Reposted by Sameer AsharDavid Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026it's evidently too much to ask the rw justices to consider the irreparable harm to individuals treated to such inhumanity. they are complicit in this criminality. shame on all six of them. and shame on us for having a system that allows this illegality. 12408132
Reposted by Sameer AsharPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026To me this is the crux of the public disconnect re: "The Law" - the second important point is that people believe that courts of law are courts of justice... and this really fucks people up. "This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice" - Oliver Wendell Holmes 325978
Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“Legal systems…are under constant pressure to decide, to settle, to produce the determinate outcome that rule of law requires. That pressure is not always wrong. But it forecloses too early, and its foreclosures are asymmetrically distributed.“ Robert Herian criticallegalthinking.com/2026/09/25/m...criticallegalthinking.comMicrotonal JurisprudenceThis is not a music review. It’s a proposal for a jurisprudential methodology that takes its organising metaphor from music theory but its critical object from law's refusal to register what its own c... 020
Reposted by Sameer AsharConnect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Between January and October of 2025, DHS data shows that 18 women were reported to have miscarried while detained by ICE. After that? Nothing. A new report from @us.theguardian.com shows that women have continued to experience miscarriages, ICE just stopped counting.msnbc.comREPORT: ICE LOST COUNT of miscarriages in detentionAccording to a new report from The Guardian, ICE has been detaining a record number of pregnant women since Donald Trump’s return to office. According to records obtained by the paper, the agency also... 33825
Reposted by Sameer AsharJosh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026In a Los Angeles courtroom this winter, after a back-and-forth with a judge about estimating the number of people likely to die from exposure to silica, Hyundai L&C lawyer Rey Yang mused, “You could live life without any risk, and then where would you be?” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...bloomberg.com‘Death Sentences’: Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing WorkersHundreds of workers who’ve contracted silicosis are suing the artificial stone industry for billions. While California weighs a ban on fabricating the product, the manufacturers’ defenders in Congress... 034
Reposted by Sameer AsharKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026What’s missing: 1/ Any framing about what higher is or has been that misses the big public investment post-WW2 and then massive disinvestment starting in the 1980s which spirals into rising costs and student debt is disingenuous at best. 5/ 650988
Reposted by Sameer AsharCenter for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 11/09/2026Legal Director Baher Azmy in the Boston Review: following 9/11 "the United States’s totalizing military response has never come to an end." U.S. impunity "paved the way for rank authoritarianism and forever war—all of it enabled by an imperial Supreme Court." www.bostonreview.net/articles/sad...bostonreview.netSadistic, Blatant, and WantonImpunity for U.S. atrocities after 9/11 paved the way for rank authoritarianism and forever war—all of it enabled by an imperial Supreme Court. 01110
Reposted by Sameer AsharPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Some of you know that I co-founded Liberation Library in 2015 with great comrades in Chicago. The org is volunteer led and has continued it's amazing work. They are trying to raise $15,000 to send books to incarcerated children as a back to school fundraiser - mailchi.mp/cc51694705fc...mailchi.mpStack the Books for Back 2 School 310193
Reposted by Sameer AsharOmri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Important: the court explicitly notes in the opinion that "[t]he government and its personnel face steep civil and criminal consequences for willful disclosure of information in violation of section 6103." A future DOJ MUST open a criminal investigation into the IRS/DHS information sharing. 25313
Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Reflections on labor/migration regimes, thinking toward immigration enforcement abolition. Thanks to @jamesbrandt.bsky.social for his work. 1106
Reposted by Sameer AsharBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I have some frustrations... www.offmessage.net/p/elon-musk-...offmessage.netI Am Going To Lose My F****** MindCan someone make the madness end? Or are we simply doomed to demented discourse and intolerable double standards and spineless opposition forever? 1234780
Reposted by Sameer AsharTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Place still matters. It’s probably about to matter a whole lot more. 336335
Reposted by Sameer AsharLuke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Jonathan Glater and my account of the Biden administration's attempt to restabilize the higher education system is now out in California Law Review! The core argument: www.californialawreview.org/print/studen... 2238
Reposted by Sameer AsharDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026"Democratic states have not particularly covered themselves in glory when it comes to higher ed. There’s no counter-movement in blue states that offers a robust counter-vision for higher ed — that it might, first of all, be actually good for society, or provide the kind of education students want." 332257
Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026My father’s favorite Dolly Parton song, missing his own mother far away and then gone 000
Reposted by Sameer AsharThe Drift @thedriftmag.com · 19/08/2026Andrew Baker was also a “token black professor” at Bates College. But his perspective on the events Tyler Austin Harper recounts in his Atlantic cover story is very different. Read Baker’s side of the story online today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...newsletter.thedriftmag.comRacism and labor at Bates: the other side of the storyAndrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper 10601265
Reposted by Sameer AsharThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 22/08/2026Dutch data protection authorities have fined Uber nearly $1 billion, saying the ride-hailing company used automated software to suspend driver accounts, sometimes permanently with no human review to check for mistakes.bit.lyUber fined nearly $1 billion by Dutch regulators over automated suspensions of driver accountsDutch data protection authorities have fined Uber nearly $1 billion, saying the ride-hailing company used automated software to suspend driver accounts, sometimes permanently with no human review to check for mistakes. 525885
Reposted by Sameer AsharAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Their intent was and is clear in their speech and their actions. We should be equally intentional in describing them as eugenicist--eugenics is the through line here--to their attitudes to USAID, vaccination, public health, all of it. Absolutely. 055
Reposted by Sameer AsharJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Sasha Gusev has a great new blog post on faculty hiring during the DEI era. Remarkable how much backlash there has been to what was an tiny and temporary bump in hiring Black, Latino, and Native faculty of about 1 person per R1 campus theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-actua... 8430181
Reposted by Sameer AsharBen Heath @jbentonheath.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I've posted my first systematic attempt to make sense of the past 20 months, as well as what came before. It's a work in progress, so please do hit me up with comments, objections, and screeds. The abstract (w/ alt text) is here. Some acknowledgments & refs in 🧵.1/x papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 610437
Reposted by Sameer AsharOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026But it is hopefully obvious how malicious actors could purposefully use this kind of setup. If you are a right wing neo-segregationist who finds yourself in a political culture where racism is already in circulation, you do not need to put forward an explicit segregationist agenda. 7/ 41957182
Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026”investors on Thursday expressed concern about the lack of growth in overall numbers of immigrants being monitored through ISAP“ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comICE is now tracking nearly 54,000 immigrants via ankle monitorsShift in monitoring methods has led to revenue boost for Geo Group, a private prison firm, that also makes the device 000
Reposted by Sameer AsharHelena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 13/08/2026yeah, this essay rules, read it defector.com/humanists-ha... 07622
Reposted by Sameer AsharJonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 13/08/20261/ here to blurb all 13 essays from @bulaw.bsky.social “The University & Democracy” special issue. Incisive, sharp, provocative analysis abt why universities keep cowering & colluding w segregationists & authoritarians. @aaup.org #CLC #SNDHE long 🧵w highlights from each. www.bu.edu/bulawreview/... 12214
Reposted by Sameer AsharTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I beat this drum for ten years. It won’t take. People don’t want to know this and so they don’t know it. 225146
Reposted by Sameer Asharahilantoolong.bsky.social @ahilantoolong.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Wondering who to invite for your college or law school panel on immigration? Check out my piece offering some thoughts from UCLA Law's experience last semester. 044
Reposted by Sameer AsharWill Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 09/08/2026“Open borders” starts from a basically unassailable moral intuition that immigrants are not inherently better or worse, or more or less trustworthy, than people whose families happened to arrive here earlier. But the debate is framed within thoroughly naturalized political economic premises. 1/ 1197
Reposted by Sameer AsharAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Tu Jhoom is one of those songs. Just pure delight to the ear, yet its lyrics are a profound philosophical exploration of the empty futility of striving for status/success, the inevitability of sadness and the ephemerality of happiness--so, abandon yourselves, dance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D4v...youtube.comCoke Studio | Season 14 | Tu Jhoom | Naseebo Lal x Abida ParveenYouTube video by Coke Studio Pakistan 1103
Reposted by Sameer AsharBen K. @benjaminkabak.com · 07/08/2026Congrats to all of the Democrats who voted to move Marks out of committee. Big day for you guys. 412331
Reposted by Sameer AsharValena Beety @valenabeety.bsky.social · 04/08/2026It’s book launch day for Pink Crime and here’s the first sighting out in the world - Books Are Magic in Brooklyn! If you see the book somewhere, please post or let me know! 🥳 @thenewpress.bsky.social 3114
Reposted by Sameer Ashartamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Dr. Johanna Fernández was writing a book on the historical roots of U.S. fascism. An article related to the book is here: manifold.umn.edu/read/ces0701... BTW, George Jackson, in an interview about writing in prison, noted he was working on a detailed study of fascism sweeping the Western world.manifold.umn.eduOn the Historical Roots of U.S. Fascism | On the Historical Roots of U.S. Fascism | Manifold@UMinnPressThe University of Minnesota Press is known for its boundary breaking editorial program in the humanities and social sciences. 03514
Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026“It is as if school shooters are running the state.“ 032
Reposted by Sameer AsharAndrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026New piece by Jared Loggins and me in the Boston Univ. Law Review. Wide-ranging conversation on the uncertain role of the university in end times fascism, campus worker complicity in genocide and scholasticide, and missed opportunities of the Black University movement. www.bu.edu/bulawreview/... 33018
Reposted by Sameer AsharA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Propounding a cause isn’t about winning an election. It’s about expanding the scope of social imagination, which expands the scope of practical possibilities, which changes many other things, including but not limited to what positions and candidates (and even slogans!) can and cannot win elections. 544358
Reposted by Sameer AsharRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say. 28470612354
Reposted by Sameer AsharBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...nytimes.com‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead. 22182742839
Reposted by Sameer AsharAurelius Raines II (He/Him) @aureliusr2.bsky.social · 25/07/2026On this, Emmit Tills birthday, I want to share one of my favorite speculative Poems “I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store” by Eve L. Ewing share.google/mWtwTI9NvriN...share.google“I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store” by Eve L. EwingTerrance Hayes explores how Emmett Till has become a haunting, powerful figure in Black poetry. 213864
Reposted by Sameer AsharDavid Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 22/07/2026For reading group, we are currently voting for which book that we already have done will be done again. Here are the options (you can only vote it you were already on the email list.) 3226
Reposted by Sameer AsharPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I remain surprised how few people credit Occupy Wall Street's ongoing impact(s) on U.S. politics. There's no Mamdani without Occupy etc... [some people are also irrationally anti-Occupy but that's for another day] 311228196
Reposted by Sameer AsharBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026What an indignity to have your farm or house seized via eminent domain, to see it razed and replaced by a weed-choked empty field, a lonely foundation slab, or an abandoned empty building that could only ever be repurposed for laser-tag or an ICE concentration-camp: gizmodo.com/trump-on-dat... 6/gizmodo.comTrump on Data Centers: 'You Can't Fight It. You Have to Go With It'Usually it's not great when a person in power tells others to just give up and do what they want. 144574
Reposted by Sameer AsharMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Los Angeles Bootlickers. 3527
Reposted by Sameer AsharCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...notus.orgSuspicion and Doubt at the National Civics ContestAmerica’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust. 10558972287
Reposted by Sameer AsharRaffi Magarik @raphaelmagarik.bsky.social · 21/07/2026For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, I wrote about the Jewish Museum's Paul Klee exhibit, the angel of history getting held up in Jerusalem, and the vexed relationship between critique and aesthetic veneration in our present moment of danger. jewishcurrents.org/the-absent-a...jewishcurrents.orgThe Absent AngelA reflection on the Jewish Museum’s Paul Klee exhibit 082
Reposted by Sameer AsharLPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Today, @matthewtbodie.bsky.social welcomes the appearance of a kinder, gentler, more ecumenical version of law and economics. Yet in corporate law scholarship, where shareholder primacy still reigns supreme, he finds scant evidence of any such shift.lpeproject.orgTwilight of the GodsContemporary proponents of law and economics claim to have abandoned the idea that law is an instrument for maximizing economic efficiency and wealth. Corporate law scholars haven't yet heard the good... 11916
Reposted by Sameer AsharSilky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social · 20/07/2026New interview I did with Amna Akbar in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social was just published. It's a bit of a synthesis on the how we got here and the current conditions on immigration. Always great to be in convo w/Amna & wonderful to work w/Aparna Gopalan at JC on this. jewishcurrents.org/unbuild-the-...jewishcurrents.orgUnbuild the CagesSilky Shah maps the vulnerabilities of the deportation machine. 06536
Reposted by Sameer Asharsarah thankam mathews @smathewss.bsky.social · 20/07/2026newwwwwww ting out <3 1289
Reposted by Sameer Ashar𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants. 1151210077659