Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 2hGood advice. I might temper it slightly by: it’s ok to listen to advice leaks from genuine close mentors. But they have to be real real genuine. Like, I can think of 2 or 3 people from whom I’d listen to advice leaks if I were magically transported back to the entry level market (nightmarish idea) 251
Reposted by Paul GowderJudith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 3hJob: Princeton's Effron Center for the Study of America is conducting an open-rank search in Native American and Indigenous Studies in any field in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Review of applications begins November 1.apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 034
Reposted by Paul GowderJacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 4h@wearehighered.bsky.social 054
Reposted by Paul GowderHeidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 22hI was just thinking about the fact that Amy Coney Barrett told Congress that her children have had to think about things that children should never have to think about. But for children of immigrants shipped off to torture dungeons, I guess it's ... character building? 39519
Reposted by Paul GowderMichael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 22hImportant: Relief from third country removal may still be sought in individual habeas petitions. 26625
Reposted by Paul GowderAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 22hThis is a human rights abuse worthy of prosecution under intentional law. Minimally, they should be impeached and removed for this alone. 15480157
Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 22hSCOTUS, I guess: "who cares if immigrants are sent to torture dungeons in Equatorial Guinea? It's not like they're humans with rights." 410231
Reposted by Paul GowderThe Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that. 391002413
Reposted by Paul GowderBloomberg Law @bloomberglaw.com · 28/09/2026The Trump administration’s latest efforts to limit birthright citizenship are unconstitutional, employees of international organizations and their children say in a new lawsuit.bit.lyInternational Workers, Their Kids Sue Over Trump Birthright OrderThe Trump administration’s latest efforts to limit birthright citizenship are unconstitutional, employees of international organizations and their children say in a new lawsuit. 082
Reposted by Paul GowderRay Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026[Here we go, another collusive lawsuit between Trump and his little buddies.] January 6 Rioters Claim They Were “Punished,” Demand Restitution newrepublic.com/post/215934/...newrepublic.comJanuary 6 Rioters Claim They Were “Punished,” Demand RestitutionRioters who attacked the Capitol now want compensation from taxpayers. 092
Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 28/09/2026Seriously though WHY. Meta isn't the VERY last company that I would trust to touch any serious aspect of my life, but that's only because Palantir exists. 411321
Reposted by Paul GowderSchnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026So much of the business of the past few years is silicon valley radicalized because for a brief moment there was social pressure that they couldn't be non-stop sexpests. 551084
Reposted by Paul GowderDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895404927
Reposted by Paul Gowderdemocracydefendersfund.org @democracydefendersfund.org · 27/09/2026The right to peacefully protest is a cornerstone of our democracy. Counterterrorism expert @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social and DDF’s Allison Rice examine how the Trump administration's war on "domestic terror" threatens free speech, civil society, and First Amendment protections.democracydefendersfund.orgStanding Up for America’s Civil Society and the Right to Peacefully ProtestThrough a series of official executive memoranda, the Trump administration has turned the machinery of federal law enfor 01110
Reposted by Paul GowderJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se... 3233831255
Reposted by Paul GowderRikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I would add to this that the whole point of an academic publications is that they are supposed to be records of things you have learned through careful scholarship. If they contain non-existent references, they are a misrepresentation of what is assumed to be the process behind the product. 18518
Reposted by Paul GowderMo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Yeah so profs are gonna have to unionize like yesterday 1296
Reposted by Paul GowderEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026On two fronts—WH press access and third-country removals—the administration appears to be ignoring court orders. 23400207
Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 24/09/2026All I really ask about Ohare-no-gate-arrival-jail is that they figure out a way to let people pee in it 271
Reposted by Paul GowderChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Astonishing it made it this far. One of the most-illegal things on the long list we need to resolve by Making Crime Illegal Again (Taylor's Version) 017833
Reposted by Paul GowderRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026At 3:30pm ET, US District Judge Tim Kelly will hold a hearing on whether to grant a temporary restraining order barring enforcement of Trump's 9/18 directive to bar @cnn.com, @msnownews.bsky.social, & @politico.com from the White House grounds. I’ll try to live-post for @lawfaremedia.org /1 8428128
Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 23/09/2026The ASPCA really needs to look into the hunchbacks beating the mules to make them turn gigantic wheels in the basement of every single New York City hotel to power the elevators 130
