Amy Kristin Sanders
@amykristinsanders.bsky.social
John and Ann Curley Chair in First Amendment @ Penn State. Loves: Cardinals baseball, shelter dogs, solo travel. Hates: Oxford commas, two spaces after a period. Former Middle East expat. Texas refugee. Recovering journalist. Not your attorney.
Like you, I've heard people rave about Gemini Deep Research, but I have been loathe to try it based on just how terrible Google's AI summaries are.
Perplexity gave me this in under 20 seconds. I use it regularly for low-stakes things, but I'll keep doing the research all by myself.
Perplexity gave me this in under 20 seconds. I use it regularly for low-stakes things, but I'll keep doing the research all by myself.
November 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Like you, I've heard people rave about Gemini Deep Research, but I have been loathe to try it based on just how terrible Google's AI summaries are.
Perplexity gave me this in under 20 seconds. I use it regularly for low-stakes things, but I'll keep doing the research all by myself.
Perplexity gave me this in under 20 seconds. I use it regularly for low-stakes things, but I'll keep doing the research all by myself.
Have I mentioned I have the best job?
Starting off my day talking to high school journalists here in Nashville at the JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention.
First of four sessions on law, ethics and technology that I'm leading over the next few days!
Starting off my day talking to high school journalists here in Nashville at the JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention.
First of four sessions on law, ethics and technology that I'm leading over the next few days!
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Have I mentioned I have the best job?
Starting off my day talking to high school journalists here in Nashville at the JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention.
First of four sessions on law, ethics and technology that I'm leading over the next few days!
Starting off my day talking to high school journalists here in Nashville at the JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention.
First of four sessions on law, ethics and technology that I'm leading over the next few days!
Found this heartbreaking note on the snack board outside my office at Penn State. @johnfetterman.com, I hope you feel like crap for selling Pennsylvanians like this person out for absolutely nothing. Because that's what Democrats got: nothing but a meaningless promise about healthcare.
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Found this heartbreaking note on the snack board outside my office at Penn State. @johnfetterman.com, I hope you feel like crap for selling Pennsylvanians like this person out for absolutely nothing. Because that's what Democrats got: nothing but a meaningless promise about healthcare.
Career Goal Achieved: When your name is actually listed in the @merriam-webster.com dictionary entry for freedom of the press!
H/T: @josh.splc.org for making my month by sharing!
H/T: @josh.splc.org for making my month by sharing!
November 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Career Goal Achieved: When your name is actually listed in the @merriam-webster.com dictionary entry for freedom of the press!
H/T: @josh.splc.org for making my month by sharing!
H/T: @josh.splc.org for making my month by sharing!
Just wrapped up my first trip to Yale. Gorgeous campus and great conversation with folks at the Access and Accountability conference. I'm definitely looking forward to my next trip to New Haven—I still need to try apizza!
November 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Just wrapped up my first trip to Yale. Gorgeous campus and great conversation with folks at the Access and Accountability conference. I'm definitely looking forward to my next trip to New Haven—I still need to try apizza!
Great fun tonight in D.C. celebrating the wonderful work of @splc.org and supporting the tremendous student journalism taking place across the country at this important time.
You can help too:
splc.org/donate/
You can help too:
splc.org/donate/
October 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Great fun tonight in D.C. celebrating the wonderful work of @splc.org and supporting the tremendous student journalism taking place across the country at this important time.
You can help too:
splc.org/donate/
You can help too:
splc.org/donate/
Ladies and gentlemen, my former employer...
You might recall the president had state police violently arrest dozens of students whom the prosecutor never charged but UT sanctioned them anyway for exercising their free speech rights.
A real First Amendment utopia.
www.chronicle.com/article/we-a...
You might recall the president had state police violently arrest dozens of students whom the prosecutor never charged but UT sanctioned them anyway for exercising their free speech rights.
A real First Amendment utopia.
www.chronicle.com/article/we-a...
October 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, my former employer...
You might recall the president had state police violently arrest dozens of students whom the prosecutor never charged but UT sanctioned them anyway for exercising their free speech rights.
A real First Amendment utopia.
www.chronicle.com/article/we-a...
You might recall the president had state police violently arrest dozens of students whom the prosecutor never charged but UT sanctioned them anyway for exercising their free speech rights.
A real First Amendment utopia.
www.chronicle.com/article/we-a...
This is absolutely gut-wrenching. It also appears to be unlawful given the process that's supposed to be undertaken...
October 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This is absolutely gut-wrenching. It also appears to be unlawful given the process that's supposed to be undertaken...
When you're so committed to your extreme partisan ideology that you SCREAM the quiet part out loud...
My leftist ideology includes teaching my students about separation of power, checks and balances, civil rights and other core tenets of democratic governance.
Thankfully, I'm no longer in Texas.
My leftist ideology includes teaching my students about separation of power, checks and balances, civil rights and other core tenets of democratic governance.
Thankfully, I'm no longer in Texas.
October 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
When you're so committed to your extreme partisan ideology that you SCREAM the quiet part out loud...
My leftist ideology includes teaching my students about separation of power, checks and balances, civil rights and other core tenets of democratic governance.
Thankfully, I'm no longer in Texas.
My leftist ideology includes teaching my students about separation of power, checks and balances, civil rights and other core tenets of democratic governance.
Thankfully, I'm no longer in Texas.
Going into the weekend full of fresh ideas from @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social, @randersenjones.bsky.social, @erincarroll.bsky.social, @sonjawest.bsky.social about freedom of the press and the Fourth Estate after getting the opportunity to speak @connlrev.bsky.social's annual symposium today.
October 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Going into the weekend full of fresh ideas from @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social, @randersenjones.bsky.social, @erincarroll.bsky.social, @sonjawest.bsky.social about freedom of the press and the Fourth Estate after getting the opportunity to speak @connlrev.bsky.social's annual symposium today.
In a world full of UT-Austins, be an MIT or a Dartmouth...
October 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In a world full of UT-Austins, be an MIT or a Dartmouth...
Nothing like an extra-nerdy, interactive news graphic in the morning to get me going...
Reuters does an exceptional job illustrating the Nobel Prizes, while perhaps unintentionally making a very interesting commentary on gender equality in our world.
www.reuters.com/graphics/NOB...
Reuters does an exceptional job illustrating the Nobel Prizes, while perhaps unintentionally making a very interesting commentary on gender equality in our world.
www.reuters.com/graphics/NOB...
October 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Nothing like an extra-nerdy, interactive news graphic in the morning to get me going...
Reuters does an exceptional job illustrating the Nobel Prizes, while perhaps unintentionally making a very interesting commentary on gender equality in our world.
www.reuters.com/graphics/NOB...
Reuters does an exceptional job illustrating the Nobel Prizes, while perhaps unintentionally making a very interesting commentary on gender equality in our world.
www.reuters.com/graphics/NOB...
Timely panel on government employee speech that all my academic colleagues at public universities should attend in light of recent reprimands, firings and removals of faculty for comments about Charlie Kirk's murder and more. georgiafirstamendmentfoundation18.wildapricot.org/event-6368238
October 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Timely panel on government employee speech that all my academic colleagues at public universities should attend in light of recent reprimands, firings and removals of faculty for comments about Charlie Kirk's murder and more. georgiafirstamendmentfoundation18.wildapricot.org/event-6368238
Great conversation about the criminalization of journalism at the Global Forum for Free Speech at Vanderbilt.
9/11 War on Terror started the path toward designating journalists as the enemy of the people.
9/11 War on Terror started the path toward designating journalists as the enemy of the people.
October 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Great conversation about the criminalization of journalism at the Global Forum for Free Speech at Vanderbilt.
9/11 War on Terror started the path toward designating journalists as the enemy of the people.
9/11 War on Terror started the path toward designating journalists as the enemy of the people.
Problem is, Kevin Eltife already responded:
October 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Problem is, Kevin Eltife already responded:
You missed the best part of the story... BoR Chair comes out to give UT President and Provost cover when they sell their souls to Trump by signing on the dotted line.
October 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
You missed the best part of the story... BoR Chair comes out to give UT President and Provost cover when they sell their souls to Trump by signing on the dotted line.
