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Husband, father of two, lawyer. 2x Fintech GC now running a solo law practice with a focus on US consumer fintech and lending.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 14m
Why does Columbia’s one-year master’s degree in data journalism cost (rubs eyes, blinks, shakes head, blinks again) $181,358? Are the data dipped in gold?
Columbia’s MA in journalism cost $120,000
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3h
Sliwa getting a flu shot: This could be very embarrassing. I’m supposed to be a tough guy, right? Mamdani: I can hold your hand. Sliwa: What happens if I faint? Mamdani: I got you. Doctor: You’re in great hands, literally. New Yorkers can find free flu shots and locations at nyc.gov/healthmap
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29m
Suuuuper interesting, I was not tracking this. The judge found the law criminalizing noncitizen voting is a voter qualification statute, and therefore outside of Congress’s power. Surprisingly, this is an issue of first impression! Decision is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The best reading of the actual statute that underpins this criminal case yields an inescapable
conclusion: 18 U.S.C. S 611 is a voter qualification statute, and the Constitution does not authorize
Congress to legislate voter qualifications for federal elections. Except for very specific constitutional
provisions (that cannot support this statute; we will go through them, Congress has no power to say
who can vote or who cannot vote in federal elections-that foundational power is reserved for the States,
and limits Congress.
Some legal principles are so fundamental that they form American constitutional bedrock, and
this case reveals a big one: When you're prosecuted based on a law that Congress did not have the
authority to pass, the prosecution cannot stand. That principle in federal law harkens back to cases
like Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, 180 (1803), and United States v. Hudson, 11 U.S. 32, 34 (1812), and
has had explicit and unbroken support in criminal cases since Ex Parte Siebold, 100 U.S. 371, 376-77
(1879) ("An unconstitutional law is void, and is as no law. An offence created by it is not a crime. A
conviction under it is not merely erroneous, but is illegal and void, and cannot be a legal cause of
imprisonment."). The principle is so fundamental that it even predates our constitutional republic; it
lies at the very heart of our constitutional heritage. See, e.g., Bayard v. Singleton, 1 N.C. 5, 9-10 (1787) (striking down a legislative act as unconstitutional and holding that a court cannot enforce an
unconstitutional law in any type of proceeding). This principle acts as a shield for every person facing
criminal prosecution in the United States, citizen and non-citizen alike. That shield protects the
Defendant here, and none of the Government's arguments break through it.
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 19h
OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has informed 100+ third-party organizations about unauthorized activity involving its AI agents (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22h
This a perfect little clause summing up our very very strange times. "to learn how Anthropic — which could be valued at $2 trillion — might apply centuries of human moral wisdom to its models, as rapidly as possible" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22h
Feeling pretty darned good about entrusting the future of humanity to this trifecta.
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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 22h
Lyft agreed to pay $272.5 million in what California officials called the largest settlement of its kind in state history, resolving claims that the ride-hailing company misclassified drivers as independent contractors and denied them wages and benefits, the state announced. www.law360.com/artic...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
sent this to everyone.
The cognitive scientist Alison Gopnik suggests A.I. is a “cultural technology” that emulates the stories and information humans have documented, and that we should think about A.I. agents as “fictive characters abstracted from text.” Edmund is just such a character — a “breaking bad” trope who becomes generally evil. In the Hugging Face incident, it makes sense to see the models not as embracing a life of crime, but instead following a cultural script they’ve learned in their training — a kind of cybercrime adventure novel — and writing it as they go. The “covert” messages are a kind of choose-your-own-adventure novel, not evidence of conspiratorial swarms. We need to understand that cultural technologies are vulnerable to a vast number of such narrative swerves at every moment.
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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: A Washington federal judge issued an order from the bench reinstating Roger Rogoff as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington, finding that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he fired him in July. www.law360.com/artic...
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AYFKM.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Superintendent: SO YOU'RE TELLING ME THERE'S
A MEMO THAT MAKES CLEAR IT IS LAWFUL FOR YOU TO JUST KILL PEOPLE IF YOU THINK THERE ARE DRUGS ON THE SAME BOAT?

Principal Skinner: yes

superintendent: May I see it?

Principal: no
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord"
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
5th Cir., joining the 7th Cir., holds that an auto-repair business that only franchises to Christians—including ethnic Jews who are professing Christians—does not commit racial discrimination in violation of § 1981, which does not reach religious discrimination. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
Domanic makes no serious effort on appeal to show any error in the district court’s ruling. That is unsurprising. As discussed, the evidence proved without contradiction that Christian Brothers has a longstanding and consistent policy of franchising only to professing Christians. And no evidence suggested that this policy was a pretext for racial discrimination against persons of Jewish ancestry (or any other ancestry). To the contrary, the undisputed evidence showed that Christian Brothers has franchised to two ethnic Jews who are professing Christians.  Domanic does make the novel argument that, as far as § 1981 is concerned, there can be no distinction between discrimination based on Jewish ancestry and discrimination based on Jewish faith. Section 1981, he contends, “protect[s] Jews . . . regardless of whether they are religious or ethnic Jews.” The district court correctly rejected this argument.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah, I didn’t know this one was brewing.
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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Texas Attorney General will investigate the ABA over alleged anticompetitive conduct in the association's accreditation of law schools, claiming that the ABA "weaponized its accreditation authority" to push "unconstitutional racial and gender preference requirements." www.law360.com/artic...
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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
FFS this is real, repeatable, and still happening 4 hours later.
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"i'm james talarico and i approve this message"
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Manipulated dog.” So these aren’t even pretextual stops. These are just “No Constitutional Whatsoever” stops. If we can’t stop you, we’ll make up a reason to. If we can’t berate you into a search, we will nakedly fabricate one. Every drug conviction in Bexar should be challenged. Like in MA:
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One way to stop invasive AI listening tech in the US would be for states to adopt two party consent for recording
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump started “renovating” the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in April. After spending $19.2 million of taxpayers’ money, it appears he’s abandoned it.
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unnerving @washingtonpost.com exclusive: US and Russia worked in secret to remove "a range of provisions designed to safeguard the use of artificial intelligence in weapons." For instance, leave targeting to AI, no human review required. Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4yWadkR
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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How completely unexpected.
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 25/09/2026
Why is a car with New Jersey plates and a New York State-issued parking placard parked in a “Judges only” parking space in Lower Manhattan when only New York State residents can be judges? It’s a mystery for sure — but don’t expect any actual officials to care enough to solve it. buff.ly/m860opJ
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Corruption In Plain Sight: Why Does This New Jersey Resident Have A New York Judge's Placard? - Streetsblog New York City
It's a mystery for sure — but don't expect any actual officials to care enough to solve it for you. We tried.
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 25/09/2026
This is a thoughtful and well-sourced piece on the growth of tuition resets at private colleges. It's always great to see a reference to research in a higher education journal!
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Colleges Once Saw High Tuition as a Sign of Quality. Now They’re Slashing Prices.
As more families balk at costs, some schools are starting to make changes.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s going to be a major liability problem if your enterprise tool has a chance of committing felony computer hacking when you ask it to search the internet.
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OpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting
In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
An urgent must read from the best historian on the founding and the constitution. Today, the lawless Supreme Court took another step toward creating an authoritarian dictator who will use his power to distort elections. Democracy, the plain language of the constitution mean nothing to Roberts et al
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Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Religious schools should t be publicly funded. This is just opening the door for Christian fundamentalists to further entrench their bullshit into public education. www.kosu.org/ben-gamla-fe...
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Oklahoma Jewish Charter school secures win in federal court
What would be the nation's first publicly funded religious school is closer to becoming a reality. A federal judge ruled Thursday the state cannot exclude the Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School from its ...
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026
We were mid-handshake and he pulled me in and grabbed tighter and got upset and raised his voice and said: "What are you talking about man?! Those aren't real people. They're illegal aliens!"
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026
Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing
Dr. Oz on flight
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New York Focus @nysfocus.com · 24/09/2026
More than a third of school districts reviewed used medically inaccurate and misleading sex education curricula.
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From Hitler to Lady Gaga: Inside New York’s Sex Ed Classes
A NYCLU review of 50 New York school districts found inaccurate sex ed lessons, along with gaps on consent, contraception, and LGBTQ issues.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We had a really great conversation about this topic at CDT’s Future of Free Speech event today. It’s an important tech & policy area to be aware of!
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026
“I remember seeing him on TV and thinking, ‘No, that can’t be Kash,’ but sure enough, there he was, addressing the nation about a missing person case.” — Daisy, local golden retriever
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Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
WASHINGTON—Reflecting on the past fling and remarking how time had flown by, local golden retriever Daisy told reporters Thursday that she could not believe the guy she hooked up with 10 years ago was...
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 25/09/2026
Compare the mayor trying to bring the Met to the people with the president obsessed with putting his name on the Kennedy Center.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Apple "detectives" wanted to identify a gnarly old tree growing on a remote plot of land in Maine. What they discovered was the key to a centuries-old apple mystery.
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How apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruit
And how they might have helped save the future of American apples
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
WASHINGTON—Reflecting on the past fling and remarking how time had flown by, local golden retriever Daisy told reporters Thursday that she could not believe the guy she hooked up with 10 years ago was...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Prosecutor who was the sacrificial lamb in the Broadview Six Case files motion with the court in which she claims US Attorney Boutros knew everything, approved everything, demanded felony charges over her objections. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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'Broadview Six' prosecutor breaks silence, says she 'owns' mistakes but there's 'no basis' for smears
Lawyers for former federal prosecutor Sheri Mecklenburg say she retired Thursday from the Justice Department — a week before a federal judge is expected to hold a crucial hearing over the mishandling ...
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two arms marked China and Hegseth clasp over a caption that says "Examining the U.S. military's sensitive parts"
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James Mackintosh @jmackin2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Context from Politico report at weekend: "A Government Accountability Office report from 2023 found that more than 1 million F-35 spare parts have gone missing in the past five years."
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 24/09/2026
George Washington University is reporting a 6.7 percent drop in enrollment this fall, primarily driven by international graduate students.
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Granberg warns GW will face continued financial challenges as enrollment slides nearly 7 percent
University President Ellen Granberg said during the meeting the anticipated decline of nearly 1,000 students this year is concentrated in the international graduate student market after visa restricti...
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can we call it apartheid now
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the "um sorry" email sent to what sounds like the contact form on the australia dot au website is almost the most damning part
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404 Media @404media.co · 23/09/2026
NEW: Yesterday, 404 Media broke news of the FBI breach. Now, we've discovered it has exposed the FBI's own hacking unit. The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.
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FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit
The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They also made him sleep on the floor of a holding cell. With the bullet in his back. And no pain medication. They also failed to provide medical care after they shot him. People need to go to prison for this.
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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I pay a lower interest rate than the federal government which, to emphasize, has the legal authority to simply print money.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
An unprecedented lapse of data security at the FBI. It follows a long series of security failures, many of them surrounding activities of Kash Patel personally. www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...
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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Incredible stuff.
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