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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

fwiw I’m watching meta-commentary *about* a video game, not even actual gameplay 🫡

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Really good piece from @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social and Wendy Wagner on Suncor and the importance of federalism -- and state-court litigation -- to democracy's fight against authoritarianism. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

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The Next Anti-democratic Threat From the Supreme Court

Industry-backed preemption arguments in the climate deception case threaten the federalism safeguards that check an imperial presidency.

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

have never put so much effort into alt text for anything, and I still really don't think I managed to capture even 5% of it.

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

on one hand, a ghastly abomination. otoh? yes, I absolutely would defend her with my one life on this earth, obviously.

a screenshot of a dead-on photo of Orifice the Awebot in the Inquirer article linked. I am really going to try to do my best to describe this for the alt text, but I'm not sure human language is up to the task.

okay, here we go:

she is a street robot about the same size as those Uber Eats delivery bots, except in the shape of a pink and lumpy head. she has a strangely small face for such a large surface, with beady (but wide-open) eyes, prominent cheeks, and an open mouth with a small pink tongue dangling on the bottom lip. her teeth are few in number and widely spaced across only her upper jaw. there is a little tuft of blonde hair, just off-center atop her head. she is terrible and terrifying and goofy and wonderful and perfect.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 02/10/2026

NEWS: Finally, you can do what you’ve wanted to do for five years, which is support Balls & Strikes by paying for a subscription. It costs a quarter of what certain other Supreme Court-ish websites charge, and we will never send you texts from someone who had Brett Kavanaugh officiate her wedding!

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Finally, You Can Pay Money to Balls & Strikes

What better way to mark the start of a new Supreme Court term than doing your part to make legal journalism less awful?

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you refuse to get ebooks from Jeff Bezos, you can still pick up Wild Faith for $2.99 from BN.com or Kobo or… let’s check… yep, Google Play also has the discounted price! If you want to learn about the multifaceted dangers of Christian nationalism, you should read this book.

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Drew Mackie @drewgmackie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Because my podcast is ending, I've launched a new personal Patreon for all my subsequent creative efforts. It's very much focused on Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games at the moment, but it's going to be the hub for all future projects. If you like my stuff, please support me.

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Drew Mackie — writing and more about video games and pop culture in general

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

many of the greats are simply not recognized during their time 😤😞

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ibeen awhile since I checked and, among those "anti-AI" lists, y'know what fair, this is probably true, actually.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i bet it’s so nice. just being a little dog in the grass.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

you ever thought about what it’s like to be a little dog in the tall grass at the park on a warm day at the very end of summer

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

don't tell me anything about this; don't explain it at all let my imagination try to make sense of this completely unencumbered, thx

screenshot of the Bluesky "Trending" list, showing only number one:

"Pope Leo XIV gifted green orb"

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

it went ~30% better, I think, so that’s…something? ok, good night now. 😮‍💨

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I wrote a review of Lorenzo Feltrin's very good book. I'd appreciate if you'd read the review and I hope it makes you want to read the book. prometheus-mag.com/2026/09/17/a...

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A Review of "Workers and the World" - Prometheus Magazine

Nate Holdren reviews Lorenzo Feltrin's "Workers and the World: Fighting Ecological Crisis from Within", praising it for countering climate despair.

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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Seventeen new public bathrooms is amazing, but let's be honest, it's not enough. Don't miss @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social's excellent piece at @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social about what it would really take to meet the bathroom needs of New York City! nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/give-new-y...

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Give New Yorkers a Place to Go

New York City has long failed to provide enough public toilets. The Mamdani administration has the tools to change that.

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

happy constitution day from me and please enjoy this reference to a meme that’s now well >2.5 years old. anyway, time to finish lesson plans covering (checks notes) Nixon, Trump v. US, and Slaughter/Cook ha ha ha ohhh dear 🙃

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

(stares vacantly at the double byline) “exactlyyyy” etc. etc.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 16/09/2026

This is a very good cause for very good people who are facing unconscionable union busting

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

one more exhibit for my “please don’t do this and destroy your grade in my class” slides tho ig 😵‍💫🤷🏻‍♂️🙃

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

now imagining a semester where we just read the same case 15 times. learning objectives...would suffer, yes, but the lesson-preps would be a heck of a lot faster, ijs.

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

perhaps I am not putting enough emphasis on U.S. v. Nixon though, it seems to explain literally everything (???)

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

always trying to get my Con Law students to understand this, smh

zoomed-in, blurry screenshot with a made-up word any reader is going to struggle with (my apologies)

it reads, "Federal System (Stred Power)"

zoomed-in, blurry screenshot that I will try to express in actual letters, since it's one of those AI-slop situations where the text creates entirely new letters for the alphabet:

"Unconstitutional: bleechmens on the divisience of the Barizon Precedent"

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Reposting because I have under one month left of an interminable three-month notice period, and any and all bits of freelance work I can get in the meantime is going to help me through a financially difficult time as I start working for myself.

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the cool thing about ai being trained on all our dumbassery is i got a google ai search summary that used the phrase "gorilla marketing"

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

From my convo with @adambonica.bsky.social Osita Nwanevu for @bostonreview.bsky.social, right before this latest round of conflict over the Democratic Party's position on trans rights www.bostonreview.net/articles/whi...

