I thoroughly enjoyed this low key food drama.

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Amazing. Brilliant. Analogue.

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In the SCOTUS oral argument about gutting the VRA because it might violate white people's right to be over-represented in Congress, there's a glaring irony in the fact that the lawyers arguing for racism are getting out-balanced time to speak without anybody acting like it's weird.

Try to live your life in such a way that when you die, sitting members of Congress do not immediately, publicly call you a stain on your profession and the office you held ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/roger-tane...

So many of you get your authority by being white. That's it. You don't know any more than I do. You're not smarter than I am. You're just white and that grants you a level of authority that I am not granted without proving myself. You're trading in white supremacy. You should think about that.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Flashback to April when we did a Race + IP thing! I haven't logged into bluesky since. But since people are in the streets, it seemed like high time! Stay tuned for more #CRTIP news!

“Who has the capacity to create?” Julia Nguyen (ucla) interrogating traditional IP concepts of creatorship at this weekends @raceip.bsky.social Race IP conference at Pitt Law (organized by my colleague Anjali Vats!)

Spotted at #LSAChicago2025: Anjali Vats @raceip.bsky.social's Color of Creatorship. Now added to my summer reading list!

We knew this was coming but also 😱

Oh hey Race + IP '25: Abolitionist Futures is LIVE! We're so ready to celebrate our fifth anniversary. 🎈 You can register here: www.raceipconference.org/2025 As always, the event is free to attend, with in person and virtual options. Everyone is welcome.

White people as a whole could stop this madness anytime...

This is really really bad because when I was at big law in 2001, a lot of people were repping patriot act detainees pro bono. This is how Trump makes sure no lawyers step up the way they did in airports in January 2017 when he issued the Muslim travel ban EO

Move right and lose.

For those keeping score: www.project2025.observer

Louder for the folks that haven't taken it in: THE US ISN'T A STARTUP!

Roses are red And measles are too. Thanks to RFK Jr, Outbreaks just grew.

time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet

Something I read today: “Loving Corrections” by adrienne maree brown. #booksky @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social “The good news is that we don’t need to be experts on every region to move with and towards humanity, connection, and solidarity.”

Here are flyers for Monday’s protests - one at Harrisburg and one at Philly City Hall. Follow @50501movement.bsky.social for more.

While 'warrior tech bros' are apparently all the rage, we'll need a different kind of technologist if we want to survive as a species and inhabit a livable world. We'll need #DesignJustice.

As the gutting of the federal workforce continues, including federal lawyers, one way state bars can help is providing waivers or provisional licensing for attorneys that will mostly be barred in DC.

READ Danielle Sassoon's letter to AG Pam Bondi, via @nytimes.com: "Rather than be rewarded, Adams's advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...

new york please i beg, i want to see you break the streak of each nyc mayor being worse than the one before him in my lifetime

I miss the old Kanye

Donald Trump is everything our Founding Fathers feared.

Love this memorial. Gone too soon.

DO NOT MEMORY HOLE THE NAZI SALUTE! Elon Musk did it not once but twice, and with vigor! It’s been 3 weeks, and there’s been no accountability. Institutionalized Judaism has let him off the hook. It is up to us to remember, to never forget the ancestors who deserve better, and to make it stick.

This is incredible reporting and an important read. WIRED has been absolutely running circles around NYT and WaPo. I bought a subscription. They're going to need our support when Musk and Thiel try to sue them out of existence Gawker-style.

Hey, everyone. Let's share Rose's website as far and often as possible. Her name was scrubbed from NASA's website thanks to orders to erase women in STEM. Rose fought through poverty and homelessness, and every time I look at the moon, I think of her. www.rosedf.space/explore

Enraging. Math excellence, canceled.

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The tl;dr of Elon Musk.

NEW YORK (AP) — A dozen states say they will file lawsuit challenging DOGE access to government payment systems containing personal data.

One thing we saw with the violent response to peaceful protests against genocide on college campuses was that many administrators saw protesting students, staff, & faculty as an enemy within rather than, to use admin speak, as stakeholders in the institution.

Loving the divest (from) / prank / sabotage Musk strategy. My favorite moments so far: - Doug Ford tearing up Starlink contracts - Mass no-shows at Tesla dealers - DOGE staffers resigning in antiracist protest More of this, especially from Dems. Make Musk fail.

This is a systematic attempt to dismantle the government that the US has been building for the past 50+ years. BuT ItS nOt LeGaL is only stave off so much damage. Trump built his campaign on illegality. The Left has to imagine anew.

Given the, um, absolutely bonkers staff changes at the US National Archives (WTAF?), this UK National Archives guide to fast response situations seems particularly useful. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/t...

Colorblindness is a tool for resegregation. Coming for the data is the way to delegitimize the basis of the pursuit of equality.

More bad egg news. I'll see myself out. 👋🏼

Also doing great work about tech surveillance. It’s worth subscribing…. Help save journalism and be entertained.

Third try and it wasn't till the Gaza nonsense - which is reprehensible but there was plenty of reason before, with more bipartisan support. Stalling by impeachment, it's an idea at least. But I like the odds of Musk getting fired better than Dems finding spines. www.axios.com/2025/02/05/d...

women don't want flowers for valentines day we want: *reproductive freedom *birthright citizenship *rule of law *respect for science *research grants *a history of domestic violence to be disqualifying *this admin to stop gutting fed agencies & censoring crucial info *chocolate

An absolutely essential read by @jamellebouie.net that clearly states what is happening, how truly awful it is, and what needs to happen to reverse course: A deep rethinking of our entire governmental system. This will be a long-term project to say the least, and we first must survive Trump/Musk.