When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it. Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...

An anti-abortion protester has shot someone outside of a South Carolina Planned Parenthood. My source says one person was injured and taken to the hospital—and that the protester was arrested. More soon.

"The notion that Fuentes’ rhetorical violence is a bridge too far, while Heritage provides the infrastructure for the administration’s actual violence, strains credulity."

they were very busy interviewing 3 detransitioners

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

They said this when Roe fell about why they couldn’t do anything then…with Biden as president. Look at how that turned out and ask yourself if you believe them this time.

Minority Whip Katherine Clark puts out a stinging statement on the senate deal. "A GOP budget that spikes health care premiums and everyday costs to fund tax cuts for billionaires is a grave betrayal of everyday Americans. That was true in July. It was true in September. And it remains true today."

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

the administration's arguement cannot even withstand metaphor

Last night, the National Guard chased children who were out enjoying Halloween in Navy Yard. There is no valid reason for armed soldiers to terrorize children like this. End Trump’s occupation of DC. National Guard out NOW.

Spent Halloween transporting my familiars across state lines so I can start my new life as a swamp witch.

This isn't new. I was dealing with antivax in vet med/animal sheltering as far back as '07 in the SF Bay.

What in the Winchester mystery house?

A good time to remind people of this report by @reproresearcher.bsky.social that "83% of people exposed to tear gas or other chemical agents used by law enforcement reported at least one adverse reproductive health outcome." www.sph.umn.edu/news/new-stu...

I've been telling yall everything is abortion now. Same playbook, same health harms.

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

We're...gonna have to make future presidents sign a lease and put down a deposit.

"In a sense, therefore, we always expected the violence, we knew it was coming, though we could never predict the next target. Yet each time it struck, it was equally devastating to us. No matter how many times it was repeated, there was no getting used to it.” - Angela Davis

same.

Once again, EVERY R1 research university depends on federal funding for ~15-25% of its budget. You simply can't unplug the largest or 2nd-largest source of $$ of every R1 university & expect it not to have devastating consequences for graduate education, which will spill over to undergrad education.

New commute 🚋

I hope someday we defeat fascism and in the far future, No Kings Day is celebrated as a federal holiday, and little children leave out dance mixtapes and cookies for the Resistance Frog, who leaves pocket Constitutions in their shoes.

Canvas, the course management platform used by my university (and many others), has been down all day due to the AWS outage. It has prompted some good discussions about how much critical infrastructure is now outsourced to a few companies.

This piece is perfection. We need different leaders. Period. msmagazine.com/2025/10/17/t...

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

I feel like I'm leaving repro Girl Scout jamboree. Thanks @scholars.org for an amazing time. 🐊🤓

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

My Salazar explainer is doing pretty well & I'm very pleased to see people taking the time to learn about conversion "therapy" and the long fight to protect kids from these harmful practices. If you haven't read it yet, take a few minutes today to do that. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

If you're starting to get into UK LGBTQ politics/are claiming that the past 6mos is suddenly shocking, PLEASE go read scholarship that goes back further. I wrote an entire dissertation on this--at the very least you can go through my bibliography. rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/...

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

**always follow the money** PE firm behind for-profit universities using its WH influence to handwrite terms that will eviscerate, hamstring and control its own competitors in higher ed…and NY Times giving space to the CEO to come out and admit this influence in a pro-Compact piece

Hart, M. T. (2007). Humour and social protest: An introduction. International Review of Social History, 52(S15), 1-20.

The rarely seen Type III Error.

Alito is like 30% of the reason the standard of care needed to be politicized because he doesn't rule based on medical or social evidence of harm from laws that prevent care.

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

This new Taylor Swift album is for anyone who married the person that carried the costume/prop boxes into the theater for them without being asked.

In approving a drug, the FDA is giving its stamp of approval that it is safe and effective. Yes, this FDA. Said that about mifepristone.

Whip is an elected senior leadership position in the House and I'm annoyed they edited to erase her title rather than correcting her ranking.

NEW: In my investigation for @prismreports.org published today, I report on how rare it is for women to obtain H-2A agricultural visas to work in the U.S. When they do, many report experiencing gender-based violence:

Just another totally normal day in political science. 🫠

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

Selectively applying findings in ways that contradict the researcher's conclusions is a form of censorship. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/h...

no absolutely not no www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

I am a political scientist and my nemesis word is bureaucracy.

New piece in The Conversation on Kirk and why his vision for education in America is so important for our understanding of the conservative movement. theconversation.com/charlie-kirk...

See this great reporting in the Verge for more information and analysis www.theverge.com/politics/777...

In 2014, Anita Sarkeesian canceled an event at Utah State after a credible assassination threat because the school’s response was that Utah allows guns on college campuses. People have warned about this kind of violence for years. But they weren’t the people the powers at be wanted to protect.