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Robert Rosenthal @robertrosenthal.bsky.social · 4h

My understanding is that once the results are certified, the Speaker's approval isn't needed, and she can be sworn in by a judge.

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Patent Buddy @patentbuddy.bsky.social · 4h

Is there any way this clown can be bypassed?

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Patent Buddy @patentbuddy.bsky.social · 4h

The Paul Blark, Mall Cop regiment.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Scott Immordino @scottimmordino.bsky.social · 8h

Bill Gates: $106B | Microsoft: $3.9T
Jeff Bezos: $232.5B | Amazon: $2.3T
Larry Page: $204.2B | Google: $2.84T
Mark Zuckerberg: $243.5B | Meta: $1.8T

Can someone please explain why on earth we’re paying the power & water bills for their data centers?

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 7h

If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble
Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD

A power strip with the plug end plugged in to one of the sockets

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 7h

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 8h

"Pritzker and Newsom see it as a defining challenge of this moment that Trump is consolidating authoritarian power daily, and using it to subjugate and dominate Blue America as if it’s akin to an enemy nation within."

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Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Patent Buddy @patentbuddy.bsky.social · 9h

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Who owns the algorithm? IP litigation heats up over AI-discovered molecules

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a central tool in drug discovery, the question of who owns the resulting innovations is far from settled…

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Patent Buddy @patentbuddy.bsky.social · 9h

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Nobel Prize in medicine goes to trio of scientists for discovering how the immune system is kept in check | CNN

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of different microbes trying to invade our bodie...

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Patent Buddy @patentbuddy.bsky.social · 9h

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3 UC professors win 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for quantum discovery

The UC professors join a "long line" of UC faculty awarded Nobel Prizes.

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Patent Buddy @patentbuddy.bsky.social · 9h

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded jointly to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal–organic frameworks"

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Patent Buddy @patentbuddy.bsky.social · 9h

Noem is the face of an American Fascist Pig.

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Patent Buddy @patentbuddy.bsky.social · 10h

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Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video)

Cause for concern

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

Everything about this is infuriating, from the illegal "disappearing" of people without due process to the pathetic effort of Trump judges to pretend Alligator Auschwitz isn't a federal government project

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Alligator Alcatraz snaps back to life after judges’ reprieve of Florida’s migrant jail

The deportation hub seemed on the point of closure but has been revived as a ‘black site … people are being disappeared’

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Michael Carrier @mcarrier.bsky.social · 1d

In a piece just published in the Notre Dame Law Review, @marklemley.bsky.social & I argue that courts are confused about how to apply the rule of reason and explain the importance of a four-step test that includes balancing of costs and benefits. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Rule or Reason? The Role of Balancing in Antitrust Law

Antitrust law has two basic ways of analyzing conduct alleged to be anticompetitive. Some conduct is viewed as so inherently pernicious that it is deemed i

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last vixen on the left @liberalvixen.bsky.social · 1d

IP litigator, Patent Prosecutor, Trademark Attorney

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 1d

It's Tuesday and while the government may be shut down, the Patent Office is still open and churning out a new 1,381 design patents for our enjoyment and critique, including D1096067 issued for a pocket tie.

The disclaimed fireworks are a nice touch.

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