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Stephen Horowitz @gtlegalenglish.bsky.social · 13d

MoCo Honk Report (Yom Kippur edition): 23 minutes, 152 honks, including one massive VHC! Also, a fist bump and a guy who walked by telling me he's been thinking he should do the same thing and "what you're doing is fantastic." @jamieraskin.bsky.social @vanhollen.senate.gov @jatucker.bsky.social

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Stephen Horowitz @gtlegalenglish.bsky.social · 16d

Georgetown Legal English Faculty Updates (Sep 2025), including some very sweet new additions. :-) legalenglish.georgetown.domains/law-linguist...

Updates from the Georgetown Legal English Faculty (September 2025) – Georgetown Legal English Blog

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Stephen Horowitz @gtlegalenglish.bsky.social · Jun 6

What we've been up to since last December. legalenglish.georgetown.domains/faculty/upda...

Updates from the Georgetown Legal English Faculty (June 2025) – Georgetown Legal English Blog

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Stephen Horowitz @gtlegalenglish.bsky.social · Jun 5

Also, normally one or two people take a photo of me. But today I counted at least 6 people taking my photo. Special props to my neighbors Sarah, Dahna and Sam for the walk-by honk and high 5s. :-) @vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov

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Stephen Horowitz @gtlegalenglish.bsky.social · Jun 5

Honk Report Thurs pm: 25 mins, 191 honks, 4 VHCs, one of them capped off by a super loud shave-and-a-haircut from a giant truck with a Maryland logo.

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Susan H Allen @susanhallen.bsky.social · Mar 24

Calling on engaged civil society to meet this moment defending our democracy… each in our own way, reach out to neighbors, find one thing you can do this week— who can make a poster and put it in your window, facing the street, sharing your support for democracy? What will your poster say?

Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · Mar 24

History shows a legislative strategy alone is not sufficient to defeat fascists and dictators. You need organized civil society fighting back along with persistent legislative defense of democratic institutions and programs.

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Stephen Horowitz @gtlegalenglish.bsky.social · Mar 12

Great metaphor. "If Murphy’s statement is a bracing shot of whiskey, recent statements by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are dixie cups of watered-down water-flavored LaCroix." smotus.substack.com/p/more-on-ch...

More on changing public opinion

A podcast episode gets into what's possible

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Stephen Horowitz @gtlegalenglish.bsky.social · Mar 12

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · Mar 6

Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor’s response to interim US Attorney Ed Martin’s letter calling the school’s curriculum “unacceptable.” Bravo.

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Brian Leiter @brianleiter.bsky.social · Mar 5

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Another perspective on the Ukraine war

Ukraine has something both Russia and America want. I still think NATO expansion was the bigger issue for Russia, but the American crime boss, Trump, has, as is his wont, made this economic case more ...

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Charlie Board @chboar.bsky.social · Mar 5

Just batshit insane that four 'justices' who thought Biden lacked authority to cancel student debt think Trump has authority to renege on lawfully contracted work already performed

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · Mar 4

That’s right. 🇺🇦

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People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com · Feb 21

That's right! Come on by for Fed Fridays - have a cup of joe on us. We'll get through this. You can sign up for our newsletter chock full of other free events and goings-on at peoplesbooktakoma.com

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Stephen Horowitz @gtlegalenglish.bsky.social · Feb 21

A timely episode, hosted by my colleague Jonah Perlin: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

#140: Mike G. Silver - Consumer Finance Lawyer, Ex-CFPB Lawyer

Podcast Episode · How I Lawyer Podcast with Jonah Perlin · 02/21/2025 · 55m

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · Feb 2

It is absolutely unacceptable for the Trump administration to purge the CDC of important scientific data that matters to millions of people. I refuse to let ideologues stomp out evidence-based objective research—we all need to speak out. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

CDC Data Are Disappearing

The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

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Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · Feb 2

My calendar recently "freed up" this Fri, Feb. 7 at 1pm ET. Seems like a great time to have an impromptu chat with others in #opengov about how things are going.

Would love to catch up with anyone I haven't seen in a while or meet new people in the community.

RSVP: forms.gle/XVoiLy2SFfjX...

Free for an Open Government chat?

Hi colleagues in the open government world. My calendar recently "freed up" this Friday, February 7, 2025 at 1pm Eastern. I thought it would be a great time to get folks together from the wider open ...

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Gideon Kendall @gideonkendall.bsky.social · Feb 2

The Eagles are in the Superbowl so I'm drawing my sweat stained old eagles hat every day until the big game. #eagles #philadelphiaeagles #flyeaglesfly #superbowl

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Stephen Horowitz @gtlegalenglish.bsky.social · Feb 1

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Trump ally Peter Marocco behind evisceration of USAid: ‘He’s a destroyer’

Campaign ally sowed trail of enmity during first Trump presidency and allegedly was present at January 6 riot

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Stephen Horowitz @gtlegalenglish.bsky.social · Feb 1

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USAIDStopWork

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Stephen Horowitz @gtlegalenglish.bsky.social · Jan 24

Case Western Law seems to be the first one to do this. Will this be the new way-of-the-law-school-world? (And more importantly, are there any legal English implications for this? :-)
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Law School Now Requires Students To Get Artificial Intelligence Certification

Likely the first of many.

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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · Jan 23

Day 57 large-scale, continuous; day 87 overall. Theatres disobedience rally marches to the main protest site, Rustaveli. We have two demands:
New, free and fair elections;
The release of the regime prisoners.
#GeorgiaProtests

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · Jan 21

This is very much the language they used in Hungary and Russia to go after people, universities, and nonprofit organizations with a hint of foreign connection.

Note the language "replacement of the culture." Yep, that's aimed at Muslims and Jews.

from this EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Recommend any actions necessary to protect the American people from the actions of foreign nationals who have undermined or seek to undermine the fundamental constitutional rights of the American people, including, but not limited to, our Citizens’ rights to freedom of speech and the free exercise of religion protected by the First Amendment, who preach or call for sectarian violence, the overthrow or replacement of the culture on which our constitutional Republic stands, or who provide aid, advocacy, or support for foreign terrorists;

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Stephen Horowitz @gtlegalenglish.bsky.social · Jan 21

That was definitely a Nazi salute.

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Stephen Horowitz @gtlegalenglish.bsky.social · Jan 18

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Russia attacks Kyiv with ballistic missiles, killing at least three people – photos

A Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv killed three people on the morning of Saturday, 18 January. Three more people sustained injuries. Fires, falling debris and damage to infrastructure faciliti...

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