As legislative sessions begin across the country, AI is a top priority for many lawmakers. Rushed, state-by-state approaches risk chilling innovation and speech. CCIA is helping policymakers pursue responsible, balanced AI regulation at ccianet.org/library/ccia... .

The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors

Newsweek created a map showing the locations where shootings linked to immigrations agents have taken place since January 2025.

Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of Renee Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent, and the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter, according those with knowledge of their decision. nyti.ms/4qUl36Z

The case is Entrepreneur Media, LLC v. Meta Platforms, Inc., 3:25-cv-09579, (N.D. Cal.) www.courtlistener.com/docket/7188...

@Meta.com has moved to dismiss what it calls @TedEntertain.com's "meritless ancillary theories" of secondary liability and DMCA breach apart from plaintiffs' core direct © infringement claims: 🧵

Wrote up some quick thoughts on the final and strange contours of the TikTok deal for @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/how-to-make-...

"The U.S. Supreme Court seems likely to shake up American copyright law ... in the Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment case." — Opinion by Professor Pamela Samuelson, co-director of Berkeley Center for Law & Technology https://bit.ly/4iWO2V7 #BerkeleyLaw @@pamelasamuelson.bsky.social#BerkeleyLaw

video of American Academy program on "Generative AI is Terrific, but Is It Really Legal?" now available www.amacad.org/events/gener...

Standing room only at the California legislature hearing on AI and copyright, where @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social, Rishi Bommasani and I testified

New Tech Policy Podcast! @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social (UC Berkeley) and @corbinkbarthold.bsky.social discuss the Supreme Court oral argument in Cox v. Sony, a copyright case that could have major ramifications for the internet. podcast.techfreedom.org/episodes/426...

Professor Pamela Samuelson, co-director of the Center for Law & Technology, among UC Berkeley experts addressing AI’s legal and economic implications: https://bit.ly/3K0FnUv #BerkeleyLaw #AI @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social#BerkeleyLaw

The Depression began after Wall Street stocks crashed 96 years ago today, @hcrichardson.bsky.social reminds us. She cites a wildly off-base claim heard then & now: "Republican leaders blamed poor Americans for the Great Depression, saying they drained the economy because they refused to work hard."

NEW: The Trump administration quietly lifted sanctions on Wednesday against the Putin-backed Serbian leader Milorad Dodik after an intensive campaign on his behalf by Trump allies including Rudy Giuliani, Mike Flynn, Laura Loomer & high-priced lobbyists.

"Thomson Reuters ... has provided ICE with access to its [CLEAR] platform. CLEAR creates individual profiles of people by aggregating and connecting thousands of datasets full of typically hard-to-find information, such as court records, business filings, driving records and social media."

“What’s up?” is the Bluesky prompt for posts. Our benefits and lifelines are “what’s up” on Nov 1. As the regime continues to spend lavishly (and anonymously) on “ballrooms,” illegal bombings, and Trump himself, Americans are struggling: food, healthcare, jobs, ICE… Cruelty is the point. Vote 🗳️

It’s self-dealing all the way down www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

Marc Andreessen, who sits on Meta's board, is funding a click farm www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee. But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education. A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.

Our amicus brief in the Supreme Court on behalf of former judges and government officials, including ones appointed by every Republican president from Nixon through Trump, argues that the President doesn't have the power to impose whatever tariffs he likes. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

IViR is very happy and proud to announce that Dr. João Pedro Quintais @jpquintais.bsky.social was awarded with a Vidi grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Congratulations João Pedro! 🥳 www.ivir.nl/vidi-grant-f...

For more check out a new policy brief authored by my colleague @courtneyr.bsky.social and me on why platform monopolies – not EU regulation – are the real threat to freedom of speech. www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

Good to see enforcement of the DSA continuing despite Trump's threats. While the US government claims that the DSA allows "censorship", in the real world Meta is preventing users from exercising their legal rights to challenge its opaque content moderation decisions. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

These pictures need to be in EVERY Democratic candidate's ad for the next several years. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.

Israel is de-registering major nongovernmental aid groups from helping people in the Palestinian territories, according to several officials with humanitarian organizations. n.pr/42R8gJ2

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

Trump in July, on the WH $250MM ballroom project: “It won’t interfere with the current building.... It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

As a matter of fact, truth matters.

Planning your week? 🎉 Join the #InternetArchive to celebrate The Web We’ve Built — from the first pages to 1 trillion & counting. 🌐 📅 Weds, Oct 22 🎟️ In Person ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133... 🖥️ Virtual ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626431011... #Wayback1T #Livestream

Anthropic and Deloitte Announce Global Partnership to Deploy Claude AI Across Regulated Industries

SCOTUS spent Wednesday morning trying to figure out a way to legalize racial gerrymandering. trib.al/TvPE4dc The justices appeared to single out Section 2, which (if gutted) would wipe out Black congressional representation in the South—at a scale unseen since the end of Reconstruction

And they accuse us of hating America?!?!

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

BREAKING: Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of George Santos, according to a Truth Social post.

This is potentially a massive story. Did DOJ plan for survivors? Do they have sufficient evidence to prosecute? What is US jurisdiction to prosecute? Where will they go next? When is their court date? Will they be indicted? Held at Gitmo? Returned to Venezuela? Be Epsteined?

They also cancelled government data collection about hunger to minimize evidence about their policies

We're tracking digital censorship, and we hope you'll help. /end www.libraryfutures.net/post/trackin...

Spread this around. Missouri and Ohio Democrats need at least 100,000 valid signatures to take on Republican gerrymandering maps. This is the fight 🔥

And we are too busy burning the planet with AI, ripping each other apart and killing each other to do anything about it.

Pro-voting groups warn that if the Supreme Court rules to strike down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, it could give the GOP at least 19 more U.S. House seats — seats that were directly created by the provision. https://bit.ly/4q7aQ7D

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there's a secret domestic terrorism watchlist if anyone cares www.kenklippenstein.com/p/senator-wa...

The murders of the Venezuelan and Colombian fishermen are crimes against humanity. Can’t the people that ordered this and carried it out be prosecuted? Does the SC’s immunity ruling protect trump? I don’t want people who co-sign murder on the Supreme Court! abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

At 11am I will try to live-blog, for @lawfaremedia.org , the hearing in Abrego Garcia’s civil (habeas corpus) case in federal court in Greenbelt MD. Abrego is seeking release from detention under a SCOTUS precedent called Zadvydas v Davis (2001). ... /1 tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

Breaking Down The Intersection Of Right-Of-Publicity Law, AI www.law360.com/classaction/...

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