Great thread More of the report's recommendations apply directly to my very different public university context than I would've expected. I'm especially eager to discuss recommendations 7-14 & 17-19 w/ my colleagues when I'm back home from my year away, but I invite a free-for-all conversation here

Got asked an ideology question during my talk at Chicago and shared that my first question is always "Which viewpoints are y'all looking for? Folks who say I'm not human because I'm Black?" Say it with your whole chest. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

The Yale report on trust in higher education has some good recommendations for reforms in many areas that I hope Yale and other schools implement. But its diagnosis is oddly silent about what I suspect is the most important force driving the decline in trust in higher education: political attack.

The man is absolutely pitch perfect. "As Mayor, I believe everyone has a role to play in contributing to our city. And some, just a little more than others." This is the way. We don't need to apologize for the idea that (1) everyone should pay taxes *AND* (2) wealthy people should pay more

Headline out of Cambridge, MA: Top administrators at Harvard propose world's most expensive affirmative action / DEI program

Obviously this betrays some ignorance on my part but this is definitely not who I what expecting to see name-checked when the Times noted who was the most prominent Augustinian prior to Pope Leo:

Is there a name for the form of succession planning where the CEO systematically undermines every potential successor, especially the most prominent/obvious ones, because the CEO's actual plan is "I run this place until I die—and then I don't care if it collapses"? Asking for a global superpower

I don’t read any Hungarian but I can see *from the graph itself* that “vegzettseg” has to mean educational attainment. Vertiginously steep age and education skews are the demographic key to this story…

Similar to Poland in 2023, young voters in Hungary seem to have turned out to vote in larger numbers than in earlier elections and - importantly so, as this poll suggests - have massively voted AGAINST the illiberal incumbent party.

Something to remember is that it took more than a year for Ronan Farrow to write the Harvey Weinstein story, and it’s not because he was lazy.

The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI Since the New York Times published its semi-viral big profile of Medvi last week — the "AI-powered" telehealth startup that it breathlessly described as a "$1.8 billion company" supposedly run by just two brothers —…

Obviously not a substitute for Congress doing its job, but now would be a good time for Clinton, W, Obama, and Biden to say something jointly.

One of the many ways American media has failed to cover this president for a decade is by deeming the vulgarities too vulgar to print. Today's example is especially literal.

Really elegant example of the rhetorical and narrative potential of the single-post microblogging form. Clarity, concision, that one well-deployed element of repetition, a full (sad, true) political story in one largely punctuation-free post. Poetry.

This is powerful, if true. More of this. Refuse. Stand on principle.

“you know how you always wanted to be the guy who saves the day when the astronauts call houston with a problem?” “yeah?” “and you know how you hate being the guy everyone comes to when outlook is malfunctioning?” “… yeah?” “I got some good news and some bad news”

This is not a weed I was deep enough in to even catch at the time but yes, @evanbernick.bsky.social has the goods on this one. New academic goal unlocked: write a law review article important enough that the Solicitor General will see fit to misrepresent it at length *more than 100 years later*. 🙃

I always find it amusing the way many Supreme Court justices & advocates performatively declare that they don't do "policy" arguments (i.e. consequentialist reasoning) in con law, while doing exactly that. Some of that this AM, as Sauer insists his citations of European law are "only for rebuttal"

Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute.

Sauer just had to say that slaves had an "intent to remain" in the US. Motherfucker WHAT??

I’m not the first to share this and won’t be the last, but this NYT opinion piece by Yonatan Touval explaining how our leaders (in Washington and Jerusalem) so spectacularly failed to predict how things would go in Iran is excellent. Gift link—

Ok, a question about Chiles v. Salazar. Can Colorado write a law that says: anyone can say whatever they want about any topic, but we find that conversion therapy is presumptively medical malpractice, and anyone harmed by this can sue a provider who held themselves out as a licensed therapist?

The Supreme Court's decision in Chiles v. Salazar is yet another victory for the Alliance Defending Freedom, a right-wing activist organization that specializes in producing slick YouTube videos about noble Christians who are being unfairly smeared as bigots and persecuted for their beliefs

This is important. Journalists (ahem, @nytimes.com) need to avoid whitewashing the far-right term "J-pilled" and pretending it's simply about Israel. (If people on the left were using this term, the ADL would be all over it!) Let's not allow this term to break containment & become mainstream. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

This aspect of far-right Israeli politics is so familiar-yet-unfamiliar to me from U.S. politics. Very familiar: barbaric workarounds to impose the death penalty—in a highly uneven manner—when doctors refuse to participate. Less familiar: proudly embracing the noose as a symbol on your lapel.

Some basic premises of democratic government are so obvious that in a healthy democracy they shouldn’t need to be restated all the time. The biggest and most obvious lesson of the Trump era is that we DO need to restate those super basic things all the time. Many many Americans have no idea.

Hi, government expert here. This isn't cute or heartwarming. Governments only do this when they're in extreme distress.

Interesting thread. One part of the story was: Hey, Fox News over there is making money. Maybe if every legacy media property copies that, we’ll all make money? But the audience for right wing news was always 30% of the country, give or take—so everybody chasing that at once is going very poorly…

This essay by @philklay.bsky.social is really good. I haven't read someone so squarely address what it means that we have a government that is posting memes of blowing up Iranian ships, interspersed w/video game clips. Obviously it's dark, but these are dark times for anyone patriotic or moral.

Ambulances belonging to the Jewish emergency medical service Hatzolah Northwest were set on fire in London early Monday morning. www.cnn.com/2026/03/22/u...

For many decades, Americans on the left have protested a whole lot of stuff involving a whole lot of countries. This point is so obvious it's approaching 'water is wet.' But here's the double standard: Certain people seem to notice only the protests related to Israel & ignore all the others!

There's a lot in this video. About 15 minutes to understand the industrial revolution, the dawn of American labor organizing, and the centrality of women and immigrants in both. Every time I think I can define "DEI," the line between it and "most of the important stuff in U.S. history" blurs again.

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

I am not hearing enough talk about the Disenfranchise America Act. Hearing way too much “let me repeat a talking point that’s wrong to explain it’s wrong.” The Disenfranchise America Act will not be enacted; it’s an attempt to get you to repeat certain lies; don’t!

Just because a policy is content neutral doesn't mean it's a good idea or compatible with principles of free speech. In some super-herarchical setting, say the military, I can imagine this "no flags" thing being reasonable. But this is a UNIVERSITY, people. Come on!

Reminder that part of the reason FDR called the Pearl Harbor attack "a date which will live in infamy" is because the U.S. and Japan were still engaged in peace talks right up until they attacked us. Which was... exactly what the U.S. did to Iran. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

In the long, storied history of sharp academic disagreement on the Internet, I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like this. !

Sorry what? They won’t deport US citizens is a concession? What the actual F

Mamdani's overall project of public education through short videos is one of the most astonishing things I have ever seen. In 2026 it feels like a window into another universe of what political leadership can look like. Click through and take a look. It's a 2 minute St. Patrick's Day video. ⬇️

well that went way deeper than I was expecting

Proud to sign this letter

Really powerful letter with lots of great passages, including this eye-popping one. Proud to see so many great folks at UCLA Law among the signatories.

Sigh. Opposite our letter from *actual Jewish UCLA faculty and staff* opposing the Title VII lawsuit against UCLA (link ⬇️), today a petition landed on the UC Regents’ desks demanding a crackdown on *faculty* for “anti-Israel activism." There are several problems with this petition. A brief thread:

Recently the DOJ sued UCLA, arguing that we are such a "hotbed of campus antisemitism"—primarily because of pro-Palestinian student protests—that it's a hostile work environment for Jewish faculty and staff. Well, many actual Jewish faculty and staff vehemently disagree and we wrote this letter:

I didn't see enough people connecting the recent rise in attacks on synagogues with the fact that the Trump administration is holding security funds hostage to extort political compliance from liberal Jews. So I wrote about it myself. forward.com/opinion/8126...

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

"Striking a school full of children is sure to be recorded as one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades." Don’t look away: this atrocity was carried out with our tax dollars. Trump's attempts to misplace fault won't wash away the blood on his hands. Or, alas, on ours.

We are governed by idiots, dependent on idiot boxes to function: "A documentary about Jewish women’s slave labor during the Holocaust? The focus on gender risked “contributing to D.E.I. by amplifying marginalized voices.”"