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Mary Dudziak
@marydudziak.bsky.social
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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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Stumbled upon while scrolling etsy for holiday cards....
Christmas card with a flying saucer hovering over a forest of evergreen trees. Trump and Vance are being vacuumed into the saucer. The text says: "I hope all of your holiday wishes come true."
November 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Enviable endorsements for Crais, The Killing Age:
Bathsheba Demuth endorsement. J. M. Coetzee endorsement.
November 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Diego Rivera.
Painting of working men. Fire for steel making in the distance.
November 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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The Atlanta Airport sets an example. 🏆🏆🏆
@atlairport.bsky.social.
Headline: opinion Atlanta airport chose equity and lost federal dollars in a win for travelers Hartsfield-Jackson was denied $37.5M in federal funds because it upheld its DEI commitments. Photo: image of travelers in Concourse D.
November 4, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Fall Ginko.
Stately Ginkgo tree turning yellow.
November 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Everything I needed to know!
November 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Snake ID please.
Brown and grey 1.4 for snake.
November 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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This year’s pumpkin, since the world is harrowing enough as it is.
An optimist pumpkin has a smile on its face.
October 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Important from @charliesavage.bsky.social on "The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
Based on the information now available, Geoffrey S. Corn, a retired judge advocate general officer who served as the Army’s senior law-of-war adviser and now teaches criminal and military law at Texas Tech University, said that the United States was not in an armed conflict with drug cartels, notwithstanding Mr. Trump’s “determination.” Professor Corn said he believed the killings were illegal, and expressed concern about “the impact on the morality of the war fighters who have to carry out the orders.” “The men and women who volunteered to serve this nation and engage in the most morally challenging conduct imaginable — killing someone who is not immediately threatening you — have a right to know the nation will not order them to engage in that deadly endeavor unless it is genuinely justified both legally and morally,” he said. “The service members who conduct attacks have to live the rest of their lives with the memory.”
October 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Secret law is an anathema in a democracy. Post-9/11 mistakes should not serve as precedent, enabling our current lawless administration.
It was a mistake for the courts to allow the Bush and Obama administrations to control what the public learned about their most consequential decisions and policies in the years after Sept. 11. When the secrecy of the Trump administration’s O.L.C. memo comes before the courts, as it almost certainly will, it will be tragic if judges extend the same deference to an administration that has made plain its contempt for the rule of law. The courts should not debase our democracy by pretending that there are good national security justifications for keeping us in the dark.
October 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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You're watching A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
October 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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This house wins Halloween. There are, of course, birds on the mailbox and all over the yard.
Female mannequin in a 50s 2-piece blue dress with big red splotches on it, white gloves, and heels standing by a tree with a blackbird in her blond hair, and others on her torso, her raised hand, and her foot, and several birds on the ground.
October 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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And Willy Forbath who writes, in part:
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
That is not all. Witt also offers an original exploration of the paradoxical nature of left-wing philanthropy. The United States may be unique for the outsized role that private foundations have played in funding public goods and thereby shaping a nation’s governance. The Garland Fund was formed soon after the giant Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations began play their familiar parts in directing and underwriting the course of ameliorative social reform with the aim of softening the ravages of the harshly exploitive new corporate capitalist order from whence came the fortunes they spent. The Garland Fund set out instead to upend that order, using its tiny portion of the unwarranted gains of capital accumulation. The big foundations hoped to quell insurgency from below; the Garland Fund hoped to underwrite it. Witt shows us how the Fund’s own corporate and tax attorneys constructed and defended its endeavors, in a novel study of the possibilities and limits of Audre Lourde’s famous aphorism about using the master’s tools to dismantle the master’s house.
October 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Are we cowardly Lions who cower in front of a false prophet or in the face of a blustering, empty wizard in Washington who is trying to destroy our autonomous universities?
October 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Congratulations to Alison LaCroix for winning the @hisorians.org Littleton-Griswold Prize in US law and Society!!
Prize goes to Alison LaCroix for The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms (Yale Univ. Press, 2024)
October 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Love this. Especially:
SIMON: I don't think AI can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
October 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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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
October 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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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.
October 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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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.
October 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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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
October 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Dinner with my dear long ago Univ of Iowa colleague, the legendary Adrien Wing, was a reminder of the sustenance in friendship.
Two smiling couples after an evening meal.
September 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Not everything is terrible. This magnificent oak tree is just a few feet away from my office window.
Upper section of a very large oak tree.
September 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Link this.
A screenshot of a Bluesky draft post with a photo of the front of a kayak on water on a foggy day. A little "+ALT" appears in the upper left corner.
September 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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@katiefallow.bsky.social of @knightcolumbia.org on @washingtonpost.com: Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material.
Gift link: wapo.st/4nCO854
"A reporter who publishes only what the government ‘authorizes’ is doing something other than reporting,” she said.
September 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Is the press starting to rise to the challenge?
Is it too late?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...
Image of an eagle with it's beak wide open. In its mouth, as if keeping open the beak, is Donald Trump's signature in bright red.
September 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM