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Mary Dudziak

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Law, history, politics. Latest book: Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism.
https://makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com/ #lawsky 🗃

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Mary Louise Dudziak is an American legal theorist, civil rights historian, educator, and a leading foreign policy and international relations expert. She is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University. .. more

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · Dec 5

Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism is on sale at the @umasspress.bsky.social holiday sale! 40% discount when you use the code HOLIDAY for this & other books.
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Making the Forever War

The late historian Marilyn B. Young, a preeminent voice on the history of U.S. military conflict, spent her career reassessing the nature of American global ...

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 3d

Wow, the site of the 2026 American Society for Legal History Conference share.google/xKwvzDOCRbIK... is the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity! share.google/l1NqChfrtKPV...

Home

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is a learning organization built upon an extraordinary legacy of excellence in artistic and creative development.

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations!

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UC Berkeley Law @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social · 5d

“Every authoritarian, or wannabe authoritarian, tries to intimidate the press. A free press that informs people of abuses of power is a threat to the control the authoritarian wants to exercise.” — Dean Erwin Chemerinsky open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Intimidating the Press

The arrests of Don Lemon and Gail Fort are part of the authoritarian playbook.

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Reposted by Nicholas A. Christakis, Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan , and 9 more Nicholas A. Christakis, Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan, Joshua S. Weitz, John Horgan, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, David R. Miller, Lesley Bartlett, Mary L. Dudziak, James Goodwin, Erol Akçay, Ann Bartow

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon

Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.

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Reposted by Gerald Friedman, Mary L. Dudziak

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d

America's Sleeping Giant roared when police attacked civil rights marchers.

And when Nixon tried to cover up Watergate.

Today it roars in Minneapolis and around the country — at the jack-booted thugs occupying our cities.

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 6d

Research $$ in peace history, Quaker history and more!
Call for applications for research funding @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social Special Collections.
www.swarthmore.edu/libraries/re...

Calling all scholars of Quaker history, Peace history, and allied topics! Swarthmore College Special Collections is now accepting applications for our Moore Research Fellowship for the 2026-2027 cycle.

The Margaret W. Moore and John M. Moore Research Fellowship promotes research during the academic year or summer months using the resources of the Friends Historical Library and/or the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, providing a stipend of $1,500-$6,000 to support such research. Applications are due March 31, 2026.

Reposted by Iveta Silova, Gerald Friedman, Mary L. Dudziak , and 1 more Iveta Silova, Gerald Friedman, Mary L. Dudziak, Suzanne Conklin Akbari

Pop Base @popbase.tv · 6d

Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year:

“As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”

Reposted by Nandita Sharma, Aaron Sojourner, Michael Zimmer , and 1 more Nandita Sharma, Aaron Sojourner, Michael Zimmer, Mary L. Dudziak

Rep. Kelly Morrison @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social · 6d

My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis.

This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg

Rep. Morrison details her oversight of the federal Whipple building

YouTube video by Rep. Kelly Morrison

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Reposted by Mary L. Dudziak

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7d

In Minnesota and elsewhere across the land, grassroots “neighborism” and outrage at Trump’s tyranny are creating an extraordinarily powerful movement.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-green-shoots

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 7d

Extraordinary piece by @ajc.com President and Publisher at the top of p. 1 this morning.
The future of free and fair elections is at stake in Georgia.
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Reposted by Mary L. Dudziak

Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 7d

If you are in the DC area (and have had enough of freezing cold and ice and being cooped up at home!) or if you want to learn about asylum from a great line up, come to Temple Sinai this afternoon for a discussion of a great documentary in the making!

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 7d

This will make you cry. Fellow students of Liam, the little boy in the bunny hat, have messages for ICE. 💔
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Video: Opinion | Dear ICE: Letters From Students Living in Fear

ICE took their classmate. They started writing letters.

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 8d

Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30.

📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 8d

How I miss the Pacific Ocean.

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 8d

It is snowing in Atlanta.

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 9d

So insane.

Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 9d

Thread: I'm at the Polk County courthouse, where a hearing is starting at 9 am in Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Des Moines Register and its longtime pollster, Ann Selzer.
This hearing's about a procedural motion, not merits of the case. 1/

Reposted by Juan Cole, Mary L. Dudziak

Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 9d

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 10d

If it helps, I plugged your book at CFR!

jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 11d

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.

"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."

"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."

ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

Reposted by Mary L. Dudziak

Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 12d

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Attorney General James Launches Portal to Collect Photos and Videos of ICE Activity in New York

NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James is encouraging New Yorkers to submit videos or other documentation of federal immigration enforcement actions

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 13d

Poem by @amandagorman.bsky.social (via Twitter):
For Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
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Amanda Gorman poem For Alex Jeffrey Pretti.

Reposted by Mary L. Dudziak

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 14d

GOP Governor of Oklahoma

"What we're seeing on TV, it's causing deep concerns over federal tactics and accountability…We believe in federalism and state rights, and nobody likes feds coming into their state...Is it to deport every single non- U.S. citizen? I don't think that's what Americans want.”

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, David R. Miller, Nazita Lajevardi , and 3 more Rosemary A. Joyce, David R. Miller, Nazita Lajevardi, Mary L. Dudziak, Anne Norton, David Darmofal

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14d

Update: In the evidence preservation lawsuit, the current Civil Chief at the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office (who appears to be Ana Voss, based on the letter), refused to accept email service of the lawsuit last night and then refused to accept in-person service until Monday.

Ridiculous behavior.

Our office represents Plaintiff Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in this case. I write to provide an update on our efforts to notify and serve Defendants and to request that the Court consider them sufficient to comply with its direction that Plaintiffs serve Defendants by 9 a.m. this morning:
• Yesterday at 7:27 p.m. our office sent an email to the Civil Chief at the U.S.
Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota informing her that we would be filing a suit, seeking a temporary restraining order (TRO) relating to preservation of evidence, and asked her to confirm receipt and advise who will be handling the suit as soon as possible.
• Yesterday at 9:10 p.m. (immediately after the case was filed) our office emailed courtesy copies of our filings (with the exception of the word count certificate and hearing notice, which were provided at 9:44 p.m.) to the Civil Chief, again asking that she confirm receipt and advise who will be handling the case.
• The Civil Chief responded to our first email at 9:34 p.m. last night. At 11:00 p.m. she informed us that she would look for coverage for the case but would not accept service by email
• At 11:11 p.m. our office emailed the Civil Chief a copy of the TRO entered by the Court. Shortly thereafter we asked if, given her office's refusal to accept service by email, if we could effect personal service in the morning before 9 a.m. The Civil Chief responded that the office would not be open to accept service until Monday.
• At 7:39 a.m. this morning, our office emailed courtesy copies of the pleadings and
TRO to the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division at the U.S.

Department of Justice, to the Office of General Counsel at the Department of Homeland Security, and to the Office of Chief Counsel at U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
We intend to formally serve Defendants tomorrow, January 26, 2026, consistent with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(i) and to personally serve the Summons, Complaint, and TRO papers when the U.S. Attorney's Office reopens. The actions we have already taken comply with Rule 65(b)(1)'s requirement that we attempt to provide "written or oral notice to the adverse party." We request that the Court consider these efforts sufficient to comply with its Order that we serve Defendants by 9 a.m.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Respectfully,
s/ Joseph Richie
JOSEPH RICHIE
Special Counsel
PETER J. FARRELL
Deputy Solicitor General
Attorneys for Plaintiff Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension
CC:
Clare Diegel, Esq.
Ana Voss, Esq.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 14d

When reading the physician's sworn statement under penalty of perjury on shocking denial of medical care to Alex Pretti ⬇️

Remember Kristi Noem's statement earlier today: "Medics were on the scene immediately and attempted to deliver medical aid to the subject."

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 14d

WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment

"I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to
assess the victim.

At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."

Reposted by Mary L. Dudziak

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 14d

💔
I am writing my Senators and Congressman to demand that Congress shut down ICE and stop the killing.

Minnesota DFL Party @dfl.org · 14d

A statement from the family of Alex Pretti.

Statement from the family of Alex Pretti, Michael and Susan Pretti:

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman.

The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you”

Reposted by Serge Guimond, Mary L. Dudziak, Olivier Mannoni

Minnesota DFL Party @dfl.org · 14d

A statement from the family of Alex Pretti.

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 14d

Recommended: this beautiful, creative and extremely helpful book on sustainable gardening. Brandy Hall, The Complete Guide to Home Permaculture a book by Brandy Hall
The Complete Guide to Home Permaculture.
Posting from the book launch!
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A beautiful green gardening book The Complete Guide to Home Permaculture.

Reposted by Juliet B. Schor, Steve Peers, Mary L. Dudziak , and 3 more Juliet B. Schor, Steve Peers, Mary L. Dudziak, Jason Lyall, Vaughan S. Roberts, Magda Teter

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15d

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.  ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 15d

How you know it's serious: an out of state power crew is removing branches near power lines in my backyard. 😳
Get ready and stay safe.

NWS Atlanta - Bot @nwsatlantabot.bsky.social · 15d

Here is a look at how much ice we are expected over the weekend. The worst conditions in northwest Georgia will occur today and tonight. For northeast Georgia & Atlanta Sunday will be treacherous! #gawx #georgia https://x.com/NWSAtlanta/status/2015078295084147031

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