Maybe I’m too demanding but I’d really like a definitive answer on why the United States started a war in Iran and what we are trying to accomplish.

I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

a helpful starter pack courtesy of Mindy as usual go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

I am once again tapping the "support independent, worker-owned, billionaire free news" sign. the most powerful people in the world should not be deciding whether or not we know about this sort of thing. putting Marisa's subscription link below

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors. My report:

The fascism eating Florida’s students professors and universities will spread to the rest of the country unless we collectively stop it. Powerful piece from FIU Prof. Zachary Levenson @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/flo...

Stanford friends, what's this about

We are calling on Gov. Healey to 1. Declare MA a sanctuary state 2. Cancel 287(g) agreement with ICE 3. Instruct state officials not to cooperate with ICE except by court order 4. Support the PROTECT & Dignity Not Deportations Acts www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/healey-ice-out

A Boston resident died in ICE custody due to medical neglect. ICE abducted him from a police precinct, despite a pending asylum claim. Another tragic example of why @massgovernor.bsky.social must end all state and local cooperation with ICE. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/05/m...

“Father Brian Shanley is violating New York state law & ignoring decades of St. John’s institutional practice & centuries of Catholic social teaching around respect for labor & workers." — Sophie Bell, St. John's University AAUP President

We keep hearing the public university systems saying, ‘We’re following SB 37.’ I’m sorry, no, SB 37 does not give you the mandate to violate people’s academic freedom and free speech. Shout out to all the Texas professors fighting for democracy. @texasaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org

Tomorrow marks the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. It also marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court first upholding the Voting Rights Act. We have gotten so, so far away from a Court that cares about democracy. New from me at @brennancenter.org:

Exactly right. The Civil Rights Division was able to show that it took exhaustive (and exhausting) work to litigate even the most obvious violations of the voting rights protections in the 1957 and 1960 acts, which ultimately convinced Congress and then SCOTUS that a much broader law was needed.

If you care about Black representation, you should be concerned that the oldest Dems running in 2026 are Black Maxine Waters (87) Jim Clyburn (85) Frederica Wilson (83) Emanuel Cleaver (81) David Scott (80) Alma Adams (79) Sanford Bishop (79) Al Green (78) Bobby Scott (78) Bennie Thompson (78)

Four Democrats voted for the DHS appropriations bill yesterday that keeps funding ICE as a violent, law-breaking, unaccountable agency: Cuellar Davis Golden Perez

Netanyahu has been wrong every time he has recommended some new military action to the US because his interests are more personal self-preservation than security. newrepublic.com/article/2073...

The far right's new politicized higher ed accreditor is illegitimate. "Rather than protecting educational quality, the CPHE appears designed to give partisan political actors a powerful new tool to pressure universities to conform to a narrow ideological agenda" — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

@jenniferberkshire.bsky.social on vouchers: The reality is that a policy that is a darling of billionaire donors and actively redistributes wealth upwards is a spectacularly poor fit for our “top vs. bottom” political moment. It’s also an organizing opportunity. (Talarico gets it.)

Before the investigations were concluded and after the DCL was withdrawn, the department announced 31 resolution agreements with institutions of higher education to end their partnerships with the PhD Project. In this case, the means—even though illegal and withdrawn—got them to their desired ends.

never gona take seriously organizations that die on the hill of "there's a problem in higher ed because the political party that wants to burn down higher ed is underrepresented on the faculty."

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea. newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

Four Democrats joined Republicans to block the Khanna–Massie Iran War Powers Resolution — AIPAC contributions the four Jared Golden: $3,449,465 Henry Cuellar: $3,239,485 Greg Landsman: $1,733,305 Juan Vargas: $949,493

The power of the American legal profession, a cartel that regulates itself, is immense. Its unique power in the US has been noted since Tocqueville. So the fact that many law firms and bar associations have been folding to the administration so far has been something of a puzzle.

At an event tonight a student asked what policies I’d like to see from President Talarico in 2029. Love the energy but feels like a bit of a reach.

Presented without comment. Panel one: what a senator said about AIPAC, which lobbied against holding countries receiving US military support to international law Panel two: how ADL characterized and condemned his remarks

This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

This form of anti-Zionism - not all anti-Zionism, but this form - is the anti-imperialism of fools. By absurdly framing this war with Iran as a Jewish religious war, Tucker Carlson gets to offload all responsibility to Israel, and thereby maintain his belief in the moral goodness of the US.

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your new DHS secretary, everyone:

"This is where the gravest danger lies: Delusion, ideology, and ineptitude are conspiring to make escalation almost inevitable." – @thomaszimmer.bsky.social steady.page/en/democracy...

Attacks on academic freedom are driving US researchers to seek opportunities elsewhere. “Contingency, dwindling jobs & rampant underfunding of education means that a lack of mobility is the norm across the academic profession...& why we must fight..." —Isaac Kamola, AAUP CDAF

holy fuck. I heard y'all talking about it but I hadn't seen--heard--the video. good Lord

We are Jewish faculty and staff at UCLA, including student employees. We write to condemn the Title VII lawsuit against UCLA filed by the Department of Justice ostensibly on our behalf. Open Letter. sites.google.com/view/ucla-je...

A reminder that Netanyahu is in league with the far-right religious zealots (including the Christian ones such as Mike Huckabee).

If you’re enrolled in SAVE, we urgently need to hear from you. Fill out our form ASAP so we can reach out with next steps. forms.gle/a5FKoKPmNeRg...

The question is always "what if a kid is wrongfully transitioned" and never "what if a trans kid is denied the ability to transition and endures years of excruciating dysphoria and has to have multiple surgeries later in life to fix the issues caused by going through the wrong puberty."

I've told this story before, but I'm happy to keep telling it. My adolescent-onset gender dysphoria was interpreted as an ever-shifting psychiatric diagnosis. I was heavily medicated and repeatedly hospitalized.

"The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs... and the chat was renamed after what one member described as “Nazi heaven.”" www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Smear campaigns in Reddit comments have become a fixture of celebrity legal dramas, but they aren't just affecting public figures. For @spitfirenews.com, I investigated anonymous online attacks against a woman who reported a music professor for sexual harassment. spitfirenews.com/p/she-report...

Every time groups like AJC seek to silence & punish fact based criticism of Israel in the name of Jews & Jewish safety, they reinforce the stereotype that Jewish = Israel = Zionist. Intent or not, this behavior common to pro-Israel lobby groups amplifies & mainstreams antisemitic tropes.

The future of the Democratic Party will be centrist Democrats saying factually true things (and in fact understating them) and the collective pro Israel lobby freaking the fuck out

The only defensible argument against the “apartheid” label is that the West Bank is not part of Israel, but a separate occupied nation. Annexation makes even that fig leaf of an argument impossible. There is literally nothing Israel can do that would make groups like the AJC acknowledge the reality.

Weird how this keeps happening! www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence. And then he bragged about it on X later.

Solidarity to the NYU faculty members as they prepare to strike. University leadership must offer a deal that meets the moment: Stronger job security, higher wages, and academic freedom protections. NYU, it’s time to give CFU-UAW a fair contract and also pay your RAs!

This is psychotic behavior by Sheehy. My goodness

Thank you @propublica.org.