Rep. Nanette Barragán to RFK Jr. after he refuses to talk about budget cuts due to pending litigation:
"I'm really disappointed that you're here to testify about the budget yet you will not talk about this issue. This is an elimination of Title X funding which is directly to birth control pills."
Absolutely brilliant!
It’s not at all clear to me that he’s idiotic enough to think this was a good marketing opportunity. The man just has a huge ego, is a narcissist, and just couldn’t back down once he posted the meme.
Pope Leo XIV condemns the Trump administration in new speech:
"Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth."
Perfect!
I had them checking my ID and waving me through security at JFK this past Monday. I had the same impression – no masks, all politeness and smiles, telling us to have a good day as they waved us through. The normalization and persuasive sale of Trump‘s paramilitary.
As Garrett Graff has pointed out, these consultants lack any well developed theory of how the public gains information about candidates. Very few folks listen directly and in detail to the candidates themselves speaking.
"the decline in [academic freedom in] the United States has been more rapid and pronounced, particularly in the last year. It has deteriorated by 50% from 2015 to 2025 and is now evaluated as moderate autonomy by country experts" academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...
English 125!
"The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history," one of the world's top democracy researchers says in a new report. I wrote about it here for CNN: www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/m...
The US is no longer a liberal democracy, according to the top global watchdog on freedom and democracy. We're falling fast, and are now classed the same as Guatemala, Colombia, and Peru
www.v-dem.net/documents/75...
In almost 38 years as a lawyer, I've never seen anything like this. The Trump administration has, in the span of a year, entirely eviscerated the credibility of federal prosecutors.
Judge Orders Prosecutors to Testify www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is terrific! Thank you!
For Berger to be considered a “RINO,” you need to adopt a ridiculously broad meaning of the term.
The same coauthors and I wrote a piece saying pretty much this in more academic language, which came out in Michigan Law Review awhile back. It's here: repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol123/i...
@maryrziegler.bsky.social, @naomicahn.bsky.social
and I just wrote TWO different columns on parental rights. The Slate piece covers SCOTUS's recent shadow docket opinion,
slate.com/news-and-pol..., and this Brennan Ctr column is on TX SCOTUS and child abuse. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...
NEW: Texas amended its constitution in 2025 to establish parents' fundamental right to make decisions about a child’s upbringing. Texas justices recently suggested this could invalidate state child abuse laws. Here's what to know about the oral argument. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...
Ran out of characters, but this excellent analysis came from @maryrziegler.bsky.social @naomicahn.bsky.social & @maxineeichner.bsky.social. Check it out! statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...
Setting aside the content, this is too gramatically correct for Trump to have written himself.
Should have spent the entire 40k on the makeup room
My wife has a lot of family in Poland, and one of her cousins was asking how the US can possibly afford this. The answer is, our public infrastructure and services suck colossally
Happy to share my latest with @naomicahn.bsky.social and @maxineeichner.bsky.social on Mahmoud, forthcoming in the Duke Law Journal and now on SSRN:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Brutal. Once again proves the rule that no smart person engages in an interview with Chotiner.
Another contrast—this time, between this case and United States v. Skrmetti, 605 U. S. 495 (2025)—is also striking. In Skrmetti, several parents challenged Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The suit raised claims grounded in both equal protection and substantive due process. As to the latter, the parents in Skrmetti, similarly to the parents here, asserted a right “to make decisions concerning medical care for their minor children.” Pet. for Cert., O. T. 2023, No. 23–466, p. 34; see id., at 18 (invoking a “right of parents with respect to the care, custody, and control of their children, including in decisions about medical care”). And in support of that right, the Skrmetti parents relied on the same precedents the Court does today: Parham, 442 U. S. 584, and Pierce, 268 U. S. 510. See Pet. for Cert., No. 23–466, at 34–36; ante, at 5–6. But the Court, when deciding to grant certiorari in Skrmetti, limited its review to the equal protection issue: It would not even hear the parents out on their substantive due process claim.
This footnote in the Kagan dissent specifically called out how they avoided this sdp claim in the Skrmetti case but then decided it here in an emergency shadow docket posture here. It's all calvinball where the principal is whatever hurts trans people.
A disturbing and hypocritical ruling on so many levels. Especially the due process holding.
The court JUST said there’s no deeply rooted right for women to control their own bodies. But there is a deeply rooted right for parents to know if their kids question their gender at school? Come on.
Trump calls fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers”.
And then there’s Trump.
John Kelly confirmed that President Trump called fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers”
War is not a morality play.
The relevant question isn’t: Are the targets bad people who have done bad things?
The relevant question is: Will going to war make things better, achieving something that’s worth the death and suffering it causes?
Assuming that this administration‘s evil exceeds its stupidity is not always a safe bet.
