Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 4hGood 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) 261
Reposted by Paul GowderJudith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 5hJob: 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 · 6h@wearehighered.bsky.social 054
Reposted by Paul GowderHeidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I 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 · 29/09/2026Important: Relief from third country removal may still be sought in individual habeas petitions. 26625
Reposted by Paul GowderAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is a human rights abuse worthy of prosecution under intentional law. Minimally, they should be impeached and removed for this alone. 15481157
Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 29/09/2026SCOTUS, 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 · 28/09/2026Thank you so much! That means a lot to me, especially since that is my favorite article that I've ever written. 030
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! 895406928
Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 27/09/2026There's always been a dose of this---I know stories from like 20 years ago, because that's what happens when you plop a gigantic socially clueless sausage fest of misogynists down into the most sexually experimental city on the planet. But even for that toxic brew this is bad 121
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... 3233841258
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 1004405563
Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 21/09/2026this might be my new favorite footnote (though how do I put that source in Zotero) 041
Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 21/09/2026able to have it spit out a pro forma citation to save the trouble. Alas. 140
Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 21/09/2026something in the secondary literature to cite for this proposition to satisfy an editor who won't trust my word for it (and this is not blameworthy by legal editing standards). It would be amazing to just be able to fling that sentence into some tool (like a closed-universe AI model) and be 230
Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 21/09/2026"In a Hobbesian sense, the core job of the sovereign is to protect the person and property of an individual against violence." Anyone who knows any political theory at all will know that this is true. But it is going to take a solid 20+ minutes of my previous time to dig up a copy of Leviathan or 260
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 · 21/09/2026Like at least under the old King with Syphilis system you more or less knew what you were getting in advance 1221
Paul 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 · 21/09/2026And the simple fact of the matter is that our politics cannot hold the president to the law or to responsible behavior anymore. Congress and the Supreme Court are too supine and the people are too divided. 1121
Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 21/09/2026Personally I'd rather get dump the institution of the presidency and place those powers in responsible hands with internal checks that have not been sabotaged by partisan polarization plus a Supreme Court that routinely packs the unitary executive into a crackpipe & smokes the shit out of it but 🤷🏽 1120