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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

It’s not just that it’s clearly intentional, it’s that it’s clearly intentional knowing that he’s being recorded. They know they can do whatever they want with complete impunity.

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

If anyone is having trouble following my (increasingly long) thread tracking incidents where police assaulted journalists at protests in Los Angeles this weekend, it's also in spreadsheet form here. This is the more organized version I've been sending to lawyers, agency chiefs, electeds, etc.

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California Press Rights Tracking Doc (Consolidated)

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Hi Belinda. Sorry about this. Journalists who are reporting on protests are esp. at risk of injury at the hands of police. That dynamic has been far worse since Trump's first term where he vilified journalists endlessly. LAPD is also known for it. After only 3 days, there's a long list of attacks.

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Belinda Barnet @manjusrii.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Don’t shoot our journalists FFS. Sticking a tariff on our exports is one thing—but actually aiming and shooting at our media is quite another

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Dr. Susan Liebell @drsusanliebell.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

A reminder that this case is about the POTUS requesting a change to factual cartography just one example from 1640 seen at MIT Science Museum. Trump Can Restrict A.P. Journalists’ Access, Appeals Court Rules www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/06/2025

Tribal college leaders said they were stunned by the proposed cuts to their already insufficient funding and had more questions than answers. “It’s a dagger, and I don’t know how we can survive these types of cuts,” one college president said. By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social

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Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing

ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year. Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate…

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Jeffrey A. Ward @jeffreyaward.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

As an Ohioan who lives in Jim Jordan’s district, I’ve been waiting on this doc. More than its political implications, I want to recognize the courage of the men who stepped forward to become the faces of this tragedy, including thousands of assaults enabled by people like Jordan. Trailer below.

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Surviving Ohio State | Official Trailer | HBO

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Dr. Susan Liebell @drsusanliebell.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I worry about the future of democracy when leaders like Emmanuel Macron act like kings -- and possibly stoke resentment towards government. Macron has lost touch with what it means to work, to travel with children, or to spend 26 euros.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

It’s a special honor to be among those receiving honorary degrees from Brown. It’s a place that welcomed me and shaped me and challenged me and liberated me, and made possible everything that came after. I’m looking forward to celebrating this weekend with friends. www.brown.edu/news/2025-05...

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Brown to confer honorary degrees on seven distinguished leaders at Commencement 2025

The University will bestow honorary degrees on a diverse group of community leaders, artists, writers, performers and scholars during its Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 25.

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Dr. Susan Liebell @drsusanliebell.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Live in Philly? Get out and vote for Brian Kisielewski for judge for Common Pleas. I taught Brian as a college student and wouldn’t stand outside all day for many others!

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Very worrisome pattern here of using the law to allow Trump to undermine the courts and nonprofit sector www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri... slate.com/news-and-pol... More like classic democratic erosion tactics that are boring and bureaucratic, not Elon Musk and Big Balls breaking into offices

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Dr. Susan Liebell @drsusanliebell.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Your Monday morning podcast is my conversation with @robertblair.bsky.social. Substantive discussion of democratic erosion AND concrete ways for YOU to do something about it. FREE resources from the @demerosiondec.bsky.social #PoliSky #LawSky #AcademicSky newbooksnetwork.com/peacekeeping...

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Calibrating the Outrage: A Conversation about Democratic Erosion, Legality, and Politics - New Books Network

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Evan Spotte-Smith (they/them) @ewcss.info · 19/05/2025

This is an incredible initiative! Does anyone in the Pittsburgh area want to work on this with me?

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Becca Lacey @rebeccalacey.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I am hiring for a new researchers on my @nuffieldfoundation.org young carers project. Closes 4thJune. After someone with strong quant longitudinal skills, passion for communicating research beyond academia & wants to work with people w lived experience/other sectors jobs.sgul.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Job Opportunity at St George's University of London: Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology

The Research Fellow will investigate young carers and health inequalities using advanced longitudinal quantitative methods. Responsibilities include data analysis, literature reviews, publishing findi...

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The Magna Carta, a foundational document in Western law and a key inspiration for the U.S. Constitution, says even the king must follow the rules. Now scholars have turned up an original at Harvard, Bill Booth writes from London www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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In Harvard’s archives, British scholars find a lost Magna Carta

At a moment when Harvard is battling the Trump administration, a scholar who helped discover the charter said it was an “almost providential” find.

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Dr. Susan Liebell @drsusanliebell.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Hi there -- if you are interested in #democratic erosion and democratic backsliding -- consider following the Democratic Erosion Consortium @demerosiondec.bsky.social as well as @robertblair.bsky.social #History #PoliSky #LawSky #PolicySky #AcademicSky

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Woozle & Taffy @woozle-taffy.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

London hedge dog❤️

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CV @improvisfun.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

This reminds me of a mural I saw in Oaxaca, Mexico.

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Ned Wilcox @nedwilcox.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Nice. This too.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The world needs more of this and less of most other things

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Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

So the Department of Physics at the University of Auckland is looking to hire a lecturer/senior lecturer in one of the following areas: - Physics education research, - Quantum optics and quantum information, - Biophotonics and/or medical physics, - Astrophysics and/or space technology. 1/2...

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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Physics

Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandKo te whare Pūtaiao | The Faculty of Science at the University of Auckland is the leading science faculty in New Zealand and one of...

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Recommending a steroid like budesonide, which suppresses the immune system, as a frontline treatment for measles is well passed stupid - it's monstrous.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

It is bracing to reread the Framers’ bone-deep fears about foreign corruption of the presidency and realize Trump is exactly what they were trying to prevent. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Many delegates, including Alexander Hamilton, fretted that "one of the weak sides of republics" was their susceptibility "to foreign corruption"; leaders elevated to "stations of great preeminence and power" by the people, Hamilton wrote, may be tempted to abandon their
"obligations of duty," lured by "compensations" from other nations seeking influence. In other words, federal officials could be so entranced by the wealth of foreign leaders, especially monarchs, that they might sell out their own country in exchange for a share of the riches dangled before them. The delegates sought to guard against this existential threat to republican "virtue" by adopting the foreign emoluments clause-unanimously, and without debate.

