Still think the Rahm push is an attempt to move the Overton Window as opposed to a genuine effort, but curious what others think.

Heather Cherone@heathercherone.bsky.social · 13h ago

Ctrl-F “Laquan McDonald” <Not found>

Hey, it’s the official release day for Seeing Like a Supply Chain! And of course I’m swamped with grading and lesson-planning, but maybe I can say a little about the book and the process of researching it. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

The only thing I’ll add to this fine statement is that vindictive prosecutions are now a feature, not a bug, of our constitutional system, thanks to Trump v. United States. Unless and until Congress adopts deep, structural measures, presidential harassment through the criminal system won’t go away.

Keith Edwards@keithedwards.bsky.social · 5d ago

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

Part of the answer to "how did we get here?" is that many major journalists—since 1998, Crawford has covered SCOTUS for PBS, ABC, and CBS—are lying bigots. Here Crawford is praising a guy who asked a dumb racist question, glitched out when asked why, then admitted he wanted a Christian theocracy.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is a really striking tweet.

Jan is CBS’s legal correspondent. She gave the puff piece interview to Alito on his book. She’s criticized people who criticize the Court too much / in certain ways. She’s a perfect case study in why some mainstream/legacy media press coverage of SCOTUS is broken, bad, and misleading.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is a really striking tweet.

Massachusetts must vote HELL NO on Question 3 to stop billionaires & private equity from buying our elections. Follow @voterrightsma.bsky.social to learn more and fight this harmful proposal.

"we know that when they are elected, they will be fighting for a free public higher ed system." Angie Nixon, Sherrod Brown, Abdul El-Sayed, Will Lawrence, Donavan McKinney, Rebecca Bennett, Adam Hamawy, Analilia Mejia, Cait Conley, Chris Rabb let's go! www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

AAUP Forges Ahead With Endorsements

The 12 candidates, all Democrats, were already backed by local AAUP chapters before the national office considered them.

insidehighered.com

I’ve got a piece in the @nytimes.com this morning about why Supreme Court reform has to be at the top of any agenda for democratic repair www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...

Opinion | Democrats Need a Plan for Supreme Court Reform. Here’s a Start. (Gift Article)

Why Democrats must prioritize court reform.

nytimes.com

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

kate conger@kateconger.com · 2w ago

Anthropic is the latest lab to report 'rogue' agent activity, which sources said included applying for visas with the State Department www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...

America was an empty mall. America was shoddy caulk oozing from a vinyl arc in a historic heatwave. America was a brutishly redacted Frederick Douglass speech on foam posterboard in a tractor trailer Freedom Truck. America was not even selling corndogs. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

How Defunding the Arts Wrought Civic Disintegration

What Was America?: Art, Culture, and Politics in the Bicentennial Era tackles United States’ most ambitious cultural project: the bicentennial.

artnews.com

One of the definitive days of this admin imo was the WSJ identifying racist posts from a DOGE staffer - the kind of stuff that would be read out loud to you as HR explains why you're not getting severance - and Vance saying no, we won't let the media cancel people anymore.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last yr.

Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."