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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10h

incredibly, bleakly funny that trump is going after christopher wray, who spent his entire tenure at the fbi with his head down desperately trying to avoid trump's attention and did nothing to protect the bureau from trump's attacks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Other prosecutors are investigating former CIA director John Brennan, another prominent Trump critic, and former FBI director Christopher Wray, who was originally appointed by Trump but enraged conservatives who came to believe he had wielded the bureau’s powers against them. Former officials have received subpoenas in recent days in the Wray inquiry, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

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Amy Kapczynski @akapczynski.bsky.social · 10h

The key thing now is "that the government does not actually have the capacity to successfully negotiate a bespoke 'deal' with every university in the country. All universities have to do now is do nothing—no accepting the compact, no counter-offers, nothing." Great analysis by @fishkin.bsky.social

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11h

Read this thread for a frankly breathtaking example of the utter garbage you get when Techbrahs try their hand at law.

Although if you say "I have an issue that's important to me, huh, I guess I will try Vibe Lawyering," I am basically ok with whatever happens to you.

Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 13h

The bros are at it again! and make no mistake, they are LITERALLY calling it "Vibe Lawyering"

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 13h

The bros are at it again! and make no mistake, they are LITERALLY calling it "Vibe Lawyering"

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 17h

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 19h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Suffolk LIT Lab @suffolklitlab.org · 20h

🚨 Cool Job Alert! 🚨 Are you a DevOps engineer? We're looking¹ for someone to help scale our open-source access to justice work.² Not a DevOps engineer? I bet you can repost this to someone who is.

¹ jobs.jobvite.com/suffolkunive... job listing
² www.youtube.com/watch?v=AECH... sample of what we do

Suffolk University is looking for DevOps Engineer, Legal Innovation and Technology Lab – Clinical Fellow (Remote).

Suffolk University is looking for DevOps Engineer, Legal Innovation and Technology Lab – Clinical Fellow (Remote). Learn more or Jobvite a friend.

jobs.jobvite.com

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Dalindyebo Shabalala (he/him) @dyebo.bsky.social · 18h

It is possibly the most rage inducing moment of my day when, I, a person with a fundamental faith in the essential goodness of my neighbors and fellow parents, despair. The failures of norms, empathy, consideration, care, community in that car line are…a lot. And it’s such low stakes!!!

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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 19h

Feels like more execs should have read Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith's The Dictator's Handbook--there is currently competition to be a preferred crony, which means both instability and less revenue extraction for businesses trying to cozy up

Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 22h

"The invitation to the 'Future of Pharmaceuticals' summit prompted consternation among some drug-company representatives, who worried that the gathering signaled that the White House wants them to work with the little-known BlinkRx because of its ties to the president’s family"

Trump Wants to Overhaul Drug Sales. A Company Tied to His Son Stands to Benefit.

The family members of President Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are poised to benefit from efforts to remake the pharmaceutical industry.

www.wsj.com

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Dalindyebo Shabalala (he/him) @dyebo.bsky.social · 21h

As always @jamellebouie.net nails the parallels. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | The Second Trump Administration Is a Museum of America’s Worst Moments

www.nytimes.com

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Dalindyebo Shabalala (he/him) @dyebo.bsky.social · 21h

As always @jamellebouie.net nails the parallels. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | The Second Trump Administration Is a Museum of America’s Worst Moments

www.nytimes.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 2d

7 October 1941 | A French Jewish boy, Claude Vecksler, was born in Paris.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 25 September 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from #Drancy. He was among 475 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

He was 11 months old.

Vintage black-and-white photo of a baby with a slightly open mouth, looking to the side.

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Native American Rights Fund @nativerights.bsky.social · 2d

This week, in honor of #VoterEducationWeek, we’re celebrating #NativeVoteWeek. We’re kicking it off by shining a light on the barriers that continue to block Native communities from the ballot box. Check out some of the top barriers identified in our report Obstacles at Every Turn: buff.ly/7E2m2xy

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 2d

In my 15+ years of talking to people about the patent bar requirements I have never--NEVER--met anyone who gets angrier about them than the math majors.

Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 2d

(I almost wrote "STEM majors" in the post above but didn't have room for the math and computer science caveats.)

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 2d

If you're interested in more on the history of the patent bar and (what little we know about) how the technical-background requirement came to exist, see this great piece by Will Hubbard:

Razing the Patent Bar

Innovation is vital to economic prosperity, and lawmakers consequently strive to craft patent laws that efficiently promote the discovery and commercialization

papers.ssrn.com

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 2d

But ask again: Why is someone with a chemistry degree more qualified to do this work than someone with an art history degree? (No, art history doesn't qualify.) It simply doesn't make sense--unless you think all science/engineering majors are smarter/better than everyone with any other degree.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 5d

AAUP President Todd Wolfson unpacks the dangerous consequences of the Trump administration’s compact, which aims to exert ideological control over universities and colleges. As Wolfson makes clear, this partisan incursion into higher education affects ALL sectors.

@proftwolf.bsky.social

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 5d

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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Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks so much, Mary! Deadline 10/10 to apply for the free seminar for junior faculty and grad students on Native peoples and the Constitution.

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 5d

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...

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KProfsBlog @kprofsblog.bsky.social · 6d

The Sixth Circuit’s Chief Judge Sutton gives a great lesson in opinion writing in a dispute over oil and gas leases. He lays out the complex structure of the transaction and gives a clinic in interpretation — all in twelve pages!
www.contractsprofblog.com/2025/10/grea...

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KProfsBlog @kprofsblog.bsky.social · 2d

Pennsylvania takes a bold stand against the regime of “arbitration for all,” refusing to allow parents to sign arbitration agreements on behalf of their minor children because arbitration cannot protect the rights of minors the way courts do.
www.contractsprofblog.com/2025/10/penn...

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules that Parents Cannot Bind their Minor Children to Arbitration Agreements

It astonishes me how many cases I come across involving children injured at trampoline parks or similar amusements. In March of this year, a court granted

www.contractsprofblog.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d

Aside from Vance, who as veep is functionally unemployed, farming the approval of racist trolls for validation, this is their worldview: white people are true Americans and are entitled to be here, the rest of us are guests and must behave accordingly

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

“The account in the federal criminal complaint differs significantly from an earlier homeland security statement — it said agents “forced to fire defensive shots” at driver “armed with semiautomatic weapon- criminal complaint does not include that claim”🤔 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

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