Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.

I saw my husband at his desk with his head in his hands & I thought something was really wrong. I went over to ask him if he was OK & he said, “I’m fine. there’s just not enough time to read all the books I want to read.”

Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.

If anybody needs a metaphor, here's an actual deck chair from the Titanic.

Oh. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

I'll also say that it's hard for me to understand how to think without writing. I know what I think and why (and why not other things) because of the process of writing and working through arguments.To have offloaded that to an LLM means you've offloaded thinking.

It appears that the news has broken that Caden Mark Gardner and I have programmed a series on Trans Filmmakers for the Criterion Channel. These films will be available in April www.criterion.com/current/post...

Here's a non-paywalled account of FEMA's disaster response chief's claim that he teleported to a Waffle House. www.aol.com/articles/fem...

DOJ should be required to post this transcript with its hiring announcements. “Hey, 3Ls with no practice experience! Do you want to be publicly castigated for being soft on child porn and forcibly removed from courtrooms because your bosses don’t know what they’re doing? Come join the DOJ!”

"We are a sad people, without hats." www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it

A notable footnote from Justice Kagan, pointing out that if the court is so into parental rights why didn't it take up the claim brought by parents of transgender kids who want them to get gender-affirming care?

Thanks so much to @melodyschreiber.com for not only writing about this issue, but quoting trans scientists as experts!

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was 'Amtrak wifi.'

What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.

Vanderbilt appears to be discontinuing many major surgeries for transgender adults. It's uncertain exactly what procedures will be discontinued, and the loss of care will have major impacts on trans people in the region. The latest from our writer S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The 3 million-plus people applying for immigration status changes will now be required to provide the government with their social media handles. This expansive new requirement poses a serious threat to constitutional rights. bit.ly/4aE5uKa

NJ lawmakers introduce the FUCK ICE Act. The bill "permits civil action for violations of US Constitution related to immigration enforcement."

Texas AG Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against NYC based Lola Olivia clothing for selling breast binders. He's arguing it's illegal to sell the equivalent of sports bras. www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/defaul...

On TV, when criminal organizations take over the government, they're more subtle about it than this

KANSAS JUST ENACTED A BILL THAT INVALIDATES AND REVOKES THE DRIVER'S LICENSES OF TRANS PEOPLE. www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/...

"A closed border means violence and death." www.liberalcurrents.com/abolition-am...

Uninstalling Adobe Acrobat: the new version is constantly shouting at me about AI features I don't want (I will read the document myself, I do not need your AI to read it for me), and the menus are impossible to find. If I can't find "save as," I don't want to use your program.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

55 years after the FBI shut Dial-A-Poem down, it's back: gizmodo.com/ancient-dial...

This is "the beatings will continue until morale improves," delivered with all the pomposity and gravitas of the neighborhood crime boss at the table in the back of the restaurant who doesn't realize the Penguin is about to betray him

"Somewhere in America, a little girl is hiding in an attic, writing about ICE" hyperallergic.com/artists-stre...

Here's something I wrote: on how Spitzer tried to sell driver's licenses for undocumented people -- and the weird fact that the law never prohibited them to begin with. nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/when-not-t...

Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.

Oh yes, everyone remembers all those times the Evening News did in-depth segments about the social-science research on the topic they were covering.

The trailer for Steven Spielberg's new alien-arrival movie looks interesting, but also looks like it, ahem, shares a lot of themes with the beautiful Moroccan movie "Animalia," which I can't recommend highly enough. Every frame is stunning. tubitv.com/movies/10003...

Another great book: "Expelling the Poor" by Hidetaka Hirota. Extremely useful history of state and local exclusions and deportations in early America, and how they led to the federalization of exclusion and deportation in the late 19th century.

Reason-giving is a tax on fascism, because fascism 1) requires speed and 2) is an assault on reason

Abraham Lincoln, 1855. www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...

New from me: Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI. Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...

NEW: I wrote for @statecourtreport.org about the important role *state* law plays in immigration enforcement, and some ongoing litigation in WI, NY, and CA that will shape the relationship between ICE and the states and localities in which it operates. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city. We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.

Appellate judges at oral argument:

Is it bad if a sitting federal judge was (allegedly) part of a conspiracy to commit murder? It seems bad ....

hyphenating phrasal adjectives

Lisa Moore: "like the medieval monks and nuns who buried precious manuscripts to hide them from the kings who burned their abbeys, we will preserve this knowledge and progress for another time in the future."

I suppose I'll make these a chain. Another great book: "The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams," by Jonathan Ned Katz." Bio of a queer activist in the 1920s, with heartbreaking excerpts from her deportation proceedings, and the sweetly beautiful text of her short book "Lesbian Love."

What's a book by a transfemme author that you've NEVER seen anyone discuss? And I do mean never. Nobody. I want the books that you're convinced you are the only person who's ever read it.

I'm delighted to report that the scifi writer James Blish (whose game I was not familiar with) pluralized "footnote" as "feetnote."

Brilliant book: Camille Walsh, "Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869-1973." Fantastic exploration of the history of rhetoric about "citizens who pay taxes" and its role in protecting white supremacy. Will change the way you hear arguments about what government owes "the taxpayers."

Brilliant book: "Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics" by Kim Phillips-Fein. How the mid-70s crisis let financial elites use their status as debt-holders to force NYC to end social services. Explains a lot about inequality in today's NYC and austerity everywhere.