"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

Here’s the CBS News report about ICE making bogus 911 calls and filing false police reports in Chicago.

ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social

At what point does a governor call up their National Guard to oppose the deployment of an out-of-state National Guard?

“In reality, the “compact” is a maximalist document, demanding a near-complete surrender of core academic freedoms of the university. “

UVA is one of 9 schools being targeted with a “compact for academic excellence” in exchange for federal funds. They are being told to limit the political expression of their staff and students, open their finances to the Trump administration, limit foreign students from attending, and more.

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

This is the sort of thing where Dems on higher education committees should be saying things like they view this as illegal, and expect they will withdraw funds from schools who go along with Trump when they regain power.

I’m very pleased to have a chapter on “Wilde in Africa and the Caribbean” in the newly published Oxford Handbook of Oscar Wilde, ed. Kate Hext and Alex Murray. Lots of great stuff here, can’t wait to dig in.

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Donate!

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again.

These two gotta go.

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

Awesome, looking forward to this.

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

“According to our sources faculty have been told that if they make any statement implying that there are more than two sexes or genders (male and female) they will be fired.”

bit.ly/3IxZOqW Fellowship: Curran Fellowships (Application deadline: 10/15/25)

So Trump gets DOJ to drop an obvious bribery case against Tom Homan, then fires the US Attorney who found insufficient evidence to prosecute Letitia James, then threatens to fire Pam Bondi and replace her with dunce Lindsey Halligan unless she immediately indicts his enemies.

Blatant corruption.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Democrats need to start threatening the things they will do to Republicans once they retake power

What’s at stake here is free speech.

Across the board, we’ve seen the Trump administration use the power of government to go after anybody who’s criticized them — and in this case, Jimmy Kimmel.

We need to all stand up and speak out.

Selective targeting of political opposition isn't something you can layer on top while otherwise still doing normal law enforcement. Nothing then is credible, the taint is inescapable. The government can't credibly represent any honest interest in enforcing the law. It destroys its own legitimacy.

My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.

Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentator’s purposes.