Kimberley Isbell
@kisbell.bsky.social
Mainly IP and politics, with animal pics thrown in when I remember to take them. It’s all me — my boss is way too nice to say this stuff.
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Thinking of the student Mary Young who 106 years ago today 'said "shan't" under [her] breath when told to repeat poor work'.
December 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Thinking of the student Mary Young who 106 years ago today 'said "shan't" under [her] breath when told to repeat poor work'.
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All Constitutional Law courses are hereby renamed WTF LOL 101
December 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
All Constitutional Law courses are hereby renamed WTF LOL 101
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Only yesterday I said to the tech guy fixing my laptop that I would literally pay more for an AI free OS when the machine needs replacing.
The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Only yesterday I said to the tech guy fixing my laptop that I would literally pay more for an AI free OS when the machine needs replacing.
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NEW: Elon Musk posted today that a new update to Tesla's Full Self-Driving software allows drivers to text-and-drive in certain "context of surrounding traffic."
But that's just illegal. In like, essentially every state.
techcrunch.com/2025/12/04/m...
But that's just illegal. In like, essentially every state.
techcrunch.com/2025/12/04/m...
Musk says new Tesla software allows texting and driving, which is illegal in most states | TechCrunch
Texting while driving is banned in nearly every state, even with the use of advanced driver assistance systems like Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software.
techcrunch.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Kagan: "If Purcell prevents such a ruling, it gives every State the
opportunity to hold an unlawful election."
Indeed. What is to stop a state legislature from enacting a new election law just before an election, knowing a court can't put it on hold?
opportunity to hold an unlawful election."
Indeed. What is to stop a state legislature from enacting a new election law just before an election, knowing a court can't put it on hold?
December 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Kagan: "If Purcell prevents such a ruling, it gives every State the
opportunity to hold an unlawful election."
Indeed. What is to stop a state legislature from enacting a new election law just before an election, knowing a court can't put it on hold?
opportunity to hold an unlawful election."
Indeed. What is to stop a state legislature from enacting a new election law just before an election, knowing a court can't put it on hold?
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Fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs of critically endangered African penguins remain. In two key colonies in South Africa, the vast majority of the breeding birds likely starved to death because of a collapse of their food supplies, according to a new study.
What caused a massive die-off of penguins off the South African coast?
There are fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs of African penguins left today.
wapo.st
December 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs of critically endangered African penguins remain. In two key colonies in South Africa, the vast majority of the breeding birds likely starved to death because of a collapse of their food supplies, according to a new study.
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This is no different than refusing to allow Obama to appoint Garland to the Supreme Court because a new president would take office in ten months, and then confirming Barrett eight days before the 2020 election. There are no laws, no rules, no norms, only Calvinball.
The word "eve" is doing a lot of work here in the Court's 'decision'
December 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
This is no different than refusing to allow Obama to appoint Garland to the Supreme Court because a new president would take office in ten months, and then confirming Barrett eight days before the 2020 election. There are no laws, no rules, no norms, only Calvinball.
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listen
I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
December 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
listen
I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
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Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
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The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”
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New research suggests AI chatbots can shift people’s political views more effectively than campaign ads on TV.
However, researchers are concerned AI companies could “set the models up to push for one side or another.”
However, researchers are concerned AI companies could “set the models up to push for one side or another.”
Voters’ minds are hard to change. AI chatbots are surprisingly good at it.
New research suggests AI chatbots can shift people’s political views more effectively than campaign ads on TV.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
New research suggests AI chatbots can shift people’s political views more effectively than campaign ads on TV.
However, researchers are concerned AI companies could “set the models up to push for one side or another.”
However, researchers are concerned AI companies could “set the models up to push for one side or another.”
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The Supreme Court sided with this dissent:
Um.... This is an actual judicial opinion (dissenting in the TX gerrymandering case)
December 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The Supreme Court sided with this dissent:
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Publishing all the other boat murder videos but refusing to release the one of the two survivors being killed is an admission they know exactly how bad it looks. There's no other distinction to draw there, no reason to publish the others while withholding that one.
December 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Publishing all the other boat murder videos but refusing to release the one of the two survivors being killed is an admission they know exactly how bad it looks. There's no other distinction to draw there, no reason to publish the others while withholding that one.
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
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To trivialize this as a "sex scandal" is, in the kindest construction, myopic. A high status journalist (inter alia) sat on highly incriminating information about the guy currently bringing measles and whooping cough back as head of HHS!
this is extraordinary. too many people in my profession have circled the wagons around someone who lacks the moral sense of a child
@timmiller.bsky.social: "He's being nominated to HHS Secretary…You had information that you could have shared…and you didn't share anything about him. Why? Did you still love him?"
