Ohio's corrupt Statehouse wants to punish school districts that successfully proved in court that the current voucher program is illegal. Let that sink in.

There is a time and place for everything, and the moment when a demented authoritarian strongman is attempting to take over one of the last remaining independent institutions in the U.S. is, frankly, not the moment for your aCtUaLlY CeNtRaL BaNk iNdEpEnDeNcE Is HiStoRicAllY cOnTeStEd take.

In my opinion there are several things that taste at least as good as, if not in fact better than, skinny feels

Makes sense: how can Trump pardon Maduro if he doesn’t get convicted first?

How many books did you read in 2025?? Just kidding I don’t give a f*ck

No one is looking forward to closing the book on 2025 more than I am! Happy New Year!

Ladies and gentlemen, the head of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

Somewhere near downtown LA, no lies told — blue states keep MAGA country afloat. 🔥 “You just keep on using me until you use me up.”

Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.

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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

You may be living in an absolutely racist country when 13-year-old Black boys are tried and sentenced as adults, but white dudes who *are* adults are called "kids" by JD Vance to shield them from culpability.

Great post from my colleague Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social. The same should be said about the preexisting Title VI demands. I don’t see any kind of “deal” that doesn’t fundamentally undermine the rule of law and academic freedom.

A sex-blind admissions policy at selective universities will not go the way that the Trump administration thinks it will.

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

The need for fair congressional districts is beyond overdue. Ohio elected officials must pass a bipartisan map that accurately represents their communities. Voters should choose their leaders, not the other way around. www.cleveland.com/news/2025/09...

Same guy who lied that immigrants were eating pets. Actual statistics show he's lying here, too.

That is very on-brand.

"When politicians draw lines to benefit themselves, they rob voters of the ability to pick their lawmakers. That lack of fairness leads to bad legislation that doesn't serve voters and polarization that harms our entire democratic process," - our friend Jen Miller @LWVOhio.bsky.social

Once more, with feeling: The President has no authority to federalize *anything* in D.C. without Congress, and all Congress has authorized is using the (tiny) D.C. National Guard and 30 days of use of the MPD "for federal purposes": www.stevevladeck.com/p/172-federa...

WTAF is this headline

So he definitely paid people to endorse him, right?

Very helpful summary if you’re following: Here’s what DeWine vetoed from the budget ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/01/h...

As someone who has been on the business end of nationwide injunctions that I thought were improper, I find the question of what rules we should adopt for them to be genuinely hard. But yesterday's decision deserves massive criticism, for at least two reasons. (Thread.)

Republicans think the American people will “get over” having their health care stripped away by Trump’s Big Ugly Bill. Losing your health care isn’t something you “get over.”

Every one of these petty, ideologically driven visa denials is an assault on *our* freedom of association, our right to hear, and our ability to learn about the world around us. They are meant to make us stupider, more susceptible to manipulation, and less free. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...

Welp. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...

Very good piece by @professormutch.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/o...

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

Judge Ho would like you to know that the real victim in the Alien Enemies Act proceedings is ... Trump & other officials (perhaps Stephen Miller). And lower courts that have been reversed for not protecting people from extraordinary renditions. Not the men in CECOT. reason.com/wp-content/u...

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When will voters ever learn that the GOP is not the fiscally responsible party?

If South Africa is a sovereign nation, how are we able to send our own planes we paid for to transport white Afrikaners to the U.S., but simultaneously unable to send a plane to return Abrego Garcia et al?

Senate Bill 1, which is now law, eliminates "diversity, equity and inclusion on campus(es), prevent(s) faculty from striking and prohibit(s) universities from weighing in on controversial topics" according to Columbus Dispatch reports. Learn more about the effort to repeal SB1 @ ohsb1petition.com

Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented. His argument fails even on its own terms.

Governor Mills to Trump: "I'll see you in court" Trump: "Actually, no, lets settle."

Not my job to tell big law firms their business, but it seems like suing this administration is better than surrendering to it

Don’t be fooled —if the Supreme Court sanctions a public religious school, it would be a major sea change in First Amendment doctrine www.cbsnews.com/news/st-isid...

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I see the Trump Administration’s fight with Harvard is going great

Per @jessicavalenti.bsky.social and @nytimes.com, some Trump admin ideas for “encouraging” people to have more babies: 1/

Kristi Noem getting ready to buy Easter gifts for her family

I have to assume that Kristi Noem had $3,000 in cash because she had just sold children to a human trafficking ring, and it would have been $10,000 but she had just made a drop for some Fentanyl that she was on her way to pick up.

The richest man in the world did this www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/w...

Last night’s SCOTUS decision may have been a turning point. Highly recommend this post—with huge and ongoing appreciation for @stevevladeck.bsky.social, providing an enormous service in helping us sort it all out: www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...