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Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 21h

Ugh. I think I just changed my commuting plan.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 22h

Something I don’t mention enough is what a good feeling it is to see a student make major progress based on feedback I’ve given. So rewarding!

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Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 22h

Sounds like a perfect morning

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

lol, if you know my history as a teen Watergate geek, you know I never miss a chance to write about Nixon! But team Trump's obsession with rewriting the 1970s past is really about controlling the future, and killing off the concept of accountability My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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Trump’s fixation on Nixon is also a warning | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, what Texas Senate ads during an Eagles game really mean.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A running gag in my household is to reply "Or is/did it?" to any assertion. Leads to some fun discussions. Curiosity is good, actually.

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's amazing how much of my research started by simply by looking at what "everyone knows" and asking: Really? - Does the USPTO REALLY reject 50% of applications? - Is it REALLY impossible for most designs to qualify for a design patent? - Did the first design patent REALLY claim a typeface?

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Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s always a good day when a new @badlawyerpod.bsky.social episode comes out

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s a subtle through line of my writing about AI. all the sophisticates are so easy to rob blind. if nothing else, people should be embarrassed that they’re so easily taken.

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hey, state con law nerds! Do you find yourself in the Mid-Atlantic, yearning to go to an excellent lecture on the importance of state judiciaries in shaping the national conversation about rights and democracy? Well have I got an event for YOU. Come join us at Rutgers Law - Camden on October 26th!

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

3d Cir. has ruled in favor of Thompson Reuters, finding that a competitor infringed their copyright in the headnotes on Westlaw, which the competitor partially used to train its AI. But the opinion is currently sealed so the parties can make redactions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT No. 25-2153 THOMSON REUTERS ENTERPRISE CENTRE GMBH; WEST PUBLISHING CORP v. ROSS INTELLIGENCE INC, Appellant _____________________________ On Appeal from the U.S. District Court, D. Del. Judge Stephanos Bibas*, No. 1:20-cv-00613 Before: RESTREPO, MONTGOMERY-REEVES, and BOVE, Circuit Judges Argued: June 11, 2026 _____________________________ JUDGMENT This cause came to be considered on the record from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and was argued on June 11, 2026. On consideration whereof, it is now ORDERED and ADJUDGED that the District Court’s order entered on February 11, 2025, is hereby AFFIRMED. Costs will be taxed against the Appellant. All of the above in accordance with the Opinion of this Court. ATTEST: s/Patricia S. Dodszuweit Clerk

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

no one should use this thing but I just cannot stress enough that you have to stay away from it if you’re a practicing attorney

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Susan of Texas @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A woman’s lifetime of suffering is weighed against a potential temporary setback in a man’s career, and the man’s self-induced plight always carries more weight.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about my experiences with being trashed in the media, and I think it’s interesting that the scientists who believed the bad press about me never noticed that the only colleagues who said bad things about me were men And they didn’t question why that was

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/09/2026

Ah yes, the function was fine, it was just the FORMAT that people objected to.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Read the document (Gift Article)

Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"In Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, people said their opposition [to AI and data centers] stemmed less from a fear of tech and more from a sense that they were being lied to by elected leaders who were at best too weak to stand up to or at worst in cahoots with wealthy industry."

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Peter Orlowicz @peterorlowicz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is like the example a textbook author makes up to illustrate various ethics violations.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

her original essay really shaped the way i have thought about public/private education and how resources are distributed unequally. i respect the intention a lot and really, really respect this public grappling with what she got right and wrong. integrity, and really heartbreaking.

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Monica @jolemamels.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

THAT THROW THAT CATCH

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Okay, here we go! Pennsylvania State University v. Vintage Brand LLC, live at the Third Circuit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXpp...

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Last week, I told you how local cops have partnered with ICE to bring tons of arrests and spread fear in small towns and rural areas like Schuylkill County, Pa. Now, I am asking Gov. Shapiro and others why PA can't ban 287(g) like NY, NJ, and MD have My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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Next-door states banned ICE-cop deals. Why not Pa.? | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, the threat to human civilization that isn’t AI.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

OK - Coming attractions time. I found this wonderful paragraph in a federal court filing (specifically, in a motion to dismiss). It's one of the most amazing string cites (kinda) I've seen. The full case is amazing; I'll do a litigation disaster tourism thread tomorrow.

