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Since nationwide injunctions are (mostly) prohibited now, does that mean I can have the student loan payment plan that I've been waiting on for months? Serious question. I've been in limbo ever since the SAVE plan got blocked.

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Ryan’s statement makes clear that the fed government had threatened to withhold unrelated university funding & student visas in order to coerce his resignation All individual university leaders now have targets on their backs

submitted 14 hours ago • 60 comments

The big story of American politics right now is a bigoted lunatic bullying other Americans, while other powerful people convince themselves that the savvy move is to do nothing or surrender. It's as if they've never ever dealt with a bully before and don't understand that acquiescence emboldens them

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If you want to see a Dem tell himself weakness is savvy, read this thread. He says don't impeach Trump for clearly impeachable offenses because Senate Republicans will block removal. But fighting rather than acquiescing is the point. It doesn't need to fully win on its own, it signals to the pubic.

submitted 2 hours ago • 27 comments

My question for Ryan is why, after looking at what happened to Columbia and Harvard, anyone would think that acceding to Trump's thugs would buy the protection they are purporting to offer.

submitted 2 hours ago • 7 comments

Honestly, this is my #1 objection to yesterday’s decision. SCOTUS had many, many opportunities to curb universal injunctions against the Biden administration. For four years, it refused. Then, almost as soon as Trump returned to office, it changed the rules to take away universal injunctions. Why?

submitted 3 hours ago • 34 comments

This is the anti-impeachment argument I have been hearing from others close to Congress. It’s what House leaders think. And it is Very Wrong. @casten.house.gov: “Impeachment… doesn’t accomplish anything unless it is followed by a vote to convict in the Senate.” No, no, no. This is status quo…

submitted 12 hours ago • 9 comments

LLMs are evil. Silicon Valley has created machines that not only lie proficiently, but that parrot bigotry. And yet we are supposed to give up our control to these machines.

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I see the Very Serious People are hard at work minimizing our concerns with "The SC won't actually end birthright citizenship." Okay, maybe not, but what happens in the meantime while we wait for the Court to make up it's mind? Trump has clearly been emboldened, and that is the Court's fault.

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What. Is. Happening. NBC Los Angeles news write-up here: www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/h...

submitted 19 hours ago • 39 comments

“You know what would help a lot? Some elite disapproval—publicly and boldly expressed. While a successful democracy depends on some degree of reasonableness from voters, a successful liberal democracy also depends on responsibility and even courage from elites.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-public...

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Monstrous: "They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."

submitted 22 hours ago • 299 comments

Once again, it really feels like many people are in deep denial about how our country is now a dictatorship.

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Republican presidents get power and Democratic presidents don't. That's what the last four years of SCOTUS boils down to. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 23 hours ago • 28 comments

This is naked authoritarianism. It is exactly what happened in Turkey. There is nothing to stop this regime from demanding that faculty be purged too. Everyone must stand up and push back. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

submitted 23 hours ago • 44 comments

the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

submitted 23 hours ago • 238 comments

Liberal democracy is being destroyed because too many powerful people are obeying in advance rather than fighting back.

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Wow. So much for academic freedom. University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

This administration is pursuing a white supremacist project—attacking birthright citizenship, gutting DEI, welcoming white S. Africans under the guise of “white genocide,” and brutalizing brown folks who’ve contributed to this country for decades. We must fight this project relentlessly.

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All you need to know about modern Republicans is that they spent the entire Biden Presidency asking Kacsmaryk and other judges for injunctions against everything under the sun, and then 6 months after Trump's inauguration they say you can't get injunctions anymore.

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SCOTUS just stripped judges' power to stop unconstitutional orders nationwide in a move KBJ calls "an existential threat to the rule of law" The Court has chosen a side, and it isn't the rule of law. Lower courts can't protect the Constitution because the Supreme Court won't let them.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Trump makes it abundantly clear that he's going to speedrun with ending birthright citizenship and a bunch of other laws on the books after the Supreme Court ruled in his favor on injunctions.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

submitted 1 day ago • 426 comments

I was in a meeting -- did the Supreme Court rule that we're living in the Purge movies yet, or are they holding off until the October term?

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Sounds like the nationwide injunctions on noncompete agreements, student debt relief, the COVID vaccine mandate, and much more are all lifted now? Or wait is this only that nationwide injunctions aren't allowable for Republican policies?

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

if constitutional rights only apply to individuals or states that have sued for relief, you don't actually have constitutional _rights_, you have _privileges_ that can sometimes (but not always) be secured for you by your lawyer

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Justice Jackson: "The Court's decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law." "If this country is going to persist as a Nation of laws and not men, the Judiciary has no choice but to deny it."

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

I hope someone is compiling a list of all the nationwide injunctions that occurred under Biden that the Supreme Court thought were perfectly constitutional until now.

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This is key. The Supreme Court is irredeemably partisan. (Why Democrats have ignored this glaring problem for 25 years is beyond me).

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in dissent, on the Court's ruling on universal injunctions and birthright citizenship: "The Court’s decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law."

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