Scott Pelley said, hours before an episode of 60 Minutes on the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti was set to air, Bari Weiss sent an email asking for changes to the episode: "Can we make the protesters look more violent?"

Jared Kushner has brought a mind-boggling array of ethical conflicts to his role as a diplomat. His financial entanglements span the globe, touching on the hotspots where he is supposed to be negotiating on America’s behalf.

Our ongoing national embarrassment . . .

It was already burbling up in various venues toward the end of last week, but it officially got underway over the weekend: the long-expected 2026 midterm election disinfo bonanza.

Seth Moulton is rebranding himself as a progressive in his campaign against Ed Markey. But his actual record says otherwise.

reminder that the last time trump was at madison square garden was for a literal nazi rally

“We were hoping that the university would act on the the evidence provided by the Student Senate report about Hillel’s complicity in genocide. They are investigating us instead,” said Ryder Glickman, who is chair of The New School Student Senate and helped produce the report.

At least 1.5 of 3 branches of the federal government led by election deniers

The Thirteenth Amendment prohibits slavery, except “as a punishment for crime.” But people in immigration detention haven’t been convicted of anything—and are still being forced to work for nothing.

The media now started calling Beirut's southern suburbs a "Hezbollah stronghold." Dahiyeh is a densely populated part of a capital city. Striking entire civilian neighborhoods is not counterterrorism. It's a war crime.

A professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago has been suspended because she designed an art therapy assignment included a mention a hypothetical woman who is "deeply affected by the violence against Palestinian civilians." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Basic question for law schools and law profs is how do we teach the new anti-canon cases? “Congressional maps that diminish the Black vote are now acceptable, according to the court, so long as state lawmakers say they are drawing them on the basis of partisan advantage and not on race.”

This is Texas State Rep Hillary Hickland last night in response to my post yesterday about Lonesome Dove being removed from schools due to Senate Bill 13. Texans are sick of this anti-book nonsense. Today’s a great day to donate to her opponent: www.ameliafortexas.com

Once again, @brianbeutler.bsky.social is the only one I hear talking about this key dynamic: the more corrupt the GOP & its lackeys on the court get, the more they have to lose if the elections go the wrong way & the more they'll be willing to do to prevent it.

Thank you, Mackinac Dems! I’m fighting to unlock the system for people who have been locked out by both establishments.

This is an example of a scientific association censoring its members, real scientists, for defending attacks on science. The police were called to remove the scientists for handing out hard copies of this editorial. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

One could map this across many aspects of SCOTUS decisions perverting civil rights law: including creation of religious right to discriminate against lgbtq people. bsky.app/profile/adam...

With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It really speaks to her stupidity that she couldn’t “frog in a boiling pot” CBS News into a gradual and more subtle right-wing organization. But that would take skill and strategy developed by not having smoke blown up your ass about being a special and talented journalist for your entire life

Who you say you are, what you say you believe, your identity as a citizen of this country, are all on the table. “Are you prepared to stand and watch as Black political representation is erased? Do you not yet understand that this is also your fight if you have any hope of living in a democracy?”

BigLaw is a big problem. But helps explain why many of the heavyweights in the legal profession seem cool w broader democratic decay. "More BigLaw partners are advancing to top-tier earnings of $40 million or higher, which includes base pay bonuses of up to 40%, according to industry observers."

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Katie Lane to the District of Montana, despite the judicial nominee receiving a “not qualified” rating from the ABA.

folks, some of you may recall I was hoping to hit a smooth 6,000 books sold by the two year anniversary of publishing The Originalism Trap well today's the day so I just checked my author account and 6,111 🥹 thank you my friends 🥰 onward bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

WOW. The New Jersey AG has charged an Essex County Prosecutor’s Office sergeant for allegedly stealing a photojournalist’s camera equipment while the journo was at a hospital being treated for injuries she suffered outside Delaney Hall. The bag had an air tag and was tracked to the cop's house.

new draft for anyone who felt the DNC autoposy might've missed something or feels the university distrust narrative a bit misses the mark. w @isaackamola.bsky.social. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

this is where viewpoint diversity (give equal weight to ideas that aren't academically rigorous) + institutional neutrality (allow the status quo to continue no matter who it harms & who hoards power) lead us. wish some of you were could've seen attacks on critical race theory for what they were

Yup, “institutional neutrality” is an incoherent position bought at the cost of handing over all ability to defend the actions of the institution itself.

