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Heartbreaking to see such brittle, illiberal behavior from @nyulaw.bsky.social, an institution that should be a national beacon right now instead of a “safe space” for Netanyahu Democrats theintercept.com/2025/05/03/n...
NYU Demands Law Students Renounce Protests or Be Barred from Sitting Final Exams
NYU law students organized a peaceful Gaza protest. The school demanded they renounce protests or they can't sit their final exams.
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May 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to help write the housing plan he released this weekend, which included several nonsensical passages. The plan even cites to ChatGPT on a section about the Rent Guidelines Board.

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Andrew Cuomo Used ChatGPT For His Housing Plan
"Addressing New York's Housing Crisis" features garbled text and a citation from ChatGPT.
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April 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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maybe we shouldn't be disappearing students via secret police for opposing the actions of a state that behaves in this way
April 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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All Michigan Law students got this email today threatening to sue the school for, basically, discriminating against white men. Warns students applying to law review not to discuss their "race, sexual proclivities, or gender non-conforming behavior," or "FASORP will ensure that you live to regret it"
o All Students at the University of Michigan Law School: In the aftermath of the University of Michigan’s decision to abolish its DEI office on March 27, 2025, law-school interim dean Kyle Logue sent an e-mail to members of the University of Michigan Law School community claiming that the Law School has been complying with Proposition 2’s ban on “preferential treatment to individuals on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin.” That statement is untrue. The Michigan Law Review has been discriminating and continues to discriminate on account of race and sex when selecting its student members, by awarding discriminatory preferences to women, non-Asian racial minorities, and homosexual or transgender students. The Michigan Law Review employs similar (and equally unlawful) race and sex preferences when selecting articles for publication. These race and sex preferences are flatly prohibited by Title VI, Title IX, 42 U.S.C. § 1981, and state anti-discrimination laws such as Proposition 2. The Michigan Law Review implements these illegal and discriminatory preferences by inviting students to submit “personal statements” when applying for membership on the Law Review. The Law Review then selects approximately half of its new student members through a process that it calls “holistic review.” During this “holistic review,” applicants who indicate in their personal statements that they are female, non-white and non-Asian, or homosexual or transgender are chosen over heterosexual white men with better grades and better scores on the components of the Law Review’s writing competition. FASORP (Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences) is a membership organization that litigates against illegal race and sex preferences in academia. FASORP has associational standing to sue the University of Michigan over these illegal race and sex preferences on the Michigan Law Review, and it will sue the university if the Mic In light of this pending litigation, every student at the University of Michigan must preserve and retain any and every “personal statement” that has been or will be submitted to the Michigan Law Review. All of these will be subpoenaed in discovery. Failure to ensure the preservation of these personal statements will subject you to significant penalties. This letter is not a full recitation of FASORP’s rights, which it expressly reserves. Doubtless there are some 1Ls who have been intending to trumpet their demographic characteristics in the “personal statements” that they submit to the Law Review, in the hopes of obtaining a diversity bonus and stealing a place on the journal from a more deserving student with better grades and better scores on the writing competition. We strongly suggest that you reconsider this strategy, despite the past success of others who have used their race, sexual proclivities, or gender non-conforming behavior to obtain positions on the Law Review that they did not deserve. FASORP will subpoena every personal statement in discovery, and if we uncover evidence that you obtained your spot on the Law Review through race or sex preferences then you be exposed as a DEI hire on social media. FASORP will also notify your future employers that your Law Review credential is tainted and should be disregarded. You do not want to obtain a position on the Law Review that you did not earn through academic merit, and if you attempt to game the system or think that your race, sex, or LGBTQ status gives you an entitlement to be chosen for the Law Review over your more deserving classmates, then FASORP will ensure that you live to regret it. For the 2Ls and 3Ls who have already used or attempted your personal statements to obtain a diversity bonus in previous years, it is too late to undo what you have already submitted, and you now are under an obligation to preserve those personal statements into perpetuity. But you m
April 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Read what Hossam, a 24-year-old Palestinian journalist, wrote just hours before he was killed today.

There are no words to describe the inhumanity of the times you and I are sharing.
Passage from Hossam Shabat: When I arrived on the scene, I wasn’t ready for the horror before my eyes. The streets were filled with the dead. Under every stone lay a martyr. Dozens were crying for help from underneath the rubble of their homes but there was no one to respond. Screams filled the air while everyone stood helpless. My tears didn’t stop. The scenes were more than any human being could bear. The ambulances were filled with corpses, their bodies and limbs piled on top and intertwined with one another. We could no longer distinguish between children and men, between the injured and the dead. At Al-Andalus hospital the scene was even more painful. The hospital was filled with martyrs. Mothers bid silent farewells to their children. Medical staff worked in horrific conditions, trying to treat the injured with only the most basic means available. It was an impossible situation with massive numbers of dead and wounded being brought in at a terrifying rate. Israel’s aggression continues. Massacre after massacre, leaving only the screams of mothers in its wake and the dreams of children that have turned to ash. There is no justification for this. Everything is being crushed: the lives of innocent people, their dignity, and their hopes for a better future.
March 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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“Jewish leaders need to ask themselves if they’re willing to allow our community to be used in this way to dismantle democratic norms,” said Rabbi Jill Jacobs, CEO of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. “If the answer is no, their condemnation of this arrest should be loud and swift.”
Jewish Americans Are Sick Of Trump Exploiting Them
The community is uniting against Mahmoud Khalil's abduction, demanding the government stop its free speech crackdown disguised as fighting antisemitism.
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March 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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February 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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As correction officers continue their wildcat strike and Gov. Hochul brings in the National Guard, Rebecca McCray spoke to incarcerated New Yorkers to get their perspective on what's happening.

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Incarcerated NYers on the Prison Guard Wildcat Strike: ‘They Want to Go Back to the Good Old Days of Just Beating and Killing Guys’
"It happened because correction officers have been held accountable for their actions, and they feel threatened because they can be prosecuted for killing an incarcerated individual."
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February 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM