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Chris Sprigman

@cjsprigman.bsky.social
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Murray and Kathleen Bring Prof., NYU Law. IP, antitrust, behavioral econ, occasional con law (bad for my health). ssrn.com/author=370802. Partner, lex-lumina.com. its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/ind…

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 2h
This is right--but it's deeper than this. It's not only the GOP that doesn't credit good behavior; it's the voters. Integrity isn't something that most voters appear to care much about.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 19h
the fact that SCOTUS is allowing Trump to do lawless shit 24/7 but some random judge in Staten Island can block the mayor and governor of New York from taxing decamillionaires’ second homes really reveals how utterly absurd our judicial system is
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 20h
Shot. Chaser.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This story about Mary Peltola is deeply sexist. I don’t remember the Times focusing on the failed marriages of male candidates. Or their (non-sexual) interactions with staff. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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‘She’s One of Us’: Mary Peltola’s Bumpy Rise to Political Power
Ms. Peltola, the Democratic Senate candidate in Alaska, has complicated politics: She is pro-gun, pro-oil and pro-gas — but also pro-environment and especially pro-fish.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Emanuel is a uniquely unattractive candidate, even among a generally lackluster group of Dem centrists. Idk why the Times persists in fluffing him.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it’s genuinely fascinating how establishment democratic politics in big cities has become so ossified and incompetent that they’ve created a huge lane for the left to embrace good government reforms and build a broad coalition of socialists and technocrats
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 25/09/2026
we need a nancy mace of the left
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Message: our AI too cuddly to murder you.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Soon, Republicans will always have been against him.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The problem is that so many of America’s crap elites *enjoy* capitulating to fascists.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the bribe payments that Kao made to Susan Collins, very carefully laundered.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
He's collapsing now. Democrats should be channeling the Furies.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
At what point do Democrats feel emboldened to pursue what we need: an absolutely pitiless campaign of accountability for Trump and his enablers, featuring criminal prosecution, civil liability, professional disqualification, and jurisdiction stripping to forestall meddling by federal courts?
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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Periodic reminder that copyright law has, since the Statute of Anne, been primarily a form of industrial regulation for the creative industries. It has also largely been designed and drafted by the creative industries.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Bad deal. Shame on the states for capitulating so easily. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...
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Paramount to Resolve Antitrust Lawsuit, Clearing the Way for Warner Bros. Acquisition
The deal would remove the last significant hurdle the media mogul David Ellison faced to create a news and entertainment empire, home to movie studios, HBO, CBS and CNN.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump is so miserably unpopular that solidarity is now possible even among press outlets who've demonstrated a thousand times their timidity and reluctance to defend their colleagues or even themselves.
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 21/09/2026
I truly do not understand why everyone who ever argued for the unitary executive theory isn't on their hands and knees begging the rest of us for forgiveness after seeing what their insane dictatorship theory has created
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🇺🇸617to416🇨🇦 @617to416.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In a sane nation, this would be recognized as insane. Trump Says His Contested Arch Would House Drones and Snipers www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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Trump Says His D.C. Arch Would Be a ‘Military Complex’ Housing Drones and Snipers
The president’s announcement on Sunday echoed his justification for the White House ballroom: that the project was necessary for national security.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Up to the moment they pulled the plug on DEI to placateTrump, elite universities were obsessed w/race and gender equity. About social class, they DNGAF. Despite it being a pretty obvious barrier to success in elite settings. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/b...
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The Working Class Face a ‘Class Ceiling’ in Elite Occupations
Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Is it even a unitary executive if the president can’t order his subordinates to tear down [the Kennedy Center] [the East Wing] [the Parthenon].
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
They never did. They just didn’t know that they didn’t know.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bari Weiss's entire life has been a saga of failing upward. Next, she'll be president of the network.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Revised headline: despite more than a century of America’s GOP and Democratic Party reactionaries demonizing it, half of Americans think socialism is good. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
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Half of Voters Dislike Socialism Amid Progressive Wins, New Poll Finds
Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor and democratic socialist, was viewed more favorably than Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a fellow high-profile member of the movement.
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Jeanne Fromer @jeannefromer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Exciting Corpus launch from @nyuengelberg.org today to aid your AI-assisted research, featuring our scholarship, including by me, @cjsprigman.bsky.social, @cmorten.bsky.social, Rochelle Dreyfuss, Barton Beebe, Scott Hemphill, Kathy Strandburg, Jason Schultz, @michaelweinberg.org, & more
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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@washingtonpost.com “in a major victory the people of this country and the rule of law…”. Fixed it for you. I have to do this so often you should pay me.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Young Dems should be lining up to primary Gillibrand. New York deserves better.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
America's elites are awful, just awful, with exceptions almost too few to merit notice. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...
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Opinion | They Could Afford to Stand Up to Trump. Why Didn’t They?
The more the logic of capitalism pervades the rest of life, the less room there is for compassion, honor or heroism.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The idea that any kid's "best shot" at college is a sports scholarship is a sign of how deeply screwed-up our society is. I don't blame the parents. I do blame this politician for responding to the concern as "nuance" without apparently understanding the dysfunction it represents.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Whether Columbia is legally liable is an interesting question, but Mahmoud Khalil's lawsuit does correctly point out that Columbia and other universities picked a side in this ideological fight, with pro-Palestinian students relegated to second-class status. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/n...
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Mahmoud Khalil Says Columbia Failed to Protect Pro-Palestinian Students
In a federal lawsuit, Mr. Khalil and other former student activists say the university was deliberately indifferent to their harassment even before the 2023 Hamas attacks.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My 18-year-old cat, DaVinci, now living w/my oldest daughter in Chicago, out and about with his dog friend.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Mamdani's channeling of Indian retail politics upending the entire US political framework is hilarious to watch, this is literally what you always do in desi politics, hug the person who called you names to show you're a saint and he's a piece of shit that voters should look down on- and it works
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NYU Law Magazine does a nice piece on the Restatement of Copyright and my role in helping to bring it to fruition. www.law.nyu.edu/news/ideas/a...
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Christopher Jon Sprigman talks about leading ALI’s first-ever Restatement of copyright law
In May, members of the American Law Institute (ALI) voted to approve ALI’s first-ever Restatement of Law, Copyright, paving the way for its publication. Christopher Jon Sprigman, Murray and Kathleen B...
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Even by the pathetic standards of how the Times routinely reports Trump, this one is pretty shocking.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
For many decades B.M. (before Mamdani), the principal job of NYC's elected officials was to grouse about NY State's political control and misrule of NYC, without doing anything about it. IOW, willing victimhood. The reason was clear: it freed NYC pols to spend all their time grifting. 1/
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is 100% bullshit--every word of it is a lie. Imagine if a Democrat did this. The NY Times would be prosecuting the story on page 1 every day until hell froze over.
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In moments like this, one despairs at the thought that this country may never rid itself of Islamophobia. I still hope it may happen in my lifetime.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New Mexico now New America. New Hampshire also New America. New Jersey also New America. New York also New America. 1/
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So Fox News has apparently concluded that Maria Bartiromo has such poor judgment that she poses a danger to the company. And yet she remains a trustee of New York University. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/b...
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What Led to Maria Bartiromo’s Downfall at Fox News
The network this week took Maria Bartiromo off the air, pulling one of the last hosts whose coverage of Dominion Voting Systems drew an expensive defamation lawsuit.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Leading indicator.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is correct. I tried to read the books to my (then) very young kids. They rejected it. Cringey dialogue, they complained.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Endorse. Also, move them out of their fake Greek temple to more suitable digs in a suburban office park. Reform, but also a lasting statement about the court's new, diminished stature.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
For reasons that I believe need examination and explaining, credible news organizations have not made this their lead story every day this summer. If a Dem president did this in one red state it would be nuclear level coverage.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There will be a divide between Dem establishment that hopes for nothing more than to get back to the pre-Trump status quo as quickly as possible, and those who fear that without (a) payback, and (b) deep revision of our decrepit system and institutions, we'll be back to authoritarianism and soon.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
All of the parents should be prosecuted. I don't care about their religious beliefs. You don't have a right to condemn your kids to death.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Reactionary centrist pundits: Democratic leaders need to drop the identity politics and focus on economic issues! Democratic leader: [does that] Reactionary centrist pundits:
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I'm looking forward to a NY Times analysis piece investigating why Moulton's centrism had about as much appeal as syphilis in this Democratic primary election.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NYC congestion pricing has been a success on every front. Now let’s raise the toll.
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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Out of all the genres in politics that piss me off, former Republicans screeching about how Democrats need to adopt more Republican-lite politics because if they don't it will enable more fascism is rapidly reaching the top of the list.
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