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Prof. Yvette Joy Liebesman

@yvettejoy.bsky.social
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Law prof specializing in (1) Intellectual Property Law and (2) Wills & Trusts; artist, tinkerer, bicyclist, dog lover— and now a published novelist.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Many Equate Capitalism and Competition Capitalism gives people the ability to own businesses, invest money, take risks, create products, and earn profits. It is competition, not capitalism, that forces those businesses to keep earning their success. jaywaters.substack.com/p/capitalism...
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Capitalism Without Competition Is Corporate Entitlement
The eighth of 12 posts exploring A New American Model.
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Trump Has Dementia - Severe Mental Illness Dr. John Gartner, a prominent psychotherapist “There is absolutely no doubt Trump has dementia. He is losing his capacity for coherent speech and has difficulty even finishing a sentence.” mindsitenews.org/2025/04/01/s...
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‘The Press Has Sanewashed Trump’s Dementia and Mental Illness’: Dr. John Gartner
The psychologist and founder of Duty to Warn says the aging Trump has dementia and is severely mentally ill.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
How traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has adapted to Trump's Iran War. Good graphic summary. www.cnn.com/interactive/...
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How traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is adapting to war
Mines, drones and competing shipping lanes – see how traffic through this vital waterway has changed
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is how you know we need a wealth tax
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States. newrepublic.com/post/214111/...
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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
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Steve the Dog🐾 @stevethedogcivics.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
From today’s “Letters from an American” by @hcrichardson.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-2-2... Full carousel on Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/Dbk9tM-Fn1... #lettersfromanamerican #heathercoxrichardson #protectdemocracy #factsmatter
First slide of an Instagram carousel summarizing Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American, August 2, 2026. A curly-haired dog is pictured in a teal circle on the left. Text reads: "In today's Letters from an American, Heather details the severe degradation of the Department of Justice into a weapon for political retaliation and self-enrichment under Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. She illustrates how systemic prosecutorial misconduct has destroyed the long-standing "presumption of regularity" essential to preserving the rule of law.”
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TaraT @tarat33.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Trump Admin Drops Criminal Case Against Ex-Olympian Charged With Damaging Reflecting Pool
Damage to the pool was actually the result of a “flawed installation by the contractor,” Justice Department lawyers said.
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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I am currently adapting previous year's curriculum to NextGen because after their *own* catastrophe, California is going to use them for rising 2Ls. I am FURIOUS on these graduates' behalf. Thousands of dollars and hours down the drain, careers disrupted - totally inexcusable.
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God @thegodshow.com · 28/07/2026
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Rolling Stones for life
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
FINALLY up on SSRN - Melissa, Kate, & my paper - UNSETTLING THE PRESIDENCY! @profmmurray.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social Brief excerpt from the abstract: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Over the past year, discussion of the relationship between the president and the courts has largely focused on the president’s attacks on and efforts to delegitimize the courts. But the phenomenon identified and discussed here reflects something different—not an attack on the courts but an effort to expropriate juridical authority for the president’s own ends. In this regard, the conventional separation-of-powers narrative in which the president and Congress are in conflict is no longer adequate to capture the shifting landscape of expanding executive authority. In his second term, President Trump has made unprecedented encroachments on the judiciary and its authority to “say what the law is.”
In this regard, we have moved beyond the traditional account of a unitary executive that embodies all executive branch authority. Instead, what is ascendant is an unprecedented account of executive authority that occupies and wields the powers of all three branches of government.
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Attorney General Jennifer Davenport @newjerseyoag.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Statement By Attorney General Davenport on Decision in ANJRPC v. Attorney General.
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Emily Greenberg @egreenberg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
My latest for @mcsweeneys.net. We’re now at 1112 horrors. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/jun...
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Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: June 2026: Atrocities 1014-1112
Add another whopping ninety-eight instances of cruelty, collusion, corruption, and crime to the list.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 17/07/2026
This was the 7th Trump appointee to rule against the DOJ on these cases. Two-thirds of the district court judges that have rejected these claims are GOP-appointed. Background:
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Most of Trump DOJ’s voter roll losses have come from GOP-appointed judges
The numbers make it difficult for DOJ to portray its perfect losing record as the product of liberal “activist” judges or hostile jurisdictions. Judges with vastly different backgrounds and appointing...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Trump’s Illegal Boat Bombings Are Just ‘Murder for Murder’s Sake,’ U.S. Official Says" Donald Trump’s boat strikes aren’t working – because they’re ‘not actually designed to end the fentanyl crisis,’ a senior administration official tells Zeteo.
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Trump’s Illegal Boat Bombings Are Just ‘Murder for Murder’s Sake,’ U.S. Official Says
Donald Trump’s boat strikes aren’t working – because they’re ‘not actually designed to end the fentanyl crisis,’ a senior administration official tells Zeteo.
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Alert: Eli Lilly is the first corporation I've seen declare it'll go semi-annual if given the choice: www.sec.gov/comments/S7-...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
“Wisconsin residents sue Microsoft over noise caused by new data center *** Residents have also complained the area has become a ‘dust bowl’ due to construction” 7/4/26
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Wisconsin residents sue Microsoft over noise caused by new data center
Residents have also complained the area has become a ‘dust bowl’ due to construction
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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Trump card
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”
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Thomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
