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BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration for banning books and curricula about race and gender at schools on military bases around the world. This is a violation of students’ First Amendment rights.

submitted 4 hours ago • 19 comments

The DOJ lawyer who made the mistake of answering the court's questions about Abrego-Garcia candidly (eg yes he was mistakenly deported, a fact the Administration already has acknowledged), which got him put on administrative leave, has now been fired, ending his 15-year DOJ career..

submitted 6 hours ago • 878 comments

I'd missed this yesterday, but the "coalition for a democratic workplace" is urging DOJ to require the NLRB to "repudiate" a swath of its Biden-era decisions. This is, to be clear, not how any of this works.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: Judge Loren AliKhan is issuing the temporary restraining order Susman Godfrey sought blocking the Trump admin from enforcing parts 1, 3, & 5 of the executive order Trump signed last week targeting the law firm. AliKhan is the 4th judge to grant a TRO against Trump's law-firm EOs.

submitted 6 hours ago • 20 comments

Canadian Association of University Teachers recommends that academics travel to the US "only if essential and necessary", and to be careful about what information we have on our electronic devices, especially if you fit into a fairly wide set of categories. www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

Just to remind everyone: this is our fucking money--locally raised tax dollars--that Congress simply won't let our government spend, for no reason other than spite. This is why DC needs statehood. But also, this is just petty, petty bullshit by House Republican leadership.

submitted 8 hours ago • 24 comments

Genuinely perfect encapsulation of Trumpism, if we do something bad, it's your fault for not stopping us. We should all take that to heart. bsky.app/profile/jwmu...

submitted 10 hours ago • 88 comments

Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 13 hours ago • 97 comments

This story and the other one in the Washington Post about DOGE breaking into SSA (wapo.st/3G9JR97) made me wonder where some of the litigation against DOGE stands, and TIL something just wow (cont'd in next post)...

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

Excellent thread on the First Amendment valence of "privilege" vs. "entitlement." I think it is also important to observe that "entitlement mindset" is doing double-duty here as a dog-whistle

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

One more thing about this: one obvious question is "why steal data from the NLRB." The stupidest possible answer -- the one most in line with not-very-bright guys letting things get out of hand -- is that Elon Musk personally hates the NLRB.

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

I had to read the phrase "edgy heterodox centrists," and now you do too.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

Obviously we can't put the toothpaste back in the tube, so... Does this end with SSA having to issue every American a new social security number?

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Incredible reporting here. DOGE engineers may have stolen a bunch of sensitive NLRB data; the agency whistleblower then received what I can only describe as a mafia-style threat.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

The dinner crew here wonders if you have a minute to hear about their plight

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

JUST IN: Judge in Chicago (Kennelly/Clinton) issues preliminary injunction barring Labor Department from requiring grantees to certify compliance with Trump anti-DEI executive orders. Extends earlier TRO. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

just got an email from unite here about contacting reps demanding Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release. He’s a sheet metal worker. Good to see labor stepping up here

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Public opinion on immigration is malleable and responds to visible cruelty, a thing democrats are cursed to relearn when out of power and then fail to build upon once in office.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

JUST IN: CIA confirms that when it scanned Director Ratcliffe's phone for Signalgate messages, they were gone. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 1 day ago • 358 comments

it’s not so much “fading” as it is sitting in a detention center in Louisiana

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

This was my classmate. He was a student in my ethics class, and we used to sit next to each other. Most dedicated person in the class to legitimate justice for all people. He legitimately cared. I am so horribly heartbroken

submitted 1 day ago • 87 comments

Pleased to share that my next book is now under contract with Yale University Press. Tentatively entitled: THE DEPARTMENTS OF DEMOCRACY: HOW ADMINISTRATIVE LAW PROTECTS THE PEOPLE.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Since the Trump admin continues to claim Mr. Abrego Garcia is a gang member, I thought I'd take the time to put together a timeline, based on all the documents filed in court, which lays out all the "evidence" the government has ever offered. As you'll find out, there's very little "there" there!

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

1. This is a good idea 2. I will suggest only semi-facetiously that UMN's front page should lead with the honeycrisp apple

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Despite a court order, the White House today barred the Associated Press from Trump's press conference about incarcerating Americans in El Salvador. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

El Salvador is a contractor providing the United States with a paid service. The idea that we couldn’t get anyone they’re holding back with the snap of a finger just by asking is so ludicrous on its face, it seems less like a real excuse and more like a test of how much shit the courts will eat.

submitted 1 day ago • 134 comments

Interestingly, this letter is signed by Robert Hur; Hur was the MD USA during Trump I, and then the person assigned to investigate Biden's post-VP handling of documents. He wrote that Biden would present himself to a jury “as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Trump's statement -- "You gotta build about five more places" -- gets loud laughter from whoever is off-camera

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Authoritarian lie upon lie. We are talking about a non-criminal (who is likely representative of many others), not a terrorist Trump admin says that nothing they can they can do, El Salvador is a sovereign country *President of El Salvador says nothing he can do, can't violate US laws

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

MILLER: “A DOJ lawyer, who has since been relieved of duty, a saboteur, a Democrat, put into a filing that this was a mistaken removal. It was not.” Astonishing stuff — DOJ conceded even to SCOTUS that the deportation was “administrative error.” Is Trump’s Solicitor General also a saboteur?

submitted 1 day ago • 159 comments

You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here. But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.

submitted 1 day ago • 362 comments

I appreciate creative thinking in this space, but unless I am misunderstanding, Gessen's argument amounts to large research universities abandoning scientific and medical research. This would solve one serious problem--being leveraged to capricious authoritarians--and create many others.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

“Never mind the phone screws; a lot more Americans should work in cat-food factories”

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Very happy that @aaup.bsky.social and its chapters are bringing these lawsuits. Absolutely shameful that universities and their highly paid leaders are not stepping up to do so themselves.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments