Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoBethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Our students don’t deserve this. For those who don’t understand UT Austin admissions, most undergrads get in bc they were top 5% of their graduating class, from a Texas high school. Anyone calling for more white students is advocating for race conscious admissions - to help out white students. 201369341
Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Over the moon to get this in the mail today. Revising this edition with @barryfriedman1.bsky.social and John Goldberg was a true labor of love. If you're teaching 1Ls this fall -- or have a 1L in your life, i hope you'll consider it! www.amazon.com/Open-Book-In... (1/2) 171
Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Me: I would just like to be able to quickly and easily pull up the cases i'm looking for. Westlaw: How about instead we give you a totally buggy search engine and an absolutely useless AI CoCounsel? 020
Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 19/07/2026To the two dudes at the coffee shop this morning loudly complaining about all of the people too clueless to realize that yesterday's match wasn't "real soccer" -- I hope the last 90 minutes gave you everything you hoped for. 020
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoScott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Wayne Rooney speaks for everyone. 613498916
Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026If you teach 1Ls/LLMs or have an aspiring law student in your life, please check this out! 1Ls often struggle to see the connection between classes, exams, and real-world lawyering. We show how they fit together -- and how those insights translate to case briefing, outlining, and exam taking (1/) 242
Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Pickford and Bellingham absolute f*cking GOATS 010
Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 03/04/2026The problem with the @nytpitchbot.bsky.social is that the real thing will always be worse: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...nytimes.comFEMA Official Says He Teleported to Waffle House. Experts Are Dubious. 142
Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 24/03/2026TOMORROW: Excited to join @chrisjwalker.bsky.social and Margaret Kwoka for an @americanbar.org webinar to discuss our papers forthcoming in the GWLR's Annual Review of Administrative Law. Register here: www.americanbar.org/events-cle/m...americanbar.orgEmerging Issues in Administrative LawThis panel will explore current and critical issues in administrative law, including government records, reorganization by past and current presidents, and the proportionality principle in administra… 132
Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 09/02/2026He so totally nailed it. (The people who find a way to be mad about it will by definition be the absolute worst.) 020
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 31/01/2026👀 Looks like the husband of the woman ICE abducted called his lawyer, lawyer called the cops, then the police chief went and got her & took her home Article says it may be the first time local Minnesota PD "intervened in a federal law enforcement action" since Trump started terrorizing the state 501991673
Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 26/01/2026This is exactly right from @barryfriedman1.bsky.social and @stevevladeck.bsky.social . Creating a federal cause of action is a must--but it's the longterm strategy. In the meantime, local police and prosecutors should be building their cases *now* 111125
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.” 414176727034
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next. 693251376007
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 24/01/2026*These* are the people you want to let into homes without a judicial warrant? 628278
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars 13942539811979
Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 22/01/2026This is irredeemable. My youngest is just a year older than this little boy so this photo is going to stick with me for a while. 030
Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 18/01/2026The world is terrible but this morning I ran my first half marathon at 42 years old and I’m feeling pretty great about that. (Oh and my bib number was 1776 #NoKings) 51002
Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Can’t wait to hear Kavanaugh’s take on why pumping gas while being a person of color gives rise to reasonable suspicion for a stop. 011
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoMike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 04/12/2025I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!mcsweeneys.netThe New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa ClausFor several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a... 542276602
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoGenevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Law Profs teaching First Amendment: I have put together a FREE, recently updated, and easy to use casebook for use in free speech classes. If you are interested in using such a casebook, send me an email or DM and I would be happy to share! 517071
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoEmily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 09/11/2025pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff. 13143604270
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Multiple accounts on ICE Watch Facebook pages are reporting that agents pulled a couple out of their vehicle in Aurora, Illinois, arrested them, and then abandoned the couple’s toddler in the backseat. 11430341858
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/10/2025I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.” 190120223045
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/10/2025The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood. 630186924978
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoNo Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Old Soviet joke: Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three? One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals 457801598
Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Never too early to teach kids about democracy. #NoKings 030
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Kavanaugh stop 13379130
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb... 17674413102
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoWilliam Baude @williambaude.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Sincerely wondering: what remedies does Justice Kavanaugh believe are and should be available in federal court these days for excessive force violations by federal immigration officials? 913141
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/07/2025This is unconscionable. Our entire profession should be up in arms. Masked law enforcement and now anonymous lawyers. Our courts are open as is our legal system. If you can’t put your name to your representation as a lawyer then you should not be allowed to appear in court. @americanbar.org 762816986
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Well, I guess it’s never too early to post this again —youtu.be‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPRYouTube video by NPR 141240542
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoBarry Friedman @barryfriedman1.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Christy Lopez and I on why it is completely unacceptable for law enforcement, including ICE, to be masking: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...latimes.comContributor: Lawmakers are right to try to bar ICE agents from hiding their identitiesMasked, unidentified strangers grabbing people off the street without explanation? This is not how policing should look in a democratic society. 24421
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoSenator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle. 30223793212505
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Make this go viral. 17432511732
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.youtu.beBrad Lander: "I'll keep coming back to court, week after week"YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC 570361697714
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 17/06/20251/2 This is appalling in principle—and shocking in detail, if you Zoom in on specific parcels offered for rush sale. www.wilderness.org/articles/med... Eg (shown in dark green) Forest Service land people use for hiking, camping, horse-riding, general outdoors-ing in San Bernardino Mountains. 36758437
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoNiko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Move to hold the agents who assaulted a sitting senator in contempt of Congress. Call for articles of impeachment against Noem. Stop working on crypto legislation. Demonstrate the stakes of what is happening in LA with your actions. 9539771153
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Every elected Republican should be asked if they think the president has the power to send in military in to “liberate” a state or city from its elected government. 10553411467
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 12/06/2025This is a US Senator, one of two representing nearly 40 million people from nation's most productive, populous, and *tax paying* state, being physically roughed up by goons at behest of deranged president and out of control cabinet secretary. HEY GOP SENATORS. You'll swallow even this? 56784244
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoAram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now 23096761665
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoNoah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 24/05/2025The real problem with the Supreme Court’s expected Fed carve out is not that it lacks a principle but that the real principle isn’t articulated. The reason it will carve out the Fed is functional but it won’t say that. And its jurisprudence doesn’t leave room to ventilate the functional arg.(1/8) 29868176
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 23/04/2025This is fascism. This right here. No one who says it’s not deserves a moment of your respectful consideration. 7306110
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18/04/2025I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient. 401271875953
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoDavid Woodruff @dmwoodruff.bsky.social · 27/03/2025A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel. 110136364874
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoLeah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Late to this but incredibly grateful @stevevladeck.bsky.social did this explainer on the administration's terrifying, shocking conduct related to/disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil. www.stevevladeck.com/p/131-five-q...stevevladeck.com131. Five Questions About the Khalil CaseThe government's arrest and detention of a pro-Palestinian Columbia student (and green card holder) raises difficult questions about both technical immigration statutes and the First Amendment. 18990262
Reposted by Maria PonomarenkoJason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 10/03/2025the sound of all my English professors crying out at once 2784591560