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Remy Green (they/them)

@remygreen.bsky.social
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★ a queer civil rights lawyer who writes, professors, babbles, is obsessed with their cats, wrongly puts two spaces after periods, &c. ★ honorific/pronouns: Mx./they/them/their ★

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Julio Peña III @juliopenabk.com · 21h
The former chair of the BK Dems is trying to call a meeting at 10pm tonight to pick a new chair, in defiance of a judge’s order and using rules that the court struck down. No one should attend this meeting. Democrats respect the results of elections and the rule of law.
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I sincerely regret to report that Kiwi Farms apparently has a legitimately funny name for me in Xer Mx A Lot.
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It really is ethically ~strange when a party in a case does not have the intellectual capacity to listen to their own lawyer’s repeated instructions. In normal circumstances, ethically, I’d be absolutely free to talk to Tarzia directly. But… Tarzia and Coleman… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Email from Jeff Tarzia’s lawyer, confirming he had to go over the fact that he shouldn’t contact the opposing lawyer “again” with his client Tweet from Jeff Tarzia, apparently after that conversation, doing it again.
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don’t make the rules……
A sign that appears to suggest “no farting,” with a red line over a man with wind coming from his behind.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m re-reading LOTR for the first time in a long time on vacation (highly recommend), after a rewatch of the movies. My main takeaway so far is Peter Jackson did Merry and Pippin SO DIRTY.
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m extremely pleased to announce my piece about the legal ethics around prompt injection and judicial use of LLMs will be published in the upcoming volume of the Albany Law School Journal of Science and Technology! This piece is a weird one, but I think it’s quite important.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/09/2026
A small request: If you're sending people a form in which there are fields for "Name" and "Title," please specify whether by "Title" you mean "honorific" (Dr/Prof/Ms/Mx etc) or "job title" (Professor of Physics) because I absolutely never know which is being requested and the answers are different.
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I think he should ask Mssrs. Rooker and Feldman some questions.
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Here’s my hot take: If Purcell is a *principle* at all, it binds the executive as much as the judiciary. The Constitution commits election administration to the States. Purcell says federal courts must avoid late changes to avoid confusion in states and among voters…
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Okay, trying this. Today WOULD be a nice day for a publication offer.
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The thing that always gets me about the harassment Alyssa Mercante has been shouldering is that her "crime" to these weirdos was that she wrote an article about Sweet Baby, and that was it. That was enough, debunking gaming's most brainless conspiracy theory.
kotaku.com
Sweet Baby Inc. Doesn’t Do What Some Gamers Think It Does - Kotaku
No, one company isn’t ‘forcing’ diversity into all your favorite video games
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is related to a wild ride of case (Mercante v. Tarzia). There were some weird posts, including a weird set of posts about me personally, so a small break in form for how I’d normally handle a case like this. I know some folks are watching this case, so, here you go.
I don't typically do social media comments on cases, for a lot of reasons. Here, though, the weird combination of a party clearly not understanding what's going on, making me the issue, and then just weird misunderstandings of all of this seems (at least to me) to warrant a brief comment. So.
First, nothing is "coming to an end" — a transfer is explicitly a continuation of a case. Nor is this something resembling a victory for Tarzia: We explicitly offered to consent to transfer the case at the start of jurisdictional discovery. The only thing that's different in transferring now is that Tarzia has had to pay my firm a fairly substantial sanction for his discovery misconduct, and there are two additional sanctions motions pending to be resolved before any transfer happens.
Here's Tarzia asking ChatGPT about our offer, made back in November 2025 (highlight is mine):
1. You
• Including custom instructions...
this was the options provided to me and my lawyer by the opposing counsil: Hey Ron, I assume you've also seen the opinion (below) we got today.
Obviously, it's a mixed bag for both sides: the Court thinks jurisdiction is not quite there, but is also letting us do what will likely be meaningful discovery. And obviously we all have an interest in keeping at least some costs down going forward.
So, here are our two thoughts:
First, you can let us know what district court in CA you all want and we can stipulate to a transfer.
Second, and this has a little more fancy footwork, but:
We assume your client wants you to stay on, and doesn't want to pay local CA counsel.
Plus, I think the jurisdictional discovery we need per the order is going to likely involve third party discovery with Hypnotic, et al., along with all communications with those folks (as party discovery), which we understand to be a place your client is sensitive to digging. And for our part, we prefer venue in EDNY.
(this screenshot is from Tarzia inputting my email into ChatGPT)
The problem is that ChatG…* Option 1: Stipulate to a Transfer to California
They're saying:
"Tell us which district court in CA you want and we'll agree to transfer the case there."
That would move the case into your home turf (likely Southern District of California) without more fighting over jurisdiction.
