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The banter response would be to reply and include a sentence saying that they need to justify your pay level and, if they do not respond with 24 hours, it will be taken as agreement to double your salary.

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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This attack on maternal and infant health makes me wild. Pregnancy, birthing, and labour are all dangerous. People routinely died before modern medicine and they are maimed or die still. We are undoing hard fought, lifesaving work and now you have to hear about my uterus in punishment: a 🧵.

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Yes but will the email sign off be 'all the best' or just ' best'

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But why? It’s a mystery!

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We're richer than in 1870 because we have less tariffs and more gender affirming care

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All those sci-fi stories of societies that plataued and didn't know how to fix the technology on which their lives depended never seemed realistic to me. Until now.

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“The coroner also criticised NHS 111 for “misleading” the public by calling its call handlers “health advisers”. This title, she said, “implies professionalism which is untrue given their underlying skills and unsubstantiated given it is their role to complete an algorithm”.”

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How can anyone trust Trump right now?

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'Monarchy is good because determinatio' is the take we deserve given how many have taken Vermeule's recent writings seriously

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Thinking about ordinary public servants in the US now, wondering how to do the right thing without losing their jobs

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Collegial HEd governance by peers who are paid a modest premium and cycle back to work alongside their colleagues provides a form of accountability. Corporatisation of unis has removed it without any of the accountability of actual corporations. Sympathies to Cardiff U…

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Starlink should be banned from European markets on national security grounds. Anything requiring Starlink should be shut out of the European market, and sanctions should be considered against all relevant actors. kyivindependent.com/us-threatens...

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As I said before: one of the biggest root causes of the decline of UKHE has been the progressive professionalisation of a managerial class of academics, who do damages in one institution for five years or so and then simply move to another institution, with zero accountability to their colleagues./1

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Shame on the Italian government. Correctly, the Prosecutor of the ICC asks to ascertain Italian responsibility for non compliance with its duty to cooperate with the Court:

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Indeed. And just to be clear (bc I find the terminology slightly problematic): a 'counter-constitution', an 'alternative constitutional reality', is a series of orchestrated unconstitutional & unlawful actions which threaten the very existence of the constitutional order in place. It's a revolution

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Excellent analysis.

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Tennis is a wonderful sport, no one could have predicted this youtu.be/j3N2eNeOdxo?...

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Just so we’re clear: There is no serious case against birthright citizenship. The EO is unjust and unconstitutional. Those who claim otherwise are wrong, and law professors who are doing so are behaving irresponsibly.

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BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.

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'Colleagues were in tears – and then had to return to teaching classes. In the humanities meeting, the presentation’s slide on ‘mental health support’ prompted collective laughter (which was edited out of the official recording).' The state of UK HE, y'all

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The situation in the US 🇺🇸 is serious, with the constitutional and political order rapidly changing. KIM LANE SCHEPPELE (kimlanelaw.bsky.social) explains in our editorial what has happened in the past few weeks and what is at stake. verfassungsblog.de/trumps-count...

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Italians know this phenomenon all too well - to the point that it was made into legend by Roberto Benigni in his sold-out 1995 arena tour 'TuttoBenigni' 'Mussolini ha fatto delle cose buone' youtu.be/_yWTvhv2w4c?...

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Trump may be a repulsive authoritarian who is destroying the entire global security architecture, but what if this is good for some reason? – my latest for the Spectator/Telegraph/Unherd.

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All while on camera. Unbelievable

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TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

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Hard to describe what it's like being in Kyiv, surrounded by brilliant, unshakeable, brave Ukranians, and reading Trump's comments. The free world deserves a better leader, the hill deserves a better city upon it, and these people deserve better friends.

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"A potential death blow to the independence of international legal research in Israeli universities." ITAMAR MANN (@itamann.bsky.social) on a legislative package in Israel's Knesset aimed at criminalizing cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC). verfassungsblog.de/criminalizin...

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We at the Internet Society are deeply disappointed that Apple has had to stop offering end-to-end encryption in the UK. The following can be attributed to Dr. Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Distinguished Technologist at the Internet Society: 1/

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Out now: 'Judicial Bricolage: The Use of Foreign Precedents by Constitutional Judges in the 21st Century' edited by Tania Groppi, Marie-Claire Ponthoreau and Irene Spigno https://buff.ly/41aVXpb #ConstitutionalLaw #ComparativeLaw

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This is it

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In 2010, the Supreme Court paved the way for unlimited spending in U.S. elections. In a possibly related story, the richest man in the world is basically the president now ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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"In France, our moral compass is not guided by north or south, but by justice. We do not avert our eyes from any crisis or violation of international law." Anyway www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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For those interested, the recording of the event is now up as well on the The Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwrK...

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Big news from Reuters - if true

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We are delighted to announce that @profmarkdavis.bsky.social will deliver the next Faculty of Social Sciences Inaugural Lecture! 🗓️Thursday 13 March 🕔5pm 🏫University of Leeds Find out more and reserve your place: essl.leeds.ac.uk/education-so...

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Lie after lie has been told this week about how the Ukraine war started, from the Kremlin and the White House. Here's our News Agents video essay which explains the truth, and spells out why Trump clings so close to Putin and lives in his warped reality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cufM...

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