Reposted by Brishen RogersAAUP @aaup.org · 05/10/2026🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The AAUP is suing the Trump administration over new policies that threaten green card applicants with family separation. 1/ 1300101
Reposted by Brishen RogersNiko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm grateful to Radcliffe and the Schlesinger Library for ensuring that my mom's work will be accessible to her many students, past and futurehls.harvard.eduLani Guinier’s legacy, in her own words - Harvard Law SchoolSchlesinger Library collection offers scholars a closer look at Lani Guinier's work on voting rights, race, education, and equality. 419740
Brishen Rogers @brishen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026great coverage of this important work on the class gap in academia! 231
Reposted by Brishen RogersAnna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Thank you @noamscheiber.bsky.social for such a thoughtfully reported @nytimes.com piece about our Class Gap research. Key point: the class gap is NOT an academia specific phenomenon. The cultural & social capital that come from class background matter in many elite settings. 412834
Reposted by Brishen RogersAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/09/2026I created a live anti trans ad tracker that tracks all anti trans ad spending on meta and Google. It runs and updates nightly. You can see ad campaigns in real time. adtracker.lgbtqlegislation.comadtracker.lgbtqlegislation.com2026 anti-trans ad trackerAnti-trans political ads in the 2026 US midterms on Meta and Google, flagged nightly by a classifier. 20847288
Brishen Rogers @brishen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If you’re curious about effective altruism and the thought process behind fear of AI takeovers, this parody captures it really well nitter.app/banteg/statu...nitter.appbanteg (@banteg)>be me >discover effective altruism >apparently normal charity is inefficient >why donate to random sad thing when spreadsheet can tell you optimal sad thing >fair enough >buy mosquito nets >save live... 021
Brishen Rogers @brishen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Hm, pretty sure I can think of a bigger theft of labor in our history www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/t...nytimes.comMicrosoft and OpenAI Workers Worry About ‘Largest Theft of Labor’ in HistoryNewly unsealed court documents showed concern within Microsoft and OpenAI over the use of millions of news articles to develop A.I. systems. 2143
Reposted by Brishen RogersSam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Universal free school breakfast and lunch is a great proposal. www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-...thebulwark.comEXCLUSIVE: The Next Big Dem Proposal: Let Kids Eat FreeSchool lunches were free to all kids during the pandemic; a prominent think-tank wants to bring back the idea and make it permanent. 16887141
Reposted by Brishen RogersJess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Here's what I actually think these incidents reveal (instead of a rogue AI terminator situation): Much of the infra we expect to be hardened is actually being held together by glue and popsicle sticks. 221378280
Reposted by Brishen RogersLPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Spread the news: the Association of Law and Political Economy (@a-lpe.bsky.social) invites proposals for its second annual meeting, to be held on June 9-10, 2027, in Boston, MA.lpeproject.orgCFP: Second Annual Association of Law and Political Economy ConferenceThe Association of Law and Political Economy invites proposals for its second annual meeting, to be held on June 9-10, 2027, in Boston, MA. 02021
Reposted by Brishen RogersRaphael Satter @raphae.li · 09/09/2026Scoop: OpenAI's rogue agents didn't just hijack a German wiki, they repurposed at least 10 sites -- and potentially many more -- to carve out communications side channels and cheat on tests. www.reuters.com/world/openai...reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: OpenAI’s rogue agents used at least 10 more sites for unauthorized comms, researchers sayAI agents unleashed by OpenAI used more than 10 previously undisclosed websites for unsanctioned communications earlier this year, according to six sets of independent investigators and data reviewed ... 13183117
Reposted by Brishen RogersKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 31/08/2026I reiterate that my Supreme Court Expansion plan is to simply switch to a distinctively American Cicada Brood System where we have overlapping panels or “broods” of justices spread over the country, numbered I to XXIII, emerging periodically and consisting of panels of 13, 17, 19, or 23 justices. 16430103
Reposted by Brishen RogersAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/09/2026I think there is an iceberg of undisclosed AI cyber incidents. Contrary to what many people think, these are not PR exercises. For instance OpenAI didn't want to collaborate with this investigation and tried to hide it. 1033470
Brishen Rogers @brishen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026In the 1980s & early 90s, in a fairly nice part of Massachusetts, I had classmates whose houses did not have hot water. Later, in the 2000s, a friend organized in rural Vermont. There and then, many workers did not have indoor plumbing. 0150
Reposted by Brishen Rogersjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...nytimes.comTrump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools. 9041631392
Reposted by Brishen Rogersjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026i actually welcome this republican amendment because it is a very public reminder that the size of the court is not in the constitution (a common misconception) 802816438
Reposted by Brishen RogersStarbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed: 9465744507
Reposted by Brishen RogersNtina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Just one day left to submit your abstracts for this year's meeting of Australian Progressive Legal Studies: lpeproject.org/events/cfp-m... This year we focus on the role of law in right- and left-leaning world building visions and experiments.lpeproject.orgCFP – Making and Breaking Worlds: Old and New Struggles in Law and Political EconomyNeoliberalism – understood both as a political philosophy and as an actually-existing model of governing capitalism – appears to be in terminal decline. The renewed acceptability of industrial policy… 093
