In which Harvard’s Enos & Levitsky call on Harvard to lead the way, coordinating with other universities in fight for academic freedom. Our civil institutions will need to learn that power is harnessed through coordination. Protecting oneself will never be enough.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

I think there are still shared norms we can appeal to when we talk to the marginal MAGA voter. But there really are no shared norms left with the core of the movement.

Thanks, New Yorker

it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin

This is a corrupt decision.

I don’t mean that I am speculating about the motives behind the decision. That’s alway slippery.

The decision itself, taken without explanation, is a corrupt action.

It overturns the plain statutory text, contrary to Federal courts rulings, without explanation.

The legitimacy of the power of courts depends on their giving of legal reasons for their decisions. Lacking any democratic authorization, the absence of reasons means it's naked power being asserted, which relieves us of any obligation to obey. We may comply for prudence's sake, but we don't have to

NEW: By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to cancel Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan migrants.

KBJ, dissenting, says she "cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference" while "lives hang in the balance."
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The lawsuit our firm, along with our incredible litigation partners, filed challenging the $100k H1B fee has been filed:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

What good are negotiations over budgets when Trump just ignores the agreements? Vought saying he will cancel another $8 billion in federal spending in blue states.

I work with Veterans. If I told them that they "killed people and broke things for a living" they would (rightfully) tell me to go to hell.

Those that have had to kill someone in the line of duty most often view it with sadness, regret, and one of the worst experiences of their lives.

5-8, 150 lb grad student. Love it.

"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!"

Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!

Money taken from the breath of our sick children so that the upper class (me!) gets a top tax rate way below what it was in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s.

Yet somehow Russ Vought (Wheaton) thinks this puts him on the good side of “spiritual warfare.” He should pray every day that there is no God.

I don’t blame him for speaking that way in that context. At all.

BUT how INSANE that we have to be polite and gentle to those on the “side of the aisle” that chooses to make it difficult to fund pediatric cancer research. Our private donations should be supplementing the gov’t, not replacing it.

He talked about the importance of the cancer research, and how challenging it is to stay funded in the current environment. We knew what he meant.

He then said that there were people there from “both sides of the aisle” but that we all want to stop this disease. True and well-said.

Was at a fundraiser for a particularly difficult and tragic form of pediatric cancer last weekend.

One of the speakers was a doctor whose practice involved treating these children and also doing research. He was introduced by the mother of a child patient of his. A girl we lost to the disease.

Global warming caused by humans is an observed fact. Yes, science still needs to learn more, but it's no more in overall doubt than the theory of gravity. And it's bad. Willful ignorance, enforced by those who choose to deny science, is an existential threat to our civilization.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

I’m angry and tired of this idea that just because someone puts on the decorations of a faith that they are taken as pious and devout representatives of that faith.

I think it’s insulting to believers who actually try and follow the precepts of generosity, kindness, meekness, and mercy laid out.

We just totally normalized & moved on from this, the greatest constitutional crime in 🇺🇸 history. Elon & a bunch of techbro fake government employees with no security clearances going in & dismantling large swathes of the government Congress created. They need to go to jail, some, like Elon, forever.

I don’t as for much but surely we can get the Skubal hike into right field with the “Oh No! Disaster!” audio?