Lawrence Lessig
@lessig.bsky.social
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Law professor; activist; not convinced we have time; acting as if we do.
Sam Wang is THE LEADING anti-gerrymandering academic/activist in the nation, founder of the Princeton Gerrymandering Project, and now running for Congress in NJ12. I and we (EqualCitizens.US) STRONGLY support him. Check him out and do what you can?
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Just circulated on SSRN: If Roe, Then Buckley. The essay challenges the originalists: The method that motivated overturning Roe, applied consistently, means Buckley must go. Never have "We, the People" said billionaires have the right to control our politicians.
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If Roe, then Buckley
<span> <p><span>Modern originalism was born as a theory of democratic restraint; it has morphed into something very different. In this essay, I argue that orig
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Bested by a machine
Or how an AI's ability to explain why Harvard was so wrong to remove Francesca Gino's tenure shows that we've achieved ALI (artificial Lessig intelligence) and exceeded the original.
https://bit.ly/4unA3fH
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This is a critically important idea that every Democrat should be embracing – at least in the primaries. Hey
#DEMS
, show us the (lack of SuperPAC) money!
add a skeleton here at some point
18 days ago
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Support Kai!
KaiforAZ.com
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23 days ago
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Linked:
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25 days ago
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The Boston Globe agrees: Citizens United did not create SuperPACs, and it is time for the First Circuit to fix that absurd mistake.
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/26/o...
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A way out of super PAC madness? - The Boston Globe
If they act quickly on a Maine case, federal judges could tee up a Supreme Court decision next year that restores some sanity to campaign finance laws.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/26/opinion/super-pac-supreme-court/
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This is a brilliant unpacking of the idea that will save us (if we can come to recognize its brilliance quickly enough).
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The Ancient Invention That Solves Corruption
#sponsored 🔒 Get 20% off DeleteMe by going to https://joindeleteme.com/spectacles and use code SPECTACLES to protect your privacy! 🙌 Nobody likes politicians. So what if we just...got rid of…
https://youtu.be/LzbJacGGt1o?si=Nq7QO9-NAmgsnOCK
about 1 month ago
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about 2 months ago
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"A whole civilization will die tonight" is the threat of a war crime. The only way to achieve that result is nuclear. Those charged by the 25th Amendment to police his fitness to serve need to realize this: If they don't act to stop it, they are responsible.
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Trump warns Iran: 'Whole civilization will die'
President Trump imposed a deadline for the Strait of Hormuz to open or face heavy strikes.
https://youtu.be/XedhdMltLso?si=yslCsWJL2FwVbIe6&t=24
2 months ago
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Review: THE AI DOC: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist
Missing the elephant in the room
https://open.substack.com/pub/lessig/p/review-the-ai-doc-or-how-i-became?r=7dgxu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
2 months ago
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In Boston and want to see THE AI DOC: OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST 3/28 at 6pm AMC Boston Common FOR FREE?
the-ai-doc.eventbrite.com
2 months ago
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#JonOssoff
is always the clearest on just why
#ItsTheCorruptionStupid
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Ossoff: I get why people voted for him
Jon Ossoff is the only Democratic U.S. Senator up for re-election in a state Trump won. This is the most important Senate race in the country. He needs our support, join at ElectJon.com Subscribe…
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2 months ago
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Coming to SXSW? I’m joining The Knowledge Paradox: When Does Sharing Become Theft? at SXSW Innovation. ➡️ Sat, Mar 14 | 2:30–3:30 PM CT ➡️ Thompson Austin, Red River Ballroom A session to confront complexity (and to out myself as an alien in this debate).
3 months ago
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An extortionist caving:
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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This is a beautiful act of integrity and principle, incredibly rare for our time. Thank you, Anthropic.
www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...
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Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
3 months ago
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4 months ago
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tl;dr: An injunction against Trumpian extortion. Finally. The first clear ruling against the business model of this Capo in Chief.
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UCLA Faculty Beat the the Trump Admin. Other Schools Should Take Notes.
