Claire Katz

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If you hear someone saying that they hope lawyers are ready to go to court to protect free and fair elections, I suggest you let them know that my law firm is already litigating more than 80 voting and election cases in 40 states.

Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins a reliably Republican Texas state Senate seat, stunning GOP Democrat Taylor Rehmet has won a special election for the Texas state Senate and flipped a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024.

BREAKING: Democrat Taylor Rehmet flips GOP-held Texas state Senate seat in special election for district Trump handily won in 2024.

Yikes this is like the approach in Rousseau’s Emile, which was never meant as a how to book and which even he realizes is an approach that fails spectacularly. It’s more nuanced than what’s in the article and he had interesting political reasons for taking this approach, but still a failure.

God bless these people.

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Folks blame government, but: "new work requirements for Medicaid highlight the profits to be made from adding complexity to the safety net. Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants & administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

Conservatives have been complaining about their "free speech" being violated since Allan Bloom and it always amounts to wealthy, elite ppl complaining "Someone criticized me." Then the same free speech warriors are mum when this happens, or profs are fired at Texas A&M. It's always been a grift.

What's the Matter with Texas A&M? Five presidents in five years. Firings of “woke” professors. Crackdowns on Plato. Inside state leaders' efforts to remake a great university.

“The political questions facing Texas A&M are the most important questions facing the nation as a whole," writes Christoper Hooks.

Inside state leaders’ efforts to remake one of our finest institutions: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/meltdown-at-texas-a-m-university/

Texas Monthly always does fantastic long form journalism, but this is an exceptional piece. Worth the read.

I love Texas Monthly long form journalism, but this story is just exceptional. Well done and thank you — not only for your insight, but also for your, at times and deeply needed, sense of humor.

“the people united will never be defeated”

There's no better way to end the day. Be well friends. ❤️

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

This. ^

But just to be clear… “we are not banning Plato altogether.” Shew! I was really worried about that. I’m so relieved to find out that we’re just doing SOME banning.

Those who initiated the revision are opposed to anything that is not cisgender/heterosexual, but that’s not what the policy says.

Agree with this (and it was brilliant) but I don’t think it’s malicious compliance. Malicious compliance would be refusing to teach anything, bc everything is related to gender identity.

Some who haven’t read Plato were surprised that his dialogues include themes they are trying to ban from the classroom, but their ignorance of philosophy doesn’t make including a relevant text in the course malicious compliance.

Why do you suspect malicious compliance? This is highlighting the absurdity of the policy. But I’m not sure the term fits.

Here’s the course description: catalog.tamu.edu/undergraduat...

@timmiller.bsky.social on JD Vance's comments about Renée Good: "He paints her as an enemy...as a domestic foe, he lies about her, he shows no sympathy towards her. And, and he does so in a lecturing, condescending, smarmy way... It's totally, totally sick, and I find him to be repulsive."

It’s real.

This is the revised rule: policies.tamus.edu/08-01.pdf

“This libertarian manifesto,” The Sovereign Individual, is “loved by Peter Thiel *** Political operators such as former Tony Blair spokesman Alistair Campbell and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen have embraced the book, too.” 9/28/25 … 1/ theconversation.com/this-liberta...

Pete Hegseth conducted a live fire exercise over I-5 as part of a made-for-Fox stunt for him and Vance which had a misfire that struck a Highway Patrol vehicle and could have killed people?

Who could have foreseen this?

Sounds … about right.

But still crazy to think those words were spoken aloud.

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

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Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...

Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”

By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com