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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Any argument that Cofnas should be able to keep his job, despite not actually doing the research he was contractually obliged to do, because ppl are mad at him for his views, is just as easily turned into a reason to protect Arday's con artistry because the person who exposed him did it for racism.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

i know this is presented as a rhetorical question, but the answer to “who is deciding what good science is or not?” can’t actually be “no one.” universities do (and should) act as gatekeepers.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/08/2026

I guess it's kind of hard to view the dismissal of one grublike phrenologist as a major hit to free speech after major American universities have in the past year banned the use of words and eliminated entire departments in the hopes of pleasing the senile president

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Once again my perennial question for the Right wing cranks: how are you 'being silenced' when you literally never shut the fuck up?

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Gabriel S. Pumpkins 🎃 @gsjphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

let's be real: plagiarism scandals in academia happen all the time (not because academics plagiarize a lot, but just because of how many millions of faculty there are around the world) and it is never general-public news unless the culprit is a member of a minority.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It is a sign of the total failure of our constitutional order that, a mere six years after we were all desperately praying for a miraculous scientific breakthrough to end the worst global pandemic in a century, that the President of the United States can do what he did today & face no consequences.

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Iron Fist @lawtalker.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Habeas professor knows what the political rank and file want to hear, news at 11.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Woof woof woof, bark bark bark, arf arf arf.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

christ, our political press are the most pathetic people on earth.

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

'reasonable and almost certainly true position' literally, vibes. The thesis that constitutional democracy can flourish only if there has been homogeneity of culture of 1000 years is ridiculous because constitutional democracy is for most countries LESS THAN 100 YEARS OLD

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

oh neat, Vance got Yooned by Kirkification

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

For most of my lifetime, the John Birch Society was considered the farthest right lunatic fringe imaginable — even Republicans were required to shun them.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

JD Vance and Mike Johnson keep talking about "birth tourism." That's an extraordinarily infinitesimal occurrence, but note the sleazy trick they're using: They're trying to package this as fixing an isolated "problem," when their real target is much, much bigger. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2127...

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Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Ongoing "academic debate" bc people keep publishing ≠ open Q, cf. historians still publish that the Civil War wasn't about slavery but that doesn't make it live, just motivated. Your own reasons show the clause isn't perfectly self evident but that's true of literally any clause in constitution.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I appreciate this, but the problem is that legal academia has a unique & privileged pipeline to the commanding heights of American politics now, & that magnifies the problem of bad (faith) scholarship & imposes unique obligations on legal academics to police the discipline. And that's not happening.

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Iron Fist @lawtalker.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

If I were a “liberal” law professor who has been tongue-bathing FedSoc for years, I might rethink my position now that FOUR of the six FedSoc stalwarts on the Supreme Court voted to nuke the obvious meaning of the constitution’s birthright citizenship promise. I should tag some folks. But I won’t.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Every time somebody points this out the entire legal intelligentsia shits itself sideways.

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Iron Fist @lawtalker.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Calm the fuck down, Pissbaby Doughboy.

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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

It’s very simple: the 6 republican Supreme Court justices are functionally no different than klansmen

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Supreme Court Holds, 6-3, That Black People Voting Violates Rights Of White Voters

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

At this rate, by next year the only actual majority opinion the Court drops will be a tense, singe sentence. "Because fuck you, that's why."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/05/2026

where is john roberts to tell us that this is just one of those apolitical, unpopular decisions the court has to make sometimes?

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tedgehring.bsky.social @tedgehring.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It really doesn’t help that so many people glaze these justices the way they do. A lot of it is self interest from elite legal academics and people who cover the Court.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/05/2026

i can’t tell if roberts is full of shit or if he is delusional and i’m not sure which is worse

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/05/2026

yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

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Chief Justice John Roberts says American public wrongly views the justices as ‘political actors’

In remarks at a judicial conference, Roberts bemoaned what he characterized as the American public’s misconceptions about the Supreme Court.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

They think you’re stupid.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This dropped around the same time as this interview - Neil Gorsuch on Megyn Kelly’s show. He was talking about how “young conservatives must have courage to stand by their beliefs.” Sounds apolitical to me!

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Well at least Clarence Thomas didn’t say last month in prepared remarks that progressivism is weak and incompatible with the constitution, right

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Iron Fist @lawtalker.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Hey @williambaude.bsky.social why don’t you explain to me like I’m fucking three years old why I shouldn’t spit in John Roberts’ face for this for this smarmy utter horseshit.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

This is excellent. I want to preempt a legit concern, namely that there is no chance that Congress will actually do this. 1. We don’t know that, and shouldn’t assume it. 2. Even talking about this is good because it disrupts the Court’s monopoly on our constitutional imagination.

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

In fairness they're definitely making "progress on racism" #SegregationSam #JimCrowJohn

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026

this line from alito’s opinion, that the question before the court was “whether compliance with the Voting Rights Act should be added to our very short list of compelling interests that can justify racial discrimination,” is truly orwellian

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

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Opinion | Ruling by Ruling, the Supreme Court Is Undoing the Civil Rights Movement

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

If you had a shred of self respect or took your job seriously one iota you wouldn't have been there at all. This guy has said over and over he wants the press dead and you showed up? Maybe scold him instead of a generation of kids traumatized by 20 years of school shootings. Jackass

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/04/2026

the irony is that there are many journalists who are threatened and killed for their work globally, except they don’t overlap at all with the people willing to attend the MAGA White House correspondent’s dinner

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Iron Fist @lawtalker.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

And you wonder why, Clara, with literally not even a moment’s self-reflection.

Law enforcement has told them to go the fuck home. Weijia Jiang, the president of White House Correspondents' Association, announced to room trump fine. They all clapped. She told the he's having a press conference in :30. They laughed. She told them he demands a redo within 30 days.
They cheered.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

You know, those journalists would not have been traumatised if they hadn't decided to go publicly hobnob with fascists, so...I don't believe people *will* regret these posts, no

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Someone who used every tool at his disposal to overthrow our democratically elected government is most emphatically not a "good man," and most emphatically does deserve to have his career destroyed.

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Iron Fist @lawtalker.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I sure do wish that law professors who praise Kurt Lash as if he were an obvious good faith participant in scholarly debate (like @lsolum.bsky.social and @dbrodriguez.bsky.social) would pay attention to this stuff and update their priors.

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Iron Fist @lawtalker.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Red sleaze, one of the biggest pieces of shit on X.

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Iron Fist @lawtalker.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

If I were the two posters above me, I might update my priors at this point. But what do I know, I'm neither a law professor nor a member of a "serious academic discipline" that doesn't peer review its "scholars'" publications.

Post from Brendan Benedict, reading, "In his draft paper, Kurt Lash says that our amicus brief in Trump v. Barbara at p. 27 claims "that Republicans viewed . . . the Romani as illegally in the United States".

What it actually mentions is "England's historical exclusions against the Roma people"

Still no correction."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/03/2026

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

You‘re not as smart as you think you are, and you’re laundering the work of reactionaries. You’re also being a jerk.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Shutting up when you don't have an informed opinion is an underrated skill.

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