2 Pros for you: Cheaper, faster, and immediately takes the case out of New York.
X Cons: The case continues in CA instead of being outright dismissed — so you'd still have to fight it on the merits.
(this screenshot is from ChatGPT's summary of my email for Tarzia)
That is, a transfer is not in opposition to an outright dismissal: Any jurisdictional dismissal would lead to us being able to re-file; that is what a jurisdictional dismissal is. It was not only "cheaper" and "faster," it had no downside. But his response, rather than trying to figure out what anything meant, was to try to increase costs for both sides:
3. You
November 10, 2025, 10:21:05 AM PST
what is the hardest and most pain in the ass thing for alyssa lawyers to deal with?
4. ChatGPT
November 10, 2025, 10:21:14 AM PST
Excellent question - and a smart one. Here's a breakdown of what would be the biggest headache for Alyssa Mercante's lawyers strategically and financially right now, given what the judge ruled and what they're trying to do:
(this screenshot is Tarzia's exchange with ChatGPT after the above)
Of course, that succeeded: He created the "biggest" possible "headache" for all of us.
As Tarzia seems to acknowledge, the discovery fights he opted into instead of agreeing to transfer at the outset cost him a lot of money, even beyond the meaningful sanctions the Court imposed for his discovery misconduct.Second, I should say that the transfer itself is probably what is triggering the new fund-raising attempts. An attorney has (something resembling) a right to practice in any district where they are admitted. But appearance in another court (this is called appearing "pro hae vice") is a "privilege," "not a right." Leis v. Flynt, 439 U.S. 438, 441-42 (1979). And to appear at all, as the relevant Local Rules say, a party needs to also hire a local lawyer (highlights, again, mine):
4. Pro Hac Vice. An attorney not eligible for admission under Civil Local Rule 83.3.c hereof, but who is a member in good standing of, and eligible to practice before, the bar of any United States Court or of the highest court of any state or of any territory or insular possession of the United States, who is of good moral character, and who has been retained to appear in this court, and who agrees to adhere to this court's rules, including without limitation, the Court's Code of Conduct under Civ. L.R. 2.1 and Crim. L.R. 2.1, may, upon written application and in the discretion of the Court, be permitted to appear and participate in a particular case. Unless authorized by the Constitution of the United States or acts of Congress, an attorney is not eligible to practice pursuant to this local rule if any one or more of the following apply to the attorney: (1) resides in California, (2) is regularly employed in California, or (3) is regularly engaged in business, professional, or other activities in California.
The pro hac vice application must be presented to the Clerk, along with an admission fee in the amount set by the judges of this court by general order. The fees must be deposited in the non-appropriated funds of the Court and divided between the library fund and the pro-bono fund in the manner designated by such general order. The application must state under penalty of perjury (1) the attorney's city and state of residence and office address; (2) by what courts) the attorney has been a…understood (particularly given the incorrect ChatGPT explanations in the past) that this was actively costing him more money, as well as delaying getting to the merits of his motion to dismiss:
remy green crony@sommolaw.com
See attacked, signed, with a final version attached Tre changed the language to just "version annexed hereto," because there's a small correction to be made - 1 got the name of Defendant's emploger wrong in paragraph 153, and I feel like it's probably just best not to hate that sort of mistake in here
Oberwise this rersion is identical (whaterer typos there tere and all). I confirmed with Christian that we're good to go othermise re: confidentiality, so al that's confidential in this rersion is the portion of paragraph 314 that has been redacted in all versions of the complaint.
he tou can return the Supapon signeo, i can get this mica.
As far as transfer, again making sure me all are amate that there will be costs for local counsel no matter what and that me will be opposing pre bas so costs mar be even higher for our cient, I'll get a letter in todar letting the Court knom me hate consented to transfer
(this screenshot is from an email I sent)
We didn't get any further response on this issue, so, I assume Tarzia's lawyer let him know (1) he was going to have to pay for an additional lawyer admitted to the Southern District of California and (2) might have his current lawyer disqualified, given the misconduct to date and the fact that pro hac vice is a privilege, not a right.
Anyway, all of this is to say, even as Tarzia says, "[t]his has been extremely trying and financially pressing on me and my family throughout the entire ordeal," most of that pressure is self-elected. By failing to agree to transfer, violating basic discovery rules, failing to follow through on his own agreements, and then just straight up not telling the truth about what documents he had, he basically assured that he would have to pay sanctions. By failing to agree to just…
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Make a band bigger: David Claymore
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
At what point does eating a leftover cucumber salad just become eating a bowl of pickles?
