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Kim @kimoco.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bastards

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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

2/ If you worked in a company where you anticipated a 10% chance that your product would kill ten people, let alone all people, the correct response would be horror, ceasing all operations, and likely contacting the police or other criminal authorities.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

it’s useful to remember every so often that the george w bush admin, led by its immoral lawyers, broke such a fundamental rule of law, torturing those in its custody, that after 25 years justice for the victims of 9/11 remains out of reach.

photo of front page story in the Times reporting that judge rejects KSM confession on torture grounds.

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Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Every kid born in DC got those books. I don’t remember signing up, but they just started coming in the mail a month or two after my son was born. Each one was a jolt of joy, a reminder that someone outside our little unit cared about this tiny person. She was such a gift.

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Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I agree with this. If you spend the time to create community where students feel respected and like they’re building something with you, and you explain why AI use is antithetical to those goals, most of them won’t use it.

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 30/06/2026

SCOTUS reform won't just simply happen if Dems take Congress & the White House. A case has to be made for it—to a skeptical public, to reluctant politicians, to a hostile media. The blowback from the right will be intense and terrify a lot of weak-willed pols. The case has to be made starting *now*

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I left the Church years ago. I can’t go back. I do not demand that the Church change for me. But when the Holy Father says stuff like this I feel so connected to the depths of my faith, to the part of the Church that I did not and cannot leave, and I am so happy to feel that way

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Jeanne Fromer @jeannefromer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

“We propose that state supreme courts amend their rules of professional conduct to impose a uniform ‘hold open’ date for offers until Oct. 1 of students’ 2L year for 2L summer positions.” @marklemley.bsky.social & I have an op-ed in Bloomberg on early recruiting news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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State Supreme Courts Can Resolve Early Legal Recruiting Mess

Opinion: Imposing a uniform "hold open" date for job offers to law students would likely put much-needed brakes on accelerated recruiting.

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Caz 💖💜💙 @wabbits.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

When I started in public libraries TWO DECADES AGO we were already lending: Jigsaws Video games Kids’ toy packs Dressing up costumes Laptops ….why will nobody TALK TO LIBRARIANS or even do the most cursory of searches before sharing their Extremely Hot Takes 🫠

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

i think boarding school teenage masculinity is a part of masculinity but not of manhood. we have to get away from the concept of the opposite of "man" being "woman." the opposite of "man" is "boy"

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Marin K. Levy @marinklevy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I love people at the airport who stack the security bins of other travelers. Just nice, decent people helping out people they’ve never even met. ❤️

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

They help you out, your mom and dad They really want to, and they do! They fill you with the fun they had And add some extra vibes for you!

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Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This whole clip is infuriating, but the statement “it would be like poetry without rhyming, it’s too easy” seems designed to make English majors everywhere spontaneously combust.

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Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

He’s a tricky one because all the members of REM are credited on the songs. Does a whole band count as a songwriter? 🤷‍♀️

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Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I’m not even sure he’d pick Eddie based just on the solo stuff. But let’s ask him! @spoth56.bsky.social

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Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This is a good list and a hard task but the omission of Sufjan Stevens, who is unlike anyone else on this list, borders on criminal.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Johnson may be too Protestant to know this, but the Just War Doctrine in Catholicism is codified in Canon Law. Trump's assault on Iran satisfies literally none of the conditions of it.

The strict conditions for legitimate defense by military force require rigorous consideration. the gravity of such a decision makes it subject to rigorous conditions of moral legitimacy. At one and the same time: - the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain; - all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective; - there must be serious prospects of success; - the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. the power of modem means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition.

These are the traditional elements enumerated in what is called the "just war" doctrine. The evaluation of these conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good.

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Alicia Bannon @aliciabannon.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Interested in a state supreme court clerkship? @statecourtreport.org has a database featuring clerkship opportunities from 25 states and more than 80 justices. We hope it's a good starting point for applicants! statecourtreport.org/state-judici...

