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Sammy

@deadheadlawyer.bsky.social
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Lawyer, musician. And all we need is music Sweet music There'll be music everywhere There'll be laughing and singing Music swinging And dancing in the street ⚘️ (~);-}

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 13h
For more than 160 uninterrupted years, federal law has prohibited troops wherever an election is held. The Insurrection Act’s grant of authority to the president does not supersede Section 592’s prohibition on armed people at the polls, writes @lorenvoss.bsky.social and @nkorpett.bsky.social.
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The Insurrection Act Is No Exception to the Troops-at-Polls Ban
Congress restricted military deployments to election sites, even when a broader deployment authority might otherwise apply.
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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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DC🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Wood Wide Web is fascinating @mrjamesob.bsky.social trees are connected by an underground network of fungi that provide them with nutrients and help share resources between neighbouring trees they can also use it to help their own offspring #MysteryHour 🌳
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What is the Wood Wide Web?
YouTube video by Nerdy About Nature
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Jeremy Kun @jeremykun.com · 29/09/2026
3rd circuit rules AI training on copyrighted material is NOT fair use. Wow! chatgptiseatingtheworld.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
chatgptiseatingtheworld.substack.com
BREAKING News: Third Circuit affirms summary judgment rejection of fair use defense by ROSS Intelligence in AI training
Opinion under seal for now.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music are filing a billion-dollar intellectual property lawsuit targeting AI company Anthropic and its co-founder. rainnews.com/sony-and-war...
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Sony and Warner team in billion-dollar IP lawsuit against AI founders - RAIN News
AI is under legal attack again, and this time the intellectual property at the center of the case is not music, but lyrics. Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music are teaming against AI compa...
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Sammy @deadheadlawyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please sign the petition to protest Christian nationalist event, Oct 1 - 3 in Franklin, TN www.change.org/p/stop-hate-...
change.org
Sign the Petition
Stop Hate Speech @ Factory at Franklin
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 24/09/2026
Of all the things that give me pause about ICE's draft ERO ONE statement of work, a section titled "Network, Link, and Relationship Analysis" is the most eyebrow-raising. I spent close to 20 years as an intel analyst. Here's what section 4.6 says and means, paragraph by paragraph.
Cover page of the ERO ONE statement of work. The Department of Homeland Security seal sits in the center, under the heading "U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)." Below the seal, three lines read: "Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)," "Office of Enforcement and Removal (ERO)," and "ERO Overwatch and National Security Enforcement (ERO ONE)."
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Danny Miller @danielmilleresq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm proud to have helped organize this. If you're a lawyer or law student, sign up for this nonpartisan rally next Tuesday. You'll hear from @meiselasb.bsky.social and @normeisen.bsky.social among other champions of the rule law about what YOU can do to protect our free and fair elections.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The DOJ is intentionally drawing attention to this incident of mail dumping to sow distrust in mail-in voting, suppress votes, & motivate changes to the law to make it harder to vote. If you're amplifying and feeding that frame, even from the other side, you're a pawn in their information operation.
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Sammy @deadheadlawyer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sen. Whitehouse really unpeels the onion here 🔔
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My full analysis is here:
stevevladeck.com
252. The Eighth Circuit’s Missouri Redistricting Mishegas
The Eighth Circuit’s attempt to put Missouri’s 2025 congressional map back into effect will fail. It’s also yet another example of the mischief the Supreme Court’s shadow docket behavior can beget.
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Sammy @deadheadlawyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is *really* interesting
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
EPA allowed pesticide giant Bayer to pick from a menu of regulation options for the controversial and destructive weedkiller dicamba. Dicamba is drift prone and kills vegetation and crops for miles around fields where it is sprayed, and is linked to liver cancer and Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
theguardian.com
US environment agency let Bayer pick regulations for destructive weedkiller, documents show
Environmental Protection Agency asked firm to choose rules it wanted for dicamba, then put the choices in a proposed federal rule
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Sammy @deadheadlawyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@abigailspanberger.com
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Mimi Jones @1234mimijones.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
👁️👁️ CYA! Taking a stand at the Intersection of LawEnforcement & Technology! 😏 Keeping #Accountability on ThosePeople WhoHoldUs Accountable! 😏Fair’s Fair, YKWIM? #DV1 Search by Drones, BodyWorn Cameras, LicensePlate Readers, 3rdPartyPlatforms or Camera Registry! @eff.org @atlasofsurveilance.org
atlasofsurveillance.org
| Atlas of Surveillance
Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20/09/2026
📣📣 Protect vaccines: Make a public comment DEADLINE: Sun Sept 20 📝 www.regulations.gov/document/HHS... Lots of anti-vaxxers have already commented 😨 - now it’s up to all of us to add some common-sense points. Confused about what’s going on? Let’s dive in (🧵)
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Regulations.gov
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Sammy @deadheadlawyer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Dancing in the street 🎵
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Claudio @chinarider.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
On this day in Allman Brothers Band history concert at the S.U.N.Y. Stonybrook, 9/19/71 BLUE SKY youtu.be/4JJ9lnUBBDU?... the only live version featuring Duane Allman that has been released by the band...it's pure joy 📷 Chuck Pulin
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 17/09/2026
A group of scientists filed a class-action lawsuit on September 16 against the NIH, alleging the agency is unconstitutionally screening research grants to suppress viewpoints the Trump administration disfavors on topics like diversity, gender identity and climate change reut.rs/4d8xVSL
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Sammy @deadheadlawyer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Multiple layers of boycotting and branded mockery here .....
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Sammy @deadheadlawyer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The illusory, phantom "center" and the asymmetric warfare it serves is how the right manipulates media to constantly move the Overton Window to the right
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Most know 9/11 happened but don't know why Bin Laden actually did it. In the 70s OBL was basically Trump, a rich jackass from a prominent well connected construction family. He spent his 30s partying at nightclubs & rubbing shoulders with VIPs (familiar?). Then the Lebanese civil war broke out. 1/
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Sammy @deadheadlawyer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The legal monkeywrench gang
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Facial recognition was used in ICE investigation that included protest photos processed by Clearview AI - our report >
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Sammy @deadheadlawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Due process for me but not for thee
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Sammy @deadheadlawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Rats/ship
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Sammy @deadheadlawyer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Dear Anthropic, I DISSENT. BRING IT.
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Sammy @deadheadlawyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dance party! 🎵
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/08/2026
The case before the Hawaii Supreme Court did not warrant such an impassioned condemnation of the U.S. Supreme Court. But Associate Justice Todd Eddins and his colleagues wanted to send a message to the country. Read it.
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A Blistering Critique of the Roberts Court, From Hawaii’s Supreme Court
In an extraordinary opinion, the state justices accuse the SCOTUS majority of undermining democracy.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Pro tip: If a politician can’t criticize Israel or Russia, or call for them to follow international law, the country they’re refusing to talk about is 100% bribing and/or blackmailing them. You do not want that person in government; you want them under investigation or in prison.
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Sammy @deadheadlawyer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Campaign spending is protected speech, but a boycott is not? Ho-kay.
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm discovering that the UK is as clueless as we are here in France about Dominionism ("D" and "d"), and how it's a fantastic world-view -complete with a roadmap to power - if your plan is to overthrow inclusive democracies and replace them white male christian authoritarian regimes.
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Bab @bab102.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
@bab102.bsky.social @bandroll.bsky.social @6cats4adomino.bsky.social @moberzan.bsky.social @voices4justice.bsky.social @markymark757.bsky.social @phoenix509.bsky.social @chaserbaybe.bsky.social‬ @raykwong.lol @moberzan.bsky.social @dpfrazier22.bsky.social @57kev.bsky.social @j1j2.bsky.social
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ray 鄺羡華 @raykwong.lol · 02/09/2026
Thank you, Bab! 💙 @clarkpowers.bsky.social @pmpearson.bsky.social @reallyfasmiller.bsky.social @mleeds2048.bsky.social @noahs-arc0602.bsky.social @michaeljgolub.bsky.social @robin43.bsky.social @arfafatty.bsky.social @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @raykwong.lol
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"Here’s an opportunity to move past the job-training consensus that has left our universities stripped threadbare and too driven by trends and vibes. But I promise you, students want real educations and will come for them, rather than be forced to listen to a CEO tell them that capitalism rocks."
startribune.com
Perry: Republicans fought ‘indoctrination.’ Now they’re telling students what to study.
The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota.
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 27/08/2026
Learn more about universal constitutional remedies like the No Kings Act and the growing wave of state action here ⬇️
protectdemocracy.org
The Universal Constitutional Remedies Act, explained
The Universal Constitutional Remedies Act is a state law that allows individuals to sue any official — federal, state, or local — who violates the Constitution in court.
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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Thankful for this excellent review of American Caesar by the legendary Phil Williams: www.confrontthehate.com/p/the-americ...
confrontthehate.com
An American Caesar? Why Tech Lords and Other Extremists Want a King
A review of Bradley B. Onishi’s forthcoming American Caesar, an eye-opening look at the tech lords and Christian nationalists conspiring to replace democracy with a monarchy
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Sammy @deadheadlawyer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Antitrust is key to progressivism. See e.g. Teddy Roosevelt
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Oh look, it's Nate Cofnas being all buddy buddy with Curtis Yarvin, who has "joked" about murdering millions of people and rendering their bodies down into biodiesel. And the guy on the left is Richard Hanania.