Reposted by Paul GowderMicah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026every day for the next six weeks we are going to be treated to a bunch of Republicans going “oh god oh god we’re so fucked” and I think we should all take some time to savor it 651898277
Reposted by Paul GowderAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026so i may be out of my depth here but hes at 30% approval, you elites can stop capitulating now 1004404563
Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 21/09/2026legal scholarship really needs a canonical (& computerized) compendium of basic citations for obvious propositions to satisfy bluebook demands. (Alas, @orinkerr.bsky.social 's Theory of Law will not always work). Like, I am writing some variant of the following sentence in a draft essay: (cont) 1111
Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 21/09/2026lol just one more American humiliation: the U.N. high level meeting is starting and we can’t work the airports because someone went snip snip on a fiber optic line somewhere www.cnn.com/2026/09/21/u...cnn.comFiber cut by construction crew leads to ground stop and delays at several major airports | CNNA Federal Aviation Administration equipment outage is causing significant flight delays at five major Northeast airports after construction contractors dug up and cut a Verizon cable, the company said... 3193
Reposted by Paul GowderDon Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Maybe it's my military experience talking, but untrammelled Art. II just isn't a way to run a govt allegedly concerned with liberty. And it shouldn't be a way to launder authoritarianism and pinning for Caesar. 061
Reposted by Paul GowderPaul Gowder @gowder.io · 21/09/2026Like, what kind of fucking politico-legal setup is this? "Hey guys? Just so you know, Mercury was in retrograde one November in a year divisible by four and now you have a Caligula-based system of government. Enjoy!" 2344
Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 21/09/2026I truly do not understand why everyone who ever argued for the unitary executive theory isn't on their hands and knees begging the rest of us for forgiveness after seeing what their insane dictatorship theory has created 79920
Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 21/09/2026We as Americans have to surrender our grip on the global financial system. Yes it's useful for foreign policy purposes. But until we get rid of the institution of the presidency we can't be trusted with it anymore. We simply cannot control the guy with the capacity to lock people out of money. 2276
Reposted by Paul GowderEoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs? 26082461642
Reposted by Paul Gowdersouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“Briefly detained” = beat half to death 7549261648
Reposted by Paul GowderOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty 3035901148
Reposted by Paul GowderThe UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 16/09/2026What happens when powerful public figures make open bigotry feel acceptable? Danielle Allen on Trump, Musk, and the normalization of racism and antisemitism. From LibCon2026. #LibCon2026 2197
Reposted by Paul GowderAdam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 19/09/2026So @radtranslib.bsky.social, who started writing for us this year and quickly became one of our core contributing editors, is kind of funny in that she contains within herself the multitudes that make up the @liberalcurrents.com community in general www.liberalcurrents.com/drive/liberalcurrents.comRedeem This Deal to Subscribe to Liberal Currents Today!Reserve your copy of next year's issue of The Reconstruction Papers. 2449
Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 19/09/2026Random call into the void: is there by any chance anyone on here who knows of a really good historical treatment of the 1866 treaty between the U.S. and the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations? 51917
Reposted by Paul GowderDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 18/09/2026🚨NEW: A top DOJ official reportedly warned prosecutors they could be fired for declining to pursue voter fraud cases referred to them by FBI or DHS.democracydocket.comReport: Top DOJ official threatens to fire prosecutors who refuse to pursue voter fraud casesThe reported threat comes as federal agencies devote increasing resources to investigations of possible noncitizen voting, which is exceptionally rare. 12206108
Reposted by Paul GowderDot Porter @leoba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026*bangs pots and pans* NEW SPECIAL COLLECTIONS CATALOGING JOB JUST DROPPED (and it's at the University of Rochester, which is pretty great) rochester.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UR_Sta...rochester.wd5.myworkdayjobs.comSpecial Collections Metadata LibrarianAs a community, the University of Rochester is defined by a deep commitment to Meliora - Ever Better. Embedded in that ideal are the values we share: equity, leadership, integrity, openness, respect, ... 08249
Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 18/09/2026Fuck, why not. It's not any more constitutionally aggressive than the least insane scheme to come out of the depthless anuses of the likes of miller/vought in any given week 3515
Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 18/09/2026Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project was one of the supreme court’s worst decisions in its history, probably just on the tier below its most notorious infamies (Dred Scott, korematsu, trump v us, etc.); it was a gift-wrapped recipe for exactly the sort of repression we’re now seeing. 082
Reposted by Paul Gowderjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress? 430103801920
Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 18/09/2026In addition to being profoundly sick and evil, this is of course wildly illegal---U.S. law incorporates the international law principle of non-refoulment 0147