this is what will show up if you invite me to your ai & copyright law conference

The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.

Also- the implication that people have not been paying for healthcare for the past 5 years shows that this person has no idea how normal people live and the challenges they face 🤬

This stuff really freaks me out. They see their future as one where the decisionmakers live in military installations, where the civil and military functions of government become merged.

Let's play, "Who said it: Donald Trump, the Grand Wizard of the Klan, Pamela Geller, or Andrew Cuomo?"

Excuse me? So the company the President currently owns is teaming up with a cryptocurrency company to create a prediction market, which will take bets... on things the President himself has quite a lot of control over? Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen. www.ft.com/content/4855...

Justice Kavanaugh: "and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States."

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest. n.pr/3X0UZtS

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

SNAP benefits are about to lapse because of the shutdown. Reminders: 1. About 1 in 2 children will receive SNAP benefits at some point and 1 in 4 children are receiving benefits in a given month. 2. Trump is already planning to cut SNAP in other ways. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-be...

This is all good, but my hot take is we need public production of lots of generic drugs. The market just doesn't provide enough of a reward for private manufacturers not to cut corners. www.propublica.org/article/lawm...

“There is some reason to think the doctrine may disappear in the tariffs case.” 😑

Forget Halloween, this is the stuff of nightmares. Off the chart.

Maybe I’m late to the party but all these centrist pundits & politicians are watching what’s happening and saying we need to be a teensy bit more accommodating to the far right does two things: displays their affinity for this garbage and….1/

A new report reveals that more than a fifth of New York City’s core affordable housing stock is in the red or close to it — putting tenants at risk.

Thanks John Roberts!

Extremely funny that INFOWARS has agreed not to publish anything without the explicit consent of the US government

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Today's trade secrecy trouble: "There’s no specific requirement that the FDA block out drug names on inspection reports about foreign facilities. Still, [it] preemptively kept that information hidden, invoking a cautious interpretation of a law that requires the government to protect trade secrets."

It is shocking that Trump is quickly tearing down a portion of the White House. But isn’t the bigger story that this action is of a piece with his autocratic presumption that he can unilaterally destroy public goods without any public consultation or explanation? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

Add Cincinnati to the rapidly expanding list of cities where homeless students sleep in parking lots because their families can't afford a place to live. www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

As someone who’s been a vocal supporter of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, his reported decision to keep Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner is a big mistake that seems like a reasonable compromise. The NYPD will understand it as weakness, not good will. Tisch cooperated with ICE to lock up Leqaa Kordia

Great thread, summarizing our work on J&J's Advac and the perils of what we term 'platform thinking'!

Whenever I think SSRN can't get worse, it gets worse.

Read our work in Social Science & Medicine on vectors, "platforms," and the political economy of vaccine development as it relates to J&J's adenoviral vector. Health research systems can be built to understand and solve public health problems, but that's not what we observed here unfortunately. 1/

New paper! Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/

It is impossible to understand the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act cases without the context that John Roberts has hated the Voting Rights Act since he was working to water it down as a 26-year-old Reagan staffer. This is his life’s work, and he can’t wait to finish the job.

The perfect coda to this story: after publication, the State Department's press office responded to my questions about the legal basis for revoking visas based on speech. Their response, in full (we were NOT off-record).

I'm hiring a Legal Research Fellow! dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/19632 CC @roojinhabibi.org @drximebena.bsky.social @elstorreele.bsky.social @cmorten.bsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social @reshmagar.bsky.social @hollylynchez.bsky.social @akapczynski.bsky.social @fatimahassan.bsky.social

For those unfamiliar -- the term is more common w far right movements in Europe than here -- "remigrate" implies not deporting migrants here illegally, which DHS does. It implies pushing legal migrants, naturalized citizens, even people born here to give up US citizenship and go 'home' [sic]

🚨 New from the Science, Health & Information Clinic at @nyulaw.bsky.social! 🚨 An amicus brief in Vanda v. United States, on federal agencies' legal authority to use & disclose private trade secrets. A case you probably haven't heard of, but with major consequences for federal regulation! 🧵 1/

“It may look confusing to outsiders, but what we’re trying to do is avoid making precedents that a Democratic government could also use.”

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

"Depends on the Narrator." The "narrator" is supposed to be you, @nytimes.com, narrating the factual truth here, instead of regurgitating a deliberate falsehood as if it was a different legitimate perspective on the truth.

NYC-area friends— @nyuengelberg.org's "Conspicuous Consumers" symposium is NEXT WEEK! Thu & Fri Oct 16 & 17! I'm moderating a panel on "The Consumer Scientist," exploring patients' use of technical information, w patient advocates & scholars! Mini-🧵 follows. Other exciting panels! Free! RSVP below!

In case anyone thinks this is paranoid, Trump’s junta has defined terrorism to include trespass, naming ICE agents on the internet, and whatever “civil disorder” is.

Ah yes. The core principle of science that says one should start with the conclusion and then construct the evidence to support it.

If you missed our big event on Sep. 25—"Fixing a Broken System: The Path to Public Pharma in New York"—fear not! @nyuengelberg.org just posted the audio recording, along with some lovely photos! Check it out! 🔗: www.nyuengelberg.org/events/fixin...

also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Energy Department adds “climate change,” “green” and “decarbonization” to its restricted list.

THE MEME IS REAL

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that bsky.app/profile/qjur...

Today, @genevievelakier.bsky.social explains how Title VI, perhaps the crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement, has become one of the most powerful forces against desegregation.

argentina will get more support from the united states government so they can continue their libertarian collapse than americans will get during a recession lol

I'm so furious at the Democrats who voted to tell lies about Charlie Kirk, including many I have long supported. No, he was not a “courageous American patriot" and "a model for young Americans across the political spectrum” who was known for “engaging in respectful, civil discourse." 1/3

Essential resources for tracking the impact of US funding cuts! These trackers follow the impact to #HIV R&D, #STI R&D & #PEPFAR #PrEP Services.

Public pharma event next week! Thurs Sep 25, 5:30! IRL at @nyulaw.bsky.social & on zoom! A terrific lineup of speakers, inc. patient advocates Max Goldberg & Emerald Anastasia, Sarah Lamour & Humphrey Shen of the Science, Health & Information Clinic, + fmr NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Dave Chokshi!