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Ronit Stahl @ronitstahl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bonkers. You can’t have the big “systems thinking” Huang says he wants without “intellectual dexterity.” The latter is a prerequisite for the former, whether or not he likes or wants it to be so.

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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What is false and what is missing from publications about US higher education. Pithy, quotable, and correct:

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Returning to this post from last spring, and it feels more obvious than ever. Just a series of 30-second ads of rapid-fire headlines about scandals in one Cabinet department with the tag line at the end: Had Enough? Vote Democratic

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This Court is a menace to democracy.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

KBJ has them cold:

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Ronit Stahl @ronitstahl.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The conflict between AI and accommodations is *the* pedagogical issue of the moment. But there's no real leadership on this. It's all delegated to faculty to work out on their own, with occasional assists (or resistance) from disability offices. It's untenable, terrible for both students + faculty.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

BLM was often criticized for being supposedly over the top in their claims about some Americans disdain for Black life. Here is evidence, from a Presidential advisor and OMB director, that the euphemism of gutting "DEI" policies means Black kids will die. It is quite literally a policy goal.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Wrote about the Roberts Court’s highly selective aversion to identifying racism, echoing the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision, which the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. Call it Neo-Korematsu doctrine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

In Trump v. Hawaii, Roberts wrote that “the forcible relocation of U. S. citizens to concentration camps, solely and explicitly on the basis of race, is objectively unlawful and outside the scope of Presidential authority.” But the author of the Korematsu opinion, having exchanged his white robe for a dark one, would have agreed. After all, Hugo Black wrote that “pressing public necessity”—not “racial antagonism”—motivated the Japanese-internment policy. Black upheld Fred Korematsu’s conviction because he argued that the presence of a national-security motive meant the racism against Japanese Americans didn’t count. And that is exactly the logic the Roberts Court has followed in so many cases. This reasoning—Black’s reasoning—has been reiterated again and again by Roberts and his right-wing colleagues to sanction discrimination against the vulnerable populations targeted by the Republican Party.

The Korematsu decision may be overturned by the “court of history.” But its legacy lives on in the Roberts Court.

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Ronit Stahl @ronitstahl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The tension between AI and inclusive pedagogy/universal design for learning strategies is creating complicated problems with no good answers—issues that many folks in both the AI and accommodations spaces ignore. Take-home exams, typed notes, note-taking apps, study guides, etc have huge trade-offs.

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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Apparently people would be surprised by how little of the archival corpus is digitized.

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Ronit Stahl @ronitstahl.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

As @lsepper.bsky.social points out in the article, this admin won’t acknowledge, much less protect, the rights of conscientious providers who are — theoretically, anyways — also protected by the Church Amendment they so fondly hail (and per the recent DOJ Religious Liberty report, want posters of).

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Ronit Stahl @ronitstahl.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Justice Jackson is the historian’s justice.

Screenshot of a page of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s concurrence in the birthright citizenship case, a 5-4 case about the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause which should have been 9-0. The concurrence is about the history of the 14th A. The highlighted section states: “The distortion of historical facts—retellings that reimagine and repurpose past events to lend credence to misbegotten aims—may be an even greater threat. Yet here we are. The Government, the principal dissent, and a handful of revisionist commentators now vigorously promote an interpretation of the Citizenship Clause that diverges sharply not only from what the text says, but also from the historical record as interpreted by the keepers of ‘the call of remembrance’ (trained historians).”

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Dara Purvis @darapurvis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Really well put criticism by Sotomayor here: the majority describes trans girls as an existential threat to women's sports but also so insignificant that excluding them doesn't raise any equal protection concerns.

"The majority's position is thus fundamentally inconsistent. It credits the West Virginia Legislature's concern that a class consisting of transgender girls like BPJ is large enough to pose an existential threat to girls' sports, but at the same time holds that this class is too small to be protected by the Equal Protection Clause. In other words, this potentially overbroad generalization is both necessary to furthering substantially the State's interests in girls' sports and effectively irrelevant to assessing the classification's lawfulness. The Court's equal protection precedents neither require nor support this contorted logic."

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Justice Jackson: "Justice Thomas's telling elides the entire point of the Second Founding: The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery."

