Michael Froomkin
@mfroomkin.bsky.social
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U.Miami Lawprof. Techie. Teach AI, AdLaw, https://tinyurl.com/concrisis, Jurisprudence & Privacy. EIC of Jotwell.com. Home@ https://law.tm. Survivor of many medical things that should have killed me but didn't. Remains to be seen if I'm stronger.
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mfroomkin.bsky.social
Signs of the times. Not the end of times but big steps towards naked and violent authoritarianism.

Beware those who practice or advocate collaboration with either this regime or its mega corporate enablers (looking at you, Paramount).

www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...
Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next
We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.
www.thebulwark.com
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jotwell.bsky.social
Jotwell ConLaw:
Andrea Katz, Falsifying the Unitary Executive: Popperian Empiricism and History’s Uses and Misuses, JOTWELL (October 8, 2025), conlaw.jotwell.com/falsifying-t....
Andrea Katz
mfroomkin.bsky.social
Signs of AI sentience: My autocorrect just changed "Congress" to "chickens".
mfroomkin.bsky.social
This attitude of impunity explains threats to arrest Pritzker, to ignore the law on back pay for federal employees required to work without pay, and the plan to take tariff money and spend it how they like without bothering Congress for an appropriation. And all that was just yesterday.
billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
"Bondi’s contemptuousness was designed to send a clear message: You have no power to stop us.

Refusal to even entertain the questions of committee Democrats should have been cause for bipartisan scandal. But committee Republicans seemed perfectly uninterested..."

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Bondi to Congress: 🖕
The attorney general came to the Hill to deliver a message to Democrats: Your ‘oversight’ couldn't matter to us less.
open.substack.com
mfroomkin.bsky.social
Krugman with a scary idea: "if the Trump administration succeeds in politicizing the BLS, TIPS won’t be protected against inflation. They’ll only be protected against inflation the administration is willing to admit is happening."

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/ingots-we-...
Ingots We Trust
Are soaring gold prices telling us something important?
paulkrugman.substack.com
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michaelianblack.bsky.social
"Dad, were you on the side that tried to help people snatched off the street or the side that shot priests?"
flglchicago.bsky.social
Here’s video of the incident
mfroomkin.bsky.social
Terrific open letter from The Steady State a group of more than 330 former senior national security and law enforcement professionals who served in a variety of administrations warning against the so-called "Compact" demanded from certain Universities by the Trump admin. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Dear Presidents,

We write on behalf of The Steady State, a group of more than 330 former senior national security and law enforcement professionals. Our members have served under every President of the United States—Republican and Democrat—over more than four decades. We are former Ambassadors, Inspectors General, Flag Officers, CIA Chiefs of Station, FBI Special Agents, Defense Department and Homeland Security officials, and senior Intelligence Officers from across the national security enterprise. Collectively, we have spent our careers defending the Constitution and safeguarding American democracy.

Today, we warn you that the so-called Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education advanced by the Trump Administration is not a benign administrative measure. It is an indicator of authoritarianism. We have seen its equivalents in other nations: loyalty oaths demanded of universities by Nazi Germany, Stalinist controls over academic life, and the political purges of juntas and autocrats across Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe. The playbook is familiar—when governments coerce intellectual institutions into signing pledges of ideological conformity, democracy is already in peril.
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jotwell.bsky.social
Jotwell Adlaw:
Margaret Kwoka, Informational Accountability for the President, JOTWELL (October 7, 2025) (reviewing Jonathan David Shaub, White House Inspection, 103 Wash. U. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2026) available at SSRN (Feb. 25, 2025)), adlaw.jotwell.com/informationa....
Margaret Kwoka
mfroomkin.bsky.social
Surely just standing right in front of you would suffice?
mfroomkin.bsky.social
Hate the voice. Love the message.
gtconway.bsky.social
Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social
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sfdb.bsky.social
Miami Beach had its rainbow sidewalk torn up brick by brick with backhoes yesterday.

It really is bonkers how scary rainbows are to the far right.

via wsvn
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jotwell.bsky.social
Jotwell Torts:
Kenneth W. Simons, Does the Hand Formula Express Efficiency or Justice? Or Both?, JOTWELL (October 6, 2025) (reviewing Emad H. Atiq, The Disaggregated Hand Formula, 114 Cal. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2026), available at SSRN (Mar. 1, 2025)), torts.jotwell.com/does-the-han....
Kenneth W. Simons
mfroomkin.bsky.social
Not at all my idea of a reliable source, but @levparnas.bsky.social claims Trump admin is using AI-assisted facial expression detection software to identify 'disloyal' people who disagree with them at meetings such as the recent one with the military.

levremembers.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
Breaking: Trump Used AI to Scan U.S. Generals’ Faces for Loyalty — and to Root Out Whistleblowers
On the Jewish Day of Atonement, America Must Reckon With a President Who Never Repents
levremembers.substack.com
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helenkennedy.bsky.social
I don’t mean to overreact or anything, but this is the commander-in-chief telling military personnel that Democrats are a problem to be dealt with.
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Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."
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sfdb.bsky.social
The million dollar question that I haven't seen anyone aggressively addressing.
mfroomkin.bsky.social
Would make much more sense if he were talking about the Epstein files, "insurrectionists all over the place. The politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason they say there’s nothing happening."
mfroomkin.bsky.social
Forgot to mention the tariffs although I guess they are not going to survive this regime, even though the ill effects will endure. How true that is of the massive new budget for ICE brownshirts and detention camps is also I suppose uncertain.
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
This Trump administration policy of generating an artificial civil war on the basis of big lies is of course meant to be frightening but it is also anti-American, unlawful, stupid and pursued by wildly unpopular people.
brandonfriedman.bsky.social
Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary
@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.
mfroomkin.bsky.social
Trying to create cause for intervention: "Outside the [ICE] facility, federal officers pushed crowds of protesters hundreds of yards down city streets and fired tear gas, flash-bang grenades and pepper balls without any clear signs of provocation."
www.opb.org/article/2025...
Federal tactics on Portland protesters escalate, hours after judge rules against Trump
Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on prote...
www.opb.org
mfroomkin.bsky.social
Does this undermine Florida's argument in court that it does not need to produce an environmental impact statement because the federal government was not paying for the site?