Don't get me wrong: I'm relieved that this case is shaping up as either 8-1 or 7-2 against the Trump executive order. But the case is a gift to the Supreme Court. By rejecting an outlandish position, it will earn credibility as apolitical, even as the Overton window moves far to the right.

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

Does anyone know what the NYT pays for a freelance book review?

Finally, someone dares to ask: what if Sharper Image had a Substack?

This happened to a friend; his disappointment was compounded b/c he’d thought the “BUS” designation on his boarding pass meant he’d been upgraded to business class

This 50 yr old woman spent 5 months in jail accused of a crime in a state she's never even been to, because Clearview AI misidentified her as the suspect. A judge signed off on it, cops went along with it, no process in place to even question the AI. www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/u...

Really great team. My students who have worked with Lawfare have had a blast.

Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.

Philadelphians remain ingenuous. No flag pole, no problem. 😂

Sometimes I think that if Mamdani was in charge of the Biden administration's comms, we'd be living in a very different world right now...

I am generally loathe to suggest the world needs more edited volumes, but I'd definitely read a collected set of reflections by writers from constitutional democracies on how their respective systems are holding up to the current authoritarian turn

Free speech is when Republicans can say what they want and when you can say what they want bsky.app/profile/simp...

On Nov 2024, airline execs were giddy about trump winning so that Biden era consumer protections could be reversed, etc. None more so than Delta’s CEO. Now Trump’s reckless war may ruin them, even put some out of business.

Today's machine-breaking is both more entertaining and less likely to result in a stint in Leavenworth than its historical analogues:

Important thread below.

Fascinating poll on how pervasive ICE invasion was in the central cities. Almost one-fifth of St. Paul encountered ICE; more than a quarter of Minneapolis did. Either figure is astounding & awful; indicates Mpls enforcement was roughly half again more intense than St.P.

Callum The Space Invader was vanquished after he got distracted and opened up a second front vs. the phone charger

The Menace reports that the condo is one again under siege

Holy shit, finally. Flight attendants will get paid during boarding

Just a guy out walking his turtles.

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

Exactly this: "Collective bargaining is one of the few tools to stop this [democratic] backsliding by guaranteeing employee protections to speak up."

For the second time in a row, faculty at Muhlenberg College have boycotted the faculty meeting, leading to a lack of quorum and halting the meeting. This has been an AAUP-led action where members and non-members have joined the boycott.

“On Wednesday, in a case out of Minnesota, a 2-1 panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the Trump administration’s new interpretation of federal law to allow it to implement its mandatory immigration detention policy.” www.lawdork.com/p/eighth-cir...

Susman is right but also this is really obvious and hopefully a dam breaks now.

you have been judged

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

New from DOL. At least the program is mercifully short? (70 minutes of content, apparently.) Brought to you by a company that makes AI generated corporate training materials. www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...

Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/edinbur...

This AI cow surveillance technology is a threat to the livelihood of border collies everywhere...

I'm so glad we made a bespoke test for this one constitutional right for no apparent reason. and I'm even more glad that the test is like "compare the challenged law to the most nichely racist law you can find from 1307. If they look similar that's good for some reason"

STUDENT MEDIA LAWSUIT: Eight students have sued the University of Alabama, arguing that the closures of the women- and Black-focused student magazines violated the First Amendment. thecrimsonwhite.com/127869/news/...

Just what airports need: more people cluelessly milling about

Argh, I should have checked the replies before embarking on my own journey through Google Books. Random find:

Hello, I’m a historian interested in the history of comedy — this joke dates back to the 19th century, but wasn’t intended to be a standalone gag. It was a deliberate bathetic punchline following lots of difficult riddles The very modern Internet interpretation of a fatalist fowl intrigues me

The elite attack on universities has already substantially eroded academic freedom and free speech. People should be hired based on merit. We should avoid any procedure that punishes applicants or faculty based on political views. And no ideological quotas or monitoring of faculty.

This is way too cute for you people.

Bluesky needs polls. Because I need to know: 1) Did any of you grow up understanding the chicken joke to be about the chicken wanting to die?; and 2) If you did, was it because people in your community routinely used "the other side" as a metaphor for death?

On Fox & Friends this morning they had on a TSA union guy, and when asked what ICE agents can do starting Monday he said I don’t know, the training program takes five months, without that they’d mainly be standing around being a distraction and slowing things down

Several years ago, a bunch of states banned employers from requiring workers to have RFID chips placed under their skin. IIRC, this was b/c of reporting on one unhinged company.

Coolio: "Sometimes you gotta get up to get down."

Tom Homan just announced on @cnn.com that ICE will be deployed to America's airports starting MONDAY. He says they won't do passenger screening. He also claims agents are so well trained that this should be no big deal. Here in Chicago, like Minneapolis, we've seen the truth about that 'training.'

Wild that you can just go to the cat store, pick up 15 lbs of cat, and then head home to your life for the next 10-20 years

“hey there good lookin’”

Even better than looking out the window…

So I was looking through some family papers & found this, a 1939 letter from a Berkeley professor regarding my Great Uncle William Walker (my Grandmother’s older brother) & it is, seriously, the most amazing thing I’ve ever read.

Overnight: The Trump administration is making a renewed push to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, telling a judge they've sorted out logistics to send him to Liberia (and rejected his proposal to go to Costa Rica) assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

"The developments in the United States are moving towards dictatorship, what the founders wanted to avoid . . . It's the most rapid decline ever in the history of the United States and one of the most rapid in the world." www.npr.org/2026/03/20/n...

This is an effort to turn the Minnesota rapid responders into criminals. If Democrats make this deal, they will send me, and many others like me who have been out protecting the community, to jail.