Steve Peers

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 1h

In which the CPS forgets the crackers

dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 3h

NEW - UPDATE POST

Did the CPS make a fundamental mistake with the charging decision in the Chinese spying case?

How the CPS may have asked the wrong legal question and so made a wrong charging decision

By me

emptycity.substack.com/p/did-the-cp...

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 1h

Even in this place, I feel the sheer scale of foreign aid being demolished isn't fully appreciated. As it stands, it is perhaps *the* most catastrophic change to preventable deaths in our lifetimes, and the salience - even in presumably friendly spaces - is basically zero

apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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ACLU @aclu.org · 2h

Extrajudicial killings are illegal under both domestic and international law.

We filed a FOIA request demanding information on the legal justifications President Trump is using to conduct deadly strikes on boats in the Caribbean.

Trump's boat strikes are killing potentially innocent civilians. They must be stopped.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. military had killed six people in a strike on a boat that, Trump said, was “trafficking narcotics.”

www.msnbc.com

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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · 2h

The infamous SCOTUS “Kavanaugh stops” in the real world…

Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 2h

Story starts with a quote from Kavanaugh:

“If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go.” www.propublica.org/article/immi...

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 3h

NEW - UPDATE POST

Did the CPS make a fundamental mistake with the charging decision in the Chinese spying case?

How the CPS may have asked the wrong legal question and so made a wrong charging decision

By me

emptycity.substack.com/p/did-the-cp...

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3h

BREAKING: Immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other actions against protesters, a judge rules.

'Startled' judge orders agents in Chicago area to wear body cameras after violent clashes

A judge says federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other aggressive steps against protesters.

bit.ly

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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 3h

Danish 'dilemma' as it tries to strike EU deal on 'chat control' by December

The Danish council presidency is continuing discussions for a compromise on the controversial proposal to combat online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) by surveilling chat apps — as privacy groups urge for alternative solutions.

euobserver.com

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by Steve Peers

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 3h

The Centre for European Legal Studies at Cambridge is on Bluesky 👋 @eulegalstudies.bsky.social

CELS @eulegalstudies.bsky.social · 6h

A very warm welcome to our Michaelmas Term 2025 CELS Seminar Series - please join us online and in person @cambridgelaw.bsky.social. Open to all.

www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-semin...

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Katalin Halmai @eublogo.bsky.social · 4h

Behold the miracle! Hungary has joined the EU declaration in which member states stand up for "civil society organisations and human right defenders who remain an essential element of the system of checks and balances", and emphasise the importance of the freedoms of expression and association 😳

OSCE Warsaw Human Dimension Conference - EU statement – Plenary session 2 - Democratic institutions

OSCE Warsaw Human Dimension Conference, 6-17 October 2025 EU statement – Plenary session 2 - Democratic institutions• Democracy at the national, regional and local levels• Democratic elections

https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/vienna-international-organisations/osce-warsaw-human-dimension-conference-eu-statement-–-plenary-session-2-democratic-institutions_en

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by Steve Peers

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 4h

CJEU, asylum law

New Advocate General's opinion on the consequences of Italy refusing to accept responsibility for asylum-seekers under the Dublin system
curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
In his view, the requesting Member State (Germany) becomes responsible for the asylum-seeker after six months

CURIA - Documents

curia.europa.eu

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4h

it's going to be a 20+ year orgy of dysfunction and financial fraud painfully illustrating why functioning regulators are important

completely avoidable, but we all have to suffer in perpetuity because eggheads like Andreessen got mad because a female antitrust reformer briefly ran the FTC

Printing Money: Paxos Mints, Then Burns $300 Trillion in PayPal Stablecoins - Decrypt

A fat-finger mistake, or a hack? Crypto traders are confounded after $300 trillion worth of PayPal's PYUSD was minted and then burned.

decrypt.co

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 4h

In 2024, I wrote a story for Texas Monthly about Michelle Haas, whose complaints resulted in the removal of books about slavery from historic Texas slave plantations. Haas sued us, alleging defamation, and was represented by the preferred lawyer of billionaire J.P. Bryan. Today, we won on appeal.

The header of the appeals court decision:

NUMBER 13-25-00005-CV

COURT OF APPEALS

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

The conclusion of the appeals court decision, which states: The trial court's judgment is reversed. We remand the cause to the trial court with

instructions to (1) grant appellants' TCPA motion to dismiss, (2) award court costs and reasonable attorney's fees to appellants in accordance with the statute, (3) consider whether to assess sanctions against Haas in accordance with the statute. See TEX. Civ. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 27.009(a).

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CELS @eulegalstudies.bsky.social · 6h

A very warm welcome to our Michaelmas Term 2025 CELS Seminar Series - please join us online and in person @cambridgelaw.bsky.social. Open to all.

www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-semin...

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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 7h

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

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by Andrew Scott — Reposted by Steve Peers

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 7h

Reform candidate visibly squirms as he's confronted by a local family in Caerphilly.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 8h

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 8h

Neo-Confederacy planning moves.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 9h

Breaking: Starting next year, Californians with diabetes will be able to purchase state-branded insulin at steeply reduced prices, Gov. Newsom announced today. Long-acting insulin pens will be available at pharmacies for $11 per pen beginning Jan. 1. https://cal.news/3W7SDZW

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announces a partnership with Civica Rx to provide insulin to Californians for $30 for 10 milliliters, which he said was as little as one-tenth of the current cost. Photo by Ringo Chiu, Sipa USA via Reuters

Hed: Newsom unveils $11 state insulin for Californians: ‘We took matters into our own hands’

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by Steve Peers

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 10h

EU air transport law - new judgments

1 pets are 'baggage', so airline is liable for escaped dog - curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...

2 lightning strike on plane is 'extraordinary circumstance', so no liability for airline - curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...

curia.europa.eu

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

CHICAGO: “Feds chased a car through a residential neighborhood… intentionally crashed into the car.. responded to the crowd by hurling smoke grenades, shooting pepper balls and deploying 3 rounds of tear gas with children & seniors in the area…” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 17h

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 18h

musk personally allowed a nazi pedo doxxing cult to publish a bunch of leftists banking information, I think?

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Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 18h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 18h

After weaponizing the Justice Department to go after his enemies, Trump now plans to turn the IRS on them as well. This is one of the abuses of power cited in the July 1974 articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon.

Exclusive | Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups

The effort would install at the agency’s criminal unit an ally of President Trump who has drawn up a list of investigative targets.

www.wsj.com

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 19h

Nothing new, just the vice president of the United States making excuses for Nazis.

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22h

Not really the main point for these witnesses statements but this is unbelievably low grade stuff to be passing on.

Tugendhat did not in fact get a cabinet job and Jeremy Hunt endorsed Rishi Sunak. Did the Chinese realise how crap all this intelligence was?