Joey Fishkin
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Law prof @ UCLA. I study equality and oligarchy. Most recent book @
https://anti-oligarchy.com
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Charlotte Garden
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What really stands out - in contrast to some recent SCOTUS opinions I could name - is that Judge Young is paying attention to the many interconnected ways in which this administration is trying to punish people who express disagreement
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David Roberts
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I'm also hearing that Newsom is considering vetoing AB 1167, a fantastic bill that would bar the state's utilities from using ratepayer money for political lobbying. A veto would be a *disastrous* signal to send at this point. Raise your voice, Californians. Tell Newsom to have a spine.
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California passes bill curbing utilities use of ratepayer money for political spending
State lawmakers last week made California the seventh state to pass a bill limiting investor-owned utilities from using customer money to pay for political and lobbying costs.
https://energyandpolicy.org/california-limits-utilities-use-of-customer-money-for-political-spending/
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David Roberts
about 19 hours ago
A bunch of toxic LA NIMBYs are whining about SB 79, the amazing housing bill the CA legislature passed recently. It's on the governor's desk, and reportedly he's getting cold feet. Hey
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social
, please have some spine on the most important issue in your state. Just sign it.
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Homeowners denounce SB 79 vote - Beverly Press & Park Labrea News
Legislation awaits governorâs signature
https://beverlypress.com/2025/09/homeowners-denounce-sb-79-vote/
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's column in the NYT is terrific. This is why we need historians writing opinion pieces! It also underscores something I keep thinking about lately. During the Second Red Scare era, 75 years ago, one key piece of background was there really were Soviet spies around! 1/
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Opinion | We Have Seen the âWoke Rightâ Before, and It Wasnât Pretty Then, Either
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/opinion/charlie-kirk-jd-vance-cancel-culture.html
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David Roberts
about 18 hours ago
This is amazing:
@ladwp.com
, the Los Angeles utility, has launched a program that will install solar+battery systems on qualifying low-to-moderate-income households, *for free*. Yes: free. If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!
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Self-Generation Incentive Program
The Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) helps qualified LADWP residential customers install solar and battery storage systems by providing financial incentives. This program supports clean energy...
https://www.ladwp.com/residential-services/solar-programs/self-generation-incentive-program
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Honestly, this entire opinion is just jaw-dropping. The first postings I saw on Bluesky were about the first page, which is lovely in its own right and exemplifies one of the less-well-explored roles of a judge in a democracy: to explain what is going on legally to non-lawyers. There's way more.
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Andy Sellars
about 19 hours ago
AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
about 18 hours ago
Judge Young: "This case ... squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.' 'No law' means 'no law.'"
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Joel S.
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I sure hope the ADL is proud that they stuck up for Elon Musk when he did a Nazi salute back in January.
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Charlie Warzel
2 days ago
i want to write a book with this as the title
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Marisa Kabas
2 days ago
SCOOP / UPDATE â Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.
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What makes our academic institutions vulnerable to this sort of attack is (a) our openness to discussion and debate [e.g. this professor let the student stay in the class for some time], (b) our strong internal protections against discrimination [which can be pretty easy to weaponize, as here], +
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Quinta Jurecic
3 days ago
I have been haunted by this statement all day
www.kgw.com/article/news...
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Joanna Schwartz
3 days ago
Justice Kavanaugh: âIf the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.â
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2025 has produced a lot of reflection on "every accusation is a confession." More accurate (and dangerous) is "every accusation is a promise." The false accusations that the DOJ was "weaponized" against Trump were laying the groundwork for actually doing thatâwith partisan approvalâfor Trump.
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Opinion | Make No Mistake About Where We Are
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/opinion/comey-indictment-trump.html
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Nice work by
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. Hard to think of a paper that more needed to be turned into an oped than this one! The oped notes that politicians hear from a disproportionate & unrepresentative number of NIMBY people because they have lots of time etc. They also contribute more to campaigns!
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Our parties are now polarized around the question of how easily money should convert into political power (aka oligarchy). One party is for making this conversion as seamless as possible. That's how you get the story below. The other party is divided between "stop this" and "we're moderates."
