Eli Edwards
@misseli.bsky.social
Still a bibliothecary, lawyer, info policy geek, chocolate lover. Enthusiastically ambivalent about legal technology.
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This interview with Any Lucia Belloza is heartbreaking but everyone should read it. These are the lives our country is destroying.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
![“I was so happy when I got there [to Babson],” Lopez Belloza said. “I was just living the college life — going to events, going everywhere ... everything there was really great. I really loved the school."
She and her father also had a special shared aspiration. With her business degree, Lopez Belloza was going to help her father open his own tailor shop, they hoped.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u6ajzyiqzkzbppp2x2y7fpfu/bafkreib33kpkgmvas4z6avgq62styxbzrzuawjufqyddtoynqgbiwnhtzy@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This interview with Any Lucia Belloza is heartbreaking but everyone should read it. These are the lives our country is destroying.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
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We've not spent enough time talking about this administration as unamerican, rather than cruel or wrong or illegal. This stuff just is not who we are.
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 28, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We've not spent enough time talking about this administration as unamerican, rather than cruel or wrong or illegal. This stuff just is not who we are.
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The CA bar is extremely lenient with prosecutors (even more so than the usual kid gloves prosecutors get) but this really needs to merit severe sanctions.
Prosecutors in California used A.I. to argue that a 57-year-old man should be held without bail, his lawyers say, filing a brief that included wholesale misinterpretations of the law, as well as quotations that do not actually appear in the cited texts. nyti.ms/3M1bVye
Prosecutor Used Flawed A.I. to Keep a Man in Jail, His Lawyers Say
The case is among the first in which a prosecutor is accused of filing court papers marred by A.I.-generated mistakes.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The CA bar is extremely lenient with prosecutors (even more so than the usual kid gloves prosecutors get) but this really needs to merit severe sanctions.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
1) Bajofondo Tango Club
2) U2
3) Janelle Monae
4) Gogol Bordello
5) Flogging Molly
1) Bajofondo Tango Club
2) U2
3) Janelle Monae
4) Gogol Bordello
5) Flogging Molly
November 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
1) Bajofondo Tango Club
2) U2
3) Janelle Monae
4) Gogol Bordello
5) Flogging Molly
1) Bajofondo Tango Club
2) U2
3) Janelle Monae
4) Gogol Bordello
5) Flogging Molly
Any other GenXers get strong Marilyn vibes from Mr. Fantasy during the #ThanksgivingParade? No, just me? Okay then ...
November 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Any other GenXers get strong Marilyn vibes from Mr. Fantasy during the #ThanksgivingParade? No, just me? Okay then ...
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Cynthia Erivo turned up as the Fourth Doctor for the Thanksgiving Day Parade.
November 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Cynthia Erivo turned up as the Fourth Doctor for the Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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Excellent thread... 🧵👇🏼📜
You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Excellent thread... 🧵👇🏼📜
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it's here
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
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it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
2025 Queer Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
Welcome to the 2025 list of queer adult science-fiction and fantasy books! If you’re new to this dance, this list and the ones before (see: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019) are my answer t…
kadoore.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
it's here
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
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the requirement is, of course, “be white” amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Trump says Haiti no longer meets requirements for TPS. Haitians have to leave
The Department of Homeland Security said TPS for Haiti ends Feb. 3, 2026, affecting over half a million people who may face return to gang-controlled Port-au-Prince.
amp.miamiherald.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
the requirement is, of course, “be white” amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
I don’t send a lot of time east of downtown LA, so i don’t know if this is usual, but the sunset in Pomona last Saturday was something.
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I don’t send a lot of time east of downtown LA, so i don’t know if this is usual, but the sunset in Pomona last Saturday was something.
Lawyer Ex Machina is out: Families of Oct. 7th victims sue Binance for releasing funds to Hamas, movement on cases re: landlords algorithmically colluding on rents & how the Border Portal has built a hidden surveillance network #lawsky #lawlibrarians #legaltech buttondown.com/LawyerExMach...
Happy Thanksgiving 2025
A small newsletter on legaltech
buttondown.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Lawyer Ex Machina is out: Families of Oct. 7th victims sue Binance for releasing funds to Hamas, movement on cases re: landlords algorithmically colluding on rents & how the Border Portal has built a hidden surveillance network #lawsky #lawlibrarians #legaltech buttondown.com/LawyerExMach...
