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Christine Corcos
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Law and humanities/legal history/media and entertainment law/freedom of speech/privacy law/EU/AI. The Media Method '19; Law and Magic '10. Law and Magic II underway. Personal account.
Sasanqua, blooming again!
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Fungi after the rain.
November 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Reposted by Christine Corcos
Restaurant owners in Brooklyn have warned one another about a woman who frequents their establishments, photographs her food and then doesn’t pay for it.
New York Influencer Dined and Dashed at Fine Restaurants, Owners and Police Say
Restaurant owners in Brooklyn have warned one another about a woman who frequents their establishments, photographs her food and then doesn’t pay for it.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Reposted by Christine Corcos
The Bovino deposition ended like it had begun:
“I’m not going to go off the record. I’m going to do your nonsense on the record.”
“This is how you want to proceed with a public servant Mr. Bowman?”
“Stop talking. Stop talking.”
READ the whole thing here:

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/d...
Deposition of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino went off the rails at hello, transcript shows
A full transcript of Cmdr. Gregory Bovino’s deposition has been made public in an ongoing lawsuit accusing federal immigration agents of routinely violating a restraining order on tactics in …
www.chicagotribune.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Reposted by Christine Corcos
🚨 NEW/EXCLUSIVE: The FBI turned over dozens of emails to me in response to my #FOIA request that provides a behind-the-scenes look at discussions involving the review and redaction of the Epstein files

www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Hay and May on Reckoning with Antisemitism in History and Tradition /
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Hay and May on Reckoning with Antisemitism in History and Tradition
Nathaniel Shaw Hay, Stanford University, and Isaac Barnes May, Yale Law School, have published Reckoning with Antisemitism in History and T...
lawlit.blogspot.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Reposted by Christine Corcos
An Iranian professor at the University of Oklahoma has been released from immigration detainment, three days after his weekend arrest at an airport in Oklahoma City, according to a statement he posted online and a colleague at the university. nyti.ms/4rqBI3e
Vahid Abedini, University of Oklahoma Professor, Released After ICE Detainment
Vahid Abedini, who colleagues said was in the United States on an H-1B visa, was arrested on his way to a conference in Washington. It was unclear why.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Reposted by Christine Corcos
A new film, adapted from Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 novel, posits that the death of Shakespeare's 11-year-old son may have inspired one of the greatest fictional tragedies ever written. n.pr/4irjBWS
Forget 'Shakespeare in Love' — 'Hamnet' explores Shakespeare in grief
A new film, adapted from Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 novel, posits that the death of Shakespeare's 11-year-old son may have inspired one of the greatest fictional tragedies ever written.
n.pr
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Reposted by Christine Corcos
U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes, in dismissing Midway Blitz-related charges against Dana Briggs last week, said he was lifting restrictions on relevant video.

Today he made the video available through the clerk's office at no cost to the public. Here's the first.
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Reposted by Christine Corcos
In his new book, This is for Everyone, the creator of the web argues for protection against the power and privacy invasion of big tech companies.
Tim Berners-Lee wants everyone to own their own data – his plan needs state and consumer support to work
In his new book, This is for Everyone, the creator of the web argues for protection against the power and privacy invasion of big tech companies.
tcnv.link
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Reposted by Christine Corcos
From Years and Years to Black Mirror: the best TV prophecies for how AI will end us all
From Years and Years to Black Mirror: the best TV prophecies for how AI will end us all
Will AI take all our jobs? Prevent all crimes from being committed? Or finally develop skills beyond that of a trainee copywriter? Here are television’s finest depictions of our imminent future…
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Reposted by Christine Corcos
The depositions from the batshit CBP and ICE officials in Chicago have been unsealed. Here's how Russ Hott denied actually knowing anything about one of the weirder claims they made: that a protestor had ripped someone's beard off.

legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Reposted by Christine Corcos
It’s Doylean Honors Season Again! It’s time to nominate your favorite recent works of Doylean fiction, poetry, visual art, and scholarship for the ACD Society’s annual awards. Nomination forms are here: acdsociety.com/Honors/Honors.htm. The deadline for nominations is Nov. 30, so please do it soon!
October 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Forthcoming in December from Cambridge University Press: Del Mar: Neil MacCormick: A Life in Politics, Philosophy, and Law /
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Forthcoming in December from Cambridge University Press: Del Mar: Neil MacCormick: A Life in Politics, Philosophy, and Law
Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press: Maksymilian Del Mar, Queen Mary University of London, Neil MacCormick: A Life in Politics, Phil...
lawlit.blogspot.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Reposted by Christine Corcos
The president’s defamation lawsuit against The Guardian fell apart Monday when a Florida judge granted motions to dismiss, crushing his latest attempt to peel money out of a media institution.

The case was brought in 2023 by the corporate owner of Trump’s platform, Truth Social. trib.al/VF4fcKE
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Reposted by Christine Corcos
JD Vance and Peter Thiel are running a sustained operation out of the White House designed to acquire Greenland, either voluntarily or by force. Thiel has laid out plans for what he intends to do with the island nation in past writings. It doesn't entail the consent of the Greenlanders for anything.
November 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Marshland mashup: Red wolf-coyote hybrids adapt to coastal Louisiana lailluminator.com/2025/11/25/w...
Marshland mashup: Red wolf-coyote hybrids adapt to coastal Louisiana • Louisiana Illuminator
A new kind of creature is making its home where the prairies of Southwest Louisiana turn into brackish coastal marshes.
lailluminator.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Are we seeing the beginning of a grassroots Kelly for President campaign?
Setting aside for a second the lunacy and authoritarianism surrounding the Trump/Hegseth threat to court martial Mark Kelly, it is also politically moronic. No military court or jury would uphold this, and you only do Kelly a tremendous favor by making him more popular than ever.
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Reposted by Christine Corcos
A federal judge halted an IRS–ICE data-sharing plan that would’ve exposed taxpayer addresses to immigration agents. Privacy advocates say the ruling protects immigrant communities already facing heightened enforcement.

Read: www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Federal judge blocks IRS–ICE data-sharing plan citing privacy concerns
Local immigration attorney says this is a huge win for local immigrants without legal status.
www.wusa9.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I don't understand why Erin Burnett keeps referring to Tatiana Schlossberg as JFK, Jr.'s granddaughter. Surely she's JFK's granddaughter (and the late JFK, Jr'.s niece). @outfrontcnn.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Protestors storm Carmen stage, bringing Met Opera production to a halt /
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Protestors storm Carmen stage, bringing Met Opera production to a halt
The New York Met Opera performance stopped for 15 minutes, while the protestors were heckled by an angry audience.
www.classicfm.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM