Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinJed Brown @jedbrown.org · 16/09/2026Oh. That's a heck of a subsidy. 35698186
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinAmy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 03/09/2026What is the point of trying so hard to maintain your academic freedom if you’re going to abandon the entire educational enterprise, sacrifice the undergrads to the tech companies, and then light your reputation on fire?thecrimson.comHarvard Humanities Faculty Push Back on Deming’s Call for AI Use in Writing Courses | The Harvard CrimsonHarvard faculty in the humanities and social sciences expressed broad concern over an email Harvard College Dean David J. Deming sent students Wednesday suggesting that artificial intelligence be inte... 213146
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinHoward French @hofrench.bsky.social · 02/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/a...nytimes.comCassandra Wilson, Star Jazz Singer, Dies at 70With a low and smoky voice, she conjured the blues tradition of her native Mississippi in both her own songs and in covers. 0113
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Shame on @yale.edu 9419128
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinDana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Always two lakes battle within me 1118416
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinHoward French @hofrench.bsky.social · 29/08/2026For fun. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/a...nytimes.com6 Feet Under in Art Coffins That Are Over the TopElaborate coffins, produced by Ghanaian artisans, are the centerpieces of funerals that celebrate the life of the deceased and get them to the afterlife in style. 072
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinSam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026If Dems win a trifecta in 2028 and don't push forum-shopping reform (and related judicial reforms) as their first bill, they'll doom everything else they try to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/u...nytimes.comHow Trump’s Policy Agenda Runs Through One Federal Court, in Texas (Gift Article)For years, conservative litigants flocked to Judge Reed O’Connor’s district. Now, North Texas has become a favorite destination of the Justice Department. 10918240
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Heartbreaking stuff from @citizencohn.bsky.social on the likely long-term toll of Trump/RFK destruction of our public health system. Great reporting: www.thebulwark.com/p/cancer-bre...thebulwark.comThis Cancer Breakthrough Has Scientists Cheering—and CryingThey know RFK Jr. and Donald Trump are destroying the research ecosystem that made it possible. 422695
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026On the day of Dolly Parton’s death, 87-year-old Reagan appointee David Hittner namechecks Dolly (and her only goddaughter, Miley Cyrus) in a decision that Dolly no doubt would have agreed with. 19118
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinBo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She 1852301403
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/08/2026My latest on yesterday’s order in the mail-in ballot/voter list case is up! sherrilyn.substack.com/p/conservati...sherrilyn.substack.comConservative Majority Shows Its Hand Again in Mail-In Ballot CaseCivil Rights & American Democracy 15340123
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinNew York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 24/08/2026“The wartime experience suggests something many modern policymakers seem reluctant to admit: Markets often need active public direction, especially during emergencies,” Christopher Serkin and Daniel Sharfstein write.nyti.msOpinion | How to Fix the Housing Crisis: Look to WWIIWorld War II proves the government can intervene directly to fix the housing crisis. 354
Daniel Sharfstein @danielsharfstein.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Looking to history to rethink the housing crisis — an op-ed @serkinc.bsky.social & I wrote for @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/o...nytimes.comOpinion | How to Fix the Housing Crisis: Look to WWII (Gift Article)World War II proves the government can intervene directly to fix the housing crisis. 021
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinHolly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 22/08/2026That’s the story. That’s why Trump and Hegseth fired the journalists and editors. The journalists and editors at Stars and Stripes care about the troops and their families. Trump and Hegseth care only about their own reputations. 29831
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinJosh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 22/08/2026JUST IN: Judge Jeanette Vargas (Biden/SDNY) overturns State Dept 75-country hold on immigrant visas based on concern they could become "public charges" Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...storage.courtlistener.comMemorandum & Opinion – #83 in Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. v. Rubio (S.D.N.Y., 1:26-cv-00858) – CourtListener.comMemorandum & Opinion 310837
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinHoward French @hofrench.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This is very good. 04014
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 19/08/2026 www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...theatlantic.comWhy the Closing of Harvard’s Writing Center MattersStudents, faculty members, and alumni are asking how seriously the school is taking human learning in the age of AI. 1107
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Read the full memo written by Serena Mayeri and Amanda Shanor urging Yale’s leadership to reject a settlement deal put forth by the Trump administration, noting its likelihood to chill freedom of expression and academic inquiry on campus. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-ful...knightcolumbia.orgMemo to Yale's President and General Counsel Opposing a Trump-Yale Deal 23719
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The Era of Literal AI Book-Chomping Has Begun talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-e...talkingpointsmemo.comThe Era of Literal AI Book-Chomping Has BegunHere is an update on a story you may not yet have... 2323376
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Published in the Boston Globe a few weeks before ChatGPT was released in 2022. 217954
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinHidetaka Hirota @hidehirota.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Honored to contribute a module on Japanese incarceration during WWII -- "Making Citizens Internal Enemies" -- to the American Historical Review's "Authoritarianism 101: A Global History." @historians.org www.historians.org/module/makin...historians.orgMaking Citizens Internal Enemies – AHA 34220
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinMitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026If you work on the history of law and capitalism or of law and technology, you should check out the Call to join an ASLH Virtual Working Group in AY2026-27. Applications due 31 Aug. 2026: aslh.net/virtual-work... #legalhistory @nfyahaya.bsky.social @zacharyherz.bsky.social @siobhanbarco.bsky.socialaslh.netVirtual Working Groups | American Society for Legal HistoryASLH Themed Virtual Legal History Workshop Themed Virtual Legal History Workshops provide a space for scholars with common interests to discuss or present innovative work in their fields, and cultivat... 068
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 08/08/2026This seems so clear to me as a teacher and is what drove me to develop a course and a first-year AI curriculum that are *about* gen AI rather than focused on "how to use it." But there is a lot of FOMO driving the decisions to focus on making sure students "know how to use it" instead 59322
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinHoward French @hofrench.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The Ceuta history you've never heard before. My piece. foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/06/c...foreignpolicy.comWhat Everyone Is Missing About CeutaThe history of the disputed exclave should inform what Spain does next. 12011
