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Mary Dudziak

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Law, history, politics. Latest book: Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism.
https://makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com/ #lawsky 🗃

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Mary Louise Dudziak is an American legal theorist, civil rights historian, educator, and a leading foreign policy and international relations expert. She is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University. .. more

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 25d

More of this please.

Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 25d

“FUCK AI” is turning into a movement.

After his Frankenstein Q&A at the Chinese Theater, Guillermo del Toro asked the audience to scream “FUCK AI.”

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 18h

Not near a holiday. Too many tourist trams. I was glad to go the
Castillo de San Marcos, however. A bit out of downtown the beaches are wonderful for walks.

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Jessica Cale @dirtysexyhistory.bsky.social · 19h

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens

www.nytimes.com

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 20h

Wish someone had told me that St. Augustine is a colonialism themed Disneyland.

Vulture @vulture.com · 1d

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

www.vulture.com

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 1d

Late afternoon walk.

Atlantic shoreline approaching dusk with clouds at the horizon below a blue sky.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 1d

Abuse of power extending beyond Senator Kelly

"FBI has requested interviews with six Democratic U.S. lawmakers."

DOJ official "said the interviews were to determine 'if there's any wrongdoing and then go from there.'"

Note: For video accurately stating military law
www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 2d

Senator Kelly’s remarks in the video are “a 100% accurate representation of what the law says."

“No American citizen should have to deal with this type of preposterous investigation.”

- Professor Eugene Fidell, leading military justice expert in Wall Street Journal

www.wsj.com/politics/mar...

Pentagon Investigates Misconduct Allegations Against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly

The review comes after Kelly, a retired Navy captain, appeared in a video with other lawmakers telling military members not to obey unlawful orders.

www.wsj.com

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 2d

Little birds at the shoreline.

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 2d

Wonderful. Great walking shoes are so good for you-- at any age -- they should be covered by health insurance.

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 2d

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 3d

And engaging in this kind of pedagogy is simply the entry-level version of when scholars do this, which I wrote about here. www.artforum.com/features/gen...

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 2d

Ouch!! I am so sorry this happened. Sending mountains of sympathy and good wishes.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 3d

And engaging in this kind of pedagogy is simply the entry-level version of when scholars do this, which I wrote about here. www.artforum.com/features/gen...

This framing posits the algorithm as a form of alterity, an otherness that aids in self-knowledge.

Casting errors as valuable for self-reflection without providing concrete examples of how that reflection has been beneficial does little more than create a permission structure for the failures of this technology.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax @portlandken.bsky.social · 4d

Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 5d

Stumbled upon while scrolling etsy for holiday cards....

Christmas card with a flying saucer hovering over a forest of evergreen trees. Trump and Vance are being vacuumed into the saucer. The text says: "I hope all of your holiday wishes come true."

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d

In every way, Trump demands fealty to himself—and to his whims, wholly untethered to law—over fealty to federal officials’ oaths of office. So again: Are you effing kidding me? What Dems did here was patriotic. They forced the debate we need over Trump's lawlessness.

newrepublic.com/article/2035...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d

What's weirdly missing from coverage of the Dem video is any discussion of this Q: Is it reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal orders, or not? The answer is, yes, of course it is.

On the boat bombings, for instance, evidence is extensive. Here's a look at it:

newrepublic.com/article/2035...

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Mary L. Dudziak, Manisha Sinha

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d

The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders.

The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...

Is Trump Giving Illegal Orders? Dems Just Blew That Question Wide Open

From the boat bombings to deportations to prosecutions, the evidence mounts. And the speaker of the House could get to the bottom of it if he wanted to. Yeah, right.

newrepublic.com

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 6d

Enviable endorsements for Crais, The Killing Age:

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 6d

Important new book from my Emory colleague Clifton Crais @worldhistorian.bsky.social: The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World. 1750-1900s was a Moretecene, he argues as catastrophic destruction & killing made the modern world.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo....

The Killing Age

A bracing account of how our current planetary crisis emerged from the worst cataclysmic destruction in human history, which Clifton Crais terms the Mortecene—the killing age. We are used to speakin...

press.uchicago.edu

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 7d

Only eight remain in our What Was Literary Twitter? bracket. What will the final four look like? Vote here to find out!

What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket *Day 4*

It’s day four, and only 8 out of original 64 are left after yesterday’s voting! The polls today will determine who wins their quadrant (or is it “region”? Or “zone”? We’re not sports people) …

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 7d

The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30

uncpress.org/978146969484...

White Power

Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...

uncpress.org

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Mary L. Dudziak

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

Page One in Iowa.

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Kathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 7d

The Trump Administration is abandoning plans for the biggest-ever cut to Social Security Disability Insurance, which would have hit older workers hardest.

The rule would have devastated up to 1.5 million workers' financial stability, retirement security & access to health care.

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Social Security scraps plan to limit disability benefits after uproar

The policy would have fundamentally altered who qualifies for the two federal disability programs by eliminating or limiting a person’s age as a factor to consider.

wapo.st

Reposted by Mary L. Dudziak, Catriona Seth

Kathy Ishizuka @kishizuka.bsky.social · 8d

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books

Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.

peopleofcolorintech.com

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Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 9d

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.

The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.

Don’t give up the ship.

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 10d

It was great to meet you! Hope you will become a regular.

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 10d

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 11d

Alice Wong was a hero and a baddass. 💔
Read her books. 👇🏼
www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

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AJIL and AJIL Unbound @ajil.bsky.social · 13d

The October issue of AJIL is now available online! This issue places special focus on the CPUS section, where members of the Board have written essays on the various policies and changes under the second Trump administration. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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