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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

something that i think is important here is to zero in on the word "democracy" because for too long this concept, in popular imagination, has been flattened into "voter preferences" and not all the important trappings of Constitutionalism

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

1/ This is true if you think that John Roberts's and Anthony Kennedy's understanding of corruption in the context of nonjudicial candidates and government officials *is* the meaning of corruption.

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Dr. Susan Liebell @drsusanliebell.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Glad we have more journalists on @bsky.app engaging. As a journalist, @ericlipton.nytimes.com SHOULD say "potential" but others SHOULD point out the ways in which the Trump administration accepts or requests money...and determine whether there is a case for legal action. Democracy takes a village.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I see www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

Conservative advocates and politicians, when discussing the issue, generally do not specify which parent could choose to stay home with the children. But more than 80 percent of stay-at-home parents are women — and some advocates are open about the fact that they see benefits to a mother filling that role.

“We cannot get away from the fact that a child is hard-wired to bond with mom,” said Jenet Erickson, a co-writer of Mr. Vance’s 2021 essay and a fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, a conservative policy group that advocates for raising the birthrate. “They know her smell, they know her heartbeat, they know her voice. I just think, why should we deny that?”

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Marin K. Levy @marinklevy.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I could not be prouder to be part of this letter - signed by nearly 60 members of the Duke Law School faculty - reaffirming our commitment to academic freedom and the rule of law. And speaking out against what we see as recent threats to both. Critically, we do so alongside other law schools . . .

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Dr. Susan Liebell @drsusanliebell.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The BEST Twilight Zone Episode. EVER. A must watch if you have never seen it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyVD...

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THE TWILIGHT ZONE | The Most MEMORABLE Twist In All Of HORROR?

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Dr. Susan Liebell @drsusanliebell.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

This is really well said by @thomaszimmer.bsky.social. The US has a long legacy of forced sterilization and eugenics. This is not a slip of the tongue -- it is a policy. We eradicated a disease through vaccination. Now, children will die for no reason -- except GOP public policy.

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Dr. Susan Liebell @drsusanliebell.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Your ESSENTIAL democracy conversation is my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast with @johncarey.bsky.social and Gretchen Helmke about the latest Bright Line Watch report, Threats to #democracy and academic freedom after Trump’s second first 100 days. newbooksnetwork.com/constitution...

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Constitutional Crisis or a Stalemate? John Carey and Gretchen Helmke on the State of American Democracy - New Books Network

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Dr. Susan Liebell @drsusanliebell.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

She not only thanks the workers but clarifies WHY Congress funds the library and who uses it.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 11/05/2025

Our client Rümeysa Öztürk spent the last 6 weeks in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana — all in retaliation for an op-ed she co-authored. On Saturday, she finally made it home to her beloved Tufts community, where she can resume her studies and begin teaching again as her case proceeds.

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Rümeysa Öztürk comes home, speaks at press conference in Boston - The Tufts Daily

Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk returned to Massachusetts on Saturday and spoke publicly to a crowd of reporters at Boston Logan International Airport following her release from Immigration and ...

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

See this? It's called a non-inferiority trial. It compares the new vaccine with the current vaccines to see if the new vaccine does better. This new vaccine did. Placebo-controlled trials are not needed to test most new vaccines. Demanding them will only reduce vaccine access. Which is the point.

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Matthew Budman, book guy @matthewbudman.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Fave Penzeys so far: "The ongoing Republican effort to end our democracy is Outrageous. The party's purge of those disloyal to the January 6 plotters is even worse. When does a party end & fascism begin? When good people give up on being Outraged. Your love is strong; use it to keep Outrage alive."

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Outrage of Love

Good on avocados, eggs, fish, vegetables, salads, chicken, hummus, sandwiches, and cheeseburgers.

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Dr. Susan Liebell @drsusanliebell.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

The fabulous spice house, Penzey’s of Wisconsin has a set of new spices (“add spice LIBERALLY”). This one is terrific and makes a wonderful gift. #queersky #democracy #queercreators Also, once you try their double strength vanilla extract there will be no turning back.

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Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

BREAKING: WE WON BIG-again! In 2023 the Supreme Court correctly decided Alabama’s congressional map likely violated the Voting Rights Act. After Black voter elected Rep. Shomari Figures from a new fair map in 2024, we went to trial earlier this year to defend it. 1/5

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/05/2025

Also a valid point. The Library of Congress is in the legislative, not executive, branch.

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Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Today a panel of 3 federal judges issued a 571-page decision holding that Alabama discriminated against Black voters and upholding our map. Specifically, the court stated: “The Legislature knew what federal law required & purposefully refused to provide it.” 2/5

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Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

At a time when Americans are being urged to abandon the fight for racial justice, to doubt democracy & disregard civil rights, thanks to the tenacity of our clients, LDF and our co-counsel are winning important voting cases that prove those fights are as important as ever. 3/5

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 09/05/2025

At the risk of screaming into the void: if you care about American history, you should care about the 250th. This is a rare chance to reintroduce history to broad swaths of the American public, to redefine public engagement with history for a generation. Don’t cede the whole thing to Trump.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 08/05/2025

C̶h̶i̶c̶a̶g̶o̶ ̶P̶o̶p̶e̶ Bayesian Pope

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Acting head of FEMA to Congress on Wednesday: “I do not believe it is in the best interests of the American people to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency,” On Thursday, he is fired. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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