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If I’m a foreign government right now—the one lesson that I’ve learned at this point is that there is no durable agreement to be made with this administration. Any assurance, policy, or deal will be arbitrarily annulled by a random 3 am post. No point in expending energy negotiating with this.

submitted 5 hours ago • 173 comments

Cannot stress this enough: blaming Jews for a crackdown on civil rights & civil liberties (which protects a small minority religious group), crippling research & universities (which is heavily Jewish & provides us opportunity), is ANTISEMITIC.

submitted 22 hours ago • 11 comments

Race animates a lot of ICE/CBP, but I can't stress enough how—as with all law enforcement—a key factor is sheer laziness. They're not tracking down drug gangs, they're going for the easiest targets they can find. Official hearings (citizenship, court, etc) are fish in a barrel to run numbers up.

submitted 1 day ago • 97 comments

Fascism is really exhausting.

submitted 23 hours ago • 94 comments

i feel like you could put a percent ticker labeled “wokeness in government” and have it going down to zero and trick these people into think that’s a real measured metric

submitted 14 hours ago • 484 comments

It'll never not be funny to me how quickly lefties will abandon their chosen candidate because they're not 100% perfect

submitted 13 hours ago • 14 comments

The bar for this Supreme Court is so low that I actually said out loud “Good for Barrett for recusing herself,” which is an insane thing to think and say in the before time.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Alright adding Noem to the list of ghouls whom it’s not even worth engaging, even if to dunk on. Everything is just outrage bait, the point of which is to make reasonable people apoplectic and exhausted.

submitted 17 hours ago • 13 comments

Some thoughts on "white genocide" in South Africa, as a scholar of both South Africa and genocide. The idea of a "white genocide" has been floating around for well over a decade. To assess the claims, requires looking both at the treatment of whites in South Africa and the definition of genocide.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

you would be correct, unfortunately.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

I don’t mean to be a caricature, but this just isn’t law. The Supreme Court is always making policy. But this is beyond. “This dicta in an emergency order will reassure the markets but just uh trust us on the law here ok no we’re not overruling Humphrey’s yet and when we do we’ll spare the fed.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 60 comments

The political divide in the world right now is between people who think and people who find using their brains painful and frustrating

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

“You’re just figuring this out?” like “Are you surprised?” is an autoblock. Nobody is impressed by your tedious performance of savvy; it just makes you a boring, predictable asshole.

submitted 23 hours ago • 28 comments

“The Fed is different” is right up there with “only sec. 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment requires implementing legislation” in statements that really strain the notion that legal plausibility is any sort of constraint on the justices.

submitted 20 hours ago • 47 comments

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

submitted 1 day ago • 407 comments

Today comes the first, but almost certainly not the last, GAO opinion finding an Impoundment Control Act violation by the Trump Administration. www.gao.gov/products/b-3...

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

It’s clear that if you are a foreign leader meeting the US President, you need an advisor who spends all their time researching conspiracy theories to prepare.

submitted 1 day ago • 280 comments

The country with the most sophisticated intelligence capabilities in the world, and the president is holding up "a months-old blog post" from an obscure, conspiracy-mongering site "featuring a photo from the Democratic Republic of Congo" while making allegations against South Africa to its president

submitted 1 day ago • 221 comments

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

submitted 2 days ago • 165 comments

Agreed. His political ascent was all about saying explicitly what the “colorblind” conservatives had relegated to implication

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

This and also, at a deeper level, the idea that universities are not “the real world” suggests that “real” people don’t engage in abstract thought. I, for one, would never be so dismissive of people who aren’t in the academy.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Your average person doesn’t read Supreme Court (or any court) decisions. And the ones who do are typically other lawyers, who will parse the text very carefully. So who, exactly, is Alito trying to fool with his misleading dissent? Is it supposed to be fodder for Fox News? For Martha? Self-delusion?

submitted 6 days ago • 348 comments

In these dark times, it’s great to come together and find something we can all take joy in.

submitted 6 days ago • 657 comments

Justice Jackson nails where we are right now: “Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

submitted 8 days ago • 238 comments

Justices divided over whether Constitution means what it says

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

In case you need a laugh: My 11-year-old and her friends spent recess this week writing a Revolutionary War play called A Tale of Two Georges, which ends with King George--who looks suspiciously like a certain US president--having a tantrum as the curtain drops and the orchestra plays Pink Pony Club

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

No just or decent society allows this sort of cruelty, this evil.

submitted 8 days ago • 42 comments

Me, revising a chapter of my book.

submitted 8 days ago • 54 comments

Who could've guessed joining a make-believe Resistance against an Evil Empire would ever happen in real life?

submitted 8 days ago • 1170 comments

I know that we’ve had a month worth of further constitutional crises but Kilmar Abrego Garcia is still in custody in El Salvador and that central crisis is a continuing fact.

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?

submitted 9 days ago • 955 comments

"I am so excited to get back to my studies, community, professors, and students." Rümeysa Öztürk was welcomed back to Massachusetts by @pressley.house.gov, @markey.senate.gov, and her Tufts community following 45 agonizing days unjustly detained by ICE for writing an op-ed. 📸 Libby O'Neill

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

"We're all trying to find the guy that did this." www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 10 days ago • 56 comments

1/ This is true if you think that John Roberts's and Anthony Kennedy's understanding of corruption in the context of nonjudicial candidates and government officials is the meaning of corruption.

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, Kristi Noem and a whole lot of ICE/DHS types is will discover a Strange New Respect for habeas corpus and the rule of law when the 2029 Truth and Reconciliation Commission arrests them for human trafficking, conspiracy, kidnapping, and child abuse.

submitted 13 days ago • 2111 comments

Having now watched the footage and interview two of the members who were there, the amount of armed, masked federal agents surrounding three members of Congress and a mayor outside the ICE facility was totally unnecessary; the only possible reason for it was intentional escalation and intimidation.

submitted 13 days ago • 1643 comments

As mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka has a responsibility to ensure that facilities operating in the city are adhering to laws that protect the safety and wellbeing of occupants and residents.

submitted 13 days ago • 655 comments

One of the core failings of at least much of the "popularism" discourse is treating public opinion as exogenous to elite political rhetoric.

submitted 30 days ago • 7 comments

No, Merrick Garland is not “water under the bridge.” We are currently having to deal with multiple corrupt and chargeable men and women in politics because of his failure.

submitted 16 days ago • 576 comments

As Americans we always laughed at propagandistic state media in authoritarian nations like Russia and China. Now, Kari Lake wants to have an OANN feed on the once independent Voice of America and we look no different than China and Russia.

submitted 15 days ago • 14 comments

So, yeah, Morgan is generally very bad. But this is actually a model for how interviewers should follow up with people saying outlandish things and not just move on to the next topic.

submitted 14 days ago • 23 comments

Exactly this. If our court system remains at all functional, Rumeysa Ozturk will win an easy victory on First Amendment grounds… after having been locked up and suffered serious health consequences for two months. How many legal immigrants will be inclined to express opinions that risk such a “win”?

submitted 15 days ago • 43 comments

The Honorable Allison Jean Riggs, Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court

submitted 15 days ago • 46 comments