Or you might call them "camps" where people are to be "concentrated" until they are deported.
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If the Court ends up running for cover as this whole thing falls apart, DO NOT FORGET.

While limited in the ways @stevevladeck.bsky.social notes, that the Court even imposes this roadblock (speed bump?) is more than it has been doing. Consistent with the general increase in GOP anxiety in recent weeks.

“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller)

more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living”

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Some end-of-year reflections from me on the State of Things newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/surviving-...

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One thing I find very frustrating is how often people ignore years of detailed writing on reform strategies for the here and now by saying “Excuse me, didn’t you say we need to abandon the Constitution?” (1/7)

Hi all: reupping my perennial call for indexing and editing clients for Spring / Summer 2026. It might be my last year doing this work, so get it while it's hot! Email at sosment@uchicago.edu for rate and availability. Feel free to share!

Thoughtful response by @stevevladeck.bsky.social One observation, and potentially a basis of progressive consensus, is that the vision offered by me and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social and others is not one of a world in which there are “no checks” on presidential administrations. (1/6)

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

NEW: The FBI has launched "domestic terrorism" investigations into anti-ICE activity across the US. Some cases are under Trump's NSPM-7 order to crackdown on "anti-fascism" and "anti-Americanism."

Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org + shared w/ Guardian include FBI map of cases in 30+ states:

Translation for the non-geeks: Courts are making stuff up to let Trump's Admin avoid accountability for violating the law.

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

I read the cited poll slightly differently, but I think the better characterization probably is that popular support has collapsed *since Dobbs*, so helpful correction.

Sam and Ryan are right. But I'd go further. It's not just the supreme court that must be replaced. We must replace the entire notion of a democratic order where courts have the final word on the meaning of the constitution. 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...

Agree, but I also think it's reasonable that appeals to the law are often heard as calls to the manager given the recent orientation of Democratic politics. The burden on all of us (which Jamal understands) is to explain simultaneously how to remake our institutions so that law actually matters.