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.

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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Contrast this with the kind of statements the Supreme Court routinely finds to be smoking guns of anti-religious animus in cases like Masterpiece.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

By Alito's reasoning, even lynching in the old South would not constitute racism, since vigilante violence was usually justified as a law enforcement measure.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.

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Ronit Stahl @ronitstahl.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"Many [students] perceived certain assignments as tedious rather than engaging and emphasized a desire to reduce 'busy work.'" "Perceived" is key. I've noticed an increase in (some) students labeling assignments their predecessors enjoyed as "busy work." But busy work can mean many things.

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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 08/06/2026

Harmonie Perrone knew she was having another ectopic pregnancy, and she knew she needed medication as quickly as possible. But she was denied twice -- and lost her fertility, she says in a lawsuit. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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A religious hospital denied her a life-saving drug during an ectopic pregnancy. She lost her fertility

Harmonie Perrone, 28, is suing Advocate Good Shepherd in Illinois, where reproductive rights are enshrined in law

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Ronit Stahl @ronitstahl.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Somehow it took the DoD (sorry, "dept of war") over 3 months to produce the list of religious affiliations it cut/still uses. In WWI, the War Department managed to keep track of over 31 (fine-grained) denominations of chaplains. There's much to be said about which denominations count, then and now.

Screenshot of chart "Number of Army Chaplains, By Denominations, Who Served During the World War." There is a list of denominations and columns for regular Army, National Army, National Guard, and Total. The list of denominations is as follows [terms are WWI-era]: Baptist, Colored; Baptist, Imanuel; Baptist, North; Baptist, South; Baptist, United; Baptist, Regular; Christian; Christian Science; Church of the Brethren; Congregational; Congregational, Colored; Disciples [of Christ]; Evangelical; Evangelical, United; Jewish; Latter-day Saints; Methodist Episcopal, African; Methodist Episcopal, North; Methodist Episcopal, South; Methodist, Protestant; Moravian; New Jerusalem; Presbyterian, Colored; Presbyterian, Cumberland; Presbyterian, North; Presbyterian, South; Presbyterian, United; Protestant Episcopal; Protestant Episcopal, Colored; Protestant Episcopal, Reformed; Reformed, American; Reformed, Christian; Reformed, Dutch; Reformed, US; Roman Catholic; Salvation Army; Seventh Day Adventist; Unitarian; United Brethren; Universalist.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

We do not have voting rights in this country anymore. We just don’t. We did for a while because Congress codified them pursuant to a constitutional amendment enacted by the people in a great repudiation of the original sin of slavery. But the Supreme Court has nullified that law and that amendment.

Weeks ago, I warned that vacating the District Court’s
injunction in these cases would “unleash chaos and . . . con-
fuse voters.” Caster, 608 U. S., at ___ (dissenting opinion)
(slip op., at 4). Nevertheless, the Court forged ahead. Now
the Court is squarely faced with a record of the turmoil it
has caused and the harm it has wrought. Yet just as Ala-
bama doubled down on racial discrimination, the Court to-
day doubles down on chaos. Because I choose to defend the
rule of law and the right of all Alabamians to participate
equally in democracy, I respectfully dissent.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Russell Vought is going destroy American Science

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

FDR’s Fireside chat on March 9, 1937 explaining his proposal to expand the Supreme Court stands up surprisingly well. “We have reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself.”/1

We have, therefore, reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself….We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution and not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.
I want—as all Americans want—an independent judiciary as proposed by the framers of the Constitution. That means a Supreme Court that will enforce the Constitution as writtten, that will refuse to amend the Constitution by the artibrary exercise of judicial power—in other words by judicial say-so. It does not mean a judiciary so independent that it can deny the existence of which which are universally recognized.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Suspending elections where people have already started voting so you can gerrymander their voting power away. Very democracy.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I woke up today somehow even angrier about yesterday’s decision completing the Republican Courts dream of demolishing the Voting Rights Act. The law made the country a multiracial democracy - increasing the # of Black reps from 4 to 10x that within years. The neo-confederate court eviscerated it.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

8. So while I don't think Callais is *apocalyptic* for Democrats, it's still a hideous perversion of the Constitution that will undermine democracy and racial equality for years. The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead. The 15th Amendment has been repurposed to greenlight racism. It's a dark day.

