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Joanna Grisinger
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legal historian, bureaucracy enthusiast, amateur confectioner
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profciara.bsky.social
👏🏾⚖️ Beginning today, the @harvard.edu Law School Library is making available online the first complete, fully searchable, digitized collection of official evidentiary documents and trial transcripts in English from all 13 Nuremberg Trials, at nuremberg.law.harvard.edu.
Nuremberg - Explore the Nuremberg Trials!
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
November 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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msmith750.bsky.social
Lawyers learning history
Columbo, saying "I want you to teach me everything you know." George Gaynes as an impossibly French wineseller saying, "It took me 40 years to acquire my expertise." Columbo replying, "Well, what can you do in an hour-and-a-half?"
November 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM
grisinger.bsky.social
Quid pro quo.
Advertisement photo depicts pile of uncooked steaks. Text: January 1, 1968. The beginning of the All-Steak airline to Florida. The end of airline food.
November 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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andylevy.net
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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barbmcquade.bsky.social
Gift link to NYT article about the corruption of DOJ. One former insider says “I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm. … [T]he American people should be enraged.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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gauthamrao.bsky.social
Extraordinarily honored to receive the American Society for Legal History’s Craig Joyce Medal for service to the Society for my work as editor of @lawandhistrev.bsky.social.

Also this replica premier league trophy with Law and History Review regalia!

#ynwa #upthereds #legalhistory
November 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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mitrasharafi.bsky.social
Reminder for 2025 Detroit #ASLH people: check out our *new* table for recently pub. legal history books not otherwise represented @ book sale! Authors donate a copy & everyone else can enter raffle for each book. I'll pull names of winners on Sat. morning & winners pick up books before end of day
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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greenleejw.bsky.social
Looks useful, but they may not cover an important topic: if you need a #map for your book, where do you go? Many authors, faced with that question, have no idea where to start.

If that’s you, I can help! I draw maps for a living, and specialize in maps for academic books.

surprisedeelmaps.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
David Byrne As Photographed by David LaChapelle Will Fix You. David Byrne Photographed by David LaChapelle for the New Yorker Will Solve Your Problems www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
byrne as a towering spaceman wearing a business suit under bubble belmet juxtaposed over a street of tiny cars and enormous off kilter glowing skyscrapers david byrne foregrounded in a telephone booth wearing a tie with hair flipped to the side. background a seedy moonlit building with a shadowy female figure posed through a window david byrne descending green and white striped stairs, he's in a marching band costume and bass drum byrne in a snake riddled cowboy suit on a lawn chair. background is a yellow taxi with smoke pouring out from under the hood
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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emilyhughes.bsky.social
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
brittanytrang.com Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 14d
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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sharrows.bsky.social
We’ve officially launched! Lots of ways to support this new initiative that supports street vendors from 🧊 we keep us safe!

Interest form and flyer below! #BikeChi

forms.gle/dY931Sxzs6V9...
Mutual Aid flyer
September 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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sharrows.bsky.social
Tonight was the inaugural ride of our new home buyout program. We connect with vendors too scared to be out, and we purchase from them at home. Tonight we bought 250 tamales, divided into 3 teams to deliver all over the city to folks on the street, Love Fridges, and a youth shelter.
6 cyclists, bikes, loaded up with 250 tamales in a parking lot Container full of 250 tamales Front of a love fridge that says free food in Spanish Love fridge with tamales inside
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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johnpfaff.bsky.social
This seems huge, and deserves more attention.

SCOTUS has gone out of its way to make it harder to sue Fed law enforcement for damages when they trample—sometimes literally—on your rights.

Illinois just made it so their resident can sue the Feds in state court.

Feds fail us, states step up.
jcschwartzprof.bsky.social Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 17d
The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature.

dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...
November 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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victorerikray.bsky.social
I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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opennewyork.org
POLLS CLOSE IN 4HRS
GO VOTE @YESONAFFHOUSING.bsky.social!!!
November 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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luvamistoole.bsky.social
With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.
October 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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victorerikray.bsky.social
“I find it hard to imagine that we would be having this conversation at all were Platner anything other than a fit middle-aged white guy who dresses like a stock photo of a “real man.’”

Straight to the point, as usual from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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williamadler78.bsky.social
This is exactly the shape of it - Trump is reviving the imperial presidency, while Congress is completely dormant. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | The Empty Promises of Trump’s Imperial Presidency
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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danvogfan.bsky.social
the health problems are bad. but the causes? the causes are very good
i’m at the lou’s. i’m at the midwest health clinic. im at the combination lou’s and midwest health clinic
October 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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jonbois.bsky.social
generally speaking, people should be eating way more candy than they do. next time you find yourself reaching for fresh produce at the grocery store, consider a bag of candy instead
October 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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shannonconder.bsky.social
ICE is confirmed to be using tear gas in Lakeview
Text message from ICIRR that reads ICIRR Eyes on ICE alert: At approx. 12:15pm Rapid Response Teams verified federal agents at Roscoe & Lakewood in Chicago. 1 person was abducted. Agents deployed tear gas. Agents are present in the surrounding areas and driving a white Ford Expedition & white Chevy SUV You have the right to film police activity, the right to remain silent, the right to speak to an attorney, & the right to refuse to sign anything ICIRR hotline: 855-435-7693 KYR Card: bit.ly/ICIRRCards
October 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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royalpratt.bsky.social
Ald. Timmy Knudsen reports immigration activity throughout his ward, which is a lot of Lincoln Park, one of wealthiest neighborhoods in city and home to DePaul University
October 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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mpgphd.bsky.social
are there any Black women historians/art historians/movement specialists who have seen the new Kara Walker installation and want to write about it for @religiondispatches.org?

I can pay you!!

(I'm obsessed with this piece but am obvs not the right author for this)

viaartfund.org/grants/kara-...
VIA Art Fund | Kara Walker: Unmanned Drone
Production | Exhibition Grant In 2021, The Brick (formerly LAXART) acquired an equestrian monument depicting Confederate general Thomas “Stonewall”
viaartfund.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM