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Expert provider of lay opinions, and also of Duo push approvals. Day job: Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law at UC Berkeley Law. Opinions my own, not intended to represent UC's.

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And I want to add that @veenadubal.bsky.social, who led this litigation, is a literal hero.

14.02.2026 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

16.02.2026 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2661    πŸ” 724    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 109

We need a statutory bivens cause of action. Let them sue and get this on the record.

16.02.2026 06:35 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Jennifer
@JenYetAgain@beige.party
in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.
this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.
Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18PM
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Jennifer @JenYetAgain@beige.party in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US. Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18PM Boosted by 968: Favourited by 1324:

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

16.02.2026 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4000    πŸ” 998    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 11
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Fantastic. | Raffi Melkonian Fantastic.

Ok, this trailer for a conlaw course is great.

www.linkedin.com/posts/raffi-...

15.02.2026 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you think there’s NOTHING in our heritage (or in any nation’s) to be unapologetic about, you’re a fool. A dangerous fool.

15.02.2026 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 8393    πŸ” 1622    πŸ’¬ 547    πŸ“Œ 190

The future is now!

15.02.2026 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Report misconduct by federal agents in New Jersey to the state’s Office of the Attorney General

www.njoag.gov/portal/

15.02.2026 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great piece that matches my view substantively. Articulated from my more pro-rational choice perspective: MVT is a theory with assumptions. The problem isn’t MVT but that people don’t know the assumptions, how uncertain they are, or their implications. It’s like Econ 101 supply and demand.

15.02.2026 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 1

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

15.02.2026 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 33643    πŸ” 11529    πŸ’¬ 569    πŸ“Œ 513

That is highly useful feedback. Looking into it.

For now please mail checks to:

Sam Wang for Congress
P.O. Box 1284
Princeton, NJ 08542

Thank you!

15.02.2026 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Good luck babe

And I mean that sincerely

15.02.2026 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Kavanaugh stops are totally unrelated to race or ethnicity which is why Kavanaugh wrote the opinion saying it was all fine

15.02.2026 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

According to Julie K. Brown, who did such invaluable reporting on Jeffrey Epstein for the Miami Herald, the Bard College Board of Trustees is conducting an emergency meeting tomorrow. I hope they do the right thing. x.com/jkbjournalis...

15.02.2026 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 934    πŸ” 173    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 0

And also to the Eleventy Trillion otherwise on offer

15.02.2026 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

$0

15.02.2026 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the β€œbaby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

15.02.2026 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 11948    πŸ” 5665    πŸ’¬ 582    πŸ“Œ 320

tl;dr: CBP fired a new weapon into domestic airspace that the FAA had previously warned posed grave risk to human life. It did so without warning to FAA and without restricting airspace. FAA restricted airspace in response. White House overruled them. The target turned out to be a party balloon.

15.02.2026 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 396    πŸ” 167    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 6
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Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...

β€œThe Trump administration’s decision to not appeal this preliminary injunction means that for the foreseeable future, they cannot use civil rights laws or federal funding as a cudgel to remake the UC in its ideological image.”

β€”Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel

14.02.2026 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 127    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

This is what happens when workers and students stand up for their universities and do what UC and the regents were unwilling to do.

15.02.2026 05:08 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Please be careful in London. I have spent 25 years there, but I have never heard a story as frightening as this one from today in which nothing at all happened.

14.02.2026 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3713    πŸ” 706    πŸ’¬ 531    πŸ“Œ 117

Who knows whether it did!

15.02.2026 08:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow

15.02.2026 07:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow

15.02.2026 07:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Doing speech suppression the Right way

15.02.2026 06:58 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

but how can you be so sure it's a lie if you don't first examine the evidence? academia has gone woke.

when you get up in the morning and use toothpaste, do you just put it in your mouth? No, you first look up each ingredient and check if it's also an ingredient for vaccines.

do your research!

15.02.2026 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I tell you, the people who have made common cause with Trump and Rubio, because of claimed concerns about antisemitism, have really got some explaining to do, if perhaps only to themselves

15.02.2026 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A++

15.02.2026 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Inside ICE’s Only Contract with a Blue State - Bolts As part of a 287(g) contract between state officials and ICE, Massachusetts continues to release prisoners into deportationβ€”even as state lawmakers look to ban other forms of ICE collaboration.

Massachusetts has spent months delaying & denying @boltsmag.org’s public records requests on how many people it has transferred ICE during Trump as part of its formal contract with ICE.

A supervisor of records ruled last week that the state’s denials are improper; we hope to get records soon.

14.02.2026 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 989    πŸ” 312    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 10

Roses are red
Poetic progression
It’s hard to explain
Quantile regression

14.02.2026 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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