Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Dorna Mohaghegh

@dmohaghegh.bsky.social

290 followers 640 following 73 posts

PhD Candidate @ Berkeley Law researching democratic theory, epistemic rights, and AI policy • Fellow, Kavli Center for Ethics, Science & the Public • Former IP lawyer, Frankfurt Kurnit and Willkie Farr 🎓 NYU Law & Penn Daughter of immigrants, raised in WV

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Dorna Mohaghegh @dmohaghegh.bsky.social · Dec 3

I’m only two months behind!

1) Is there a *reasonable* way for the #Section230 neutral tool doctrine to apply to recommendation algos?

2) Why aren’t AI companies using the NAD to combat competitors’ overhyped claims? #falseadvertising

Alex Green (文浩航) @glexareen.bsky.social · Oct 6

Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
Here's mine:
- Whether we can have statehood without inhabitable land.
- The legal-philosophical symbolism in Wagner's Ring.

1 1

Reposted by Dorna Mohaghegh

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

Imagine that

940 8.7K 21K

Reposted by Dorna Mohaghegh

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

200 2.3K 5.1K

Reposted by Dorna Mohaghegh

Alicia Victoria Lozano @aliciavlozano.bsky.social · 2d

Someone showed up with a cart of inflatables. The protest is now a dance party outside the PDX ICE facility. Federal police have mostly stood back but did unleash a toxin into the air @nbcnews.com

14 130 430

Reposted by Dorna Mohaghegh

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18h

And if you give a mouse a plane….

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

84 330 1.7K

Reposted by Dorna Mohaghegh

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 16h

The ease with which officials lie in 2025 is honestly terrifying

rost
Tricia McLaughlin @TriciaOhio
X.com
She was arrested for throwing objects at law enforcement.
Heartland Signal v
@HeartlandSignal • 22h
BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

€ 67°
CHICAGO'S VERY OWN
WGN9
=
Learn More
greenattic
ncalt nome-napoy aml
NOW PLAYING
WGN employee detained amid ICE activity on Chicago's North Side, ...
(847) 777-4777
www.greenattic.com
CHICAGO (WGN) - A WGN creative services department employee was detained by two Border Patrol officers and later released after federal agents
swarmed a busy intersection on Chicago's North Side Friday morning, at the height of rush hour.
WGN is not naming the employee, as station policy requires blurring faces and not identifying those who have not been charged with a crime.
Witnesses on site who captured the incident on video spoke to WGN about the moments leading up to the staffer's detainment.
NORTHWELL GREENWICH
VILLAGE HOSPITAL
SEE WHAT'S NEW
Northwell"
Greenwich Village
Hospital
@ wgntv.com

31 300 1.5K

Reposted by Dorna Mohaghegh

John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 20h

One judge compared their district’s current relationship with the Supreme Court to “a war zone.” Another said the courts were in the midst of a “judicial crisis.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

2 70 200

Reposted by Dorna Mohaghegh

Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 18h

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 21h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

16 460 1.6K

Reposted by Dorna Mohaghegh

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 16h

masked federal agents have been on a tear through chicago neighborhoods today—enabled in no small part by the state + local cops now running security for ice in broadview.

at least 2 people abducted in cicero, 2 in humboldt park/hermosa, 3 in garfield ridge. sightings in schaumburg + hanover park.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

More vehicles with masked Border Patrol agents inside departing. It's a busy, busy morning for the secret police.

7 80 130

Reposted by Dorna Mohaghegh

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 16h

Four died in a mass shooting at a homecoming game in the hometown of Kermit the frog in Leland, Mississippi, last night.

Two others died in a shooting at Heidelberg's homecoming Friday night.

Another Mississippi campus saw a shooting last night in Rolling Fork. Unclear if there were casualties.

Six Dead, At Least 12 Injured in Three Mississippi Shootings

Six people are confirmed dead and at least 12 others injured in three separate shootings in Mississippi on the night of Friday, Oct. 10.

www.mississippifreepress.org

12 80 160

Reposted by Dorna Mohaghegh

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d

a tremendous resource now broken on purpose - no fixing it per se

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

3 60 230

Reposted by Dorna Mohaghegh

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

“Largely ceremonial” does feel like the most honest way to talk about the U.S. Congress in 2025

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

3 42 150

Reposted by Dorna Mohaghegh

Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

270 7.3K 22K

Reposted by Dorna Mohaghegh

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

"The district court impermissibly second-guessed the Commander in Chief's military judgments — something district courts lack the authority and competence to do."

14 25 46

Dorna Mohaghegh @dmohaghegh.bsky.social · 1d

President Miller, whom nobody elected.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

Reposted by Dorna Mohaghegh

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

40 1K 3.7K

Reposted by Dorna Mohaghegh

Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 1d

Well, I mean..

www.salesforce.com/news/press-r...

13 70 140

Reposted by Dorna Mohaghegh

Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 1d

The tech ideology on display.

Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 1d

For years, San Franciscans considered him the rare big-hearted billionaire. But days before his Dreamforce conference begins, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support President Trump sending the National Guard to SF and that Trump is doing “a great job.”

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

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

1 5

Reposted by Dorna Mohaghegh

Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 1d

What a crock of shit from Marc Benioff — who appears willfully ignorant of news and facts and so thirsty for approval and attention from the Trump tech bros (who in the past mocked him relentlessly) that he is soiling himself in public www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

120 230 1.4K

Reposted by Dorna Mohaghegh

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

290 7.6K 19K

Dorna Mohaghegh @dmohaghegh.bsky.social · 1d

This image needs to come with a trigger warning for litigation associates and paralegals

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

4 22

Reposted by Dorna Mohaghegh

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

meanwhile:

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week