Dr. Matthew Reid Krell
@reidkrell.bsky.social
JD/PhD. Alumni of GW, Alabama Law, and Alabama PSC. Assistant Professor CSU-Northridge. Research: institutions as sites of and participants in political dialogues.
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If your naturalization case is or will be put on hold by this, especially after the interview, go see an immigration lawyer now.
Naturalization is not discretionary, and federal judges have a unique role in deciding delayed naturalization cases.
Naturalization is not discretionary, and federal judges have a unique role in deciding delayed naturalization cases.
The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the 19 travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
Scoop: The Trump administration has paused all immigration applications filed by people from 19 countries banned from travel to the United States earlier this year, halting green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people.
More coming soon.
More coming soon.
December 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
If your naturalization case is or will be put on hold by this, especially after the interview, go see an immigration lawyer now.
Naturalization is not discretionary, and federal judges have a unique role in deciding delayed naturalization cases.
Naturalization is not discretionary, and federal judges have a unique role in deciding delayed naturalization cases.
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That Pentagon *press corps* performance with Matt Gaetz and Laura Loomer among those asking questions feels like a pretty good indicator of how far over the cliff we are. Worth checking out. 🇺🇸
December 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
That Pentagon *press corps* performance with Matt Gaetz and Laura Loomer among those asking questions feels like a pretty good indicator of how far over the cliff we are. Worth checking out. 🇺🇸
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Welp. I came across my first absolutely hallucinated “case” where it wasn’t checked (and wouldn’t even need to be shepardized) because it “cites” to a Supreme Court opinion written by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in the year 1944. Help me I can’t law anymore
December 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Welp. I came across my first absolutely hallucinated “case” where it wasn’t checked (and wouldn’t even need to be shepardized) because it “cites” to a Supreme Court opinion written by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in the year 1944. Help me I can’t law anymore
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SUBSKEET ALERT
This is your semi-regular reminder that if I haven’t mentioned an article that appears to be very much in my wheelhouse, it probably isn’t because I didn’t see it. Much more likely that I read it, found it wanting, and didn’t feel like spending my life critiquing.
This is your semi-regular reminder that if I haven’t mentioned an article that appears to be very much in my wheelhouse, it probably isn’t because I didn’t see it. Much more likely that I read it, found it wanting, and didn’t feel like spending my life critiquing.
December 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
SUBSKEET ALERT
This is your semi-regular reminder that if I haven’t mentioned an article that appears to be very much in my wheelhouse, it probably isn’t because I didn’t see it. Much more likely that I read it, found it wanting, and didn’t feel like spending my life critiquing.
This is your semi-regular reminder that if I haven’t mentioned an article that appears to be very much in my wheelhouse, it probably isn’t because I didn’t see it. Much more likely that I read it, found it wanting, and didn’t feel like spending my life critiquing.
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a demarcation I could work with while dying on my 'critique is service' hill 😀
"You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked." - Foucault
December 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
a demarcation I could work with while dying on my 'critique is service' hill 😀
-eyes the "use credit cards to transition to a new institution" rule of academia-
Being forced to take on debt so you can engage in the practice of your trade and still not reap the full benefits of your labor is a long time practice.
Stop being fucking dumb about your application of Marx.
Stop being fucking dumb about your application of Marx.
December 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
-eyes the "use credit cards to transition to a new institution" rule of academia-
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The fact that 12% of federal judges are Black shows the corruption of DEI. The fact that 67% of Supreme Court Justices belong to a small legal cult called the Federalist Society shows the power of meritocracy.
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The fact that 12% of federal judges are Black shows the corruption of DEI. The fact that 67% of Supreme Court Justices belong to a small legal cult called the Federalist Society shows the power of meritocracy.
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Look, there is no way to avoid TPUSA. You can give trolls a C-, B, B+. It won't matter. They can even get an A overall but if you give the feedback the very constructive OU instructor did, you're on the list. The assignment could be 2% of the grade (it might be in that class!). There is no defense.
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Look, there is no way to avoid TPUSA. You can give trolls a C-, B, B+. It won't matter. They can even get an A overall but if you give the feedback the very constructive OU instructor did, you're on the list. The assignment could be 2% of the grade (it might be in that class!). There is no defense.
named my fists Kennedy and Souter because they're not what the Federalist Society expected.
named my fists Miessler and Tarr because they're going to give you an improper rotation
named my fists Strunk and White because they help me omit needless words
December 1, 2025 at 3:36 AM
named my fists Kennedy and Souter because they're not what the Federalist Society expected.
Arguably this ship sailed a long time ago, at least in civil litigation, but I also understand the larger point, which is that it's far from business as usual for the shakedown to come from the government and to involve purporting to waive one's constitutional rights.
