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Pamela Samuelson is an American legal scholar, activist, and philanthropist. She is the Richard M. Sherman '74 Distinguished Professor of… more

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We're tracking digital censorship, and we hope you'll help. /end

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Tracking Digital Censorship
Research and advocacy for the future of libraries.
www.libraryfutures.net
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ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.
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Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns
www.theguardian.com
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democracydocket.com
Pro-voting groups warn that if the Supreme Court rules to strike down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, it could give the GOP at least 19 more U.S. House seats — seats that were directly created by the provision. https://bit.ly/4q7aQ7D
GOP Could Lock in House Control for a Generation if SCOTUS Ends Key VRA Protection, Report Warns
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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demguardrails.bsky.social
MO & OH Dems need us to help Rally support!

A commissioned poll shows nearly 1/2 of MO voters oppose the maps

The Dem committee needs over 100,000 valid signatures across multiple congressional districts before the state’s 90-day window expires on Dec. 11 to let voters decide on the maps.
Missouri Democrats have an opportunity to block a new congressional map. They say they’re largely on their own.
Despite relatively little investment from Washington, Missouri and Ohio Democrats are looking to block new Republican-drawn maps through uncertain avenues.
www.politico.com
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The biggest news story of the week that you may have missed is the real possibility that TikTok will go MAGA. Subscribe now to have all of Democracy Docket's premium content, including my exclusive newsletters, sent straight to your inbox. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
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No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

Support its work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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The murders of the Venezuelan and Colombian fishermen are crimes against humanity. Can’t the people that ordered this and carried it out be prosecuted? Does the SC’s immunity ruling protect trump? I don’t want people who co-sign murder on the Supreme Court!
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Colombian president says US military struck Colombian boat, killed his citizens
The last boat struck by the U.S. military in the Caribbean Sea was Colombian with Colombian citizens inside, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on Wednesday.
abcnews.go.com
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there's a secret domestic terrorism watchlist if anyone cares
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/senator-wa...
Senator Warns of Trump's Secret Watchlist for Americans
NSPM-7 finally gets Congressional attention
www.kenklippenstein.com
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Reposted by Pamela Samuelson, Kim L. Scheppele, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 1 more

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At 11am I will try to live-blog, for @lawfaremedia.org , the hearing in Abrego Garcia’s civil (habeas corpus) case in federal court in Greenbelt MD. Abrego is seeking release from detention under a SCOTUS precedent called Zadvydas v Davis (2001). ...
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Here's the concern: It's technically possible for a committed amateur to make chem or bioweapons (variants of smallpox, polio, anthrax). The information's out there on the internet. It's just obscure and incredibly hard to learn. But now we're building "PhD level custom tutors" for everyone.
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Breaking Down The Intersection Of Right-Of-Publicity Law, AI www.law360.com/classaction/...
Breaking Down The Intersection Of Right-Of-Publicity Law, AI - Law360
Jillian Taylor at Blank Rome examines how existing right-of-publicity law governs artificial intelligence-generated voice-overs, deepfakes and deadbots; highlights a recent New York federal court ruli...
www.law360.com
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SILS faculty says they “were told the new school will be “operational” by July 1, 2026. The University has not released a formal timeline.

The faculty member wrote that Roberts pushed for the new school despite lacking a “cogent idea” as to what the “School of AI” will entail, teach and stand for.”
UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’
SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.
dailytarheel.com
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New: We jailbroke four versions of ChatGPT to get instructions on how to create viruses and chemical weapons.

The instructions were all flawed, and the it didn't work on GPT-5. But 4 of the 5 big AI companies have internally found their top models are close to being able to tutor bioterrorists.
ChatGPT safety systems can be bypassed to get weapons instructions
NBC News found that OpenAI’s models repeatedly provided answers on making chemical and biological weapons.
www.nbcnews.com
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Reposted by Pamela Samuelson, Laurent Pech

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From the Supreme Court opinion granting Trump immunity:

"Investigative & prosecutorial decisionmaking is the special province of the Executive ... allegations that the requested investigations were shams or proposed for an improper purpose do not divest the President of [his] exclusive authority"
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theguardian.com
Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals
Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals
Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals * US politics live – latest updates A federal grand jury indicted Letitia James, the New York attorney general, for bank fraud on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the matter. Lindsey Halligan, the US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, personally presented the case to the grand jury on Thursday, the person said. US attorneys do not typically present to a grand jury. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
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arstechnica.com
The deluge of AI-generated videos featuring deceased public figures has already forced OpenAI to change the way Sora handles copyrighted works.
Dead celebrities are apparently fair game for Sora 2 video manipulation
OpenAI’s likeness protections for living “public figures” don’t apply to “historical figures.”…
arstechnica.com
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See also variety.com/2023/artisan... (from 2023)

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus... (from this year)
‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking
Visual effects artists are turning to green screen AI tools from companies such as Runway to save time and money on productions.
variety.com
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Reposted by Pamela Samuelson, Joanna Bryson, Jan W. Mueller , and 12 more

jackjenkins.me
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray. “I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.” But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire. “We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
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Genuine question - what are OpenAI’s Sora and other video generation tools good for?

I am honestly trying to understand what is so important that it’s worth the cost. If you have examples, I would be interested to hear them.

futurism.com/artificial-i...
People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized
People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.
futurism.com
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Grijalva: The frustration for me is that it seems as if Speaker Johnson is not willing to swear me in because our politics are a little different, or because I’m going to be the 218th signer—he can just continue to drag this along with no end in sight.

That is not a foundation of our democracy.
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There's an overwhelming amount of litigation surrounding the Trump administration so over at @lawfaremedia.org we have tried to make it easier to parse it. You can find district court, appellate level, and SCOTUS cases all in one place!

Check it out ⬇️
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Timeline cleanse. Not enough Cabernet grapes to make wine but good on cereal
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The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.
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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
southsideweekly.com
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LIAR
HE KNOWS

GHISLAINE MAXWELL
He knew what SCOTUS did

Pardon on the horizon?

Swear in Adelita Grijalva
Release the Epstein Files
#EpsteinFiles
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'Judge April M. Perry of Federal District Court in Northern Illinois, a Biden appointee, pressed Trump administration lawyers for more information about National Guard assignments in the, describing herself as “very troubled by the lack of answers.”'

{ gift link } www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
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Judge April Perry just set oral arguments for the National Guard lawsuit for Thursday. Illinois v. Trump.
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Note that most authors will only get $1,500 per book -- the publisher will get the other half. More from the NWU: nwu.org/anthropic/
Settlement of AI lawsuit gets tentative approval; some writers will get paid, but mostly only if they make claims | NWU
On September 25, 2025, Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California gave preliminary (tentative) approval to a proposed $1.5 billion settlement of some of the...
nwu.org
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Dean Chemerinsky comments on “a pattern of ignoring court orders or trying to circumvent them,” and "a case in which he represents University of California faculty and researchers challenging Trump administration cuts to NSF funding." www.latimes.com/california/s... via @latimes.com
Trump uses repeated funding cuts to pressure California, complicating state's legal fight
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta has sued the Trump administration more than 40 times. He says President Trump disregards the rule of law and overstates his control of federal funding.
www.latimes.com
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