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Paul Gowder

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Prof @ Northwestern law, political theorist, cat parent. Black lives matter. Profile, pubs, etc: https://gowder.io All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ https://books.gowder.io

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · Sep 9

The president does not have the power to make laws. That’s literally the first (operative) sentence in the constitution.

The president does not have the power to make laws.

The president does not have the power to make laws.

The president does not have the power to make laws.

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 8m

Like they did give one to Kissinger which really should have been when it got cancelled

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 11m

Maybe the Nobel peace prize is just bad?

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 14m

Machado issues her first statement since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and makes a thinly-veiled appeal to Trump for US intervention in Venezuela:

María Corina Machado ©
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This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
8:34 AM • 10/10/25 • 30K Views

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 12m

This is the way.

Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 42m

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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profhuq.bsky.social @profhuq.bsky.social · 26m

Law + Liberation Library ✨ 🧵

Movements don’t just respond — they build power through collective learning. 📚
This reading list gathers key abolitionist and movement-defense resources shared in our conversation with Jeree Thomas (Liberatory Imagination).

Follow @lawatmargins

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 39m

this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 3h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 24m

“if the public can't believe what law enforcement is saying then law enforcement probably can't depend on the cooperation of citizens to report information to them accurately”

NPR @npr.org · 29m

ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

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isi baehr-breen @isibb.bsky.social · 1h

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

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 3h

It was two OUP books.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 3h

Wait someone who took a job as chief torturer for a dictator is also corrupt? You don't say

ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 3h

Maybe he'll defend his reputation as a peacemaker by going to war with Norway

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4h

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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-C-M-F- @chrispps.bsky.social · 11h

just a squad of depraved fuck-ups from top to bottom

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Jon Steinman @jonsteinman.bsky.social · 19h

The authoritarian coalition continues cracking. Trump is weak and his party knows it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 12h

Book 9 of Republic looking more and more accurate every day

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 15h

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Daniel @dmassey.bsky.social · 12h

Some coverage of our win today:

abc7chicago.com/post/federal...

Judge orders feds to dial back aggressive response to journalists, protesters in Chicago area

A ruling in federal court Thursday restricts the tactics used by DHS as they engage with protestors, members of the media and the public, the ABC7 I-Team has learned.

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Daniel @dmassey.bsky.social · 17h

Pleased to share that we won a TRO today significantly limiting the nature of the force that can be used by fed law enforcement in the Northern District of Illinois. Also reqs that agents wear unique identifiers (like badge #). Great plaintiffs & legal team. Order here www.loevy.com/wp-content/u...

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 13h

Important discovery fight taking shape in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case.

The question: Can the government assert privilege to avoid handing over documents that may be relevant to a defendant's vindictive prosecution claim?

Abrego's counsel says no.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 13h

Faraqui says the gov’t’s position is a magistrate’s role is purely ministerial and he has no power to reject any proffered indictments for any reason—beside noting the absurd implications of this argument, Faraqui notes he recently rejected an indictment in another case, and the gov’t didn’t object:

It should come as no surprise to the government that this Court serves as more than a mere
rubber stamp on grand jury returns. Indeed, just last week, the undersigned refused a facially
invalid indictment because the government failed to present a charge to the grand jury, as reflected
in the poll sheet, that was in its indictment. The government acknowledged the error and informed
the undersigned that they would resubmit their indictment at a later date.

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 13h

Masked desperados and thugs.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 14h

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 13h

Omg omg omg whattttt

Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 17h

I'm shocked the court thinks the lyrics couldn't be reasonably understood to say Drake was a pedophile:

🎶Say, Drake, I hear you like 'em young
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To any bitch that talk to him and they in love
Just make sure you hide your lil' sister from him
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Certified Lover Boy? Certified pedophile🎶

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 17h

NEW: Federal judge dismisses Drake's defamation case against Kendrick Lamar storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

Just getting ahead of the announcement tomorrow

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

"Sir, Seal Team Six has neutralized the Nobel Prize Committee"

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Leila @leilanawaz.bsky.social · 14h

Judge blocks National Guard deployment in Illinois for 2 weeks

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Thank you judge we shall not name lest your house be torched. Judge, you are truly doing God’s work. 🙏🏽

Judge blocks National Guard deployment in Illinois for 2 weeks

A judge has blocked the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area for two weeks, finding no substantial evidence that a “danger of rebellion” is brewing in Illinois.

apnews.com

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