Mayor Michelle Wu speaking truth to power. A fabulous example.

#BULawProf @jessicasilbey.bsky.social, @robertltsai.bsky.social, and @jedshug.bsky.social discuss SCOTUS' ruling limiting nationwide injunctions and its deferred decision on the constitutionality of the effort to end birthright citizenship. Read more ➡️ www.bu.edu/articles/202...

"What I see in this decision is the court’s attempt to buy time, through procedural mechanisms, to avoid deciding a question that it would rather see decided by the political process," says @jessicasilbey.bsky.social.

A sweet moment gone viral or an invasion of privacy #BULawProf @jessicasilbey.bsky.social & @hartzog.bsky.social join @comatbu.bsky.social Prof. Kathryn Coduto to discuss a public marriage proposal shared online and the privacy questions it raises in the social media age. www.bu.edu/articles/202...

It features pieces from @orlylobel.bsky.social, @ariezra.bsky.social, Aleksander Goranin, @matthewsag.bsky.social, Peter K. Yu, @jessicasilbey.bsky.social, @nicholson.bsky.social, and @saragerke.bsky.social!

As someone who has been on the business end of nationwide injunctions that I thought were improper, I find the question of what rules we should adopt for them to be genuinely hard. But yesterday's decision deserves massive criticism, for at least two reasons. (Thread.)

@jessicasilbey.bsky.social and I have a new paper that draws on our empirical research into designers and focuses on how designers conceive of and solve design problems. Feedback welcome.

I'm wondering if pilots and flight attendants are considering a national day(s) of walk out in protest of the FAA layoffs?

s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25... AUSA resignation letter.

Let’s not pretend this is some complex legal question only special elites like JD Vance can understand. Everyone can see what Trump and Musk are claiming power to do — raze the federal bureaucracy to the ground in contravention of the congressional statutes that build, regulate, and protect it.

We have a 28th amendment? www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

www.youtube.com/live/gMwqdDz... This made me cry.

update: here is the AI policy i wrote for my doc seminar this term (i have already located the typo and fixed it, which tbh is like 60% of the point of posting it in public)

It's becoming increasingly difficult to deny that significant sectors of our media system are little more than tools for oligarchs.

The New York Times reporting on the Washington Post is… 🤨

The infiltrator’s name is John Williams. To learn what he revealed about the paramilitary movement — and how a mole managed to become a senior leader in a major American militia — read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...

Luigi Mangione fan art, merch, and photos are getting hit with bogus copyright takedown requests all over the internet. Artists and journalists affected. Very difficult to tell who is doing it, but one company says they received a request from United Healthcare: www.404media.co/copyright-ab...

The United States is now producing enough domestic solar to cover nearly all annual deployment. That's what policy can do, folks! And a majority of these jobs are in Republican districts.

How an Empty Internet Gave Us Tradwives and Trump www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...

The Senate confirmed 2 district judges this afternoon: Mustafa Taher Kasubhai (who'll be a judge on the District of Oregon) Sarah French Russell (who'll be a judge on the District of Connecticut)

cartoon of the day

Good Lord, @bostonglobe.bsky.social

If Dems flip #CA45 & #CA13, then the U.S. House majority will have literally come down to the 3 NC the GOP flipped thanks to its new gerrymander. And that itself hinged on NC's supreme court flipping in 2022. Coincidentally I just wrote this today: boltsmag.org/state-suprem...

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