Jason P. Steed

(between images of a map showing the nearly 2,000 No Kings Day events planned for March 28) NO THRONES. NO CROWNS.

There are nearly 2,000 events on the No Kings Day map in all 50 states (and 10 countries). March 28 will be the largest protest in American history. Find your local event or plan a protest in your area: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

BREAKING: The Florida House of Representatives voted to advance a sweeping voter suppression bill that could disenfranchise tens of thousands of state voters.

The move comes two weeks after the U.S. House passed the GOP-led SAVE America Act, which the measure closely mirrors.

Important to note that last month the Trump admin tried a similar thing for childcare funding and got smacked down almost immediately once sued.

This isn't just about conflicts of interest and whether or not she'll be profiting in office.

It's about her having a clear record of endorsing faulty products in exchange for compensation. It's about her being completely unworthy of an office that requires public trust.

Trump's self-dealing is truly off the scales — eclipsing even the biggest corruption scandal of the First Gilded Age.

It's a new Golden Age for grifting. [@brennancenter.org]

so fun fact: recently during the fraud investigations being redone by this season’s feds, MN’s rate of medicaid/medicare fraud was well below the national average

nationally, it’s ≈ 6% each year; in minnesota it’s like ≈ 2.5%

we know this is vindictive at this point

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way.
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

if we frame Donny's anti-trans nonsense as "forced displacement" (we should) then I'd like to congratulate fascist nudniks on yet another war crime

An incredible fall from grace from the guy who is basically the founder of modern cert. practices.

Gambling. It's not a good idea.

Lawrence Summers Will Resign From Harvard After Epstein Revelations

I'm glad to see accountability for academia's bad apples. But I also hope that resignations like this one won't be the end of the story. Because we still need to reckon with how the structures and cultures in "elite" academia have created ripe conditions for rot. 1/🧵

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

The Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to spend taxpayer funds, and no law allows the president to halt if he feels some US states aren’t being “good stewards” of the money.

In case there’s any confusion on this, the Impoundment Control Act forbids it.

Taxation without representation.

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

I believe an aggrieved private party (say, an Epstein victim) could bring an APA claim against Pam Bondi for failure to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The Act doesn’t bar review and the APA’s presumption of reviewability applies.

In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - Bolts A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.

From @boltsmag.org on an issue I really am invested in: the pieces around elections that matter

boltsmag.org/usps-postmar...

People are using this as an excuse to take shots at the Vice President going to Yale, but this is Russ Vought's "impoundment is an executive power and can't be legislated away." It's not ignorance, it's a deliberate move to assert the law to be what they want it to be instead of what it is.

The pileup of blatantly unlawful conduct by the government in this case is astonishing, as is the fact that the Supreme Court allowed the govt to go forward with this program in a shadow docket ruling

voluntary manslaughter

As my colleague Andy Schneider explained there is a complex administrative process CMS has to follow to preemptively withhold or retrospectively disallow federal #Medicaid funding for a state like MN. It would be unlawful to just unilaterally halt federal funding: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/01/16/c...

I've written about loot boxes as an intentionally addictive technology (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) and am excited to see this complaint, which addresses a very real problem.

Hopefully, the anticipated first amendment defenses will be rejected!

Lawsuit coming in 3…2…

Lawyers for a now-20-year-old woman will argue that addictive features harmed her mental health in opening statements in a landmark trial against Meta and YouTube, the first of hundreds of similar cases to go to trial. https://cnn.it/4r527mm

Trump Is Building a Federal Judiciary of Delusional, Cowardly Loyalists Judges have to decide cases based on facts. For Trump judges, the only facts that matter are the ones that he authorizes them to believe.

Come, let us tell you about some sad little cowards

The Supreme Court Lives in Fox News' America A Court that does not share a common factual world with the people it governs is untethered from democratic reality.

“The danger is not confined to any one doctrine or term. It lies in the normalization of a judiciary that no longer sees, hears, or understands the country as it actually exists—and therefore cannot meaningfully claim to judge it” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...

Steve Kennedy today on Fox News conservatism at the highest levels of power

How Trump is rigging immigration courts against Somali migrants During a December 2 cabinet meeting, President Trump unleashed a torrent of bigoted invective against Somali migrants.

1. Trump has launched a torrent of bigoted invective against Somali migrants, calling them "garbage" and demanding they be kicked out of the country

Now, the Trump administration is rigging the immigration courts against them

We've uncovered the details of the scheme

My latest, "Free Exercise and the Redistribution of Liberty," is now posted (and forthcoming in @yalelawjournal.bsky.social). It argues that free exercise doctrine uses selective market logic to redistribute both public resources and liberty itself.

Comments welcome: papers.ssrn.com/abstract=618...

Wyden was doing the same “hey, over here!” routine about the §215 bulk phone program long before anyone heard the name Edward Snowden.

Sterling Heights Mayor Michael Taylor again criticizes ICE at meeting Mayor Michael Taylor said ICE agents "regularly violate" human rights and constitutional rights. He's spoken out at least twice about ICE conduct.

Mayor Michael Taylor said ICE agents "regularly violate" human rights and constitutional rights. He's spoken out at least twice about ICE conduct.

Texas A&M Lecturer Who Was Fired Over Gender Lesson Sues University

“There can be no question Dr. McCoul was terminated based on the exercise of her right to academic freedom. The subject matter that the student, and then the university, found problematic was germane to her lesson, consistent with the syllabus, the course description and the catalog description.”

I definitely need to know more about this

#fascism