Lawrence Lessig

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of Buckley v. Valeo, I'm participating in an event at the AEI in DC about originalism and the First Amendment. Register to attend in person or online here: buff.ly/SaJGigQ

Our founder @lessig.bsky.social is going live on Lawrence O’Donnell’s MSNOWNews The Last Word segment with Ali Velshi tonight at 10:20 pm ET!

Tune in to learn how our legal strategy can get dark money out of politics WITHOUT overturning Citizens United.

Talks in Washington among Greenland, Denmark and the United States over Greenland’s future have stalled, with no compromise in sight. Greenlanders have made it clear that they want to remain under… Dear America, We’d Like to Speak to the Manager

Seriously, truly brilliant. Yo, time to get off the train.

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Jason Crow is really pissed #short

Remember when Trump (who has bombed 7 countries, invaded 1, and is threatening at least two others (not counting Mexico)) was to be the anti-NeoCon president?

I respect the anti-NeoCons. But hey, Trump-supporting-anti-NeoCons: Do you respect yourself? @TulsiGabbard

It's always a bad sign when there are Andor memes in your feed. Thanks to the many photographers whose work I've borrowed. You can find a full list of all the photos used in the montage here:… Nemik's eulogy for Renee Nicole Good.

Wow. #JustWow

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Good vs. Ice

The revolution will be YouTube-ified.

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Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia

- @aaronsw, +13.

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The idiocy of "empire" it is.

The “Battle Hymn of the Republic” is an iconic American song, drawing on lots of roots and precursors, but pulled into its most famous shape by abolitionist Julia Ward Howe. During the American Civil… "Battle Hymn of the Empire" - Marsh Family adaptation of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" about Trump

Brilliant remix of the Battle Hymn of the Republic by the extraordinary Marsh Family. Favorite line: "He is drumming out the glory of a land once free and brave..."

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This is going to be lots of fun: First Amendment Originalism at the AEI in DC on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Buckley v. Valeo.

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Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US…

My favorite thing about New Year's:

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Worth 1,000 words The appellees have filed their brief in our case defending the people of Maine’s right to police the size of contributions to independent…

When a picture is worth 1,000 words: Here's the sleight of hand that is going to bring SuperPACs down.

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The Resonant Computing Manifesto Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.

What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow?

Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it)

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The Chief Justice was right. #POTUS #OBLIVIOUSNESS

The courts broke campaign finance. Maine is giving them a chance to repair it. - The Boston Globe There is a path to restore limits on big money in politics.

From the authors of the argument that will end SuperPACs:

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The First Epstein Report Ignored Summers. Harvard Must Do Better. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson How could Harvard have allowed this production of Hamlet without the Prince? And will it now commit to a practice that will not protect the elite among us, while shaming those not quite elite enough?

Harvard's 2020/21 reports on Epstein were Hamlet without the Prince (Summers). We need to understand why: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Viral musical sensation Jesse Welles brings his GRAMMY-nominated political folk to the Ed Sullivan Theater for a solo performance of "Join ICE," a tune from his latest EP, 'No Kings.' Keep watching… "Join ICE" - Jesse Welles (LIVE on The Late Show)

Seriously brilliant protest music: youtu.be/61I4hlig78w?...

Nuremberg - Explore the Nuremberg Trials! The Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project is an open-access initiative to create and present digitized images and full-text versions of the Library's Nuremberg Trials documents,…

From the Department of Tragic Irony:

On the day the Harvard Law School releases a digital archive of the Nuremberg Trials, the President threatens the lives of members of Congress who utter its most basic truth: That everyone, especially soldiers, must follow the law.

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Episode 4: Dismantling "Allegation 2" the first of four.

I've published the fourth episode of the podcast reviewing the Francesca Gino case (Harvard Business School professor removed for academic misconduct). This is the first of four to review the evidence behind the four findings of misconduct.

President Trump pardoned the billionaire founder of the largest crypto exchange in the world, Binance. It's raised questions about conflicts of interest and the president's use of the pardon… Trump pardon of billionaire sparks concerns

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We were on our way to qualifying for the second debate — then the Democrats changed the rules. Watch Lessig describe what this means for the campaign. Help us caption & translate this… The Democrats have changed the rules

Ten years ago today, I ended my effort to get corruption at the center of the Democratic presidential debate. Flawed and impossible in many ways, it was right. Then, and even more so now.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reacts to President Donald Trump urging Republicans to abolish the Senate filibuster so they can end the government shutdown. CNN’s Jeff Zeleny reports. #CNN #News Speaker Johnson issues warning after Trump says GOP should end the filibuster

Trump is right. The filibuster should go.

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I'm going to make this even easier for @jay.bsky.team - I'm willing to be a PR person at a very reasonable rate. I've worked in tech marketing for 10 years and was a software engineer for another 10. I've run the social media & tech side of a $11M campaign for Larry Lessig. I'm qualified. DM me.

BREAKING NEWS: Rand Paul Absolutely Trashes Trump's Tariffs After Outrage Over Canada's Reagan Ad During remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) criticized President Trump's tariff policies. Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including…

Hey, the future. There were a few. Too few, but some.

Colorado AG Phil Weiser has filed suit against Trump for moving Space Force b/c Colorado has mail-in voting. My favorite line in the complaint: "Trump’s statements and beliefs on mail-in voting are simply untethered from the facts."

Let this become the refrain everywhere.

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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going… I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ | Kat Abughazaleh For Illinois

Wow. Talk about handing your opponent a megaphone.

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Maddow: This is what Democrats have been screaming about The real numbers on the impact of Republican changes to health insurance subsidies are being made public, and they are extreme to say the least. Suddenly, the abstract fight over the federal…

Re health care costs: "These are insane numbers."

Two ways to think about this story. One: the "insane numbers." The other: that 1/2 of America has no clue about these facts, because of the bubbles we've allowed media to become.

THAT is the insanity.

Public Trust Demands Open-Source Voting Systems | VotingWorks Yesterday, news broke that Dominion Voting Systems was sold to a new company, Liberty Vote. Dominion, the second-largest voting systems vendor in the US that currently tabulates 1 in 5 American…

"Trust us, we're the government" is fine, iff, as Reagan put it, we "trust, but verify." The only credible way to verify critical code is if that code is open-sourced.

There is one extremely prominent open-source vendor in America. There need to be many more.

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A former GOP official has privately financed the purchase of the second-largest voting technology vendor in America? What could possibly go wrong...

Here's what could go right: We urgently need a demand by election officials for open-source voting technology.