I talked to @polphilpod.bsky.social about reactionary centrism as a demand to embrace some magic amount of intolerance in order to win—and why that's dangerous.

Wall St. is either very gullible, or else desperate for Trump to succeed in destroying constitutional democracy. Or both.

He’s running.

Go Ephs!

Might be the only way to ride this one out, frankly.

Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

Usually I just say, “it is the teaching of our ancestors, whereof the mind of man runneth not to the contrary” and provide a “see generally” cite to Coke’s institutes

Rümeysa Öztürk. Text on the card reads: “Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey”

Breaking news: Tufts University graduate Rümeysa Öztürk, who was arrested by masked immigration agents last year, has returned to her home country of Turkey, citing the "state-imposed violence and hostility" she said she experienced in the United States. trib.al/7GKyEiz

Twitter: Where we stick to the merits.

I need to stop messing around (dropping banger after banger on Bluesky) and write this book.

“There is a long history and tradition in Anglo-American law of creating state religions in defiance of woke popery.”

New draft posted to SSRN by John Eastman, Kurt Lash, Randy Barnett, and Ilan Wurman:

Why the Establishment Clause Does Not Bar the President from Establishing a Church of America in Defiance of Woke Popery.

Now let me get back to my spurious arguments for eliminating birthright citizenship.

A great way to restore trust in universities would be to never host any event like this.

NPR Receives $113 Million From 2 Gifts

Great news. NPR is such a rare bright spot these days

Will be interesting to see if tipping rates decline now that tips aren’t taxed. Economists, go regress so some stuff or something

"You're just voluntarily complying with this whimsical cosplay" -- holy shit, Tim Kaine is *demolishing* Russ Vought

If you get an email from me inviting you to a “Joyful Gathering,” it’s phishing.

The Yale report on trust in higher education has some good recommendations for reforms in many areas that I hope Yale and other schools implement.

But its diagnosis is oddly silent about what I suspect is the most important force driving the decline in trust in higher education: political attack.

An attack from which Yale seems to be largely immune.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas blasts progressivism as threat to America He said that the values enshrined in the 1776 Declaration of Independence have “fallen out of favor” among Americans.

This speech mainly demonstrates, once again, how immersed Thomas is in the world of right-wing propaganda. This stuff is a little dated though. It’s the last generation of Claremont and Hillsdale ideological branding, not the cutting edge fascist ideologies of the present

Finally reading the Rao opinion issuing a mandamus order blocking Boasberg's contempt proceedings. (opinions here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... )

It drips w contempt (no pun intended) for Judge Boasberg, and indeed for any meaningful efforts to hold the Trump admin. accountable 1/x

Credit where due, this is a great headline

In this respect liberalism is fundamentally sound

The thing about expanding “religion in public life,” which the right has long pined for, is that politics gets channeled through theological debates that don’t have any claim on the reasoning of non-believers. As much as I like Pope Leo, it doesn’t matter to me what Catholic teaching says.

Vermeule to Vance pipeline strikes again.

AI must be destroyed except for meme generation purposes

Congrats Rick!!!