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Jonathan Feingold
@jpygold.bsky.social
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law professor, critical race theory, co-host #RaceClass Podcast, critical (legal) collective

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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · Feb 21
We urge university leaders to respond confidently, with law and moral principle on your side, and not to sacrifice essential and legally defensible DEI initiatives that help universities fulfill their most basic mission to pursue truth and knowledge for the common good.

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jpygold.bsky.social
IOW the winning Dem ticket is Liz Cheney and Mark Cuban.
gelliottmorris.com G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 21d
this is just a wild thing to tweet a week after democrats won a statewide in Georgia by 20 points. completely divorced from the current electoral environment
December 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Death of 21-year-old raises alarm as rights groups document systematic torture in detention facilities.
Young Palestinian dies in Israeli custody, dozens taken in West Bank raids
Death of 21-year-old raises alarm as rights groups document systematic torture in detention facilities.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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nytimes.com
Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y
December 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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texasaaup.bsky.social
Yesterday, faculty from across the State testified at a “people’s hearing” of the Texas House Democratic Caucus Interim Special Committee on Free Speech. Several AAUP leaders and members from across the state testified about the impact of censorship in higher ed. 👏👏

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Texas Faculty Speak Out on Campus Free Speech
CONTACT:  Brian L. Evans, PhD, President of the Texas Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), affiliated with the Texas American Federation of Teachers (AFT), aaup.texa...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
jpygold.bsky.social
This administration is race obsessed.

And btw I’m still waiting for lawsuits that foreground the racism. When you eliminate disparate impact bc you want to harm black communities the complaint writes itself.

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Justice Dept. kills long-time tool used to prove racial discrimination
The decades-old provision of civil rights law allows statistical disparities to be used as proof of racial discrimination.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
Important: Maryland senate leader refuses to redistrict to counter Trump/GOP, but Rep Jamie Raskin says if Indiana GOPers move, MD must act:

"There’s nothing ethical or moral about unilaterally disarming before authoritarians in a game they’ve created."

On the pod:

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December 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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jeffjarvis.bsky.social
It is all about race.
Justice Dept. kills long-time tool used to prove racial discrimination www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Justice Dept. kills long-time tool used to prove racial discrimination
The decades-old provision of civil rights law allows statistical disparities to be used as proof of racial discrimination.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Welcome to America, land of xenophobia and chilled speech.
U.S. plans to ask visitors to disclose 5 years of social media history www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
U.S. plans to ask visitors to disclose 5 years of social media history
The proposal would affect travelers from countries on the visa waiver program, including Australia, Britain, France, Germany, Israel, Japan and South Korea.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
jpygold.bsky.social
For grifters like Trump, racism has always been a tool to oppress and exploit his own very white base. This nugget from @juddlegum.bsky.social.

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The impact will be most severe in large Republican-leaning states that have not expanded Medicaid, including Florida and Texas, because they rely on the Obamacare marketplace to cover many of their low-income residents. Those states will see their uncompensated care costs rise by as much as 25%.
December 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
jpygold.bsky.social
for anyone looking for background on DOJ's "final rule" (take that with grain of salt) eliminating disparate impact, here's my essay annotating the racism that drips from Trump's assault on disparate impact.

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Abstract President Trump's anti-Black racism and authoritarian impulses are transparent. But in ways that remain underappreciated, elements of the anti-Black logic that animates Trump’s assault on civil rights also travels through liberal scholarship, liberal organizations, and many individuals who identify with the political Left. This includes decades of acquiescence to conservative frames that portray remedial race-conscious interventions as “racial preferences” that harm innocent “victims.” Even today, some of Trump’s harshest critics discursively equate traditional affirmative action with the President’s nepotistic and race- and gender-inflected favoritism for billionaires, lackeys, and South Africa’s white “refugees.” The remainder of this essay explores the logic that binds liberal affirmative action discourse with the Trump Administration’s anti-democratic agenda. To surface these links, I annotate an April 2025 executive order that demeans disparate impact theories of liability and directs federal agencies to eliminate its use. I then close by turning to a May 2025 memorandum announcing a new Department of Justice initiative to “combat antisemitism.” Today, the Justice Department issued a final rule updating its regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights of 1964. This rule ensures that our nation’s federal civil rights laws are firmly grounded in the principle of equal treatment under the law by eliminating disparate-impact liability from its Title VI regulations. “For decades, the Justice Department has used disparate-impact liability to undermine the constitutional principle that all Americans must be treated equally under the law,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “No longer. This Department of Justice is eliminating its regulations that for far too long required recipients of federal funding to make decisions based on race.”
December 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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victorerikray.bsky.social
This makes facially neutral policies--like poll taxes and literacy tests--that we know were adopted for discriminatory purposes legal. Organizations can now simply claim there was no discriminatory intent regardless of outcome. It's unconstrained institutionalized racism.
December 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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concernedjfaculty.bsky.social
Northwestern University law profs argue that NU's "deal" with the Trump admin violates the First Amendment and federal antidiscrimination law.