Reposted by Brishen RogersOrin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The way things are going with AI, it's probably a smart move for ambitious students to work on their penmanship. 1544078
Reposted by Brishen RogersOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/ 5763082015
Reposted by Brishen RogersMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I also appreciate Emily Wilson as a woman in a male dominated role, by which I don’t mean translator or classicist or public scholar but rather “curmudgeon.” 191562142
Reposted by Brishen RogersChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Update: Kagan denied this request for a stay. 311331
Reposted by Brishen RogersJaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 26/07/2026ICYMI, loved to talk about what we are doing at Ravenous with some comrades 0234
Reposted by Brishen RogersDeva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Recipe for building political power: Continuous, relationship based,& fun infused organizing not episodic high stakes transactional mobilization. It’s actually just good for democracy regardless of ideology but DSA is the only non right wing, party-like apparatus doing it. Kudos to DSA, honestly. 24811
Reposted by Brishen RogersGabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Once again beating the drum for recruits to test out (virtually) my ultra-elaborate simulation, Durban mass strikes of 1973. Just worked out the rules by which the Zulu chief figure can bring scabs on the train from the homeland, and the strikers can meet them with bread or fists 13111
Reposted by Brishen RogersAmanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Literally gender-affirming care 351076257
Reposted by Brishen RogersJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 07/07/2026My idea would be that the next time people want to support a working class candidate for public office, we look for someone like a nurse or a public school teacher or a home health aide or a nice HR lady. And ideally someone with a track record of commitment to organized left politics. 3672977
Reposted by Brishen RogersOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026DC United sign VOZINHA right now 151458
Reposted by Brishen Rogersrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 03/07/2026just shockingly hostile to the people who live in DC 1211604256
Brishen Rogers @brishen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026troops everywhere, F-16s circling the city, huge explosions and heavy metal poisoning planned tomorrow, what’s not to love 1112
Reposted by Brishen RogersJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026NYC currently has a shark problem DC currently has a jets problem there's only one solution 51826161
Reposted by Brishen RogersCeleste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The NPS will launch 850,000 fireworks in the middle of the night. (Last year, they launched 7,000) That will dump perchlorates and heavy metals into the Potomac River and cause the amount of soot and smoke particles to skyrocket (pardon), at great danger to any creature that breathes. 924011116
Reposted by Brishen RogersAmy Kapczynski @akapczynski.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Very bad news -- Yale leadership needs to hear from you on this. If Yale wants to restore trust in higher ed it should not be Paul Weiss here - it should be standing up for higher ed and our students. Contact info below! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...nytimes.comYale Seeks Trump Administration Deal as It Faces Sprawling Investigation 2114
Reposted by Brishen RogersOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Ghana do it for all of us 417321
Reposted by Brishen RogersSameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 19/06/2026“capitalism inexorably kills and injures working class people, and it adds to those injuries the insults of rationalizing, victim blaming, and forgetting“ @nhold.bsky.social toward moral clarity 15720
Reposted by Brishen RogersJeanne Fromer @jeannefromer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026“We propose that state supreme courts amend their rules of professional conduct to impose a uniform ‘hold open’ date for offers until Oct. 1 of students’ 2L year for 2L summer positions.” @marklemley.bsky.social & I have an op-ed in Bloomberg on early recruiting news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...news.bloomberglaw.comState Supreme Courts Can Resolve Early Legal Recruiting MessOpinion: Imposing a uniform "hold open" date for job offers to law students would likely put much-needed brakes on accelerated recruiting. 54717
Reposted by Brishen RogersMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Happy Father's Day 🖤 997420326318
Brishen Rogers @brishen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I said “find me examples of x,” and it replied “this is a genuinely interesting and important blah blah blah here are a bunch of examples.” Not one was valid. 020
Brishen Rogers @brishen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026My uni negotiated Gemini Pro licenses for faculty. Just used mine for the first time, for a pretty basic research task, and the number of hallucinations was startling. 120
Reposted by Brishen RogersJoey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I will never understand why the sensible moderate position on Social Security is usually (a) preserve/increase benefits for the worst-off seniors (correct) (b) raise the retirement age for everyone (a type of cut targeted at the same group, b/c they have the shortest life expectancy) 151
Reposted by Brishen RogersShani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians) @mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app · 05/06/2026Anyone saying “teen takeovers” can’t be taken seriously. 1187
Brishen Rogers @brishen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Companies may keep staff levels very low for a similar reason. They’ll *lose* revenue due to fewer sales and loss of customers. But prevent workers from getting to know each other and deciding to protest or organize 020
Brishen Rogers @brishen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026In other words, the new tech may be more expensive *permanently* compared to labor costs saved. But the benefit of avoiding labor strife makes it desirable, in a sense 160
Brishen Rogers @brishen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026a pet theory: companies often implement new labor displacing tech like self-checkout *not* to maximize profits but rather to change workplace politics. 2254