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Alex Abdo @alexabdo.bsky.social · Jul 29

Recent law grads — we're now hiring for legal fellows to begin in Fall 2025. Our First Amendment rights are under daily assault. I hope you'll consider applying to work with us at @knightcolumbia.org to push back.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Jul 25

Kudos to James for standing up like this and saying he will not participate in anything Columbia does following the university's capitulation.

James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · Jul 25

In light of Columbia's capitulation to the Trump regime's illegal and extortionate demands, I have resolved not to write for Columbia publications, speak at Columbia events, or perform other free labor for a university that has repudated its values.

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Columbia’s Capitulation

Universities exist to promote the discovery, preservation, and transmission of knowledge. While they can help make to make a society virtuous, prosperous, and free, they do so by pursing their mission...

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · Jul 25

In light of Columbia's capitulation to the Trump regime's illegal and extortionate demands, I have resolved not to write for Columbia publications, speak at Columbia events, or perform other free labor for a university that has repudated its values.

3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...

Columbia’s Capitulation

Universities exist to promote the discovery, preservation, and transmission of knowledge. While they can help make to make a society virtuous, prosperous, and free, they do so by pursing their mission...

3d.laboratorium.net

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · Jul 18

"The mission of all patriots now, while we can, is to do anything we can to make people aware of what is happening in our names so a) everyone knows and b) no one can claim they didn’t know."

Concentration camps will be filled -- with us.

(Hello, journalists?)

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We must stop the camps while public opinion still matters

Trump's kidnapping regime has never been less popular, and it's just getting started.

www.thefarce.org

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Phil Malone @prmalone.bsky.social · Jul 19

Yep.

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Jul 18

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · Jul 18

I know it's screaming into the void but I'm begging people to not repost random opinions from people who have very limited legal knowledge, even if they are appealing because they sound bad for Trump.

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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · Jul 18

Hot take: if you don't know the difference between venue and personal jurisdiction, maybe you shouldn't be offering opinions on whether lawyers should have cited the Florida long arm statute or not.

...1L civ pro exists for a reason, just saying.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Jul 18

Anyway, I know it's not news that Trump is hypocritical, but here's my story reminding people that MAGA world insisted that the Biden admin sending impolite notes to Facebook was the greatest threat to free speech, but are completely silent on Trump calling up Murdoch and demanding he kill a story

Techdirt @techdirt.com · Jul 18

Trump Threatens, Then Sues Murdoch Over Epstein Story Using Tactics His Supporters Used To Call A ‘Massive Attack on Free Speech’

Donald Trump admitted yesterday that he called Rupert Murdoch and demanded the Wall Street Journal kill its story about Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. When…

Trump Threatens, Then Sues Murdoch Over Epstein Story Using Tactics His Supporters Used To Call A ‘Massive Attack on Free Speech’

Donald Trump admitted yesterday that he called Rupert Murdoch and demanded the Wall Street Journal kill its story about Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. When Murdoch couldn't deliver, Trump promised to sue the media company and gleefully looked forward to putting Murdoch on the witness stand. Update: Just as this story was going live, it was reported that he had, in fact, sued…

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · Jul 12

This gov’t wants us to think it can do whatever it wants—including terrorize ppl to enforce a racist immigration agenda.

This court says: No, you can’t.

Proud of our friend Mark Rosenbaum for fighting hard to make this happen.

As always, he’s clear on the stakes.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/u...

A quote from Mark Rosenbaum, a lawyer with Public Counsel. He says, “The order reflects there is something very wrong when the federal government goes to war against an American city and ignores the Constitution.” He adds, “Hopefully this ends the actions of the government rounding up carwash workers and other hardworking people like they were domestic terrorists.”

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Phil Malone @prmalone.bsky.social · Jul 11

Ugh.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Jul 11

ADL chief says he regrets not calling out Musk’s sieg heil “more clearly” when it happened.
Except ADL didn’t “call it out” at all. Instead, the org outright defended Musk, and said his action *wasn’t* antisemitic. That seems pretty clear to me.