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State Judicial Clerkship Resource

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Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

SoCal spring blooms on our morning hike.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

We pack a handful of folks into a tin can loaded with explosives. The computers are running Windows and the toilet is malfunctioning. We hurl them at a distant rock. Everything about where they are is deadly. And it is sublimely beautiful, one of the greatest things we’ve done as a species. #Artemis

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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

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Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

During oral args today, Justice Sotomayor mentioned the post-Thind denaturalization campaign when noting the risk of retroactive application of the birthright citizenship EO. Our amicus brief tells that story. @korematsuctr.bsky.social @aaldef.bsky.social @ccrcj.bsky.social

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Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Legislating comes to mind. Probably professoring as well.

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spoth56.bsky.social @spoth56.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Newport Beach, CA

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Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Paloma perfectly captures my morning mood.

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Sean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

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Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I hope we honored his memory. And I hope telling his story ensures that the injustice inflicted on him is not repeated. ❤️

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Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

This was a team effort with extraordinary work by @korematsuctr.bsky.social, and co-counsel @aaldef.bsky.social, and @ccrcj.bsky.social. Rock stars, each and every one of them.

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Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

As we note in the Introduction, “Amici are deeply familiar with the importance of citizenship. Their families and communities have personally experienced . . . the agonizing doubts and insecurities imposed when the foundations of citizenship—thought secure—are undermined.”

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Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I am beyond proud to be a part of the team that drafted this amicus for the Korematsu Ctr & other nonprofits/race & law ctrs in the birthright citizenship case. In it, we tell the stories of the concrete harms when the government has stripped citizenship in the past and the retroactive risks now.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

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Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

@jrabrams.bsky.social changed my law teaching for the better with this book. Highly recommend.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

1/ A few thoughts about @williambaude.bsky.social’s comment in yesterday’s NYT chat that, “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...

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Opinion | At the Supreme Court, Scenes From a Judicial Backlash

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Look, I know this weaponization of male academic interest is the oldest story in the book, but it’s just so, so pernicious. It’s awful to the women directly involved, but it’s also awful to *all* women in the academy, who have to live in its shadow all the time.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The fact that many Democratic Senators are profoundly trapped in an unreal matrix of DC-media assumptions is a disaster on an epic scale. But it’s also an opportunity. You have to wait years to primary most Senators, but you can fight to change those assumptions now. Let me explain…

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jade, whose voice is the Deluge @goblinmode.com · 27/10/2025

much of this stems from a gross misunderstanding of writing as “the act of sitting down to write”. writing is the 10,000 other things that you do before you sit down. it is light cast through a window hitting the far wall, it is the memory of that time you saw that one bird, it is the act of living

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.

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Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide?

"It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I'd like to commend the lawyers who wrote this complaint on behalf of the professors and employees of the University of California against the Trump administration. It's a sober legal document with strong claims, but also, this is a fight for public opinion, and this reads like the writers know it.

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AAUP-UC-Trump Lawsuit -- Uploaded by Jaweed Kaleem of the Los Angeles Times

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The fate of the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship still hangs in the balance. Let’s get educated.

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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

UC workers, alums, community members, please send Governor Newsom and your state legislators encouraging them to sue the federal government like Harvard did and release the feds' demand letter so Californians know what is at stake. It takes 2 minutes: actionnetwork.org/letters/uc-s...

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UC Stand Up, Demand No Concessions

Yesterday, Judge Allison Burroughs ruled that the federal administration’s freezing of $2.2 billion dollars at Harvard University was unconstitutional. The court decisions shows a way the UC can fight...

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Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

My fearless colleague David Kaye, speaking truth to power.

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Theoderic @theoderic.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Friendly reminder that things don’t go back to normal if he kicks the bucket. They could even get worse! And even when they lose an election there’s years, decades, generations of repair and remaking to be done.

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