I’m not sure non-lawyers realize how unheard of this is.

They're literally running out of lawyers in a state where the district judges are practically at war with the administration.

I have confirmed the gist of this report out of federal court in Minnesota today from a source familiar. If you have more information about the District of Minnesota—either the court or the U.S. Attorney's Office—and how they are handling all of this, please reach out. I am at crg.32 on Signal.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

We visited Renee Good's memorial. There, we met a group of Somali Minnesotans — who too have been viciously attacked for weeks — warmly hosting everyone. Flowers & stuffed animals galore. Neighbors continually offering sambusas & hand-warmers & water. Grief. And belief. Scenes from Minneapolis:

“This is a really important moment in American democracy ... I’m really proud of the work that the Berkeley students did," Alexa Koenig, research professor and co-faculty director of @hrcberkeley.bsky.social spoke with @dailycal.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4ppIRyy

Blog Post: A Massive Roundup of Section 230 Decisions blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

This is the kind of great work that @boltsmag.org does. Follow them. Support them. You can’t fight for power if you don’t understand where it sits. Include Bolts in your citizenship toolkit.

uh holy SHIT?

Please join me in welcoming to the public domain such works as the 1930 Best Picture All Quiet on the Western Front, Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, several Nancy Drew books, some songs you've heard of (Dream a Little Dream of Me; Georgia on My Mind), and more: blog.archive.org/2026/01/01/w...

Call me a nerd, but yesterday, a federal judge in Pennsylvania cited my reporting in a ruling against the DOJ in a case challenging Trump-era actions targeting transgender people. A reminder that this work really does matter.

Thrilled to collaborate with @scriptedjournal.bsky.social for this special issue! Stay tuned for interdisciplinary insights into the sociolegal effects of algorithmic technology and data mining, courtesy of our research team at DADE.

🎄On day 5 of SCRIPTed-mas, SCRIPTed goes Berkeley. On 1 June 2026, DADE is organizing a colloquium at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social. Afterwards, a SCRIPTed Special Issue is planned. Huge thanks to DADE's co-leaders - Isabella Mariani and @dmohaghegh.bsky.social, for choosing SCRIPTed! Stay tuned!

Deadline: February 15, 2026 Call for Papers for a Special Issue from @pspolisci.bsky.social - 'Rethinking the Global Legacies of 1776' seeks to situate the Declaration of Independence within a broader global and comparative lens - https://cup.org/3Jxodxo

"Check out how dry my skin looks. It's because my body is telling me that I'm suffering and need to put on more layers. But as a thirteen-year-old boy in the suburbs, FASHION is more important to me than BASIC BODILY NEEDS."

@aleksandraq.bsky.social and @jpquintais.bsky.social have put out what is sure to be the definitive work on must-carry laws in the EU. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

364 days of the years I hate the Spurs. Tonight I love them. Go Spurs! #Warriors #AnyoneButOKC #TheOKCWhistleIsBullshit

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

Counterpoint: don’t

The best reading of this article: Trump is going to use FDA to restrict medication abortion, but he wants to wait until after the midterms so the Republicans don't experience blowback. But that just makes the midterms more important. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected] www.propublica.org/people/nicol...

i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me

🚨Pam Bondi just ordered the FBI to compile a list of American "extremists" and to establish a bounty fund to reward tipsters, per DOJ memo leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...

My thing about birthright citizenship and “originalism” is like… the jurists of Wong Kim Ark in 1898 WERE ADULTS DURING THE RATIFICATION OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT. SO THEY KNEW THE ORIGINAL PUBLIC MEANING AND TOLD YOU WHAT IT WAS IN WONG KIM ARK!!!

Imagine bearing even a small amount of responsibility for this tragedy and not giving a damn.

DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚

On January 1, Illinois begins to regulate employer use of AI, making it a civil rights violation to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on protected characteristics in hiring, promotion, discipline, termination, or other employment terms and requiring notice of AI use. #AIBillofRights

If you’re not already familiar w/ @boltsmag.org, it does terrific journalism at the local level across the U.S. The quality is wonderful and the stories are critical—putting Bolts in your timeline will make you so much more informed. Highly recommend. And rn following can help fund their work!

I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism. A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count. If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!

Don't despair, though! Talking to an AI chatbot is just one of countless dumb ways that voters could make their decisions. Thanks to @sivav.bsky.social & @whitneyphillips.bsky.social for their thoughtful commentary and a splash of cold water. wapo.st/49RSstP

A voter who leaned Harris said they worried Trump wasn't trustworthy. A chatbot validated their concern, then addressed it with examples of Trump following through on promises and Harris flip-flopping. Then it said Trump's economy boomed—without mentioning the crash. My story: wapo.st/49RSstP

Researchers tested several ways to train the AI chatbots to persuade people. The most effective tactic turned out not to be pyschological manipulation, but simply addressing voters' concerns one-by-one by presenting a ton of factual claims. Troublingly, that worked even when the claims were false.

The alert for a 5.9 magnitude Nevada earthquake was a false alarm, and the report was deleted from the U.S.G.S. quake list shortly thereafter.

h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content

In addition, 500,000 people from those 19 countries who got green cards during the Biden admin, plus tens of thousands who got asylum/refugee status, as well as many others who received other benefits, now have to worry about potentially being called back in for a “re-review” (whatever that means).

NEW: The official USCIS guidance on this pause is out. Until further notice from the USCIS Director, all immigration benefits (including citizenship) are indefinitely suspended for nationals of 19 countries, as are all affirmative asylum applications from nationals of any country.

A really nice figure of population and partisan malapportionment in national legislatures around the world from Beramendi, Boix, Guinjoan, and Rogers (yassified by The Economist) priceschool.usc.edu/wp-content/u...

I guess this means it's official!! I am beyond thrilled to be joining Minnesota Law as an associate professor next year. Now taking recommendations for your favorite winter gear! law.umn.edu/news/2025-12...

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

A @publiccitizen.bsky.social report by @rickclaypool.bsky.social details more than $1 billion in spending by Big Tech firms to secure political advantages www.citizen.org/article/robo...

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

Um so that is very bad. For many reasons, but perhaps the most obvious end-game of this new development is if you people are just reading AI summaries of original content, but that kills how we fund original content... eventually you won't have original content for AI summaries to draw on. 12/

Fireable offenses for Harvard president: bad faith allegations over half a footnote in something published two decades ago. Non-fireable offenses for Harvard president: being good buddies with the most notorious child sex trafficker in the country.

the decision to really just abandon moderation and let it rip suggests that this is what meta wants for its platform. this is the final, idealized form of the product

“I yipped about inclusion”

NEWS! The ABA Admin Law Conference is FREE this year, in light of the shutdown. Great for admin law practitioners, academics, and students. It'll be Nov. 21 but you'll also be able to access recordings for 30 days afterwards. 6 FREE hours of CLE (approvals pending), including 3 ethics hours: