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Law Prof. Economist. I do not speak for my employer. RT are not endorsements. Duh. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3339527 Mastodon: @[email protected]. Twitter: @lawprofblawg

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · Nov 9

My Lists thus far:

1. Law Twitter
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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 6h

a man in a suit and tie is wearing glasses and smiling

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is wearing glasses and smiling

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 7h

Most common injury from naked bike riding? Mistaken kickstand.

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 8h

I agree too. Well need intellectual diversity. I disagree that you can get that from a cartel.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 8h

He doesn’t live here anymore. And also, the solution to inequality is taxes not a federal invasion. In this regard…he could help.

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 8h

One thought that few seem to care to utter is that you can't have viewpoint diversity to any great degree if you keep hiring people from the same four schools, all having the same professors. You get the view of one segment of a class hierarchy.

reason.com/volokh/2025/...

How Viewpoint Diversity Can Help Protect Academics from Themselves (and Perhaps Help Heal Our Civic Culture Too)

Ohio State Professor Michael Clune, who caused a bit of a stir in academia with hhis December 2024 essay "We…

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 9h

Chevron: 'Night. Loper, Bright!

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 9h

No, I'm not talking about anyone in particular. I have multiple examples from present day all the way back to grad school.

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 9h

So some populists view themselves as more prestigious or important than others, often using metrics from the system they purport to overthrow.

Also gets curious when they finlandize towards the right because they are rewarded as the leftist voice, stabbing other leftists while doing so.

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 9h

I'm not quite eloquently putting this right, but one of the problems with people on the left/populists is that the very class structures they opposed shaped and defined them in terms of quests for invidious distinctions. So you get a lot of replication of the dominant hierarchical structure.

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Ally Whelan @amwhelan.bsky.social · 9h

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 9h

Made by @aaup-penn.bsky.social member!

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 9h

Your first interview should be Tilly.

Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 10h

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...

www.them.us/story/suprem...

SCOTUS Justice Alito Suggests He's Not Interested in Overturning Same-Sex Marriage. Is That True?

Obergefell v Hodges has been back in the spotlight with fears gay marriage could be removed as a national right.

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 10h

Simple Syllabus: YOU MUST ENTER SOMETHING IN THIS SECTION EVEN THOUGH IT'S PRETTY MUCH THE SAME AS THE PRIOR SECTION!

Me: No problem. "My apologies that this section cannot be left blank, as simple syllabus simply does not recognize repetitive information that causes confusion."

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 10h

Sunday Alliteration Epiphany: Simple Syllabus sucks.

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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 14h

I cannot stomach what this country has become. The viciousness and hate now visited on the dogs of people living here (in this case: the people are citizens).

Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 16h

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

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Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 16h

I think if we could teach and encourage intellectual curiosity, we'd get a smart and well informed citizenry. People who study history and make an effort to understand other people and other cultures are usually decent folks across religions and political parties.

Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 16h

“The right’s war on the academy and education is part of a generational war over what young people, especially young white people, will be taught and how they will be socialized."
www.bostonreview.net/articles/bui...

Building a Political Home - Boston Review

Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen on winning power in the midst of a “generational war.”

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 1d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe I got a contact high from hashtag.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1d

“Accurate Energetic Systems, has been an economic bedrock for the small communities scattered across rural Hickman and Humphreys Counties. One day after the catastrophic explosion, it seemed almost everyone knew someone who worked there or had at some point,”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Close-Knit Rural Communities Reel After Tennessee Plant Explosion

www.nytimes.com

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 1d

a woman is sitting at a desk in front of a wall with a calendar on it .

ALT: a woman is sitting at a desk in front of a wall with a calendar on it .

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 1d

If you only were able to smuggle one mule in, you failed and were required to back that ass up.

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 1d

It's not well known, but trained killers were first part of a secret society. To become a member of that society, you were required to perform a killing while smuggling your weapons in on two mules.

The term "ass ass in" was eventually shortened to one word.

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Ally Whelan @amwhelan.bsky.social · 1d

This is… concerning.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Anna E. Carpenter @annacarpenter.bsky.social · 1d

Last week, @uofoklahomalaw.bsky.social Professor Jon Lee
(@jonleelawprof.bsky.social) presented to the University of Missouri School of Law
faculty on possible course-level innovations in light of the changes to the bar exam.

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