Students deserve a seat at the table when it comes to AI in schools, and these young people proved why. Their recommendations echo what we've been saying: AI should support learning, not replace thinking, with clear guardrails and AI literacy. www.npr.org/2026/07/30/n...

Adults have struggled to set rules for AI in school. These teens figured it out

Should students be allowed to use AI on assignments? What about on tests? Who should teach AI literacy? About 100 teenagers got together to try to decide.

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Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:

Exclusive: Political operative behind Graham Platner's rise accused of sexual assault

A spokesperson for Daniel Moraff said: “Any suggestion that he committed a criminal offence is false and without foundation."

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FIU had a search for a law school dean, 20 candidates. President and Provost (themselves with no academic experience besides a weak paper she published on the job) declare it a failed search and hire their buddy, a Trump lawyer, who didn't make the top 20, and was just sanctioned by a federal judge

‘Unusual’: How a Trump attorney became interim dean of FIU’s up-and-coming law school

One search committee member called the incoming dean, who’s worked as President Trump’s attorney, “a poster boy for ethical corruption.”

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NEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...

Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket Home

The man has been identified as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket to go back to Mexico.

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NEW DATA ALERT 🚨 ICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest Data. After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,474 a day. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-quietl...

ICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest Data

NEW DATA ALERT 🚨 After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,473 a day.

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At the news conference Friday attorneys said the friends who left Nolan Wells on Horn Island, took his phone and keys when they departed. Attorney Ben Crump said Wells' family used an app to track his phone, and a friend went to where it was on land to pick it up.

Family of Nolan Wells Call for Transparency and Deeper Investigation After His Death

The family of Nolan Wells is expected to call for greater transparency in the investigation of the 18-year-old’s death on July 4.

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BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Mujahed Mofleh, one of Palestine’s finest editors, nearly died after leaving Israeli detention. When I visited him, he could barely move, yet wrote he had messages from prisoners he needed to deliver. That’s when I realized the prison never left him. mondoweiss.net/2026/06/muja...

Mujahed Mofleh: When the prison never leaves you

Mujahed Mofleh, one of Palestine’s finest editors, nearly died after leaving Israeli detention. When I visited him, he could barely move, yet wrote he had messages from prisoners he needed to…

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Dozens of Patriot Front members just boarded metro minutes ago at the Eastern Market station in Washington, D.C. I asked one National Guard member who they were and they responded "protesters." A July 4th community parade is about to begin just outside the Eastern Market station.

🚨BREAKING: The Supreme Court just helped J.D. Vance create Citizens United 2.0 In the text of today’s ruling, the court insists that the alleged strength of already weakened anti-corruption laws justifies a ruling that now creates a new conduit for billionaires to buy elections.

The more I had to say: I've said it now ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

Supreme Court Rules Trump Can Fire Any Agency Head Who Doesn’t Make John Roberts Wealthier

It is very important for presidents to be able to fire agency heads at will, unless that agency is very important to John Roberts.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · last mo.

I'll have more to say on this later but between the tariffs ruling and now the 'Trump can fire agency heads willy nilly UNLESS they're at the Fed' rulings..... John Roberts's "Don't Fuck Up My Bag" Doctrine is going strong ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

The FDA is claiming chest binders should be classified as medical devices subject to FDA regulation. It seems the FDA is bending its regulatory powers to go after products used by trans and non-binary people. We FOIAed analysis and comms regarding binders.

same guy

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Rep. Tom Kean finally speaks after months away from Congress for a previously unexplained absence: "I was given the diagnosis of depression ... the doctors recommended I remain in the hospital to address my illness"

Here’s a direct gift link to my @slate.com piece: slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court Rejected a Bonkers Idea About Voting by a 5–4 Margin. Next Time We Won’t Be So Lucky.

Justice Barrett relied upon the common understanding of the meaning of the word “election.”

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · last mo.

