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Susan E. Seager
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Adjunct law prof & founder of UC Irvine Law School Press Freedom Project providing free legal help to indy journalists. Author of “Trump Is a Libel Bully” https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/communications_lawyer/fall2016/cl32-3.pdf
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Bari Weiss’s boss, Chris Ellison, is busy having dinner tonight at the White House with MSB, whom the CIA flagged as ordering the murder of the Washington Post journalist Khashoggi. CBS journos should be horrified.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done

My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,
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November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Read the Harvard Crimson story to learn the disgusting facts about Larry “Horizontal” Summers. A horrible abuse of his power as a Harvard professor to offer to mentor a woman professor because he wanted to get “horizontal” with her. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Hey @nytimespr.bsky.social @nytimes.com Why whitewash Summers by saying he merely sought “romantic advice” from Epstein when he sought *predator* advice to get “horizontal” w/ Chinese prof he offered to “mentor” but called “peril,” as in racist slur, Yellow Peril?

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
Larry Summers, ‘Ashamed’ Over Epstein Ties, Steps Back From Public Commitments
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November 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Who sued the Trump bullies? The faculty, not the university. An important victory for the faculty’s first amendment right to teach!
November 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding
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November 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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I mean, shouldn’t we *want* to ruin the workplace?
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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New: A judge in Washington has ruled images from Flock surveillance cameras are public records and that anyone can request them. Highlights the pervasiveness of this tech and just how much surveillance is being done. Very notable ruling

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Judge Rules Flock Surveillance Images Are Public Records That Can Be Requested By Anyone
A Washington judge said images taken by Flock cameras are "not exempt from disclosure" in public record requests.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Texas A&M reinventing "prior restraints"

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The Texas A&M University System will vote on Thursday on whether to prohibit faculty at its 11 universities from teaching “race or gender ideology” unless those lessons are pre-approved by each campus president or a delegate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Sandwich verdict wasn’t jury nullification. It was failure to prove the required “reasonable fear of physical injury” in a case where the agent was wearing A BULLETPROOF VEST. The only crime was the waste of resources on this case. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily.
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Opinion | The sandwich thrower was wrong. But Jeanine Pirro was, too.
To establish a forcible assault, jurors were required to find that Dunn caused “reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm.” That allegation was laughable.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Los Angeles city attorney to press: drop dead
Why does the city attorney hate the press so much she literally wants ink-stained wretches — and their contemporary multi-media cousins — shot by the police?
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November 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Frame it as Correcting the Court. They lie about the facts. Kavanaugh said that US citizens who are snatched by ICE can show ID and quickly be released when the facts of the case said the opposite is true.
tressiemcphd.bsky.social Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25d
4. I think I’m coming around on expanding the court. Get a good slogan for this and run with it. Have regular people care about it.
November 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Friends, I made the mistake of reading a Washington Post editorial

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At the same time, there are legitimate debates about the best ways to feed the needy, how many should qualify and how much they should get. In the 1970s, 1 in 50 Americans received food stamps. Now 1 in 8 do. The average household gets $322 a month. Are 42 million Americans really in such danger of suffering malnutrition that the federal government should spend about $100 billion every year to help them feed themselves?
October 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Horrible - Storm troopers raiding hospitals and tents treating the unhoused.

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Immigration agents are raiding California hospitals and clinics. Can a new state law prevent that?
Legal experts say the new California law can’t fully protect immigrant patients because federal authorities are allowed in public places, such as hospital lobbies and parking lots.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is a dress rehearsal for Trump’s plans to block the 2026 midterms and 2028 election.

Trump is trying to subvert California’s Nov. 4 election results, state attorney general says. @maddow.msnbc.com @peterbakernyt.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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This is a very interesting way of dealing with a typical Trump family BS cease & desist letter: file a lawsuit for declaratory relief seeking a court ruling that what you published is not actionable for defamation and get discovery while you’re at it.
Trump biographer vows to put president and Melania 'under oath' in Epstein lawsuit
Journalist/author Michael Wolff infuriated President Donald Trump and his MAGA allies when his book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," was released in early 2018. MAGA Republicans vehemen...
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October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Great to see Chicago news outlets and press orgs stand up against ICE's violent and unconstitutional rampage against journalists and protesters.
unraveledpress.com unraveled @unraveledpress.com · Oct 6
Well, yeah, we're suing ICE.

This wasn't really a hard decision. As little faith as we have in institutions, we recognize the value of drawing visible lines in the sand. We drew ours personally a while ago, but better late than never.

May every protester be freed and may this occupation end.
October 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorn...
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October 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Yes!
josepagliery.bsky.social Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · Oct 6
Democracy Forward just sued the DOJ for undercover FBI videotapes that would show Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, accepting a $50k bribe to steer government contracts.
October 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Gee, I wonder how the Opus Dei Court will rule? Dear reader, we already know the GOP bloc is all in for their King.

Supreme Court will be forced to grapple with Trump in new term
October 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Chemerinsky: The Trump extortion demands are unconstitutional as well as odious (gift link). Me: Any school that signs must be shunned, faculty affected must walk. No room for this.
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
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October 4, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I am a law professor who fully supports expanding the Supreme Court. The GOP majority on the court is Lawless. They will rule that Trump is entitled to a third term and they will gut birthright citizenship based on no law at all.
joshtpm.bsky.social Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Sep 27
5/ It's a very secondary matter. But this is also something all law professors and people in legal academia generally need to reckon with. Over the last three or four years there's been a growing number of law profs who've been forced to reckon with the current majority's extreme corruption ...
September 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Response from @karenattiah.bsky.social counsel, @normeisen.bsky.social et al, at @democracydefendersfund.org:

"She did precisely the job you hired her to do as an opinion writer ... She spoke truthfully and forcefully about ... difficult truths at a challenging time"
September 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Go Professor Al Mittelstaedt!
Opinion: USC's Willow Bay must break her silence on Kimmel
A few ideas for our dean once she breaks her silence on her husband suspending Jimmy Kimmel.
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September 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM