Bryce Tuttle

massive media mergers —> censorship

Utterly foreseeable and deeply chilling. FTC hiring an attorney whose full time job will be to, as Chairman Ferguson put it in his leaked memo to Trump when he was trying to get the job, fight the “trans agenda.”

Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

from the NYT: 'Katie Mettler, a former chair of the Washington Post guild, said: “I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.”'

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...

Yet another politically motivated FTC investigation and yet another threat to the First Amendment. Notably, this investigation started after @bedoyausa.bsky.social and Commissioner Slaughter were illegally fired. Minority-party Cmr.s provide a critical whistleblower function at agencies like the FTC

Here's who the Washington Post just laid off.

How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive

The idea that the Court should operate entirely in secret is a modern phenomenon. The idea that the Court should be separated from the public is a modern phenomenon. Earlier generations did not accept a powerful, isolated & secretive Court and we shouldn't either 1/6

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

@liccardo.house.gov, @padilla.senate.gov, @adamschiff.com

Legal Scholar and Law Student Letter to Members of Congress.docx U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Senate Washington, D.C. 20515 Washington, D.C. 20510 [DATE], 2026 Dear Me...

Congress must enact Section 1983 for Federal officers. Law students and law professors, sign here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Every new thing I learn about Francis Perkins convinces me more she is the best model for how to make just, effective government happen. Thanks, @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social, for raising this example

While Democrats in Congress have had to be dragged into the most minor forms of resistance by their constituents, local officials are taking accountability seriously

I get the impulse to push for more, harder, faster, but it's worth noting here: the lawyers for both the state and various other plaintiffs have been working their asses off at absolute breakneck speed today.

Renee Good’s Family Will Hit Federal Immunity Wall if They Sue Opinion: The ICE officer who shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis last week stands in the shadow of federal protection. Minnesota should join other states in passing remedies that empower survivors a...

Excellent piece on the problems with federal immunity doctrines from @ij.org’s Anya Bidwell and @pjaicomo.bsky.social—folks who have been litigating these issues before SCOTUS and other courts for years news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell YouTube video by Federal Reserve

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls On the optimism of preparation in a time of democratic decay.

This beautifully written piece by my pal @adambonica.bsky.social is worth your time today.

A bit of light amid the darkness.

open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls On the optimism of preparation in a time of democratic decay.

Highly recommend this essay from @adambonica.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.

She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

We mourn the loss of every soul killed by ICE and Border Patrol. Whether immigrant or U.S. Born. On our streets. At our work. In their detention centers. From Renee Nicole Good to Jamie Alanis Garcia. Todos Presente.

Lamentamos la pérdida de cada vida asesinadas por ICE y la Patrulla Fronteriza, ya sea de inmigrantes o de personas nacidas en Estados Unidos. En nuestras calles. En nuestros lugares de trabajo. Y en sus centros de detención. Desde Jaime Alanis Garcia hasta Renee Nicole Good, todos presentes.

A year ago today was the start of violent, terrorizing raids in California’s rural Central Valley. Violent federal agents were hunting down farm workers like animals.

Today, they’re in the streets of Minneapolis. Our communities should not be enduring this. None of us are safe until all of us are.

In the early 90s this Jewish family kept getting harassed in Montana, so the entire town of Billings put up menorahs in their windows in solidarity

Now Ahmed al Ahmed is part of this tradition too, as he figuratively did the most putting up of a menorah in the window that a human being can ever do

This @nytimes.com article adds useful context to the trend I discussed in @theslingutah.bsky.social . Well worth a read.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...

The Attack on Judge Boasberg Burns the FTC’s Credibility - The Sling With each unprofessional, craven political stunt Chair Ferguson pulls with the FTC—from investigating Elon Musk’s political opponents to threatening Google over allegedly “partisan” email filtering to...

“[W]ith each unprofessional, craven political stunt Chair Ferguson pulls with the FTC…Chair Ferguson burns the FTC’s credibility.” I wrote in @theslingutah.bsky.social about the FTC’s recent comments about Judge Boasberg. www.thesling.org/the-attack-o...

No doubt, the National-Socialist coup d'etat of 1933 was, at least technically, facilitated by the executive and judicial practice of the Weimar Republic. Long before Hitler's dictatorship, the courts had held that questions as to the necessity and expediency of martial law were not subject to review by the courts.

However, the National-Socialists would probably have been successful even had such constitutional-judicial safeguards existed. The absence of a legal tradition analogous to the Anglo-American tradition enabled them, however, to render lip service to the laws, a procedure found useful during the transitional period, when the army and the officialdom were not entirely dependable.

As the national guard cases head to the Supreme Court, two passages from Ernst Frankel’s The Dual State stick with me:

I used to focus on left versus right. Now I’m much more worried about the money at the top. But while it might seem strange to say it, I think this is a hopeful way of looking at the world that opens the door to coalitions that seemed impossible before. My first for the @newrepublic.com:

How I Became a Populist My time at the Federal Trade Commission—before Donald Trump fired me—totally changed the way I see our political divide.

Former FTC Commissioner @bedoyausa.bsky.social's new piece in @newrepublic.com gives a glimpse of what’s at stake for Americans if SCOTUS allows the president the authority to fire FTC officers without cause.

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

It can’t just be on us to make time every week to unsubscribe from whatever billionaire is behaving badly. Our elected officials NEED to step up to the plate to break up the billionaire conglomerates that made this censorship possible.

NEW: Darcy Tuttle, "Hoc Saxsum: History as Conversation inside the Tomb of the Scipios," *Journal of Roman Studies* 2025.

A fundamental reinterpretation of a major mid-Republican monumental complex, arguing that "history" was made and remade here through "an ongoing dialogue with the dead."

My amazing sister just got an article published in the Journal
of Roman Studies! Check it out if you want to hear about how the Scipios spoke, heard, felt, and even smelled their funerary rituals

Dear journalists:

The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.

Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.