Kim Lane Scheppele

excellent deep dive into all of the ways that the Trump administration has used the federal budget to keep punishing critics and trying to bend them to his will. FWIW, this is precisely how Viktor Orban crushed the opposition in Hungary 15 years ago. The national budget is a powerful weapon.

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

They’ve already seeded the next few generations.

YouTube video by American Constitution Society Recognizing 21st Century Dictatorships (Explained by a Princeton Sociologist)

If you haven’t been listening to @kimlanelaw.bsky.social yet, you should listen to this podcast youtube.com/shorts/ZAgEv...

I am excited to share a new project from my organization, Democracy Rising Collaborative. We have launched a toolkit to empower lawyers and other civic leaders across the country to stand up for the Rule of Law. theruleoflawyers.org

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Pete Hegseth C*ckblocks Anthropic And OpenAI collects its winnings.

"Let’s not bury the lede here: The DoD wants to use AI for fully autonomous lethal systems and mass surveillance of American citizens. Anthropic said 'no,' and now the US government is retaliating by trying to destroy it." — @lizdye.bsky.social

BREAKING: The U.S. government must refund all tariffs charged under President Donald Trump's now struck-down IEEPA tariff regime, regardless of whether they filed a suit at the U.S. Court of International Trade seeking a refund, a CIT judge ordered Wednesday. www.law360.com/artic...

Again, this is not a problem that can be solved either with new laws or more court orders. There is only one solution, & everyone knows this, & it would be better if we could focus on the two dozen people in America who can actually make it happen:

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Information on Department of State Charter Flights and Ground Transportation Options Media Note March 4, 2026 The U.S. Department of State is taking historic action to assist American citizens, who wish to depart the Middle East, return to the United States. The Department has opened a crisis intake form for American citizens in UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Israel. To receive departure assistance information from the Department of State about available aviation and ground transportation options, please fill out the following form.

“Historic action”

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So... A friend was supposed to give a PURELY SCIENTIFIC talk at NIH within the next couple of weeks and it was cancelled because of a "new process" where all speakers/talks have to be CLEARED BY A POLITICAL APPOINTEE.

SXSW EDU 2026 Schedule Browse events, build your schedule, and get personalized recommendations for the 2026 SXSW EDU Conference & Festivals from March 9–12, 2026 in Austin, Texas.

State constitutions shape young people’s lives — from voting to LGBTQ+ policy to climate action to our schools. Yet fewer than half of Americans know their state has one. Join State Court Report at @sxswedu.com for a panel on how constitutions can empower and protect young people.

Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies Our new poll finds question wording can swing opinion by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights. That's a problem for people who use polls to tell politicians what voters want.

Great blog post by @gelliottmorris.com which is backed by decades of academic research. How you ask a question impacts how people answer the question!

This has important consequences for how to think about puic opinion and how to treat opinion polls. Short 🧵

Oklahoma legislature advances bill that would remove tenure at OU, public universities The Oklahoma legislature advanced a bill Tuesday that would remove the possibility of tenure for OU faculty, limit contract agreements to five years and require each state institute for higher

Red state politicians working hard to kill their institutions of higher education

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'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.

"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Has this ever happened before? (@aedwardslevy.bsky.social @pollsandvotes.bsky.social @gelliottmorris.com)

I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.

Growing Fears That Hungary’s Orbán May Cancel Next Month’s Election As polling shows the opposition widening its lead, observers worry the prime minister is preparing a drastic step to retain power.

"It’s no surprise that observers worry that Orbán will cling to power—perhaps even to his dying breath. Then again, this possibly overstates the danger. If Orbán loses the election, he could always seek asylum in the United States."

214. The Court's (Selective) Impatience is a Vice The only theme uniting Monday night's twin grants of emergency relief is the Republican appointees' willingness to upend long-settled limits on the Court's power when, but only when, they *want* to.

As I explain via the latest “One First,” the only theme that unites the Supreme Court’s (unrelated) grants of emergency relief Monday night in the California transgender student and New York redistricting cases is what might be called “selective judicial impatience.”

And that’s *not* a good thing:

I am very happy (and perhaps unduly proud) that this is out. There are too many people to thank for thoughtful comments, some of them are in the acknowledgements. Also, just in time for the Hungarian elections coming on April 12...
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Not ICE. Not Border Patrol. Just the same rotten local cops we've always had

It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...

This comes on the heels of a report that Musk built a vehicle more explosive than the Ford Pinto, which was considered a death trap.

By Tesla's own math, it reveals that its robotaxis are 4x worse at driving than humans, with redactions hiding even more details | Fortune By NHTSA standards, the Tesla Robotaxis are 8x worse than human drivers.

About every 57k miles driven by Musk’s robotaxis one gets into a wreck. That’s four times the rate of humans.

How Talks Between Anthropic and the Defense Dept. Fell Apart

NEW: Our play-by-play on how Anthropic’s negotiations with the Pentagon fell apart, (and how Open AI swooped in). With @julianbarnes.bsky.social @cademetz.bsky.social

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I posted a very short but I think sort of interesting paper on the idea of transformative constitutionalism, including reactionary tc: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Nearly 2 Dozen Retired Harvard Business School Professors Step Into The Democracy Debate Harvard Business School profs urge business leaders to recognize their responsibilities as citizens: 'The cost of silence is incalculable'.

“We are retired Harvard Business School professors. …We ask that the leaders of the business world in the United States — some of whom it has been our privilege to teach — speak out now, act now, in defense of democracy.”

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This is some next-level swiftboating

U.S. Strikes in Middle East Use Anthropic, Hours After Trump Ban Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the hel...

Hegseth illegally uses Anthropic software in Iran War.

Sadly, this is about the next election. He’s laying the groundwork to declare his election “emergency” to change rules and argue to courts they can’t question his national security judgment in war time. And if the Court does, he’s preparing to say that’s beyond their constitutional powers.

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Yes, Supreme Court Decisions Really Matter | Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts No, that doesn’t mean the wizards in robes are doing magic. The former Solicitor General of the United States puts the tariffs case in its legal realism context.

With former Solicitor General of the United States Donald Verrilli Jr. on why one still fights at SCOTUS