Hi hello I litigated the '22 redistricting case in the KS courts & this is legit giving me hives. (1/2)

You are correct. We will not get back the soybean market

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

The GOP controls the whole Federal government. They have to fund it. If they don't, it's their fault. [see how easy that is].

Today (likely) marks the last day of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (#AGOA), the #tariff preferences for certain #African countries. Enacted in 2000, it has provided opportunities for countries like #Lesotho for 25 years. But unless extended today, it is done

A shameful fact which tells its own story.

I’m actually reeling. They are literally walling people inside Elfashir, so they can exterminate them. And we’re all just watching it happen. The helplessness is soul crushing 😭😭😭 #KeepEyesOnSudan

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Performance artists ICE fishing with donuts is an existential threat to the republic.

A word on burnout & feeling strung out because "I can't save all the things that need saving." Democracy is supposed to be a mosaic and a relay race. We never have to take care of the whole ourselves. In fact if we do, it kinda stops being democracy.

Kagan on the “asserted harms” to the Trump’s foreign policy, to which the conservative justices deferred in their unsigned order:

In a single paragraph, SCOTUS allowed the executive branch to withhold $4 billion in funds Congress appropriated for foreign aid. Make no mistake: this is a major assault on Congress's power of the purse and yet another step towards giving the president king-like power to defy the legislature.

Almost every assertion she makes falls apart at the lightest touch. How grant funding works. Merit in admissions and hiring. The availability of tertiary education to citizens and non-citizens. What it was like to be a KU student when she was there. Even the anti-antisemitism is poorly explained.

On the other side of the globe, a 24-year-old gay Batswana man, before advocates thought the country and courts were ready, challenged long-standing statues criminalizing same-sex sexual acts. Letsweletse Motshidiemang was right. The laws were ruled unconstitutional. scielo.org.za/scielo.php?s...

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

My latest: #ksleg www.kansascity.com/opinion/read...

They burned down our export markets. A bailout now is just telling people to warm themselves by the embers. It won't last, and it doesn't solve the problem.

Malawians do not hesitate to throw out incumbents, even in the face of the rather stagnant party leadership of the last 15 years. (If he had not died, I think this would have been Chilima.) Someday, I hope Malawians get a leader dedicated to the structural change they deserve. 🇲🇼

Curious about what the choice of venue (Washington County) and outside counsel say about the AG office's strategy here.

Public hearings are a good start. But the idea of single member districts is lame. You could do statewide proportional representation; two, 2-rep districts (or a statewide four-rep district) with ranked choice elections; a shadow representative (or two!) to encourage long-overdue House expansion...

“Not quite sure what good it would do to issue a homeless person a citation that they don’t have the money to pay,” Police Chief Joe Sullivan said. “Enforcement is not the answer to this problem." | #ksleg via @bykyliecameron.bsky.social www.kansas.com/news/politic...

An annual global event geared at reclaiming urban, developed environments for the people will temporarily transform parking stalls in downtown Lawrence this week to provoke conversation about the land we dedicate to vehicles. lawrenceks.news/42BrgLm

In the history of humanity, no person who was actually good at something needed to constantly tell people that they were "really good at this stuff."

John Head, in my experience, is nothing less than thoughtful.

J. Kagan dissent: "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars.Still more, it should not be used,as it also has been,to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation’s separation of powers."

Kansas for the fourth straight year failed to meet legal requirements to improve the severe instability of the foster care system or provide mental health services to children who need them, according to an annual report from an independent evaluator #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/09/22/w...

This document deserved a slightly closer reading. Shifting to faith-based providers means deprioritising abortion care and sexual health more broadly. There are many fantastic healthcare institutions run by religious organisations around the world but there are several that underserve women.

Mercifully, that's over. #thankstyquan

Make sure to remember this 21st night of September

Terrific race. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHb6...

This meditation on official corruption by @noahshachtman.bsky.social is the finest reported opinion article I’ve read in a long time. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Saving this list for the next time I have a student ask why I say that Watergate was small potatoes compared to what goes on in an average week with this administration.

As always, read @jamellebouie.net. Here making clear that the fight is, as so many have long warned it would become, against gov't-as-would-be-bully rather than by gov't-as-good-faith-actor. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

We have sex segregated sports. There have long been rules that differentiate participants that have changed over time. Anti-trans folks just want to rewrite those rules to enforce bigotry instead of addressing the concerns that are inherent in separate sex competition.

To recap, conservatives built an entire category of legal theory dedicated to the grammar-derived reading of precise text, only to take power and abandon written law altogether.

It's also worth nothing that the only Democrat in Congress from the state is Sharice Davids, a progressive Native lesbian woman who retained her seat with a 12% margin of victory despite gerrymandering that divided her district to remove substantial parts of her urban support.

Anytime you can go against a core part of your party's platform and take a stance that is almost 20 points underwater, you gotta do it.

Angola has strong positioning to grow. But that growth must be inclusive. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hi. On the new PTFO, ex-FTC chair @linamkhan.bsky.social helps explain another scandal involving Steve Ballmer and anticompetitive practices: United States v. Microsoft 👀 And @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social joins us to discuss sports billionaires — and dynamic pricing ⤵️ youtu.be/W4dJsLDvwrU?...

this may brighten your day tbh

This is an important argument that folk focused on climate and development would do well to engage with

Sen. Moran's schtick has always been vagueness. I know. But after almost 28 years in Congress after eight in the Kansas legislature, he could wield more power than he ever imagined and leave a meaningful legacy. What was it all for, Jerry?

another way to say this: fascism isn't about rules people follow, it's about categories people are in if you're in the right category nothing you do is bad if you you're in the wrong category nothing you do is good it's not about what you do, it's about who you are

“There is no comparable requirement for boys to confirm their gender,” said another parent. “Once again, the onus is placed on girls to be monitored and regulated, reinforcing the idea that female athletes are the ones who need to be verified.”

The US president saying "Comedians and the news are not allowed to criticized me" should be giant front-page news in every outlet in America, by the way. It's him repudiating the First Amendment and the Constitution. Unambiguously and clearly.

Current mood: m.youtube.com/watch?v=9xOz...

“Kansas once had members of Congress who understood that abuse of power can come from within one’s own party and acted against it.” kansasreflector.com/2025/09/18/a...