“It feels really lifeless and exclusionary.” Students across Ohio say a new GOP-backed law is reshaping campuses and silencing voices.

Take a year off teaching con law, return to a different constitution.

"Lin’s decision also creates a potential opening for other researchers seeking to challenge their grant terminations after an August U.S. Supreme Court decision seemingly made that process harder." Pay close attention to this move, it's useful! Congrats to UCLA faculty! laist.com/news/educati...

J. Kagan dissent: "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars.Still more, it should not be used,as it also has been,to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation’s separation of powers."

Not a solitary citation to law. Any law. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Happy Rosh Hashanah y'all.

This is, I think, the best push alert and makes me wonder why this directness isn’t the norm.

deeply frustrated to announce that my article about Trump illegally firing an FTC Commissioner and the Supreme Court saying laws don't apply to their favorite president is relevant again

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Idk how many of you saw this, but I think this is *exactly* the soothing narrative that three or four justices, including the chief, have talked themselves into.

Shana tova, peeps. May it be a year of health, of safety, and of collective liberation. ❤️‍

"A while" being the two hours I was teaching a class. I'm reeling.

This isn’t a university.

Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson

I don’t like a world where this is necessary.

On the blog, @espinsegall.bsky.social, who is a faculty member of a public university in a blue city in a purple state run by a Republican statewide government, wonders what is and is no longer permissible for him to say. 👇

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

It's particularly the case among the Americans who are paid to decide which news is important, and who despite everything still can't bring themselves to accurately describe the fact that the president is serially murdering people and our systems are unable to stop him

This is no longer a question of losing our democracy. The question has become whether we are prepared to fight to get it back. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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...

The US attorney in Maryland, Kelly Hayes, is now telling people she's bracing for pressure to bring charges against Adam Schiff. But she also won't do so if the facts don't warrant it, NYT reports. More evidence that Trump's corruption is running into deep institutional resistance (see below).

Does anybody truly believe that Tom Homan's $50,000 payday was a one-off? (Presumably the FBI didn't, or why would they have launched their investigation?) I hope investigative journalists and others with the ability to dig into his whole range of activities will pick up the torch

I think that in con law this spring I'm going to have to supplement my usual week of McCulloch with Prigg + Abelman v booth to raise the question: maybe we should sometimes let the states regulate the Feds, or at least accept that they'll do it de facto and the fight is on? Mini- 🧵 on ice masks...

Accurate

Came back to the Eagles game just at the right time. Let’s do this!

You’ll be shocked to hear that their recommendation is not limiting the circumstances in which AI is deployed, but rather accepting the inevitability it will occasionally have catastrophic effects.

Reading papers is a basic skill (and dare I say duty?) of scientists, and I include medical doctors in that group. Keeping abreast of the literature is a foundational part of our professions. There aren’t good shortcuts. In any case, reading papers regularly is fun. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/s...

"At more than 400 campuses across the country, programs and centers that promote diversity, equity and inclusion have been eliminated or rebranded." www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Me in December 2024 referencing my work from earlier in 2024 www.wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-m...

If you can’t write a good bio for yourself in under “an hour and change” using your brain, calling yourself a “wordsmith” is fraudulent. And I’m not going to get into that last line, because I genuinely pity her.

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

It’s not a crime to be in this country as an undocumented person. It’s a civil violation. But you know what is a crime? Taking a bribe from undercover agents in exchange for the promise of government contracts WHEN YOU’RE THE FCKING BORDER CZAR.

Hanna Arendt was right…

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

Democrats need to seriously consider an impeachment inquiry into now-Judge Emil Bove if/when they take back the House. He led the brazenly corrupt Eric Adams quid pro quo. He facilitated the Tom Homan bribery cover-up. And there’s probably more! He was Trump’s hatchet man at DOJ for months!

Add one more to the list of Bove's articles of impeachment, which should be filed at the start of every Congress going forward cc: @housedemocrats.bsky.social

Serious Art III question: Congress can legally abolish any lower court, right? If it does, what happens to those judges? Could a Dem Congress w a Dem POTUS abolish the 3rd Circuit in 2029, and then re-create it 6 months later, with all new judges? Mass reappoint the good ones, banish Bove et al?

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

Temple Law’s Introduction to Transactional Skills (ITS) immerses 1Ls in transactional law through workshops & a capstone deal simulation with feedback from practicing lawyers. law.temple.edu/academics/experiential/courses

Citizen-led reforms in Missouri have legalized marijuana, raised the minimum wage, and revoked the state’s abortion ban. Last week, Republicans advanced a constitutional amendment that would effectively kill the citizen initiative process.

Meanwhile a rally of hundreds of students at the University of New Hampshire took place outside of the physics building, where its student leaders pledged to continue his work

My most Gen X complaint is that this question ignores our existence.

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

By the way, what’s happening with abortion rights in Missouri—where voters certified a pro-choice constitutional amendment that Republicans have effectively nullified—is a disgusting insult to democracy.

Keep the pressure on, people

Breaking news: The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered scientists in at least one of its research offices to immediately pause almost all research and stop publishing their studies.

this exists it is called thinking

This. No TT/non-TT/VAP job will be offered to an int'l candidate, since it requires an H1-B until the green card is issued. This process takes at least a couple of years.

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I cannot overstate how remarkable it is that under GOP rule, US federal health regulations have been captured by fringe crackpots who espouse views that the vast majority of the US public—and nearly 100% of health professionals—reject. Gift link: