So apparently liberty is modeled on a naked Mark Zuckerberg. Which really tells you something.

On this week's Trials of the Trump Administration, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @mollyroberts.bsky.social, @klonick.bsky.social, @ericcolumbus.bsky.social & @rparloff.bsky.social discuss Supreme Court decisions on birthright citizenship, firing independent agency heads & location data privacy.

Tomorrow at 4pm, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org will sit down with @mollyroberts.bsky.social, @klonick.bsky.social, @ericcolumbus.bsky.social, and @rparloff.bsky.social to discuss this week's Supreme Court's decisions and more.

Was Hines v Stamos Cheryl Hines suing John Stamos over the long-awaited Full House/Curb Your Enthusiasm crossover? Nope, it was an attempt to suppress academic research into the organized manipulation of online platforms. After three years we finally won. But at great cost.

Um, I think the news here is that Nina Totenberg has been covering the Supreme Court for NPR for _51_ years. www.npr.org/sections/npr...

I adore @doctorow.pluralistic.net, and though we don't always agree on the descriptive realities of a situation or policies, you never walk away from a conversation (or podcast!!) with him without challenging your priors and thinking differently about the world. Have a listen!

On Lawfare Daily, @klonick.bsky.social and @alanrozenshtein.com were joined by @doctorow.pluralistic.net to discuss his new book “The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI," what the "reverse centaur" is and how it maps onto a broader culture. youtu.be/T1KIwaYRs1g

The Supreme Court ruled this morning in Chatrie v. United States that location data has constitutional protection. After oral argument, @klonick.bsky.social sat down with a panel of experts. Listen to the podcast today to understand the Fourth Amendment stakes of geofence warrants.

Very proud of @maureenebrady.com 's citation (3x!!!) in Jackson's dissent in the Supreme Court's recent decision on gun rights in Wolford v. Lopez. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... You shot your shot, MB: www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/prope...

OMG this episode title

I don’t know I’ve ever seen a person’s genuine smile be quite so unsettling

“Il va te falloir un verre plus grand”

I’ve a feeling we’re not in France anymore, Tôtô

This is... insane. The EU spent untold hours of human labor and political effort to create the DSA's intricate system of rules for platforms. And the CJEU is just smashing it, like a toddler.

Hello from France. It’s like this all the time here.

“You can’t step in the same kid twice.”— my channeling Heraclitus after having a second child

“It’s giving. . .monster energy”

No coincidence it’s the clear worst film in the franchise

It seems overnight the White House has been replaced by a Monster Energy Drink branded UFC cage

The historian Gordon Wood, who died yesterday after being run over by a motorist in East Providence, was my dissertation advisor. He was 92. Here are some memories of him. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/gordo...

I’m so sad to hear of the sudden passing of Gordon Wood, my college history professor and one of the best teachers and scholars I’ve ever encountered. Wish he could have seen the 250th birthday of the country he loved so well. www.golocalprov.com/news/pulitze...

Absolutely insane story from @suryamattu.com. Bloomberg found a little-known tax loophole exploited by the rich is costing the Treasury $48 billion a year…roughly enough to fund NASA twice over.

This is what’s missing from post-humanity sci-fi

NEW: A stunning new project from @lawfaremedia.org's @katherinepomps.bsky.social finds that 97 Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the Capitol riot then got arrested, charged, and/or convicted with subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.

I want to jump off the top of the reflecting pool.

to my mind the most important biographical fact to know about samuel alito is that he was a member of a group that opposed the admission of women and minorities to princeton www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/p...

A follow-back to the first person who can correctly ID the person boarding the Acela NY-DC ahead of me tonight.

Well this screams “getting ahead of the story” openai.com/index/our-vi...

danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

NEW: The Trump administration's DOJ has been systematically removing materials from its websites regarding the many indictments and convictions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In response, @lawfaremedia.org has been systematically restoring them:

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@samidh.bsky.social and I are releasing CoPE-B today, the next version of our policy-adaptive content classifier. It delivers at-or-better-than-frontier classification while being self-hostable, faster, and cheaper to run. Full writeup with benchmarks at blog.zentropi.ai/meet-cope-b-.... 🧵 1/9

This article is so good. And so overdue.

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The Trump/Blanche "settlement" fund purports to be challengeable only by those who colluded to create it. ... 1/5 www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Now’s the time to hire a folksy field hockey coach from Oklahoma or a disgruntled but brilliant waterboy with a chip on his shoulder what are you waiting for

Me: wow my feed is so full of kinda boring EU internet regulatory news at 00:17 ET! @doctorow.pluralistic.net :

Can't believe this all came down to SoL. Which as a reminder for those studying for the bar exam, is a perfect acronym. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

I’ve been saying for a while that a silver lining of AI’s aggressive colonizing march into education has been to make a lot of us say, “now wait a minute, and what about all that other edtech… like LMS’s” — the latter effectively critiqued here with a call to dump them, all of them.

Universe: oh are you having a good day? feeling great? enjoying the sun and fresh spring air? well, fuck you, here’s a dead baby bird on the sidewalk

The Internet is disappearing before our very eyes and it’s why we should all support that absolutely critical work of @archive.org

Jerome Powell had every single reason to quit. He has plenty of money; & is well into his retirement years. Trump set goon squads & mobs after him. Yet he refused to step aside; the economy & millions of people’s welfare benefited from his resolve. This is service. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/o...

Independent researchers help the public understand how social media platforms, AI, and other technologies shape everyday life. Following yesterday’s hearing in CITR v. Rubio, @thecoalition.bsky.social's @geurkink.bsky.social spoke about what’s at stake when that work gets silenced.

* A chatbot can't do your job, but an AI salesman can *absolutely* convince your boss to fire you and replace you with a chatbot that *can't* do your job: pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/a... 8/

Truly the Alien vs Predator of copyright disputes.

Interesting piece, but I resent how Peter Thiel is represented in the Gawker saga. Thiel didn't "emerge from the shadows" to magnanimously tell the NYT he funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. He did it because my colleague and I exposed his involvement. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

NOT SO EZ IS IT JAY