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Law, history, politics. Latest book: Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism. https://makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com/ #lawsky 🗃

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Mary Louise Dudziak is an American legal theorist, civil rights historian, educator, and a leading foreign policy and international relations expert. She is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University. .. more

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · Nov 8

Welcome new followers!
I post about writing, the state of the world, pup pics, seascapes, good books, and surviving the current apocalypse.
Latest book: Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism.
makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com

Cover of the book Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism.

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 7h

Love this. Especially:

SIMON: I don't think AI can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 7h

From The New Yorker

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 16h

So honored to be the Keynote Speaker at the Peace History Society Biennial Conference at @berrycollege.bsky.social
www.peacehistorysociety.org/phs2025/.
Seems like a good time to get out of town & think about peace. Join us!

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 16h

Thread.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 17h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 16h

Congratulations to @juliaioffe.bsky.social -- finalist for the @nationalbook.bsky.social award!

Nonfiction:
Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Julia Ioffe, Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy

Yiyun Lii, Things in Nature Merely Grow

Claudia Rowe, Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care

Jordan Thomas, When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 1d

Calle Real.

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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 2d

Murder on the High Seas Part II: What We Know about U.S. Vessel Strikes One Month In

@tessbridgeman.bsky.social and Rachel Goldbrenner are joined by @becingber.bsky.social and @bcfinucane.bsky.social to analyze the U.S. military campaign in the Caribbean.

www.justsecurity.org/122025/podca...

The Just Security Podcast: Murder on the High Seas Part II -- What We Know about U.S. Vessel Strikes One Month In

Tess Bridgeman and Rachel Goldbrenner are joined by Rebecca Ingber and Brian Finucane to analyze the U.S. military campaign in the Caribbean.

www.justsecurity.org

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d

Not happening somewhere else. Here. In America. Right now.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

apnews.com/article/chic...

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

apnews.com

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 3d

Has Trump’s second term posed a greater or lesser threat to the rule of law than you expected? @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...

Has Trump’s second term posed a greater or lesser threat to the rule of law than you expected?
Circular graph showing over half answered: much more than I expected, about a quarter: more than I expected, about an eighth: similar threat to what I expected, small sliver: much less threat than I expected.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 4d

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a restraining order blocking President Trump's call-up of the National Guard in Portland.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 5d

Rest in power Ann Fagin Ginger, who was 100. Here she is telling UC Berkeley students during the Free Speech Mvt. that they had 1st Amendment Rights. A model for our own time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Photograph of a woman at a microphone surrounded by a very large crowd of protesters.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 5d

Resolution of the University of Virginia Faculty Senate (thus not institutional policy and entirely non-binding, but still inspirational):

Resolution Opposing the
"Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education"
WHEREAS the United States Secretary of Education has requested that the University of Virginia enter into a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education", and WHEREAS the Compact contains provisions antithetical to the mission and traditions of the University, and
WHEREAS the Compact contains provisions which endanger the independence and integrity of the University, and
WHEREAS the compact likely violates state and federal law, and infringes upon the constitutional rights of members of the University community, and WHEREAS the University of Virginia exemplifies American academic values of the highest standard, including universal right to free speech and the cultivation of academic freedom; therefore
BE IT RESOLVED that the Faculty Senate of the University of Virginia firmly opposes this Compact as written and calls upon Interim President Mahoney and the Board of Visitors to also reject this Compact outright as well as any similar proposal compromising the mission, values, and independence of the University.
Feature Date:
Friday, October 3, 2025

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 5d

You.
Are.
Allowed.
To.
Insult.
The.
Police.

It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences.

That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras.

Rightly confident in his impunity.

“[t]he freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.”

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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 5d

I like your work, but what the heck is Zeteo? Would you mind taking a few minutes to sell us on it? Who’s running it? What are they trying to do? Why is it so great?

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Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · 5d

Know a law student interested in Communication/Media Law?

Applications are open for the Forum on Communications Law's Annual Conference and Media Advocacy Workshop scholarships to attend the February 2026 conference in Phoenix.

Application information available on the Forum's website.

Media Advocacy Workshop 2025-2026 Law Student Scholarship Program

Now in its 31st year, the American Bar Association’s Forum on Communications Law is pleased to invite law students to apply for financial support to attend its Media Advocacy Workshop and Annual Confe...

www.americanbar.org

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 6d

“'This is cruelty for cruelty’s sake,' said a senior congressional aide briefed on the plan. 'Targeting children — threatening their parents — offering them cash to give up safety — this is not immigration enforcement. It’s blackmail.'" open.substack.com/pub/migranti...

BREAKING: ICE Hunts Children in Twisted 'Freaky Friday' Operation

Operation targets unaccompanied children as young as 14 — with threats, bribes, and family arrests if they refuse to self-deport.

open.substack.com

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 6d

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 6d

What a great opportunity! Seminar Native Peoples, American Colonialism and the Constitution with @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social & Ned Blackhawk for grad students & "junior" faculty. In person & virtual. Apply by 10/10.
www.nyhistory.org/education/in...

The New York Historical’s Bonnie and Richard Reiss Graduate Institute for Constitutional History is accepting applications for its fall 2025 seminar for advanced graduate students and junior faculty.
seminar | fall 2025

Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the US Constitution

Fridays, November 7 and 21, December 5 and 12, 2025 | 11 am–2 pm ET
Instructors: Maggie Blackhawk, Ned Blackhawk

As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, this seminar invites a critical examination of a central paradox in American constitutional history: how can a nation celebrate a founding document and constitutional tradition built, in part, on the dispossession of Indigenous homelands? Indian affairs and westward expansion were foundational to the creation and evolution of the US Constitution, yet Native history remains marginalized within the fields of constitutional history and mainstream constitutional scholarship. This seminar explores emerging historical and legal literature that re-centers Native peoples and American colonialism in the narrative of US constitutional development.

Presented in person at The New York Historical and via Zoom

Apply by October 10, 2025

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 7d

Spoke with @charliesavage.bsky.social about how the administration is trying to backfill a legal rationale for US strikes in the Caribbean.

Seems by "determining" there is an armed conflict—without any basis in fact or law—POTUS is giving himself a license to kill.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told

www.nytimes.com

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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 7d

Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told

A notice calls the people the U.S. military recently killed on suspicion of drug smuggling in the Caribbean Sea “unlawful combatants.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told

www.nytimes.com

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 7d

Beautiful!!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 7d

Does not seem to be working right now, but here's where to find your work in the Anthropic settlement.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 8d

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

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Submit a Claim

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 8d

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Submit a Claim

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 8d

@pastpunditry.bsky.social 's column in the NYT is terrific. This is why we need historians writing opinion pieces!

It also underscores something I keep thinking about lately. During the Second Red Scare era, 75 years ago, one key piece of background was there really were Soviet spies around!

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Opinion | We Have Seen the ‘Woke Right’ Before, and It Wasn’t Pretty Then, Either

www.nytimes.com

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 9d

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?

Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter

And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 9d

In case useful, I made a chart (with CourtListener links) of the newly disclosed attorney-client privilege material from the Trump J6 and docs grand jury investigations, and how they compares to the executive privilege-focused files that became public last October.

charliesavage.com/2025/09/newl...

Newly Revealed Material About Attorney-Client Privilege and Grand Jury Subpoenas in Trump’s Election and Documents Cases - Charlie Savage

Yesterday, Judge James E. Boasberg, the chief judge of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, made public some previously secret material about attorney-client privilege fights in th...

charliesavage.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9d

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

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