Sam Wang

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

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Note that princeton4all.org's main emphasis is development and a pro-growth agenda that welcomes people of all types.

Respecting history is fine...but don't forget, we're a community that makes new history all the time. Let's look forward, not back.

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Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Seizure of Oregon National Guard for Portland Deployment Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Saturday blocked President Donald Trump’s call-up of the National Guard for a deployment in Portland, saying Trump’s actions were based on false claims and undermined Oregon’s sovereignty. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Breaking: Trump-appointed federal judge issues temporary restraining order against Federalized deployment of National Guard in Oregon.

Judge: “this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law.”

All legal nonsense aside about the supposed state of armed conflict between the U.S. and Venezuelan gangs, what "I wish to emphasize is that there is a word for killings outside of armed conflict for which there is no domestic legal authority. That word is murder." [@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org]

CATO has been consistently good on the issues they're good on for some time.

It's one of the reason I caution people abt conflating right with bad -- principled right is right on key issues.

Inspiring to watch the growth of a new generation of Democrats with principles and a spine. I hope they can take the wheel as quickly as possible.

finally

That image showing Google searches for Charlie Kirk plummeting makes total sense because he was a fucking loser that nobody actually cared about. His only purpose was to spread hate. Nobody will remember him in 40 years and that is a good thing

Abughazaleh: I think Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague. And if the response from ICE to people exercising their first amendment right is to drive vehicles through them, they should not be an agency in the US.

It’s hard to feel like any work matters except work to stop what’s happening and make a better world than before.

BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents

No shadow docket. Ride the circuit. No clerks. No building budget. Fine, you can stay for life. But there will be 16 new colleagues, with fixed terms, & it'll be 9 by lottery for any case. Or, you could simply start following the law & constitution.
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They have done so in reasoned and thoughtful written opinions—opinions that, in the nor- ‘mal course, we would get to parse, assess, and embrace or reject, while fully explaining our reasoning.

I really appreciate Justice Jackson contrasting the lower courts' meticulous and responsible approach to judging—extensive deliberations, written opinions—with the Supreme Court's slapdash, unreasoned work over the shadow docket. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

They Radicalized Themselves And we can pinpoint when it happened.

All Trump loyalists get a libidinal thrill watching him piss on the Constitution, but I wrote about the subset who feel exposed by their obvious hypocrisy, and so pretend it's all a regrettable consequence of Barack Obama radicalizing them. www.offmessage.net/p/they-radic...

That's the only way to play this. The only form of resistance that can work to this kind of authoritarian power-grab is resistance where universities all refuse to voluntarily give up autonomy over what they teach, write, and allow their students and faculty to say.

Then fight in court, one by one.

Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.

Someday, we're gonna find out that the decisionmaking went like this:

Mamdani proposes city-run grocery stores. Conservatives say it'll never work. Mamdani supporters point out that DOD runs a bunch of grocery stores. Hegseth decides to close them to own the libs.

US Federal Judge William Young: "In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it."

www.lawdork.com/p/judge-will...

The "compact" is a threat, with the administration explicitly stating that it plans to disfavor universities that don't sign in areas from foreign student visas, student loans, federal contracts as well as grants, and even tax [501(c)(3)] status.

It's a maximalist plan of 1st Amendment violation.

They lied to help Trump win. Never forget it, never forgive it

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

This is extortion. Faculty, students, staff, alumni across the country need to get to their Presidents & Trustees today. Just say no. This blackmail only works if most everyone folds. Capitulation now means the end of American higher education for a generation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee

It's because it is not controlled by "immoral capitalism."

We need to majorly change the settings on our capitalism. Starting with not requiring corporations to maximize short term profits.

It's just such a painfully obviously stupid and self-destructive way of organizing our economic systems.

FYI this right here is essentially the same thing, constitutionally speaking, as the actual heart of the Iran-Contra scandal

thanks for speaking out @markhisted.org

This is the best elevator pitch I've seen from Dems on the shutdown.