I’m thinking about something that a very wise longtime lawyer said re firms striking deals w Trump: this is about who we are as a profession. Are we going to become fixers who arrange for bribes? Or will we continue to support and operate within the rule of law?
November 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Arguably this ship sailed a long time ago, at least in civil litigation, but I also understand the larger point, which is that it's far from business as usual for the shakedown to come from the government and to involve purporting to waive one's constitutional rights.
Not to play one-up, but now imagine that your students can only access the books for the class through the LMS because the university really pushed them to do that.
And imagine that this persists for a week.
Welcome to CSUN!
And imagine that this persists for a week.
Welcome to CSUN!
You know what's awesome? Having to hot-spot off of your phone's data because the wifi just went out at work. Thankfully I have a boatload of data (that I pay for, on my personal cell phone, that I also paid for), but it's in-friggin-sane that I have to do this at least once per term just to function
November 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Not to play one-up, but now imagine that your students can only access the books for the class through the LMS because the university really pushed them to do that.
And imagine that this persists for a week.
Welcome to CSUN!
And imagine that this persists for a week.
Welcome to CSUN!
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For a small fee, I will go to your enemy's job talk and say, "Your causal identification strategy is a mystery to me. Can you explain it?"
For a small fee, I will go to your historian enemy’s seminar presentation and say “I guess I’m just wondering what the “so what” of this paper is?”
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
For a small fee, I will go to your enemy's job talk and say, "Your causal identification strategy is a mystery to me. Can you explain it?"
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tapping the sign
I'm going to tell you that the loudest, most obnoxious snarky shitposters are all 100% full bore activists who've been tilting at windmills their entire lives, and will never stop. the #resist dem meme repost scold accounts are unhelpful grifter ops hoping they can find the right adult to tattle to.
November 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
tapping the sign
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we deserve a better class of media elite, dawg
November 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
we deserve a better class of media elite, dawg
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Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
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🔔Job Alert 🔔
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🔔Job Alert 🔔
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
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People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.
If you are describing someone as a "heeb" you have either missed a memo somewhere, or you got the memo and you want to say exactly what you're saying.
November 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
If you are describing someone as a "heeb" you have either missed a memo somewhere, or you got the memo and you want to say exactly what you're saying.
It's good to know the CORRECT Arabic for what my wife taught me was "outshallah."
Everyone knows you say in shāʾ Allāh for something you hope will happen, but what if you don't want it to happen?
Egyptian Arabic elides the hamza and their typical post positional negation -/ʃ/
إن شَٱلله ما يحصل
in shallāh ma-yiḥṣal
Egyptian Arabic elides the hamza and their typical post positional negation -/ʃ/
إن شَٱلله ما يحصل
in shallāh ma-yiḥṣal
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
It's good to know the CORRECT Arabic for what my wife taught me was "outshallah."
Actual attorney ethics expert here: the answer to this question is "no."
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Actual attorney ethics expert here: the answer to this question is "no."
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I am, and will always be, an AI skeptic. What I’ve learned over decades of teaching and researching is that learning and absorbing new knowledge is cumulative, requires engaging cognitive abilities that are not used when reasoning is delegated or outsourced. LLMs are incapable of providing it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I am, and will always be, an AI skeptic. What I’ve learned over decades of teaching and researching is that learning and absorbing new knowledge is cumulative, requires engaging cognitive abilities that are not used when reasoning is delegated or outsourced. LLMs are incapable of providing it.
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It is a sobering thought to realize that we're watching the leaders of American universities determine whether critical thinking-- and by extension, the #humanities --are still worthwhile investments.
Who invests in critical thinking and who invests in an AI chatbot to help you think will be really telling.
November 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It is a sobering thought to realize that we're watching the leaders of American universities determine whether critical thinking-- and by extension, the #humanities --are still worthwhile investments.
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the thing is, you should still try to learn the material, even if your professor is not good at their job
i really wish this is something that i had thought about more consciously about while i was going into debt being registered for their classes
i really wish this is something that i had thought about more consciously about while i was going into debt being registered for their classes
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
the thing is, you should still try to learn the material, even if your professor is not good at their job
i really wish this is something that i had thought about more consciously about while i was going into debt being registered for their classes
i really wish this is something that i had thought about more consciously about while i was going into debt being registered for their classes
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this is why people keep falling in love w AI. you have to be forewarned that it’s bad. your brain can’t tell the difference between feel-good neurotransmitters you get from a real person vs ones you get from a chatbot
it’s a crisis in that people don’t understand what’s happening to them. everyone is lonely and sad and the Agreement Machine is designed to deliver the same chemicals your brain gets from falling in love. your brain can’t tell it’s not a real person, you have to *understand* it’s not a real person
November 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
this is why people keep falling in love w AI. you have to be forewarned that it’s bad. your brain can’t tell the difference between feel-good neurotransmitters you get from a real person vs ones you get from a chatbot