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M. Rosenbloom

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Clinical Instructor, Cyberlaw Clinic at BKC / Harvard Law. Mix of politics, tech law, and cute art RTs / hobby stuff! Opinions are mine only. Sometimes still on the other website @ml_rosenbloom pfp: @lyra0730.bsky background: @opal0058.bsky

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M. Rosenbloom @mlrosenbloom.bsky.social · Jan 5

2025 Media Thread! Here we goooooo!!!!

Will include stuff that I've substantially completed or have done a significant amount of rewatching for.

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 26m

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1h

i know i’m mostly yelling to the choir/void here but i really hope that any dem suggestion of keeping ICE is reacted to like the psychopathic suggestion it is. it can’t be another repeat of mumbling boilerplate about reform and then tossing them even more money

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 3h

#daily 42: study

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 1d

At a local No Kings rally near Innsmouth, Massachusetts, *every* protester showed up in an inflatable frog costume.

They must be from a different supplier than the Portland frog's costume, though. Bystanders describe the costumes as more like fish-frogs, "batrachian," with an odd, loping gait.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 4h

I do not regret to inform you that we're gonna win. Power to the people.

USC rejects Trump education compact aimed at shifting the university to the right

USC interim President Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education turning down the Trump offer.

www.latimes.com

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 6h

📢 BREAKING NEWS 📢
EFF and co-counsel have filed a lawsuit against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of First Amendment-protected speech online. (1/5)

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 6h

This is such a cool series and not just because I am in it—my article on navigating online resources in an era of misinformation is linked below!

(Also, check out the accessibility move of providing a pause button for the animated content.)

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 11h

I do not actually think "bipartisanship" is good when the "bipartisanship" is "Antonin Scalia writes that entire groups of people are disposable subhumans who don't deserve rights and then he and his bestie RBG hang out at the opera afterwards."

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 10h

If you're the Dems and you were scared of immigration as a topic before, I might try making it an issue now that masked goons are beating the shit out of innocent people in the streets on a daily basis. A lot of people are probably not down with this whatever their views on immigration are

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 9h

this is really the American future

the destruction of the federal regulatory state by dim zealots and corrupted courts (health, labor, consumer protection, public safety, corporate oversight) creating a vacuum a patchwork of under-funded states then attempt to fill

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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KUMA ICE CREAM @kumaicecream.bsky.social · 10h

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11h

"women don't like the vehicle" is going to be lodged in my brain's neocortex for the rest of my natural life www.wired.com/story/owning...

Q: And are you married?
A: I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 11h

if you're gonna sacrifice substance for electoral success, I feel like you should be delivering better returns than a coin toss

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やすうらやか @15delicious.bsky.social · 16h

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Cami @camisleeps.bsky.social · 14h

Ghost!

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 21h

It’s less than the bare minimum for Democrats to say that anyone everyone still employed in IRS enforcement when this starts should expect to go to prison if they take power.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 23h

Trump is in no small part the result
of failing to staff up the IRS and send it after white-collar crime, so of course now that he has a second presidency he's planning to use it as a weapon against his political enemies.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Jun 9

I'm not a historian but my analysis is it's "Not good" when a government constantly commits crimes and tells the legislature, courts, and general public "What are you gonna do about it"

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molly (comms open!) @longfusilli.bsky.social · 2d

(brooding) neigh……

digital doodle of sakiko from ave mujica except she’s a horse girl in the style of pretty derby uma musume

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juice enjoyer 🧃 @juice-enjoyer.bsky.social · 1d

sxome of my finest work is done in portraits

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oshinagaki @mikobako.bsky.social · 1d

幸野神奈

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Threatening Music Notation @musicnotation.bsky.social · 2d

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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cydereal @cydereal.bsky.social · 2d

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