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submitted 55 minutes ago • 0 comments

That is too many casebooks.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Until the football players also move to friendly blue states, the beatings will continue

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

All day long yesterday, the MAGA dipshits on Elon Musk’s platform were screeching that the FSU shooter was a far-left LGBT Palestinian sympathizer antifa liberal prog. Huh. Weird. nypost.com/2025/04/18/u...

submitted 7 hours ago • 256 comments

[guy who smashed a window at the capitol] “he made a mistake and was doing what he thought was right, let’s pardon him and give him back the fine he paid” [guy who stood outside home depot] “why would we bother with a hearing before sending him to the el salvador terror prison”

submitted 5 hours ago • 41 comments

Yet another example for why Section 230 is so critical for democracy, so that people can speak about abuses of power.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

Judge Amy Berman Jackson just now said by 10am the DOJ has to justify this to her. The hearing is at 11am.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

I hadn’t seen this before and it broke my brain in the most delightful way

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

On Tuesday, the Texas Senate passed SB 37, which removes faculty oversight of the core curriculum, particularly humanities and social science courses (particularly History courses) AND strips university faculty senates of any real input in shared governance. www.texastribune.org/2025/04/10/t...

submitted 22 hours ago • 7 comments

And the judges. And the clerks. Strong, persuasive, well-researched writing, under ridiculously tight deadlines.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

I’ve been honest with students about dire breaches of the First Amendment and the rule of law all semester. Even when it irritates my pro-Trump students, and I know they’ll complain. But YMMV - I’m a white dude, full prof, lawyer, at a private university. I’ve got privilege others don’t.

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

there's a reason ice is shuffling prisoners to louisiana and texas

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Asked my kid what she wanted for dinner and she said “bread and wine” so yeah, getting kinda maundy over here

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

submitted 23 hours ago • 17 comments

theonion.com/show-me-wher...

submitted 23 hours ago • 406 comments

Trump threatens to block all 10,000 international students from attending Harvard unless the school turns over student info they’ll use for new visa revocations and deportations. Every day feels like a fresh round of this country stabbing itself in the face. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 91 comments

Example: My kid’s high school - the biggest in Fort Worth - just had our choir staff cut in half, because screw those fine arts, right? Here’s a response I got from admin when I said “please reconsider terminating one of the two choir directors, there’s no way this will work.”

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

So Abrego Garcia's entire criminal history is that he was arrested (not convicted) for "loitering"-- a silly crime for which the local law provides a maximum penalty (upon conviction) as: "a written warning requesting an individual to move." Why was he arrested? Or sent to ICE in the first place?

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Some Senior VP at Target: Sir we thought The Blacks (TM) would let this go and come back but they haven't come back. They haven't come back sir! CFO: The line must go up, but it keeps going down! CEO, wearily removing glasses: It's time SVP: Sir, you don't mean-- CEO: Get me Al Sharpton

submitted 1 day ago • 227 comments

Sort of weird that "I'm afraid of retaliation" is seen as a valid excuse for Republicans. Murkowski voted for nearly all of Trump's nominees. She voted for the CR. She's not taken a single vote of consequence against Trump this term. The opposite is true of nearly all Democrats and they're OK.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

im sorry to be so divisive and partisan but i dont think the government should be inventing a criminal history out of thin air to justify sending someone to a concentration camp in a foreign country

submitted 1 day ago • 281 comments

And a crushing blow for already deeply underfunded public schools. Don’t forget that part. We’ve had our kids in Fort Worth ISD for 17 years now, and between state funding shortages & failed bond measures, it’s just been year after year of dire, unrelenting cuts.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

NBC News reviewed over 100 pages of documents submitted by the federal government in its effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil. In some instances, the government appears to be relying on unverified tabloid articles. In others, the government claims are clearly erroneous. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

I’ve been worried about the GOP effort to undo the past 60 years of First Amendment jurisprudence by basically ignoring it or claiming it void (as they did with Roe). Texas federal court decisions have been laying the groundwork for this approach - see West Texas A&M drag ban case in next skeet.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

the big red streisand effect button is right there and all you have to do is not press it

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

NPR public editor saying the only thing that matters about protests are the crowd size. Not you know the issues. 1 of 2

submitted 1 day ago • 91 comments

meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

submitted 1 day ago • 292 comments

Damn. We knew this was likely but it’s a huge blow to Texas public education. Very hard to see the disastrous policies re K-16 public ed in TX this session. It will take decades to recover from these policies.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Cannot begin to quantify for folks out of state how bad this Texas legislative session is looking for learning in this state. All forms and levels of learning: public schools, colleges and universities, public libraries.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Screw the rule of law - Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

per Van Hollen, El Salvador wouldn't let him into CECOT, which seems notable given that multiple House Republicans have photos of themselves inside grinning and giving a thumbs-up Abu Ghraib-style

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

BREAKING: District court grants NetChoice's motion for summary judgment in NetChoice v. Yost, permanently enjoining enforcement of Ohio's social media law. Another one bites the dust. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Whether Judge Boasberg's order survives the various appeals or not, it is a clear and unflinching description of the Government's lawlessness in this case.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

HERE WE GO: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds probable cause for contempt of court against the Trump administration. In a masterclass move, he asks the government whether they’ll purge the contempt (by complying) or identify the people in the administration who should be subject to sanctions.

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

May all of our enemies have their "Trevor Bauer trying to resurrect his career internationally" moment.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: The Associated Press asks Judge McFadden to enforce his injunction against the Trump administration after it released a new press-pool policy yesterday that continued to exclude AP storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

The local chairman frequently rants against my university, so I can definitely see him dreaming of hanging professors in those gallows. Feels like really dangerous times are coming.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

It works. The government here largely works. Because we are so spoiled by how well it works, we are letting a fool convince us it is broken.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments