Mark Lemley

Court blocks Trump's effort to avoid prior injunction by sending out of state National Guard to invade Portland

Things to consider:

Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter

Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed

You are a witness.
Expose it.

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy has a great primer on the enshittification of Amazon

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It's been a fairly long-lived bug if so. And it would certainly juice as engagement numbers, though I agree if advertisers discover those numbers are inflated they will discount them

Sure, but up to now the administration has tried to justify its actions with appeals to legal authority, albeit pretextual and unconvincing ones. I’d be useful if reporters would try to find out what the purported legal basis might be here. And if there’s not one, people should know that, too.

90% of the mass media is owned by the very same billionaires acting in league with the Trump regime. Most of the major outlets were already enthusiastic collaborators with the GOP. Now they've abandoned any pretense of their fealty. America no longer has a free press. Only touts for the regime.

The mass media no longer relies entirely on television. They've sunk their tentacles deep into the internet - web pages, podcasts, etc. The web plays a major role in extending the right wing propaganda apparatus efforts to attract a younger audience.

Right because even tho they may not follow the law it’s important that we do and it’s incumbent for us to point out each violation and never let it become normal

States need to issue arrest warrants for Stephen Miller, who is openly flouting the law

Today, I drove an hour and a half with my wife and a couple friends to pick up a neighbor who was summarily, inexplicably arrested by ICE at a check-in ten days ago and then just as inexplicably released, 100 miles from home today. It was a happy occasion, all things considered, but...

“I don’t believe equity is part of the judicial role”is flat-earther shit

fucking animals

Instagram's current dark pattern: briefly touching the screen in the vicinity of an ad counts as a like. The same is not true of actual posts

The Emergency Docket is undermining the Supreme Court. It is causing appellate and district courts to slowly rebel against it. The public is noticing: the world-ending stupidity of the Kavanaugh Stops being conducted by ICE makes Justice Kavanaugh look a fool. It is a legitimation nightmare.

"So, we're balancing the equities here. On the one side, 300,000 people unlawfully deported to face torture and death before we read the statute that says they should be allowed to stay. On the other side, Trump gets what he wants. Seems a clear case. Kill them." You can see why they didn't explain

Everyday I say to myself if Chief Justice John Roberts was a smart man he would stop using the Emergency Docket, and everyday, Chief Justice John Roberts uses the Emergency Docket.

Jeanine Pirro's Recent Flood of Failures - emptywheel Jeanine Pirro has failed in at least a fifth and close to a quarter of the cases she has charged in the last eight weeks.

Pirro was voted out as prosecutor in Westchester County, NY, on the basis of her repeatedly demonstrated pure incompetence. If anything, her abilities have sharply deteriorated since. www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/04/j...

They don't need a legal basis. The whole prosecution is illegitimate. They just want a show for the cameras

Working in federal court for nearly 20 years, I had great respect for each and every US Attorney and assistant US Attorney who came into my courtroom because they acted respectfully and respectably. I’m afraid that assumption of good faith and fair dealing can no longer be assumed. Glad I’m retired.

Me too, Bam, me too. I had nearly 20 years in federal court before retiring and always assumed the USAs and AUSAs were there to do justice, not necessarily win, and that was my experience with them. No longer.

It's goddamn embarrassing that I used to have a level of respect for federal prosecutors, that I appreciated their careful selection and building of cases. This reeks of sundown town corruption.

Trump is the cause for much amusement among world leaders…

Joe Matal at the Silicon Valley IP Forum - "the PTO's official policy right now is that if you are sued in the Eastern District of Texas you are not allowed to challenge the patent in the PTAB."

The only solution to today’s SCOTUS is impeachment plus expanding court to the number of circuits (13). I hope Dems have that as a very top priority.

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They claim that they attacked a complex of supposed gang members and nobody shot at them? More ICE stunts because isn’t Chicago’s South Side so much like Mogadishu, Somalia. The new normal will be war on cities, foreign and domestic. Q: Is ICE using Blackhawk helicopters in Chicago? A: Yes...

Tmrp's ICEholes zip tied and kidnapped n@ked black children. One agent said "F*** them kids." #Klan #ChildTrafficking

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someday this judge will have a statue erected to her.
her loved ones should keep watch for the rest of us.

easily read for a court document, and REALLY worth reading all the way through.

More of this throwing out cases when it looks like they are being malicious.

Pure harassment. Fucking this guy's life up for a couple months with no cogent intent of prosecution.