Redneck Lefty

Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted...

Buyers better realize that the sale is not legit, and they will have to give the art back once he is out of office...and I doubt they will get a refund. Trump needs to be gone. What a piece of shit.
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Since Rubenfeld’s suspension: Yale Law Women and YLS Title IX Working Group advocate for increased transparency and justice Content Warning: This article contains references to sexual violence. SHARE is available to all members of the Yale community who are dealing with sexual misconduct […]

Jed Rubenfeld is piloting the “the second shot was at the boat” defense to Katie Tur. She’s doing a good job pushing back but damn, why is he getting a platform?

MSNOW suddenly has a whole swatch of new ‘pundits’ who are trying to sanewash SCOTUS/POTUS overreach and illegality in way then genuinely surprises the hosts …..

What a terrifying time that must have been. At least we learned our lesson from it.

The Trump admin will tear down the entire human rights system--and treat the most respected jurists like terrorists--to protect Israel's leaders from accountability for what essentially the whole world recognizes to be terrible crimes. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance

An anti-discrimination rule that forecloses magazines that write about James Baldwin and Prince but not magazines that write about William F Buckley and Taylor Swift. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

This NYT DealBook interview with Netanyahu is just an incredible embarrassment. Netanyahu just spouting propaganda and absolute falsehoods without any pushback at all.

*Exactly* right. (From @rgoodlaw.bsky.social, in an explainer by @charliesavage.bsky.social.) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

Exclusive: Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa An internal State Department memo said that anyone involved in "censorship" of free speech should be considered for rejection.

That was a comment on this: www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

This so idiotic I can barely bring myself to engage with it, but: People engaged in, e.g., fact-checking, aren't engaged in "censorship"--they're engaged in an activity the First Amendment was *designed to protect*. If you don't understand this, you shouldn't be in government or anywhere near it.

A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

Fascinating new project from Nicholas Merrill, a brilliant and fearless privacy advocate whom I had the privilege of representing many years ago in one of the first challenges to the USA Patriot Act. www.wired.com/story/new-an...

And, if you are a non-US citizen who did this work, you and your entire family will be banned from the United States. (I know this is incredible, but read the order—that’s what it says!)

Am I the only one who sees the irony of this organization being based at Columbia, given the good work it has and will continue to do?

The Science of Chilling Effects

Next Wednesday 12/10, 12:30 ET: Join our @knightcolumbia.org webinar to hear @natematias.bsky.social @penney.bsky.social @sarahbrayne.bsky.social talk about using social science to study chilling effects, and how courts use this kind of evidence: knightcolumbia.org/events/the-s...

at a certain point we will move beyond the "war crimes" debate, since there is no war, and into a "murder" debate that asks not just whether these are individual murders but whether they are widespread & systematic attacks on civilians and thus constitute crimes against humanity.

And here is the Trump admin arguing that it would violate the First Amendment's protection against compelled speech for a court to order agencies to tell their employees that they can't constitutionally deport people based on their political advocacy. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Opinion | The Secretive Office Approving Trump’s Boat Strikes

But Jeh Johnson is right, of course, that the OLC’s opinion should be made public. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

“Constitutional law is not classified” is absolutely and obviously correct. I wish it had been the Obama administration’s position—it would have saved human rights lawyers a lot of time and energy. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/o...

Judge Young asked the parties to tell him how to remedy the serious constitutional violations he identified in his ruling over the summer--the ruling about the deportation of students for pro-Palestinian advocacy. Here's the government's proposal: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I said for years that the only way to permanently reduce migration to the United States was to destroy the vision that the world had of this country as the land of opportunity.

That wasn't a goddam suggestion!

if you want to know a little more about all the zines that are on sale today at wizardzines.com, I made a Big Thread yesterday talking about all of them! bsky.app/profile/b0rk...

Request to be an advance reader of The Psychology of Software Teams by Cat Hicks Thank you for your interest in being an advance reader for The Psychology of Software Teams (working title) by Cat Hicks. I am selecting some interested readers to receive a free advance copy of this ...

I have a December gift for you all 🎁

I am finally able to open up a general call for ADVANCE READERS for my book: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS (coming 2026). I cannot tell you how much it means to me to share this!

Indicate your interest here:

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Reminder - birthright citizenship is upheld by constitutional AND statutory law.

Check out this amicus brief filed back in May. ⬇️ 🗃️

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Casablanca 2: Casablanca Harder

"This is where George Floyd died because of the actions of Minneapolis Police," noted O'Hara during an interview with MS NOW on Thursday. "Our officers here have a duty to intervene," he added, saying that duty extends "not just from law enforcement, from our own agency." As part of a concerted effort to protect Minneapolis' immigrant communities, O'Hara has directed his officers to increase their presence at Somali community centers. He's personally made multiple visits to the Karmel Mall, the city's largest Somali shopping center, which has been a hot spot for ICE activity.

That morning, Villerius (who uses they/them pronouns) captured footage of a Hispanic man being detained on the block before getting released. The Minnesotan standing guard over the mall acknowledged they'd seen police in the area as well as federal agents, but they were skeptical that MPD would intervene if those officers witnessed unlawful force. "I'll believe it when I see it," Villerius said. "I hope that he's sincere and actually wants the police to be confrontational with ICE," they continued, referring to O'Hara. "But again, I'll believe it when I see it."

My first reaction to this was, the Minneapolis police? Who murdered George Floyd? Even as the chief acknowledges that here—given every other city ICE has attacked, if I had to bet on who would do more to protect people from them, I’m always going to bet on a neighbor.
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WNBA legend Sue Bird will get her jersey retired today at the place it all started in Storrs, CT with UConn WBB 🙌

A well deserved honor for the 2x NCAA Champion!

I have a male friend who puts out a snack tray every time we hang out, and honestly? It has changed my standards. It only takes a few minutes to put together unless there's something fancy. I love snacks.

Men. Up your game. Put out snack trays and clean them up after a hangout. Minimum.

London Ent-erground

What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work

Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...