BREAKING: The Supreme Court blocks the Trump administration from carrying out Alien Enemies Act proclamation deportations from the Northern District of Texas.

Thomas and Alito dissent.

The 7-2 court roundly rejects the current AEA proclamation notice.

More to come at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/

1. Today I learned that my collaborator @jjinsing had his NSF postdoctoral position terminated in yesterday's round of cuts.

Jay is the lead author on a fascinating paper I was involved in, about how male mimicry by female hummingbirds provides the first example of a type of signaling system that we predicted from theoretical principles over a decade ago.

This is infuriating.

And I believe it's due to anti-trans bias.

Why do I say that?

A small fraction of the female birds of this species — and in fact, many other hummingbird species as well — adopt male plumage. It's a fascinating phenomenon and probably evolved because that females with male plumage are less likely to be chased away form food sources.

Photo: Michel Gutierrez, Macaulay Library.

Everything Macron does here is calculated. It's the difference between leaving no tip and leaving a nickel as a tip—the latter is a no-ambiguity message, "This wasn't oversight, it was a deliberate choice"

And it's not just that Macron doesn't shake Trump's hand, it's that his hand moves to Zelenskyy's back after letting Trump hang in midair

The contrast between his admiration for one man and contempt for the other couldn't be clearer

No 'fuck you' can compete with a French fuck you

I grew up on food stamps. This new report is especially painful. Per the UN: A quarter of Gaza’s population is now starving. STARVING. That’s 550,000 people, including ~275,000 children.

“It doesn’t get any worse,’’ said Arif Husain, chief economist for the U.N.’s World Food Program. “I have never seen something at the scale that is happening in Gaza.”

Think about this reality as you celebrate Christmas this week. We must demand and do better.

I’m running for U.S. Congress to…

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