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Paul Gowder

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Prof @ Northwestern law, political theorist, cat parent. Black lives matter. Profile, pubs, etc: gowder.io All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ books.gowder.io

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 2h
Good 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)
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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 3h
Job: 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.
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 4h
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 14h
I'm going to scream and scream and scream until my lungs explode
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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 22h
I 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?
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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 22h
Important: Relief from third country removal may still be sought in individual habeas petitions.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 22h
This is a human rights abuse worthy of prosecution under intentional law. Minimally, they should be impeached and removed for this alone.
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 22h
SCOTUS, I guess: "who cares if immigrants are sent to torture dungeons in Equatorial Guinea? It's not like they're humans with rights."
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Well, 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.
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Bloomberg Law @bloomberglaw.com · 28/09/2026
The Trump administration’s latest efforts to limit birthright citizenship are unconstitutional, employees of international organizations and their children say in a new lawsuit.
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International Workers, Their Kids Sue Over Trump Birthright Order
The Trump administration’s latest efforts to limit birthright citizenship are unconstitutional, employees of international organizations and their children say in a new lawsuit.
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Ray 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/...
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January 6 Rioters Claim They Were “Punished,” Demand Restitution
Rioters who attacked the Capitol now want compensation from taxpayers.
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 28/09/2026
❤️ 😭 means a lot to hear this sort of thing
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 28/09/2026
Seriously 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.
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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So 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.
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This 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!
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 27/09/2026
Jesus fucking Christ Silicon Valley needs to end yesterday
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democracydefendersfund.org @democracydefendersfund.org · 27/09/2026
The 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.
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Standing Up for America’s Civil Society and the Right to Peacefully Protest
Through a series of official executive memoranda, the Trump administration has turned the machinery of federal law enfor
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I 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.
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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yeah so profs are gonna have to unionize like yesterday
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On two fronts—WH press access and third-country removals—the administration appears to be ignoring court orders.
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 24/09/2026
All I really ask about Ohare-no-gate-arrival-jail is that they figure out a way to let people pee in it
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Astonishing 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)
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
At 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
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 23/09/2026
The 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
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026
every 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
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
so i may be out of my depth here but hes at 30% approval, you elites can stop capitulating now
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 22/09/2026
Truly, truly shocked that this is not a Tesla
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 22/09/2026
Oh.
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 21/09/2026
legal 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)
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 21/09/2026
lol 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...
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Fiber cut by construction crew leads to ground stop and delays at several major airports | CNN
A 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...
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Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Maybe 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.
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 21/09/2026
Like, 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!"
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 21/09/2026
I 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
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 21/09/2026
We 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.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’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?
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Briefly detained” = beat half to death
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
according 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
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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 16/09/2026
What 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
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 19/09/2026
So @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/
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 19/09/2026
Random 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?
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Democracy 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.
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Report: Top DOJ official threatens to fire prosecutors who refuse to pursue voter fraud cases
The reported threat comes as federal agencies devote increasing resources to investigations of possible noncitizen voting, which is exceptionally rare.
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Dot 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...
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As 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, ...
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 18/09/2026
Fuck, 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
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 18/09/2026
How in the ever loving fuck are we back on Greenland
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 18/09/2026
Holder 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.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i 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?
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 18/09/2026
In addition to being profoundly sick and evil, this is of course wildly illegal---U.S. law incorporates the international law principle of non-refoulment
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