"The pursuit of science, they were effectively told, is now categorized as partisan politics." This wasn't a choice made by scientists or science advocates, who would still prefer it to be non-partisan.

On this point law schools / legal academia have a lot of soul searching to do. Either we continue to both-sides this and mythologizing the court or we have some honest conversations. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The decades-old failure of legal experts, journalists, most Dems, & the general public to realize what many political scientists have long known - SCOTUS is an <entirely> political institution & even the greatest justices are replaceable votes - until it was too late was a truly unfortunate own goal

"the pursuit of science . . . is now categorized as partisan politics."

Read all of this @sifill.bsky.social post. But this point seems to me especially important. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

precisely why it's so unserious for anyone to support an institutional neutrality that means taking no sides on "controversial" topics. newrepublic.com/article/2100...

found out why they ditched the 1776 fund 😒 a claim from Kat Abu was also a possibility, as I'm sure were many others

Half of surveyed Texas Tech faculty changed course content on their own after the chancellor's memos restricting teaching on race, gender, and sexuality. More than half say they're now looking for other jobs as a result of the memos. #HigherEd @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/half...

It's not just the legislation itself; it's the chilling effect, the climate of fear, it's designed to create. Enough time in that climate and eventually people are conditioned into reflexive self-censorship

I waited a while to write this one. The time finally felt right.

Here are the CDC positions they are saying are in the excepted service as policy roles — including "Epidemiologist," "Research Epidemiologist," and "Health Scientist."

BIG NEWS! A War Powers Resolution to end the war in Iran just passed the House! The American people are tired of presidents abusing their power by spending billions of our taxpayer dollars on unnecessary wars. I urge the Senate to quickly pass this bill to end Trump’s illegal war in Iran.

Dr. King called the white moderate the "greatest stumbling block in the stride toward freedom" — more dangerous than open racists because they hide behind caution and comfort. Governors Sherrill, Spanberger, Whitmer, and Polis are still proving him right 63 years later. Read my full analysis.

well i guess now we know how he has all that time for the second gig...as acting archivist of the united states. the whole America 250 website is a wild ride. america250.org

“The mission is to close down Delaney Hall, to respect the human rights that all human beings have — no matter what their legal status is,” she said. “We’re seeking a humane response to something that is as close to evil as I’ve ever seen.” www.huffpost.com/entry/delane...

Marianne was my thesis advisor two decades ago. Then, as now, she stood as a beacon of intellect and courage.

This was extremely foreseeable (in fact I publicly foresaw it) and I will forever be mad, as a Jew, at my fellow Jews who sold out our hard-fought history of integration into US universities for Bibi and a hyphenated white identity. cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/antisemiti...

Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson, issues a 17-page dissent to the 4-page order: "[J]ust as Alabama doubled down on racial discrimination, the Court today doubles down on chaos."

BREAKING: In an unsigned, per curiam opinion on the shadow docket, the SCOTUS conservatives allow Alabama to use a congressional map held repeatedly by a lower court to have been enacted with discriminatory intent.

In half a dozen filings shared with the Guardian, excerpts of which were also made public, faculty alleged that Columbia indeed enabled a hostile climate for Jews. But they argued that the hostility they faced stemmed from their support for Palestinian rights and student protests.

The U.S. Supreme Court erased all doubts about the sweeping nature of its recent voting rights jurisprudence Tuesday night with a shadow docket ruling that effectively reverses the Court’s own decision in the same matter just three years ago. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This is an actual Thirteenth Amendment violation, because they have not been convicted of any crime.