#ELB: My New One in Slate on How The Voter-Friendly States-Rights Ruling in Watson Portends a Much Bigger Loss for Voters Next Year in Arizona Case (Gift Link) https://electionlawblog.org/?p=156982

As Kagan sharply points out, Kavanaugh's opinion simply transforms Thomas' dissent in that 2001 case into controlling law of the land. She highlights how radically the newer justices have changed campaign finance precedent. Whole thing feels like a farce. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last mo.

The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. By a 5–4 vote, it holds that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born of unauthorized and temporary immigrants. Roberts and Barrett join the three liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Stunning that Kavanaugh dissents from the constitutional holding — says executive order removing birthright citizenship for undoc immigrants violates only a law (that Congress could change) not the 14th Amendment. So only 5-4 in terms of limiting birthright citizenship as constitutional violation

I need a robot chicken version of the Trump administration

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

The rise of the shadow docket in 2016 was followed in 2017 by another procedural trick from the Roberts Court, known as "Munsingwear vacatur," which they weaponized to wipe out progressive precedent without having to explain why. Profs. Lisa Tucker (my wife) and Michael Risch (he's not) explain. 1/2

Leah Litman@leahlitman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

“This exclusionary discourse would not have produced a nationality revocation campaign of such magnitude and speed had Kuwait’s legal framework not been prepared for it.” Inside Kuwait’s controversial new citizenship laws. 

Kuwait Is Stripping Its People of Citizenship at an Unprecedented Rate

Behind the language of legality, the new emir has pushed a political project to narrow national identity and roll back decades of democratic reform

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Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, an American journalist, has been detained for 46 days in Kuwait under new security and fake news laws. The Kuwaiti government must release our friend & colleague immediately. Journalism is NOT a crime. Sign the petition: cpj.movements.mov/pet/kuwait-r... #FreeAhmed

The FBI strongly defended this program two years ago, mainly by citing a bunch of internal reforms and oversight measures it had put in place. Patel has now gotten rid of that.

dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEW: A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill requiring warrants for FBI searches of Americans' communications under FISA, aligning federal law w/ a 2025 ruling that found the practice unconstitutional. It would also ban the government from buying Americans' private data from data brokers.

Kansas House passes election bills targeting noncitizens, advanced voting | via @anna-writes.bsky.social #ksleg

Kansas House passes election bills targeting noncitizens, advanced voting • Kansas Reflector

Kansas lawmakers could transform elections with a series of bills that squeeze advanced voting timelines, stamp out rare instances of noncitizen voting and tinker with some candidate filing and advoca...

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The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker. Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

This one could make you cry. (For years international adoptees became U.S. citizens only when their adoptive parents took the needed steps to get them naturalized; a 2000 law automatically naturalizes legal adoptees on arrival, but that came too late for this woman).

Sue Ferrara@sferrara.bsky.social · 6mo ago

@walterolson.bsky.social www.yahoo.com/news/article...

An Indian conglomerate called Reliance got a deal from the Trump admin to buy Venezuelan oil. For those keeping track at home, a subsidiary of Reliance paid the Trump Organization $10 million in 2024 to license Trump's name for a property in Mumbai.

Exclusive: India's Reliance wins US licence for Venezuelan oil, sources say

The United States has issued a general licence to India's Reliance Industries Ltd that will allow the refiner to buy Venezuelan oil directly without violating sanctions, two sources familiar with the ...

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🗞️ NEWS: The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation declined to renew the lease of Easy Aerial at the city-owned Brooklyn Navy Yard, forcing the IDF drone manufacturer to vacate its space (per NY Post). Rep. Elise Stefanik says the move is “deeply disturbing,” & evidence of NYC Mayor Mamdani’s...

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility

Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

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Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers represented the federal government’s overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died, her family announced on Saturday.

Chicago teen whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer dies

The Torres family story came to public attention after the teen’s father was detained at a Home Depot in Niles.

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