@mayasen.bsky.social
Professor, Harvard Kennedy School | https://msen.scholars.harvard.edu/
Same thought but it was mom and tote bag
05.10.2025 17:21 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.”
05.10.2025 13:10 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.
04.10.2025 23:26 — 👍 2260 🔁 862 💬 33 📌 27
Brett Kavanaugh and his clerks need to read this --->
www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...
Right, of course
(I’m definitely feeling like i need to brush up on 1A case law right now!)
Isn’t this unconstitutional under the cursing cheerleader case?
04.10.2025 20:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
UC Academic Council letter to UC Regents and President calling on them to “reject governmental demands that compromise institutional integrity and academic freedom.”
Personally, I’d say reject all demands, since the demands are being made unlawfully.
single handedly the most embarrassing quote I’ve seen from a university official this year, and that’s saying a lot
03.10.2025 13:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh yeah I’m sure
Very embarrassing for him, even if he doesn’t know it
Genuinely feel badly for this person
03.10.2025 13:44 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 1
Big failure in reporting here to not put the obvious First Amendment problems front and center
That implies that the government can somehow “just do this” and normalizes unconstitutional government action
Pretty sick of this!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Exactly
Not just this but it asks universities to *punish* speech that “belittles” “conservative ideas”
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You are “belittling a conservative idea”, Ben
02.10.2025 19:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Straight up asking public universities to set up governing structures to violate the first amendment
02.10.2025 16:26 — 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0It’s also a failure of universities to have allowed the narrative to drift so badly from reality
02.10.2025 13:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No, and agreed
We literally teach markert capitalism as a core part of our curriculum - exactly the kind of stuff conservatives claim they want to see taught
A long-term concern for conservatives should be educational polarization, but it’s hard to see how un-American moves like tying funding to ideology will win them over college-educated voters
02.10.2025 11:36 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Incredible that they put this in writing
02.10.2025 11:25 — 👍 175 🔁 71 💬 9 📌 11
Honey, wake up: New unconstitutional extortion just dropped. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
02.10.2025 06:28 — 👍 306 🔁 119 💬 8 📌 12
It’s a really great resource of excellent courses and degree programs, and a lot of people would favor its expansion
extension.harvard.edu
Will be very interesting/funny if the “trade school” Harvard will “operate” as part of this agreeement is actually its own already operating Harvard extension school
01.10.2025 18:26 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0One has to wonder how deeply the conservative members of the Court considered the perverse incentives this ruling creates for opposition parties in Congress
01.10.2025 13:07 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Good job Brett
30.09.2025 21:54 — 👍 677 🔁 150 💬 14 📌 4
In March, Trump ordered the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, an independent agency that is the main source of federal funding for public libraries
No other president has shown as much contempt for libraries or their mission
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
the whole obsession with physical fitness also seems really dumb
30.09.2025 13:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Make bullying great again
30.09.2025 12:57 — 👍 317 🔁 86 💬 13 📌 6
"Demagogues will constantly flatter the Passions and Prejudices of the multitude; and will never cease to employ improper arts against those who will not be their Instruments."
- John Jay (1795)
founders.archives.gov/documents/Wa...
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
29.09.2025 01:07 — 👍 22176 🔁 5667 💬 1367 📌 2127Feel as though @democracyprof.bsky.social has probably thought about this
Imho, no it’s not.
Is Trump v US compatible with democracy?
Genuine question
