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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What was all that whining about the AL Central winner going to the playoffs with a losing record?!???

Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Welp, the Chen Dynasty eked out its 4th fantasy baseball championship in its 5th straight WS in our daily H2H 15-team league. Thanks as always for great advice along the way from @enosarris.bsky.social @dvr.bsky.social @nickpollack.pitcherlist.com (streaming SPs posts). Now lets's go Guardians!!

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was just whining about how Vogt should not be letting Halpin bat there. Shows what I know! Go Guardians!!!!

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Dear Cleveland Guardians. STOP. BUNTING. Learn the math!!

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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/09/2026

NEW: The Trump administration asked SCOTUS to intervene so that the new USPS rule limiting mail-in voting can go into effect after we got a district court to block it. With under 60 days until November's election, there's no way this wouldn't disenfranchise voters who rely on mail ballots.

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#GuardsBall!! Rocchio grand slam ties the game at 6!!!

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Guardians score all 6 runs on HR tonight. Wait, wut?!??

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I know it’s not a Brewers podcast, but please talk about Abner Uribe’s lederhosen jersey on Monday’s episode, @dvr.bsky.social !

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Updated Covid vaccines for the 2026-27 season have been approved by the FDA. Article to come.

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Hey @timstebbins.bsky.social, can you please pass this along to @zackmeisel.bsky.social, I’m no longer on Twitter and I don’t think he checks his account here very much.

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I was at last night’s game and you’d think we were at Progressive Field! @timstebbins.bsky.social @zackmeisel.bsky.social

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Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My forthcoming @uclalawreview.bsky.social article reports officers paid <.05% of settlements and judgments against them from 2018-23. This is consistent w/my earlier study, though I also find subtle differences that should inform policies/practices. Comments welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I feel like it was an oversight not to include @enosarris.bsky.social's Denver scooter adventures in this story! 😂 @bymccullough.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/750...

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MLB players love their scooters. Their teams wish they didn’t

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

As a baseball fan and human being, I feel so bad for Mike Trout right now.

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Our teams made a trade @dvr.bsky.social? Thoughts? I would love to see Bo thrive with the Brewers eventually.

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

And the annual Guardians ticky tacky trade deadline begins. Bo Naylor and Cody Heuer to the Brewers for Blake Perkins and Craig Yoho. #championship!

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The Guardians’ starting staff should go on strike until the team adds a couple of solid bats!!! This is effing ridiculous!! 😡😡😡

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Gabriel Arias illustrates the textbook TOOTBLAN!

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Super interesting story, @enosarris.bsky.social, I hope you guys will talk a little bit about this on the pod! @dvr.bsky.social

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I just posted my draft of this year’s Harvard Law Review #SCOTUS Foreword—“The Court Against the Courts.” It analyzes the challenges, obstacles, and threats district courts have faced in cases involving the Trump administration—and documents how & why the Court bears responsibility for much of it:

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The Supreme Court, October 2025 Term Foreword: The Court Against the Courts

<p>The Supreme Court sits atop a judicial system on which it is deeply dependent. It lacks the capacity to superintend more than a fraction of the cases filed e

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Mark Graber @mgraber1.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Good to see the unitary execution bite Trump in the rear end. Note that citations to Trump v. Slaughter in the opinion demonstrated that Trump and the IRS could not be adverse parties. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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Trump v IRS order

US District Court SDFL

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I was honored to be among the group of First Amendment scholars signing on to this letter challenging the FCC's continuing viewpoint-discriminatory efforts to shut down media outlets critical of the Administration. @techfreedom.org

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Jocelyn Simonson @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Working on finishing up a law review article for the upcoming submission cycle? ICYMI, the final version of @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social & my essay "The Part IV Problem in Legal Scholarship" is now online at the Columbia Law Review: columbialawreview.org/content/the-...

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THE PART IV PROBLEM IN LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP - Columbia Law Review

Introduction As legal scholars, we have tremendous freedom to choose what we study and how we study it, to engage with the relationship between how law is and what legal arrangements might help move u...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and my country just suffered the greatest military humiliation in its history. But at least now a guy whose name I can’t pronounce will get to compete in the quarterfinals of a tournament in a sport that I don’t watch.

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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

79 years ago today, Larry Doby integrated the American League. While I'm glad that the Cleveland Guardians are playing at home today, it's a lingering shame that Major League Baseball doesn't allow them to wear Doby's number for one game.

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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Kavanaugh's repeated use of the term "biological males" rather than "transgender girls and women" is gratuitous erasure. Meanwhile, his citation of the NCAA policy is disingenuous, as it was adopted under pressure from the Trump administration.

