www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u... More lies from the Trump administration. It's endless. The corrupt Trump Administration claims that he is anti-Semitic and needs to be deported, even though he has a Jewish wife and Jewish kids, and the rabbi from the synagogue agrees that it was not antisemitism

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

It seems the argument now being offered as to why the survivors of the destroyed ship could be killed is that they may have been trying to be rescued, and if rescued, could return to drug running. So.... they can be killed because they were trying not to drown?

I worked at CNN when Ted Turner tried to take over CBS. Pearls were clutched, Very Serious People were agog, that the upstart network would deign touch the Tiffany of news. Now, CNN worries that it might be sullied by Bari Weiss's CBS. Turn, wheel of fortune, turn!

The 2028 Dem nominee for POTUS really needs an old school fire-and-brimstone anti-corruption platform

I mean, when Trump said that he would cut drug prices by 1000%, at least one major media outlet relied on "experts say" to point out it was mathematically impossible to do so. When we've hit "experts say 1 + 1 = 2," not just "1 + 1 = 2," then we def aren't going to say what the laws say they are.

New precedent: ignore dumb shit the Supreme Court says entirely? 😁

Fuck Kavanaugh stops all my homies hate Kavanaugh stops (for purposes of this post I'm including a federal district judge who just rightly concluded that the Supreme Court's racial profiling order is *not* controlling precedent under the umbrella of 'my homies') ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/beryl...

In San Francisco federal court today, a judge asked a lawyer representing Pete Hegseth about the ongoing deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles: "“Like diamonds, it’s forever?” sf.gazetteer.co/california-s...

This could probably be done with simple legislation. Article 3 says almost nothing about how the Supreme Court operates. It mentions that a chief justice will exist, but that’s about it. There are essentially no constitutional rules about how they hear or decide cases.

So many scandals now but pay attention to this: DOJ has sued 14 states-12 led by Dems-to demand full unredacted voter files in order to turbocharge Trump voter suppression plans @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & I detail threat this poses to voting rights ahead of 2026 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“The Justice Department ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out”

Great overview of Alex's argument that we need to understand the scale of Truman's ignorance about the atomic bomb prior to its use as informing his insistence on gaining presidential control over it afterward.

NEW— DC Metropolitan Police just shared a tiny bit more body cam footage from the March US Institute of Peace raid in response to my FOIA lawsuit w/ @rcfp.org One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out. Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court. MPD: Yea we figured that.

Another clip shared by DC Metropolitan Police in response to my FOIA lawsuit from the DOGE raid on USIP shows the same white shirt cop addressing three USIP staff members outside the building. He says "Obviously there's gonna be lawsuits on the back end of this, and civil stuff."

I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.

In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.

Historian here it’s Hannah Arendt’s death anniversary and she was of course prescient.

There may be some truth to this. But if so it has profound implications for America’s ability to sustain a system under the rule of law, which depends among other things on a court’s ability to care about and recognize a difference between fiction and fact.

Don’t normally approve of revenge but the next Democratic Party administration just cannot come soon enough.

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This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice. 📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.

We know the way the hate-filled jurists on the Court will rule, the Constitution be damned. Supreme Court to decide if Trump's birthright citizenship order can stand www.axios.com/2025/12/05/s...

“In the South.. these proposals mimic arguments that you see behind book bans & laws that criminalize gender-affirming health care & abortion information” Our campaigner @sarahephilips.bsky.social breaks down the battle against online ID checks for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/age-ve...

My latest at @cprnews.bsky.social with Ryan Warner, discussing the President's threats against members of Congress www.cpr.org/show-segment...

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

Getting harder to welcome foreign scholars to the US, so we are going to them! Please share with researchers who might be interested in studying administrative burdens in Central or South America.

I'll be featured alongside @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social and @byjordangreen.bsky.social on an episode of the Laura Flanders show about threats against journalists who cover extremism. It premieres this afternoon and will air on PBS stations across the nation. youtu.be/ogTSk-Ilh3s?...

A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.

*youth pastor voice* Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities

people like Sabrina Carpenter saying essentially "decent people don't want the stench of ICE or this White House anywhere near them" to an audience of millions that includes a lot of young people helps empower them against ICE while reminding ICE agents that everyone hates them, both big wins

Popular fronts, re-armament, and an anti-fascist military and diplomatic alliance encompassing as many states as possible

This is precisely the dynamic Jean Zyromski observed and analysed back in 1938 - the "internationalisation of class struggle"

In this context I think there is actually some utility in returning to Jean Zyromski's late-1930s theory of "internationalised class struggle": bsstock2.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

The way I'd put it is that there's currently a global struggle between democracy and nationalist gangster-capitalism, that this struggle is simultaneously unfolding both within and between states, and that the US currently sits at its epicentre

More than 50 contracts across our union include language that directly addresses artificial intelligence. Earlier this week, we released our demands #NewsNotSlop ➡️ www.newsnotslop.org/demands We’re highlighting some of the best contract language enforcing these demands in the workplace here:

On this day 70 years ago, in a historic move that changed the course of the labor movement forever, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the two largest labor federations, merged to form the AFL-CIO. Happy Founding Day!

A proposal by this administration could make college even more expensive and put careers in public services, healthcare, and education further out of reach for the next generation. Tell Congress to restore the professional designation to these degrees!

Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

So ... buckle up for a mass shortage of truckers?

Important post on the U.S. Department of Education’s new proposed definition of professional degrees via @rweingarten.bsky.social, Aissa Canchola Bañez of @borrowerjustice.bsky.social and Puneet Maharaj of National Nurses United. protectborrowers.org/what-is-all-...

The Trump administration is working to privatize a legal defense program for tens of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children, opening the door for a for-profit ICE technology contractor to take over in partnership with Angelina Jolie’s NGO.

Critics of crime fiction dismiss the genre as hopelessly reactionary, but its history tells a different story. From hard-boiled American detective novels to the explosion of Scandi-noir, crime fiction has been deeply influenced by socialist writers.

In the new year, workers are facing skyrocketing health insurance costs — they could double, triple or worse. With prices rising on everything else, these price spikes would be devastating for families. It’s time to put working people first and fix this health care crisis.

“Netflix is the biggest streaming service in the world. Consolidating its power over the streaming video market not only kills jobs but also raises prices and hurts the U.S. entertainment industry.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

For more than four decades, employers have been actively suppressing the wages of working people, so that corporate managers and owners can claim an ever-larger share of the income generated by what workers produce. www.ms.now/opinion/infl...

On this day 70 years ago, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to form the @aflcio.org, the largest federation of unions in the United States.

"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."

The only legal scholars I want to hear from in the years to come are the ones seriously thinking about how to fully disempower the Supreme Court. What would that take? THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX. Offer practical suggestions that could become political campaigns led by the public.

Counterpoint: The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution. So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter. There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).