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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 3h

I joked about it but it may actually be worthwhile for every Dem who gets on tv to start saying Stephen Miller is the real president

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 4h

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
X.com
Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 1d

With this Court there’s no need to engage in legal analysis, cogent or otherwise. White self-described Christians are always right, everyone else is always wrong, oh and you can never sue the government for anything. That’s it, that’s the rule.

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Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · 4d

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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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 5d

I thought we deadnamed Twitter on purpose, to delegitimize its new ownership. But even if so, that seems a mistake now, since it’s so different than it once was.

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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 5d

15 years ago, my aunt was legitimately ANGRY at me for not posting regularly to Facebook, because that was how our family communicated with one another. Now, the idea that I would put something personal on "social media" seems truly crazy. Why do we still insist on calling it that?

Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 5d

Social media, meaning the spaces for people to meet and socialize globally, has been dead for possibly 10 years already.

What we have now is parasocial media: a form of mass media where there’s illusion of relationships covering a high virality broadcast tool controlled by algorithms.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 6d

Have we passed peak social media? on.ft.com/46OjAa1 | opinion

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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 8d

The Cartoon Network what now?

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 8d

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment

The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.

www.aaup.org

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8d

In the last two weeks these feds have choked & beaten protesters, broken bones, given people concussions from munitions, pointed their sidearms at people, tear gassed a neighborhood, shot reporters in the face, destroyed neighbors' property, threatened elected officials

No National Guard necessary

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

I don't want 100 troops sent to Chicago. It's a major escalation that must be opposed. I also want folks to understand that the agents that have been attacking us at Broadview are more heavily armed and elaborately, tactically outfitted than National Guard troops would be. We're already in some shit

A large group of ICE agents in full tactical gear.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8d

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 8d

“Tax breaks” assumes the existence of state taxes.

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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 10d

What ICE is doing right now in Chicago is called a “Kavanaugh stop” and no one should ever call it anything else.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10d

Kristi Noem: How DARE you accuse our glorious ICE agents of racial profiling.

Head of the Chicago raids: We are stopping people based on “how they look, how do they look compared to, say,” a tall, middle aged white guy.

Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 10d

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 10d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 10d

I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10d

I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.

matt94250.bsky.social @matt94250.bsky.social · 10d

If you don’t teach your students how to use AI, you’re doing them a huge disservice because they won’t have jobs in the future.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 12d

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 13d

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

heated.world

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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 12d

Dear @iucinema.bsky.social PLEASE get a late-night screening of this going posthaste

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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 16d

All those people that canceled this weekend aren't suddenly going to resubscribe! One fun thing was that Disney pushed out a ton of new trailers in the last week that they were probably planning to sit on.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 16d

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it.

It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019.

This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 16d

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

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Zach Osterman @zachosterman.bsky.social · 18d

FINAL: No. 17 Indiana defeats No. 8 Illinois 63-10. As dominant of a performance as this stadium has ever seen, all things considered.

Hoosiers are 4-0, 1-0 in Big Ten play. At Iowa next Saturday. #iufb

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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 18d

Hoosiers might!

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20d

I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action

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Diogenes of Snarkadia @diogeneslamp.bsky.social · 21d

In my classroom the projector has two buttons to select an input

One says Laptop

The other says Podium

But there is no Podium

IT IS A LECTERN i scream internally every time I push the button

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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 22d

I had seen this meme for years before I finally learned that it was not Zach Galifianakis.

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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 22d

I love this adorable idea that in the future there will be history books, as opposed to a series of "short-form history videos" produced by whatever the corporation is called once Meta buys PragerU

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23d

"I never stood with Bibi."

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Lane @heylookatlane.bsky.social · 23d

I hope they are but I’m not familiar with what orgs that might be. I just read about this for the first time today.

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