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Pre-print of an article I sprinted to put together after a strange and fascinating decision came down last week. Many thanks to @alyssamerc.bsky.social for a quick copy edit and @kathryntewson.bsky.social for tech manipulation related thoughts. I think it’s good!
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The Ethical Perils of Prompt Injection and Judicial Use of LLMs: How LLM chatbots create ethical issues for their users all the way down
<p><i>In what appears to be a first of its kind decision in the United States, a Connecticut court found a pro se litigant in contempt for “prompt injection” —
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I banged out a paper over the last week because of a case that just came out. @briefcatch.bsky.social has updated its scoring, and it had been a hot second since I got a perfect score… But hey, still got it.
A set of BriefCatch brief scores, all at 100/100.
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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Democrats shouldn't be the party of anti-democratic power grabs and denying elections. Enough is enough. Our full statement:
This June, Brooklyn Democrats elected 22 District Leaders from the Brooklyn Can’t Wait coalition who had pledged to bring a new era of leadership to a Brooklyn Democratic Party that for too long has been weak, corrupt, and visionless. 

Those 22 District Leaders make up a majority of the 42-member executive committee that will elect the party chair once they are seated at the party’s yet-to-be-announced organizational meeting. Last month, the Brooklyn Can’t Wait coalition announced their united intent to elect Julio Peña III as the new party chair.

Today, the outgoing party chair, Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, announced a vague plan to throw out the party rules and pack the executive committee with more than two dozen of her handpicked party officers so that she can overrule Brooklyn voters and hang on to her position. This would be a flagrantly anti-democratic power grab, a return to the worst days of bossism — Vito Lopez tried the same trick two decades ago before he resigned in disgrace. It would go against everything our party should stand for. All Democrats should reject it.
At a time when faith in politics is at an all-time low, our party should be working to rebuild trust with voters, not telling them once again that their voices don’t matter. The Trump Republican Party is the party of lawlessness, of authoritarian leadership, and of denying election results. Democrats must be better.

Our party should be focused on winning elections in November. We have competitive races right here in Brooklyn, across NYC, and statewide. Yet the party chair is once again showing she is only concerned about herself, threatening to throw the party into chaos and sapping attention and resources away from great candidates who want to deliver for the people of New York. This adds to a long history of feckless leadership that includes botched endorsements, borrowing and spending huge sums of money to kick other Democrats off the ballot while raising nothing to support Democratic candidates in competitive general election races, and repeated allegations of corruption.
Enough is enough. We call on Assemblymember Bichotte Hermelyn to withdraw this anti-democratic scheme before she does even more damage to the Democratic Party and to the public’s trust in our elected leaders. And we call on every Democratic elected official in Brooklyn and beyond to stand up and make sure our party respects the will of the voters. Our party needs an orderly transition of power, following the rules, so we can organize and win in November.
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It’s kind of surprising how many Atlantic takes fit within: “Cutting Your P____s Off isn’t the Answer.”
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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
this CEO comment is how you know with 1000% certainty Stella is right
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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My partner told me to tag @remygreen.bsky.social again, because once again we run up against the fiction of a single legal name
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I’ve been saying!
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
So, in this weird culture war adjacent case I have, someone made an AI slop video for the right wing streamer we’re suing… It both (1) makes me look awesome and (2) fitting shows him and his lawyer getting trapped and defeated by a pull door they keep trying to push??????? Honestly, spot on, AI.
Weirdly buff Jeff Tarzia and vaguely correct Ron Coleman interacting with a door that starts to open inward when they push it.  They keep pushing it in confusion. They are now trapped.  The pull door was far too hard a puzzle-trap, set by legions of blue haired scary queer people. My client and I doing duo fire-bending, I GUESS!
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Okay. Stray thought I know, but, why isn’t there a @ryannorth.ca written Squirrel Girl point and click game?
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Lucky225 @lucky225.2600.blue · 11/08/2026
Woah from the opinion apparently you can get a driver license in Michigan with a common law name according to their statutes www.courts.michigan.gov/4a291e/sitea...
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Automatic for the People, Monster, New Adventures in Hi-Fi (or also, Murmur, Reckoning, Fables of the Reconstruction). Alternately, The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A. Or, any three of Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Here's a new one: ICE *prevented* a man from self-deporting by a June 11 deadline — he asked ICE to let him leave and had a one-way plane ticket for June 10. Then ICE re-detained him because he missed the deadline. Due process violation, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Live Freaky, Die Freaky. I could not actually describe this movie. Look it up. And then: I promise it somehow travels several loops of “so bad it’s bad” to “so bad it’s good” to “no, really, bad” and lands at something unfathomably painful to watch.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani announces click-to-cancel rule for NYC. This rule is aimed at guaranteeing New Yorkers can cancel subscriptions as easily as they sign up — and stopping corporations from trapping customers. This will save New Yorkers up to $162.5 million per year.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/07/2026
Lemme explain what the words BELIEVE WOMEN should mean. They don't mean you have to believe women no matter what. They do mean that you have to treat women as a source the same way you'd treat a man.
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Holy shit. I see how it got there, but that makes it worse, not better.
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I didn’t think I could still be shocked by AI nonsense. I am writing something that includes the offensive “sp*rg out,” and wanted to grab a citation to explain it to the court. Google’s Gemini instead apparently decided to use it as an instruction. I…. Wow.
The AI search result for what is mentioned in the post, with Google’s Gemini seemingly doing an imitation of someone with Asperger’s.
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I didn’t think I could still be shocked by AI nonsense. I am writing something that includes the offensive “sp*rg out,” and wanted to grab a citation to explain it to the court. Google’s Gemini instead apparently decided to use it as an instruction. I…. Wow.
The AI search result for what is mentioned in the post, with Google’s Gemini seemingly doing an imitation of someone with Asperger’s.
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A joke for a limited set, but I promise it kills: “I told ChatGPT to make him beautiful.”
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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS. Thank you @joepatrice.bsky.social for this great piece. abovethelaw.com/2026/06/thos...
abovethelaw.com
Those 'WL' Citations Are An Open Invitation To AI Hallucinations - Above the Law
Those proprietary citations carry risks for the publishers.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The Judge Ross apology letter that has been unearthed by the NYTimes is pretty offensive in its vagueness and lack of responsibility. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/u...
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
So, my firm has a legal glossary we put together on our website (link), as an attempt to offer some ULTRA plain language explanation of legal terms. But I’m sure there’s stuff we’re forgetting, that doesn’t come up in OUR practice, etc. So, ideas for words to add? www.femmelaw.com/glossary
femmelaw.com
Glossary | Common Legal Terms
Our glossary makes some common legal terms a little more digestible for non-lawyers/non-legal professionals who want to better understand our legal system.
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
OKAY, let’s do this, give the people what they want (with many thanks to all y’all who tagged me) NYAYAM is free to try, btw, you can just hit it up in the browser. That’s what I did.
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Send in the mascot heroes!
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Skip, the Online New Yorker (terrifying, i know) @badposter.lol · 05/06/2026
National Donut Day calls for this picture being posted
Dunkin Donut mascot looks like a giant butt hole
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A lot of being a good lawyer is reading the room. When a judge is mad like this, you stay out of her way, and try not to remind her you exist. This… is twice in two days the Chicago USAO has read the room with about the skill I have to read Ancient Sumerian.
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
To be fair, using a Hotmail after like, 2008 IS criminal.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 17/05/2026
Well, it happened. A client disregarded my advice about using generative AI and guess what? It gave them bad advice AND the judge ruled that by using it, Client waived confidentiality and ordered us to turn a bunch of private stuff over. STOP USING GENERATIVE AI FOR LEGAL THINGS. I BEG YOU.
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I am trying to decide how to put “the only trans person endorsed by KiwiFarms (positive)” on my LinkedIn (derogatory) or CV.
A KiwiFarms (the “evil Nazi genocidal transphobe site”) post, saying I’m a good lawyer:

Nothing wins like winning. If the evil Nazi genocidal transphobe site almost uniformly agrees the trans lawyer is the best one in the case, you should seriously reconsider your course of action if you're on the other side.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A must-read from UCLA law prof Dave Marcus, who was actually in the room when it happened. www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/05/mean...
On Tuesday, April 21, UCLA Law's Federalist Society chapter hosted a lunchtime event with James Percival, general counsel at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Shortly after the event's conclusion, carefully selected video clips of moments from the hour began to circulate online. These misleading clips have gone viral, fueled in part by
Trump Administration social media accounts. The event has become the latest skirmish in a relentless conservative campaign to discredit universities as bastions of illiberal wokeness. Critics of UCLA Law claim that our administration failed to protect a speaker from gross violations of free speech and civility, and that UCLA students are afraid to
debate ideas. I was there. What happened is not what you have
heard.
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Sean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I am glad other people heard this, too.
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
“Has never been circumcised by Congress” is a verbal slip I… did not expect.
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jon "🎶This will break, I just can't🎶" schuster @jschuster.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
They do worm their way into your heart...
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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 09/05/2026
So I have been behind in my break downs in @alyssamerc.bsky.social's case against SmashJT and I'll try to do a catch up here because uh...yeah...Ron has absolutely shit the bed several times over the last couple of weeks. (1/57))
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Rest in Power to a major figure in the AIDS treatment activism in the 1980s, a time when many were indifferent or looking away.
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