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Matt Bodie
@matthewtbodie.bsky.social
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When the party’s over I’ll be stacking the chairs Posts reflect personal views. law.umn.edu/profiles/matthew-bodie

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 15h
From Harvard & UConn researchers on the June 14th No Kings Day protests. (report came out in August)

THIS is why MAGA is so spooked by the upcoming (Oct 18th) peaceful protests.

New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/new-...
New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history
The historic number of No Kings protesters and their expansive geographic spread are signs of a growing and durable pro-democracy movement.
wagingnonviolence.org
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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 3d
Ha! I thought it might be a reference to human capital or IP in a somewhat extractive sort of way.
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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 3d
Anyone else find it weird that Zoom calls cloud recordings “meeting assets”?
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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 6d
Watched “Mountainhead” last night and had mixed reactions. I found it a weird and somewhat sterile exercise in tech bro satire, but I found a lot of the dialogue to be a decent approximation of how they actually seem to talk. So maybe insufferability is the point? Wondering what other folks thought.
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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 7d
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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 9d
I guess it’s because it’s a CR and not a “budget” bill?
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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 9d
So why are 60 votes needed in the Senate when it’s a budget bill? Is it because they used up their one-shot 50 votes bill on the BBB?
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 11d
“Is it that the Chief Justice doesn’t accept that the Court is losing credibility on a daily basis; that he thinks the Court doesn’t need that credibility in order to fulfill its intended role in our constitutional system; or that he doesn’t care?”

Me on John Roberts as his Court turns 20 today:
180. The Roberts Court Turns 20
The Supreme Court is much less popular and much more divisive today than it was when John Roberts was sworn in as the 17th Chief Justice on September 29, 2005. And at least much of that is his fault.
www.stevevladeck.com
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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 12d
A meditation on the justification of civil disobedience when in service of a higher moral authority.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15d
Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move.

1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15d
Starbucks unions are practicing picketing as the company abuses its workers and denies them a fair contract.

This is your reminder to not cross a picket line and support workers!

NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE.
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Doron Dorfman @dorfmandoron.bsky.social · 16d
Thrilled to be giving a talk on The Limits of the ADA’s Duty to Accommodate @oneillinstitute.bsky.social (@georgetownlaw.bsky.social) & the Georgetown Program in Disability Studies tomorrow (Sep. 25) at 5 pm. If you’re around, please join us. Details below 👇
A poster for the talk: The Limits of the ADA: Exploring the Duty to Accommodate in Law & Society by Doron Dorfman, Thursday, Sep. 25 at 5 pm at the Riggs Library - Healy Hall. ASL interpreted. A photo of a man with dark hair and glasses smiling alongside a photo of signing the ADA into law.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17d
Bothsiderism in its final form
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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 18d
Kind of like when Larry Tribe gave up on the project of constitutional law

www.scotusblog.com/2005/05/comm...
Commentary on the last of the Tribe treatise
The grand project of Harvard professor Laurence H. Tribe’s synthesis of constitutional doctrine — his treatise, “American Constitutional Law” — may have seen its last entry. When the third edition […]
www.scotusblog.com

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 18d
Given what’s happened in the last few years, I can’t imagine how anyone can expect new law profs to take the enterprise of corporate law seriously.
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 18d
New from me: Why everyone should care about Trump's unlawful attacks on law firms.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/trumps-war...
Trump’s War on Law Firms is a War on You
Why he won’t stop at destroying the legal profession.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
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Doron Dorfman @dorfmandoron.bsky.social · 20d
It’s a wrap on COSELL 2025 (Colloquium on Scholarship on Employment & Labor Law) hosted by Seton Hall Law. Photos are from the panels on work in digital spaces & work law under the Trump admin. Thank you to 70+ scholars from around the country for sharing your work! See you next year in Berkeley!
A panel of four individuals of different genders and races smiling at the camera A woman at a podium amid speech and four people behind her sitting at a panel Audience in a lecture hall listening to a lecture A big room with full round tables
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Doron Dorfman @dorfmandoron.bsky.social · 20d
My wonderful colleague Tim Glynn and I were thrilled to present the Miller Award for a senior work law scholar to Catherine Fisk (@ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social) & the Zimmer Award for a junior work law scholar to @nelsonryanh.bsky.social (South Texas Law) at the 2025 COSELL at Seton Hall Law🏅🏆
Four people smiling to the camera in front of a blue screen with the seton hall law logo on it. A man and a woman in the middle are holding plaques).
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Brian Galle @bdgesq.bsky.social · 24d
A impressive team of nonprofit law experts (+me), have banded together to comment on the new proposed rules from the Education Dept. on public service loan forgiveness.

The rule purports to give ED authority to strip PSLF eligibility from any employer that acts with an "illegal purpose."

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 25d
Just putting this out there in case people don’t know of the case:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankin_...
Rankin v. McPherson - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Sep 10
Kavanaugh, J., concurring. www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-tru...
PAUL NOTH cartoon of a cop walking a detained man to a cop car / a photo of Brett Kavanaugh is superimposed over the cop’s face "Anything you say with an accent may be used against you."
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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · Sep 9
This is a perfect excuse to watch “A Perfect Candidate” and read “When the Clock Broke” by @lioneltrolling.bsky.social
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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · Sep 9
Oh no! Hope you are feeling okay. Sounds close to a workers comp claim!
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 8
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · Sep 6
Apocalypse Now, famously a movie about how war is awesome and always turns out well
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · Sep 6
I know this is useless to even point out but: if Mexico bombed a boat off the shore of the U.S. and killed a bunch of American citizens on the stated case — without providing a real criminal case in a court or anywhere else and after having lied about everything for 8 months — that those Americans…
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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · Sep 5
It makes sense as a way to test what’s possible at a media and a legal level, with an escape hatch if things go too badly on either front. I
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People For the American Way @peoplefor.bsky.social · Sep 5
Trump lawyer Cleta Mitchell says Trump may try to declare a “national sovereignty” crisis in 2026 to claim “emergency powers” over elections and override the states
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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · Sep 4
Count me in! I’ve long thought this was the way. GM elections would drive overall voter turnout!
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Vritti Ghou-el @vritti.bsky.social · Sep 4
New Connecticut Sun sale news from @alexaphilippou.bsky.social: The state is offering to take a minority stake to keep the team in Connecticut.

www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...
Connecticut bids to keep Sun from moving away
The state of Connecticut is proposing buying a minority stake in the Sun at a valuation higher than the WNBA's current $250 million offer in an effort to keep the team from moving away.
www.espn.com
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