Emmanuel Mauleón

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Congrats! I look forward to rating the Lenin dad jokes and hope to give them… full Marx.

Sit with this passage every few months and think about the difficulty of unwinding race, if it’s possible, to what degree, and if not—then what?

Can’t help but feel this is in a lead up to a Chauvin pardon on Memorial Day, because this administration is only made of salt for wounds.

JUST NOW: the United States has filed a motion to dismiss the Minneapolis consent decree, stating that the U.S. "no longer believes that the proposed consent decree would be in the public interest."

A picture of me looking very embarrassed as Dean McGeveran reads comments from the students.

I am very grateful to the students of @umnlawschool.bsky.social for nominating me for the Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the Year Award. I cannot express how rewarding it is to teach these students everyday. They'll be happy to know that I used the award as an excuse to buy more venomous fish.

See, e.g., “EQUITY.”

I have written and deleted five messages before posting. I will remember those who, in the moment a 2 year old was removed without process, thought the best use of their time was to make jokes about “MS-under-13” and “toddler de Aragua.”

Yes I animated the beret to fall on his head

(Hakeem you are the pass-through vector of this message, not its target!)

Merit, you say? Okay, given this public display of absolutely fatuous opinion masquerading as fact, and your deep commitment to rooting out ideology for academic rigor, you won’t mind if we start an investigation into your tenure file? Or is that only for the Black Women you attack?

“These folks often say that they are concerned that DEI threatens merit. The real horror they confront is that DEI threatens monopoly.”

Has anyone ever said "My rights are a distraction?" It's always someone else's rights, right?

The jaw-dropping overreach of the letter to Harvard shows every university what the stakes are.

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I responded to a text recently that asked “how can I help” and my brain responded “leave me be.”

Like, I can’t even hold space for you to hold space for me.

I awoke this morning from a dream that felt like a memory of chanting “Sandra Bland” in the streets of New York. Thinking about all the work of the past decade+ to show that what is happening now to students and visa holders has been a part of the daily rightslessness of law enforcement for so long.

As my more senior colleague I am taking this as a directive.

Imagine trying to deport someone for their "expected beliefs"

Donald Trump and the Favoritism Grift For this President, all policy is personal.

“I take J. D. Vance seriously when he says that he’s trying to destroy universities,” Gallope said. “I don’t think concessions are going to win us funding, and we’re trading away the tools we’ll need to defend universities in the future.”

Reducing the tariff rate to 95% is actually a bargain Ruth

That was always true of tough on crime crowd (as you know!) but the contrast like everything is just wildly starker now. Reparations for insurrectionists; Torture for immigrants.

To the editor of this NPR story on the Navarro Musk feud, I salute you. Men will be men, and this is them at their worst.

As always, insightful and interesting work by the one and only @marissaesque.bsky.social!

The Other Side of Signalgate The Trump Administration’s extraordinary security breach has elicited shock, amusement, and anger. An eyewitness in Yemen describes what happened when the bombs started to fall.

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During the 2020 primary season, the large gaggle of Democratic candidates practically tripped over each other in a race to embrace the toxic pet priorities of “the groups.” Only Joe Biden was sensible enough to veer the other way, or perhaps the dog was simply too old to learn any new tricks. In the event, Biden was the closest thing to a vote for normalcy on the 2020 ballot, and that sufficed to let him get the nomination and then squeak by Trump. Once in office, though, his administration prioritized intra-progressive comity over building a national unity coalition, allowing activists to infiltrate the executive branch and launch a series of politically tin-eared provocations. Consider just one example among many: Jeff Bezos, the second richest man in the world and owner of the Washington Post, defied Trump’s demonization of the press with the paper’s adoption of “Democracy Dies in Darkness” as its official slogan shortly after Trump took office. So how did Biden treat such a powerful ally? He appointed Lina Khan as head of the Federal Trade Commission, a woman who had made her academic reputation advocating the breakup of Amazon.com — a genuinely dumb policy idea on top of everything. Through this and similar moves, Democrats succeeded in driving a critical mass of tech moguls into the arms of Trump, given him a powerful new base of support.

It's presented as sheer common sense that, of course, if a rich guy who owns a newspaper takes your side you let him do a bit of monopoly as a treat. Really, utterly grim. This in the midst of an article about how democracy must be defended! Just so bleak.

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They're abducting people for the suspected views of their spouses in the middle of fucking Georgetown

Appreciate all these replies. Some good ideas. Transferring lecture prep to other formats will be interesting. Might just do “ASMR - Law Professor Teaches Servitudes in Muffled Whisper Roleplay” as a theme.

Given that I’m aphonic until further notice, and if this continues to persist, I need to figure out how to teach without speaking. Cancelled two classes already but looking for ideas about how to do this!