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Jeffrey Vagle
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Law professor | Privacy, Cybersecurity, AI*, Technology and Society, National Security | Veteran | There is music yet to play | https://tractatus.org
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"I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I WILL HOLD."

-- 1LT Clifton Cates, Message to Battalion Headquarters, 19 Jul 1918, Battle of Soissons
Many pundits are in danger of being consumed by their own cleverness.
February 10, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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English-only California: the golden state with Spanish place names removed. First map I ever commissioned, to commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, whereby the US made Mexico give up its northern half, adding California and the Southwest to the Union.
February 10, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Wait for the way she says "Latinos."
Megyn Kelly just shouting “FOOTBALL IS OURS” at Piers Morgan about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show is the perfect example of this moment in time. Put it in a time capsule and send it out into space.
February 10, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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The lawless killing spree at sea continues.

As usual, the "designated terrorist organization" supposedly operating the vessel is unidentified.

And based on recent history, the likelihood that the USG successfully rescues the survivor seems low.

Real killing in a make believe armed conflict.
February 10, 2026 at 1:07 AM
We can never undo what was inflicted on this child.
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
www.mprnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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Very excited that @gelbach.bsky.social & I will be publishing "Bruen's Tenth Amendment Problem" in the @uchilrev.bsky.social!

Our central arg is that Bruen's erasure of unexercised powers violates the 10th Am's preservation of existing State power. Comments welcome!

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
February 9, 2026 at 4:14 PM
We’re finally talking about Xi’s Master Plan.
Meanwhile on TruthSocial...

Trump continues to claim that China will "terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup."

🏒🤔🤯
February 10, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Out of nowhere, thinking of how much that Dunkin Super Bowl ad annoyed me.
February 10, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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Jotwell TechLaw:
Stacy-Ann Elvy, Crossroads: Privacy Law and Copyright Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, JOTWELL (Feb. 9, 2026), cyber.jotwell.com/crossroads-p....
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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My latest article with the one and only @spenceroverton.bsky.social called “Digital Ethnonationalism” forthcoming in University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Here is the papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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MAGA Is Losing The Culture War

“The future is dancing past you in better clothes and with sexier music, and your only response is to scream into the void of Truth Social. It’s not a political stance; it’s a geriatric temper tantrum.”

@therickwilson.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
MAGA Is Losing The Culture War
From Bad Bunny to Epstein to Elections, MAGA Is In Deep Trouble
open.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Always remember that If they build the camps, they will fill the camps.
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:

- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown

This is unprecedented.
February 10, 2026 at 12:24 AM
It is, which is why I regret nothing.
It's for such a great cause though...
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop3...
We're a trans immigrant girl scout troop in Mpls MN & can't safely sell cookies in person this year because of ⓘⓒⓔ activity. All funds from purchases & donations go to support our hurting neighbors & community 🍪💖
Order your Faves on my Digital Cookie Site Today
That's right! You can order your favorite Girl Scout Cookies from me online, all while helping my troop and I do great things in our community and beyond! Check it out.
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org
February 10, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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It's nice that they come in single serving packages
February 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM
My orders of Girl Scout cookies from troops in Minneapolis and NYC have arrived, and I'm finding that I have less self-discipline than I'd previously hoped.
February 9, 2026 at 11:56 PM
It's difficult to describe just how much I loathe the term "illegals."
Hassett: "There's a pretty big decline in the labor force because of illegals leaving the country, so the break even job number is quite a bit lower than it was under Joe Biden. So you should expect slightly smaller job numbers."
February 9, 2026 at 11:54 PM
After last week's @a-lpe.bsky.social conference, I'm bumping this to the front of my reading queue.
February 9, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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I don’t use twitter except for occasional necessity, but this was my best work today.
February 9, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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Very proud of my Seton Hall Law colleagues for putting out this statement condemning the civil rights violations in Minneapolis and across the country. www.nj.com/news/2026/02...
More than 30 legal scholars in N.J. condemn federal civil rights violations
In rare collective statement, 35 faculty members document First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment breaches, calling attacks on protesters and warrantless raids 'hallmarks of authoritarianism'
www.nj.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:58 PM
February 9, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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I like that baby giraffes look exactly like adults but are smol
In good news, a little one was born in Utah🦒

www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...
February 9, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Thank you to @kaytesb.bsky.social for coming to Georgia State today and giving an excellent talk about informed consent and patient data. Fascinating and timely!
February 9, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind.

This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.

Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
Opinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies.

It was a "sideshow," I was told.
Weird. I tried to warn libertarians about Trump
February 9, 2026 at 2:10 PM