“So much of Silicon Valley has reached the conclusion that there is money to be made from American authoritarianism. Palantir reached that conclusion first, and its leaders don’t want anyone to forget it.”
It would be nice if, at a moment when academia is under brutal assault from outside forces that are opposed to the very core of its mission, academics weren't so obsessed with self-flagellation.
Rick Scott, who works for the government, says all government does is mess up your life.
“The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.”
www.cnbc.com/2026/04/08/s...
“Academic freedom protects scholars’ right to challenge the orthodoxy; it doesn’t insulate them from charges of bad faith in doing so. But the problem here is one of both supply and demand.”
An excellent piece by @stevevladeck.bsky.social.
www.stevevladeck.com/p/219-drunks...
Foreign students *subsidize* domestic students. Without them college will be *more* expensive and there will be *fewer* spots.
“…our nation (and the globe) faces increasingly grave danger by allowing this man to continue to control the levers of America’s awesome power…the responsibility resides not just with Republicans but with every member of Congress…to remove Trump from power.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...
👇🎯 Some of us were, but no one was listening & the rest didn't want to hear it. Unprecedented lawless authoritarianism & violations of the Constitution, on a level so staggering in scope & scale that we still haven't even begun to admit it as a country.
#OTD in 1944, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Smith v. Allwright, ending white primaries that excluded Black voters. It was a key step against voter suppression, but barriers to the ballot persist.
#TheMarchContinues
Pam Bondi is gone yet RFK Jr. remains.
“Judge Amit Mehta ruled that evidence produced so far in the litigation brought by police officers and Democratic lawmakers indicated that Trump’s speech at the Ellipse that day was political in nature and not subject to the immunity the Supreme Court has found for a president’s official acts.”
This suggests to me that Trump is aware that he is likely to lose, and he thinks that showing up to glower at the justices –—Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett especially — may somehow help his cause. Particularly after the tariff ruling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
As we prepare for oral argument in birthright citizenship case, remember every rationale for Trump's position also requires denial of citizenship for many freed slaves, thus undermining main purpose of Citizenship Clause. See my @lawfaremedia.org article: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/slav...
No April Fool's joke will outdo the ridiculousness of the federal government's arguments on birthright citizenship - which they'll air in about an hour at SCOTUS.
An exemplar of why there must be a wall between church and state. One’s religious beliefs cannot trump another’s.
“.. tariffs are impacting more than just manufacturing .. blue-collar job loss has been notable across sectors compared to trend growth.” 👀
@mtkonczal.bsky.social
Highlighted section of the Copilot ToS which says "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"
www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this
Completely agree. The idea that we need to spend more time engaging with non-humans right now strikes me as really failing to grasp the larger socio-cultural moment.
We’re at the Supreme Court today challenging President Trump’s attempt to dismantle birthright citizenship and upend the lives of hundreds of thousands of American-born children.
We have the 14th Amendment, Supreme Court precedent, and American values on our side.
We’re ready.
One of the lessons from Vietnam is that when they start bombarding you with numbers like these -- ordinance used, targets struck, so many killed and wounded -- there's more we're not being told.
Most voucher applicants are already in private school, according to new Comptroller data abc13.com/post/most-... #SchoolVoucherScam
The only ruling from #SCOTUS today is in Chiles v. Salazar.
For an 8-1 majority (with only Justice Jackson dissenting), Justice Gorsuch holds that the lower courts failed to apply sufficiently rigorous scrutiny to a First Amendment challenge to Colorado's ban on conversion therapy, and remands:
Ugh; it's Chiles. Gorsuch writes the majority opinion concluding CO's conversion therapy ban (really a restriction on licensing therapists) is unconstitutional when applied to a therapist who wants to do conversion talk therapy
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Me, but econ
I just like hanging out in rooms where the median person's default is to believe racism is real and has material effects
Is it a good sign or a bad sign for a president when a popular sports figure is denouncing your immigration policies on a widely watched March Madness broadcast?
GOP lawmakers feel. And they know their feelings never lie. It's just too bad their feelings are racist, classist, paternalistic feelies.
