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#Law #profs, please add yourselves, your schools, your programs to the current social media census up at The Faculty Lounge: www.thefacultylounge.org/2025/04/its-...

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“Maine may be one of the first states to undergo an investigation by his Administration, but we won’t be the last….But you must ask yourself: who and what will he target next, and what will he do? Will it be you? Will it be because of your race or your religion?”

Blind man gets license to carry permit to make a point about Indiana gun laws A blind man in Indiana raises concerns about gun laws after easily obtaining a license to carry permit. He advocates for a competency test for gun owners.

A blind man is raising concerns about Indiana gun laws after he was allowed to get a license to carry a handgun

Schiff Filibusters Trump Nominee, Speaks Out on Senate Floor YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff

We are holding the Senate floor – and filibustering Donald Trump's nomination of Russ Vought.

I spoke for an hour about what they are doing, and how these disparate, destructive acts all fit together.

Hope you’ll watch.

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Looking for something like this to share.

When Doctors With A.I. Are Outperformed by A.I. Alone Interpreting Some Surprising Results

Our op-ed @nytopinion.nytimes.com today addresses the surprising results of recent medical studies that showed A.I. alone outperformed physicians using A.I. W/@rajpurkar.bsky.social
Here is a summary Table, an overview, and a gift link to the op-ed
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When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.

We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.

ALSO.

Judiciary Comm - I oppose these bills: HB273 Parent's access to child's library records. Kids have the right to read and access information. HB376 Specifying library user info exempted from disclosure in right-to-know law includes info regarding library cards. It denies the public a right to know.

Some thoughts on whether (sham) litigation settlements may be a vehicle for bribery, and whether our laws are robust enough to recognize that

Thanks so much to @dorfonlaw.bsky.social

Opinion | If All This Sounds Delusional, That’s Because It Is (Gift Article) All the king’s men is back with a vengeance.

I agree, one of Jamelle Bouie's best. Here's a gift copy for non-subscribers.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/o...

While the @nytimes.com was focused on giving Trump Theater two enthusiastic thumbs up, @marisakabas.bsky.social was out there breaking real news.

Subscribe to the www.thehandbasket.co if you care about, you know, actual news

Trump’s Freeze on Grant Funding Temporarily Halted by US Judge A federal judge in Washington has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a new directive to halt payments of federal grants, loans and other assistance to an array of programs across the country.

Stopped for now. There's been all kinds of pushback all day, and this judge's halt to their power grab just happened. Do not dismiss either the seriousness of what happened or the impact of the strong reaction by.... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Read, share, act.

Hi, are you doomscrolling?

the funding freeze was halted with just minutes to spare before it was due to go into effect. shudder to think what would’ve happened if the memo wasn’t leaked.

Rebecca Solnit on Facebook: I spent much of the last almost 24 hours not doing my usual job--the one I do for a living, which is at present writing my current book (plus answer endless emails)--to do the job the legacy media and major news outlets were not doing: reporting on the impact and illegality of the latest coup attempt by the Trump team. If we had the press I wish we did, I might've urged you here and there to contact your representatives or commented a little but I would not have been scouring for informed and expert opinions and interpretations on what was happening and posting them madly, because you would've been reading and listening to them in that mainstream media. Most of what I shared did not come from them because they were pretty useless and behind the curve, these institutions valued in the hundreds of millions with immense salaried staffs. It came from legal scholars and experts, independent journalists--including Marisa Kabas, an independent journalist at The Handbasket who was the first to report the leaked order to cut off all that funding. The New York Times, the Washington Post, etc. didn't get the scoop. She did, and even the next morning a lazy, lackluster underreporting and playing down of what happened. Really you can blame the outcome of the November election in part on that kind of sanewashing and normalizing and softening up of all their Trump coverage and the consequences of what he has done and threatened to do--and is doing now.

wow, many thanks to the amazing @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for the kind words. and i share in your frustration.

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Even if you can't get pregnant, someone in your life, community, universe might, and if you can afford the cost get them and have them on hand.

Be the person who has the thing for the person who will need it.

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The grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, Jason Carter, tells a story about his grandfather when he first got a cell phone.

So funny and so relatable!

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That dopamine hit when you discover long lost bird pals have arrived here safely.

The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions: 1. Insults about: Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality. Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits. 2. Highlighted section: The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

By 1980, when his presidency ended, Carter had completely transformed the federal bench, appointing 41 women and 57 racial minorities as federal judges—a 500% increase in the number of women serving on the federal bench and a nearly 200% increase in the number of nonwhite federal judges.

Jimmy Carter Appreciation 🧵:

As we mourn Carter's death, there will be lots of discussion of his presidency and his post-presidential exploits, including his work with @habitatforhumanity.bsky.social and the @cartercenter.bsky.social.

But I want to talk about Carter and the federal judiciary....

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What a damning indictment of how even America’s ostensibly environmentally minded states are approaching the question of transportation electrification and decarbonization. Budgets reflect priorities and there’s so much cost-effective benefit we lose by not appropriately taking e-bikes seriously

Under pressure from some conservative activists, Sununu pulls state librarian nominee Critics took issue with the nominee’s past work helping colleagues respond to book challenges.

Highly qualified #NewHampshire state #librarian candidate nomination dropped by Sununu for stance opposing #bookbans and #censorship. #libraries #collectiondevelopment #bookchallenges #uniteagainstbookbans

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Always surprised how many folk on social media are unaware that highly visible women online regularly get threatened w/ rape and other violence. Happens to every woman w/ a substantial following I know, has for a decade regardless of platform. And no, authorities don’t care and that’s no solution.

screenshot from an uninformed app showing decibel levels for various noises where a whisper is 30-39 decibels and a library is next-quietest at 40-49. Next up is moderate rainfall at 50-59 and "conversation" at 60-69 and finally "vacuum cleaner" at 70-79.

Got chided by my phone for listening to loud music (when I was asleep, headphones in another room 🙄) I clicked a link to read more and was informed by the health app that libraries are quieter than rain and devoid of conversation

HAVE YOU BEEN TO A LIBRARY LATELY MY APP?! How dare you. #JoyfulNoise