The rupture “raises fresh doubts about whether Trump, operating with a hollowed-out national security team and a fragmented China strategy, is prepared for Beijing’s latest power play.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In 2002 aumf news

Just 'cause it has to be said every now and then. GOP Senators and Representatives are obviously okay with...everything...that's happening.

America needs "solidarity among groups who disagree ferociously on many questions, but who agree on the need to keep America democratic and rebuild institutions and social connections to make democracy more robust," explains @himself.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

New — I was fortunate to speak in front of students and faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa tonight about the business of independent journalism, the current state of media under Trump 2.0, and billionaire control. I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:

it really is the opposite. editors help you find your voice

This speech from @marisakabas.bsky.social is really worth reading.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

“This battle holds bigger lessons. The greatest weapon that the forces of regime change possess is the fear of inevitability. If everyone believes that Mr. Trump will succeed in reshaping America, he will.” A great @himself.bsky.social column in the @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

This was a fascinating conversation @ilascolumbia.bsky.social…check out the video! 👇

📚 Please join us next week for a conversation with @adambaczko.bsky.social on his book, "The Taliban Courts in Afghanistan: Waging War by Law." 🗓️ Friday, October 10 🕛 12:00–2:00 PM Register here ⬇️ events.columbia.edu/go/TalibanCo...

Last week, SIWPS Director @profsaunders.bsky.social participated in a panel w/ María Alejandra Vélez, @gramsey.bsky.social, & @emoncada.bsky.social titled "Drugs and Security: Shifting U.S. Policy in Latin America.” Watch the recording via @ilascolumbia.bsky.social ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmtY...

What a headline…

I truly don't understand what people thought was going to happen

Yeah, people need to understand that probably the single biggest reason given in Judge Immergut’s order for blocking the Guard deployment was that the facts on the ground simply did not reflect any serious issues for ICE. In Chicago there is enough of a difference that it could impact a court case.

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I think folks should prepare themselves for the off chance that there is a different outcome in Chicago than the litigation has yielded thus far in Portland. The facts on the ground, I think, are arguably different enough. But that’ll raise serious Posse Comitatus issues in Chicago. It’s not good.

Trump's defiance of of a (Trump-appointed) federal judge in Oregon and the Governor of Illinois over national guard troops shows again that in the realm of national security, there are no constraints left on the presidency. @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Once again, where is the CNO? SECNAV? After what just happened in Quantico, when will the military top brass speak up? I asked this after the disgrace at Ft. Bragg, too. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

*DEVELOPING*: I've updated my scoop with previously unreported details about the State Dept. staffer who requested the sword, NARA's response, and that the gift Trump gave King Charles III wasn't even a replica of Eisenhower's West Point Officer's Sabre: lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

If a federal judge, appointed by Trump, can call him “simply untethered to facts,” our White House press corps can as well. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Further premeditated killing by the Trump administration. Labelling the victims of these strikes as "narco-terrorists" does not magically make these attacks legal.

There are no more constraints on a president’s ability to use military force, and this president is using all that power to target civilians. All Americans should be extremely alarmed. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Yet another no good, very bad day for the Constitution www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Applications are now open for the 2026-27 predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships with the America in the World Consortium! Applicants from all disciplines whose research bears directly on American grand strategy, broadly defined, are welcome to apply. Deadline: December 1

You could not more perfectly invert the whole point of the power of the purse than this false notion the legislature cutting off appropriations means the executive gets more power.

What?????????

This is lawless, inhumane, and cruel. It’s also official government policy personally endorsed by the president and his cabinet. The president may be immune but those who serve him are not.

There are a hundred other crimes and inhumane actions this admin is committing, but as a quick 'n easy slogan, "I will end these criminals who are bankrupting our country and violently kidnapping our neighbors" is hard to beat.

“Authoritarianism succeeds by making dissent costly. When the authoritarian gale sends citizens running for cover, civil society organizations must anchor democratic principles.” A must-read from my colleague and amazing writer Turkuler Isiksel. democracyproject.org/posts/civil-...

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

The great @kschake.bsky.social does not mince words about what Trump and Hegseth did yesterday in that packed auditorium.

Thread with details that are significant re AAUP vs Rubio.

It’s publication day 🥳 my book is officially out in the world thanks to @stanfordpress.bsky.social, and I celebrated by giving it the 6+1 treatment at the @duckofminerva.bsky.social.

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

Congratulations @veenadubal.bsky.social and @aaup.org!

(solemnly) You've had mail.

Media freedom and moral outrage still can do things: www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

“If the gov't can punish professors and universities for viewpoints it dislikes, then no field of research, no classroom discussion, & no scholar’s speech is safe. That is precisely what the First Amendment forbids.” Cato joins ACLU, other groups in amicus supporting AAUP's Columbia suit. @cato.org

It really is telling how student newspapers have become the trustworthy sources for what’s happening on their campuses. We see it also at Ohio State, where a right-authoritarian university president speaks in happy talk while The Lantern tells the truth. It’s happening at Stanford too.

BREAKING: Just hours before the fiscal year ended, a federal judge in R.I. has ordered the Trump administration to preserve $233 million in FEMA funds it attempted to abruptly steer away from 8 blue states. Without that order, the states would've lost the money at midnight.

This opinion rightly rebukes misuse of power by cabinet secretaries, decries the role of ICE, highlights others who have fought back (shout-out to law firms that resisted) and quotes extensively from the supposed free-speech warriors who use the government's power to chill free speech.

Relinking the full decision here. If you've made it all the way down to the end of this thread, thanks for following along. I obviously am not endorsing every word of Judge Young's decision, even though I believe his opinion is worth highlighting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Judge Young: "This case ... squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.' 'No law' means 'no law.'"

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Wow. You've never seen a judicial opinion like this. A Reagan-appointed federal judge has ruled against Trump's policy re: ideological deportation. And he has used the opinion to teach Americans about Trump and the law—with great clarity, humor, and grace. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Young’s opinion, which rules that the Trump admin illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation, is absolutely scathing. “In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”

Enormous victory for @aaup.org in aaup v Rubio www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...