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Jen Taub

@jentaub.bsky.social
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Law professor & author of BIG DIRTY MONEY and OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES

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The Doom That Came to Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 2h
Napster stole from record labels (rich). AI steals from regular people (poor).
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2h
The absolute flood of leaks about this case is maybe an indication that people inside govt aren’t feeling too great about it
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 9h
dude is a natural
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 9h
BREAKING: We just sued Jared Kushner for unlawfully acting as one of the country's top diplomats without undergoing Senate confirmation or filing financial disclosures. It’s abundantly clear that he should be blocked from performing this outsized role: www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action...
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 6h
the ukraine news is giving me flashbacks to the 2019 impeachment, not in a good way
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 6h
Musk throws Trump under the bus
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 4h
Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 4h
Here’s a message for the naysayers that are complaining about what is — and isn’t — happening in my case against AG Todd Blanche: I AM NOT SURRENDERING. I know the value of my work and I know what it means to be fighting for truth and accountability. I know what this case means for the survivors.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 3h
The wealthiest in our country should pay their fair share into Social Security. Scrap the cap!
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 6h
Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 11h
False. You can identify us. That's why they have entered into $1.5 billion dollar settlement to pay us. www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...
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US judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of copyright lawsuit
A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday signed off on ‌artificial intelligence company Anthropic's landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a class action lawsuit brought by a group of authors who accus...
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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 13h
And Aaron Swartz was driven to his death.
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Jennifer Graham @jennrgraham.bsky.social · 13h
I will never stop shouting about this. We got a cease and desist letter when I lived in the dorm requiring us to delete Napster. Immediately. Scared the ever living hell out of a bunch of 19 year olds. Anthropic steals every art that has ever been made? *crickets*
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Ally (in Euroskyland) @allybfraz.eurosky.social · 12h
And to be clear: hasn’t yet paid a single human being whose data, voice, photos, etc. have been stolen to create it. AI doesn’t exist without them having trained it on, quite literally, all of us - it’s built on stolen labor from top to bottom.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 13h
I would love to ask you about this being a huge fan of THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 13h
Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.
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Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ossoff talking directly to @atrupar.com.
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Groundwork Collaborative @groundwork.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
NEW: Walmart’s patents could enable more than just personalized pricing. They could usher in a level of surveillance unlike anything shoppers have seen before. As @forbes.com reports, the privacy implications raise serious questions Walmart has yet to answer.
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Why Walmart's Pricing Technology Is Raising Privacy Concerns
Groundwork Collaborate challenges Walmart's assurances against personalized pricing by pointing to its patents that raise questions about shopper data and privacy.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."
In conducting this hearing, the Court is not called upon to resolve factual disputes between
the parties. The facts set forth in this Memorandum Opinion and Order were proposed by the
Plaintiff, unobjected to by the Government, and then deemed admitted by the Court. Dkts. 74, 75,
77.2 These facts establish that high-ranking government officials, including then Secretary of DHS
Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, engaged in a coordinated public relations campaign to impugn the
personal and professional integrity of Ms. Comans. For reasons unfathomable to this Court,
officials chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an
impeccable record of public service. In short, Ms. Comans was professionally targeted and
personally attacked by government officials for no legitimate reason. The attacks against Ms.
Comans were based entirely on false information, and many government officials knew the
accusations were untrue at the time they were made. With no regard for the truth and with no
consideration for the personal and professional effect on Ms. Comans, government officials
exploited their access to mass media outlets to broadcast false information. These false
statements reached hundreds of millions of people. The purpose of this Order is, to the best of
this Court’s ability, to correct the public record and establish as a matter of law that the
statements made by these officials about Ms. Comans were objectively and demonstrably false.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Good show?
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I’m sorry, did a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate just ‘Won’t somebody think of the neo-Nazis?’ during a live TV debate?
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Paging @dahlialithwick.bsky.social
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Why the fuck are we here?
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
this is so obviously correct it is deeply bizarre and corrosive how many people who should know better are unwilling to simply say it
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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ICYMI @bcdreyer.social
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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
ACLU sues ICE over refusal to return personal items to detainees after release www.courthousenews.com/aclu-sues-ic...
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ACLU sues ICE over refusal to return personal items to detainees after release
One of the seven named plaintiffs, an immigrant from Russia, had his work authorization documents and his wedding band seized by ICE and has been unable to retrieve them after five months.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Interesting www.cnn.com/2026/10/13/i...