Food for thought on First Amendment Day...
"The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech."
—Justice Anthony Kennedy
"The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech."
—Justice Anthony Kennedy
September 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Food for thought on First Amendment Day...
"The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech."
—Justice Anthony Kennedy
"The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech."
—Justice Anthony Kennedy
This is the first monetary sanction I've seen for undisclosed use of AI in court filings, but I'm curious what others have seen.
I'm also collecting examples of disciplinary action to share with students as well.
I'm also collecting examples of disciplinary action to share with students as well.
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This is the first monetary sanction I've seen for undisclosed use of AI in court filings, but I'm curious what others have seen.
I'm also collecting examples of disciplinary action to share with students as well.
I'm also collecting examples of disciplinary action to share with students as well.
32 Chunk aside, my money's on 128 Grazer.
"Her fearsome nature is respected by other bears who often choose to give her space instead of risking a confrontation."
We girls gotta stick together.
"Her fearsome nature is respected by other bears who often choose to give her space instead of risking a confrontation."
We girls gotta stick together.
September 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
32 Chunk aside, my money's on 128 Grazer.
"Her fearsome nature is respected by other bears who often choose to give her space instead of risking a confrontation."
We girls gotta stick together.
"Her fearsome nature is respected by other bears who often choose to give her space instead of risking a confrontation."
We girls gotta stick together.
If profiles on the dating apps were as amazing as Fat Bear Week profiles, I'd be far more interested in dating...
32 Chunk sounds like a keeper, if you ask me.
32 Chunk sounds like a keeper, if you ask me.
September 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
If profiles on the dating apps were as amazing as Fat Bear Week profiles, I'd be far more interested in dating...
32 Chunk sounds like a keeper, if you ask me.
32 Chunk sounds like a keeper, if you ask me.
My 5 Minutes of Canadian Fame!
When your friend in Qatar gets a text from her daughter in Canada saying that the daughter's boyfriend heard a familiar voice on a CBC video he was watching and it turns out to be you!
When your friend in Qatar gets a text from her daughter in Canada saying that the daughter's boyfriend heard a familiar voice on a CBC video he was watching and it turns out to be you!
September 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
My 5 Minutes of Canadian Fame!
When your friend in Qatar gets a text from her daughter in Canada saying that the daughter's boyfriend heard a familiar voice on a CBC video he was watching and it turns out to be you!
When your friend in Qatar gets a text from her daughter in Canada saying that the daughter's boyfriend heard a familiar voice on a CBC video he was watching and it turns out to be you!
So excited that I'm getting to nerd out with the coolest media law attorneys in the country this week.
Yesterday, I got to co-facilitate a session on FOIA that included a discussion of all the latest AI updates, how DOGE cuts hit hard, trends in public records requests and more.
Yesterday, I got to co-facilitate a session on FOIA that included a discussion of all the latest AI updates, how DOGE cuts hit hard, trends in public records requests and more.
September 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
So excited that I'm getting to nerd out with the coolest media law attorneys in the country this week.
Yesterday, I got to co-facilitate a session on FOIA that included a discussion of all the latest AI updates, how DOGE cuts hit hard, trends in public records requests and more.
Yesterday, I got to co-facilitate a session on FOIA that included a discussion of all the latest AI updates, how DOGE cuts hit hard, trends in public records requests and more.
I'm pretty certain that everything I needed to know about being a good human I learned from Sesame Street. #NeverForget
September 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I'm pretty certain that everything I needed to know about being a good human I learned from Sesame Street. #NeverForget
My heart breaks for my friends and loved ones in Qatar living through this unprovoked nightmare. I drove this stretch of road almost daily when I lived in Doha.
Israel's attack violates numerous international laws, but Netanyahu isn't ever held accountable.
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Israel's attack violates numerous international laws, but Netanyahu isn't ever held accountable.
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
September 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
My heart breaks for my friends and loved ones in Qatar living through this unprovoked nightmare. I drove this stretch of road almost daily when I lived in Doha.
Israel's attack violates numerous international laws, but Netanyahu isn't ever held accountable.
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Israel's attack violates numerous international laws, but Netanyahu isn't ever held accountable.
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...