📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: At least 22 people have died while in ICE custody — the highest number in two decades. Human rights groups link the surge to overcrowded facilities, lack of medical care, and Trump’s aggressive mass detention strategy. #AbuseofPowerWatch

Just to be absolutely clear: The President of the United States has absolutely no power to “take away” any right enumerated in the Constitution from any person. And that is how every single article, blog post, and social media commentary should start when discussing this ludicrous statement.

"Far from Home" is now an Oscar-qualified short #documentary! Please join me in supporting this beautiful and moving award-winning film chronicling the situation for #Afghan refugees in #India!

Award-winning student-produced documentary “Hey Hugo” follows the story of an incarcerated man who wants to go home to his family. It will be shown at the Chicago International Film Festival on Oct. 25. — Reported by Cayla Labgold-Carroll

Wondering who those weirdos talking about antifa at the White House were? Well lucky for our Patreon supporters, the premium episode we have scheduled to go out tomorrow morning that explained who a lot of them are

Allegations of Pay to Play is a hallmark of this Trump Administration and Border Czar, Tom Homan, is no stranger to them. @propublica.org investigative journalist, Avi Asher-Schapiro, joins me w/his latest on the push to cash in on Homan’s role in the Trump Regime. youtu.be/65_jPoVDDag?...

MAGA lawmakers regularly share its content. Elon called it "one of the best accounts on X." It's run by a Macedonian who has never set foot in America — and who illegally donated to a U.S. congressional campaign. Great stuff from @jsweetli.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Nour Jaouda turns a gallery’s entrance into a threshold where history, memory, and landscape are made, mourned, and ever-returning.

Hubs and my alma mater. Proud #Huskies!

Thread from earlier. On my timeline, I've also reposted more info about ICE activities at #Broadview detention center & elsewhere in Chicago. I'm really tired & I'm losing my words & I'd like to be able to say something pithy ... all I got is... this is important. Not me--what's happening here. 💚🔥

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

This really must be an insane time to be a law professor trying to explain to students how the Supreme Court is supposed to work. Most of them have to be about a week from a full Frank Grimes breakdown. "Look at me! I'm John Roberts! I don't need hearings or reasoned opinions!"

🚨 “They put black people in one van and immigrants an another… Trucks and military style vans were used to separate children from their parents.” THIS. IS. HAPPENING. People need to see this. We all need to see it. Nobody gets a pass here. Please share with your networks. 1/2

AUTHORS: It’s time to submit your claims for the Anthropic copyright settlement. 1. Look yourself up here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup 2. File your claim here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com Form asks for ISBN and copyright reg # for each work. Can find in step 1.

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science

Let's make this happen!

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

UC Irvine Takes Over Orange County Museum of Art, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1045916/uc-i...

If you're running Windows 10, you should see an option to participate in Microsoft's extended security update programme, which will continue to give you updates until October next year. To get it, open Windows Update and look for the link. (It is apparently being rolled out in stages.)

RIP Dr Jane Goodall. Your contributions to our natural world will live on forever. The world is a much better place having had you in it.

This is all kinds of crazy. But the enforcement mechanism? Universities would hire an auditor to "conduct anonymous polling among faculty, students and staff to evaluate the university’s performance against the agreement" w/ results made public and reviewed by the Justice Dept.

Court tells Meta to give Dutch users algorithm-free feed option www.dutchnews.nl?p=258094

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

When Trump let Musk feed USAID into the woodchipper, he started a chain reaction that began by firing dedicated public servants & ended shortly thereafter in the gasping last breaths of children denied medicine within reach. It's murder with slighty more steps www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

“We often think about the rule of law in overly intellectualized terms…But its erosion has a very real human cost, measured in fallen ideals and thwarted principles and, ultimately, shattered lives.” A must-read from @michael-feinberg.bsky.social: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/maki...

Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Made in ancient Egypt exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge seems worth seeing. Ostraka porn... #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋 www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Trump's FCC yesterday voted to kill a program that provided free Wi-Fi to rural school kids at no cost to taxpayers, falsely claiming the program was "illegal" and was being used to "censor Conservative ideology."

I know this has all been hashed out a thousand times but sometimes it just really hits me that the major project of the establishment for the past 15 years has been to ridicule, stigmatize and denounce people who work to identify and counter bigotry

Had the absolute pleasure of a lifetime talking to NYT Bestselling author and gun safety activist @shannonrwatts.bsky.social a week or so ago. Our conversation really filled me up! Tune into the playback of our live conversation about #TheDoubleTax and grab your copy of the book:

Ta-Nehisi Coates understands. Klein doesn't. It's really that simple.

just saved a copy of this sucker for future reference ty

In a concurrence in a Title VII case today, one judge looks to ChatGPT in assessing whether a term is racially hostile. What could go wrong? www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...

An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

Congressional debates often feel distant and obtuse. But, the debate over extending enhanced ACA premium tax credits has a direct financial effect on tens of millions. Our newly updated calculator shows the cost by income, age, family size, and zip code. www.kff.org/interactive/...

It's civility, Jim, but not as we know it

Private equity investing in plantiffs' firms will eventually cause a crisis for the courts. news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and.... Nuno Garoupa and I tackled the issue here: scholarship.law.upenn.edu/jil/vol43/is....

Welcome to new followers. I’m Stephen Robinson. Years ago, my son once described me to his pre-school teacher as a “play typer guy,” which is the name of my Substack newsletter, where I write about art and politics, and my podcast, where I interview fun people. www.playtyperguy.com/subscribe

Volendamse veerkracht op foto: topfotograaf Jimmy Nelson legt dorp vast zoals zelden vertoond, met overlevers, hulpverleners en nabestaanden rond de grote brand. Het fotografisch monument raakt en verbindt #volendam #herdenking #nhmedia https://nhnieu.ws/30c7aaa

1 like, 1 horror movie I love and why. I got some time.

"The only known solution to creeping authoritarianism is broad-based, peaceful, geographically dispersed mass engagement by everyday Americans. That’s it. That’s what works." Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

9/10/25: RE-LIVING THE DREAM (POP) - Char Easter’s ethereal guitar music returns; Council approves more CCTV cams despite major opposition; Bill Gates profits from ICE flights; Storm clinch last playoff spot in last seconds of last regular-season game. mailchi.mp/4e9121eeccd3...

I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.

A long essay on AI and culture. It’s well-written and thoughtful, but parts of it are utterly terrifying glimpses into the future www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This is great news Sesame Street is the last remnant of the idea that television could educate and uplift kids and instruct them on how to be decent citizens and make them feel understood rather than persecuted It needs to be where everyone can see it