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Bank of America fined $1.2 billion by Treasury Department for anti-money laundering and sanctions law violations | CNN Business
The US Treasury Department on Tuesday announced it was imposing a more than $1.2 billion fine on Bank of America, accusing the bank of violating anti-money laundering and sanctions laws.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
She’s giving Kerry on Succession share.google/RNJOdcrZbN5W...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/10/2026
And with that we have our first dead AI startup
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Gift Article)
The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is psychosis. He is profoundly mentally ill. He is not fit to be in any position of power over anyone or anything. He should not control nuclear weapons.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Yes, yes, the authoritarian president is leading a hate-filled rally in which he urges his followers to physically assault protesters but do NOT call any of these people Nazis or you will make David Brooks sad.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
My plan is not to answer your question
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Exactly
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
wheeeeeeeeeeew
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
What is the whale made of?
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The raid on Rep. Omar is a FIVE ALARM FIRE. Trump is weaponizing the federal government to go after an opposition leader and escalate his viciously racist campaign against Somali Americans. We stand with Ilhan.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Serious about protecting woman on campus? Ask U.S. News & World Report to include in the rating calculation, the per capita sexual assault as submitted by an independent student survey. I'm not sure they even survey students at all?
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Stop the steal. Get out and VOTE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I realize it often feels like nothing matters anymore, but a comedian going on SNL and calling women whores— calling the ordinary women he sees at the gym *whores* — because of their clothes matters to me. It’s really gross, and I’m glad Levy said something.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
BREAKING: Trump administration cut down more than 500 trees on Saturday at the East Potomac Golf Course after giving less than a full-day notice, with more tree-cutting planned, so plaintiffs challenging the effort went to court seeking a TRO tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
EMERGENCY MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER OR, ALTERNATIVELY, FOR A 14-DAY STAY UNDER SECTION 705 OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT
Plaintiffs hereby move the Court to enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, for a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705.
Despite the Court's admonitions not to "get to a point where someone is telling me, from
the government, that it's too late, too many things have happened and now we are, like, moving
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forward and we can't, you know, stop the trains," Status Conf. Tr. ("Apr. 13 Tr.") at 18:15-19:10,
Apr. 13, 2026, Defendants have begun irreversible damage to East Potomac Golf Course. At
4:55 p.m. on Friday preceding the holiday weekend, Defendants announced their intent to
begin-barely 12 hours later—a massive operation to clear 529 trees at East Potomac Golf
Course. Decl. of Dr. Kevin Griess, Superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks,
National Park Service 920, ECF 74-1. Although they initially represented that their work would proceed in stages, Defendants in fact took down 529 trees on Saturday alone and have confirmed
to Plaintiffs that they intend to take down hundreds more.
Defendants' surprise tree-razing operation constitutes classic National Environmental
Policy Act segmentation: undertaking elements of a larger project piecemeal and insisting that they are independent and therefore need not be evaluated in a single NEPA review of the entire
project. Defendants cannot circumvent their NEPA obligations in this manner. Delaware
Riverkeeper Network v. F.E.R.C., 753 F.3d 1304, 1313 (D.C. Cir. 2014).Therefore, and for the reasons explained in the Memorandum accompanying this Motion
and supporting exhibits, the Court should enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705, enjoining Defendants from any further tree felling at East Potomac Park. In addition, the
Court should order Defendants to provide the Court and Plaintiffs no less than three business days' written advance notice before any irreparable modification to any permanent forms or
features of East Potomac Park.
If the Court believes a hearing would be appropriate, Plaintiffs request a hearing on this
motion at the Court's first availability. At the parties' meet and confer on Sunday afternoon, Defendants represented that the tree-clearing operation would continue this week until
completed. Defendants indicated during the meet and confer that rain foreclosed any work on
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Sunday, and that the possibility of doing work on Monday depended on weather and the course's
condition. Depending on Defendants' plans, then, it is possible that no work will occur on
Monday.
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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Apologies to Dylan Thomas. It's "rage" not "fight"
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Kjell Kamfjord @kjellkamfjord.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This reverse bucket list idea is great.
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Chris Taylor @christaylornyc.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yes! bsky.app/profile/jent...
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Thank you, Cindi!
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