This caption is pretty telling. “More than 100 people” - but this movement gets a huge megaphone in the NYT?!?

All the President's Men (1976) - Ending Scene YouTube video by White Chaddar

Old: “Go on home, get a nice hot bath. Rest up...Then get your asses back in gear. Nothing's riding on this except the, uh, first amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press, and maybe the future of the country.”

New: “Go on home…Nothing’s riding on this.”

RIP WaPo

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I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Thank you so much!!!

“Likely the most significant public response that the University of Minnesota has taken to oppose President Donald Trump’s actions since he was inaugurated this year.”

Motion 1: Resolution to Establish a Mutual Defense Compact for the Universities of the Big Ten Academic Alliance in Defense of Academic Freedom, Institutional Integrity, and the Research Enterprise Option Votes Yes 2761 (92.8%) No 214 (7.2%)

Just announced: University of Michigan Faculty Senate resoundingly votes to support Big Ten academic mutual defense compact. 92.8% of over 3,000 votes.

The gates of Harvard University. The text reads: "Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration's Demands." Photo by Sophie Park for The New York Times.

“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, said about President Trump's demands. nyti.ms/4jzSS9W

Looking forward to this next week —

A LETTER TO HARVARD LAW SCHOOL STUDENTS March 29, 2025 To our students: We are privileged to teach and learn the law with you. We write to you today—in our individual capacities-because we believe that American legal precepts and the institutions designed to uphold them are being severely tested, and many of you have expressed to us your concerns and fears about the present moment. Each of us brings different, sometimes irreconcilable, perspectives to what the law is and should be. Diverse viewpoints are a credit to our school. But we share, and take seriously, a commitment to the rule of law: for people to be equal before it, and for its administration to be impartial. That commitment is foundational to the whole legal profession, and to the special role that lawyers play in our society. As the Model Rules of Professional Conduct provide: "A lawyer is ... an officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice." The rule of law is imperiled when government leaders: • single out lawyers and law firms for retribution based on their lawful and ethical representation of clients disfavored by the government, undermining the Sixth Amendment; • threaten law firms and legal clinics for their lawyers' pro bono work or prior government service; • relent on those arbitrary threats based on public acts of submission and outlays of funds for favored causes; and • punish people for lawfully speaking out on matters of public concern. While reasonable people can disagree about the characterization of particular incidents, we are all acutely concerned that severe challenges to the rule of law are taking place, and we strongly condemn any effort to undermine the basic norms we have described. On our own campus and at many other universities, international students have reported fear of imprisonment or deportation for lawful speech and political activism. Whatever we might each think about particular conduct under particular facts,…

From 91 professors at Harvard Law School: a letter to our students.

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Opinion | America’s Most Powerful Law Firms Won’t Stand Up to Trump Bowing to Trump won’t protect their businesses and clients.

Great piece by @debpearlstein.bsky.social - & the latest EO targeting Jenner & Block should convince any wavering firms that commitment to the rule of law & interest in self-preservation run in the same direction here - they have to challenge these orders

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...

Dog content is the best content

Prof. Matt Bodie: “There are some people who are concerned that the Trump administration will take its time to fill those three positions, or not fill them at all, so it renders the agency toothless at some level.”

Prof. @matthewtbodie.bsky.social, Robins Kaplan Professor of Law, was quoted in CBS News Moneywatch regarding President Trump’s termination of National Labor Relations Board Member Gwynne Wilcox prior to the expiration of her term.
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