Humphrey's Executor has been on the chopping block for a while. But I'd watch your wallet with Question 2, folks.

Combine this dismantling of fair housing enforcement with the evisceration of the CFPB and the efforts to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and you have a perfect recipe for racialized hyper-predation in housing markets. Lots of money to be made at the expense of low-wealth folks of color.

Now out in print -- my essay with some thoughts on science and democracy in public health: repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcont... .

Yep.

Of course Trump is destroying fair housing enforcement. Really solid article laying it out. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...

The truth is there are three kinds of people: the disabled, the pre-disabled, and the doomed to die suddenly. Most of us will be disabled at some point.

What @eric-reinhart.com said. www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/t...

the Brazilian right is attempting to pass measures through the legislature to shield Bolsonaro and other legislators from the legal consequences of the failed coup, for which Bolsonaro was recently sentenced to 27 years. these photos are of the massive protests in response.

Professor Post is right. I'm currently working through similar issues in what I hope will be a law review article, but I think the reality is this: we can't assess whether First Amendment doctrine can slow our free speech crisis by de-contextualizing it from our greater *institutional* crisis.

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...

“They should accept it because they looked a little Mexican. It’s the price of a free society.” Kavanaugh, J., concurring.

Criminal. Or it should be.

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

This piece is very powerful. apple.news/AKP8KgJwnRi-...

Further decimates already threadbare rural hospital systems. But they do not care. It isn't their goal to make you healthy or enable you to prosper in whatever way you choose. It is to destroy the economy and make you desperate so you can't challenge them.

It's hard to imagine what @peterbakernyt.bsky.social and the @nytimes.com were thinking in publishing this assertion: “We all especially know Biden used government to censor Trump, kicking him off many media platforms, a clear violation of the law,” Mr. Shirley said. @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

I’m sure someone could provide a worse three paragraphs of “analysis” in this moment, but Peter Baker really sets the bar low here — with what he opined, who he decided to rely on as a source, and why he included those absurd claims without refutation.

So Trump is announcing on TV his intention to indiscriminately murder anyone - without evidence, investigation, or legal authority - who happens to be in boats off the Venezuelan coast. In a long list of lawless things Trump has said, this is near the top in its brazen, murderous criminality.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

They abandoned the whole free speech thing as soon as people started saying things that genuinely offended them. It wasn’t that they were so tolerant that they accepted nazi talk as a necessary evil to protect speech writ large, they just liked saying and hearing slurs bsky.app/profile/jame...

If Tom Homan accepted $50k in cash, on camera, just before the election (per @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social & @carolleonnig.bsky.social ), Dems must immediately demand the entire investigative file and not give DOJ another dollar till they get it. *Our* money is paying for this corruption.

The president ordering the murder of 3 more human beings on a boat didn’t even make the list

And amen to this: "The party needs to shed that image and remake itself as a genuine reform party, advocating for systemic changes that address the public's deep-seated frustrations, not merely adjusting the margins of a system many view as fundamentally unfair."

Every Dem strategist, from whatever wing of the party, should read and take to heart this piece from @adambonica.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

Read @citizencohn.bsky.social on what last week confirmed about the chaotic, anti-scientific way RFK is running the health department. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

404 Media reports on AAUP's "practical and actionable" guidance to academic workers, "Strategies to Protect Yourself Online in the Current Climate," cowritten by Isaac Kamola, Director of @aaup.org Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom Access the guide here: www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

This @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social piece pulls it all together nicely. www.vox.com/politics/462...

Think FDR. The modern regulatory state didn’t exist in the 1930s. The New Deal basically reinvented the entire concept of the federal govt. Whole agencies brought into existence. It’s okay to think big. It’s okay to tune out the pundits and consultants who seemed trapped in thinking small.

Come on, Dems. There are ALL sorts of ideas about how to circumvent SCOTUS and the circuits that MAGA has broken. You just have to tune out the deep-in-denial centrists who will be quick to say “this just isn’t how it is done!” without finding a way to fix things.

Donald the dove, Maureen the still employed…

And, yes, Bove and Homan should be immediately impeached too.

And, like, that’s in addition to the clearly impeachable worse-than-Nixon coverup of the Homan bribery investigation. Two—count them: ONE, TWO—worse than Nixon things JUST TODAY.

I clearly need to go to a different Cava. Best thing I ever found in my bag was some extra harissa. Where's the one where I can get $50K in cash?

More evidence that families are struggling - costs continue to rise.. We need a President committed to affordability. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...

This looks pretty explosive. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Ezra’s claim here runs into the challenging fact that abortion rights are more popular than Democrats in red states

Maybe I'll run for local office on this platform.

If only we’d elected Kamala.

Great article by @josheidelson.bsky.social on how Trump and RFK, Jr., have gutted NIOSH, an absolutely essential health agency. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

This is incredibly dangerous.

Is it just me, or are other folks seeing a lot of people's BlueSky accounts seemingly having been hacked?

Great piece by EJ Dionne: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

This is a nice opinion by Michigan Court of Claims Judge Brock Swartzle on the importance of the University of Michigan's Diag as a forum for speech: www.courts.michigan.gov/4a6a6f/sitea...

This FCC does not have the authority, the ability, or the constitutional right to police content or punish broadcasters for speech the government dislikes. Free speech is the foundation of our democracy, and we must push back against any attempt to erode it.

talked about this on the latest neonliberalism, but one of the distinctive features of the centerless centrists is that they try to triangulate not by paying attention to what conservatives actually want, but by what they imagine the median voter in their head wants.... ...with predictable results.

Absolutely wild how Signalgate was only 6 months ago and everyone has... forgotten about it and moved on. Signalgate would have ended careers and prompted wall-to-wall congressional hearings in any other administration. In Trump II, no one was held accountable. We just moved to the next scandal.

Who among us?

here’s the clip of someone saying “you’re an idiot,” as Levi — one of RFK Jr’s handpicked vaccine advisers — suggests other scientists are being overconfident about vaccine safety data

And again, why are these agents kitted out like they are going into Mogadishu?