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Trump Halted FDA Food Traceability Rule It enables fast identification and rapid removal of contaminated food from supply chains ,stopping foodborne illnesses and death. Trump got $1 million from Taylor Farms. We got Explosive Diarrhea. joycevance.substack.com/p/bad-food?u...
joycevance.substack.com
Bad Food
It’s not hard to follow the money
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Sammy @deadheadlawyer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
🔔🔔🔔
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Cofnas blogs on "brainwashing generations of children to believe that **intractable group differences** are the fault of white people. This can - "anecdotally" - drive white children "to transgenderism in an attempt to escape the shameful status of oppressor", he writes. bfsp.uk/wp-content/u...
‘Whites are the ones who brought blacks out of Africa and created the conditions where they
failed to develop a culture of homework, respect for the law, and strong nuclear families. So
we’ll need to take increasingly extreme measures to fix the ‘culture’ that produces bad outcomes
in certain groups. Again, we’re back to wokeism.’
‘While race realism [a term used as an alternative to hereditarianism] may be less dangerous
than we think, the DEI devil may be more dangerous. Brainwashing generations of children to
believe that intractable group differences are the fault of a particular race (whites) that will
soon be a shrinking minority can end in a dark place. … White children are brainwashed to
despise themselves because of their skin color. Anecdotally, white children are sometimes
driven to transgenderism in an attempt to escape the shameful status of oppressor.’
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I’ve been dev a framework derived from Peter Haas’s “epistemic communities” (ACEs) to analyse how far-right propaganda works. The adaptation is situated at 2 levels: 1. Uncertainty production: whereas Haas’s epistemic communities acquire relevance by reducing uncertainty for decision-makers...
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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Florian Schlund @florianschlund.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Durch Wildblumen unter Solaranlagen: Minnesota hat 20x mehr Bienen als vor 5 Jahren .... The Sweet Agrivoltaics Revolution Saving America’s Farmland theecorevolution.substack.com/p/solar-hone...
theecorevolution.substack.com
The Sweet Agrivoltaics Revolution Saving America’s Farmland
How solar honey is saving dying pollinators, boosting crop yields, and ending the battle over rural land use.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
One thing I lay out in this post is that Trump is ALREADY stoking stochastic terrorism against Davey Hearn (and laid the groundwork to go after the judge, Todd Edelman), in part to try to give the Parks employee who accused Hearn credibility. emptywheel.net/2026/08/11/h...
A Trump post attacking Davey Hearn. I've marked how he's trying to do that: by reframing Jeanine Pirro's MTD, by attempting to resuscitate the discredited witness who accused Hearn, by invoking Act Blue to trigger conspiracy thinking, and to tribalize things, tying Hearn to Jim Comey and 8647.A Libs of TikTok post magnifying Trump's attack on Hearn. I've shown how she grabs attention, "HOLY CRAP," stoking grievance, how she made shit up about Act Blue that Trump didn't say, then dehumanized Hearn by calling him deranged.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“Silly” is a good way to put it! There were excesses in 2020 but they were mostly low-stakes efforts by well-intentioned people to address real injustices. The excesses of the right during the same era were far more harmful. The reckoning we need now is about how elites lost sight of that.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Hi! I’m the rabbi that organized 2500 other rabbis around this principle before, during and after the fall of Dobbs. A thread!! 🧵 First of all, there’s a lot of clarity in the tradition about this. From the Mishnah on down:
lifeisasacredtext.com
The Torah of Reproductive Freedom
The Jewish Case for Abortion Justice
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
No, that's not correct. Emissions from A.I. are at present a very small fraction of total carbon emissions ~0.01% and 0.6% globally (see: www.climateimpact.com/news-insight...). A more legitimate concern is that this has the potential to scale up significantly in the future.
climateimpact.com
The Carbon Footprint of AI
AI is transforming our world - but understanding its hidden carbon footprint is key to building a smarter, greener future.
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Annaliese Paulson @annaliesep.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Thanks for reading and sharing! We just published our official working version here: Baum, Micah, Joaquín Endara, and Annaliese Paulson. (2026). Do Faculty Affect Student Partisanship?. (EdWorkingPaper: 26-1538). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: doi.org/10.26300/8ej...
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Do Faculty Affect Student Partisanship?
We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the h...
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