the fan": www.garmin.com/en-US/blog/o...

www.theverge.com/news/760508/... This will be a fun semester. "Grammarly ... can provide feedback based on uploaded course details and “publicly available” information about the instructor." Time to keep shoveling shit into RMP to taint the models. Does that go as service or teaching for tenure?

Friend finally got me to return to South Park after all these years. I'm half convinced Matt and Trey are going to do a rug pull on everyone who was trashing them for the right leaning direction of the show over the last decade or so but now loved them because they are trashing Trump.

Yikes... are we willing to say we're dealing with white supremacists yet?

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Embrace tradition

More bad news everyone.

Millenials who wished on that weird paw looking thing we found for a financial collapse so we could afford a home.

When people warned that the GOP was going full Nazi they weren't kidding.

Went hiking last week and ended up getting involved in rescuing Koko 🐕 from the woods in upstate SC. This beautiful pup had a broken leg and a possible gunshot wound. A fellow hiker saw her the night before and got help from local rescue organizations to come back for her.

Every time I have to go back into a draft of a paper and replace my "CITE XYZ HERE" notes or even worse just "CITE", I hate myself and swear to never do that crap again, and yet here I am.

I guess the media needs it to be spelled out but the core principle of RFKj wellness fascism is that if you get sick it’s your fault, you could have avoided it by using the right “supplements” and working out, so you might as well die because you’re of no use

For those of you teaching undergrad Con Law and Civil Liberties/Rights in the near future, what's your approach for teaching those types of courses in the current moment? I feel like teaching classic precedent stuff is missing the mark but also going all in on cynicism doesn't help the students.

Still relevant, unfortunately.

My intro to US Gov slide discussing the SCOTUS timeline ends with "And then they go on an extended summer vacation (seriously)."

Good thing I haven't started working on this Fall's Civil Liberties and Civil Rights syllabus.

A continuation of the Supreme Courts insane deference to (republican) Presidents unquestionable power and their own power grab. Lower courts are being cut out of the picture.

Almost like it is time to start treating The Times like the bougie version of Fox News that it is.

AI and RFK are the same peddlers of bullshit. From the Hicks et al. "ChatGPT is Bullshit" piece: "whereas LLMs are simply not designed to accurately represent the way the world is, but rather to give the impression that this is what they’re doing."

Jeff Bezos: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets." Today's Washington Post opinion page:

Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.

We let the media off consequence free for the lies that lead us into Iraq, here we go again.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

We need to be more aggressively discussing the eugenics beliefs behind MAHA and the wellness movement. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-... (The other episodes of this mini series are also really good)

Our dictators can't even dictator well, why would you cheer for just breaking even? If you're going to lie about public approval on a survey fucking commit to the bit and say it's 95% support or something.

Nothing sums up the state of affairs for transgender Americans quite like the US Supreme Court denying trans people life-saving healthcare at the same time that the Trump administration shuts down suicide prevention programs for LGBTQ people. These bastards want us all dead.

I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.