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The one thing that is good about the fact that they named it, incredibly, the Weaponization Working Group, is that they did leave it open for their successors to start the Anti-Weaponization Working Group, and both names will be accurate.
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Sam Bagenstos
4 days ago
"The list of culprits for destroying the Justice Department and the politically driven prosecutions of the second Trump administration must include John Roberts, their chief enabler." Great piece by
@cristianfarias.com
nymag.com/intelligence...
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John Roberts Wrote Trump a Permission Slip to Indict Comey
Political targets of the Justice Department can thank the chief justice.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/comey-indictment-trump-john-roberts-supreme-court.html
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Two things are close to certain: Comey will win, and our president will whine endlessly about the unfairness of it, all the way until he urges Pam Bondi to go after the next political target. All this, whether thereâs a trial or not.
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John Pfaff
5 days ago
A good example of the capacity limits the Feds face. Rank-and-file AUSAs are going to balk. Some will quit. Many will drag their feet. And law schools do not have some huge MAGA-AUSA pipeline. Single force insurance-lawyers-turned-inept-at-best-US-Attorneys cannot do it all themselves.
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I was surprised to learn that according to Vik Amar's summary of the doctrine, it is up to Congress whether mail carriers should have to obey state "speeding and red-light laws" since those regulate the exercise of a federal sovereign power if they regulate mail carriers carrying mail.
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Catherine Rampell
5 days ago
"experts say"
www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...
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Mark Copelovitch
6 days ago
Fighting antisemitism & protecting free speech in 2025 by firing Jewish federal employees on Rosh Hashanah for things they said on social media in 2017 đ€
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The proper lower-court response to Kavanaugh's concurrence in this case is to treat itâthe only words out of a Justice in the majorityâas a description of the circumstances under which the "holding" of the majority's order applies. If district courts find that the facts differ from this, enjoin ICE.
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Sam Bagenstos
6 days ago
Very important point here from Sam Berger: "a government shutdown does not provide the Administration any additional legal authority to fire federal employees, limit review of its actions by federal courts, or freeze funding once full-year appropriations are provided."
www.cbpp.org/research/und...
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Understanding the Legal Framework Governing a Shutdown | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
A government shutdown does not provide the Administration any additional legal authority to fire federal employees, limit review of its actions by federal courts, or freeze funding once full-year appr...
https://www.cbpp.org/research/understanding-the-legal-framework-governing-a-shutdown
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I missed
@marisakabas.bsky.social
's scoop and specifically this detail at the link: that *more than a million* people cancelled their Disney subscriptions in the days following Disney's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel. Consumer boycotts / subscription cancellations are important in several ways:
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Kimmel reinstatement preempted Disney+ price increase
The Handbasket reported first Monday evening on Bluesky
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kimmel-reinstatement-disney-price-increase-scoop
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I missed
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's scoop and specifically this detail at the link: that *more than a million* people cancelled their Disney subscriptions in the days following Disney's decision to suspend Jimmy Fallon. Consumer boycotts / subscription cancellations are important in several ways:
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Kimmel reinstatement preempted Disney+ price increase
The Handbasket reported first Monday evening on Bluesky
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kimmel-reinstatement-disney-price-increase-scoop
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Blake Emerson
7 days ago
UCLAâs funds reinstated after yesterdayâs court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.
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According to an email today from our Vice Chancellor, NIH has reinstated all the grants that were suspended on July 31. In other words, the NIH is obeying the district court order. That shouldn't be news. But it is, and it's great newsâfor UCLA and for everyone who benefits from UCLA's research.
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This column had a good overview of the social context of how we think about autism and why it has increased. It also mentions: science is slow; sometimes we understand the genetics of somethingâhis example is Huntington'sâwithout knowing how to treat it. True. Meanwhile, also in the news today...!
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Opinion | Autism Has Always Existed. We Havenât Always Called It Autism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/opinion/autism-rates-science-diagnosis-parent.html
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I'm just marveling at the fact that it is even possible for a proposition this high-profile to collect only $80 (not a misprint) in small-dollar contributions in opposition. Republicans of CA who are not Charles Munger, Jr should probably chip in a few bucks just to reduce the embarrassment.
