A year ago: We need TAXES on the WEALTHY Now: We need a cleansing fire

I saw a memoriql bumper sticker today that said "hunting in heaven" and now I have so many more questions.

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...

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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.

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?