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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d

Most American Jews are antisemitic, according to right wing gentiles who are constantly employing anti semitic dogwhistles www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds
Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 5d

SCOTUS emergency rulings for Trump administration: Never stop never stopping.

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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 5d

I honestly don’t understand why there isn’t a staffer whose job is to propose a statutory fix for every possible SCOTUS decision each term.

Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 5d

There’s a long list of statutory reforms that Dems failed pursue last time around (including fixing Bivens and voting rights) but we should make sure that we add amending the CRSA to eliminate channeling, clarifying jurisdiction over grants, and reforming the ICA the queue.

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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 5d

There’s a long list of statutory reforms that Dems failed pursue last time around (including fixing Bivens and voting rights) but we should make sure that we add amending the CRSA to eliminate channeling, clarifying jurisdiction over grants, and reforming the ICA the queue.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7d

Last night, the ADL took down its "Glossary of antisemitism" which included an entry for the term "globalist," describing it as a far-right codeword for Jews.

Hours later, the official DHS account authors a post with a common far-right meme, saying that "globalists" will be denied entry to the US.

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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 7d

I really regret learning about it.

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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 7d

Okay now I know about gigachad

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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 7d

What’s the meme associated with?

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 7d

For the sins we have committed — by commission and omission, both knowingly and unknowingly — we seek to make t’shuvah.

May it be an easy fast for those observing.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d

At the end of the day, defending institutions with liberal values (like higher Ed) is a always a better better bet than aligning yourself with authoritarians

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 7d

Posting this three hours before the start of Yom Kippur is quite a choice

FBI Director Kash Patel & @
@FBIDirectorKash
X.com
James Comey wrote "love letters" to the ADL and embedded FBI agents with them - a group that ran disgraceful ops spying on Americans.
That era is OVER. This FBI won't partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs.
FBI
Patel cuts ties Comey's FBI
made with ADL as organization faces backlash for TPUSA
criticism
That era is finished. This FBI formally rejects Comey's policies and any partnership with the ADL, Patel said
By Rachel Wolf • Fox News
3:32 PM • 10/1/25 • 758K Views

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 7d

So at the same time the Trump regime claims it's fighting antisemitism (which was always a lie) it's now saying it will deny citizenship (or visas?) to "globalists" which is mostly used in their crowd as a barely coded euphemism for "Jews"

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 7d

DHS appears to suggest that it will deny citizenship to "globalists"

Homeland Security
@DHSgov
"Communist?"
DENIED.
"Terrorist?"
DENIED.
"Globalist?"
DENIED.

Above a meme of a bearded smiling guy, in this case wearing a USCIS hat

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 7d

Last I looked, TCU is a private religious institution that government should not be investigating for their programming decisions. Unless Texas adopts a law requiring First Amendment principles at higher educational institutions or provides conditional funding to TCU, the TXAG is abusing his office.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 7d

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8d

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…

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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 8d

Kavanaugh’s reliance on Lyons is not aging well.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8d

WOW. Remember this May video of a US citizen wrestled to the ground by ICE agents and detained for an hour despite having a valid REAL ID?

It gets worse. Two weeks later, ICE did it AGAIN — handcuffed him and detained him for 20 minutes despite his REAL ID. Now the Institute for Justice is suing.

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Jack Metzler (cleaned up) @scotusplaces.bsky.social · 13d

OMG game changer! I just discovered the "citations" section of Westlaw's preferences. No more parallel citations to L.Ed and S.Ct.! You can also specify italics instead of underlining and add quotation marks before and after selected text you want to quote.

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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 16d

Will the same Justices who relied on Sam Bray’s work to nix nationwide injunctions listen to him on Humphrey’s Executor?

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Deliver...

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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 16d

“Get in, loser. We’re overruling Humphrey’s Executor.”

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 16d

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16d

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 16d

NEW: The Supreme Court freezes a lower court order reinstating FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, whom Trump illegally fired, by a 6–3 vote. So Slaughter remains terminated.

SCOTUS also schedules arguments to decide whether to overrule Humphrey's Executor. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

No. 25A264 (25-332)

DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES, ET AL. v. REBECCA KELLY SLAUGHTER,

ET AL.

ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[September 22, 2025]

The application for stay presented to THE CHIEF JUSTICE
and by him referred to the Court is granted. The July 17,

2025 order of the United States District Court for the Dis-
trict of Columbia, No. 25–cv–909, ECF Doc. 52, is stayed.

The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of cer-
tiorari before judgment, and the petition is granted. The

parties are directed to brief and argue the following ques-
tions: (1) Whether the statutory removal protections for

members of the Federal Trade Commission violate the sep-
aration of powers and, if so, whether Humphrey’s Executor

v. United States, 295 U. S. 602 (1935), should be overruled.
(2) Whether a federal court may prevent a person’s removal
from public office, either through relief at equity or at law.
The Clerk is directed to establish a briefing schedule that

will allow the case to be argued in the December 2025 ar-
gument session. The stay shall terminate upon the sending

down of the judgment of this Court.

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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 16d

En banc second circuit denies rehearing en banc in Öztürk and Mahdawi.
ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...

ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov

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ACLU @aclu.org · 16d

Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation.

More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.

We the people must never accept government threats to our freedom of speech. Efforts by leaders to pressure artists, journalists, and companies with retaliation for their speech strike at the heart of what it means to live in a free country.

Last week, Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after the government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for freedom of speech in our nation. In an attempt to silence its critics, our government has resorted to threatening the livelihoods of journalists, talk show hosts, artists, creatives, and entertainers across the board. This runs counter to the values our nation was built upon, and our Constitution guarantees.

We know this moment is bigger than us and our industry. Teachers, government employees, law firms, researchers, universities, students and so many more are also facing direct attacks on their freedom of expression.

Regardless of our political affiliation, or whether we engage in politics or not, we all love our country. We also share the belief that our voices should never be silenced by those in power – because if it happens to one of us, it happens to all of us.

This is the moment to defend free speech across our nation. We encourage all Americans to join us, along with the ACLU, in the fight to defend and preserve our constitutionally protected rights.

A graphic listing the names of the more than 400 signers of the ACLU's letter condemning the federal government's retaliation against Jimmy Kimmel. For the full list of signatories, visit aclu.org/kimmel-letter-bk

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 17d

This piece by Robert Post is excellent. I especially like that he traces the Trump Administration's authoritarian trampling on the First Amendment to, in part, the Roberts Court's extreme unitary executive theory. verfassungsblog.de/turn-against...

Falling Far and Fast

verfassungsblog.de

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 18d

This email should be in the syllabus for the presidential immunity decision.

Just doing the public’s work, like the framers intended.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18d

Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 19d

Trump poised to fire US attorney for resisting effort to charge NY AG Letitia James: Sources abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poi...

Trump poised to fire US attorney for resisting effort to charge NY AG Letitia James: Sources

President Trump is expected to fire the U.S. attorney in Eastern Virginia after he was unable to find evidence of mortgage fraud against NY AG Letitia James, sources say.

abcnews.go.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20d

Hate kids? Good news!

CNN @cnn.com · 20d

JUST IN: Vaccine advisers to the CDC have voted to recommended against using the combined measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox vaccine for children under 4. https://cnn.it/3K73pNn

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