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Rebecca Tushnet is an American legal scholar. She serves as the Frank Stanton Professor of First Amendment Law at Harvard Law School. Her scholarship focuses on copyright, trademark, First Amendment, and false advertising. .. more

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h
This is what asylum practice is increasingly looking like; the Trump admin is moving to "pretermit" every single claim (or nearly every single claim) as a move to avoid having to grant anyone asylum.
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I was in a tribunal a week ago where DHS moved to pretermit every single asylum case on "safe third country grounds." Every. single. one.

At one point, a judge scheduled a second master for a man to prove he would be in danger in Honduras. Confused, he said "No, Peru. I'm from Peru."
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d
Immigration judges are "pretermitting" huge swathes of asylum claims on the grounds that the person can be deported to a third country instead — one of the explicit statutory grounds for denying the right to apply for asylum.

This is now happening at large scale nationwide.

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Jeffrey Fagan @jfagan45.bsky.social · 3h
After the Brown shooting, remember that two weeks after the Inauguration, Trump eliminated the Office of Gun Violence Prevention in DOJ and replaced it with EO 14206 _ Protecting the Second Amendment within DOJ's Civil Rights Division. There have been 225 school shootings since that date.

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 3h
No one, huh?
Photograph of Yochai Benkler by jeanbaptisteparis, https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeanbaptisteparis/3348579881/in/set-72157615156529104/, available under a CC-BY-SA 2.0 license

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 5h
On Dec. 4, DOJ labeled people who impede or "dox" ICE agents "domestic terrorists." I document how DHS believes following, recording, and protesting agents is "impeding," and has a policy of threatening & arresting ICE observers. That's unconstitutional. www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...

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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 5h
Reading list and comments: Doctrine, Data, and the Death of DuPont
Reading list and comments: Doctrine, Data, and the Death of DuPont
Thomas Reichert, Doctrine, Data, and the Death of DuPont   Abstract: For fifty years, courts have claimed to apply a comprehensive thirtee...
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 7h
This brief is my favorite articulation of the importance of access to information for kids. The stories in the second half always make me tear up.

Australian kids deserve better than to be experimented on by their govt like this. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 9h
reasonable consumers read promotion terms on a gambling app, court rules--with bonus language that might be of interest to advertisers using AI to tailor promotions
reasonable consumers read promotion terms on a gambling app, court rules
De Leon v. DraftKings, Inc., 2025 WL 3551627, No. 25cv644 (DLC) (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 11, 2025) The court rejects false advertising claims agains...
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 10h
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h
utterly incapable of grace

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h
utterly incapable of grace

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11h
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 12h
Most Trump administration actions have real & awful consequences, so reporters need to be more skeptical of his vaporware. In today's essay I discussion 3 Trump charades: an ersatz pardon for a state crime; the AI executive order; and Trump's "concepts of a plan" to repeal & replace Obamacare.
The Vaporware Presidency
In the tech world, the term vaporware is used to describe a product that does not yet and may never exist but that a company hypes for any ...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22h
ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray.

The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.

These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.

We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.

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Rafael Veraza, 25, said he pulled into Sam’s Club with his wife and baby on a weekend grocery run on Nov. 8 when he saw a commotion surrounding what looked to be unmarked vehicles full of immigration officers in Cicero, west of Chicago. The family decided to leave the area without shopping, he said. On his way out, he believes a passing agent mistook him for one of the protesters who have followed immigration officials throughout Chicagoland in an effort to warn residents and document their operations. Veraza’s wife happened to be filming the parking lot scene on her smartphone because they wanted to one day show their 1-year-old the turbulent times she was born in. She aimed her camera at a passing SUV and captured the moment when an officer filled the family’s vehicle with a mist of pepper spray. Video shows the moment Rafael Veraza says federal agents shot pepper-spray into his car, where he was with his wife and 1-year-old daughter. (Video: Zoeann Murphy/The Washington Post) Veraza and his wife poured water on their crying baby’s face and rushed to the hospital. A doctor called in a poison control specialist for an expert opinion because they’d never seen such a young person pepper sprayed, Veraza said. They advised bringing the child to a specialist for follow-up visits to gauge potential long term damage to the child’s lungs and eyes. McLaughlin denied that federal agents pepper-sprayed anyone outside of Sam’s Club in a statement issued after the incident to the news media. She did not offer an explanation for what is shown in the video.

