Heidi Kitrosser

Twice in 30 seconds!

So glad that the US Congress thoroughly considered and publicly debated the costs of this war before voting to authorize it.

whether war, vaccines, or critical infrastructure there is contingent of the right that seems to believe that their security from the worst things that happen is some kind of metaphysical principle rather than the result of specific historical processes that could've gone otherwise and still could

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a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair

David Attenborough [whispering]:

“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”

How Kennedy Is Trying to Revamp Medical School

RFK Jr & McMahon wrote a vile letter to my medical school telling us we must stop generating a diverse medical workforce or they'd destroy us

🚨 He's also now forcing US medical schools to adopt HIS KOOKY CURRICULUM that "draws heavily on the work of Dr. Casey Means"

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...

Delighted to give an invited talk about the history of public media policy in the symposium "Canceling the State: Legal and Political Backlash Against Public Institutions," at Wayne State University.

Well if this ain't just the 10th amendment fact pattern from hell. I don't see how the federal government can require a state to continue permitting someone to practice before its own courts consistent with the principle of divided sovereignty. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-04390.p...

At CBS News, where staffers are apparently barred from reading history books, the hostilities between Iran and the US don’t begin until 1979.

Oklahoma legislature advances bill that would remove tenure at OU, public universities The Oklahoma legislature advanced a bill Tuesday that would remove the possibility of tenure for OU faculty, limit contract agreements to five years and require each state institute for higher

Red state politicians working hard to kill their institutions of higher education

www.oudaily.com/news/oklahom...

This cartoonishly childish Hegseth persona is an insult to the American military, the American people, the Iranian people, and just about everybody affected by this war. It is absolutely incredible, in the literal sense, that this man is at the hinge of the chain of command in this spiraling war.

"The only limits on what we can do is President Trump's desire to achieve specific goals" (paraphrasing what Hegseth said): this is completely at odds with how responsible people think about the use of military power in the service of strategic goals and with realism in the literal sense.

Crockett concedes: “This morning I called James and congratulated him on becoming the Senate nominee. Texas is primed to turn blue and we must remain united because this is bigger than any one person.”

(Statement via NBC’s Priscilla Thompson)

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

We’re being governed by 12-year-old boys who think being a man means being constantly belligerent and always on the edge of violence.

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

Past Lives is so good!

Trump: Zohran has come a long way embracing, of course, the Declaration of Independence while at The Oval Office - Big progress! President DJT

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I feel like we typically see these sorts of completely outraged opinions from federal judges a couple times a year across the whole country, maybe a little more often in last few years. Now, in cases stemming from Trump's immigration crackdown, judges are ringing the alarm bell several times a week.

Seems about time to re-up this...

This really ought to be terrifying. We literally have people making decisions to drop bombs in the grips of apocalyptic fantasies.

Again, I have to emphasize that the whole design of our constitutional structure as well as half of what Congress has done rests on the assumption that the president acknowledges the existence of other human beings with legitimate interests. That assumption having failed, the republic falls.

Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

Michael S. Schmidt • @nytmike x.com NEW and BREAKING: In a major reversal, the Trump admin is NOW trying to walk back its decision to walk away from defending the law firm executive orders in court. DOJ just notified the four fighting law firms that it now intends to continue defending the legality of the orders in court. A day ago, DOJ had a very different position.

You gotta be kidding me

Paying federal taxes this year will be infuriating. "Let's see, you're unlawfully withholding our tax $ from ppl, institutions & states you consider political enemies; spending it to have thugs terrorize those same ppl and places; and spending it to launch an unlawful war. Great, here's a check!"

Screenshot of excerpt from opinion that reads: "Despite this, the New York courts refused to stay the trial court’s order. After that highly questionable injunction was issued, the applicants filed appeals in both the Appellate Division (the State’s intermediate appellate court) and the Court of Appeals (its highest court) challenging the trial court’s order on federal constitutional grounds. At the same time, applicants asked both courts to stay the trial court’s order. The Appellate Division refused to issue a stay, and by order issued on February 11, the Court of Appeals sent the appeal filed in that court to the Appellate Division and dismissed applicants’ motions for a stay."

With nowhere else to turn, the applicants asked us to issue a stay, and we have jurisdiction to entertain their application. Title 28 U. S. C. §1257(a) gives us jurisdiction to review “[f]inal judgments or decrees” that are rendered by a State’s highest court and adjudicate federal constitutional claims, and the Court of Appeals’ February 11 order falls within that category.

1/9: In the New York redistricting case, Justice Alito's justification for why #SCOTUS even had *jurisdiction* to issue a stay is based upon a remarkably misleading portrayal of the state court proceedings.

I realize this is technical, but I wanted to write a short thread to explain the shadiness:

Hannah Arendt spent years arguing that authoritarians put personal loyalty above merit, and in fact prefer appointing mediocrities, since their incompetence helps guarantee their loyalty and serves authoritarian goals by further hollowing out institutions, and Liberty U. Law made it career advice.

Remember what a scandal that was?? Seems so quaint now.

All you need is the willingness to follow orders; being actually smart or good at the law is irrelevant.

Scenes from a personalist regime