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Dara Purvis @darapurvis.bsky.social · 3h

I know she means *just* the shadow docket, but it also helps if you view her as acknowledging precedent has no meaning for this Court.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Dara Purvis @darapurvis.bsky.social · 3h

Just block her, my guys.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h

Sally Jenkins is pulling a rage-bait grift. She told you it was a rage-bait grift. And yet, so many people quote-reposted this, sharing it, and giving her exactly what she wanted. 🫣

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Sally Jenkins•@sallyjenx.bsky.social • 4h
Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv..
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 1d

Me: I need someone to portray "Hitler Youth" stat
Central Casting: we gotchu fam

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

One of the under-observed parts of the last several years is the switch where wealthy donors claims directive authority over university policy. So they think Trump’s efforts of undermine academic freedom promote their own control. It’s a symptom of oligarchy, and how oligarchy gives way to Tyranny.

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 7d

The Times' coverage of Rowan's role has been remarkable. It is sad to me that after forcing his alma mater, Penn, to oust a really good president for incredibly poor reasons, Rowan's megalomanical next thought was "maybe the federal government should do this everywhere" and they're actually trying.

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

www.nytimes.com

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 1d

Roberts is presiding over, and driving, a stunning collapse in faith in the U.S. Supreme Court, not just among the public, but among federal judges.

What a failure. The Titanic captain of chief justices.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 2d

@mit.edu has done an incredibly important service to the nation by being willing to be the first school to reject the administration's "compact."

President Kornbluth focuses—and she's right—on the principle that "scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."

The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.

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Dara Purvis @darapurvis.bsky.social · 2d

Trojans *fight*, @usc.edu.

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling reut.rs/471tkNZ

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling

Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she "cannot support" a memo that the White House sent to nine elite U.S. universities last week detailing policies they should follow to get preferential consideration for federal funding.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Dara Purvis @darapurvis.bsky.social · 2d

can't decide if I'm troubled or impressed that you can eat a tomato on cream cheese while walking

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 2d

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory

Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 2d

The thing about this that's worth recalling is that it *wouldn't* even offend most Americans: just the group of reactionary grifters who make money by being professionally offended online.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...

The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

www.polygon.com

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 4d

Fox News is the most successful propaganda venture of the last century just for the way it has pickled the brains of the Republicans on the Supreme Court

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4d

every so often Justice Alito says something during Supreme Court oral argument that makes me perk up and go uhh lol this man's brain is pickled in conservative crank juice fr fr

today was one such day

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/bost-...

Sam Alito Is Just Asking Questions About Mail-In Voting

In Illinois, Democrats passed a law making it easier for people to cast absentee ballots. Alito was ready to give the Republican challenging the law some free advice.

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the ghost of kwisatz haderade 👻🏹 @booksandbows.bsky.social · 4d

btw what EMTALA requires is that you’re given a medical screening and your condition is stabilized instead of an ER refusing to see you or transferring you bc of what they think it would cost them treat you.

the ghost of kwisatz haderade 👻🏹 @booksandbows.bsky.social · 4d

the thing about EMTALA is there are no conservatives who actually understand EMTALA and they just read it as “we can’t let undesirables die in the street without consequences” and want to destroy it

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4d

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Dara Purvis @darapurvis.bsky.social · 5d

They (we?) taught law students that judges are political actors and that's why now people don't believe in the rule of law. OBVIOUSLY.

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Dara Purvis @darapurvis.bsky.social · 5d

Saw another law prof on a different social media site blaming the current crisis in the rule of law on legal realists, and anyway I'm going to become the Joker.

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 5d

Toad: I just listened to Supreme Court oral arguments

Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 5d

Toad was sitting on his front porch. Frog came along and said, “What is the matter Toad? You are looking sad.”

A glum Toad sits on his front porch as a smiling Frog approaches.

From "The Letter"
In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

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Dara Purvis @darapurvis.bsky.social · 5d

I cannot bring myself to give much attention to SCOTUS. They're going to say that prohibiting "counselors" from torturing LGBTQ kids with "conversion therapy" violates the Constitution, because the SCOTUS majority doesn't interpret law, they enact white Christian nationalist policy preferences.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5d

To be clear, ADF cooked up a case with fake facts, distorted medical research and fabricated harms to be able to gain the constitutional right to torture LGBTQ children.

That's what they want to do, to torture LGBTQ youth.

slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that seeks to undo a major triumph of the LGBTQ+ movement.

slate.com

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Dara Purvis @darapurvis.bsky.social · 5d

I am a vegan who's been from Jersey for approximately ten minutes and even I know this is some BS.

Ms. M @msmalarkey24.bsky.social · 6d

“When I’m in South Jersey it’s ‘Pork Roll.’ Tomorrow up in Bergen County it’ll be something else.”

“That’s what you do when you’re running for Governor.”

If Ciattarelli lies about trivialities like Taylor Ham (the correct name, don’t @ me) just to suit his audience, imagine what he’ll do in power.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 6d

A top Trump official accusing federal district court judges, "as a class," of engaging in insurrection is a profoundly dangerous development.

Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 6d

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Stephen Miller: "It's simply a factually accurate statement that when a judge assumes for him- or herself the powers that have been relegated or delegated by the Constitution to the president, that that is a form of illegal insurrection." ...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Q: You called the judge's ruling 'legal insurrection.' Are you recommending the president take action against judges who rule against him?

STEPHEN MILLER: No. It's simply a factually accurate statement

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