1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵

It’s a One-on-One with @joycewhitevance.bsky.social today at @texastribune.org Festival! Join us if you’re around and hear all about Joyce’s new amazing book. 👋🏼

Be someone who is remembered like Alice Wong is being remembered, that's the goal.

Jamelle was cooking. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

“To describe @daniellecitron as a #Pioneer or #Innovator would be accurate but falls short; her legal thought is more akin to that of an #Oracle, #Soothsayer or #Seer.” www.linkedin.com/pulse/25-lea... #Leader #Privacy @iapp.bsky.social @daniellecitron.bsky.social

After reading this wonderful piece, I kept thinking of a favorite Baldwin line: “The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people.” Prof. Citron has long been one of those rare few—and we’re all the better for it.

Beyond touched. Thank you @iapp.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/25-lea...

The letter comes in response to another one sent to UVA faculty by Rector Rachel Sheridan. drive.google.com/file/d/14JEz...

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

What John said, the thread by @bakerdphd.bsky.social is well worth reading

So excited for this 🥹

Our s-hero and guide and star Risa Goluboff. Ever ever grateful she hired me and led us to such great things.

Wild that Larry Summers employs the same Magical Permission Structure as every white evangelical segregationist and, exactly like them, uses it as the cornerstone of his self-concept, identity, and self-esteem. "I am not a Satanic baby-killer. Therefore I am good no matter what I do."

When you see the phrase “me too is quite amazing” between Epstein and someone you once knew, it is just something awful.

Remember Virginia.🕊️

Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke at my law school alma mater wearing Jordans and the culture will never be the same www.bu.edu/law/record/a...

Reminder that Ken Starr was canned by Baylor University for covering up multiple sexual assaults when he was the school’s president…

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

And read this brilliant HLR Foreword by the ever wonderful (sorely missed) @richardre.bsky.social harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/u... Read this brilliant piece by my colleagues @richschragger.bsky.social @micahschwartzman.bsky.social and Nelson Tebbe—:))

WATCH — @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social : “My amendment would redirect that $40 BILLION from Argentina to fund the ACA subsidies for two years… a far better use of taxpayer dollars.” Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?

A real president does this. Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸

Huge. And I am reminded of an excellent paper from years ago by Ashley Deeks on “Peer Constraints” — papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

So amazing to celebrate @payvandahdout.bsky.social on her tenure!! Brilliant scholar, extraordinary teacher, incredible colleague. A wunderkind!!

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Jesuit magazine America: The Trump admin’s anti-immigrant rhetoric is “in some cases the same tropes used by Nazi criminals whom Americans died to overthrow in World War II.” www.americamagazine.org/editorials/2...

As AI shapes what we see and believe, truth is under strain. @daniellecitron.bsky.social explores accountability in the AI age—how data systems amplify inequality and distort trust. See her at Datapalooza 11/14 hosted by @uvadatascience.bsky.social datascience.virginia.edu/events/datap...

SF: Please be on the lookout for this missing boy, esp in the Forest Hills area: www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

Please have a listen to my conversation with @justinhendrix.bsky.social shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...

"social media essentially breaks down echo chambers. I can see the views of other people...That’s where a lot of the felt hostility of social media comes from. Not because they make us behave differently, but because they are exposing us to a lot of things" www.techdirt.com/2025/06/20/c... (June)

Just posted on @ssrn.bsky.social: a draft of my Foreword ("To Keep Government Generally Within the Bounds of Law") for the Harvard Law Review & @tamu.bsky.social Center on the Structural Constitution Symposium "Judicial Review in Jeopardy?" Abstract here, link in next post. Feedback welcome.

Trump's pardon of allies who helped him try to subvert the 2020 election is important. It's a permission slip--no, it's an encouragement, even an order--to allies to be ready to try to subvert the elections in 2026, and 2028. politi.co/3WN7A3T

And now we know why the shutdown is ending.

"For every person arrested whose name and story we’ve learned, there are thousands we haven’t heard about." @caitlindickerson.bsky.social via @theatlantic.com ⬇️ www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks. So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.

Armstrong said he “envisioned ‘the IVF clinic of the future’ powered by a ‘Gattaca stack’ of technologies—a reference to the 1997 movie depicting a dystopian eugenic future—combining embryo editing and genetic screening.”

Justice KBJ is a brilliant strategist. She is working the rules to compel timely review of the stay in the SNAP case by both the Circuit Court and by the Supreme Court. This is why knowing which SCOTUS justice has supervision of the Circuit you file in is essential. www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...

There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.

I heard some old friends at Pod Save America were in town, so I decided to stop by. As we saw this week, we can change this country for the better. But it’s going to take all of us getting organized and having honest conversations about the best way forward.

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

All I got from President Reagan was this :) That we might revive such awards for 100 sit-ups seems silly…

A case I litigated in the Court of Appeals is at SCOTUS today: I think it’s fascinating. Assume a plaintiff sues a Texas and non-Texas entity. The defendants remove to federal court. The district judge keeps the case on improper joinder grounds: the Texas entity shouldn’t have been sued. /1

Breaking - Laura Loomer is now credentialed to cover the Pentagon wapo.st/4qHsi2S

In the face of this cruel government shutdown, we’re taking another significant step to protect Maryland families and children: I’ve signed an executive order releasing $62 million to help Marylanders who rely on SNAP benefits put food on the table.

Absolutely infuriating. And NOT a business decision.

Many thanks to the editors of the U Chicago Law Review! Link: lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archiv...

!!!!! pagesix.com/2025/11/03/e...

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is one of many experiments designed to replace human-generated writing with LLMs. But Ryan McGrady says its defining feature is its use of technological power to re-exert top-down authority over information and knowledge. Who is Grokipedia for, he asks, other than its owner?