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Matt Bodie

@matthewtbodie.bsky.social

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When the party’s over I’ll be stacking the chairs Posts reflect personal views. law.umn.edu/profiles/matthew-bodie

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 47m

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#345,677: “Can you IMAGINE if any other . . . “

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

This is not morally or legally different than lining up two dozen men and shooting them in the face.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 2d

Minnesota Law is looking to hire a visiting assistant professor — more details here:

hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 5d

From Harvard & UConn researchers on the June 14th No Kings Day protests. (report came out in August)

THIS is why MAGA is so spooked by the upcoming (Oct 18th) peaceful protests.

New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/new-...

New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history

The historic number of No Kings protesters and their expansive geographic spread are signs of a growing and durable pro-democracy movement.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 8d

Ha! I thought it might be a reference to human capital or IP in a somewhat extractive sort of way.

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 8d

Anyone else find it weird that Zoom calls cloud recordings “meeting assets”?

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 11d

Watched “Mountainhead” last night and had mixed reactions. I found it a weird and somewhat sterile exercise in tech bro satire, but I found a lot of the dialogue to be a decent approximation of how they actually seem to talk. So maybe insufferability is the point? Wondering what other folks thought.

Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 12d

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 13d

I guess it’s because it’s a CR and not a “budget” bill?

Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 13d

So why are 60 votes needed in the Senate when it’s a budget bill? Is it because they used up their one-shot 50 votes bill on the BBB?

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 16d

“Is it that the Chief Justice doesn’t accept that the Court is losing credibility on a daily basis; that he thinks the Court doesn’t need that credibility in order to fulfill its intended role in our constitutional system; or that he doesn’t care?”

Me on John Roberts as his Court turns 20 today:

180. The Roberts Court Turns 20

The Supreme Court is much less popular and much more divisive today than it was when John Roberts was sworn in as the 17th Chief Justice on September 29, 2005. And at least much of that is his fault.

www.stevevladeck.com

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 17d

A meditation on the justification of civil disobedience when in service of a higher moral authority.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19d

Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move.

1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 20d

Starbucks unions are practicing picketing as the company abuses its workers and denies them a fair contract.

This is your reminder to not cross a picket line and support workers!

NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE.

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Doron Dorfman @dorfmandoron.bsky.social · 21d

Thrilled to be giving a talk on The Limits of the ADA’s Duty to Accommodate @oneillinstitute.bsky.social (@georgetownlaw.bsky.social) & the Georgetown Program in Disability Studies tomorrow (Sep. 25) at 5 pm. If you’re around, please join us. Details below 👇

A poster for the talk: The Limits of the ADA: Exploring the Duty to Accommodate in Law & Society by Doron Dorfman, Thursday, Sep. 25 at 5 pm at the Riggs Library - Healy Hall. ASL interpreted. A photo of a man with dark hair and glasses smiling alongside a photo of signing the ADA into law.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21d

Bothsiderism in its final form

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 22d

Kind of like when Larry Tribe gave up on the project of constitutional law

www.scotusblog.com/2005/05/comm...

Commentary on the last of the Tribe treatise

The grand project of Harvard professor Laurence H. Tribe’s synthesis of constitutional doctrine — his treatise, “American Constitutional Law” — may have seen its last entry. When the third edition […]

www.scotusblog.com

Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 22d

Given what’s happened in the last few years, I can’t imagine how anyone can expect new law profs to take the enterprise of corporate law seriously.

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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 23d

New from me: Why everyone should care about Trump's unlawful attacks on law firms.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/trumps-war...

Trump’s War on Law Firms is a War on You

Why he won’t stop at destroying the legal profession.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Doron Dorfman @dorfmandoron.bsky.social · 25d

It’s a wrap on COSELL 2025 (Colloquium on Scholarship on Employment & Labor Law) hosted by Seton Hall Law. Photos are from the panels on work in digital spaces & work law under the Trump admin. Thank you to 70+ scholars from around the country for sharing your work! See you next year in Berkeley!

A panel of four individuals of different genders and races smiling at the camera

A woman at a podium amid speech and four people behind her sitting at a panel

Audience in a lecture hall listening to a lecture

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Doron Dorfman @dorfmandoron.bsky.social · 25d

My wonderful colleague Tim Glynn and I were thrilled to present the Miller Award for a senior work law scholar to Catherine Fisk (@ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social) & the Zimmer Award for a junior work law scholar to @nelsonryanh.bsky.social (South Texas Law) at the 2025 COSELL at Seton Hall Law🏅🏆

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Brian Galle @bdgesq.bsky.social · 29d

A impressive team of nonprofit law experts (+me), have banded together to comment on the new proposed rules from the Education Dept. on public service loan forgiveness.

The rule purports to give ED authority to strip PSLF eligibility from any employer that acts with an "illegal purpose."

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