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I teach at the Indiana Maurer School of Law

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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 3h
It would be so simple for the California bar to go after her for unlicensed practice of law. Let’s see some state bar associations show a little grit for once.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11h
NEW: The US theft of Venezuelan oil resources appears to bring the Pentagon its own source of money — something that should be understood as another milestone in the collapse of constitutional government.
forever-wars.com
The Dawn Of The Self-Funding Pentagon
It's not like the military is cash-starved from Congress. But it looks a lot like it's going to make money off Venezuelan oil
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
i have now seen the straight pride flag for the first time and my jaw genuinely dropped. you're right heterosexuals, strict binarism, black and white thinking, is a kind of imprisonment, 10/10 no notes
straight pride flag, six thick horizontal stripes alternating in black and white
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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s impossible to read this without imagining the heated arguments between McWhorter, the editor, and Standards and Practices.
nytimes.com
Opinion | What to Make of Trump’s Uptick in Profanity (Gift Article)
The president’s speech is getting filthier.
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In July, I went to the NFL Flag Championships in Indiana to see the enormous boom in youth flag football in person. Turns out, girls love ball. My story leads off @bloomberg.com Businessweek’s November issue on women’s sports. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
bloomberg.com
The NFL’s $192 Million Bet on Flag Football Is Paying Off With Teen Girls
The sport has seen unprecedented growth since the pandemic. Next up: The Olympics and a college campus near you.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Trump regime’s border wall construction damaged the Las Playas Intaglio, a 6,500-7,300-year-old fish-shaped geoglyph in Arizona.
gadgetreview.com
Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I can’t believe this nightmare *starts* with Suncor.
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You really have to watch this interview. The superintendent says that "concerns were passed on to me about the play." Who passed those concerns on? He won't say! What were the concerns? "You'd have to ask them." But who is them? He won't say!
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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Heart rate spy technology CEO: You get that new ad copy I asked for? Ad rep: Sure did, boss. Real off-putting and appeals to absolutely no one, just the way you like it.
This device that no one needs is advertised as being “Worn by tech bros in SF and hipsters in Portland.”
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-year-old Arya Satheesh from Ireland has developed a plant-based plastic that can biodegrade and release an enzyme that helps break down other plastic waste. A plastic that could actually help clean up plastic waste.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
propublica.org
ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For those who wondered (I know you didn’t) here is my top ten:
nytimes.com
My Top Shows — the 100 best TV shows of the 21st century
The Wire, Arrested Development, Community and 7 more.
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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I have enjoyed this list (vindication for Battlestar Galactica!) but having Succession in the top ten is insane. And i say that as someone who relished every moment of watching the show www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century
More than 500 influential stars, showrunners and other notable names in the world of TV voted on the best series released since Jan. 1, 2000. See what they chose.
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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you’re bitching to the UN about a Twitch streamer it’s safe to say your PR battle has taken the biggest of L’s
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
a society of senior law firm partners who never learned how to use the printer
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Scoop: The anonymous source behind a POLITICO story that the White House is now using to justify a ban on the outlet was none other than JD Vance himself. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/white-hous...
status.news
The Source Behind The Ban
The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s been almost exactly a year since the day ICE hit us with a car, for which the government chose to prosecute *us*. Now we’re fighting for accountability. See you at the courthouse next week.
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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I have not yet heard this, but it reminded me of the Hamburger Helper mixtape from ten years ago, which was unnecessarily great
youtu.be
Hamburger Helper - Watch The Stove (Full mixtape)
YouTube video by Trvp Hxuse 24/7
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/09/2026
I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When Orban took over Hungary, he cleverly did not nationalize the media. Instead, he ensured that his plutocratic sycophants owned a majority share in the media, so that by the time he was voted out, 80% of the “free” press in Hungary favored him.
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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The “controversial announcement,” I just learned, is that famed voice actor and hilarious @gamechanger.dropout.tv contestant Erika Ishii is working on this. And this is how I learned that Erika Ishii has a career outside of being hilarious on GameChanger!
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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Flabbergasted by the $875 million price tag for this proof-of-concept that will maybe work at three airports. The next Congress had better do something about government contracting
nytimes.com
F.A.A. to Roll Out New A.I. Tool for Washington Airports (Gift Article)
The tool, called SMART, will crunch scheduling and weather data to predict and avoid delays. It will be deployed in the Washington region’s three major airports next week.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Better fired than disbarred and subpoenaed by congress
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Jim Henley Music @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”—International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg), Judgment of 1946-10-01.
crimeofaggression.info
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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today Trump wrote “It is a Court that will go down as having rendered some of the most destructive, hurtful, and damaging decisions in our Country’s history.” Well, he isn’t wrong!
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 15/09/2026
Alito’s distressed wife raising an incredibly obscure flag shaped like a mail-in ballot upside down
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 14/09/2026
@tompepinsky.com our time nears
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
DOJ timing things to announce the first deportation under the Alien Terrorist Removal Court on September 11 is gross.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’ll make a deal with the businessmen who want to remake academia in their image — let a faculty committee restructure your corporation and we’ll compare the results
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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I had exactly the same reaction that Radley did to the events of 2001 and it might be the only time that being a libertarian led me to a fundamentally correct conclusion. Alas, here we are.
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Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Today (9/10) at 10am ET, the Indiana Supreme Court will hear arguments in a religious liberty challenge to the state abortion ban. The mostly Jewish plaintiffs have so far prevailed in the state courts under a state Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Watch here:
mycourts.in.gov
Indiana Appellate Clerk's Portal
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The post-9/11 lionization of Giuliani rings hollow for many of us who lived and worked in lower Manhattan that day. He and his staff (along with Bush's EPA) frequently reassured us that the air quality was fine. It wasn't, as was apparent to anyone who was there on 9/11 and the weeks thereafter. 1/
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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New York City in the days after 9/11 was seething with paranoia and violence. We were gathering in Union Square to protest a war we knew would be waged in our name while on TV they showed Giuliani instead of us. It’s important to remember how it really was.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
RIP The Hatch Act -- 1939-2026
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 07/09/2026
I'm going to write to the president of TV. It should be illegal that, when there are only two games on, they both go to commercial break
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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
IS THE SHOCKER THAT YOU’RE GOING TO STOP SPAMMING ME ONE HUNDRED TIMES A DAY?
The text message from ActBlue reads “ACTBLUE SHOCKER” but it’s not shocking at all, it’s just another grift designed to fleece me of my money.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
House Republicans failed to muster the necessary votes to back a proposed constitutional amendment that would set membership of SCOTUS at nine, although they did remind everyone that the number of justices is not enshrined in the Constitution and can be amended at any time by statute.
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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I hadn’t heard of this before now, and upon first read, I thought I agreed with the critics’ assessment that this museum has a “dubious artistic vision.” But then I saw that there’s a sculpture of Carrie Fisher in a metal bikini on the grounds. Now my view is: museums should be fun and accessible!
nytimes.com
What Is ‘Narrative Art?’ The Lucas Museum Finally Shows Us Its Vision.
After several delays, George Lucas’s legacy project is finally ready to open. There’s less “Star Wars” than you might expect.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Students who nod and smile during lecture when we try to make a point? Heroes
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The framing of this story is going to do serious damage to the National Park Service. No one in the NPS wants this ridiculous arch. The agency has been forced to comply with the president's wishes because the Interior Secretary is a Trump loyalist. #NationalParks www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
usatoday.com
Park Service supports Trump's huge arch, despite harms to other landmarks
The report recognizes adverse effects on dozens of other Washington monuments and other historic sites but supports construction of the arch anyway.
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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Generations of lawyers pored carefully over their words to preserve the institutional reputation of the DOJ, and then these people turned the whole place into a laughingstock in less than two years.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is a more significant breakdown in the fundamental bonds of the union than the headline might imply. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/u... 🎁
nytimes.com
ICE agent Christian Castro Released From Texas Jail After Minnesota Loses Court Fight (Gift Article)
The state had sought to have the agent extradited from Texas to answer charges in Minneapolis related to an on-duty shooting that wounded an immigrant.
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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is easy to laugh at, but let me suggest an alternate take, which is: this rules and I love it
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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My personal thirty-year journey from libertarian to normie liberal was just finally understanding that we do, in fact, have plenty of money to spend on making people’s lives better, while also finally developing the necessary empathy to WANT people’s lives to be better. Sorry that took so long!
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.
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