In this exchange, @thelisagraves.bsky.social offers an extended meditation on the Supreme Court's arrogation of power to itself, and its creation of an imperial president in Trump, all at the expense of Congress. It's really striking when you see it all in one place:
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
New from me: Welcome to the era of Slaughter. Things are so degraded that we are unsurprised when the Supreme Court drops a 90 year old precedent and overturns legislation to at the behest of a President who denies democratic outcomes. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
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Welcome to the era of Slaughter
Some context for a new period of executive aggrandizement
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Meanwhile, back in 2015:
Screenshot of a Hillary Clinton tweet from 2015: “A Republican president could nominate as many as 4 Supreme Court justices. Why that should terrify you”
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 29/06/2026
Trump said he directed the DOJ to probe California’s elections – an abuse of power to achieve a partisan political objective. “Here, we have a president who, by his own account, personally called a federal prosecutor to intervene in an ongoing election,” Marc Elias writes. bit.ly/4ePaa20
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 27/06/2026
I won't give to Yale any longer. I called the alumni office and told them why. If you're a Yale grad, you can, too! alumni.yale.edu/contact-us
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Robert Hirschfeld @rfhirschfeld.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Fantastic investigative journalism by @chicagotribune.com's Jonathan Bullington & @adrianaperez.bsky.social on Illinois' ~3,900 abandoned oil & gas wells: Holes left in farm fields that leak soil-killing brine, vent methane, and poison groundwater. And a $160M cleanup tab left for taxpayers. 🧵
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Read the Tribune’s investigation into Illinois’ abandoned oil wells
Read the Chicago Tribune’s investigation into how Illinois regulators have failed to stop the proliferation of abandoned oil and gas wells in the state.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 25/06/2026
In his majority opinion in Mullins, Sam Alito didn't print the racist shit Trump actually said about Haitians. But in her dissent, Elena Kagan made sure to.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Pinky & the Brain, academic version
Pinky: What are we doing today?
Brain: The same thing we do every day: try to finish our projects before summer ends
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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 24/06/2026
Seeing a lot of "DSA/Mamdani is the Democrats' Tea Party" and ... no. Name me one single thing the Tea Party did to positively affect people's lives on any level. They didn't want to improve anything! They just wanted to yell about the Black president they hated and wear stupid hats.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
What I keep hearing from my Upper West Side friends is bubbling resentment against AIPAC, Jonathan Greenblatt and the heads of many other major Jewish organizations: "these people don't speak for us and don't represent our interests. We'd had enough of them." bsky.app/profile/atru...
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
My print piece on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is up. I point out that the rest of the country is still desperately trying to get the same rights the white man gave himself 250 years ago. In @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Will America Ever Give White-Man Rights To Everyone Else?
If we want to make it another 250 years, the Constitution is going to have to do a lot more than protect individual political and civil rights.
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Two defendants who received 50 years each, Savanna Batten and Elizabeth Soto, were never accused of helping plan the demonstration here. They arrived separately, left the protest when guards asked them to, and were not accused of any act of violence talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...
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Prairieland ‘Antifa’ Activists Sentenced to Decades in Prison on ‘Terrorism’ Charges
Federal judges in Fort Worth handed down maximum sentences to eight people...
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
1. This will become law without his signature, because Congress is not adjourning. More here: constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay... 2. Merits aside, this is a very rare bipartisan action. Voters like bipartisanship. By refusing to tout it, Trump once again punches himself in the nuts.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A good summation of RFKJr. No serious public health analysis or advice. Instead health emergencies are used to spin baseless rumors, foment hysteria, and then to lock people up. His instincts are not just anti-science, but also authoritarian. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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‘It’s not science, it’s coercion’: health experts decry RFK Jr order on hantavirus quarantine
Kennedy overrides CDC order saying an American who came into contact with hantavirus can self-quarantine
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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 20/06/2026
AI may be making our brains lazy. When we outsource writing, summarizing, and evaluating to tools like ChatGPT, we skip the "depth of processing" that helps us actually learn and think critically—and those cognitive muscles can atrophy from disuse.
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Are AI chatbots making us lose control of our brains?
Yes, according to psychologist Gloria Mark. But there are ways to regain that control.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Retired General Jack Keane works for Fox News as a Senior Strategic Analyst. Keane pointed out that Israel and Hezbollah haven't stopped fighting and are unlikely to stop attacking each other no matter what deal Trump reaches with Iran. Iran also keeps killing Iranian citizens.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/06/2026
Brutal community note
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Jeff Waid @jeffwaid.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Every case is a test case. Every step is preparation for the next step.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
it actually brings me great pleasure to know that billionaires are so afraid of journalists that they’re trying to build whole new systems for justice to diminish our power. despite corporate consolidation, we continue to do something they can’t fully buy and it drives them mad. stay mad, assholes.
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A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial. I’m Its First Target
The billionaire has reteamed with the legal strategist who helped him bring down Gawker to start an AI-powered appeals court for the rich and aggrieved.
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Jess Piper Fan Page 💙 📚 @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
" @barackobama.bsky.social " @markhamillofficial.bsky.social @obamafoundation.bsky.social @stephenking.bsky.social @piperformissouri.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @moberzan.bsky.social @unauthorizedbeast.bsky.social @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
fake feds are investigating ballots that don’t exist from a made-up city. other than that, totally checks out.
some dope on X named @PaulGoldEagle wrote: “BREAKING: 675 ballots for Spencer Pratt found in a dumpster in San Recto. Federal authorities are on scene.Let the games begin”

