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Law Prof. Economist. I do not speak for my employer. RT are not endorsements. Duh. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3339527 Mastodon: @[email protected]. Twitter: @lawprofblawg

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · Nov 9

My Lists thus far:

1. Law Twitter
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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 9h

Maybe I got a contact high from hashtag.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 11h

“Accurate Energetic Systems, has been an economic bedrock for the small communities scattered across rural Hickman and Humphreys Counties. One day after the catastrophic explosion, it seemed almost everyone knew someone who worked there or had at some point,”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Close-Knit Rural Communities Reel After Tennessee Plant Explosion

www.nytimes.com

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 12h

a woman is sitting at a desk in front of a wall with a calendar on it .

ALT: a woman is sitting at a desk in front of a wall with a calendar on it .

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 13h

If you only were able to smuggle one mule in, you failed and were required to back that ass up.

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 13h

It's not well known, but trained killers were first part of a secret society. To become a member of that society, you were required to perform a killing while smuggling your weapons in on two mules.

The term "ass ass in" was eventually shortened to one word.

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Ally Whelan @amwhelan.bsky.social · 13h

This is… concerning.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 22h

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Anna E. Carpenter @annacarpenter.bsky.social · 15h

Last week, @uofoklahomalaw.bsky.social Professor Jon Lee
(@jonleelawprof.bsky.social) presented to the University of Missouri School of Law
faculty on possible course-level innovations in light of the changes to the bar exam.

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 15h

update:

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Martha Albertson Fineman @mlafineman.bsky.social · 14h

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 17h

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 19h

AI summary of every e-mail thread:

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 20h

We wouldn't want to document abuses of power, would we?

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 20h

You know, it's funny how the well-regulated militia isn't showing up now that the government is kidnapping people off the streets.

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Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social · 20h

#2A #GVP another episode brought to you by your "well-regulated militia"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Six people dead with multiple injured in three shootings at Mississippi homecoming weekends

Four people were killed in an attack in Leland, while two were killed in Heidelberg, amid a third attack in Rolling Fork

www.theguardian.com

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 20h

That’s so sad. She was a truly spectacular actress, and stole my heart in Annie Hall.

La dee dah…

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 21h

The Meritocracy!

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 21h

So if 3% of my students return evaluations, should I worry about which students are most inclined to return those evaluations and which are not?

Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 21h

4. Are Republican judges more likely to fear retaliation, even in supposedly anonymous surveys?

5. Given there are about 1,700 federal judges, this is a tiny survey response rate. 3.82% response rate?

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 21h

2. Per some discussion I've read, are the judges who disagreed more likely than in prior administrations (used as a time line reference) to have been overturned?

3. "Nominated by a democratic president" could be a republican. Note Hatch's deal with Clinton.

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 21h

Some things I might want to know about this survey (and I can't see because I don't pay for the times).

1. Which portion of these judges are Trump appointees in each category?

Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 21h

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 21h

The Wiggles

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 22h

What would be the wildest concert for a fight to break out at?

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 21h

On behalf of the State University of New York University Faculty Senate, which voted to empower me to sign this petition on their behalf, I just signed University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/un...?

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

actionnetwork.org

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 22h

ICE is now pulling from a pool of applicants who see televised images of sobbing children in handcuffs, or masked men in tactical gear roughing up Latino laborers, and don't recoil in horror.
The administration is also doing its best to send all the worst possible signals to existing agents, from every level of the hierarchy. The president ominously declares we are engaged in a "war within" - with domestic urban populations cast as the enemy combatants.

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 22h

In the legal academy you just write more outliers to establish a "significant body of literature."

#Satire

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 22h

The thing is, Roberts was an unmemorable, mostly mediocre, chief justice in ordinary times. Absent the Trump assault on role of law, he’d be remembered for preserving the ACA if he was remembered for anything.

But Trump happened. And Roberts will be remembered alongside Taney.

Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 23h

Roberts is presiding over, and driving, a stunning collapse in faith in the U.S. Supreme Court, not just among the public, but among federal judges.

What a failure. The Titanic captain of chief justices.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

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