It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.
#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
This semester feels different. @katemanne.bsky.social has the words
open.substack.com/pub/katemann...
Let’s go #TeamRhetoric ! Get those proposals in so we can hang out in the wild and weird PNW ✌️
Today is August 1.
Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.
"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week."
--Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless
This will have to count as my Supreme Court term review.
I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway.
My latest in @thenation.com
Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought."
h/t @msnbc.com
1) overturn Roe ✔️
2) overturn Chevron ✔️
3) overturn Carolene Products (forthcoming)
The American evangelical right is absolutely shitting themselves with excitement over this. There is nothing on planet earth that they want more then a destabilized Middle East at war to trigger the rapture. This is 100% fact even though it sounds ridiculous.
Anybody need a Juneteenth book? May I recommend We Refuse by @kcarterjackson.bsky.social --it's a stunner.
Love being back at the Law, Culture, and Humanities conference! And so excited to present this afternoon on the panel Narratives of Reproductive Rights after Dobbs. DC peeps come hear me talk about Exceptional Stories of Abortions in Hotung 1000 at 13:15 on the GULC campus
If you can get out of this country, you should. There's no going back to before Trump. Only decades of pain and misery awaits us in the US as we had into massive economic collapse and a generational decline in living standards and live expectancy.
www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/w...
Advertisements to “have Elon’s next baby.”
Just some phenomenal protest art in Union Market, DC.
Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
Porn has colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art, @sophiegilbert.bsky.social writes. We are still processing what it’s doing to us:
Five presenters of various races, ethnicities, genders, and outfits in red, black, gray, and cream sit behind a conference table responding to questions. Margaret is making a dramatic gesture toward her shoulders with both hands and the other folks on the roundtable are chuckling.
Five presenters of various races, ethnicities, genders, and outfits in red, black, gray, and cream sit behind a conference table smiling toward the camera.
Yesterday's #4c25 session with @adahubrig.bsky.social, Jo Hsu, @jadeshiva.bsky.social, and Julie Kidder: queer / crip / race / life stories, survival techniques, resistance, awkward confessions, and glitter. I am grateful. Here's a link to our notes, scripts, and slides! bit.ly/cripcompany
Absolutely terrifying. “Legal experts agree that sending American citizens to prison in El Salvador would be flagrantly illegal under both U.S. and international law — and that the idea itself is shockingly authoritarian, with few parallels in our nation’s history.”
Ah right!? I love my little conference creature and it felt so so perfect after our conversation 💖🧶
Aw yay yay! Thank you for coming 💖
Good morning Charm City! Ready to kick off the official start to #4c25 @ncte.org with @jsanofranchini.bsky.social address 🎉
Heading out to #4c25 with the @cmu.edu #TeamRhetoric ✌️🚐 Catch me on Friday at 12:30 panel H.25 Keeping Crip Company
Hi everyone preparing for #4C25 !
Here’s the “Composing Access” website with all kinds of resources and downloadable media for making your presentation more accessible (including comics!)
u.osu.edu/composingacc...
Also includes links to this year’s access guide and a history of CCCC access work!
🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
Not my toddler asking about the Falkland Islands and deciding “those people are rude!” True son, colonialism is rude 🥲😅 (context: impulsive bought a wall-sized world map and are very interested in all the small islands)
This flow chart is also canonical
(sincere apologies but I do not think I can alt-text this)
Totally get this.
It’s imperfect, but I think our kind of work has 3 roles right now:
- to document & remember (radical when time feels unmoored)
- to think & speak with precision (when so much noise rejects rigour)
- to see seemingly familiar things anew (articulating alternatives is a way out)