and then a community note was added: “No city named San Recto exists in California, making the claim of ballots found there impossible.”
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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Let's break this down by states. How's Texas and Florida doing in the oppression of conservative voices? California? taxprofblog.aals.org/2026/06/14/a...
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A Majority of Law Professors Say Legal Education Is Heading in the Wrong Direction  • TaxProf Blog
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), Free Expression in a Climate of Self-Censorship: A National Survey of American Law Faculty: Executive Summary. This report presents findings fro...
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 11/06/2026
President steered no-bid contract for project that went from $1.8m to $14.2m to company that worked on his golf resort
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Before-and-after photos: Trump’s $14.2m makeover delivers… a blue pool
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Pete Miles @petermiles.eurosky.social · 03/06/2026
Cory Doctorow was interviewed by Anna Foster on BBC Radio 4 Today on the topic of AI. I've captured a transcript of the questions here in a short thread (with the help of Google AI voice-to-text. Good AI, thank-you.) 1/5
AF: We could spend the whole of the rest of the day talking about AI but sometimes we need focus…

CD: Oh God, must we?

AF: We must, we must and while we decided to focus on this idea of a crisis of control, do you think that there is one?

CD: I think AI is the money-losing-est thing the human race has ever done, I think it's grossly oversold and I think that the capital markets have lost their minds because of the confluence of large tech monopolies that have saturated their markets and need to convince investors that they can keep growing despite the fact that they have 90% market shares and the fact that they have a large customer base of bosses who are just infinitely excited at the prospect of firing mouthy workers who know how to do things that they don't know how to do and replacing them with software that compliantly does whatever it's told.
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
JUST IN: Trump administration argues courts lack grounds to halt White House ballroom project even if it was clearly illegal. DOJ attorney also contends no lawsuit could stop Trump from tearing down Statue of Liberty if he wanted to. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
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Trump could also tear down the Statue of Liberty, DOJ argues in defense of White House ballroom
Justice Department lawyers said the courts are powerless to intervene in the dispute over the former East Wing.
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Amy Kapczynski @akapczynski.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Good analysis of Yale's abandonment of public good in it's "mission." "While some see this as progress, I am inclined to agree with Wesleyan University’s Michael Roth and see it as a “defense strategy” that is making a “terrible situation worse.” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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Yale’s Shrinking Mission (opinion)
Narrowing the mission of the university is an unfortunate choice.
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