Laura Moyer

Coffee prices are rising faster, year over year, than any other item the government tracks in the Consumer Price Index.

Huge increase in the cost of coffee = guess I'll just have to cut back on "extras" like groceries and medicine

Indiana University banned its student newspaper from printing just days before homecoming weekend — after firing the paper’s advisor when he refused to censor critical coverage. That would be bad enough on its own, but FIRE is taking this one personally, as the Indiana Daily Student reported this hostile campaign was due in part to its coverage of FIRE’s ranking Indiana University as the worst public university for free speech. You read that right. The school’s response to the news that they are bad at free speech … is to censor the news. It’s ironic — and not just in the Alanis Morissette sense — that these actions will likely push its overall ranking even lower next year. At least we can’t fault them for consistency.

Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper?

Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.

1 in 3 US nonprofits that serve communities lost government funding in early 2025 Federal funding cuts are destabilizing many food pantries, homeless shelters, mental health clinics and other nonprofits, threatening the services they provide.

1 in 3 US community-service nonprofits lost government funding in early 2025.

These organizations run food pantries, deliver job training and offer mental health services. They provide independent living assistance, disaster relief and emergency shelter, among other services

A haunted house for academics but it is just flashes of all the times you've said "oh I'll catch up next week!"

This is a very, very big protest. Heroes Square alone is really big. Orban is really in trouble

North Carolina State Senate Approves New Congressional Map in Effort to Add a Seat The Trump administration has pushed Republican leaders to redraw House district maps before the midterm elections next year.

Breaking News: North Carolina state senators approved a new congressional map that could give Republicans an extra seat. The state House is expected to pass it.

I feel sorry for his constituents because the Speaker literally "doesn't know" anything he is asked. Ever.

No Kings in Louisville, Kentucky: I reported extensively on the 2020 Breonna Taylor protests and I don't think I've every seen as many people protesting in downtown Louisville as I did today.

This is so spot on for political scientists especially!

Some Con Law humor...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

NEW: A professor at Rutgers University who wrote a book about “antifa” almost a decade ago is trying—and struggling—to flee the US for Europe after a weeks-long online campaign against him by far-right influencers was followed by death threats. www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

NEW: Judge Immergut issues her written second TRO, blocking the Trump admin from deploying ANY federalized National Guard troops from ANY state in Oregon. (Full hearing thread below) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?

Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter

And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

One of the best. Glad for what good he did in the world, wish he was still here to keep doing it.

a man in a red shirt and suspenders stands in front of a sign that says " put " ALT: a man in a red shirt and suspenders stands in front of a sign that says " put "

Portland ❤️

Why Won’t America’s Business Leaders Stand Up to Donald Trump? From Disney’s capitulation on Jimmy Kimmel to tech moguls’ White House dinner, corporate élites are choosing self-preservation over principle.

Sociologist Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social (Princeton University) provides comment in the recent article, “Why Won’t America’s Business Leaders Stand Up to Donald Trump?” @newyorker.com

The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

Huge DOGE oral history from @leahfeiger.bsky.social, @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, @telliotter.bsky.social, @knibbs.bsky.social, @makenakelly.bsky.social, @davidgilbert.bsky.social, @mollytaft.com, @aarianmarshall.bsky.social, @peard33.bsky.social, + @jakelahut.writes.news

www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Newborn Loses Faith In Humanity After Record 6 Days

Newborn Loses Faith In Humanity After Record 6 Days https://theonion.com/newborn-loses-faith-in-humanity-after-record-6-days-1819573929/

J. Kagan dissent: "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars.Still more, it should not be used,as it also has been,to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation’s separation of powers."

A good explainer on the First Amendment and what happened with Jimmy Kimmel

this is absolutely wild

the court *sua sponte* dismisses the case for violating Rule 8(a)

so that means the court, all on its own, looked at the complaint and said it's too long, too scattershot, too arbitrary to even count as a complaint. *never* seen this happen to a private party with counsel.

This is a Rule 8 dismissal, which is not common when you’re represented by a lawyer, but is very common when you’re a sovereign citizen suing without a lawyer.

This judge is treating the president of the United States as a pro se litigant.

"What's happening now is what happened in Hungary and Turkey, which is using regulatory threats and lawsuits as a way to capture the media,
and to capture the information ecosystem. We should be all very, very concerned," says @krforde.bsky.social. newrepublic.substack.com/p/kimmels-su...

Harvard, like all Americans, can’t be punished by the government for speaking freely – and a federal court decision upholds decades of precedents saying so:

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Such an important contribution -- especially for letter writers, as well as for folks going up and needing to contextualize their subfield to colleagues in other subfields.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES OCTOBER TERM 2025 For the Session Beginning November 3, 2025 Monday, November 3 (1) 24-1056 RICO V. UNITED STATES (2) 24-924 HENCELY V. FLUOR CORP. Monday, November 10 (1) 23-1197 LANDOR V. LOUISIANA DOC (2) 24-758 GEO GROUP, INC. V. MENOCAL Tuesday, November 4 (3) 24-808 CONEY ISLAND AUTO PARTS, INC. V. BURTON (4) 24-724 HAIN CELESTIAL GROUP, INC. V. PALMQUIST Tuesday, November 11 LEGAL HOLIDAY Wednesday, November 5 (5) 24-1287) LEARNING RESOURCES, INC. V. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES 25-250 ) TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES V. V.O.S. SELECTIONS, INC. (Consolidated - 1 hr. for argument) Wednesday, November 12 (3) 24-556 FERNANDEZ V. UNITED STATES (4) 24-820) RUTHERFORD V. UNITED STATES 24-860) CARTER V. UNITED STATES (Consolidated - 1 hr. for argument) Court Convenes at 10 a.m. Amended – September 18, 2025

The Supreme Court has amended its November argument calendar and will now hear the Trump tariff case on Wednesday, Nov. 5! www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

I would alert the journal's editors. Some journals have changed their policies about AI to include explicitly banning reviews to be generated by GAI. At the very least, it would help them assess whether to use that reviewer again!

Federal judge overturns part of Florida’s book ban law, drawing on nearly 100 years of precedent protecting First Amendment access to ideas A federal judge found a Florida law censoring school library books violates students’ First Amendment rights.

Federal judge overturns part of Florida’s book ban law, drawing on nearly 100 years of precedent protecting First Amendment access to ideas

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