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It’s a special honor to be among those receiving honorary degrees from Brown. It’s a place that welcomed me and shaped me and challenged me and liberated me, and made possible everything that came after. I’m looking forward to celebrating this weekend with friends. www.brown.edu/news/2025-05...

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#briank4judge

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Live in Philly? Get out and vote for Brian Kisielewski for judge for Common Pleas. I taught Brian as a college student and wouldn’t stand outside all day for many others!

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Very worrisome pattern here of using the law to allow Trump to undermine the courts and nonprofit sector www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri... slate.com/news-and-pol... More like classic democratic erosion tactics that are boring and bureaucratic, not Elon Musk and Big Balls breaking into offices

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Your Monday morning podcast is my conversation with @robertblair.bsky.social. Substantive discussion of democratic erosion AND concrete ways for YOU to do something about it. FREE resources from the @demerosiondec.bsky.social #PoliSky #LawSky #AcademicSky newbooksnetwork.com/peacekeeping...

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This is an incredible initiative! Does anyone in the Pittsburgh area want to work on this with me?

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I am hiring for a new researchers on my @nuffieldfoundation.org young carers project. Closes 4thJune. After someone with strong quant longitudinal skills, passion for communicating research beyond academia & wants to work with people w lived experience/other sectors jobs.sgul.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Putting this on my list!

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The Magna Carta, a foundational document in Western law and a key inspiration for the U.S. Constitution, says even the king must follow the rules. Now scholars have turned up an original at Harvard, Bill Booth writes from London www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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Hi there -- if you are interested in #democratic erosion and democratic backsliding -- consider following the Democratic Erosion Consortium @demerosiondec.bsky.social as well as @robertblair.bsky.social #History #PoliSky #LawSky #PolicySky #AcademicSky

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The world needs more of this and less of most other things

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So the Department of Physics at the University of Auckland is looking to hire a lecturer/senior lecturer in one of the following areas: - Physics education research, - Quantum optics and quantum information, - Biophotonics and/or medical physics, - Astrophysics and/or space technology. 1/2...

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Recommending a steroid like budesonide, which suppresses the immune system, as a frontline treatment for measles is well passed stupid - it's monstrous.

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It is bracing to reread the Framers’ bone-deep fears about foreign corruption of the presidency and realize Trump is exactly what they were trying to prevent. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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some personal news! www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...

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something that i think is important here is to zero in on the word "democracy" because for too long this concept, in popular imagination, has been flattened into "voter preferences" and not all the important trappings of Constitutionalism

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Corruption does not, in fact, require an explicit quid pro quo. As a matter of law, certain gifts are illegal whether anything is delivered in return for them or not. Beyond the law, gifts can create an untoward relationship with a recipient that pays off later in diffuse ways.

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1/ This is true if you think that John Roberts's and Anthony Kennedy's understanding of corruption in the context of nonjudicial candidates and government officials is the meaning of corruption.

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Glad we have more journalists on @bsky.app engaging. As a journalist, @ericlipton.nytimes.com SHOULD say "potential" but others SHOULD point out the ways in which the Trump administration accepts or requests money...and determine whether there is a case for legal action. Democracy takes a village.

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I could not be prouder to be part of this letter - signed by nearly 60 members of the Duke Law School faculty - reaffirming our commitment to academic freedom and the rule of law. And speaking out against what we see as recent threats to both. Critically, we do so alongside other law schools . . .

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The BEST Twilight Zone Episode. EVER. A must watch if you have never seen it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyVD...

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This is really well said by @thomaszimmer.bsky.social. The US has a long legacy of forced sterilization and eugenics. This is not a slip of the tongue -- it is a policy. We eradicated a disease through vaccination. Now, children will die for no reason -- except GOP public policy.

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Your ESSENTIAL democracy conversation is my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast with @johncarey.bsky.social and Gretchen Helmke about the latest Bright Line Watch report, Threats to #democracy and academic freedom after Trump’s second first 100 days. newbooksnetwork.com/constitution...

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She not only thanks the workers but clarifies WHY Congress funds the library and who uses it.

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Our client Rümeysa Öztürk spent the last 6 weeks in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana — all in retaliation for an op-ed she co-authored. On Saturday, she finally made it home to her beloved Tufts community, where she can resume her studies and begin teaching again as her case proceeds.

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See this? It's called a non-inferiority trial. It compares the new vaccine with the current vaccines to see if the new vaccine does better. This new vaccine did. Placebo-controlled trials are not needed to test most new vaccines. Demanding them will only reduce vaccine access. Which is the point.

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The fabulous spice house, Penzey’s of Wisconsin has a set of new spices (“add spice LIBERALLY”). This one is terrific and makes a wonderful gift. #queersky #democracy #queercreators Also, once you try their double strength vanilla extract there will be no turning back.

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BREAKING: WE WON BIG-again! In 2023 the Supreme Court correctly decided Alabama’s congressional map likely violated the Voting Rights Act. After Black voter elected Rep. Shomari Figures from a new fair map in 2024, we went to trial earlier this year to defend it. 1/5

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Also a valid point. The Library of Congress is in the legislative, not executive, branch.

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At the risk of screaming into the void: if you care about American history, you should care about the 250th. This is a rare chance to reintroduce history to broad swaths of the American public, to redefine public engagement with history for a generation. Don’t cede the whole thing to Trump.

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Acting head of FEMA to Congress on Wednesday: “I do not believe it is in the best interests of the American people to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency,” On Thursday, he is fired. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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REPORTER: You just announced a new nominee for US Surgeon General who never finished her residency, and is not a practicing physician. So can you explain why you picked her to be America's top doctor? TRUMP: Because Bobby thought she was fantastic ... I don't know her

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