Donald Trump’s deployments of the National Guard to American cities “are best understood as an effort to erode the nation’s sense that such use of the military is unacceptable,” Quinta Jurecic argues.

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent. Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

The same article includes a reference to an @swp-berlin.org paper that does not exist. There are many ways AI can support research, but just letting it write your articles with fake citations certainly is not the way.

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here. www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/... And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong. #AIisnotresearch

ELWOOD, Ill. (AP) — Texas National Guard troops have arrived at an Army Reserve center south of Chicago ahead of expected deployment.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here. Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

“.. it appears to justify an open-ended war against a secret list of groups, giving the president power to designate drug traffickers as enemy combatants and have them summarily killed without legal review.” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Head of OLC is a former Alito clerk www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

If you are in Ann Arbor on October 15, I will be talking to Max Stier, the head of the Partnership for Public Service about the threats to public service. Free admission, please register! fordschool.umich.edu/event/2025/t...

Not happening somewhere else. Here. In America. Right now.

"...To drive voter turnout within these communities, it’s imperative to recognize that in Black communities, voting is often a declaration of Black joy and a commitment to show up for one another." Learn more from @melissamichelson.bsky.social, @sldemora.bsky.social, and Sarah Hayes. ⤵️

I have been flummoxed by Bari Weiss heading up CBS news all day. It’s not jealousy. I don’t want that job. I am not qualified to do it. I just don’t understand how this is possible.

Hi everyone! 👋 I'm officially up and running at @propublica.org covering election and voting issues, and expanding my sourcing nationally. Spread the word. Reach out, say hi, introduce yourself, send tips: [email protected] Cell: 480-476-0108 Signal: jenafifield.01

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Traveling while Black during Jim Crow was about survival as well as mobility. The Green Book Project website documents that story. Share your family’s Green Book memories and help us preserve this rich history: greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

Yes, when I want to know what the Black community in Chicago is thinking, I always turn to someone who's really got their finger on the pulse: Stephen Miller.

Law enforcement lying?! unheard of, I say.

it is genuinely shocking how much rage @jay.bsky.team and the devs seem to have for their user base. suspending Erin Biba over an old post just because she’s been criticizing you is deeply fucked up. fix this shit.

They literally just fought a Supreme Court case for the right to racially profile. It was in the news!

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.

How much smaller the federal workforce is now vs. a year ago Ed Dept 42% OPM 33% HUD 31% Treasury 29% Defense (civilian jobs) 22% Small Biz Admin 21% Energy 20% Interior 15% HHS 14% SSA 11% EPA 10% www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

👉 In sum, citizens react to a wide variety of group appeals, but there is much heterogeneity in their responses. Our results indicate that social identity, and especially deservingness perceptions, are key to explaining this variation!

Really excited that after several years of working on it, revising, and getting lots of rejections, our paper (w/ Rune Stubager & Mads Thau) on citizens’ responses to group appeals is *finally* out @ejprjournal.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A 🧵 on our findings...

This discussion yesterday with @rgoodlaw.bsky.social on the Trump Administration’s extraordinary use the military at home and abroad is even more relevant today. As is our consideration of whether some within the executive, and the courts and Congress, will resist. www.youtube.com/live/UqVNDP1...

Judge Immergut has issued her written TRO prohibiting the Trump administration from relocating or deploying federalized national guard troops to Oregon. Here it is:

BOOM 🔥: Judge Immergut issues a second Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the relocation, federalization, or deployment of ANY NATIONAL GUARD FROM ANY STATE into the state of Oregon.

Jane Riley for CA asks about the duration of the new TRO. Immergut replies that it would expire in 14 days [notwithstanding further order of the court].... For DOJ, Hamilton asks court to rule on motion for stay. Immergut: I'm denying motion for stay and administrative stay.

Immergut: What I'll do is not modify my original TRO but issue a new TRO that prohibits the relocation or deployment of any federalized national guard to the state of Oregon....

“Catherine Rampell is joining The Bulwark, where she will write a weekly economics and policy-focused newsletter while contributing to the company’s podcasts and YouTube channels. ‘Catherine is one of the best…We’re beyond thrilled she’s decided to join us.’” www.semafor.com/article/10/0...

Some news: Psyched to announce that I'm joining @thebulwark.com as economics editor next month. I'm currently still on mat leave, but will return to co-hosting @theweekendprime.bsky.social as well soon. crampell.substack.com/p/nu-news

An important explanation by @ryangoodman.bsky.social of how Trump’s claimed extraordinary national security powers—at home and abroad—fit together and where it could all lead. Could there be meaningful checks from within the administration, the courts, or Congress? www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqVN...

wrote this line yesterday: "If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."

reading this book in october on a beach day in new york city really drives (pun intended) the point of this book home. congrats @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social !

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

Goddamn, this is great. The part at the end — you’ll know it when you see it — made me laugh so hard that I startled the dogs.

So say it, Hegseth. President Truman desegregated the military in 1948. That would be when the “wokeness” began, huh? Say it.

Michael Ben'Ary, the fired top national security prosecutor, writes in a letter to his now-former colleagues that DOJ policies are "making American citizens less safe."https://tinyurl.com/3kh7jb9n

Crucial historical and legal context for those of us living in Chicago right now... and those of us living anywhere in the USA for that matter.

> @dkthomp.bsky.social

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

So the argument is that Congress giving *judges* this power ≠ Congress giving *courts* this power? Umm…

Congressional District Interactive Map: How Much Will ACA Premium Payments Rise if Enhanced Subsidies Expire? | KFF www.kff.org/affordable-c...

@tesler.bsky.social has shown that what you call programs and who is attributed as creating the program does indeed matter. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

i personally prefer not to marinate in bot driven hate speech & science denial journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... and i hope bsky does not succumb to the forces that degraded most maybe all other social networks