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Phil Malone @prmalone.bsky.social · Jul 11

Awful and cowardly. The refusal to at least brief, and better yet ask input from, faculty is especially sad . . . but telling. You can do better, Alan, and you risk squandering all the moral authority and public support Harvard has marshaled so far in this fight.

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Phil Malone @prmalone.bsky.social · Jul 11

Awful and cowardly. The refusal to at least brief, and better yet ask input from, faculty is especially sad . . . but telling. You can do better, Alan, and you risk squandering all the moral authority and public support Harvard has marshaled so far in this fight.

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Phil Malone @prmalone.bsky.social · Jul 11

What a despicable, corrupt sleazeball. If Dem's don't do absolutely everything in their power to stop this nomination (whether they ultimately succeed or not), it will be a(nother) huge failure on their parts.

Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · Jul 11

ALERT: Emil Bove declines to rule out 3rd Trump term or denounce Jan. 6 rioters in Senate questionnaire, as he seeks lifetime appointment to federal court

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Emil Bove declines to rule out 3rd Trump term or denounce Jan. 6 rioters in Senate questionnaire

Emil Bove declined to rule out the possibility of a third Trump term and did not denounce the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in a questionnaire submitted to a Senate panel.

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Phil Malone @prmalone.bsky.social · Jul 10

An early example of how the Trump/Noem destruction of FEMA is causing and will cause tremendous harm . . . including to people in Red states. I’m not holding my breath that many of them will hold him accountable, though.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jul 10

In her defense, Bergen Belsen Barbie was probably preoccupied with a glamour photo op at her new Florida concentration camp

Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · Jul 10

Breaking: per FEMA sources Kristi Noem was responsible for THREE DAY DELAY in deploying search-and-rescue in Texas

Fire her. Blood on her hands.

Phil Malone @prmalone.bsky.social · Jul 10

Unbelievable. There’s no limit to the depths that Charlie Kirk’s racism will reach.

James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · Jul 10

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Phil Malone @prmalone.bsky.social · Jul 10

This.

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Jul 10

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.

It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · Jul 9

My government is imposing sanctions on a UN mandate holder for doing her job, including calling on the ICC to do its job: holding perpetrators of international crimes accountable for their actions.

This is behavior worthy of a crime family, not a member of the United Nations.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · Jul 9

NEW: Trump administration relied heavily on shadowy Canary Mission website to identify pro-Palestinian activists for deportation, per new court testimony. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller also deeply involved in project, records show. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Trump officials used shadowy website to target pro-Palestinian academics for deportation, court records show

The unsealed court records also reveal how deeply involved Trump aide Stephen Miller was in the effort to revoke the visas of pro-Palestinian academics.

www.politico.com

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Phil Malone @prmalone.bsky.social · Jul 9

Wow. If you had any doubts about how inappropriate, lawless, and ridiculous Trump’s approach to tariffs is, this should eliminate them.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Jul 9

(The U.S. has a trade SURPLUS with Brazil, FYI)

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Phil Malone @prmalone.bsky.social · Jul 9

Hehehe

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Jul 9

Who wants to tell her who Bondi is protecting?

Phil Malone @prmalone.bsky.social · Jul 9

Such an outrageous misuse of the FTC's workshop power. Pure political grandstanding in the service of awful bigotry and hatred.

Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · Jul 9

The Trump FTC is holding a “workshop” today hating on trans kids and @fightforthefuture.org has been driving this billboard truck around outside blasting my song with @ryancassata.bsky.social where we just scream “wtf is wrong with you??!!!” over and over and it makes me so happy

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · Jul 9

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Phil Malone @prmalone.bsky.social · Jul 9

Hehehe

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · Jul 9

The English language limped out of that column as degraded as one of the leads in Requiem for a Dream.