Kate Jackson

The reason they didn’t bring this to congress and the people is because they didn’t want to give anyone the chance to mobilize against it.

My understanding of the paramount/WB deal is that paramount wants to try to win the steaming wars - and the CNN part is just the bribery mechanism to get it past regulators

YouTube video by Jack Cocchiarella Mike Admits It's Over As Leaked Affair Revolt Ruins His Career

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YouTube video by Jack Cocchiarella Mike Admits It's Over As Leaked Affair Revolt Ruins His Career

Jack cocchiarella: so dems are taking money from palentir. Can you tell them to stop?

Jeffries: we’ll look into it

JC: no really they’re oligarchs enabling fascism

Jeffries: we promise to fight big bad DHS and look at all my small donors

JC: but dude—

Jeffries: we have to stop MAGA

👍

And y’know slashing medicaid

VSU Terminates 6 Professors Without Due Process Campus security escorted the professors—five tenured and one tenure-track—to their cars and issued no-trespass warnings. They have received no written explanation for their dismissals.

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February 26, 2026 Dear members of the Columbia community: This morning at approximately 6:30 a.m., federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security entered a Columbia Residential building and detained a student. We are working to gather more information, working to reach the family, and providing legal support. Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a "missing person." We are working to gather more details. It is important to reiterate that all law enforcement agents must have a judicial warrant or judicial subpoena to access non-public areas of the University, including

It is important to reiterate that all law enforcement agents must have a judicial warrant or judicial subpoena to access non-public areas of the University, including housing, classrooms, and areas requiring CUID swipe access. An administrative warrant is not sufficient. If law enforcement agents seek entry to non-public areas of the University, ask the agents to wait to enter any non-public areas until contacting Public Safety. Public Safety will contact the Office of the General Counsel to coordinate the University's response. Do not allow them to enter or accept service of a warrant or subpoena. We will update our community as additional information becomes available. Sincerely,

BREAKING: Columbia President Claire Shipman says DHS agents entered a residential buliding this morning and detained a student.

"Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a 'missing person.'"

Trump’s State of the Union Reminds Us The Republican Party Is Truly Lost More evidence that the Republican Party has been entirely transformed into the party of violence and authoritarianism.

“It is a hallmark of fascist politics that the ruling party becomes a kind of institutionalized gang…with cruelty and brutality as the organizing principles and violent bravado as the main form of political expression.”

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I think people should know that the person who took the position below is a member of the Texas bar and that her name is Mary Larakers.

Speaking of meddling

I mean per Locke just buying or inheriting property was enough to establish consent to a social contract so…..

ABA moves to axe US law school diversity requirements The American Bar Association is poised to eliminate its diversity and inclusion requirement for law schools amid legal uncertainty and political pressure.

Sad to see this
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Ohio GOP bill would tie state university funding to compliance with new anti-diversity higher ed law • Ohio Capital Journal An Ohio Republican lawmaker wants to tie compliance to a new higher education law that bans diversity efforts and regulates classroom discussion to state funding for universities.

Ohio GOP bill would tie state university funding to compliance with new anti-diversity higher ed law
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For Trump, all politics boils down to some kind of bloody, violent, brutal conflict.

Which is terrifying

For these people, violence is cathartic

The graphic depictions of violence coming out of his mouth cannot help but escalate… the normalization of violence associated with state agents

At least it took him 50 min before he started in on the racism

it's a problem if the government tells a private company to change its business or else the government will not only cease working with it, but will also put it on a blacklist that prevents anyone else from working with it

another version state capitalism/taking stakes in private companies

Someone claiming to be from DHS just called someone I know who works at my employer’s general operator. The DHS “official” was looking for the immigration status of a prof in the medical faculty.

Unclear if it was “official” or not (does that matter anymore?)

Beware, folks.

Charlie Kirk repeatedly pushed the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory and regularly made racist comments in his public statements.

If we can't call someone so explicitly racist "a racist" without getting fired, who else is off limits?

Donald Trump? Nick Fuentes? David Duke?

“Liberalism’s deepest grounding is…in the conviction of the earliest defenders of toleration, born in horror, that cruelty is an absolute evil… It is out of that tradition that the political liberalism of fear arose and continues amid the terror of our time to have relevance”

Up to bat for my Law & Democracy seminar: shklar’s “liberalism of fear.” (1989)

“Anyone who thinks fascism in one guise or another is dead and gone ought to think again.”

So they don’t realize “let’s just make the buses free and we can stay in power” is not the winning message they think it is.

I’m tired of Dems interpreting mamdani’s win as “we must focus on affordability” w/o acknowledging that this message is entwined with an anti-oligarchy agenda. “The gov’t needs to work for *us* for a change. By eg making buses free.” They mistake the policy upshot for the foundational idea.

Lovely and of course ugh

Then again, if this means women do less therapizing/personal assistanting/proofreading/soundboarding …..

1/x Really excited to say that my job talk paper, “Remembering Congress in the Myers-to-Humphrey’s Interregnum,” is coming out through the Pennsylvania Law Review. I am dying to work with Penn’s outstanding editors to bring this paper to the finish line. Thanks, y’all!

Maybe noem could get away with blaming the dems if she hadn’t been plastering her own face all over the airport for a year

Bonus chapter: a brief description of Wexner’s ties to OSU athletics and its own sex abuse scandal