K stop routinely violating multiple rights of US citizens, in this case Mr. Miranda (oh the irony). www.opb.org/article/2025...

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

“Is that a pile of algae mixed with goose poop, carcasses, cigarette butts and other ditrutus? Yay! Time to roll in that deliciousness so I can savour the smell ALL DAY”

KLOBUCHAR: Has the DOJ issued any subpoenas to journalists under the updated guidance? BONDI: ... KLOBUCHAR: You can respond BONDI: ... ... I can't comment

This is a very good statement that correctly calls out Hamas and Israel for committing atrocities, so naturally the replies are completely deranged

Pam Bondi says at a Senate hearing that she has ended the weaponization of the Department of Justice and that any Senator who says otherwise can expect to be federally indicted.

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors) Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

Robert Morris, former spiritual adviser to President Trump and founder of Gateway Church, pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse, exposing how faith, power, and image merged into a system that commodifies devotion. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/former-tru...

This is a lie, there has been mountains of evidence that conversion therapy causes harm for decades. “Lawyers for the therapist and the Trump administration said there were no studies indicating such therapy causes harm.” www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2...

Alito, “Justice Alito asks, isn’t it the case that the medical consensus is sometimes colored by ideology?” Truly remarkable coming from a blatantly ideologically blinded judge.

My shelter buddy Nico has been waiting for someone to adopt him for 219 days. I made a short video to help advertise him to New Mexico residents. If you want to do a small kindness today, consider liking or sharing the Reddit post, so that it reaches more people.

Same thing happened in LA, same thing happened in DC: prosecutors charged people with assaulting a federal officer and then furiously backpedaled when the evidence didn’t support it

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

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.

Trump threatens to invoke insurrection act to bypass court rulings against national guard deployment: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Funders or groups that promote 'anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity' could be treated as domestic terrorists, under recent directives from the Trump administration.

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States. America is on the brink of martial law. Do not be silent.

Illinois just joined the legal fight to keep Trump from sending red states National Guards into blue states. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10... Once you start looking for evidence that soft secession might happen you see it everywhere: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

At what point does a governor call up their National Guard to oppose the deployment of an out-of-state National Guard?

This is the issue. Weiss was one of the "journalists" bestowed with the Twitter Files, which revealed some troubling jawboning, but wildly overstated its case. She's now the beneficiary of an unprecedented, openly censorious government project to purge and remake a media institution.

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus. A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

In light of Judge Immergut's ruling, there's a lot of noise today coming from the President's advisers and supporters about courts not having the power to provide prospective relief against domestic uses of the military. Via "One First," me on the rather significant early precedent to the contrary:

NEW: Judge Immergut BLOCKS Trump's federalization of the Oregon National Guard, writing that the govt has "made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power—to the detriment of this nation." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Hey fellow rapturists, come on out to the immersive Oct. 7th experience starring Mel Gibson!”

"hey kid want some candy here's $2500 to go crazy if you get in the car and come with me"

The party of states' rights is suddenly violating the 10th Amendment. Why isn't everyone throwing that in their face? Same with the First Amendment.

Just remembered this footnote.

This was published 10 years ago, and I believe it's still the leading article on the topic. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Aestheticization of politics

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Just going to leave this here. I continue to believe that this whole thing is a catastrophe for legal scholarship, and I hope it doesn’t do any more damage. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...

Yes, it is certainly interesting how that "growing body of modern scholarship" suddenly manifested itself after Trump's EO. Weird that basically nobody challenged the history before Trump's policy goals required revising history. Huh. Might lead one to conclude that these folks have ulterior motives

Lol www.thedailybeast.com/maga-immedia...

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Kid’s chess class read Ben Franklin’s essay on chess at today’s class, which I actually hadn’t read before. It’s delightful. founders.archives.gov/documents/Fr...

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

NEW: Despite Trump's appearing to waver on sending troops into Portland, Pete Hegseth issued this memo today purporting to federalize 200 members of the Oregon National Guard. This is an exhibit in Oregon's just-filed lawsuit challenging the deployment. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481...

“Am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening?” What a remarkable statement from the single most powerful individual in the world. Fascinating look into a person’s mind.

What an obsequious, self-interested buffoon. Can Liberalism Be Saved? www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Lmao

US media are under siege, being attacked, censored, sued ($15b v NYT), and taken over. The #BrokenTimes in its finite wisdom, decides to write an anodyne profile of Trump's agent of right-wing media control. Larry Ellison, a Media Mogul Like No Other www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/t...

Kagan’s short dissent is unanswerable.

The treat dance ceremony

I am excited to announce the answer to autism! The answer is YES!

Trump hinted this weekend that the media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan were considering an investment, which could come through the media giant Fox Corporation, a person familiar with the talks said. U.S.-Run TikTok to License Algorithm, White House Says www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...