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Anjali Vats @raceip.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I thoroughly enjoyed this low key food drama.

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 19/10/2025

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

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Anjali Vats @raceip.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Amazing. Brilliant. Analogue.

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jag @i-am-j.ag · 15/10/2025

In the SCOTUS oral argument about gutting the VRA because it might violate white people's right to be over-represented in Congress, there's a glaring irony in the fact that the lawyers arguing for racism are getting out-balanced time to speak without anybody acting like it's weird.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 17/10/2025

Try to live your life in such a way that when you die, sitting members of Congress do not immediately, publicly call you a stain on your profession and the office you held ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/roger-tane...

A few months later, Congress was considering a bill to appropriate $1,000 for a marble bust of Taney, to add to the collection of busts of previous chief justices on display in the Supreme Court’s chambers. But lawmakers objected strenuously to the idea of lifting even a finger to honor a man who, in the words of one, had spent his life fighting to place the entire country “under the iron rule of the slave-masters.” Sumner, evidently a world-class hater, predicted that Taney’s name would be “hooted down upon the page of history,” which would “fasten upon him the stigma he deserves.” Ohio Senator Benjamin Wade framed the question of whether to commission the Taney bust as a simple matter of fiscal responsibility, warning that his constituents would “pay $2,000 to hang this man in effigy rather than $1,000 to commemorate his merits.”

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 19/10/2025

So many of you get your authority by being white. That's it. You don't know any more than I do. You're not smarter than I am. You're just white and that grants you a level of authority that I am not granted without proving myself. You're trading in white supremacy. You should think about that.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

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Anjali Vats @raceip.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Flashback to April when we did a Race + IP thing! I haven't logged into bluesky since. But since people are in the streets, it seemed like high time! Stay tuned for more #CRTIP news!

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Christian Sundquist @sundquist.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

“Who has the capacity to create?” Julia Nguyen (ucla) interrogating traditional IP concepts of creatorship at this weekends @raceip.bsky.social Race IP conference at Pitt Law (organized by my colleague Anjali Vats!)

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Prof. Shirley Lin @profshirleylin.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Spotted at #LSAChicago2025: Anjali Vats @raceip.bsky.social's Color of Creatorship. Now added to my summer reading list!

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Anjali Vats @raceip.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

We knew this was coming but also 😱

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Anjali Vats @raceip.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Oh hey Race + IP '25: Abolitionist Futures is LIVE! We're so ready to celebrate our fifth anniversary. 🎈 You can register here: www.raceipconference.org/2025 As always, the event is free to attend, with in person and virtual options. Everyone is welcome.

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Race + IP 2025

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 09/03/2025

White people as a whole could stop this madness anytime...

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/03/2025

This is really really bad because when I was at big law in 2001, a lot of people were repping patriot act detainees pro bono. This is how Trump makes sure no lawyers step up the way they did in airports in January 2017 when he issued the Muslim travel ban EO

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Move right and lose.

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Anjali Vats @raceip.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Louder for the folks that haven't taken it in: THE US ISN'T A STARTUP!

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Roses are red And measles are too. Thanks to RFK Jr, Outbreaks just grew.

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coach lisa bernal-wood @lisabernalwood.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Something I read today: “Loving Corrections” by adrienne maree brown. #booksky @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social “The good news is that we don’t need to be experts on every region to move with and towards humanity, connection, and solidarity.”

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Anjali Vats @raceip.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I feel like I'm seeing my career flash before my eyes beginning with the white nationalism work I was doing in 2004 through the tech work that I was doing until 2021. I hate this timeline. Cheers! 🥸

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Amelia Eisch 🧪🧠👩‍🔬 🐁 @eisch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Here are flyers for Monday’s protests - one at Harrisburg and one at Philly City Hall. Follow @50501movement.bsky.social for more.

This is a flyer for a March on Philadelphia City Hall on Presidents’ Day, Monday, February 17, 2025. At noon that information is presented in black font inside of a lavender circle. Darker purple rays alternate with lavender rays extending out from that circle. A black-and-white fist Appears on the right side of the flyer. At the top of the flyer is a black banner that says “the people demand change“ in white letters. Underneath that in smaller letters with words, alternating in white and purple font, it says “Deny the power. Defend the people. Depose the oligarchy.“ there is a QR code on the bottom left, but it does not provide helpful information. For more information about this and other related marches, follow @50501 movement.bsky.social.

This is a flyer for a peaceful March from the city Island to the capital steps in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on February 17, 2025 from 12 to 3 PM. The top of the flyer says “50 states 50 protests one day”. This is the slogan for the 50501 movement which you can follow on blue sky @50501. movement.bsky.social. The flyer is a white background with red and blue writing. in the background of the words is the capital building in Harrisburg Pennsylvania.

