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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

Law 39%
Business 28%
the hat on shein vs the hat they deliver

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International Fanworks Day 2026 is on the horizon, and we'd like to know about any fan-events you're planning to host this #IFD! Tell us how you'll celebrate until January 28, and we'll signal-boost your event for you. You can submit your event at otw-news.org/mvpscwby
Just a reminder that measles virus is very infectious with one infected individual spreading it to (on average) 12-18 others in a susceptible population.

With vaccination rates below 92% or so, measles is likely to spread extensively and quickly.

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laughing out loud imagining the face of a sign language interpreter trying to keep up with The Weaveᵗᵐ as the trade briefing shifts to his expertise in cyber and ballrooom
DOJ argues Trump being made to use sign language interpreters could hurt his ‘image’
The Justice Department has appealed a November order requiring interpreters at many events
www.independent.co.uk

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Hey Millennials, you should congratulate Gen Alpha on their first successful kill
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
"I think of Ernesto Zedillo, probably the best president Mexico has had in modern times. He was asked “What three things does Mexico need most?” He answered, “The rule of law. The rule of law. And the rule of law.” This applies to many countries, including our own."
open.substack.com/pub/jaynordl...
Diagnosing America
A few notes on the health of our constitutional republic
open.substack.com
Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.

The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.

They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.

Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air

Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
NEWS: Dan Richman — key figure in now-dismissed Comey case — wins motion for return of materials seized from his devices.

Judge finds his rights were violated, orders that DOJ can only access data pursuant to lawful warrant.

Order could complicate efforts to re-indict Comey.

They have to have the same name going back or it doesn't work. But that's pretty easy to do!

Bleakest 2 paragraphs about (c), free speech, and what (whether) we actually want education to be I've seen in a while
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Obviously important reporting, but I've also gotta hand it to the graphic designer: hard to imagine a better idea! Shoshana Gordon doesn't seem to be on BlueSky

I'm listening to The Raven Scholar, one of my top books of 2025; reading The Will of the Many; about to watch Heated Rivalry

I like having a way to batch reupload graded assignments to get them back to their submitters.

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The whole article is horrifying, but don't sleep on the apogee of the disclaimer:

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

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Disabled veterans are getting scammed.

And thanks to Donald Trump’s attacks on government watchdogs like the CFPB, the scammers are getting away with it.

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New or future law professors, a tip. At some point you're going to draft a final exam and think to yourself, "Self, I have made this final exam too easy." But you are wrong. It is not too easy. It is never too easy.
I'm searching Getty Images and found some photos credited to the Boston Herald that redact the faces of ICE/federal agents. They don't redact the face of the guy they're arresting.

I'm curious about the ethics of doing this. I don't think I've ever seen this on Getty before.

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found an etsy shop that's doing a tremendous bit
“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there

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See also: debates about speed cameras.

There's a problematic reflex among some progressive reformers to move from "conventional criminal legal responses are bad" to something too close to "accountability in general is bad."

I think (as Jamelle argues here) it's rooted in not thinking abt victims.
someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence
The California ACLU is staunchly opposed to the ignition interlock device program and is a big reason that it has not been expanded. Despite the fact that California heavily subsidizes the cost for low-income drunk drivers, the ACLU says that the program is a form of "racialized wealth extraction."

Transformative work of the day, downer edition
'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia speaks at the ICE Baltimore field office for a scheduled check-in. Abrego was released from custody after a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration lacked legal authority to continue holding him in an immigration detention center.
1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.

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Right now, greedy defense contractors are blocking our troops from fixing their own equipment.

Congress had a bipartisan plan to fix that, but lobbyists stopped it.

@deluzio.house.gov and I aren't giving up on this. Our troops should have the right to repair their own stuff.
Greedy defense contractors are blocking our troops from fixing their own equipment
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
youtube.com
Amazing reporting from @katiemangan.bsky.social and @peterelkind.bsky.social

www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

previously unreported documents and interviews... reveals the extent to which the government violated legal and procedural norms to gin up its case against the institution
Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
How the government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California
www.chronicle.com

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