Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.
Carolyn Shapiro
@cshaplaw.bsky.social
Law prof at Chicago-Kent College of Law; co-director of CK Institute on the Supreme Court; Of Counsel, Schnapper-Casteras, PLLC; former IL Solicitor General.
We were told abortion would be left up to states. We were told contraceptives would be safe. We were told gay rights would be safe. We were told....
Leah Litman@leahlitman.bsky.social · 23h agoAnd all credit to politico for getting the audio of this call - I should have mentioned that in the clip!! @alicemiranda.bsky.social @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Like someone else already said: it was a time when 95% of the country came together. Everybody who stood 6’ back in a line made a difference. And instead of giving the whole country a high five, or even memorializing the million dead, we get told it was no big deal. Of course people are bitter.
Huh
Harry Litman@harrylitman.bsky.social · 5d agoFeds dropping charges against David Hearn in reflecting pool case. Pirro said docs show"the damage to the pool “was the result of a flawed installation by the contractor." Now they tell us. Looking forward to discussing, along with Blanche, on @allinwithchris.bsky.social at 8:15 PM ET.
Excellent ideas about what a real Opposition party might do!
Ami Fields-Meyer@fieldsmeyer.com · 5d agoMy flight is delayed so while we’re stranded on the tarmac I’m going to make a running list of things I wish Democrats would do but for whatever reasons aren’t doing?? Follow along for some fun
Wow - I did not know this! I’ve never been able to donate due to time in the UK. I thanks for sharing!
rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · last wk.If you can donate, please do. If you were previously not eligible to donate, the criteria have been SERIOUSLY revised: you are no longer deferred for spending time in England/the EU and the sexual risk screening has been replaced with a much more evidence based model.
Also a war on higher education.
Nathan Newman- Working to 8647, the Pedophile Rapist@nathansnewman.bsky.social · last wk.A complete war on public service - declaring that if you want to work to serve low-income communities as a social worker or other low-paying public job, you won't be allowed to get a student loan. newrepublic.com/post/213446/...
around 350,000 Haitians will officially lose their Temporary Protected Status today, as part of the Trump admin's ethnic cleansing operations this is v clearly illegal and immoral I wrote about the Supreme Court decision that's allowing it to happen anyway ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mulli...
The Republican Justices Are Pretending They’ve Never Heard Donald Trump Speak
No comment about “shithole countries” is too racist for this Supreme Court to decide that it might be legally significant.
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Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last wk.TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
A complete war on public service - declaring that if you want to work to serve low-income communities as a social worker or other low-paying public job, you won't be allowed to get a student loan. newrepublic.com/post/213446/...
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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As it turns out, you do have to listen to experts who are engaging in active considerations of tradeoffs in an ongoing crisis AND you have a role to play by changing your own behavior. They’re going to spend decades trying to prove that these two things aren’t true.
Last year, TSA began sharing passenger manifests with ICE, and ICE began arresting people at airports. After some initial arrests led to backlash, ICE pulled back a bit. But with the pressure on from the White House right now, we're seeing a lot more arrests at airports recently.
Jenn Budd@jennbudd.bsky.social · 2w agoJust received this from immigration attorney Mo Goldman. This is why ICE is in the airports. Please share! @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Homan on people getting killed by ICE: "It comes down to one simple fact -- these people failed to comply with law enforcement ... all they had to do is comply. If they did, they'd be alive today."
This is a politician who understands that this is not an indulgence, it's an investment. Every public space where you can have fun and not spend any money is probably more of a crimebuster than 100 cops.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w agoThis summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City. This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.
Every time they make it harder for foreign students to study here, they're just jacking up the tuition costs for American students and robbing America of incredible new talent too.
Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w agoCongrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
Re-reading @kimlanelaw.bsky.social 's essential work on Autocratic Legalism. (85 U. Chi. L. Rev. 545 (2018)) Does this (from her introduction) sound familiar?
Gender-affirming treatment returns to the U.S. military. www.bbc.com/news/article...
"High-T Department": Hegseth approves testosterone screening in military
Hegseth says he is authorising hormone screening to ensure US troops "operate at your absolute best".
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Yep. Those adverbs in Roberts’s description of Korematsu—“*solely and explicitly* on the basis of race“—turned out to be load-bearing: even an executive action obviously motivated by racism is fine if the Court can come up with some additional race-neutral reason for it
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 3w agoWrote about the Roberts Court’s highly selective aversion to identifying racism, echoing the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision, which the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. Call it Neo-Korematsu doctrine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3w agoIt took DHS 12 hours to come up with this statement, And the best they could come up with is that ICE shot and killed an unarmed man who didn’t present a threat to the agents. They know they fucked this one up. And it’ll be up to state and local prosecutors—not the feds—to make the case
Hard to tell for sure but it seems like maybe the Hennepin County prosecutor used the feds’ need for a working relationship as leverage to get evidence in the Good and Pretti killings.
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 3w agoCook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke had the option of prosecuting the ICE and CBP agents who shot Miramar Martinez and murdered Silverio Villegas Gonzalez and invaded an apartment building to hold children at gunpoint without a warrant during Operation Midway Blitz. She refused.
Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke had the option of prosecuting the ICE and CBP agents who shot Miramar Martinez and murdered Silverio Villegas Gonzalez and invaded an apartment building to hold children at gunpoint without a warrant during Operation Midway Blitz. She refused.
4/This is a 56-page thorough explication of all the ways Trump has abused the legal system & juxtaposes Trump's own words & prior legal arguments that he must be free to control the entire executive branch, including Executive Orders, AG Pam Bondi's memo & the gov'ts position in Trump v. Slaughter.
Trump's attempt to praise Graham here is far more damning than any of the grave dancing I've seen.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTrump on Lindsey Graham: "He had one bad moment in the January 6 thing when he stood up -- 'alright, now I've had it, that's it, I can't do it anymore' -- then he called me about 40 minutes later and said, 'Did I really said that? I can't believe it.' And he took it back."
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.