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Jerry Levine @jerrylevine.com · 1d

we probably should have finished reconstruction, part 272

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.

Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.

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Jacob Schriner-Briggs @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social · 1d

The empty formalism used to constitutionally forbid diversity-enhancing or remedial action—that to “stop discriminating on the basis of race we must stop discriminating on the basis of race”—is possibly the most invidious trope the Roberts Court has cultivated in our modern legal culture.

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s get biblical, biblical…

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2d

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 2d

"I just met Zohran backstage. It's so nice to have a politician who's too young to have been friends with Jeffrey Esptein". - @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

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Jonathan @litz.org · 4d

Someone working in the analytics department at Amazon is absolutely baffled at this bump in sales of air inflated costumes.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5d

First Wives Club “You Don’t Own Me” is circling in my brain always. youtu.be/dRLdtDYoVX8?...

RIP, to a legend and style icon.

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Cain Norris @cainnorris.net · 5d

Dude, if bottle deposit would sink you, your finances are already shit. Grow up.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 5d

every political reporter knows that the jay jones text are on the tame end of how politicians talk in private, not to mention tamer than how trump and his associates talk in public

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 6d

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 6d

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 7d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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Cain Norris @cainnorris.net · 6d

HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS AMAZING PIECE OF GGSS LORE??

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Cain Norris @cainnorris.net · 6d

It Is An EnTiRe LiTeRaTuReeeeeee (forthcoming on SSRN)

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 8d

I just realized that the Portland Antifascist Frog has singlehandedly reclaimed amphibians from the “alt right”. Yet another way he is a Great American.

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 8d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 6d

Larry’s blog is indispensable for keeping up with legal scholarship. He’s also a great person.

Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 7d

Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.

Legal Theory Blog

Discover our latest articles and updates. Stay informed with recent posts that cover a variety of topics you care about!

legaltheoryblog.com

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 23d

So scary! youtu.be/TE_ju8eWTS8?...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Sep 15

November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...

MANKATO, Minnesota (AP) - Charlie Kirk stood 80 miles from where George Floyd was murdered, faced an overwhelmingly white audience, and declared he was going to say things "no one dares say out loud."
What followed was an avalanche of aspersions and debunked claims about Floyd, the Black man whose death at the hands of a
Minneapolis police officer set off a global reckoning over racial injustice and broad calls for change. But the white conservative agitator had a counter view: Floyd was a "scumbag," he said, unworthy of the attention.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · Sep 15

Just saw someone post "Democracy Dies in Whiteness."

Amazing truth. Encapsulates America.

Should be @washingtonpost.com new motto.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · Sep 2

Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed.

There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea.

Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.

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Cain Norris @cainnorris.net · Aug 28

"simulate it until you simulacreate it." with apologies to Baudrillard

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Aug 26

But the anti-woke moderate Dem consultant class absolutely loves the idea that black and brown voters are moving to the GOP, because they think it validates their idea that racism is no big deal. It's all about their personal resentment of activists, as always.

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Cain Norris @cainnorris.net · Aug 26

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social did it and survived. But then, he's not evil.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Aug 25

Truly hilarious to watch Mamdani breaking their brains in real time.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani • @zohrankmamdani.osky.social
Thank you New York City for making the #ZcavengerHunt a reality

Zohran with a bag of Herr's Sour Cream chips

Eric Adams v
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I'm sure a scavenger hunt was fun for the people with nothing better to do.
Ask our working families trying to do whatever they can to survive if they participated. Ask the people worried about making rent if they thought it was worth it. Mamdani is trying to turn our city into the Squid Games.

a Squid Games girl model on a model of NYC (is this AI slop?)

Andrew Cuomo @andrewcuomo • Aug 23
Defund the police but great scavenger hunts
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Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz • Aug 23
This should be the main job of a mayor. Coming up with fun games and challenges for their constituents x.com/ZohranKMamdani...
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