Congress thinks my college is failing on antisemitism. My Jewish students disagree A new House report on campus antisemitism seems to have involved minimal engagement with actual Jews at actual universities

"Campus antisemitism is a genuine problem that has, since the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023, been manipulated by the American right as part of a sustained effort to delegitimize universities. Jewish students are not the constituency this campaign is designed to serve." forward.com/opinion/8197...

Amazing to have these records out there, accessible to all!

“‘I have yet to meet anyone—from the highest levels in the administration to the [youngest] students that I know—that is OK with this. Students are deeply, deeply upset about this,’ Bell said. ‘I’ve had members of the Turning Point USA chapter here at Texas Tech express complete dissatisfaction.’”

Congratulations to all the @iehs.bsky.social award winners! It was so much fun to celebrate everyone at the annual banquet last night. This is definitely my favorite part of my role as president of the organization!

i think folks might be unfamiliar with "the pharisees", so let's make it clear: he's saying the jews run the press, and that they are conspiring to undermine the military. it's not just antisemitism, it's indistinguishable from nazism.

A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured - The American Prospect ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.

He is the 17th person to die in ICE custody this year and the 55th person to die in immigration custody since Trump got back into the White House.

We will include Carbonell-Betancourt in our next weekly update of our database. May he and all who have died rest in peace.

1:As I have said, in law, there usually are a plausible universe of answers (some of which are potentially questionable), and then there are wrong answers. John Eastman’s answer was wrong and more importantly, it was violently anti-democratic and unconstitutional.

Mild take: disbarment is actually a very limited punishment for seeking to subvert the project of multiracial democracy through lies, subversion, and bad faith.

BU’s DOS and Office of Judicial Affairs were thus doing the work of tamping down protest well before the reelection of Donald Trump, the deployment of ICE against protesters and the broader entrenchment of an authoritarian program in the federal government. Unfortunately, those offices and other units of the University have continued to do so to the present moment, in a local reflection of Trumpian disregard for law and free speech, notwithstanding repeated efforts of faculty and affected students to engage with the University administration.

For everyone asking “why aren’t the students protesting Trump?” perhaps ask instead “What’d the universities teach students would happen if you protest?”

More from BU @aaup.org documenting pre-Trump censorship at Boston University.

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Fantastic.

Here Where We Live Is Our Country The Story of the Jewish Bund | Powell's Books The dramatic story of the Jewish Bund--a revolutionary movement from a vanished world--and their radical vision of solidarity in an age of division. "Molly Crabapple beckons readers through a portal to an irresistible, lost world, one bound together by passion, solidarity, and a burning hunger for justice."--Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author of No Logo and Doppelganger When artist Sam Rothbort created his "Memory Paintings" in the aftermath of the Holocaust, he was trying to resurrect the vanished world of his shtetl childhood. When his great-granddaughter, the award-winning artist and journalist Molly Crabapple, discovered his archives decades later, one painting stood out: a girl, her dress the same color as the sky above, hurling a rock through a cottage window. Itka the Bundist, Breaking Windows. That single painting sent Crabapple on a journey into the Jewish Labor Bund. Once the most influential Jewish political force in eastern Europe--and a player in some of the most important events of the twentieth century--they were secular, socialist, and uncompromisingly anti-Zionist. They fought for dignity and equality, not in an imagined homeland in Palestine, but "here, where we live." In the first popular history of the Bund, Crabapple recreates their extraordinary world through dramatic portraits of leaders and foot soldiers alike. The characters Crabapple brings to such vivid life--insurgent poets and anti-religious rebels, clandestine revolutionaries and lovers on the barricades--live deeply through this violent, volatile, and somehow hopeful period, their stories intimately bound up with the Russian Revolution and the Holocaust. Crabapple also grapples with the vital question raised by their rise and fall: What can we learn from a movement that, for all its toughness, imagination, and moral clarity, was largely destroyed? With intimate portraiture and sweeping history, Here Where We Live Is Our Country reanimates a band of idealists who broadened our global political imagination. As we once again contend with nationalism, repression, and the struggle for belonging, the Bund's remarkable story and message--that liberation, dignity, and solidarity must begin where we stand--reaches across time as a guide to our own urgent moment.

HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: THE STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND just made the USA Today bestseller list

Go buy your copy www.powells.com/book/here-wh...

Before we adjudicate this quarrel, we should take each man's provocation in turn.

babe wake up the editors of National Review are adjudicating a theological disagreement between JD Vance and the Pope

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

The Underserved Confidence of JD Vance on Catholicism and American Constitutional Law Professors on Immigration: is Yale to Blame?

In this essay I will...

Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination. Discrimination based on sex is expressly prohibited under Montana’s unique Nondiscrimination Clause––“[n]either the state nor any person, firm, corporation, or institution shall discriminate on account of . . . sex . . . .” Thus, Article II, Section 4 is unequivocal in its intolerance for discrimination based on sex. Because sex discrimination involves a fundamental right under Article II, the appropriate level of judicial review is strict scrutiny. Snetsinger, ¶ 17. ¶28 Being transgender is also a suspect class under the Equal Protection Clause of Article II, Section 4,––“[n]o person shall be denied equal protection of the law.”

MONTANA SUPREME COURT: “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” and is subject to strict scrutiny under the Montana Constitution.

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since.

But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

IMPORTANT: Under federal law, it's very hard, at times near-impossible, to sue federal law enforcement officers for civil rights violations. But legal theorists have said for decades that there is a possible way to sue under state law instead.

This is a VERY big test case.

That is... quite a graph.

Just confirming that Made by History will now be back up and running in the next few weeks with a new home and new partners at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Exciting! So, if you have pitches, now's the time to start sending them to madebyhistory@inquirer.com 🗃️ #MadebyHistory #HistoryMatters

Attn @evanbernick.bsky.social there’s a mention of the Flournoy article in here.

Trump v. Barbara Symposium: Rachel E. Rosenbloom, The Solicitor General Crossed a Line in Trump v. Barbara The symposium on the oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara continues below. More contributions are coming. Immprof Blog Symposium on Trump v. Barbara April 10, 2026  Rachel E. Rosenbloom The Solicitor...

Here's my contribution to a symposium on Trump v. Barbara over at the Immprof blog: immprof.com/symposium-on... TL;DR: the Solicitor General either committed some egregious errors or just plain lied to the Court, and either way, he has an ethical obligation to let the Court know.

All you fascists bound to lose.

Good list here of nonprofit orgs to help Palestinians. If you prefer to go the mutual aid route (more & faster money into the hands of ppl who need it) the Sameer Project is a reliable & transparent central hub for fundraising linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

To Get Ahead of ICE, New York Leaders Learn from Other States and Cities Immigration authorities haven’t yet descended onto New York in the numbers they have in other cities. Advocates want public officials to use this time to redouble protections.

“We’ve learned a lot in terms of, how has rapid response worked in other places, and what does that mean in terms of the role of the city?” says one New York City resident who is spearheading a series of audits of the city’s sanctuary policies.

Jan-15 45.4% Feb-15 52.4% Mar-15 51.0% Apr-15 49.8% May-15 48.0% Jun-15 47.6% Jul-15 49.5% Aug-15 54.8% Sep-15 53.1% Oct-15 52.1% Nov-15 52.8% Dec-15 53.3% Jan-16 57.2% Feb-16 58.3% Mar-16 56.7% Apr-16 54.2% May-16 55.3% Jun-16 51.9% Jul-16 56.9% Aug-16 56.6% Sep-16 50.3% Oct-16 56.2% Nov-16 55.6% Dec-16 55.1% Jan-17 56.3% Feb-17 59.4% Mar-17 60.3% Apr-17 59.4% May-17 59.9% Jun-17 61.7% Jul-17 65.9% Aug-17 64.2% Sep-17 63.0% Oct-17 63.5% Nov-17 62.3% Dec-17 63.7% Jan-18 62.0% Feb-18 64.5% Mar-18 64.5% Apr-18 61.8% May-18 64.6% Jun-18 66.9% Jul-18 68.6% Aug-18 67.6% Sep-18 68.0% Oct-18 68.5% Nov-18 66.5% Dec-18 67.7% Jan-19 74.1% Feb-19 68.1% Mar-19 69.8% Apr-19 68.4% May-19 65.1% Jun-19 66.0% Jul-19 65.7% Aug-19 68.3% Sep-19 68.5% Oct-19 69.5% Nov-19 67.7% Dec-19 67.0% Jan-20 69.5% Feb-20 70.7% Mar-20 69.3% Apr-20 61.0% May-20 63.7% Jun-20 66.3% Jul-20 59.7% Aug-20 55.7% Sep-20 63.6% Oct-20 63.0% Nov-20 64.9% Dec-20 65.4% Jan-21 62.9% Feb-21 56.7% Mar-21 56.4% Apr-21 58.7% May-21 61.4% Jun-21 55.3% Jul-21 43.7% Aug-21 45.8% Sep-21 47.2% Oct-21 49.3% Nov-21 44.4% Dec-21 44.4% Jan-22 46.7% Feb-22 51.7% Mar-22 49.7% Apr-22 43.8% May-22 41.2% Jun-22 45.8% Jul-22 52.7% Aug-22 55.5% Sep-22 54.0% Oct-22 52.7% Nov-22 50.6% Dec-22 46.8% Jan-23 47.1% Feb-23 49.8% Mar-23 47.8% Apr-23 49.7% May-23 45.8% Jun-23 45.6% Jul-23 45.2% Aug-23 43.4% Sep-23 42.9% Oct-23 44.2% Nov-23 45.5% Dec-23 46.5% Jan-24 47.9% Feb-24 46.4% Mar-24 47.5% Apr-24 49.3% May-24 50.8% Jun-24 50.8% Jul-24 52.1% Aug-24 56.6% Sep-24 59.2% Oct-24 59.1% Nov-24 62.0% Dec-24 60.3% Jan-25 64.1% Feb-25 71.2% Mar-25 73.0% Apr-25 75.1% May-25 75.4% Jun-25 72.0% Jul-25 73.9% Aug-25 74.8% Sep-25 78.3% Oct-25 78.8% Nov-25 78.2% Dec-25 84.4% Jan-26 90.5% Feb-26 94.7%

Hey, has anyone visited TRAC Immigration and looked up asylum denial rates in US immigration courts?

October 2000-January 2025: 56% of cases denied
February-November 2025: 75% denied
December 2025: 84%
January 2026: 91%
February 2026: 95%

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Scale Of Killing In Lebanon 'Horrific': UN Rights Chief The scale of the killing in Israeli strikes on Lebanon Wednesday is "horrific", the UN rights chief said, urging the international community to help end the unfolding "nightmare".

AFP: "The scale of the killing in Israeli strikes on Lebanon Wednesday is 'horrific', the UN rights chief said, urging the international community to help end the unfolding 'nightmare'."

I was thrilled to hear it referenced in the oral argument. Congrats!

Cops Arrested a Black Pastor Watering His Neighbor’s Flowers. The Alabama Supreme Court Is Fine With That The opinion in Jennings v. Smith transforms the state’s stop-and-identify law into a show-me-your-papers regime.

A Black pastor in Alabama has spent 4 years struggling to get justice after police arrested him for not producing an ID while he was watering his neighbor’s flowers

and the Alabama Supreme Court just put another obstacle in his path, saying the arrest was a-okay

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Always happy to answer good faith questions!