Gautam Hans
@gshans.bsky.social
Clinical Professor, Cornell Law School. That brown gay law prof who bakes, makes ice cream & laughs too loud. Tech law & policy, con law, clinical education, and screaming into the void. Not the best but pretty good. Always MI ✋🏾
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"A Northwestern spokesman did not return multiple requests for comment."
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Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"A Northwestern spokesman did not return multiple requests for comment."
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We're hiring ASAP for a new team dedicated to ensuring that communities can continue to speak out & engage politically despite the increasing use of levers of federal power to quash protests, quell dissent, and intimidate political opponents. Priority deadline: 12/7
https://protectdemocracy.org/jobs
https://protectdemocracy.org/jobs
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
We're hiring ASAP for a new team dedicated to ensuring that communities can continue to speak out & engage politically despite the increasing use of levers of federal power to quash protests, quell dissent, and intimidate political opponents. Priority deadline: 12/7
https://protectdemocracy.org/jobs
https://protectdemocracy.org/jobs
DJT met up with Zohran and less than a week later decided he could only support one Desi man at a time.
KASH PATEL ON FIRING WATCH, THIS IS NOT A DRILL, REPEAT KASH PATEL ON FIRING WATCH
President Trump may have had enough of Kash Patel, according to sources
The president is weighing whether to oust the FBI director after scrutiny of Patel's stewardship of bureau resources, including his girlfriend’s security detail and use of a government jet.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
DJT met up with Zohran and less than a week later decided he could only support one Desi man at a time.
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Today, Mason Kortz explains how FOIA’s Exemption 4 has evolved into a powerful tool for corporate secrecy, allowing government agencies and private firms to thwart transparency through confidentiality pacts.
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lpeproject.org/blog/public-...
Public Money, Private Secrets: Rethinking FOIA in the Age of Public-Private Governance
As public-private partnerships become central to modern governance, FOIA’s Exemption 4 has evolved into a powerful tool for corporate secrecy. After Argus Leader, government agencies and private firms...
lpeproject.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Today, Mason Kortz explains how FOIA’s Exemption 4 has evolved into a powerful tool for corporate secrecy, allowing government agencies and private firms to thwart transparency through confidentiality pacts.
lpeproject.org/blog/public-...
lpeproject.org/blog/public-...
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NEW: Judge Currie finds that Lindsay Halligan was UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED and dismisses the James Comey and Letitia James indictments without prejudice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
NEW: Judge Currie finds that Lindsay Halligan was UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED and dismisses the James Comey and Letitia James indictments without prejudice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
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Worth it, it's far better than every cinematic Star War made since 1980
www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...
www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...
Disney Spent More On ‘Andor’ Than Any Of Its ‘Star Wars’ Movies
Disney has revealed it spent $60.5 million on Star Wars streaming series Andor in 2024, giving the show a total cost of $705.5 million - far higher than the spending on any of the movies in the saga.
www.forbes.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Worth it, it's far better than every cinematic Star War made since 1980
www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...
www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...
The irresponsibility of Big Tech never fails (even if the products do) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The irresponsibility of Big Tech never fails (even if the products do) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
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The front pages of today’s NYC tabloids.
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The front pages of today’s NYC tabloids.
Mashallah!
Let’s be clear.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got Trump so charmed that Trump posted two photos of the two of them with Franklin Roosevelt’s portrait behind them AND one of just Mamdani and FDR’s portrait.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got Trump so charmed that Trump posted two photos of the two of them with Franklin Roosevelt’s portrait behind them AND one of just Mamdani and FDR’s portrait.
November 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Mashallah!
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I’ll confess that I don’t fully understand exactly why Texas needed an administrative stay here; everyone agrees that the earliest deadline for the primaries (the candidate filing deadline) isn’t until December 8.
Pausing the ruling *now* seems gratuitous—but also a sign about where this is headed.
Pausing the ruling *now* seems gratuitous—but also a sign about where this is headed.
November 22, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I’ll confess that I don’t fully understand exactly why Texas needed an administrative stay here; everyone agrees that the earliest deadline for the primaries (the candidate filing deadline) isn’t until December 8.
Pausing the ruling *now* seems gratuitous—but also a sign about where this is headed.
Pausing the ruling *now* seems gratuitous—but also a sign about where this is headed.
He knows how to charm a racist uncle!
November 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
He knows how to charm a racist uncle!
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#BREAKING: Just hours after Texas asked #SCOTUS to pause Tuesday’s ruling that had blocked its new House congressional district maps, Justice Alito has issued a temporary “administrative” stay pausing that ruling (and putting the new maps back into place) while the full Court considers next steps:
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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You do not need to make the crackpot. sound like some scrappy rebel via fluffy phrases like “challenge orthodoxy.” RFK is the one using political power to impose a personal dogma heedless of the evidence. That’s “orthodoxy”.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
You do not need to make the crackpot. sound like some scrappy rebel via fluffy phrases like “challenge orthodoxy.” RFK is the one using political power to impose a personal dogma heedless of the evidence. That’s “orthodoxy”.
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"Let me see your identification."
("You don't need to see his identification.")
"We don't need to see his identification."
("These aren't the dialectics you're looking for.")
"These aren't the dialectics we're looking for."
("He can go about his business.")
"You can go about your business."
("You don't need to see his identification.")
"We don't need to see his identification."
("These aren't the dialectics you're looking for.")
"These aren't the dialectics we're looking for."
("He can go about his business.")
"You can go about your business."
November 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
"Let me see your identification."
("You don't need to see his identification.")
"We don't need to see his identification."
("These aren't the dialectics you're looking for.")
"These aren't the dialectics we're looking for."
("He can go about his business.")
"You can go about your business."
("You don't need to see his identification.")
"We don't need to see his identification."
("These aren't the dialectics you're looking for.")
"These aren't the dialectics we're looking for."
("He can go about his business.")
"You can go about your business."
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Zohran cucked Trump in less than an hour, adjust what you think political strength looks like if you don’t think it looks like him
November 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Zohran cucked Trump in less than an hour, adjust what you think political strength looks like if you don’t think it looks like him
Let this be a lesson for everyone about to see difficult relatives at Thanksgiving. ZM looks like every brown person I know who has had to live through a random uncle or auntie who say the most absurd things at a family gathering.
Trump on Mamdani: "I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Let this be a lesson for everyone about to see difficult relatives at Thanksgiving. ZM looks like every brown person I know who has had to live through a random uncle or auntie who say the most absurd things at a family gathering.
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Trump is being nicer to Mamdani than Democratic leadership was lol
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Trump is being nicer to Mamdani than Democratic leadership was lol
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no one is immune to the charms of a heera beta
Trump on Mamdani: "I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
no one is immune to the charms of a heera beta
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This is a very good essay from the @ACLU’s Brett Kaufman making the case that Trump’s boat strikes should be viewed as the logical end point of legal arguments normalized by OLC lawyers during the war on terror. Highly recommend. www.justsecurity.org/124776/secre...
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This is a very good essay from the @ACLU’s Brett Kaufman making the case that Trump’s boat strikes should be viewed as the logical end point of legal arguments normalized by OLC lawyers during the war on terror. Highly recommend. www.justsecurity.org/124776/secre...
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Will someone who loves and cares about Jerry Smith take away his Fox News machine
Texas Gerrymandering Case Prompts Fifth Circuit Judge to Crash Out In Alarming, Antisemitic Fashion
Someone needs to take the Fox News machine away from Jerry Smith’s chambers.
ballsandstrikes.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Will someone who loves and cares about Jerry Smith take away his Fox News machine
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That John Roberts was more concerned with nuisance lawsuits against the president than he was with whatever this is will haunt this country for a long time
Trump posts again about Democrats, saying their behavior is “punishable by DEATH!”
November 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
That John Roberts was more concerned with nuisance lawsuits against the president than he was with whatever this is will haunt this country for a long time
Invoking All About Eve - a misappropriation of my culture!
(To be very clear: Neither Soros nor Newsom is in any way a party to this case.)
Link here: electionlawblog.org/wp-content/u...
Link here: electionlawblog.org/wp-content/u...
electionlawblog.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Invoking All About Eve - a misappropriation of my culture!
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The cover for last week’s issue—“Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez—is available for purchase. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/xk15Ry
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The cover for last week’s issue—“Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez—is available for purchase. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/xk15Ry