Moreover, the grant freeze Trump imposed on NU was unlawful and should have been challenged in court.

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Updates
2025.12.08 | Northwestern Law Professors Detail Legal Violations in Northwestern/Trump “Deal” For Immediate Release December 8, 2025 Download this document as a PDF here Northwestern Pritzker School...
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December 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said
Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
December 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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attackerman.bsky.social
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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cwebbonline.com
Not only is ICE snatching hard working people who are trying to earn a living, they’re taking their money too?

A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
December 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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leahgreenberg.bsky.social
Indivisibles of MD hard at work on redistricting 👇
December 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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jamalgreene.bsky.social
Sauer saying something is unconstitutional because it "would be unconstitutional under Justice Scalia's dissent" is a remarkably cogent statement of the Roberts Court's approach to precedent.
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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lpeblog.bsky.social
Here's a link to join as a member! (We accidentally had the conference registration link there in the post!)

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ALPE Membership
Membership dues for the Association of Law and Political Economy. At this point, we do not yet have a process for accepting student membership, but we're working on it. Stay tuned for details soon on...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
jpygold.bsky.social
"If we believe our own analysis that fascism is either here or around the corner, then this routing is the precondition for no more elections."

@drcbs.bsky.social joined #RaceClass to talk du bois, black studies & Black Scare/Red Scare in the age of Trump.

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Ep. 48 | Dr. CBS on Black Scare/Red Scare in the Age of Trump
Professor Charisse Burden-Stelly, aka Dr. CBS, joins #RaceClass for a wide ranging conversation about the election of Zohran Mamdani, the legacy of Black Studies, resistance in the age of Trump, and h
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December 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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darrigomelanie.bsky.social
Trump committed mortgage fraud, according to Trump.

Somehow I doubt his DOJ will go after him the way he instructed his DOJ to go after his political enemies over this.

Every Republican accusation is a confession.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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profmsinha.bsky.social
So this is what I did over the weekend, an interview on the Trump regime’s idiotic plan to make the national parks free on his birthday but cancel it for MLK Day with ABC News. The Pastor was far more eloquent than me but I could not help myself with the Nobel dig. abcnews.go.com/US/video/jun...
Video Juneteenth and MLK Day removed as free-fee days at national parks
The National Park Service will offer free admission on President Donald Trump's birthday but is eliminating it for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth.
abcnews.go.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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motherjones.com
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro takes flack for ditching a regional carbon pact [via @grist.org]
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro takes flack for ditching a regional carbon pact
He pulled out in a compromise to get a budget passed. Critics say he “got rolled.”
www.motherjones.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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ryanenos.bsky.social
The thing about these margins is that the youngest voters are more Trumpy than those in previous generations but it's always only been a few percentage points. It was the media narrative that made it a realignment.
December 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
There is a difference between inheritance and action. I cannot help who my ancestors are, but I can make my own choices. That so many Americans chose to place in power a man who holds people in contempt on the basis of race, religion, and national origin; that so much of the mainstream media conveys this bigotry through tired, obfuscating euphemisms; that there is so low a political price for the president’s racism that he and those around him see little risk in its expression—well, that does say something about America, and Americans. Immigration isn’t breaking our society. That’s a job Americans can do on their own.
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM