"The boy, who is Hispanic and African American, was held in a garage for five hours “without informing his family, stating any charges, or allowing him to call an attorney,” the statement said. He is a U.S. citizen, as is his entire immediate family, the release said."

Not the main point here, read the whole thread, but it is astonishing that it took children getting dragged out of apartment buildings and ICE shooting pastors for Dems to realize we are in fact in an information war. And Dems, post Obama, have ceded enormous advantages to their opponents in it.

"Jackson’s dissent is not a mere disagreement with a colleague’s judgment. She is demonstrating that what her colleagues are doing isn’t even judging; laws have little to no bearing on the outcome of their decisions, which are determined instead by Republican policy goals." 🎯

Dem Party: We are spending $20M to figure out how to talk to male voters. Mamdani: Save your money. I have +45 favorability with male voters & +73 with men under 45. Endorse me. Dem Party: No way dude. Now—why is our favorability is -54? Let's spend $20M on wealthy consultants to figure it out!

“Who has the capacity to create?” Julia Nguyen (ucla) interrogating traditional IP concepts of creatorship at this weekends @raceip.bsky.social Race IP conference at Pitt Law (organized by my colleague Anjali Vats!)

Pittsburgh showing up today!

This is a big win for the right to travel and the right to abortion speech / information. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u...

I saw the work by Olga Lautman and he findings were disturbing: Steven Witkoff was in Russia when he was added to the signal chat. Russia has infiltrated Signal and used against Ukrainians. Very possible they have the classified signal info:

www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ar... Well this is blatantly unconstitutional

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

Heads up, lawyers and law students. The @americanbar.org is stepping up. www.abajournal.com/web/article/...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... So Trump and Vance freak out after Zelensky criticizes Putin, and they’ve apparently instructed agencies to no longer focus on Russian cybersecurity threats… maybe it really is time to put together a lil’ emergency stockpile at home

We can do this!

As federal research grants continue to be frozen, and NIH staff is being gutted, please note this study was funded by federal research grants, including from NIH. If they continue with staff cuts, and continue to freeze new awards, this is just one example of what we lose.

These folks sound exactly like Jim Crow-era managers who were "personally in favor" of integration but worried about all the ruckus.

Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders."

The intentional targeting of Haitian people has become a disgusting hallmark of Trump, Vance and the new administration—and it must stop. Trump Will Create 520,000 More Illegal Immigrants by Undoing Haitians' Protected Status reason.com/2025/02/21/tru… via @reason

Excited to be part of this timely and important event

soon enough, the mere presence of black and latino students on campus will be illegal racial discrimination against white students www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

In these perilous times, it may be worth reflecting on the long struggle to overcome racial authoritarianism to create this democracy and how we all must contribute else it may be lost. #MLK #BlackHistoryMonth #democracy #votingrights #civicduty canopyforum.org/2020/11/03/w...

Trump has immunity, and Musk will police his own conflicts. This is the basis for a crime spree. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump is calling for ethnic cleansing. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

Love this

Crockett: I am tired of the white tears. When you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. So the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so, so much harder

Members of Congress were just denied entry to the Department of Treasury. This is a 5 alarm fire.

Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

This isn’t a DEI program. Right?

Red state alcohol is currently being removed at B.C. Liquor store in Victoria. #bcpoli

Another major cross-border conflict about abortion on the way: a grand jury in LA just indicted NY doctor Margaret Carpenter for violating the state's abortion ban by mailing pills into the state: apnews.com/article/abor... We are expecting much more along these lines next month...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a case challenging Mississippi’s lifetime ban on voting for individuals with certain felony convictions, which the state enshrined in its 1890 constitution with the express purpose of denying Black men the right to vote.

NEW: The Israeli government’s blockade of Gaza and attacks on healthcare facilities have created serious and sometimes life-threatening danger for women and girls during and after pregnancy and delivery since hostilities began in October 2023.

For "One First," I wrote about Monday's OMB memo purporting to (temporarily) freeze billions of dollars of appropriated federal spending—and why it constitutes both unconstitutional and unlawful "impoundment" that's unlikely to be upheld by even *this* #SCOTUS: www.stevevladeck.com/p/120-the-im...

When you read "anti-immigrant" I want you to hear "Going after anyone who isn't white" because THAT is what they mean, and that is who they are after.

Looking forward to processing the dystopian hellscape for workers we now live in with @veenadubal.bsky.social & @daveyseligman.bsky.social this Friday!

Multiple layers of problems here-not disclosing use of facial recognition in search warrant application, police not using the tech in a sensible way, using that faulty ID as a primary source of investigation, no transparency about Clearview, no regs at all…

Trump: Round up MORE than the usual suspects!

This paper is a great example of solid evidence of systemic discrimination: "Black taxpayers are audited at 2.9 to 4.7 times the rate of non-Black taxpayers." This reflects a series of choices built into the IRS audit algorithm: focus on the EITC, and overclaiming of credits.

Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

Soon enough, Trump will start to execute his agenda. He will continue to lie about the 2020 election. Those of us who call him out for what he is — a deranged election-denying autocrat — will be vilified and threatened. That is how we know we are doing the right thing. That we are effective.

One of my latest articles ! (forthcoming NYU Ann S Am Law journal)

Outrageous

What could possibly go wrong w/a bill giving Trump-installed crackpots "power to investigate and effectively shut down any tax-exempt organization—incl news outlets, universities, and civil society groups—by stripping them of their tax-exempt status based on an unilateral accusation of wrongdoing"

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...