Chrstphr S. Grdn
@chrstphrsg.bsky.social
partner • 3L @ BLS • photographer • writer • night owl • he/him summa: con law, the judiciary, due process, equal protection • analytic juris, fregean & performative semantics • cognition, episteme, ontology; parmenides, plato, aristotle
Bluesky is also vulnerable to mass manipulation, but this here is a reason why I think more people should openly care that digital social ecosystems like atprotocol succeed: Having a place to shoot the shit is primary but so is dismantling platforms with this centralized level of media control
Alexandra Lahav@alahav.bsky.social · 22h agoNew @bloomberglaw.com article by Olivia Carville - TikTok experimented on users, putting 10% (about 15M people) in a "filter bubble" exposing them to repetitive content that the algorithm thought they wanted, but was toxic. If you want to know why these cases are going to be massive...
the logic of every tech conglomerate (but especially Microsoft in my lifetime)
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo agoAI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 5d agoA GOP Congressman, Griffith Morgan (Virginia), has introduced a bill to strip people in Guam, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and every other US non-state territory of their birthright citizenship. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
I would go a step further: "best fighting force" is a fascist canard; the principle to stand on is a people's armed force. A value that motivated the founding era's militia ethos is an armed force that is of the people, called to defend the republic.
Senator Elissa Slotkin@slotkin.senate.gov · 6d agoThat does not make us safe. We want the military to be the best fighting force it can be, and it can’t do that when its morale is being tested and people are leaving.
Big primary data drop today w/@fiftyplusone.news ! Which political endorsements are working in 2026? Our new story examines how Democratic and Republican organizations are faring. OG 538 folks will know it! TY to @gelliottmorris.com and 50+1 for helping us keep the "PRIMARY PROJECT" alive!
FiftyPlusOne.news@fiftyplusone.news · 6d ago50+1 is very happy to publish this analysis of 2026 primary candidates from @meredithconroy.bsky.social @tsyang27.bsky.social & Cooper Burton, following the tradition of similar projects from FiveThirtyEight. What types of candidates are winning 2026 primaries? blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/primary-pr...
Alix & I were just talking about this crucial notion re philosophy: as in, clearly Berkeley's world was so unlike our own but also he still looked up and saw the same starry sky so what's he up to with his whole "to be is to be perceived" & "matter doesn't exist there are only minds and their ideas"
Hannah Sparwasser Soroka@hannah-historian.bsky.social · last wk.The fundamental, delicious paradox of studying history is that: 1. These people are radically different from me, and I may never properly understand them. 2. These people are exactly like me.
the clear statement rule of major questions doctrine is an artificial judicial requirement akin to the Miranda warnings conservatives seem to loathe? #morningthoughts
Law profs doing bad things for democracy have gotten (and should get) attention recently. But a brief shout-out to Prof. @jackchin.bsky.social: He wrote a law review article flagging this issue 20 years ago; some brilliant attorneys eventually read it and litigated it . . . and won.
Bolts@boltsmag.org · 2w agoA federal judge has ordered Virginia to restore the voting rights of thousands of people who were illegally barred from voting under the 1870 Virginia Readmission Act, the law that readmitted Virginia into the United States.
so I guess the only way Alix and I see Odyssey in IMAX 70mm at Lincoln Sq 13 is by waiting until the print makes a return NYC & becomes a permanent fixture like any long-running Broadway production?
"The WHCA wants to remind its speakers that any mention of certain said topics during the Correspondences' Dinner is strictly verboten as a reminder of what a free press means to this country."
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2w agoThis quote sounds like it came out of a time machine from George HW Bush’s presidency nymag.com/intelligence...
@iumaurerlaw.bsky.social seeks to hire several TT law professors this academic year & welcomes entry-level & lateral candidates. Our hiring details and the application portal is available here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/33776. Our committee would love to hear from interested candidates.
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What would it look like if private conglomerates did this to the political parties and a government? Are there any examples...............
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is kind of an incredible website: Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.
"It's not that everyone is making the same amount of money or facing the same amount of struggle, but that they just want to know, is there any way for them to actually be able to work this hard and afford a good life in the city?"
Amanda Litman@amandalitman.bsky.social · 3w agoHis answer on how you define “working class” gets at something too many pundits and politicians forget: The raw numbers might matter for policy, but for politics, it’s more important to speak to how people *feel* about their ability to afford the life they want.
sometimes people prefer the security of possession in property right rather than revocable license?
The Verge@theverge.com · 3w ago16.3 million CDs were sold in the first half of 2026 in the US, a 16 percent increase year-over-year.
yes courts give the Exec. wide latitude in mil. affairs, but should transmasc service members consider bringing a suit against the DOD Sec'y for unequal distribution of gender affirming care?
Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 3w agoHegseth announced they're gonna start screening for T and administering testosterone treatment for warriors found wanting
"There is nothing 'ordinary' about this case; it is the very definition of sui generis."
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3w agoBREAKING: Federal judge finds that Trump's IRS suit was improper because Trump controlled both sides of the litigation. Judge Kathleen Williams also sanctions Trump's lawyers, issues monetary sanctions, and harshly criticizes DOJ's "untenable" conduct. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
can the emergence of baseball in the US be related to our gun culture, as the main course of play involves a standoff between two people where a projectile is exchanged between both? #morningthoughts
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Jocelyn Simonson@jocelynsimonson.bsky.social · 4w agoWorking on finishing up a law review article for the upcoming submission cycle? ICYMI, the final version of @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social & my essay "The Part IV Problem in Legal Scholarship" is now online at the Columbia Law Review: columbialawreview.org/content/the-...
👇ever more so after a Section 3 Pres. & a major political party willing to condone his transgressions
Dan Walters@profdanwalters.bsky.social · 4w agoI really do think that there needs to be a movement--every bit as sustained and well-organized as the movement leading to Slaughter--to invigorate the positive requirements of the Take Care Clause of Article II. It's sitting there in plain sight and it means what it says.
"Oh no. Just how upset were you to return home and discover FIFA was three corruptions in a trench coat?"
there is some mistake here (one neoconfederates enjoy) that thinks only of white men signing legal instruments when thinking "founders"—why isn't every other common person who had neither penis nor enough property nor white enough skin who lived & wanted in a framing era not also our founder?
Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · last mo.I actually don’t care what the founding fathers would say about the present and I don’t think you should either
