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Manoj Mate @manojmate.bsky.social · 10h

Things getting real when Cookie Monster teams up with Pooh

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 14h

Dispatch from the blood-soaked hellscape of Chicago: It's marathon day. People are walking around wearing matching, custom t-shirts to cheer on their friends and family members. The vibes are dangerously wholesome.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 2d

It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 2d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 13h

How I Expect the Supreme Court to Kill Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in Callais (If It Does So): Not By Direct Overruling but By Pretending They Are Simply Reinterpreting the Meaning of Section 2 electionlawblog.org?p=152471

How I Expect the Supreme Court to Kill Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in Callais (If It Does So): Not By Direct Overruling but By Pretending They Are Simply Reinterpreting the Meaning of Section 2...

I’ve written of good reason to believe the Supreme Court is going to sap Section 2 of its power in the Louisiana v. Callais case, being argued on Wednesday. I won’t rehash those arguments here. Instea...

electionlawblog.org

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Manoj Mate @manojmate.bsky.social · 11h

Excited that my article, Constitutional Structure and Election Law, forthcoming in the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal @wmborj.bsky.social made the Election Law and Voting Rights eJournal top 10 list on SSRN:

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/...

SSRN Top Downloads

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 13h

An Adverse Ruling Against Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in the Callais Case Could Also Doom State Voting Rights Acts electionlawblog.org?p=152469

An Adverse Ruling Against Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in the Callais Case Could Also Doom State Voting Rights Acts #ELB

I have written about the dangers of the Court killing off or significantly weakening Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, via the surprise reargument in the Louisiana v. Callais case. If the Court rule...

electionlawblog.org

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Manoj Mate @manojmate.bsky.social · 17h

Watching Fareed Zakaria "analyze" the Middle East right now where the "analysis" is nothing more than oversimplified caricature portrayal of nation states that glosses over history and nuance.

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Manoj Mate @manojmate.bsky.social · 17h

A never ending circus that threatens to imperil public health.

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

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Manoj Mate @manojmate.bsky.social · 1d

"The president’s own CDC has shifted away from a broad recommendation for Covid-19 immunization; people who want one must now consult with a health care provider, a process known as shared clinical decision-making. However, a prescription is not necessarily needed."

www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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Manoj Mate @manojmate.bsky.social · 1d

The President just received the Covid-19 Vaccine shot.

Radio silence from RFK Jr.

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 2d

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

A rare admission from the administration that policy choices have knock-off effects.

In this case: immigration crackdowns raise your grocery bill.

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Kyla @boysek.bsky.social · 2d

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Manoj Mate @manojmate.bsky.social · 2d

Give him a plane, get yourself an Air Force facility in a red state.

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Manoj Mate @manojmate.bsky.social · 2d

Wait what?

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 2d

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Friday that the Pentagon will host a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility in Idaho.

Hegseth said the Trump administration signed an agreement to build the facility at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Elmore County, Idaho.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

the republican majority leader with a clear vision for the democratic party

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Manoj Mate @manojmate.bsky.social · 2d

"According to the California National Guard, the deployment to Los Angeles cost another $118 million as of early September, a number that continues to grow as 100 troops remain in the city, long after the precipitating unrest has died down."

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