The brief: “No…legitimate curricular objective is served by compelling students to speak against their conscience”

Isn’t that just the authors saying they don’t think teaching kids to be respectful is a “legitimate curricular objective”?

Seems like a value judgement dressed up as a legal argument

@aricohn.com I understand you didn't write the brief, but I'm curious how you parse its argument.

Would the argument in the brief also prevent schools from banning the use of an anti-semitic slur (e.g. "k*ke")?

If not, what is the distinction being made?

It's expected (but disappointing) that she's paid to be on ABC News, but the fact that she hosts a podcast for @scotusblog.com is stomach churning.

Another Kavanaugh Stop

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

A screenshot of Kavanaugh’s writing for SCOTUS: “Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.”

“Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.”

A classic #brokentimes story for @jeffjarvis.bsky.social

The article contains quotes POTUS, VP and DHS sec blaming the left, and 2 dems correcting their lies.

But the whole thing is framed as tit-for-tat, 'both sides' nonsense. "political figures quickly engaged with one another on social media"

What Americans really think about political violence | YouGov Most Americans say political violence is never justified, but younger and more liberal Americans are more likely to say it can be.

I tried to find the source for what Vance was saying, and I think he's referencing these polling results: today.yougov.com/politics/art...

Good read! I think the Calvinball reference may also allude to Justice Jackson’s dissent in August in which she accused the court of “Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist” (the twist being that Trump always wins). www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

A tweet saying: Benjamin Ryan ‹ @benryanwriter•21h G I interviewed a number of the first monkeypox (mpox) cases in 2022. They were largely affluent gay men who enjoyed traveling around the world and going to sex parties. I am not certain how stigma is connected to such a pastime.

If @benryanwriter.bsky.social is this ignorant or obtuse about the role stigma plays in public health, why does he think he’s informed enough to write about it?

Sadly, the Roberts court thinks we currently have a "good" executive.

I hear this Cuomo fella has his finger on the pulse of how the average American talks

Well, back then Donald Trump was a dem billionaire, so he is technically correct

Another wild scoop on NPR from @tomdreisbach.bsky.social: Video shows a man on Jan. 6 shouting for the crowd to kill police: “Kill ‘em!” He admitted saying it.

One of Trump’s first acts in office was to cancel his trial and hire him for a job at the Justice Department.

Williams's book is impaired by slapdash prose. His writing abounds with interminable, convoluted sentences that teem with digressions and then awkwardly limp toward disorienting conclusions. Here is one from the prologue:

That was a fun read

Screenshot of a headline in the WSJ Stock market today: U.S. to Raise Tariffs on Scores of Nations Move will result in significantly higher tariffs on virtually every U.S. trading partner

This framing is straightforwardly wrong: The US isn’t raising tariffs on *partners*, they tariffs are on imports and paid for by Americans.

Behold, the leading political philosopher on the right.

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

Riley Gaines makes the swim from Alcatraz - ties for fifth place behind 61 year old former Supervisor Aaron Peskin.

Remember how mad the media was that the pro-Palestine protestors had spokespeople and didn't let just anyone speak to the press!

Opinion | What I Heard on a Suicide Hotline for Trans Kids

"What I Heard On A Suicide Hotline For Trans Kids"

"My callers wished their parents weren’t in denial and didn’t echo right-wing talking points. They wished they didn’t feel so alone late at night. They called from Utah and Arizona and Iowa...'Somebody has to give me a reason to live.'"

How Obama’s Allies Are Defining Romney A rich guy who only cares about other rich guys because he's rich.

From our favorite @jonathanbchait.bsky.social back in 2012:
"an accurate description of the Ryan plan, struck those voters as so cartoonishly evil that they found the charge implausible. (“[T]he respondents simply refused to believe any politician would do such a thing.”)"

YouTube video by Inside Edition Can Pizza Deliveries to the Pentagon Forecast an International Crisis?

If you don’t believe me, check out 12s into this video youtu.be/X6Oo8kE0Hd0?...

Screenshot of an Inside Edition YouTube video with a screenshot of twitter with the username @slongmcdong

Hey @insideedition.bsky.social quick question, is your twitter handle really “@slongmcdong”?

Downtown Los Angeles.

This is how law enforcement is treating protestors when arrested.

They literally smashed this young guy in the face.

Make it known. This is the real violence.

(2/2) ... massacring civilians and kidnapping others. Jihadists use these new forms of warfare against those they can’t conquer by force. What concerns us here is their capture of elite American schools as outposts."

It's a genuinely deranged piece:

(1/2) "On Sept. 11, 2001, the Islamists of al Qaeda attacked the U.S. in a suicide mission that used American planes as their instruments of destruction. On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas Islamists exploited Israel’s openness by invading the country, ...

Headline from the New York Times homepage: Putin Gets a Rare Rebuke From Trump After Russian Strikes on Ukraine The attack was the deadliest on Kyiv in nearly a year. President Trump called on President Vladimir Putin to “STOP!” in a post on social media.

That can't be right! The @nytimes.com told me this post was a "rare rebuke of Putin"!

Gay Venezuelan stylist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced Milwaukee cop's report Now a contractor for ICE, the officer was on the Brady list of disgraced cops in Milwaukee. His report helped send a man to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

A disgraced former Milwaukee cop with credibility issues helped seal the fate of a gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to El Salvador's notorious prison. Cross was fired from his position as a Milwaukee Police Sergeant in 2012 after driving his car into a family’s home while intoxicated.

Are there any relevant NY state charges that could be filed?