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Jerry Edwards

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Associate Professor of Law at West Virginia University College of Law. Formerly an ACLUFL Attorney. I nerd out over free expression, academic freedom, and American history. All opinions are my own, not my employer's, and are correct, probably.

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Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · Aug 15

I am excited to announce that my article, Academic Freedom's Inflection Point, will be published in the Boston College Law Review in 2026. The SSRN link is below. I plan to make revisions to address feedback & new developments (ex. a terrible govt speech opinion). Comments are welcome & appreciated!

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Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 4h

I think you're being far too generous to Ensign, Joe.

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 18h

This arrest is fully insane.

Larry Bushart, a 61-year-old former police officer, posted the offending meme last month. In response to a Facebook post about an upcoming vigil for Kirk, Bushart shared an image of President Donald Trump with the quote, "We have to get over it," which Trump said in January 2024 after a shooting at Iowa's Perry High School. Text added to the image said, "This seems relevant today."

"Received a visit from Lexington PD regarding my posted memes," Bushart wrote in a September 21 Facebook status. According to Sheriff Nick Weems of nearby Perry County, "numerous…teachers, parents and students" somehow interpreted Bushart's meme—with its citation in fine print about a previous school shooting at Perry High School in Perry, Iowa—as a threat to carry out a similar shooting at nearby Perry County High School.

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Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 4h

That is beyond absurd. Clear as day First Amendment violation. Not only should the police be sued for this, the judge(s) who signed off on the arrest warrant and set bail should be removed from the bench. It is shameful that this man might have to spend months in jail for free speech. Shameful.

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Ally Whelan @amwhelan.bsky.social · 9h

This is… concerning.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 18h

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 4h

Wow! This feels like Con Law. Except instead of AI hallucinations, it's the majority of the Supreme Court hallucinating.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t think Biden was president on J6.

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 5h

Someday we’re bound to figure out when Biden became president.

Excerpt Trump. There’s literally nothing to suggest he’s ever going to figure it out.

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t think Biden was president on J6.

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Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 5h

It's something he would say. But he's not the only Trump appointee who would say that.

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gelbach @gelbach.bsky.social · 1d

A Kavanaugh stop, involving threats and detention

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. Frank Miranda, 46, filmed ICE agents confronting him before work on Oct. 2, demanding that he answer questions about where he was born. When he refused, agents threatened him with a dog ..”

@davidjbier.bsky.social
www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 16h

I mean, this is the simplest explanation, so absent some compelling alternative explanation by Donald Trump, I’m assuming this is correct.

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 16h

Just to remind people, the reason that Trump wants to blow up CDC is pretty easy: they want people to die.

The combination of destroying rural areas to centralize population and removing weak populations seems to be part and parcel of their strategy to remake the welfare state.

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Ally Whelan @amwhelan.bsky.social · 23h

This is a public health tragedy

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 1d

This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump #RFKJr. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 7h

Watch out, you're going to have to stop the Lane Train next week. 😉

a man with his mouth open and the words all aboard in front of him

ALT: a man with his mouth open and the words all aboard in front of him

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Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 8h

But also, this is a choice by ICE and the fascists in the federal government. So a combination of bad law that needs changing and bad fascists who need removing.

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Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 8h

I'm a Curt Cignetti fan, so I'm cool with that.

Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 8h

Normalcy feels comfortable in these times.

Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 8h

That is most certainly not how it sees its role.

Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 9h

That did look like DPI.

Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 9h

How are you losing to a program that can't even figure out what its own mascot it? 😜

Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 9h

I'm watching the UF-TAMU and SC-LSU games. What happened?

Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 10h

Justin . . .

Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 10h

I'll have to give it a try next time I'm in Cola!

Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 10h

Yes. Good.

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 12h

This response could itself be cause for more demands that might secure Art I prerogatives. Healthcare should be center stage, but Art I can’t be left out to dry. Use the opportunity to expand the conflict, me says.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 14h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 11h

Is there a functioning MSPB at this point?

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 22h

I really don't know what it means for a RIF to be "Democrat-oriented." Either they are targeting RIFs in Democrat house districts or they are targeting perceived Democrat employees. Regardless, sounds like an impermissible reason coupled with a First Amendment issue under Rutan v. Republican Party.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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