Trump's DOJ drops appeal of court order blocking massive UCLA settlement that would have banned diversity programs and declared transgender people don't exist.
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4 months ago
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4 months ago
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Someone who understands neurons, numbers, and democracy is running for Congress. Pay attention: Sam Wang is in the race in NJ. Greast news for evidence-based self-government.
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Sam Wang for New Jersey | Join the Democratic Reform Movement
Support Sam Wang's campaign for a fair, transparent, and accountable government in New Jersey. Join the movement to reform democracy and challenge gerrymandering.
https://buff.ly/PD4oePP
4 months ago
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Sam Wang—neuroscientist, Princeton professor, democracy reformer, gerrymandering nemesis—is running for Congress. From mapping brains to fixing maps. New Jersey is on the clock.
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Sam Wang for New Jersey | Join the Democratic Reform Movement
Support Sam Wang's campaign for a fair, transparent, and accountable government in New Jersey. Join the movement to reform democracy and challenge gerrymandering.
https://buff.ly/PD4oePP
4 months ago
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Grateful to have a chance to talk to Kara Swisher:
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How to get dark money out of politics
Lawrence Lessig — Harvard law professor, former presidential candidate, and founder of Equal Citizens — joins Kara to explain why Super PACs are one of the root causes of political corruption in the…
https://youtu.be/mec4q-tz_8Q?si=aMdep-tgAlMODbGR
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I’ve admired Sam Wang’s work on gerrymandering and democracy for years. Now he’s running for Congress in NJ. A Princeton neuroscientist who actually uses evidence to defend democracy? Yes please.
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Sam Wang for New Jersey | Join the Democratic Reform Movement
Support Sam Wang's campaign for a fair, transparent, and accountable government in New Jersey. Join the movement to reform democracy and challenge gerrymandering.
https://buff.ly/PD4oePP
4 months ago
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Sam Wang is running for Congress. Yes, THAT Sam Wang: Princeton professor, neuroscientist, democracy reformer, relentless opponent of gerrymandering. Serious brains + serious commitment to democracy = very good news.
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Sam Wang for New Jersey | Join the Democratic Reform Movement
Support Sam Wang's campaign for a fair, transparent, and accountable government in New Jersey. Join the movement to reform democracy and challenge gerrymandering.
https://buff.ly/PD4oePP
4 months ago
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Big news from New Jersey: Sam Wang—neuroscientist, Princeton professor, and one of the nation’s leading anti-gerrymandering voices—is running for Congress. Evidence-based democracy is stepping onto the ballot. This is how change happens.
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Sam Wang for New Jersey | Join the Democratic Reform Movement
Support Sam Wang's campaign for a fair, transparent, and accountable government in New Jersey. Join the movement to reform democracy and challenge gerrymandering.
https://buff.ly/PD4oePP
4 months ago
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New episode in The Gino Case posted
From The Law, such as it is
https://open.substack.com/pub/lessig/p/new-episode-in-the-gino-case-posted?r=7dgxu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
4 months ago
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On the eve of the 50th anniversary of Buckley v. Valeo, I'm participating in an event at the AEI in DC about originalism and the First Amendment. Register to attend in person or online here:
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4 months ago
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reposted by
Lawrence Lessig
Equal Citizens
4 months ago
Our founder
@lessig.bsky.social
is going live on Lawrence O’Donnell’s MSNOWNews The Last Word segment with Ali Velshi tonight at 10:20 pm ET! Tune in to learn how our legal strategy can get dark money out of politics WITHOUT overturning Citizens United.
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Seriously, truly brilliant. Yo, time to get off the train.
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Dear America, We’d Like to Speak to the Manager
Talks in Washington among Greenland, Denmark and the United States over Greenland’s future have stalled, with no compromise in sight. Greenlanders have made it clear that they want to remain under…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBoLhWHx-as
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Remember when Trump (who has bombed 7 countries, invaded 1, and is threatening at least two others (not counting Mexico)) was to be the anti-NeoCon president? I respect the anti-NeoCons. But hey, Trump-supporting-anti-NeoCons: Do you respect yourself? @TulsiGabbard
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Jason Crow is really pissed
#short
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5 months ago
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Wow.
#JustWow
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Nemik's eulogy for Renee Nicole Good.
It's always a bad sign when there are Andor memes in your feed. Thanks to the many photographers whose work I've borrowed. You can find a full list of all the photos used in the montage here:…
https://youtu.be/9dih_bbwrNk?si=VLlMFuz0zHthvWgO
5 months ago
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The revolution will be YouTube-ified.
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Good vs. Ice
https://youtu.be/El0CLduLgew?si=l6AOtpciyeNbsdRE
5 months ago
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- @aaronsw, +13.
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Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
5 months ago
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Brilliant remix of the Battle Hymn of the Republic by the extraordinary Marsh Family. Favorite line: "He is drumming out the glory of a land once free and brave..."
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"Battle Hymn of the Empire" - Marsh Family adaptation of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" about Trump
The “Battle Hymn of the Republic” is an iconic American song, drawing on lots of roots and precursors, but pulled into its most famous shape by abolitionist Julia Ward Howe. During the American Civil…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8saU0WeocP0&list=RD8saU0WeocP0&start_radio=1
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This is going to be lots of fun: First Amendment Originalism at the AEI in DC on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Buckley v. Valeo.
www.aei.org/events/first...
Sign up to listen if you can't be there.
5 months ago
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My favorite thing about New Year's:
web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
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Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US…
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/
5 months ago
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When a picture is worth 1,000 words: Here's the sleight of hand that is going to bring SuperPACs down.
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Worth 1,000 words
The appellees have filed their brief in our case defending the people of Maine’s right to police the size of contributions to independent…
https://lessig.medium.com/worth-a-1-000-words-0ba6a9cec298
6 months ago
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6 months ago
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reposted by
Lawrence Lessig
Alex Komoroske
6 months ago
What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow? Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it)
resonantcomputing.org
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The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
https://resonantcomputing.org
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The Chief Justice was right.
#POTUS
#OBLIVIOUSNESS
6 months ago
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From the authors of the argument that will end SuperPACs:
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The courts broke campaign finance. Maine is giving them a chance to repair it. - The Boston Globe
There is a path to restore limits on big money in politics.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/opinion/campaign-finance-maine/
6 months ago
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Harvard's 2020/21 reports on Epstein were Hamlet without the Prince (Summers). We need to understand why:
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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The First Epstein Report Ignored Summers. Harvard Must Do Better. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
How could Harvard have allowed this production of Hamlet without the Prince? And will it now commit to a practice that will not protect the elite among us, while shaming those not quite elite enough?
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/25/lessig-harvard-epstein-summers-ignored/
6 months ago
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Seriously brilliant protest music:
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"Join ICE" - Jesse Welles (LIVE on The Late Show)
Viral musical sensation Jesse Welles brings his GRAMMY-nominated political folk to the Ed Sullivan Theater for a solo performance of "Join ICE," a tune from his latest EP, 'No Kings.' Keep watching…
https://youtu.be/61I4hlig78w?si=zJCCUhyxpWUA5obY
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From the Department of Tragic Irony: On the day the Harvard Law School releases a digital archive of the Nuremberg Trials, the President threatens the lives of members of Congress who utter its most basic truth: That everyone, especially soldiers, must follow the law.
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
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Nuremberg - Explore the Nuremberg Trials!
The Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project is an open-access initiative to create and present digitized images and full-text versions of the Library's Nuremberg Trials documents,…
https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/
7 months ago
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I've published the fourth episode of the podcast reviewing the Francesca Gino case (Harvard Business School professor removed for academic misconduct). This is the first of four to review the evidence behind the four findings of misconduct.
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Episode 4: Dismantling "Allegation 2"
the first of four.
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Trump pardon of billionaire sparks concerns
President Trump pardoned the billionaire founder of the largest crypto exchange in the world, Binance. It's raised questions about conflicts of interest and the president's use of the pardon…
https://youtu.be/fwcHn1GSZwo?si=eOpQHG41uh3Ds_ZM
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