Bethany Berger

In some ways, it was a perfect encapsulation of the ADL's new tack. The group was founded on the idea that Jewish rights and safety were inextricably linked to the rights of others. Once the ADL's primary focus became stopping anti-Zionism, its calculus changed. Its new version of Jewish defense was zero sum and dependent on a conception of a singular Jewish viewpoint. "New plan," Greenblatt said in his address to national leadership last year, repeating a phrase that had recently been taken up by other Jewish organizations: "Put on your own oxygen mask first."

Sad to see what’s happened to the ADL under Greenblatt. Very well reported story here by @noahshachtman.bsky.social . As for the quote, I don’t think the analogy works unless the idea is that one should put on their own mask whilst throwing others’ out of reach. nymag.com/intelligence...

I historically have put symposium but just saw invited on someone else’s cv and think that looks nicer

Previewing the August 26 special election in Iowa Senate district 1 Laura Belin: Iowa Senate district 1 leans to Republicans but should be highly competitive in a low-turnout special election.

A name we should all familiarize ourselves with over the next 4 weeks:

CATELIN DREY

DREY is the Dem running to flip Iowa State Senate District 1 in a Special Election on August 26th.

This is a flippable seat, and the article below sets the table nicely.

www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/07/01/p...

Beyond the cruelty, paying to detain people who could be out supporting themselves and their families is a huge waste for an administration that claims to favor efficiency. This looks more like a giveaway to the private companies with the contracts to house the migrants.

I know all the garden questioners have been justly slain but the wildlife is even more proof of concept

So beautiful!

No it’s daddy pig selling ham to a mouse at the grocery store—totally normal, not creepy at all.

So trees are pretty good. But we have gone very hard on “Trees store carbon! Plant trees!” when there are many other plants that store carbon as well.

Consider…the prairie.

A chart showing bigass roots on a whole bunch of plants.

There’s a famous chart from the Conservation Research Institute, which demonstrates this. GAZE UPON THESE ROOTS, YE MIGHTY AND DESPAIR.

Even adorable-er if you read the Dutch name with English eyes as “pyjamas child wants.”😊 and they seem to be on an appropriately Jim Henson-esque plant too!

Coverage of this new development, via @law360.bsky.social: www.law360.com/ip/articles/...

The Muscogee SCT explicitly invokes the importance of the 1866 Treaty in McGirt: "The Nation cannot choose to select and rely on portions of the Treaty... as evidence of its intact reservation & also negate the clear language entitling...the Creek Freedmen...eligibility for citizenship."

Here's the Muscogee Supreme Court's opinion holding #Freedmen are constitutionally entitled to citizenship: www.mcnnc.com/wp-content/u...

Here's the Muscogee Supreme Court's opinion holding #Freedmen are constitutionally entitled to citizenship: www.mcnnc.com/wp-content/u...

Muscogee Nation court rules descendants of enslaved people are entitled to citizenship The Muscogee Nation Supreme Court has ruled in favor of two descendants of former slaves held by the tribe.

This is huge.
apnews.com/article/musc...

Milkweed at butterfly garden with 3 dead lanternfly on the leaves, from https://www.reddit.com/r/NativePlantGardening/comments/1m4a3cj/psa_milkweed_might_kill_slf/

You probably have some already, but there's preliminary evidence that milkweed kills lanternfly. Help monarchs & kill lanternfly. Win-win! projects.sare.org/sare_project...

The buffalo are being driven off and the Native people depicted here will be forced onto reservations with little compensation for their land. That is what is going on here.

Trump Administration Prepares to Drop Seven Major Housing Discrimination Cases Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods. Now, under T...

This is illegal. The #FHA says that HUD "shall" investigate all complaints & only dismiss when "no reasonable cause exists to believe that a discriminatory housing practice has occurred." 42 USC 3610. Not wanting to enforce fair housing law isn't a reason.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...?

John Gast's "American Progress"--now on the official account of the Department of Homeland Security. Constitutionalism is more than text, especially in domains like expansion, dispossession, and borders (where there isn't much text)--it is also ideas about "nature," values, principles, and ideology.

Flagged words I included in grants to study cancer and Alzheimer's targets back when I was a structural biologist: expression, polarization, trans, exclusion, diverse, identity, vulnerable population, bias, barrier, systemic, disability, trauma

Libel suits are basically performative for Trump—a (true) signal that if you say unflattering things about me you’ll be sued and a (false) claim to his base that the unflattering things aren’t true.

Paper 2 in progress. Paper 1: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

One of these is not like the others and it represents a dangerous new expansion in Trump's tariff adventures, meddling in internal criminal matters in other countries.

The cover of the latest bokk on the Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series, "Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move," edited by Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari, showing an image of an Italian family preparing to depart and and Irish family reading a letter from America.

Interested in global history in the contexts of migration, diaspora, and empire? See the Glusksman Irish Diaspora Series, an initiative by @gihnyu.bsky.social that I have the pleasure of editing for @nyupress.bsky.social: nyupress.org/search-resul...

At noon my weather app said maybe rain at 3 am, dry until then. So I biked to school and now this is outside my window. I know weather is changeable, but I can’t help thinking this is the fault of #DOGE & the cuts to the #WeatherService & #NOAA

Legal historian traces history of ‘marital privilege’ in American law | Penn Today Penn Carey Law’s Serena Mayeri’s new book highlights how legal battles against ‘marital supremacy’ advanced equality and the challenges that remain.

It's publication day for "Marital Privilege," by my phenomenal Penn Carey Law colleague @serenamayeri.bsky.social! If you are interested in marriage, non-marital intimate relationships, family law, inequality, 20th c. legal history, law & social movements -- this book is a must-read! #LegalHistory

Trump vs. Birds: Proposed Budget Eliminates Critical Research Programs • The Revelator Experts say there’s “no substitute” for the Bird Banding Laboratory or the Breeding Bird Survey, which help reveal the health and status of avian populations across the country.

The new federal budget wants to eliminate bird banding funding, the one thing that allows scientists to track the health and population of birds across the country.

Birders, rise up! By @rheisman.bsky.social therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...

The Atlantic: The Magic Realism of Zohran Mamdani The socialist New York mayoral candidate's proposals don't hold up to serious scrutiny. Will that matter? By Michael Powell

so I have a lot of complicated thoughts about the specific issue at hand, but I have to point out that’s not what “magical realism” is

A nude man clutches a fish person’s head. The fish appears to be into it.

First off, there are four lovely pillars at the corners of a bridge which show variations on the timeless and universal theme of Embracing A Fish Person.

“Now, Fish Person, we battle!”

Somewhere behind the scenes of the Oslo Natural History Museum is an exhibit designer with a lot of old taxidermy and a VISION.