Someone who failed 9th grade grammar

He lost me at “it has just been learned” 😂

You don't have to swallow frogs Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.

I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

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Say. This.

Also 54% of Black people live in the South. They did not vote for this.

So tired of this energy 🙄

“The Mississippi’s mighty, but it starts in Minnesota at a place that I could walk across with five steps a down”

I’m trying to come up with this “34 million able bodied people on Medicaid” figure they keep tossing around. This is roughly half the number of recipients. 64% of Medicaid recipients work either full or part time. The rest are retired, disabled, children, or caregivers. It doesn’t math.

This month as The Emancipator examines the idea of liberation and pride, we spoke with Kimberlé Crenshaw, an author, civil rights advocate, and critical race theorist about co-opting “woke” terminology, book bans, and the Trump administration’s attempts at cultural erasure.

This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*

Not normal

ICE agents on Martha's Vineyard earlier today.

Most people seem to grasp that cutting Medicare and Medicaid is bad for people (hideously so).

But I don’t think people grasp that they are, quite literally, the financial scaffolding of the entire healthcare system.

148. Suspending Habeas Corpus In response to adverse rulings in numerous immigration cases, Stephen Miller is raising the specter of suspending habeas. His argument is factually and legally nuts, but it's worth explaining *why.*

Via "One First," me on why Stephen Miller's riff on suspending habeas corpus is not just factually and legally wrong (in multiple respects), but reflects a dangerous escalation in the Trump administration's rhetorical attacks on the courts:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/148-suspen...

Academia should resist the trap media fell into, interpreting bad faith, politicized attacks—typically accusing an entire industry based on a handful of anecdotes, some of which don’t stand up to scrutiny—as evidence of a real problem that’s academia’s own fault.

That bad faith cannot be satisfied.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen C. Dries is the one who signed the warrant for the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan We certainly would not want to flood his office with phone calls. Or freeze his email server! Would We?? Telephone: 414-290-2261 email: DriesPO@wied.uscourts.gov @hoosierblue63

Will just leave this here

Make him famous 🤬

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.

We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

Today is #IndependentBookstoreDay! If you are unable to pop in to a store, then find a few moments today to order a book online. Or grab tickets for an upcoming book event. Or post about a bookstore. Or do something else. Today is the day to show our love for our local independent bookstores. 🫶🏿

The Miami Herald is doing remarkable public service journalism on deported Venezuelans and the crimes being committed against them. Almost like news institutions that are located in and around the communities they serve end up being accountable for serving those communities

CEO to worker pay in:

1989 ➡️ 61:1
2025 ➡️ 399:1

Current Target CEO to worker pay:

‼️719:1‼️

So no, we’re STILL not shopping at Target.

Tomorrow at Harvard!

Now the branches come too close to grinding irrevocably against one another in a conflict that promises to diminish both. This is a losing proposition all around. The Judiciary will lose much from the constant intimations of its illegitimacy, to which by dent of custom and detachment we can only sparingly reply. The Executive will lose much from a public perception of its lawlessness and all of its attendant contagions. The Executive may succeed for a time in weakening the courts, but over time history will script the tragic gap between what was and all that might have been, and law in time will sign its epitaph.

"The Executive may succeed for a time in weakening the courts, but over time history will script the tragic gap between what was and all that might have been, and law in time will sign its epitaph."

Take a moment for joy

UMass faculty calls on land grant universities to join in fight against Trump administration; McGovern, AG also weigh in AMHERST — Faculty at the University of Massachusetts are calling on Chancellor Javier Reyes and President Martin Meehan to form a compact with the 250 land grant and public universities across the cou...

This is how you do it.

The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact".

The moral imperative may be to fight...

but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone:

www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...

Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele
To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return

"If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."

We’re in U.S. District Court in Burlington, Vermont for Rümeysa Öztürk’s hearing. Today, the legal team is asking the judge to release her from detention.

Ideas aren’t illegal. Rümeysa must be released.

Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners

I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass.

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.