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
90s movie that I think deserves more love? Here's a two-fer of odd sci-fi weirdness:
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 AM
90s movie that I think deserves more love? Here's a two-fer of odd sci-fi weirdness:
I’ve decided - I wanna start a fight. So, #conlaw folks: who is the worst possible Justice of the modern era? Would putting Robert Bork on the Supreme Court would have avoided this moment or just accelerated the rot/deterioration? Should we have taken the L with Harriet Myers to avoid Aliti?
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I’ve decided - I wanna start a fight. So, #conlaw folks: who is the worst possible Justice of the modern era? Would putting Robert Bork on the Supreme Court would have avoided this moment or just accelerated the rot/deterioration? Should we have taken the L with Harriet Myers to avoid Aliti?
My hottest take: I just had my best tamale ever … on Melrose. From a pupusaria. Come fight me, but LA Pupusa House rocked me.
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
My hottest take: I just had my best tamale ever … on Melrose. From a pupusaria. Come fight me, but LA Pupusa House rocked me.
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I really want people to start acting and locking these people up.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett has released receipts that reveal that ProPublica has reported that Kristi Noem secretly diverted hundreds of millions of dollars in Department of Homeland Security funds to a consulting firm affiliated with her own campaign.
November 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I really want people to start acting and locking these people up.
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Cops all over the country used Flock to surveil No Kings protesters, public records show: www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
Cops Used Flock to Monitor No Kings Protests Around the Country
A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.
www.404media.co
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Cops all over the country used Flock to surveil No Kings protesters, public records show: www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
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DHS/ICE, which just got the largest budget increase in its history, claims it doesn't have enough money for hard drives to preserve video evidence in a detainee abuse case at Broadview. Suggests to a judge that maybe the detainees could provide them
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
DHS/ICE, which just got the largest budget increase in its history, claims it doesn't have enough money for hard drives to preserve video evidence in a detainee abuse case at Broadview. Suggests to a judge that maybe the detainees could provide them
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
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Here’s @sarahjeong.bsky.social somehow going even harder than the T-shirt at the AI-copyright conference: “[AI companies] have ushered in a wholesale destruction of human knowledge and culture that is as significant as the burning of the Library of Alexandria.”
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Here’s @sarahjeong.bsky.social somehow going even harder than the T-shirt at the AI-copyright conference: “[AI companies] have ushered in a wholesale destruction of human knowledge and culture that is as significant as the burning of the Library of Alexandria.”
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a beautifully-done but distressing article here
it tells you about the future SCOTUS might plunge us under in just a mere few months, if not less — be sure to read it
it tells you about the future SCOTUS might plunge us under in just a mere few months, if not less — be sure to read it
If SCOTUS conservatives gut VRA protections from election discrimination, it won't just threaten POC seats in Congress. It is more often used to protect local elections — like in Fayette, TN, where officials used racist voting maps to ensure an all-white county board:
boltsmag.org/voting-right...
boltsmag.org/voting-right...
Black Residents in West Tennessee Just Won Fairer Districts. Now Comes SCOTUS. - Bolts
The Supreme Court may further erode the Voting Rights Act in an upcoming decision. Beyond affecting Congress, that would reverberate across local governments nationwide.
boltsmag.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
a beautifully-done but distressing article here
it tells you about the future SCOTUS might plunge us under in just a mere few months, if not less — be sure to read it
it tells you about the future SCOTUS might plunge us under in just a mere few months, if not less — be sure to read it
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Great, our cyberpunk dystopia is also an urban fantasy where we confound the soulless Fae with poems and riddles.
November 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Great, our cyberpunk dystopia is also an urban fantasy where we confound the soulless Fae with poems and riddles.
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LISTEN: EFF’s @tsnvaa.bsky.social joined @kpfa.org's Law & Disorder with @realcatbrooks.bsky.social to discuss the Oakland City Council Public Safety Committee’s rejection of Flock ALPR technology that threatens residents’ privacy and safety.
Get the FLOCK Out! Oakland Rejects Surveillance Technologies | KPFA
On today’s show, we speak with a number of guests about the Oakland Public Safety Committee’s rejection of FLOCK surveillance technologies that threaten the privacy and safety of residents. Sarah Hami...
kpfa.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
LISTEN: EFF’s @tsnvaa.bsky.social joined @kpfa.org's Law & Disorder with @realcatbrooks.bsky.social to discuss the Oakland City Council Public Safety Committee’s rejection of Flock ALPR technology that threatens residents’ privacy and safety.
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Absolutely one of the most important stories to read as we all still parse the aftermath of Midway Blitz
NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man.
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston
Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...
unraveledpress.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Absolutely one of the most important stories to read as we all still parse the aftermath of Midway Blitz
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This is appalling.
November 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This is appalling.