But I think the base has stopped believing the pitch—first, because it didn’t appear to work in a couple of moderate nominee losses, so that strategy fell flat in terms of electoral victories. But then Bonica hit this other point, which is, that’s a costly action. I’m just taking trans rights activists as an example of a faction within the Democratic Party network that is being asked to put its priorities on the back burner for now. That’s a costly thing for the faction to do on behalf of the whole party, right? And the establishment as well, party elites are hitting you up for donations, saying, “Democracy’s on the line, we all need to sacrifice. That also includes trans rights activists falling back.” But then in office, the Democratic Party in Congress does not appear to be taking costly actions. And then Adam’s point on corruption is one of the biggest ones, where it doesn’t look like the Democratic Party is, at the elite level, willing to do costly new actions for itself that would put the party as a whole in a better position: whether that’s older, unpopular nominees retiring before dying in office; whether that’s not doing corrupt insider dealing or taking big super PAC money; whether that means, if you’re telling trans rights activists or Greta Thunberg climate kids or Gaza activists to fall back, then on an unpopular issues like data centers and some AI policies and weapons to Israel (which is polling at 11 percent support), you also need to take a haircut on those. And I think the base is noticing, “wow, you consistently are pointing out that the Democratic Party needs to moderate on these issues you don’t care about but the base seems to, and not the ones that are unpopular to the median voter that the democratic elites like and the base doesn’t like.” So that is all really reduced credibility in this appeal from the party that, “trust us, we know how to do electability.”

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Ryan D. Williamson @ryandane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The University of Wyoming Department of Political Science welcomes applications for an Assistant Professor position in Law and Courts. Please share widely and feel free to reach out to me with any questions about the line! eeik.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Assistant Professor - SPPAIS Public Law

Join Our Campus Community! Thank you for your interest in joining the University of Wyoming.  Our community thrives on the contributions of talented and driven individuals who share in our mission, vi...

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

wildly, wildly frustrating mistake, to put it mildly — I’m so sorry.

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

of all the lore drops over the years this is my favorite for about 700 reasons

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 11/09/2026

every day at school dropoff I ponder this sign. a ban on horses, dogs, cats, and then separately, domestic animals. what happened here. what animals were coming to school. who brought a horse

sign on a chain link fence that reads
NO
LOITERING
BICYCLES
HORSES -DOGS-CATS
SKATEBOARDS
SKATES-GO CARTS
MOTORIZED MODELS
KITES -GOLF
LASER TAG
DOMESTIC ANIMALS
UNAUTHORIZED VEHICLES PROHIBITED
21113 - (a) C.V.C.

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I thought @bridgetgillard.bsky.social’s book on MLMs was great to think with on how right wing movement building is intertwined with grifting in the US. And I couldn’t help but think in terms of consumer protection. My (long) review: lpeproject.org/blog/big-lit...

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Big Little Lies

What the history of multilevel marketing can teach us about our political moment — and potential ways out of it.

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Public Good U @publicgoodu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Protect accreditation for the public good! Comments due by 11:59 pm on 9/21.

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

no better way to hit any life milestone than an adorable mauling imo 🥲 (also: happy birthday! 🎉🎂)

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

yeahhh. one of my students *literally* said that exact thing after class today (“it seems like…there’s about 3x as much reading for this…?” “WELL’P…you’re not wrong! but I’m so sorry, really.”)

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

that is very affirming to hear, really 😮‍💨 (though that sounds farrrr more tiring to prep/execute vs my undergrad-level con law 😵‍💫.)

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

turns out doing a prep for a 3-hour/once-a-week class is…not the same as others?? no, I can see now why this is obvious but for some reason it didn’t really click until today. 😵‍💫🫠

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

am personally opting to not think about it beyond my immediate excitement for your own promotion news, frankly — so, in that spirit: congratulations!! 🎉🎊🙌🏻

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ravenous is having a subscriber drive rn and as a reader from day one i can vouch for it as an unequivocal food writing delight! get 25% off the cost of a subscription with this link and support independent media

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New article alert! 📝 It’s a spicy one… 🌶In the prestigious UBC Law Review, I argue that courts should warn juries that police testimony is unreliable and that they should look for independent confirmatory evidence. This was a long, painstaking process, a labour of love, but I’m so glad it’s out!

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Unreliable Witness Warnings for Police Testimony

By Florence Ashley, Published on 09/01/26

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

dissociating on the acela again 🥲

photo of me in a crimson floral button down shirt over a dark gray t shirt, looking wistfully out of the train window

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Caitlin Patler @caitlinpatler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 Chloe East (CU Boulder Econ) & I are hiring a postdoc to work on causal research on impacts of imm policy on immigrant children & families + rapid response descriptive work. Please share & encourage qualified candidates to apply! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05505

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PostDoctoral Scholar Employee - Goldman School of Public Policy

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

(no, won’t/can’t/refuse to explain, sorry.)

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

pages and pages of useful notes on my dissertation, job market advice, interesting projects and contacts from APSA … but I just keep thinking about “radical trans lesbian feminist theorist James Q. Wilson,” from yesterday’s “Rightwing Reason” panel.

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Sarah Lawsky @sarahlawsky.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

share information about law school fellowship and VAP hiring process prawfsblawg.com/vaps-and-fel...

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

(having an extremely low-key evening after serving as discussant at APSA's poster sessions, mostly a mix of undergraduate students and new MPH/MA students – a really, really lovely and affirming time. but now it's brain-off-time for me. 🥲😌)

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