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“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.”

BREAKING: Judge Leon *rejects* Secretary Hegseth's bid to punish Sen. Kelly for advising troops to ignore illegal orders. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Heraskevych’s choice to forfeit the medal chance instead of give up the memorial helmet is the biggest story in Ukraine today. Everyone is heartbroken but there is a unanimous consensus that this was what had to happen rather than to give up.

"He added that 'the FTC is not the speech police' but"

"Five months after the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, a wave of lawsuits reveals how Americans were investigated, fired, and in one case, arrested for their online reactions to his death." www.npr.org/2026/02/12/n...

In addition to my coverage of the Ken Starr - Epstein relationship, here is a round-up I did of the Texans who were in Epstein's orbit. Like everywhere else, they are elites: businessmen, rich doctors, PR people, academics: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

my colleagues worked so hard on this. And thank you, Congresswoman, and your staff, for championing this. 💖

This is the type of thing I keep trying to talk to people about for higher ed. Not conference rooms where I "listen to diverse perspectives" but actually doing work to imagine what strengthening the US higher education system in furtherance of a democracy would look like.

This is how CBS Evening News depicted data showing that less than 14% of ICE arrests involved those accused or convicted of violent crimes, and less than 2% had homicide or sexual assault charges or convictions.

I'm guessing whoever wrote this still has a very safe job at the Washington Post, unlike the reporters who showed again and again how incorrect this would be

Massachusetts joining the parade of now 20+ states that have already passed bills with fines for political ads that use AI to spread falsehoods about candidates. As @jeremylittau.com and I have written, these almost certainly violate the First Amendment, and they won't work anyway.

“So no aircraft in or out, regardless of what they are, whether it’s air carriers, military, medevac helicopters, law enforcement. Nobody can fly as this thing is written up,” the person said”

What on earth is happening out there?

Y’all my wife’s pediatrics clinic got new stickers for the kids and they’re awesome

It’s great that the grand jury said nix, but the attempt was a significant escalation.

But we're supposed to trust them with age verification?

Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.

In 2022, a group of SpaceX employees wrote an open letter asking the co to distance itself from Elon Musk's online behavior. They were fired and the NLRB opened an investigation. Then Musk funded Trump's election win. Now, the Trump NLRB has dismissed the case. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/b...

Happy First Day of Spring Training to all who celebrate. ⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️

wild AI story from the Olympics ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...

It will surprise y’all to hear that there are no “Muslims taking over the state” and there is no “sharia law” in Texas that threatens anyone. This is genuinely disgusting. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

UNC is close to finalizing its policy which outlines permissible circumstances to *SECRETLY RECORD FACULTY IN THE CLASSROOM.*

Habeas cases filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have taken off to levels we have never seen before. Just look at that chart. www.propublica.org/article/habe...

Every time I watch freestyle skiing I get the music from Epyx Winter Games hot dog skiing running through my head. It’s a serious jam. Listen here at the 1:40 mark. youtu.be/n6aoOzFmmwk

New research just dropped, as the kids say. My partner @medialawprof.bsky.social and took a look at how states are trying to stop people from using AI to lie. We settled on A) it probably won’t work, B) is very probably unconstitutional, and C) tech companies need to prioritize tools to help users.

It's a once in a lifetime chance. They've spent, in most cases, dozens of years training for this, dedicating their lives to this moment, because the difference between gold and nothing may be a 1% difference. There's nothing "extreme" about not wanting to lose a gold medal because you had a cold.

Absolutely this. Love working with Jeremy because he brings policy & tech function & culture in while I can focus on the legal analysis.

8th Cir. holds that although state legislator who retweeted a deepfake video of VP Harris posted by Musk has standing to challenge MN deepfake ban, she waited too long (16 months) to move for a prelim. injunction, suggesting she did not face irreparable harm. ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/26/02...

Excited to see this article in print! Colorado Tech Law Review published the work @jeremylittau.com and I did on First Amendment challenges when states try to ban use of AI in political campaigns, and some other policy options when political speech bans may be struck down. ctlj.colorado.edu?p=1447

*new* from me: As pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training, three front office staffers spoke to me about helping Latino baseball players and their families navigate an America ravaged by ICE raids. They say guidance from MLB has been “minimal” so their teams are getting creative.

That’s the sound of every history department updating the “careers” tab on their website.

I nerded the fuqq out as Bad Bunny named all the nations on the American continents, FROM SOUTH TO NORTH IN PERFECT ORDER. It was a thing of geographic beauty.

This photo. 🥹

I’m an inbox zero guy, so this was starting when I checked my phone at halftime

Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist

Alexa, show me why that Thor commercial wasn't funny. #SuperBowl variety.com/2023/digital...

ethics professor here, can confirm

You don't have to pay to watch the Super Bowl! You don't have to bootleg the Super Bowl! NBC is an over-the-air broadcast network! It's what that antenna on your parents' ancient Magnavox is for! Plug it it! Point it at the sky!! Free TV!!!

crickets from the free speech crowd, of course

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

“Because our public schools inevitably shape the generation to come, that question, what kind of society do we want to be, is going to be answered one way or another by what is taught and what is learned in public schools.”

tfw you leave Plato’s cave awfulannouncing.com/nfl/pat-mcaf...

After a generation of one side relentlessly using all of its power to shape the ideological composition of the federal courts, and the other side straining to show everyone how noble they are—fair and measured and eager to bind themselves by the norms of the past—you get this.

Holy cow. This 5th Circuit ruling on U.S. copyright overriding other countries' copyright laws, while a little arcane in its details, is a huge mess for everything from basic commercial licensing to national sovereignty and comity.

"Disney's 1994 feature film that Leavitt referenced is set on the savannah, not in the jungle, and it does not include great apes." Trump's racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash despite White House earlier defending it www.sfchronicle.com/news/article...

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.