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Maria Ponomarenko

@mariaponomarenko.bsky.social
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Law prof at Texas Law, co-founder and counsel at the Policing Project at NYU Law, aspiring cake decorator, mom of 2

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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Our 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.
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Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Over 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)
Shiny blue copy of Open Book
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Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Me: 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?
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Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
To 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.
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Wayne Rooney speaks for everyone.
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Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
If 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/)
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Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Pickford and Bellingham absolute f*cking GOATS
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Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The problem with the @nytpitchbot.bsky.social is that the real thing will always be worse: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...
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FEMA Official Says He Teleported to Waffle House. Experts Are Dubious.
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Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
TOMORROW: 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...
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Emerging Issues in Administrative Law
This 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…
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Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
He so totally nailed it. (The people who find a way to be mad about it will by definition be the absolute worst.)
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Barred 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
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The husband told MPR News that after his wife was taken into custody, he called his attorney, and soon after, he got a call from St. Peter Chief of Police Matt Grochow, whom he said he has known for years.

“I was talking to him, kind of venting some of my frustrations,” the man said, adding that he urged the chief to have his officers just be more visible during the federal enforcement actions. “If [local police] were present and they could see you, I promise you their behavior more than likely, or hopefully, would, you know, be appropriate and law abiding.”

The husband says he talked to the chief for a while and “we had a good conversation.”

“He asked me, ‘what was your wife's name’? I told him my wife's name. He said, ‘was she picked up in a bronco?’ And I said, ‘I'm not sure, but it was an SUV, dark colored. I'd have to look at my video.’ He goes, ‘I think I got her. I'll call you back’.”

The husband said a few minutes later, the chief called again, “and said, I got her or I'm bringing her home.”

“I was just so relieved that she got released and was able to come home,” he said.
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Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This 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*
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The 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.”
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
*These* are the people you want to let into homes without a judicial warrant?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This 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
A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child
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Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This 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.
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Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The 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)
Woman holding half-marathon finisher medal
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Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Can’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.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
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The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For 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...
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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Law 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!
Image of the first page of the casebook
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Multiple 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.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I 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.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
The 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.
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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Old 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
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Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Never too early to teach kids about democracy. #NoKings
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Kavanaugh stop
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Nothing 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...
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William Baude @williambaude.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Sincerely 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?
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
This 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
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Well, I guess it’s never too early to post this again —
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‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR
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Barry Friedman @barryfriedman1.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Christy Lopez and I on why it is completely unacceptable for law enforcement, including ICE, to be masking: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Contributor: Lawmakers are right to try to bar ICE agents from hiding their identities
Masked, unidentified strangers grabbing people off the street without explanation? This is not how policing should look in a democratic society.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Just 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.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Make this go viral.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Tonight, 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.
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Brad Lander: "I'll keep coming back to court, week after week"
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
1/2 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.
Map showing extent of US Forest Service land planned for commercial sale, under new budget bill.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Move 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.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Every 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.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This 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?
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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now
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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The 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)
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
This is fascism. This right here. No one who says it’s not deserves a moment of your respectful consideration.
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Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This is an absolute horror show.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I 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.
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Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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David Woodruff @dmwoodruff.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
A 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.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Late 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...
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131. Five Questions About the Khalil Case
The 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.
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
the sound of all my English professors crying out at once
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