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Dr. Carla Hayden is the most qualified Librarian of Congress in the history of the position. She’s the *only* one who is a librarian. Before her the position was an appointment for life. When she was appointed they limited her term. She’s the only woman and only African American to hold the office.

submitted 10 hours ago • 6 comments

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 1 day ago • 126 comments

White House says it may try to suspend writ of habeas corpus to facilitate deportation of migrants. In this post, I explain why that would be both dangerous and unconstitutional: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Stephen Miller serves a deranged authoritarian who thinks he is all powerful and can do whatever he wants. He is wrong. Our job as lawyers is to stand up to him and defeat him in court. I, for one, will never bow down or seek a deal with Trump. I will stand tall and fight.

submitted 2 days ago • 284 comments

1. The list of expert bodies condemning the Trump administration's pseduoscientific trans "report" is growing. They include the AAP, APA, experts at Yale, Fenway Health, Whitman Walker, and dozens of others. The latest roundup from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

A thing media outlets could do to improve their credibility is to cease the practice by which the body of the article is attributed to a real person, but the headline, social media posts and push notifications linking to the article and placement of the article are all totally anonymously decided.

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

We hadn’t won World War II by May 8th. I know because my family and I were still in an internment camp in Tule Lake, California.

submitted 8 days ago • 2284 comments

The time has come for the judiciary to scrap the presumption of regularity. It is yet another outdated norm that we can no longer afford. Those fighting to preserve democracy already face a daunting task without judges reflexively giving Trump the benefit of the doubt.

submitted 8 days ago • 111 comments

AOC: Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections… to that I say: Come for me… Do I look like I care? There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.

submitted 9 days ago • 1171 comments

AOC: Trump said they were only going to go after the “criminals” however their position is that everyone undocumented is a criminal.… On top of that, they’re not even just going after undocumented people, they are making people undocumented by revoking legal status.

submitted 9 days ago • 95 comments

Today’s big Alien Enemies Act ruling, explained and put in context. At Law Dork, where you can read my independent legal journalism for free — but only b/c paid subscribers make that possible!

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

submitted 10 days ago • 552 comments

This exchange is so very telling. Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this: "I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"

submitted 12 days ago • 1362 comments

I have read the complaint here. I believe that a careful reading of the statutes charged here means that even if we believe everything stated in this affidavit (and I do not), the judge is innocent of the charges.

submitted 16 days ago • 28 comments

Why would I waste time reading an article when all the information presented to me about the article is that the article is incredibly stupid?

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

1. Have you heard that "900 medals have been stolen from girls" by trans women? This stat is EXTREMELY wrong. It includes hot dog eating, jeopardy, and acting, and tripple counts some winners. S. Baum fact checks this extensively in our latest. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 18 days ago • 34 comments