Hundreds of years before the Common Era, Herodotus wrote of the Neuri, a
tribe northeast of Scythia that would reportedly transform into wolves for several days once a year.
Herodotus, The Histories, 4.105 (circa 440 BCE). Werewolves continued to appear in folklore from
antiquity through modern times, and across a wide range of cultures. See, e.g., Pausanias, Description of
Greece, 8.2 (circa 160-180 CE); Ovid, The Metamorphoses, I 219-239 (circa 8 CE); Pliny the Elder,
Natural History, VIII.34 (circa 77 CE); Augustine, The City of God, XVIII.17 (circa 426 CE); King
Canute, Ecclesiastical Ordinances, c. 26 (circa 1020 CE); Anonymous, The Tale of Igor’s Campaign (circa
late 1100s) (Slavic folklore); Marie de France, Bisclavret (circa 1200); Völsungasaga, ch. 8 (circa 1250
CE) (Nordic folklore). Bram Stoker depicted Dracula as a werewolf in Dracula’s Guest. Werewolves

came to the silver screen first in Werewolf of London (1935) and then Lon Chaney’s definitive
performance in The Wolf Man (1941), and have essentially never left it since. And animal
shapeshifting has not been limited to wolves. Greek mythology is replete with humans (or humanshaped gods) who transform into animals or monsters. In Tlingit folklore, Kóoshdaa are wereotters. Celtic mythology includes selkies (were-seals) and kelpies (shape-shifting water-horses that
live in lochs). DC Comics has featured numerous shark-human hybrids since its Silver Age,
including Guppy (a small-time criminal in Nightwing’s rogues’ gallery, first appearance in 2018),
King Shark (the son of a shark god and a human mother, first appearance in 1994), and Karshon (a
mutated shark, first appearance in Green Lantern 24, October 1963). Other examples abound.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026

Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted).
As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#BREAKING: Over public dissents from Justices Thomas and Alito, #SCOTUS *denies* the Trump administration’s request for a stay in the mail-in ballots case. The USPS Rule will remain blocked—almost certainly through the midterms.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The EPA will test America's drinking water for abortion medication & birth control—caving to a years-long pressure campaign from anti-abortion extremists.

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BREAKING: EPA Will Test Drinking Water for Abortion Pills & Contraception

The federal agency just caved to years of anti-abortion pressure

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Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’ve been listening to this as a way of revisiting this fantastic story and it really is so good.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

respect to Google Gemini for getting me a 2020 Hugo nom for a story that doesn't exist published in a magazine I've never sold to

Award-Nominated Short Stories"And Now His Lordship Is Laughing" (2019): Published in Strange Horizons, this powerful historical fantasy story was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. It is set in Bengal during World War II under British rule and deals with art, rebellion, and grief."The Inaccessibility of Castles" (2020): Published in Clarkesworld Magazine, this story was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 2021.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026

Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This piece by Colson Whitehead is one of my favorite things ever written. I've shared it many times with folks over the years. It was published two months after 9/11, and I believe it's one of the greatest things ever put to pen about grief, memory, and time. www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

I started building my New York on the uptown No. 1 train. My first city memory is of looking out a subway window as the train erupted from the tunnel on the way to 125th Street and palsied up onto the elevated tracks. It's the early 70's, so everything is filthy. Which means everything is still filthy, because that is my city and I'm sticking to it. I still call it the Pan Am Building, not out of affectation, but because that's what it is. For that new transplant from Des Moines, who is starting her first week of work at a Park Avenue South insurance firm, that colossus squatting over Grand Central is the Met Life Building, and for her it always will be. She is wrong, of course -- when I look up there, I clearly see the gigantic letters spelling out Pan Am, don't I? And of course I am wrong, in the eyes of the old-timers who maintain the myth that there was a time before Pan Am.

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Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’d be interested how many of us did this. I know several just in my immediate circle.

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

more of this energy, please

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