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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Somewhere this morning Patrick Ruffini is hugging himself under the bedsheets telling himself it will all turn around for Republicans today

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 18/09/2026

So @kjcharleswriter.com says when you work in a googly eye factory, you become somewhat immune to thinking that sticking googly eyes on an object makes it alive. It applies to “can AI think?” but maybe also all us creative types who watched them loot our stuff by slapping their googly eyes on it.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Today's AI in law horror story: An appellate attorney used ChatGPT to summarize the appellate record. It got a lot of stuff wrong. He included the made-up facts in his brief. The NM Supreme Court dressed him down for half an hour and referred him to the disciplinary board.

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Show Cause Hearing: State v. Sandoval, S-1-SC-40845

YouTube video by New Mexico Courts

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 22/08/2026

Cofnas was not doing the thing he was hired to do. Academic freedom does not cover ”not doing your job.”

Your employment contract (article 1) and the va cy for which you were recruited (ref. LWC define your research mandate as a study of 'the
future of liberalism'
', specifically focusing on liberalism as a political doctrine emphasizing individual freedom and equality. The projects you publicly and repeatedly associate with your
affiliation at Ghent University, most notably your 'Guide for the Hereditarian Revolution' which advocates for racial barriers and segregation, fall entirely outside the scope of your official research
mandate.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Blanche has been very up front that he will use the DOJ to serve an authoritarian ends. Every vote for him is a vote against democracy.

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Michael Romano @romanopsci.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Not me bookmarking this so that it makes it easier to write a certain essay this month...nope..definitely not *bookmarks and waits for the full summary tomorrow*

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Michael Romano @romanopsci.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I'm still digesting, but this is probably my favorite line in the Barbara decision. From Justice Jackson's concurrence. Pure energy:

Quote: "consensus about the Fourteenth
Amendment’s central motivation does not justify JUSTICE
THOMAS’s myopic treatment of it. The Amendment caused
a paradigm shift in the trajectory of our Nation; the teacher
who scolds a student for bullying a classmate hopes the stu-
dent learns the broader lesson of treating everyone with
kindness, not just that one kid."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Alito’s standard for racial discrimination in the TPS ruling, that racism has to be the *sole* motivation to count as discriminatory, is so deranged that it could arguably cover neither Jim Crow nor slavery. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This is a “color-blind” Constitution that the architects of Jim Crow could love. Many of the devices employed during segregation, such as poll taxes, grandfather clauses, and literacy tests, were superficially race-neutral. In fact, slavery itself could conceivably be race-neutral—after all, one does not need to be a racist to seek cheap labor for a profitable business!

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

When you deny science, you turn a reflecting pool into a swamp. When you ignore history, you surrender where Germany surrendered after WWI. The karma!

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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The U.S. Senate voted to confirm the first of President Donald Trump's nominees to serve as life-tenured judge to have been rated "not qualified" by the American Bar Association during his second term, RNC lawyer Katie Lane, who will now be a judge in Montana. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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US Senate confirms Trump judicial nominee deemed 'not qualified' by ABA

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to confirm the first of President Donald Trump's nominees to serve as life-tenured judge to have been rated "not qualified" by the American Bar Association during his ...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This is THEFT. There is no other word for it. They are stealing almost $1.8 BILLION dollars to pay Trump‘s allies, despite knowing that these people are not legally entitled to any money and be laughed out of court if they filed a lawsuit for money damages.

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Virginia Sapiro @vsapiro.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

John Roberts was 10 yrs old when the VRA was passed. He may not remember that event clearly, but he has been opposed to the VRA as long as he has been interested in the law. Since before even any conservative could argue it had done its job. Don’t mistake who/what he is.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game

Closeup of shelf label reading “Civil Rights or Lack Thereof”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It’s so funny that they pubbed this the day before “john roberts invented the trump era shadow docket to make sure fossil fuel companies could keep killing you and make money doing it” bsky.app/profile/cris...

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

There’s so much to say about the remarkable reporting from Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak—and I’ll say a lot of it in Monday’s newsletter. But the most striking thing about all of it is the role & behavior of Chief Justice Roberts. “Calling balls and strikes” this ain’t: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

they're saying that all traces of Viktor are being erased so thoroughly that he's now just an orban legend

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I am so glad they are safe. My 2026 heart could not have handled it honestly.

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

this is exhausting.

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Michael Romano @romanopsci.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

"It is a historical irony that Doctor Cochrane would use an instrument of mass destruction to inaugurate an era of peace" Happy First Contact Day.

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Caitie @ghildirthalen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

ARTEMIS FROM SAILOR MOON WAS AT THE ARTEMIS 2 LAUNCH AND IM VERY EMOTIONAL ABOUT IT www.reddit.com/media?url=ht...

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Reddit - https://i.redd.it/6wobm5kwotsg1.jpeg

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Immigrants ask Fifth Circuit to revisit ruling on “historically unprecedented” mandatory detention policy. A 2-1 panel of the Fifth Circuit sided with the Trump admin in Feb — splitting with the vast majority of judges to consider the matter. Now, an attempt to reverse that with en banc review.

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Immigrants ask Fifth Circuit to revisit ruling on “historically unprecedented” mandatory detention policy

A 2-1 panel of the Fifth Circuit sided with the Trump admin — splitting with the vast majority of judges to consider the matter. Now, an attempt to reverse that.

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Michael Romano @romanopsci.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I am literally dying laughing at this.

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Michael Romano @romanopsci.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

This is the kind of energy we need in 2026.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I’m utterly uninterested in “debates” about whether AI can do things well. I wouldn’t care if it could. 1. It stole from me. 2. I prefer me having my job to a computer having it. 3. I don’t teach “with” Lockheed or Raytheon; why wld I teach with Anthropic or OpenAI?

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Michael Romano @romanopsci.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Okay so here's what happened at immigration court today. Starting a new thread. When we got to 26 Federal Plaza, about ten ICE agents were completely surrounding two courtrooms and two waiting rooms. Like a phalanx of ICE that people had to walk through to see a judge. 1/?

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 02/03/2026

The "rally-around-the-flag" effect is not some law of physics that works automatically. It largely seems to happen because 1) the opposition party stops criticizing the president or the military operation, 2) partially as a consequence, the mass media is flooded with pro-government messages. /1

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Michael Romano @romanopsci.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

So I've been teaching a controversies in the law course this semester, and we've been grounding ourselves by understanding originalism. One of the big critiques we've hit on is "where do you start your history?" and well...I can promise you that it's not with "the King of England was in the right"

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 20/02/2026

The Supreme Court:

Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM.
BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

You’re allowed to quote this on page 1 of your brief, you know.

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Michael Romano @romanopsci.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

In Zone of Interest, Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife, Hedwig strive to build a idyllic family life in a home directly bordering the concentration camp, ignoring the atrocities and mass murder taking place just over the garden wall under Höss's supervision.

A still from the 2023 film Zone of Interest, which profiles the domestic lives of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife, Hedwig. They strive to build a idyllic family life in a home directly bordering the concentration camp, ignoring the atrocities and mass murder taking place just over the garden wall.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Once again I'm asking Democrats to take their messaging cues from the sitting Democratic Senator who is the most vulnerable for re-election in 2026

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

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We are excited to announce our exclusive partnership with Substack.

Starting today Substack authors can natively integrate data from the world's largest prediction market.

Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets.

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Michael Romano @romanopsci.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

CONGRATS! Would love an adv. copy if you're willing to use in my current controversies in the law class. We just spent 4 wks working through what originalism is in theory, and will be using it to discuss personhood in several respects for the rest of the semester (including in the abortion debate).

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/02/2026

AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating

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Michael Romano @romanopsci.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Next time I chair a panel, I'm bringing a stuffed bear to throw at speakers when they hit the 0 mark.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 14/02/2026

The SAVE Act failed to pass last year because of nationwide public opposition. Now it’s back, and Congress should reject it again. Add your voice: bit.ly/4tmVIor

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Michael Romano @romanopsci.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Happy anniversary to what is likely one of my "professional posts" on social media.

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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The weaponization of mass detention is the point. With Prof. Linus Chan on the vaporization of due process and @andreapitzer.bsky.social on mass detention and warehousing Amazon-style. shows.acast.com/amicus-with-...

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The Concentration Camp Next Door | Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

The Trump administration has weaponized immigration detention against America

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

One of those latecomers was a 46-year-old documentary filmmaker named Chad Knutson. On the morning after Good was killed, he was at home with his two hound dogs, watching a live feed from the Whipple Building, where ICE is based, a five-minute drive from his house. A protester had laid a rose on a makeshift memorial to Good. As Knutson watched, an ICE agent took the rose, put it in his lapel, and then mockingly gave it to a female ICE agent. They both laughed.

Knutson told me he had never been a protester. It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt. But when he saw those ICE agents laughing, something broke inside him.

“I grab my keys, I grab a coat, and drive over,” Knutson told me. “I barely park my car and I’m running out screaming and crying, ‘You stole a fucking flower from a dead woman. Like, are any of you human anymore?

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Haley's Headless Mechanic 🏳️‍⚧️ @mecha-bunny.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

"One child bleeding from an eye injury wasn’t seen by medical staff for two days. Another child’s foot was broken when a member of the staff dropped a volleyball net pole." They were fed meals "that were moldy and had worms" and then refused to treat food poisoning. apnews.com/article/immi...

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About 400 immigrant children were detained longer than the recommended limit, ICE admits

Legal advocates concerned over the prolonged detention of immigrant children in federal custody are sounding the alarm before the federal court. U.S.

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