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Scott Shapiro

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Southmayd Prof @YaleLawSch + Philosophy @Yale. Ed, @LegalTheory + Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil. “Legality”, “The Internationalists” (with @oonahathaway), “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing.” Overuses “neurosymbolic.”

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · Nov 18

As everyone here has been saying, this is not an echo chamber

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 5h

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that, according to the Constitution, #YesKings

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 16h

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 16h

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rare-whit...

Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 21h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 13h

V cool book yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

The Rest Is Silence

A moving, intimate portrait of the Enlightenment philosophers as they faced the end of their lives and their historical moment What would the Enlightenmen...

yalebooks.yale.edu

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 23h

Well, everyone knows the Founding Fathers hated kings. What this administration presupposes is... maybe they didn't.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 1d

Democracy lives in Shitposting

Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 1d

Going to the Hate America Rally this Saturday, especially looking forward to seeing my former students/currently Antifa leadership.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 1d

Is this bad cause it seems bad

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 2d

The editor-in-chief who doesn't spell good: Barry Weiss

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 2d

❤️❤️

Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 2d

lol, yes, my mom will call me.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 2d

Been thinking of podcasting again, this time about Law and AI.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 4d

Super interesting

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 4d

Everyone, I’m just <sniffs> I’m just so proud of us all.

We finally did it.

LibsOfTikTok finally targeted me.

<single tear rolls down cheek>

I’ve been waiting for this moment for so long <unfolds acceptance speech> and first I want to thank everyone who made it possible: Harambe, Kony2012, my fa