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Ronit Stahl @ronitstahl.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

When I teach the social history of the military, students read soldiers' diaries from the Am. Revolution, letters from the Civil War, notes from WWI, etc. They always note the prevalence of illness & the desire to avoid/cure it. Smallpox, yellow fever, flu, malaria... all big problems.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health.

When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.”

Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”

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Ronit Stahl @ronitstahl.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I can’t overstate how unusual it is for a chief of chaplains to be fired. Green was very well respected. He entered the army as a chaplain in 1994, at the end of the term of Matthew Zimmerman, the first Black Chief of Chaplains. Green was the 3rd. Which appears relevant for… reasons.

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Ronit Stahl @ronitstahl.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Great to talk to @gregsargent.bsky.social about how unusual it is for an American military leader to glorify and sanctify killing as an ultimate higher good like Hegseth is doing. (Historically, most tend to talk about violence as an unfortunate but necessary means to a better and peaceful end.)

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Ronit Stahl @ronitstahl.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Terrible for many reasons, but also just completely impractical. People move, at all times and for many reasons, and there’s no way that list would be accurate for more than a millisecond.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 31/03/2026

It's simple: The Supreme Court says bans on medical care—and speech related to that care—are only allowed in the conservative direction. Tennessee can ban gender-affirming care as a medical regulation, matter but Colorado CANNOT regulate therapists who wish to deny patients' gender or sexuality

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Ronit Stahl @ronitstahl.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Quick take: the real impact of Hegseth's announced changes to the chaplain corps remain to be seen -- much hinges on what religions/denominations remain on the list of 31 "religious affiliation codes." Far more significant are his coded linguistic tells about "Truth."

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Ronit Stahl @ronitstahl.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Having written many such LORs, I'm begging archives to stop requiring them. And no one needs 3--I'm looking at you, presidential libraries. If you need to verify the grad student/project is real, use a checkbox form. Just decide which project to support based on the applicant's statement!

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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Final Schedule F rule published: in defiance of the vast majority of public comments, it commits to further politicizing government, removing anyone the Trump administration dislikes. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-02375.pdf

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Ronit Stahl @ronitstahl.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Like @ashleyrparker.bsky.social “I can’t remember a time when the Post was not, somehow, woven through the fabric of my life.” Before I could read, I picked up the Washington Post and pretended to read it—like my parents did every morning. And then I read it too, trading sections with my dad.

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The Murder of The Washington Post

Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I’ve never seen anything quite like Chief Judge Schiltz’s letter to Chief Judge Colloton. (The Eighth Circuit has since denied DOJ’s application, but didn’t acknowledge any of its … ridiculous … behavior.)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

What we are watching is a paramilitary force learning that they can kill with impunity, that the regime will smear the victim and defend them. Unless politicians and the legal system exerts accountability, it will not stop. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

And what are they learning? Experts on the formation of internal security services in authoritarian regimes point to a sense of impunity as a warning sign. Regime officials abuse their power when they know they will be protected, and even praised, for doing so.

Over the course of weeks and months, we have seen images of DHS officials abusing American citizens and immigrants alike, including killing them. What we do not hear is regime officials calling for credible investigations into such abuses, or even expressing any concerns. Renee Good’s killer was announced innocent, and both Good and her wife was instead the subject of an investigation, a perversion of justice so obvious that an FBI agent and half-dozen career Department of Justice prosecutors assigned to Minnesota resigned.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Another day, another outrage; ICE under Trump is going to deport dozens of people to Iran, including two gay men previously arrested by the regime who face the death penalty for their orientation, and despite the ongoing crackdowns which have killed thousands. An administration of total inhumanity.

MSNOW headline: News
Trump administration plans to deport 40 İranians days after mass killings in Iran
Two of the deportees are gay and terrified of returning to a country where homosexuality is punishable by death, their lawyer says.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Folks saying this is just as bad, I need you to reread about reconstruction. Not holding people accountable is how we get into this position. Removing people who colluded with the administration in an authoritarian takeover of higher ed from their position is the most reasonable thing to do.

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