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CFPB Union @nteu335.bsky.social · 1d
Protect your Bubbe from FRAUD this Hanukkah: Save the CFPB! change.org/StopVought
A photo of several people dressed in coats and hats and sunglasses protesting outside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau building in Washington DC. One holds a sign that says “protect your Bubbe from FRAUD this Hanukkah; Save the CFPB) with a drawing of a lit menorah.

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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 1d
People are not only stranger than we imagine, they are stranger than we can imagine. Which is to say I’ve read of some

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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 1d
There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff.

This should be headline news.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 1d
Florida has sued Planned Parenthood for saying, accurately (as I wrote in the linked post) that mifepristone has a proven and public record of safe use — but as multiple medical associations affirm, it just _does_. www.acog.org/news/news-re...

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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 1d
Private equity: is there anything it can't ruin? (gift link)
Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments
www.nytimes.com

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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 1d
Beautiful work--I have a double knit scarf in much less finished condition and left it to work on a double-knit blanket for my daughter, which is ... a choice I made. Perhaps by the time she graduates!

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1d
"A couple of speakers said they were skeptical that the measles outbreaks in South Carolina and Texas were real..." The wages of conspiracism is death. It's a free pass to discount any truth you don't want to hear. Except it's not really free.
In Florida’s Panhandle, a Hearing on School Vaccine Mandates Gets Heated
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d
It's hard to overstate how impossible this demand is from Purdue's administration to implement these AI requirements by next fall. We are nowhere close to understanding what AI proficiency means or what it looks like in education.
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LFCNev @thenorthsace.bsky.social · 1d
The kind .. you find … in a second hand store

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d
It's because she doesn't know how to be the head of CBS News. Just no clue what a person in this role does. Similar to how Pete Hegseth and Sean Duffy don't know how to be cabinet secretaries.

A hallmark of this movement is people being out of their depth. It says, "expertise is unnecessary."
swin24.bsky.social Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2d
I’m sorry but why is the head of cbs news on tv herself

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d
the hat on shein vs the hat they deliver
Obama in a suit and black cowboy hat. The hat appears to be of good quality. Trump in a suit and white cowboy hat. The hat appears to be of lower quality.

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Organization for Transformative Works @transformativeworks.org · 2d
International Fanworks Day 2026 is on the horizon, and we'd like to know about any fan-events you're planning to host this #IFD! Tell us how you'll celebrate until January 28, and we'll signal-boost your event for you. You can submit your event at otw-news.org/mvpscwby
International Fanworks Day Is Coming Soon!

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2d
Just a reminder that measles virus is very infectious with one infected individual spreading it to (on average) 12-18 others in a susceptible population.

With vaccination rates below 92% or so, measles is likely to spread extensively and quickly.

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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 2d
laughing out loud imagining the face of a sign language interpreter trying to keep up with The Weaveᵗᵐ as the trade briefing shifts to his expertise in cyber and ballrooom
DOJ argues Trump being made to use sign language interpreters could hurt his ‘image’
The Justice Department has appealed a November order requiring interpreters at many events
www.independent.co.uk

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 2d
Hey Millennials, you should congratulate Gen Alpha on their first successful kill
Headline: what Gen Alpha misses by not slow dancing

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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 2d
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
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“During the course of the debate, it was disclosed that it is now policy of the university to suspend any faculty member with pay against whom a student has lodged a complaint. The faculty member is suspended under the Title IX program,” Schmeltzer wrote. “This was new information to everyone in attendance.”

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d
A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.
radleybalko.bsky.social Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d
"I think of Ernesto Zedillo, probably the best president Mexico has had in modern times. He was asked “What three things does Mexico need most?” He answered, “The rule of law. The rule of law. And the rule of law.” This applies to many countries, including our own."
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Diagnosing America
A few notes on the health of our constitutional republic
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