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Ariela Gross
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Distinguished Prof of Law & History @UCLALaw, cat lady, mom, lover of democracy. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Www.arielajgross.com
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · Aug 21
Penn Law Review symposium issue on the uses and misuses of history in constitutional law is out!
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Great piece by Amanda Shanor and Serena Mayeri.
The University of Virginia and Cornell deals with Trump set a dangerous precedent | Serena Mayeri and Amanda Shanor
The bespoke agreements are full of peril for the universities, allowing the federal government to quietly exert control
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November 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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As a historian, I have been torturing myself by watching some of the series that the White House in cooperation with Hillsdale College produced about American Independence (tellingly, they avoid the word "revolution").

There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try
November 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Read the @aapf.org report Anti-Blackness Is the Point
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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“Things happen.” Just when I think he can’t shock me.
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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When we fight we win!! @uclafa.bsky.social @aaup.org
aaup.org AAUP @aaup.org · 11d
WE WON!!!

The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.

Read the order here:
democracyforward.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Larry Summers had an "insight" in an email to Epstein.
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation
‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation
WASHINGTON—Responding to recent revelations suggesting the prominent economist was a close associate of the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a devastated nation reportedly joined together to...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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160 faculty from all 5 UC law schools signed this open letter detailing why the Trump demands to UCLA are unlawful, unconstitutional, and wrong: sites.google.com/view/uclawfa... Great to work with @fishkin.bsky.social @blakeprof.bsky.social @seanashiffrin.bsky.social on this statement.
Home
UC Law Faculty to Regents: Resist the Unlawful Demands
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November 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Monday at noon @UCLA
October 26, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor.

And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...
A different video captured after agents unleashed tear gas showed plumes of smoke billowing down the street as the crowd's piercing shouts and whistles reached a fever pitch. Onlookers scurried to the sidewalk to get away from the chemicals, with one neighbor, Brian Kolp, seen walking away barefoot and in Chicago Blackhawks pajamas. Kolp, 41, said he was drinking coffee on his couch and watching the news as he always does on Saturday morning when he saw what's become an all-too-familiar scene unfold outside his window. Two U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents were tackling a man to the ground on his front yard. Meanwhile, Kolp's TV continued to blare a news segment discussing the ongoing temporary restraining order restricting federal immigration agents' use of tear gas. Kolp, a former prosecutor with the Cook County State's Attorney's office, sprang into action as he sometimes wondered he would have to do throughout the Trump administration's "Operation Midway Blitz" these last two months. He didn't even have time to put on his shoes or change out of his pajamas, he said, drawing jeers from one of the agents as he screamed "Nazis!" and "Gestapo!" at the agents. "Quite honestly, when all this started happening, I thought to myself that if the opportunity ever came my way to have to get involved in one of these situations, I was certainly going to do what I could to make sure that they weren't openly and flagrantly violating the law or the Constitution," Kolp said. "And yet, they just went ahead and did it anyway."
October 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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@uclafa.bsky.social sued the Regents for refusing to release the Trump Administration’s demand letter and WON. Here it is: ucop.edu/communicatio...
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October 25, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Black? Check. Woman? Check.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
Prosecutor Who Rejected Trump’s Pressure to Charge James Is Fired
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October 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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From London to Oxford, Mississippi today! eventcalendar.olemiss.edu/event/ariela...
Ariela Gross on Slavery and the Constitution
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October 16, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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The kids are all right. Administrators, please take notes. You can do this too!
karl-jacoby.bsky.social Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · Oct 13
Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
October 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Bravo MIT. May others follow! orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart
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October 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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www.eui.eu/events?id=58... Wednesday!
Erasing slavery: a historian writes about memory in constitutional law and politics
In the framework of the Max Weber Programme Special Lecture, this event features a conversation with Ariela Gross (UCLA School of Law).
www.eui.eu
October 5, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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calmatters.org/commentary/2... Great piece by @blakeprof.bsky.social !
California needs to take a bolder stand for universities targeted by the White House | Opinion
A federal lawsuit by the UC Regents would provide legal and symbolic support to researchers who so far have been fighting on their own.
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September 30, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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At Sciences Po Tuesday
September 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Registration link in comments
September 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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I’m not even on threads but instagram keeps trying to send me there and this is what I saw! Jesus. “A terrorist group called Antifa”?!
September 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...
Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide
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September 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Outrageous.
September 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Even Grok is calling the shooter a groyper. Lmao
Elon musks grok ai identifies tyler Robson Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin as a “groyper” from the “toxic underbelly of the maga ecosystem”
September 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Reading T. Thomas Fortune, Black and White. Wow!
September 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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If you’re in Paris…La séminaire "Politiques antidiscriminatoires" @ceri-sciencespo.bsky.social le 30 septembre 2025, 28 rue des Saint-Pères, salle Pierre Hassner (bâtiment B, 1er étage). I’ll present “Right-Wing Backlash and the Memory of a Colorblind Constitution in the United States.”
September 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM