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Rebecca Tushnet

@rtushnet.bsky.social

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Rebecca Tushnet is an American legal scholar. She serves as the Frank Stanton Professor of First Amendment Law at Harvard Law School. Her scholarship focuses on copyright, trademark, First Amendment, and false advertising. .. more

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 1h

This is a preview of the content rules we can expect when Trump's cronies take over TikTok. TikTok will only allow content that shows the Trump administration in a flattering light 📉

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 7h

the Venezuelans who were murdered were not available for comment

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 8h

Want to call out a really huge (and surprising) win for E2EE.

So since 2022, there's been a bill in the EU that was looking like it was fait accompli to force companies to backdoor encrypted chats to scan for CSAM

It was really bad from a privacy perspective

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Germany’s no halts EU plan to combat child sexual abuse content online

The European Commission proposed the measures in 2022, but member states cannot reach an agreement, citing privacy and cybersecurity concerns.

www.euronews.com

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 10h

@flohmann.bsky.social on Prop. 50: "for those who hate this partisan gerrymandering race to the bottom, I hear you, but a principled stand in California won’t restore fairness in the face of gerrymandering everywhere else"

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Nov. 2025 Prop 50

Fred’s November 2025 SF Proposition Explainer and Slate Card There’s only one thing on the November 2025 ballot for SF voters: Prop 50. So this time I’m going to keep it short and sweet (unlike last ...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10h

I'll stop bitching about this soon, but I'd also like to point out that Trump 2.0 not only didn't follow through on the kind of antitrust reform guys like Stoller promised, their stocked courts have done GENERATIONAL and likely permanent harm to regulatory autonomy and corporate oversight

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 11h

"The message is clear: Texas A&M does not permit teaching LGBT topics. Politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in Texas classrooms. Anyone who crosses this line may be fired on flimsy pretext"

www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

Why I Withdrew From My Dream Job

At Texas A&M, politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in classrooms.

www.chronicle.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Christine Corcos @lpcprof.bsky.social · 12h

Tushnet on History and Tradition in First Amendment Intellectual Property Cases: A Critique /
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Tushnet on History and Tradition in First Amendment Intellectual Property Cases: A Critique

Rebecca Tushnet, Harvard Law School, is publishing History and Tradition in First Amendment Intellectual Property Cases: A Critique in the ...

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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 12h

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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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 14h

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 22h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 16h

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19h

These watches appear to be ripoffs of famous designs. Likely from some factory that normally produces "homage" watches and they just swapped out the branding.

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Patek Philippe

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Rolex

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Rolex and Hublot

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 22h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 23h

9th Circuit just made anti-SLAPP laws (like the good ones in California and Nevada) a lot less effective. This is going to lead to a ton of suppressed speech. Stupid and dangerous. Especially now.

We need a federal anti-SLAPP law now. And we won't get one.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"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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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 1d

I tracked Amazon’s Prime Day prices. We’ve been played. (If we had a functional FTC, this would be a good investigation) (gift link)

Column | I tracked Amazon’s Prime Day prices. We’ve been played.

Here’s what you should do to actually get a good deal on Amazon.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 1d

BREAKING: NY State AG Letitia James indicted by federal grand jury in Virginia www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

Letitia James indicted by federal grand jury in Virginia

State Attorney General Letitia James has reportedly been indicted for alleged mortgage fraud.

www.cityandstateny.com

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Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 1d

Reasonable consumers: "Consumer research revealed that 42% of people didn’t know Lay’s chips are made out of real potatoes."

Lay’s Chips Are Getting a Makeover for the MAHA Era

Aiming to boost sales, PepsiCo is leaning into “real potatoes” marketing and natural ingredients.

www.wsj.com

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 1d

We're watching the open web die piece by piece every day and it sucks.

I had missed the death of Casetext. It was a great free resource to access some of the information that should most be free: the law.

callidusai.com/blog/casetex...

Casetext Shut Down: Here's What It Means—And Why Callidus Is Ready - Callidus Legal AI

The shuttering of Casetext has major implications for the attorneys that relied on it. Callidus Legal AI is here to fill the void.

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 1d

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

Throughout US history there have been many successful coalitions that advanced economic well-being for low income people in combo w/ rights of marginalized communities, so Dems don’t need to think of this as an either/or. 16/

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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 1d

We are not prepared to be a low-trust society, but it's where we're going

Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 1d

To represent for IP, it must be a banana costume. I don't make the rules.

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memeorandum @memeorandum.com · 1d

Harvard Seeks Assurances as Talks Restart in Washington (New York Times)

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1d

My dope friend Adrian, who is trans, interviewed 90 transgender Texans. His project is finally out: www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...

We surveyed 90 trans Texans. Most said they’re living in fear and weighing a move

Respondents said anti-trans policies have complicated their sense of home in Texas and pushed them to consider leaving the state.

www.dallasnews.com

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 1d

Procedure Matters: PTAB Edition.

patentlyo.com/patent/2025/...

In Blackhawk, Director John Squires vacated a PTAB final written decision (FWD) that had already found all challenged claims unpatentable. Ordinarily a director review decision would still be appealable to the Federal Circuit, but Dir. Squires took the case to the next step. In addition to rejecting the PTAB opinion, Dir. Squires also terminated the proceeding and expressly declared that his order “does not constitute a final written decision under § 318(a).” The maneuver left the petitioner without an appealable decision — even though the case had already been fully litigated and decided on the merits.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

If ICE agents are willing to shoot a US citizen in broad daylight, as they did with Marimar Martinez in Chicago, imagine what they’re doing to undocumented immigrants.

They shot her in front of witnesses & with body cams turned on

The horrors facing those disappeared to camps are sure to be worse

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