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinLauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Processing DNA for nearly a million people in a year? No problem, ICE says. Attaching a $300 camera to an agent’s vest? Logistical nightmare. That's one of the most remarkable ironies of this great story (based on FOIA requests by @georgetownlaw.bsky.social's Center on Privacy and Technology).wired.comICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young ChildrenInternal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever. 415368
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 02/08/2026So, I really hope I get to tell this story in longer form in the near future, but it it’s burning a hole inside me. Most of it comes from an interview with Bob Hirst this weekend. Bob has been Exec Editor of the Mark Twain Project for 47 years, before which he was part of its staff for ~15. 1/16 214856
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinIlya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026My new @brennancenter.org article explains to use state constitutions to combat exclusionary zoning, and thereby alleviate the housing crisis: statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...statecourtreport.orgUsing State Constitutions to Combat Exclusionary ZoningThe U.S. Constitution may not provide an immediate roadmap out of the nation’s housing shortage. But state constitutions can help. 1113
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinHüskerBlü @inimitablevi.bsky.social · 29/07/2026By effectively putting our ideas and positions on paper and improving upon them, we not only learn how to communicate but how to think critically and effectively. If this is gone, what are they going for? 012
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinThomas Noriega @nhomastoriega.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Abysmal decision. Say what you will about Harvard standing up to the Trump admin, they're letting their students and faculty down in a thousand little ways 175
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinMary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026First it was the writing center, now Dudley House. This was the place where people like married veterans & other students who had reasons to live off campus found community at Harvard. I refuse to believe this was extremely costly. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...thecrimson.comHarvard to Shutter Dudley Community After More Than 90 Years | News | The Harvard CrimsonHarvard College will shutter the Dudley Community, ending an institution founded more than 90 years ago to provide advising and a social home for generations of undergraduates living outside the House... 1428366
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinEMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place. 403398718
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinVirginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 23/07/2026David Blight brings the gravitas and the passion. 1319
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinAaron Bruhl @aaronbruhl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Former Solicitor General Don Verrilli, among others, representing Rogoff. Interesting remedial issues here, along with the merits. 142
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinNiko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026This state supreme court opinion pulls no punches: “This court does not anchor Hawaiʻi’s due process rights to the federal floor. Especially one that keeps sinking. . . . State constitutionalism makes it easy to consider Roberts Court jurisprudence ‘white noise.’” 171767445
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinJordan Ellenberg @jsellenberg.bsky.social · 19/07/2026quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2026/07/19/p...quomodocumque.wordpress.comProposed World Cup rules changeCorrect outcome, but imagine if Argentina had won this on penalties without taking a single shot on goal in 120 minutes of actual play! That could easily have happened, and what an embarrassment. M… 131
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026CABO VERDE CABO VERDE CABO VERDE 244608709
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinJosh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 18/07/2026NEW: Trump administration turns to never-used Alien Terrorist Removal Court, which can order deportation based on evidence the target never sees. And DOJ has already met resistance. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/07...politico.comTrump administration activates never-before-used ‘alien terrorist’ deportation courtThe court has been dormant since it was created in 1996. 11207136
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinLaw & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social · 17/07/2026We’re back! The Law and History Review is excited to announce the publication of our first article this year in our digital imprint, The Docket. Anna O. Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social) told us about her new book. End the week on a strong note—check it out! lawandhistoryreview.org/article/anna...lawandhistoryreview.orgMigration and the Origins of American Citizenship: An Interview with Anna O. Law – Law & History Review 0127
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Now @apnews.com has a deeply reported story confirming the recently-hired ICE officer who shot a man in Maine had serious mental health issues and a long history of violence against women. This comes after ICE slashed hiring standards and rushed some into the field before background checks cleared. 8527091056
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinRick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Read this cdt.org/insights/faq...cdt.orgFAQ: Voting System Vulnerabilities and How They Can Be WeaponizedVulnerabilities in voting systems are real and worth fixing. At the same time, the manner in which they are used to fearmonger does not reflect the actual security of elections. Security researchers ... 212133
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinJamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The story of the day - abcnews.com/US/white-hou...abcnews.comWhite House teleprompter operator made more than $100K betting on Trump's speeches: SourcesPresident Trump's longtime teleprompter operator is believed to have made tens of thousands of dollars by placing bets on the contents of Trump's speeches, sources say. 1016449
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinJoanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Yes, please. In 2029, a Democratic Congress and President should take these basic but important steps to allow people to sue federal officers and supervisors for constitutional violations. In the meantime, states can take - and are taking - these steps today. 0175
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Blanche can’t meet with the Epstein survivors without going through their counsel. But if he does, and they approve, he can indeed meet with them. 57636
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinIan Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Huge win here for the rule of law. Remarkable ruling and kudos to @normeisen.bsky.social @democracydefendersaction.org and the judges who helped bring it about. 215638
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/07/2026Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...theatlantic.comHistory Will Judge the ComplicitWhy have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president? 20572162603
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 12/07/2026It didn't work out today, but Haaland is still likely to win in November 16999113
Reposted by Daniel SharfsteinMother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/07/2026Reminder: Memphis is still “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Task force members have reportedly killed at least two people in four days.motherjones.comMemphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges. 4827651742