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Congratulations to my colleague and friend @profsamkamin.bsky.social on his long overdue election to the @ali-org.bsky.social!

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Great @smotus.bsky.social interview of @kylec.bsky.social. Watching the viral clips of Kyle moderating local political debates featured on John Oliver and Jimmy Kimmel's shows, it's pretty clear to me that he should moderate all future US Presidential debates!

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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The Trump administration has illegally but successfully weaponized the power to disburse funds appropriated by Congress to punish dissent and coerce obedience. On the blog and cross-posted on the @knightcolumbia.org website, I propose some disbursal mechanisms that bypass the federal executive. 👇

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A Nongovernmental Disbursement Structure to Fund Research

[N.B. The following is the third in my series of essays for the Knight First Amendment Institute's Reconstructing Free Expression project. I...

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Great to hear @keithlaw.bsky.social on yesterday's R&B. Reminded me of the great @dvr.bsky.social & Law podcasts. Keith, I understand resistance to putting #s on present/future grades but curious what factors you consider in likely future value, which must affect rankings. @enosarris.bsky.social

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Thread-Professor Ashutosh Bhagwat (@ucdavislaw.bsky.social) & I are pleased to announce the publication of our edited volume of thoughtful essays on free speech from renowned legal scholars from around the world, The Elgar Companion to Freedom of Speech and Expression www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/the...

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The Elgar Companion to Freedom of Speech and Expression

This comprehensive book examines the theoretical underpinnings of free speech and provides crucial insights into the contemporary resurgence of debates over its importance. Contributing authors critic...

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Edward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The Elgar Companion to Freedom of Speech and Expression Edited by Ashutosh Bhagwat and Alan K. Chen Free - read the Introduction: doi.org/10.4337/9781... Available in print through our website: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...

This comprehensive book examines the theoretical underpinnings of free speech and provides crucial insights into the contemporary resurgence of debates over its importance. Contributing authors critically analyse many of these disputes, including the regulation of online speech, current attacks on universities, and on the civil service.

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

If you guys aren’t watching Yankees-As, the top of the third is insane!! @enosarris.bsky.social @dvr.bsky.social

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It's been a bucket list item to see Springsteen live with my daughter, Hannah, a huge fan of the Boss. Especially meaningful to be able to do so on the Land of Hopes and Dreams/#NoKings tour!!

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Scored one run in 18 innings and still managed a split. #GuardsBall

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Great to hear a Ralphy Velazquez shout out on yesterday’s Rates & Barrels! @dvr.bsky.social @zackmeisel.bsky.social

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Cavs won two on the road to take this series!! #destiny

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

NEW: The Supreme Court allowed Texas to kill a man the state earlier said it was not permitted to kill. Justice Jackson: "I cannot understand the Court’s rush to extinguish [life], much less in the circumstances of this case." Today, at Law Dork:

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The Supreme Court allowed Texas to kill a man the state earlier said it was not permitted to kill

Justice Jackson: "I cannot understand the Court’s rush to extinguish [life], much less in the circumstances of this case." And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

SCOTUS in 2022: Five months before Election Day is too late for Louisiana to redraw its GOP House map that harms Black voters. It must wait until 2024. SCOTUS in 2026: Louisiana may cancel its imminent primary—where >40,000 already voted—to enact basically the same old map that harms Black voters

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

"Purcell principle for thee, but not for me."

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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The latest claim that campus left-wing radicals are silencing right-wing speakers concerns a Fed Soc-hosted talk by the Homeland Security General Counsel at UCLA Law School. Unsurprisingly, the facts don't support the accusation, as UCLA Law Prof David Marcus details in a guest post on the blog. 👇

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Meaningful Campus Engagement with Government Officials: A Response to UCLA’s Critics (Guest Post By UCLA Law Professor David Marcus)

On Tuesday, April 21, UCLA Law’s Federalist Society chapter hosted a lunchtime event with James Percival, general counsel at the U.S. Depart...

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 07/05/2026

FBI’s probe of Kash Patel reporting by The Atlantic's @sfitz787.bsky.social shows utter disregard for the First Amendment. It also exposes Patel’s argument as nonsense. If The Atlantic had “sham sources,” what is there to investigate? Fake sources can’t leak. @trevortimm.bsky.social explains:

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University of Denver @uofdenver.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Raising the standard. 🏆 bit.ly/4c4BM2W #DUHockey has claimed its 11th national championship—the most in NCAA men’s hockey history. Relive the unforgettable moments and discover upcoming community celebrations at the link above. 📸: NCAA Photos #C11ampions x #UniversityofDenver

A group of Denver hockey team players wearing white uniforms and hats with "Champions" written on them celebrate on the ice. They are smiling and pointing, with excitement and camaraderie evident.

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