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It is really astonishing that Bret Stephens could be sufficiently un-self-aware to post an entire column that is a triumphant list of moments when someone on "the left" was censorious of speech, and fail to notice that he doesn't have one single instance of the government actually punishing speech.
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Opinion | Now the Left Cares About Free Speech Again
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/opinion/free-speech-kimmel-kirk-left.html
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The negotiation is between Trump and Jeffries & Schumer. That's what I am getting out of today's announcement by Trump that he is refusing for now to meet with them. So far so good I guess. The media environment is bleak, but once the shutdown starts, I'd rather be the side saying let's negotiate.
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Josh Chafetz
8 days ago
6/ The idea of education presupposes that the faculty know what the students should learn better than the students themselves do. The notion that students have somehow been cheated if they do not agree in advance to learn certain things is antithetical to the idea of education.
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Helen Kennedy
8 days ago
Oh dear. It seems Dr. Ozâs company sells Trumpâs big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance.
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Big news, and a significant victory, for UC researchers today in Judge Rita Lin's courtroom: preliminary injunction issued. According to LAist, "Lin gave lawyers for the Trump administration until Sept. 29 to submit a report confirming that they complied with her orders to restore the grants."
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simon
9 days ago
I would add that the idea that society has a default virtuous conservative state, which has been displaced by a decadent liberalism imposed top-down by some shadowy cabal of outsider elites has approximately zero degrees of separation from Protocols-level antisemitism.
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I think this argument (see picture) by Jamelle Bouie, and the points that followed from David French, are exactly right. The right has gotten the idea that politicians and elites control American culture in a very top-down way. This is mostly, as Bouie says, "a bit of projection"...
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This is the entire point right here.
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Ian Bassin
11 days ago
This would be a impeachment level scandal in any other Administration. Here I donât expect to see a story about it on the cover of any major newspaper. That doesnât change how outrageous and dangerous it is.
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This is a media test case. Some say the problem is the mainstream media is wired for secret scandal and Trump does too much scandalous stuff out in the open. Others say the mainstream media is just cowed or bullied by team Trump. If itâs the first thing, this story should be on the front page:
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Bill Grueskin
11 days ago
And note that the lede reporter on the Homan scoop ended her 25-year career at the Washpost just last month, decamping to NBC News. Will Lewis, the Postâs CEO, had urged people to leave if they didnât âfeel alignedâ w/ the companyâs âsignificant reinvention journeyâ
www.thewrap.com/carol-leonni...
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Carol Leonnig Exits Washington Post After 25 Years, Joins MSNBC as Senior Investigative Correspondent
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is one of several who is leaving the Jeff Bezos-owned paper after buyouts.
https://www.thewrap.com/carol-leonnig-msnbc-leaving-washington-post/
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If I were writing a law school exam hypothetical about a government official engaging in coercion, I would literally have the official tell the regulated entity, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way." It's a little on the nose actually.
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Rick Hasen
12 days ago
This from Eugene Volokh on Jimmy Kimmel and government coercion is right on point:
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Jimmy Kimmel, the NRA, and the First Amendment
ABC is free to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's show for whatever reason it wants to (at least unless there's some contractualâŠ
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/09/18/jimmy-kimmel-the-nra-and-the-first-amendment/
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"Free speech" = when certain privileged people can get those they disagree with fired from their jobs. That has been Bari Weiss' entire career. Now, "free speech" = certain privileged people can get even the university president fired when someone at the school says things they disagree with.
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Democracy Forward
12 days ago
President Trump is threatened by free speech. He wants people to think, believe, and be exposed only to ideas that he agrees with. But the administration's attempts to bully the UC system are unlawful and weâll prove it in court.
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David Dayen
13 days ago
This could not be more correct. It's easier to censor media that is consolidated. Repeal the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
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Josh Marshall
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A Few Thoughts on KimmelGeddon
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few...
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A Few Thoughts on KimmelGeddon
Let me start by noting the obvious: What we saw yesterday with...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few-thoughts-on-kimmelgeddon/sharetoken/51a97c00-1533-4b24-8cf7-52fb91aaa8e5
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