Olivia Nuzzi: "I don't know how to responsibly handle this on camera." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ozkaz8?utm_...
Olivia Nuzzi: "I don't know how to responsibly handle this on camera." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ozkaz8?utm_...
December 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
To trivialize this as a "sex scandal" is, in the kindest construction, myopic. A high status journalist (inter alia) sat on highly incriminating information about the guy currently bringing measles and whooping cough back as head of HHS!
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If the Supreme Court pulled something like this while FDR was president, he would have had them escorted out of the building and nailed the doors shut. When the Dems take power, they should consider that.
This ruling only temporarily lets Texas use its new gerrymander for 2026, but by 2028, SCOTUS may have gutted the Voting Rights Act & the Texas GOP may have re-gerrymandered the map *again*, making it moot.
This SCOTUS has repeatedly let the GOP use illegal gerrymanders for at least one election
This SCOTUS has repeatedly let the GOP use illegal gerrymanders for at least one election
December 4, 2025 at 11:58 PM
If the Supreme Court pulled something like this while FDR was president, he would have had them escorted out of the building and nailed the doors shut. When the Dems take power, they should consider that.
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Reconstruction 2 is going to require a level of seizing assets that I am very comfortable with but you may still need to work through
New: “Eric Trump Has Gotten 10 Times Richer Since Dad’s Election”
@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com
@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com
Here’s How Much Eric Trump Is Worth
Crypto took the real estate heir’s fortune and supersized it, briefly making the president’s second-oldest son a billionaire in early September.
www.forbes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Reconstruction 2 is going to require a level of seizing assets that I am very comfortable with but you may still need to work through
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"Standards under the Act (a law passed by Congress) do not align with Trump's executive order"
GUESS WHICH ONE WINS THEN
i swear to god, did nobody pass 9th grade civics class
GUESS WHICH ONE WINS THEN
i swear to god, did nobody pass 9th grade civics class
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:44 AM
"Standards under the Act (a law passed by Congress) do not align with Trump's executive order"
GUESS WHICH ONE WINS THEN
i swear to god, did nobody pass 9th grade civics class
GUESS WHICH ONE WINS THEN
i swear to god, did nobody pass 9th grade civics class
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Halle Berry declares Gavin Newsom 'should not be our next president' after he vetoed menopause care bill
Halle Berry declares Gavin Newsom 'should not be our next president' after he vetoed menopause care bill
Halle Berry boldly calls out California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his potential presidential run at the New York Times' 2025 DealBook Summit. 'He probably should not be our next president.'
www.latimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Halle Berry declares Gavin Newsom 'should not be our next president' after he vetoed menopause care bill
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This glorious part of a glorious thread.
"My buddy Steve, who doesn't wash his ass and calls women 'females,' whose last steady job was cleaning the 7-Eleven hot dog machine and he got fired, can't get laid. Here's 4,000 words about why that's the fault of Susan, a constitutional lawyer/supermodel who rescues puppies in her spare time."
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
This glorious part of a glorious thread.
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
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The idea that the entire MAGA regime could get away with it all because their king signs some papers saying “it’s okay to do crimes in my service” is spitting in the face of every generation of Americans.
We need the ICC. We need to expand and rebalance SCOTUS. And we can’t let Trump pardons hold.
We need the ICC. We need to expand and rebalance SCOTUS. And we can’t let Trump pardons hold.
December 5, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The idea that the entire MAGA regime could get away with it all because their king signs some papers saying “it’s okay to do crimes in my service” is spitting in the face of every generation of Americans.
We need the ICC. We need to expand and rebalance SCOTUS. And we can’t let Trump pardons hold.
We need the ICC. We need to expand and rebalance SCOTUS. And we can’t let Trump pardons hold.
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It’s so bad!
OK, gonna date myself some, but Google search is getting to be so bad that I'm thinking about alta vista with fond nostalgia.
December 5, 2025 at 4:36 AM
It’s so bad!
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It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
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Please bookmark this post for several months from now, when I predict the Court eliminates the Voting Rights Act and somehow concludes that that later decision won't be too close to the election to prevent redrawing the maps.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Please bookmark this post for several months from now, when I predict the Court eliminates the Voting Rights Act and somehow concludes that that later decision won't be too close to the election to prevent redrawing the maps.
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