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Anna O. Law

@unlawfulentries.bsky.social

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Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist specializing in US constitutional law /development, US migration(s) / citizenship law & legal history. Often mistaken for a historian. Home cook, wine drinker, foodie. .. more

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 3h

Angel Island off of San Francisco—its historical significance only known to immigration historians and a few others. My second book ends there. But central in my third book on American gateway cities.

Angel island in the distance across the water

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 3h

City by the Bay

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 4h

Spätzle and schnitzel with mustard cream sauce and roasted carrots, potatoes, onions, and fennel #poliscicooks #pacooks

Spätzle and schnitzel and veggies on a plate

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 5h

Same

Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 9h

Just a reminder that most academics are not making oodles of money from their university press books. For some reason, people think I am making bank with my Illinois book. I am not rich by any means.

Some make money with trade press books, but that isn't all of us. Thank you.
Adieu!

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 6h

Good morning, San Francisco

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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 8h

Thermostatic public opinion, reacting against the governing regime, like old faithful.
globalaffairs.org/research/pub...

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 9h

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10h

The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14h

Like a piece of shit eating itself.

University Using AI to Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating With AI

Australian Catholic University used an AI tool to falsely accuse students of cheating us an AI, taking months to clear their name.

futurism.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14h

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 15h

Congratulations, you're department chair.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 21h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 21h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

This Is Fascism

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

My 2yo just informed me that her favorite food is gummy bears wrapped in salami. Then she held eye contact while wrapping a gummy bear in salami and eating it.

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 1d

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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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

Spicy moon multiple locations

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

Relatives showing me some books

Fre korematsu speaks up by Laura Atkins and Stan yogi, illustrated by yutaka Houlette

George Takei: They called us enemy. A graphic novel by disinter Scott Becker

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

It soothes me to watch the chickens turn

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

Rotisserie chickens cooking

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

In my mind I confused it with yucca

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mjs @the-silver-lining.bsky.social · 1d

Dahlias! I grew my own for the first time this year.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

How did I not know what jicama looks like?

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

Rotisserie chickens cooking

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

Farmers market

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 1d

"federal judges called SCOTUS’s emergency orders “mystical,” “overly blunt,” “incredibly demoralizing & troubling” & “a slap in the face to the district courts.” One judge compared their district’s current relationship with SCOTUS to “a war zone”

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

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

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

My 8th grader relative made French toast

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

Haha. There were 3 boxes . They examined but didn’t swab it. But we ate it not them

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 1d

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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