Last night, the ADL took down its "Glossary of antisemitism" which included an entry for the term "globalist," describing it as a far-right codeword for Jews. Hours later, the official DHS account authors a post with a common far-right meme, saying that "globalists" will be denied entry to the US.

For the sins we have committed — by commission and omission, both knowingly and unknowingly — we seek to make t’shuvah. May it be an easy fast for those observing.

At the end of the day, defending institutions with liberal values (like higher Ed) is a always a better better bet than aligning yourself with authoritarians

So at the same time the Trump regime claims it's fighting antisemitism (which was always a lie) it's now saying it will deny citizenship (or visas?) to "globalists" which is mostly used in their crowd as a barely coded euphemism for "Jews"

Last I looked, TCU is a private religious institution that government should not be investigating for their programming decisions. Unless Texas adopts a law requiring First Amendment principles at higher educational institutions or provides conditional funding to TCU, the TXAG is abusing his office.

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Kavanaugh’s reliance on Lyons is not aging well.

OMG game changer! I just discovered the "citations" section of Westlaw's preferences. No more parallel citations to L.Ed and S.Ct.! You can also specify italics instead of underlining and add quotation marks before and after selected text you want to quote.

Will the same Justices who relied on Sam Bray’s work to nix nationwide injunctions listen to him on Humphrey’s Executor? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Deliver...

“Get in, loser. We’re overruling Humphrey’s Executor.”

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

NEW: The Supreme Court freezes a lower court order reinstating FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, whom Trump illegally fired, by a 6–3 vote. So Slaughter remains terminated. SCOTUS also schedules arguments to decide whether to overrule Humphrey's Executor. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

En banc second circuit denies rehearing en banc in Öztürk and Mahdawi. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...

Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation. More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.

This piece by Robert Post is excellent. I especially like that he traces the Trump Administration's authoritarian trampling on the First Amendment to, in part, the Roberts Court's extreme unitary executive theory. verfassungsblog.de/turn-against...

This email should be in the syllabus for the presidential immunity decision. Just doing the public’s work, like the framers intended.

Trump poised to fire US attorney for resisting effort to charge NY AG Letitia James: Sources abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poi...

Hate kids? Good news!

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

WOW. Judge Kelly takes the Trump admin to task for their outrageous effort to deport children in the dead of the night. Not only does he say their justification "crumbled like a house of cards," he also says the admin was not engaging in "conduct ... that reflect[s] good faith."

Ilya, this you?

“When federal prosecutors recently declined to indict James, Pulte encouraged Trump to fire Erik Siebert, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and replace him with a prosecutor who would be willing to bring charges against James, sources said.” abcnews.go.com/US/trump-off...

SCOOP by @anthonycormier.bsky.social & Zach Mider Bessent once agreed to occupy 2 different houses as his “principal residence” at the same time, mortgage documents show — the same kind of contradictory pledges thatTrump has been using to try to oust Lisa Cook. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It’s a cookbook.

Hegseth tweeted: "Pronouns updated: She/Her/Fired" www.kpbs.org/news/local/2...

Cancel culture, etc., etc. Think anyone will be fired if they find racist, homophobic, or violent content while they’re looking?

11 Sep 25 -- A federal judge quashes DOJ subpoena to Boston Children's Hospital saying it was too broad & reflected Trump admin "disapproval of the transgender community." Norman Spack opened GeMS the US's first pediatric gender clinic at BCS in 2007. rikiwilchins.bsky.social

11 Sep 25 - TX AG Paxton has withdrawn charges against an El Paso doctor among 1st in nation charged under laws making it illegal to providing care to trans kids, after a year-long examination of records found violations. Tx Cases against 2 other TX doctors remain active. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

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"climate ideology" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/c...

They were going to kill baby Hitler but did this instead.

“Democracy Dies in Darkness”

Regret to inform you that Washington Post publisher Will Lewis ' faces fresh questions' again www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The fake Broadway score in the Documentary Now! parody of Company is a legitimately great soundtrack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba6c...

So apparently the Constitution is colorblind when it comes to invalidating affirmative action and voting rights protections but not when it comes to ICE raids? www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

"Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

I've read a few Supreme Court opinions that also did not seem to realize this.

This story is WILD. Trump sent Seal Team 6 into North Korea to plant a listening device. The entire thing went sideways within minutes of landing when they noticed a fishing boat near the beach. They killed everyone on board, sunk the bodies to cover their tracks, and fled. Congress was never told.

EJ Antoni tweeted, "You can’t run a race on your knees,” in response to a tweet of a doctored campaign poster that depicted a sexually explicit image of Harris (it was a photoshop depicting Harris with semen around her mouth calling her "Cumalla Harris." www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/p...

The kicker is amazing. newrepublic.com/post/200026/...

NEW: The First Circuit denies the Trump administration's request for a stay pending appeal in the case over Marco Rubio's anti-trans and anti-nonbinary passport policies. The policies are currently blocked under the district court's classwide injunction: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Federal judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court has got to do a better job of explaining emergency rulings, with frequent decisions in favor of Trump at least appearing to validate harsh criticism of the judiciary at a time of rising threats: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation. Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."

They should create a special Tony Award specifically for the casting director of Oh, Mary! because they have elevated this to an art form. playbill.com/article/jane...

Has there been a significant DC Circuit panel decision in Trump-related litigation that has not had at least 2 GOP-appointed judges on the panel?

the DOJ atty (& 2x Harvard grad) who suggested Harvard showed "wanton indifference to antisemitism" once wrote a paper from the perspective of Hitler & expressed admiration for Mein Kampf stunning reporting from @hilaryburns.bsky.social @talkopan.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...

This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end