Paul Gowder
@gowder.io
Prof @ Northwestern law, political theorist, cat parent. Black lives matter.
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All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ https://books.gowder.io
Profile, pubs, etc: https://gowder.io
All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ https://books.gowder.io
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Paul Gowder
@gowder.io
· Oct 14
Senator Hale, 1851, dropping truth bombs about the Fugitive Slave Act that apply just as well to Trump's efforts to send troops do "mass deportation" against the will of the people (Cong. Globe, 31st Congress, session 2, p. 598)
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This is incredible
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
This is incredible
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Dan's post is great, as usual! It's exciting to move to full-page models that allow us to engage with the text and avoid mucking around with image processing. But we don't need to pronounce a eulogy on paleographers yet. The War Department and Jane Austen examples are likely known to the LM. 1/
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Dan's post is great, as usual! It's exciting to move to full-page models that allow us to engage with the text and avoid mucking around with image processing. But we don't need to pronounce a eulogy on paleographers yet. The War Department and Jane Austen examples are likely known to the LM. 1/
Can't wait to hear what kind of deranged Hitler shit she comes up with to say when the press asks her about this abcnews.go.com/Politics/ice...
ICE arrests woman with family connection to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt
U.S. immigration authorities have detained a woman who is the mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's nephew, according to a source.
abcnews.go.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Can't wait to hear what kind of deranged Hitler shit she comes up with to say when the press asks her about this abcnews.go.com/Politics/ice...
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The Bovino deposition ended like it had begun:
“I’m not going to go off the record. I’m going to do your nonsense on the record.”
“This is how you want to proceed with a public servant Mr. Bowman?”
“Stop talking. Stop talking.”
READ the whole thing here:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/d...
“I’m not going to go off the record. I’m going to do your nonsense on the record.”
“This is how you want to proceed with a public servant Mr. Bowman?”
“Stop talking. Stop talking.”
READ the whole thing here:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/d...
Deposition of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino went off the rails at hello, transcript shows
A full transcript of Cmdr. Gregory Bovino’s deposition has been made public in an ongoing lawsuit accusing federal immigration agents of routinely violating a restraining order on tactics in …
www.chicagotribune.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The Bovino deposition ended like it had begun:
“I’m not going to go off the record. I’m going to do your nonsense on the record.”
“This is how you want to proceed with a public servant Mr. Bowman?”
“Stop talking. Stop talking.”
READ the whole thing here:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/d...
“I’m not going to go off the record. I’m going to do your nonsense on the record.”
“This is how you want to proceed with a public servant Mr. Bowman?”
“Stop talking. Stop talking.”
READ the whole thing here:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/d...
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He both made up a quote and used it to imply the exact opposite of the actual holding in that case.
Question about the dissent by (the far-right) Justice Ziegler: Does this quote actually appear in Moore v. Harper? Did Moore say that state courts' role in congressional redistricting is "exceedingly limited"? I don't think it did! vhdshf2oms2wcnsvk7sdv3so.blob.core.windows.net/thearp-media...
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
He both made up a quote and used it to imply the exact opposite of the actual holding in that case.
United airlines has been doing so well recently with everything except GETTING PEOPLE OFF THE GODDMANED PLANE AFTER LANDING. Today's United fail is a plane sitting at a gate because somehow they fucked up loading the bags and it's too unbalanced to connect to the jetbridge until they unload it.
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
United airlines has been doing so well recently with everything except GETTING PEOPLE OFF THE GODDMANED PLANE AFTER LANDING. Today's United fail is a plane sitting at a gate because somehow they fucked up loading the bags and it's too unbalanced to connect to the jetbridge until they unload it.
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It’s always kind of crazy to me that Democrats seem to be so unwilling to pursue serious police reform when FOPs and other police unions form the backbone of the GOP’s electoral apparatus and police are the most loyal group of Republican voters bar none.
$1 of cop funding is $.25 to right terrorism
$1 of cop funding is $.25 to right terrorism
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It’s always kind of crazy to me that Democrats seem to be so unwilling to pursue serious police reform when FOPs and other police unions form the backbone of the GOP’s electoral apparatus and police are the most loyal group of Republican voters bar none.
$1 of cop funding is $.25 to right terrorism
$1 of cop funding is $.25 to right terrorism
Seeing as police abolition is back in the news, I have to be shameless and share my rule of law/old fashioned lib argument for taking the idea seriously (and for recruiting all the anti-administrative-law libertarians to the team). Long law review article from a couple years ago gowder.io/iclu.pdf
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Seeing as police abolition is back in the news, I have to be shameless and share my rule of law/old fashioned lib argument for taking the idea seriously (and for recruiting all the anti-administrative-law libertarians to the team). Long law review article from a couple years ago gowder.io/iclu.pdf
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This is the context you have to keep in mind when you see these people hyperventilating about addressing this system. This is what they are demanding we preserve literally at any and every cost.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This is the context you have to keep in mind when you see these people hyperventilating about addressing this system. This is what they are demanding we preserve literally at any and every cost.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
Yah, you'd think that having gone to Yale law school he'd be able to understand a simple conditional. *if* the order is illegal, *then* you disobey it. Did he cheat on the LSAT?
JD is a slimy lying piece of shit because that's clearly NOT what these Dem veterans said. They said not to obey "illegal orders". It's very simple.
Also, JD is getting very sloppy with his language too. "them members"? Typo?
Also, JD is getting very sloppy with his language too. "them members"? Typo?
Exactly
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Yah, you'd think that having gone to Yale law school he'd be able to understand a simple conditional. *if* the order is illegal, *then* you disobey it. Did he cheat on the LSAT?
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If there's one thing the mainstream news media love to overlook, it's the impact of the mainstream news media. The petite Tea Party in all its elite-backed astroturfiness was hailed like a sacred comet; the historically huge No Kings was played down by the NY Times, among other publications.
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
If there's one thing the mainstream news media love to overlook, it's the impact of the mainstream news media. The petite Tea Party in all its elite-backed astroturfiness was hailed like a sacred comet; the historically huge No Kings was played down by the NY Times, among other publications.
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> I learn a great deal by coming to things from the perspective of being a dumbass, a valuable intellectual framework of "I need to make sure I understand each bit and explain it as simply as possible."
A great framework.
A great framework.
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This piece has a generous 3000+ word introduction, because I want as many people to understand NVIDIA as possible. The (thousands of) words after the premium break get into arduous detail, but I’ve wr...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
> I learn a great deal by coming to things from the perspective of being a dumbass, a valuable intellectual framework of "I need to make sure I understand each bit and explain it as simply as possible."
A great framework.
A great framework.
Let's all enjoy a good laugh at Lindsey Halligan's expense today
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Let's all enjoy a good laugh at Lindsey Halligan's expense today
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Ahem. "You can pry the end dash—which AI risks ruining—out of my cold, dead hands."
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Ahem. "You can pry the end dash—which AI risks ruining—out of my cold, dead hands."
What if we put Lizza and Nuzzi and Sanford and especially Kennedy all on a rocket and sent them straight into the sun?
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
What if we put Lizza and Nuzzi and Sanford and especially Kennedy all on a rocket and sent them straight into the sun?
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ryan lizza is asking you to decide if you’re normal sick or willing to pay for this shit sick
November 22, 2025 at 6:05 AM
ryan lizza is asking you to decide if you’re normal sick or willing to pay for this shit sick
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Happy Holidays! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through January 2nd!
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Happy Holidays! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through January 2nd!
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation seems to be throwing some shade at ICE.
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation seems to be throwing some shade at ICE.
So does Mandami have a copy of the bits of the Epstein files that Bondi is frantically erasing as we speak or what?
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
So does Mandami have a copy of the bits of the Epstein files that Bondi is frantically erasing as we speak or what?
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It took them two more years before they clarified that muppets are not actually sentient beings capable of feeling the pain of a human hand and forearm being shoved up their buttholes as a forcible method to exert full control over the muppet-puppet the human puppeteer had elected to penetrate.
November 21, 2025 at 6:18 AM
It took them two more years before they clarified that muppets are not actually sentient beings capable of feeling the pain of a human hand and forearm being shoved up their buttholes as a forcible method to exert full control over the muppet-puppet the human puppeteer had elected to penetrate.
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Chicago Pope!
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Chicago Pope!
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This was a fun conversation!
Professor @jillhasday.bsky.social appeared on the @lawyer 2 Lawyer 2 Lawyer Podcast on @legaltalknet.bsky.social to discuss her book, Intimate Lies and the Law.
z.umn.edu/awcy
z.umn.edu/awcy
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This was a fun conversation!
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Impeach him yesterday. Yes, you, GOP in Congress. He’s harming your kids too.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Impeach him yesterday. Yes, you, GOP in Congress. He’s harming your kids too.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Y’all, wasn’t there a syllabus making webapp out there somewhere that could take a list of start and end dates, and holidays etc., and list class days?
November 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Y’all, wasn’t there a syllabus making webapp out there somewhere that could take a list of start and end dates, and holidays etc., and list class days?