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 17/02/2025

While 'warrior tech bros' are apparently all the rage, we'll need a different kind of technologist if we want to survive as a species and inhabit a livable world. We'll need #DesignJustice.

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Ashley @briefslayer.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

As the gutting of the federal workforce continues, including federal lawyers, one way state bars can help is providing waivers or provisional licensing for attorneys that will mostly be barred in DC.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 13/02/2025

READ Danielle Sassoon's letter to AG Pam Bondi, via @nytimes.com: "Rather than be rewarded, Adams's advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

Dear Attorney General Bondi:
On February 10, 2025, I received a memorandum from acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, directing me to dismiss the indictment against Mayor Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, which would require leave of court. I do not repeat here the evidence against Adams that proves beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed federal crimes; Mr. Bove rightly has never called into question that the case team conducted this investigation with integrity and that the charges against Adams are serious and supported by fact and law. Mr. Bove's memo, however, which directs me to dismiss an indictment returned by a duly constituted grand jury for reasons having nothing to do with the strength of the case, raises serious concerns that render the contemplated dismissal inconsistent with my ability and duty to prosecute federal crimes without fear or favor and to advance good-faith arguments before the courts.
When I took my oath of office three weeks ago, I vowed to well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I was about to enter. In carrying out that responsibility, I am guided by, among other things, the Principles of Federal Prosecution set forth in the Justice Manual and your recent memoranda instructing attorneys for the Department of Justice to make only good-faith arguments and not to use the criminal enforcement authority of the United States to achieve political objectives or other improper aims. I am also guided by the values that have defined my over ten years of public service. You and I have yet to meet, let alone discuss this case. But as you may know, I clerked for the Honorable J. Harvie Wilkinson III on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and for Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. Both men instilled in me a sense of duty to contribute to the public good and uphold the rule of law, and a commitment to reasoned and thorough analysis. I have always considered it my o…

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...

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Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies

The Wikimedia Foundation says it will likely roll out features previously used to protect editors in authoritarian countries more widely.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

new york please i beg, i want to see you break the streak of each nyc mayor being worse than the one before him in my lifetime

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I miss the old Kanye

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Donald Trump is everything our Founding Fathers feared.

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Anjali Vats @raceip.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Love this memorial. Gone too soon.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2025

DO NOT MEMORY HOLE THE NAZI SALUTE! Elon Musk did it not once but twice, and with vigor! It’s been 3 weeks, and there’s been no accountability. Institutionalized Judaism has let him off the hook. It is up to us to remember, to never forget the ancestors who deserve better, and to make it stick.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/02/2025

This is incredible reporting and an important read. WIRED has been absolutely running circles around NYT and WaPo. I bought a subscription. They're going to need our support when Musk and Thiel try to sue them out of existence Gawker-style.

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Hey, everyone. Let's share Rose's website as far and often as possible. Her name was scrubbed from NASA's website thanks to orders to erase women in STEM. Rose fought through poverty and homelessness, and every time I look at the moon, I think of her. www.rosedf.space/explore

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Home | Rose DF - Astronomer & Aerospace Engineer

Welcome to the personal site of Astronomer Rose DF. Connect with her for STEM outreach initiatives, and find all contact information here.

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Anjali Vats @raceip.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I'm so, so sorry. I hope you stay in math and get an amazing postdoc somewhere.

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Anjali Vats @raceip.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Enraging. Math excellence, canceled.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

NEW YORK (AP) — A dozen states say they will file lawsuit challenging DOGE access to government payment systems containing personal data.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

One thing we saw with the violent response to peaceful protests against genocide on college campuses was that many administrators saw protesting students, staff, & faculty as an enemy within rather than, to use admin speak, as stakeholders in the institution.

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Anjali Vats @raceip.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Loving the divest (from) / prank / sabotage Musk strategy. My favorite moments so far: - Doug Ford tearing up Starlink contracts - Mass no-shows at Tesla dealers - DOGE staffers resigning in antiracist protest More of this, especially from Dems. Make Musk fail.

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Anjali Vats @raceip.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Yep. Lawsuits won't protect private citizens. And SCOTUS will lash out. Plus Trump stands for illegality. It's truly awful.

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Anjali Vats @raceip.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This is a systematic attempt to dismantle the government that the US has been building for the past 50+ years. BuT ItS nOt LeGaL is only stave off so much damage. Trump built his campaign on illegality. The Left has to imagine anew.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Colorblindness is a tool for resegregation. Coming for the data is the way to delegitimize the basis of the pursuit of equality.

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Anjali Vats @raceip.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

More bad egg news. I'll see myself out. 👋🏼

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