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Frank Deale

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Professor of Law, Cuny Law School; former Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights. Organizational affiliations listed for identification purposes only.

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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump’s Dismantling of Student Loan Aid Is Crashing Down on Debtors This Week truthout.org/articles/tru...
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Trump’s Dismantling of Student Loan Aid Is Crashing Down on Debtors This Week
Organizers are calling to stop the collections, the wage garnishments, and the credit score reductions.
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A museum dedicated to women artists katyhessel.substack.com/p/a-museum-d...
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A museum dedicated to women artists
A new rehang at FAMM for summer 2026!
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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'Historic turning point' • Israel moves toward recognizing Austrian party founded by former Nazis
The Austrian Freedom Party's leader gave a speech backing Israel's right-wing agenda that was welcomed by members of the Israeli government. Austria's established Jewish community vehemently rejects t...
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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CUNY Discloses Investments in Israeli Apartheid After Years-Long Campaign
CUNY has direct investments in weapons manufacturers enabling Israel’s genocide, including Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“The People’s Historian”: Dave Zirin’s New Book Explores “Remarkable” Life of Howard Zinn | Democracy Now! www.democracynow.org/2026/8/3/dav...
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“The People’s Historian”: Dave Zirin’s New Book Explores “Remarkable” Life of Howard Zinn
We speak to Dave Zirin, author and sports editor at The Nation, about his new book, The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn, chronicling the life and activism of the legendary histori...
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Artificial Education | The Harvard Crimson
Machine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends.
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/c...
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Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"If not now, when?" lessig.substack.com/p/if-not-now...
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"If not now, when?"
On the First Circuit argument to uphold the Maine initiative that could end Super PACs
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The End of Legal Scholarship? - Legal Profession legalpro.jotwell.com/the-end-of-l...
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The End of Legal Scholarship? - Legal Profession
Andrew Perlman, Generative AI and the Future of Legal Scholarship (June 2026 edition), available at SSRN (June 9, 2026).Eli WaldCrisis claims, especially around disruptive technological innovation, te...
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The court and the “opinions of mankind” | SCOTUSblog www.scotusblog.com/2026/07/the-...
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The court and the “opinions of mankind”
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.axios.com/2026/09/13/r...
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Americans are still in a reading rut
Just over 16% read for pleasure on an average day.
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Supreme Court won’t allow midterm mail-in voting limits : NPR share.google/eXG0iiE1Wrjd...
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The Supreme Court rejects Trump's mail voting restrictions for this year's midterms
The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration's request to allow mail-in voting restrictions under a U.S. Postal Service plan for the midterm general election.
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The push to reduce the Supreme Court’s power | SCOTUSblog www.scotusblog.com/2026/07/the-...
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The push to reduce the Supreme Court’s power
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Conservative Democrats Offer Amendment to Outdo GOP’s Condemnation of DSA
By Sharon Zhang This article was originally published by Truthout The Democrats complained that Republicans weren’t taking the condemnation of socialism seriously enough. A group of conservative De…
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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What’s Left of The New School?
Jeremy Varon Dissent The New School’s workforce cuts, executive power grabs, and assault on tenure show how authoritarian management is spreading far beyond Washington. It has been tough times for …
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Neoliberal Policy Hollowed Out Universities. Now They Are Collapsing
By Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt This article was originally published by Truthout Administrators treat their universities like businesses — that’s why they’re failing. If education is indeed the great v…
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Stop the Sabotage, Democrats! You Need Talarico and El-Sayed to Win. newrepublic.com/article/2149... via @newrepublic.com
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Stop the Sabotage, Democrats! You Need Talarico and El-Sayed to Win.
Would these Democrats really rather have Trumpy Republicans in the Senate than Democrats they have disagreements with? It kinda looks that way.
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The fake historian advising Trump's anti-Smithsonian crusade open.substack.com/pub/populari...
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The fake historian advising Trump's anti-Smithsonian crusade
Last Friday, President Trump released an executive order directing officials to install signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) informing visitors that the museum pr...
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Is the US Ready for Radical Change? Interview With C. J. Polychroniou
The US is the richest country in the world, yet an international outlier on many measures. Among industrialized nations, the US spends a lower percentage
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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United Auto Workers Divests From Israel
At the 39th Constitutional Convention, delegates voted to divest $400,000 worth of bonds in historic first.
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Crime as Colonization - Criminal Law crim.jotwell.com/crime-as-col...
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Crime as Colonization - Criminal Law
Emmanuel Hiram Arnaud, Colonizing by Contract, 124 Colum. L. Rev. 2239 (2024).Sheldon EvansPuerto Rico is more than a territory; it is a mirror that reflects American values of sovereignty, race, and ...
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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What’s Left of The New School? - Dissent Magazine
Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But what’s happening to the school is an increasingly ...
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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‘132F’: meet the man calling out NYC’s infernally hot subway stations
Jack Klein takes heat readings, gives fans to overheated passengers and lugs big jugs of water into the stations
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New Bar Exam’s Rollout Failure Doesn’t Call for Backtracking news.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw...
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Bloomberg Law
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Cost of Deportations Calculator | Economic Policy Institute www.epi.org/deportation-...
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The Cost of Deportations Calculator
The Trump administration is taking billions of _your_ taxpayer dollars to pay for mass deportations. The Cost of Deportations Calculator shows what could this money be used for instead.
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The Supreme Court's Supreme Hyprocrisy open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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The Supreme Court's Supreme Hyprocrisy
The Court embraces Congress when it needs funds for security and rejects Congress when lawmakers ask about ethics.
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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It sure looks like Jason Arday was horrifically wronged
The media’s profound ignorance of academia is a deadly problem
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Politics behind probes of antisemitism at Ivy League schools, whistleblower says - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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Politics drove antisemitism probes against Ivy League schools, DOJ whistleblower says
A Trump administration task force on antisemitism pressured universities into punitive settlements despite turning up little to no evidence of systemic abuses, according to a former Justice Department...
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Trump-tied law school dean can’t even appear in court
Students matriculating this fall into Florida’s only public law school, Florida International University College of Law, are set for a unique educational treat: an interim dean who is officially…
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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Mutiny Aboard US Carrier Abraham Lincoln Off Iranian Coast
Bruce Gagnon, Space for Peace. Recent reports indicate a serious mutiny situation aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. Seven U.S. Navy personnel have possibly been killed and several others injured…
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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Economist Baker Explains: AI Bubble Is About To Burst
Taya Graham and Stephen Janis TRNN Economist Dean Baker (Center for Economic and Policy Research, author of Rigged and creator of the AI Bubble Monitor) joins Taya Graham and Stephen Janis to break…
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A Yale-Trump Settlement Would Concede Live Constitutional Issue news.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw...
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Bloomberg Law
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Jason Arday's Death and the Age of Digital Racial Terror
What Jason Arday's death by media mob says about the old machinery of anti-Black terror in the algorithmic age.
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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A Federal Judge Says the Constitution Still Protects Abortion
The ruling protects abortion for physical and mental health in Idaho—with the potential for broader impact
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Florida Tried to Stop Woke. The First Amendment Stopped Florida. – Cloaking Inequity cloakinginequity.com/2026/07/09/f...
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Florida Tried to Stop Woke. The First Amendment Stopped Florida.
A public university classroom is not a political campaign podium. A federal appeals court has just reminded Florida of that, and in doing so, reminded the country of something we should never have …
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Anti-fascist historian Marc Bloch is inducted into France’s National Panthéon - BT News breakthroughnews.org/2026/07/05/a...
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Anti-fascist historian Marc Bloch is inducted into France’s National Panthéon - BT News
The medievalist scholar was captured by the Gestapo while participating in the French Resistance and was later tortured and executed by firing squad.
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Federal Judge Dismisses Trump Administration Antisemitism Lawsuit Against Harvard | News | The Harvard Crimson www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Federal Judge Dismisses Trump Administration Antisemitism Lawsuit Against Harvard | News | The Harvard Crimson
A district court judge dismissed the Trump administration’s antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard on Thursday, concluding that the discrimination pointed to by the government was “too isolated and epis...
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Citi Bike fare legislation seeks $3 flat rate as NYC cyclists, transit advocates cite steep cost of rides | abc7ny.com
Transit advocates and cyclists are pushing for a bill that would cap Citi Bike rides at $3, arguing that NYC's bike-share system is too expensive.
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from oil and gas assets since joining supreme court, analysis shows www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from oil and gas assets since joining supreme court, analysis shows
Critics argue US high court justice should recuse himself from upcoming fossil fuel firms’ climate accountability case
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Without Solidarity, The Left Will Fail
Democratic socialist Francesca Hong was abandoned by those who could—and should—have helped her become the first DSA governor. Next time, we need to do better.
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A Bookstore in Tehran Keeps Its Doors Open Amidst War, by Anonymous worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/july/bo...
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A Bookstore in Tehran Keeps Its Doors Open Amidst War, by Anonymous
The owner of a Tehran bookstore describes staying open through the current war and during preceding upheavals—and the books to which people turn for guidance, now sold out.
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Ward Churchill, Professor Who Challenged His Dismissal Over 9/11 Essay, Dies at 78 - The New York Times share.google/QyoLq43EhTp1...
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Ward Churchill, Professor Who Challenged His Dismissal Over 9/11 Essay, Dies at 78
His inflammatory essay about the attacks prompted his dismissal by the University of Colorado for unrelated research misconduct. A jury later found that he had been wrongfully terminated.
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Workers Are Teaching AI-Powered Robots to Take Over Their Jobs
Robotics companies are competing to collect videos of humans stitching shoes and welding steel to give their machines new skills.
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Kshama Sawant Blew It
Ideological purity remains a dead end for the left.
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Can DSA Really Win Red America? lesleopold.substack.com/p/can-dsa-re...
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Can DSA Really Win Red America?
To do so, it must become an organization of working people—not simply for them.
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
jessica.substack.com/p/massachuse...
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Massachusetts Just Legalized Abortion Throughout Pregnancy
Congratulations to the advocates & lawmakers who made it happen
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
El-Sayed's Michigan victory raises prospect of progressive doctor in Senate www.axios.com/2026/08/06/e...
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El-Sayed's victory raises prospect of a progressive doctor in the Senate
It also elevates health care in a key Senate race.
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
U.S. workers are staying in unwanted jobs for health insurance www.axios.com/2026/07/22/h...
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U.S. workers are staying in unwanted jobs for health insurance
Women and people who have chronic health conditions feel the burden most.
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Trump's War on the Museum of American History Continues kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/trumps-war...
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Trump's War on the Museum of American History Continues
The White House's new Smithsonian report has no authors, no methodology, and no historians. What it has is an agenda.
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Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
For 250 Years America Has Been a Democratic Socialist Country open.substack.com/pub/americas...
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For 250 Years (Happy Birthday!) America Has Been a Democratic Socialist Country
Our socialist programs were responsible for the biggest middle class the world has ever seen
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