Proud to have filed this brief in the DC Circuit with @prmalone.bsky.social and Brianne Holland-Stergar on behalf of nearly 600 law professors supporting the law firms who fought Trump's executive orders storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Bye, Pam! Don't let the cell door hit you on your way to prison www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/p...

I will only add that in many cases this force has been used illegally and unconstitutionally.

This seems like a big deal. Mauritz Kop mashable.com/article/goog...

@wired.com is well worth paying to subscribe to. They are holding to account where almost no one else is

Religion note: This piece focuses on BORTAC agents. Remember when a California pastor confronted masked agents last year who appeared on her church's property, and one agent allegedly said "the whole country is our property"? One of those agents had a BORTAC badge. religionnews.com/2025/06/13/i...

He's talking about Leonard Leo, the grandmaster of Opus Dei in the United States bsky.app/profile/thet...

as someone who actively publishes in both student run law journals and peer reviewed social science and hard science journals and is a peer reviewer myself for all kinds of journals... there are good and bad things about both ways! this is my most lukewarm take but it is true

More great reporting from Wired unmasking some of the ICE/Border Patrol agents assaulting Americans www.wired.com/story/border...

Save the baby AIs! www.wired.com/story/ai-mod...

All my IP folks need to read this whole thread

It's official -- Trump is trying to shut down the election, blocking ballots from being mailed. This is flatly illegal. It is also a straight-up fascist takeover of our democracy www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

"What was once a fringe, failed legal theory concocted by some local cops in one Texas border city is now the official position of the federal government’s lawyers."

The F’ing Ferret-Faced Felon-Fraud wants to claim it as his own idea… so, he destroyed President Obama’s carefully crafted diplomatic agreement, and repackaged it.

“.. More Republicans are retiring ahead of the midterms than at any point in nearly a century, according to an ABC News tally ..” abcnews.com/Politics/rec...

I love the signs - here's my favorite seen today, but I'm sure there's more bangers I missed. American protest signs are truly a thing unto their own - high art - they very often show the underlying good nature of protesters - however annoyed they are Americans are annoyed - nothing here is normal

Agree that near-verbatim is important. This was a nontrivial computer science problem for the notion of memorization we’ve been studying (different from the prior standard metric, which undercounts for additional reasons). Working on a blog post that explains the hard but interesting problem here

Here’s our prior paper, which uses the verbatim version of the metric, but is specifically about copyrighted text and open-weight models : arxiv.org/abs/2505.12546

"The real divide is not between the left and the rest of the country, but between people grounded in reality and people who have immersed themselves in the American right’s warped, extremist media universe."

@afedercooper.bsky.social and I have a new paper that expands AI memorization tests to include near-verbatim copies, not just exact copies. We find that increases extraction/memorization of copyrighted content significantly. arxiv.org/abs/2603.24917

Wishing everyone a joyous NO KINGS DAY 3.0- Thank you to everyone across the globe for your participation in the Resistance... an inspiration to us ALL!!! 🙏 The signs you're carrying are off-the-charts perfection. 👌 7 months until the Midterms! 🗓️ #NoKings2026 👎 👑 #AccountabilityIsComing

So many signs to choose from #nokings

Supplemental Song For The Day: Get Up, Stand Up - Bob Marley youtu.be/X2W3aG8uizA?...

This is so nauseatingly Un-American

Trump blessed a merger that would hand CNN to the Ellisons They already gutted CBS News Now they want the whole media empire Media consolidation is the oldest autocrat trick in the book & we're fighting it More on my weekly Publisher's note on @contrariannews.org -TN

I can’t wait until Robert Garcia becomes the chair of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and has subpoena power. This is huge:

Once again, House Republicans are revolting.

House Republicans are blocking a unanimous(!) agreement by the Senate to pay TSA, Coast Guard, and other essential employees There is zero question which party is creating chaos at the airports. It's the Republicans www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

Join us at the No Kings protest tomorrow. Keep up the pressure to save our democracy. No matter where you live there's probably one near you. Full list here: www.nokings.org

In this lawsuit, the plaintiff says it sells genuine fake urine and sues the defendant for selling counterfeit, imitation fake urine dockets.justia.com/docket/alaba...

Full-time law professor friends, please consider signing on to our latest amicus brief, this one in the DC Circuit, opposing the abusive Trump Executive Orders targeting law firms. Email or DM me if you want to see the draft brief.

Fun news for #trademarks folks: I contributed a TTAB scraper to CourtListener. There might be a few bugs to squash, and we won’t have the historical backlog of all cases (yet) but I think we’ll soon have a solid collection of precedential opinions since the mid-1980s.

@prmalone.bsky.social and I (plus others at Stanford) have prepared a law professors amicus brief supporting law firms challenging Trump's Executive Orders targeting them. If you are a full-time law professor and would like to see the brief, please email me or DM me and I will send a copy.

Good news from the Supreme Court for a change: The Sony Betamax case lives! The Supreme Court refuses to expand the scope of secondary copyright liability beyond the bounds set in Grokster (inducement) and Sony (contributory infringement). www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

This is great news and a great choice. Really excited to welcome Nicky aboard.

Mar el Lago district just flipped red to blue! www.local10.com/news/florida...

Greetings from behind the Great Firewall of America A thread

The business of cruelty and lawbreaking (one your state pension fund might be supporting) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is quite the story.

Don't forget that MAGA is dismantling the Postsl Service:

2010s: a startup worth $1 billion is a vanishingly rare thing (a "unicorn") 2026: a company that makes AI collars for cows is worth $ 2 billion www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In addition to being evil, this is a crime in many states www.404media.co/this-company...

Original slogan: "don't be evil" Proposed Google AI headline for the slogan: "be evil" www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

I'm proud to be one of more than 75 academics and advocacy groups who signed this letter calling out FCC chair Brendan Carr's flagrantly unconstitutional threats against media institutions who accurately report news about the Iran war in ways Donald Trump doesn't like techfreedom.org/wp-content/u...

Tell that to military members serving overseas. Or people whose local mail service has become unreliable, resulting in their ballots being delivered to them late. But I suppose these problems are unthinkable where you live. Which is presumably Narnia

This is really scary. There is no serious argument that Congress somehow invalidated the laws of 29 states when it passed a law setting election day 152 years ago, and it's just that no one noticed. But it seems that's where the conservatives on the Court are headed www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

I pity every single person having to travel right now! It certainly isn't the immigrants who were turning us into a third world of country. It's the dictator.