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Rebecca Tushnet

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Rebecca Tushnet is an American legal scholar. She serves as the Frank Stanton Professor of First Amendment Law at Harvard Law School. Her scholarship focuses on copyright, trademark, First Amendment, and false advertising. .. more

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 2h

The case against Comey is beyond weak. The case against James is worse. It is based on a lie, and they know they're lying because exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment had already been presented to a grand jury in another jurisdiction. Everyone involved with this needs to be disbarred

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 7h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 7h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 12h

The ease with which officials lie in 2025 is honestly terrifying

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BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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CHICAGO (WGN) - A WGN creative services department employee was detained by two Border Patrol officers and later released after federal agents
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WGN is not naming the employee, as station policy requires blurring faces and not identifying those who have not been charged with a crime.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 14h

Of all the news in this NYT survey of sitting federal judges - incl 47 of them think the SCt is mishandling its emergency docket - maybe the biggest is that 65 sitting fed judges (37D, 28R), folks circumspect for a living, responded to a NYT survey. Stunning. And a sign that something is very wrong.

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

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

Love it. Public companies are required by law to adopt and publish a code of conduct. Ergo, codes of conduct are meaningless and investors cannot rely on them as truthful statements of corporate policy.

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In re Exscientia PLC, DNJ

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 15h

Pasta Chef Creates Ravioli in the Perfect Shape of a Classic Le Creuset Casserole Dish laughingsquid.com/le-crueset-c...

Pasta Chef Creates Ravioli in the Perfect Shape of a Classic Le Creuset Casserole Dish

Zielonka utilized his exceptional pasta-making skills to create ravioli in the shape of the classic dark blue Le Creuset casserole dish.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

Does this make more sense?

headline adjusted to read: Academia is Broken. Trump University Can Help Fix it

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16h

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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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 1d

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 1d

This is a preview of the content rules we can expect when Trump's cronies take over TikTok. TikTok will only allow content that shows the Trump administration in a flattering light 📉

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1d

New: Judge Perry's ruling against Texas troops in Chicago is a banger.

1. Invokes Hamilton
2. Rips into ICE for lying
3. Says "law enforcement officers who go into an event expecting 'a shitshow' are much more likely to experience one than those who go into the event prepared to de-escalate it.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Who's taking advantage of the new anti-immigration gold rush? Read this:

How a new firm with DHS ties won a $915 million contract to help immigrants "self-deport."

How a new firm with DHS ties won a $915 million contract to help immigrants "self-deport"

The “rushed” deal was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival's lawsuit alleges.

www.motherjones.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

PERRY COUNTY, TN — a man arrested and faces felony “threatening mass violence in a school” for posting an image of Trump with his own words in a facebook group after Charlie Kirk’s murder.

His son calls it “an egregious violation of his 1A rights”
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 1d

the Venezuelans who were murdered were not available for comment

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 1d

Want to call out a really huge (and surprising) win for E2EE.

So since 2022, there's been a bill in the EU that was looking like it was fait accompli to force companies to backdoor encrypted chats to scan for CSAM

It was really bad from a privacy perspective

www.euronews.com/next/2025/10...

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Germany’s no halts EU plan to combat child sexual abuse content online

The European Commission proposed the measures in 2022, but member states cannot reach an agreement, citing privacy and cybersecurity concerns.

www.euronews.com

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

Funny they can't say the name of protests because saying "No Kings" makes it soooo clear it's the opposite of a "hate America rally"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 1d

@flohmann.bsky.social on Prop. 50: "for those who hate this partisan gerrymandering race to the bottom, I hear you, but a principled stand in California won’t restore fairness in the face of gerrymandering everywhere else"

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Nov. 2025 Prop 50

Fred’s November 2025 SF Proposition Explainer and Slate Card There’s only one thing on the November 2025 ballot for SF voters: Prop 50. So this time I’m going to keep it short and sweet (unlike last ...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

I'll stop bitching about this soon, but I'd also like to point out that Trump 2.0 not only didn't follow through on the kind of antitrust reform guys like Stoller promised, their stocked courts have done GENERATIONAL and likely permanent harm to regulatory autonomy and corporate oversight

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 1d

"The message is clear: Texas A&M does not permit teaching LGBT topics. Politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in Texas classrooms. Anyone who crosses this line may be fired on flimsy pretext"

www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

Why I Withdrew From My Dream Job

At Texas A&M, politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in classrooms.

www.chronicle.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Christine Corcos @lpcprof.bsky.social · 1d

Tushnet on History and Tradition in First Amendment Intellectual Property Cases: A Critique /
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Tushnet on History and Tradition in First Amendment Intellectual Property Cases: A Critique

Rebecca Tushnet, Harvard Law School, is publishing History and Tradition in First Amendment Intellectual Property Cases: A Critique in the ...

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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 1d

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 1d

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

These watches appear to be ripoffs of famous designs. Likely from some factory that normally produces "homage" watches and they just swapped out the branding.

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Patek Philippe

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Rolex

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Rolex and Hublot

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2d

9th Circuit just made anti-SLAPP laws (like the good ones in California and Nevada) a lot less effective. This is going to lead to a ton of suppressed speech. Stupid and dangerous. Especially now.

We need a federal anti-SLAPP law now. And we won't get one.

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