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Corey Rayburn Yung

@coreyryung.bsky.social

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Prof at KU Law. Writes about sexual violence, criminal law, courts, judges, and empirical legal studies. He/Him/His.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · May 27

If you are new to Bluesky, try adding some of these starter packs related to your interests. blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 13h

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10h

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

🇦🇷 🇺🇸

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14h

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 6h

OMG, there is a wizard frog emoji!

Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 6h

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 23h

Baby in a placenta I know I know, it’s serious

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 14h

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 9h

It’s tradition that when you see the frogs, you show them respect 🫡

(Someone should do the Creed cut with the footage)

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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 8h

On the blog, Prof Neil Buchanan, who has been predicting authoritarianism from Trump for nearly a decade, marvels at how even he was insufficiently pessimistic in imagining the myriad ways in which this administration could be cruel and lawless. 👇

How Could Even the Most Pessimistic Predictions Not Be Pessimistic Enough?

When writing a column like this one, it is no longer possible to provide a manageably short list of the unprecedented things that are happen...

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago residents are now following ICE vehicles, honking horns and shouting warnings before raids begin. This is what community defense looks like. 💪

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Colin Miller @evidenceprof.bsky.social · 7h

Today's blog post: Supreme Court of Florida Deems Evidence of Defendant’s PTSD Admissible in Stand Your Ground Cases: tinyurl.com/397pb3sv

Supreme Court of Florida Deems Evidence of Defendant's PTSD Admissible in Stand Your Ground Cases

Florid is famous, some would say infamous, for being the progenitor of the "stand your ground" defense, dispensing with the duty to retreat before using

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 7h

Trump could be the first ever NEGOT winner! (Nobel, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony)

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9h

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12h

A man gets a blowjob from a trans woman and his friends make fun of him so he goes to the police to claim she lied about being a woman. She was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to nearly 2 years in prison because of a man's shame.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thornaby transgender woman jailed for deception sex assault

Ciara Watkin's victim says he would not have agreed to sex had he known she was biologically male.

www.bbc.com

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Federal judge finds the Trump admin likely violated the First (viewpoint discrimination) and Fifth (vagueness) Amendments in a case over changed domestic violence grant conditions.

Preliminary injunction issued.

(A TRO previously was issued.)

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Case 1:25-cv-00342-MRD-PAS
Document 72
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND
RHODE ISLAND COALITION
AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR. in his official capacity as Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, et al.,
Defendants.
C.A. No. 25-cv-342-MRD-PAS
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
Melissa R. DuBose, United States District Judge.

Over twenty non-profit coalitions that receive federal grant money to help
support survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault as well as members of
society who are unhoused or without stable housing filed suit against the United
States Departments of Health and Human Services ("HHS") and Housing and Urban
Development ("HUD") as well as various administrators and subagencies who fall
under and within these agencies (hereinafter the "Coalitions" or the "Plaintiffs").
Compl. at 1-4. The Plaintiffs allege that the Defendants are springing new conditions
on them as grantees and are requiring compliance with new spending restrictions on grant funds (the "Grants"), all in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act (the
"APA"), 5 U.S.C. § 706, the U.S. Constitution's clearly articulated separation of
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powers principles such as the Article I Spending Clause, the First Amendment, and the Due Process Clause under the Fifth Amendment. Id. 11 4, 66-89. The new
conditions and certifications foisted upon the grantees are focused on compelling
compliance with sweeping changes imposed by the executive branch by way of Executive Orders ("E.O.s") aimed at eliminating programs that are perceived as promoting gender ideology; diversity, equity, and inclusion; elective abortions; and
antidiscrimination. Id. 11 21-31, MPI at 73-74.

IV. CONCLUSION
As stated, the Court determines that the Plaintiffs have met their burden as
to the preliminary injunction factors and finds them entitled to relief. Pursuant to Section 705 of the APA, the Court finds that it is necessary and appropriate to grant
the Plaintiffs' request for a preliminary stay of the Challenged Conditions.
See 5
U.S.C. § 705 (permitting a reviewing court to "issue all necessary and appropriate
process to postpone the effective date of an agency action or to preserve status or
rights pending conclusion of the review proceedings on such conditions as may be
required and to the extent necessary to prevent irreparable injury").
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IT IS SO ORDERED.
Melissa R. DuBose
United States District Judge
October 10, 2025

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 8h

FWIW, Trumpists on the bad site love this meme and used it repeatedly during peak DOGE as the cheered on the gutting of the federal government.

Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 8h

Yet again, they draw inspiration from the wrong people in pop culture.

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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 8h

Juno is a clam dunk champion 🏀

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 8h

I was chuckling pretty hard as I was reading this drivel but then I got to "these are not politically partisan requirements" and lost it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 8h

Wait what.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 9h

The news rn

a man with long hair and a mustache is sitting in front of a wall and says `` no , there is too much . ''

ALT: a man with long hair and a mustache is sitting in front of a wall and says `` no , there is too much . ''

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 8h

Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 8h

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory

Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 9h

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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