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The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969. One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.

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The Trump administration, with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has gutted a small federal agency that provides funding to libraries and museums nationwide. This threatens student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to digital library services.

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What happens if the courts can't stop the Trump Administration? “Then we’ve got to take to the streets in a different way,” Anthony Romero, the executive director of the A.C.L.U., tells David Remnick. “We've got to shut down this country.”

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Got some hard to recycle stuff? Take it to Trash Ben. Participating vendors will be accepting everything from electronics and expired prescription drugs to musical instruments and eyeglasses. to.wttw.com/4iQobx0

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 3 days ago • 773 comments

The phrase of the day is “jury nullification” www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Your April Fools' Day reminder that trickle-down economics is the greatest trick of all. It's nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich corporations and the super-rich at your expense. Don't fall for it.

submitted 3 days ago • 229 comments

Val Kilmer, master of disguise (As shown in The Saint)

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Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct." Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.

submitted 4 days ago • 70 comments

Happy Trans Day of Visibility

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This is exactly why after two decades as an ex-Catholic, I've finally accepted that Jesus was okay. 👍

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I have learned the hard way that when everyone's health insurance in the US is dependent on their job, the cost of living keeps going up, a recession looms large, and productivity is expected to be maintained even in the face of constant tragedy, chaos, and horror, it's more sad than weird

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Omg don't past tense her, I had to Google to make sure she's okay

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going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force

submitted 4 days ago • 542 comments

NEW: DOGE is trying to gift itself a building worth $500 million, court filings show. It's the culmination of a dramatic battle between DOGE and the United States Institute of Peace, a Congressionally funded think tank. www.wired.com/story/doge-t...

submitted 4 days ago • 346 comments

It's also the day for my favorite meme! If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.

submitted 4 days ago • 130 comments

Pushback works, part gazillion: "Here are the facts: DOGE moved forward with plans to close multiple field offices. Then, without public notice or explanation, they reversed their plans. Now they are trying to pretend like they were never planning to close the offices." popular.info/p/how-the-so...

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This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

submitted 5 days ago • 65 comments

Will return to this thought. But the notion that USG chooses not to do business w/law firms or foreign companies that choose to seek diverse hires says that the SINGLE GREATEST SELECTION criteria is not, are you best suited to do the job (merit), but do you support segregatation.

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

Justice Sonia Sotomayor: Judges should be "fearlessly independent, protective of rights and ensuring the state is respectful of both."  "That is really at the end what judges should do, but in the end it's what every citizen should do: ensure that the courts are fearlessly independent."

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

I, for one, welcome the “abundance” fight. It shows the left can fight Trumpism while wrestling with how we can be better than we’ve been. I have no interest in “actually the government has been doing great” liberalism.

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"A.I. is a parasite. It attaches itself to a robust learning ecosystem...parasite and the host can peacefully coexist as long as the parasite does not starve its host. The political problem with A.I.’s hype is that its most compelling use case is starving the host — fewer teachers, fewer degrees..."

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Just to be clear: What this directive appears to say is that the administration see libraries that carry books not written by white people or that discuss racism as “diversity initiatives,” so to be colorblind means there is only one recognized “color.”

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

EXECUTIVE ORDERS. ARE. NOT. LAWS. THEY DO NOT NEED TO BE "ENFORCED." COMPLIANCE IS NOT "MANDATORY." IT IS NOT A FUCKING LAW.

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Not that I haven’t done it already but now I really cherish all the parts of art-making where I can thoughtfully and actively bring myself - flaws, quirks, my soul and love - into making possible the art that only I can make

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City and state officials say the Trump administration is canceling more than half a billion dollars in pandemic-era grants allocated or promised for public health efforts.

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"The people pushing AI are the same sorts who spent the 2010s promoting web 2.0 as a new vision of freedom and connectivity, all while destroying traditional media and ripping off as much private data as they possibly could and cheerfully selling it to advertisers." unherd.com/2025/03/why-...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Liberals and progressives are the only ones with any agency, according to most political discourse. You never hear about a conservative need to understand liberals. It’s always on the left to fix things.

submitted 8 days ago • 37 comments

Another reason it is cowardly to simply obey and let them take over your newsroom or university is that if you don’t they often will be like “well fuck, that was our main idea”

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The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

submitted 11 days ago • 860 comments

“[AI] will never mimic a writer’s soul or how he or she produces meaningful writing—that process by which an individual idiosyncratic mind works out a problem, granting readers access to the inner life of another person, that constitutes the lifeblood of writing and storytelling.” all this, really.

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Con law prof here. This shit is WILD. "Plenary authority, derived from Article II and the mandate of the electorate" to disappear whoever the state deems a terrorist is not a fucking thing in any kind of constitutional democracy. It's unvarnished tyranny.

submitted 11 days ago • 86 comments

If we come out of this, there will be a documentary where they interview all the fuckers involved, and someone will say with a gentle, bemused chuckle, "Yeah, in the end, it was all so easy. We were surprised."

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