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bradpatrick.bsky.social

Ex-General Counsel of Wikimedia Foundation; I represent the best submersible manufacturer in the world. Rule of Law absolutist. Lawyer in Tampa, Florida. baplegal.com and WP:User:BradPatrick. Trans people are people.

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🚨 🚨 As you find yourself appalled, day after day, by what is happening, never let the far right convince you that you are somehow in the minority. Most Americans agree with you. They do not like what they’re seeing either. 1/

submitted 6 hours ago • 19 comments

Elton John calls for UK copyright rules rethink to protect creators from AI

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

Soon it will be too late. Congress must act. Republicans deserve relentless protests and demands for their acquiescence to this man solidifying power to overrun our democracy.

submitted 17 hours ago • 22 comments

BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

submitted 22 hours ago • 156 comments

In a feat of impeccable timing, the wonderful editors at the Lewis & Clark Law Review have finished their work on my article, "Is Originalism Bullshit?" The final version is now online at SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

I really want to add with this: USPS is a lifeline for small businesses and many who need it for medication, etc. across this country. This is going to be a terrible move. Let me figure out a specific call for action, but until then: KEEP. CALLING.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Per Trevor Reed: “Ukraine needs to: 1. Ignore the US completely and refuse all US/Russia negotiations 2. Push for Europe to release frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine 3. Make a deal with Europe for continued support 4. Get European troops on the Belarusian border to free up their forces”

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now is political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 684 comments

Tomorrow on my live webcast History Matters: “On Kings” Thomas Paine (and I) have a LOT to say Tune in. We need to talk. Friday 10AM ET NCHEteach.org/conversations

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments