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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · May 15

Folks, learn more about the SELFS Study of law faculty and student-facing staff in my latest LSSSE blog post!

LSSSE @thelssse.bsky.social · May 14

📝 New Blog Post: Introducing the SELFS Study!

Meera E. Deo (@meeradeo.bsky.social), LSSSE Director, shares how LSSSE is expanding research to include faculty and staff insights. 20 law schools participated in the pilot, with a 60% response rate!

🔗 Link in bio

#LawSchool #LSSSE

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2d

contracts professor / torts professor / constitutional law professor

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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 2d

There is a graphic edition & it’s lovely. #DoNotObeyInAdvance
#ResistingOvercompliance

Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 5d

Watching w my kind girl. Anyone else?

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 5d

UC Academic Council letter to UC Regents and President calling on them to “reject governmental demands that compromise institutional integrity and academic freedom.”

Personally, I’d say reject all demands, since the demands are being made unlawfully.

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 5d

Dean of the UC Berkeley Law School has seen the Trump Administration’s “compact” for universities to receive preferable consideration for federal funding and says it amounts to First Amendment violations in blistering op-ed — www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin H Bell Esq @kevinok.bsky.social · 8d

If you want to sue the government, are thinking about filing a request, drafting an appeal, or have been waiting for a response for months and don't know what to do, give us a shout: freeinformationgroup.com

Free Information Group

Transparency is Non-Negotiable

freeinformationgroup.com

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 8d

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12d

this most "this could have been an email" thing i've ever heard

Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 12d

WAPO SCOOP: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel on short notice from around the world to hear him make a speech on military standards and the “warrior ethos,” multiple people familiar with the event told The Washington Post.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has summoned hundreds of generals for what is expected to be a short lecture on the “warrior ethos.” But top brass is bracing for possible firings or demotions.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 14d

“Civility is a cage that we’re supposed to lock ourselves into and then we are expected to be grateful for our incarceration.” HARD PASS

Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy

www.nytimes.com

Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 16d

Grateful 🙏

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 16d

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants

A San Francisco-based federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore all National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA, roughly $500 million, that the government suspended in July.

www.latimes.com

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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 23d

Same

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 27d

if i get killed, you can quote stuff i wrote. that's why i wrote it

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 28d

The Trump administration says it will withhold $350 million in grants to hundreds of colleges that serve large populations of minority students, calling the decades-old programs discriminatory.

Education Department ends grants for some minority college students

The Education Department is withholding millions of dollars in grant funding appropriated by Congress for colleges that serve large populations of minority students.

wapo.st

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 28d

A&M's code prohibits students from disruptive behavior in classrooms, meaning behavior that prevents the instructor from teaching or other students from benefiting from instruction.

It also prohibits unauthorized recordings.

No religious or political identity exemptions listed, but in practice ...

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 29d

Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

This afternoon, following full consideration of the facts related to this situation, I directed the Provost to terminate the professor involved, effective immediately. Please understand that these decisions were mine alone and were not
made lightly. While I cannot provide all the details at this time, I will share the following facts.

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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 29d

Huge win for women and also for New Mexico, the economy, businesses, children, and society at large!

KRQE News 13 @krqe.com · Sep 9

Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico is becoming the first state in the U.S. to offer free early childhood education to every family in the state. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced a universal ch…

www.krqe.com

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Martha Albertson Fineman @mlafineman.bsky.social · 29d

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Sep 8

"The group brings together hundreds of grandparents nationwide who lived through diseases such as polio, tuberculosis and measles — illnesses once thought eliminated in the United States..."

www.kgw.com/article/news...

Grandparents for Vaccines launches to share stories of life before immunizations

New volunteer group aims to educate parents about vaccine importance by sharing personal experiences with preventable diseases.

www.kgw.com

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Sep 8

Terence Tao, one of the world’s greatest mathematicians, is speaking out after federal research funding to UCLA was suspended.

“People who support all the positive aspects of America have to speak out and fight for them now,” he said.

The world’s greatest mathematician avoided politics. Then Trump cut science funding.

Terence Tao, a renowned mathematician at UCLA, faced funding challenges after the Trump administration froze federal research funds.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · Sep 7

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

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Nancy Armour @nrarmour.bsky.social · Sep 7

ABC and ESPN aired the boos of Donald Trump at the U.S. Open, ignoring the censorship request from the U.S. Tennis Association.

Good for them.

Boos of Donald Trump heard on ABC's broadcast of US Open. Good | Opinion

ABC, ESPN refused to go along with the U.S. Tennis Association's censorship request and aired reaction to President Donald Trump at U.S. Open.

www.usatoday.com

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · Sep 8

When a late-night comic understands your university better than the deans and provost:

"There is no guarantee that the [Trump] administration is going to stop making demands of Columbia, and why would they? They keep getting met."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk94...

Trump vs. Higher Education: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · Sep 8

Wait, Wales too?

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