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A mistake to see the Republican majorities in Congress as “abdicating.” They want the same things, the same substantive political agenda, as the executive and their acquiescence to the president’s leadership is a form of _action_, not passivity

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

No matter how sympathetic I am to your perspective, you are not credible if you write “generative AI now accounts for roughly 40% of the United States’ GDP” while linking to a Wharton study that says “we estimate that 40 percent of current GDP could be substantially affected by generative AI”

Comrades, I’m inclined to tell you a story from my organizing days. In 2018, I was one of hundred of union organizers who had the privilege to assist with a nine-day, statewide, unauthorized teachers’ strike to save their schools from a critical staffing shortage. Buckle up, it’s a good one. 1/x

This whole piece is very astute. To me the key point is that judges' role should be *pedagogical* much more than political. Juristocracy is bad; explaining how law works in a democracy to non-lawyers is good.

Me when my students laugh at my jokes more heartily than I was expecting

Reading request! If you could recommend one text that explored the history of an idea/concept in a riveting and surprising way what would it be? Please re-skeet if you can. I know this is a niche ask.

The best!

So much misery in our moment that that it is hard to justify worrying about this or that but honestly: we are gonna have to start pushing back hard on the idea that it is ok for our students to be weaponized as spooks, snitches, paid staffers for the global Right elite.

I'm showing "Harlan County, U.S.A" to 72 students this week, mostly first-years. A different class is reading the CRC's "We Charge Genocide" petition next week. I'm on a one-year contract. This is just what the job is.

"The more emphatically the modern age insisted on its own wisdom, experience, and maturity, the more appealing allegedly simple, unsophisticated times appeared in retrospect. Progress implied nostalgia as its mirror image." (Christopher Lasch, The True and Only Heaven, p. 92)

so funny newrepublic.com/article/2015...

If this ceasefire proceeds according to the 20-pt Trump/Netanyahu plan, it will be a new British Mandate - with war criminal Tony Blair at the helm - with intl actors, esp Israel, controlling everything that happens in Gaza. This is not a peace deal. It is subjugation coerced through genocide.

It is not a coincidence that TPUSA's first aggressive targeting campaign after Kirk's assassination is a professor at Rutgers, home of the strongest and most creative labor union in higher ed. This should be understood as a coordinated effort with the administration's "compact" with universities.

Because certainly there's no reason why this history might be terrifyingly relevant right now, here's a link to preorder @stschrader1.bsky.social's "Blue Power" on how police in the US organized to exempt themselves from democratic oversight and control: redemmas.org/titles/48838...

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

I was lucky enough to sit down with Ardi Imseis and discuss the law, politics and history of the recent Western recognitions of the State of Palestine for Called to the Bar: soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

Look the polling is clear, if the Democratic Party wants to win in 2028, its platform MUST include:

- a lake of stew
- of whiskey, too
- you can paddle all around ‘em in a big canoe

- jails made of tin
- you can walk right out again as soon as you are in

- hanging the jerk who invented work

The one true Abundance Agenda:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=E6F0...

No better illustration of how much of our opposition party thinks social media posting is a substitute for the responsible exercise of legislative power. @schatz.bsky.social is one of the most irritating offenders here, often posting like he’s Mort Sahl instead of a U.S. Senator