If they’re this careless about who they send to the torture prison, they’re going to be this careless about your health, safety, and social security, too.

Read @danfarbman.bsky.social's article about abolitionist lawyering & the Fugitive Slave Laws. Vivid anecdotes in Section II spur the imagination in an era of arbitrary arrests, deportations, & disappearances of students, barbers, swim instructors & more.

www.californialawreview.org/print/resist...

In today’s one-two punch, the @aaup.bsky.social National alongside MESA & 3 of our chapters also sued the Trump administration over their unconstitutional ideological-deportation policies that have chilled speech & dissent on campuses nationwide.

www.aaup.org/news/aaup-al...

Delighted to read @itamann.bsky.social's latest thoughtful piece today: "The redefinition of antisemitism isn’t simply a policy shift–it’s part of a deeper transformation of American democracy."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I don’t see how, unless our entire profession stands shoulder-to-shoulder in unity, we successfully push back against this effort to break our profession and our democracy.

Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

“The intake began with slaps. One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, “I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.” I believed him. But maybe it’s only because he didn’t look like what I had expected—he wasn’t a tattooed monster.”
time.com/7269604/el-s...

“But a longstanding lesson of political opposition under authoritarian conditions… is that a critical means for building cross-group trust and solidarity, including for election season, is a willingness to stand on principle.“
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

They won't stop at Columbia, or on Palestine. This is a broadside against the independence of academia. The only way for universities to defend themselves is to push back aggressively. Admins not ready to do that need to get out of the way. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

The Trump admin's thuggish letter to Columbia is garbage, legally speaking. The admin has no statutory authority to make these demands, and many of them are unconstitutional. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

Authoritarian power grabs begin by neutralizing civil servants, judges, academics, journalists, and artists. You can't have freedom or democracy in such conditions. Trump is pointing the same gun at Perkins Coie, the AP, the Kennedy Center, and Mahmoud Khalil, but many people don't see that yet.

The administration is going well beyond its Title VI authority and the First Amendment. Universities must mobilize to fight this in court, or there will be no limit to how and when the administration commandeers higher ed. It’s Palestine today; don’t wait to see what it is tomorrow.

No one should *ever* be targeted for speaking out in solidarity with Palestine, including my brilliant colleague @helyehdoutaghi.bsky.social. These are terrifying times, and we must all stand together against repression.

lpeproject.org/blog/stateme...

Columbia University signed its own death warrant when it indulged the notion that student protests about a foreign government's actions were actually disguised attacks on other students based on their identity.

Excited to represent Colorado grocery workers with @daveyseligman.bsky.social and Towards Justice! We’re challenging collusion between Kroger and Albertsons that we think rigged negotiations against workers during the 2022 strike, resulting in lower wages than should have been the case.