Paul Gowder
@gowder.io
Prof @ Northwestern law, political theorist, cat parent. Black lives matter. Profile, pubs, etc: https://gowder.io All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ https://books.gowder.io
“The results of these elections don’t demonstrate a mere interest in accountability for what Trump and his administration have done to us the past two years; they represent a demand to begin the arduous task of reweaving the fabric of this country from scratch”
The Handbasket
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NEW: No one lost harder last night than Elon Musk. Of every traceable dollar he put into a race that’s been called, more than 99 cents went to a loser. He paid for most of the costliest Senate race in US history, after spending millions to make sure Ken Paxton was the nominee.
Voters Set $400 Million of Elon Musk’s Money on Fire
Elon Musk almost single-handedly funded the Republican midterms push. But of every traceable dollar Musk put into races that have been decided, more than 99 cents went to a race he lost.
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We’re gonna nationalize Paul Weiss and take away their comma
Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d agoCongratulations to these trashy law firms full of spineless cretins with bad judgment and no foresight, I hope they enjoy providing the Trump admin with $940 million in free representation for Congressional investigations. If that's too much of a burden, they can take the Weil Gotshal route. 🫶
I would really love to be a fly on the wall in stupid Sammy's chambers right now as he tries to figure out if he can retire and get replaced in the next 2 months
This one is my favorite. The senate race we could explain away from Ken Paxton being basically an open lizard person, but Abbott, while patently evil, has not yet ingested a living baby on TV and hence should have won but for the fact that even Texans are pissed at the nazi scum running our country
Democrats@democrats.org · 2d agoDEM FLIP: Democrat Gina Hinojosa has won the race for Texas governor, defeating Republican incumbent Greg Abbott. For the first time in 36 years, Democrats have flipped the Texas governor’s mansion blue. Congrats, Governor-elect Hinojosa!
okay so while we're all up and chatting: DC statehood DC statehood DC statehood DC statehood DC statehood DC statehood DC statehood
We don't know how the world will look tomorrow. (As argued here: fallows.substack.com/p/midterm-co... ) But let us remember who stood up, and who knelt down, during this bleak past two years. Photo below just tip of the iceberg.
Oh Christ proton is really important as a member of the secureish and not (as far as we know) captured by the Trump regime communications ecosystem and it sounds like it just can't be trusted if the CEO is pushing untested vibe code and going nuts?
404 Media@404media.co · last wk.SCOOP: Proton CEO Andy Yen to his staff: “Stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more.” 404 Media saw these internal messages, in which he also said it was "loser thinking" to an employee who urged the company to at least take a few days to test newly written code before going live.
At this point it has gotta be some social media intern taking the piss, right??
Why are they running job ads when there's a NYT article today saying that they're about to dissolve??
Good. It's about time we played a little hardball. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...
Inside Democrats’ Secret Effort to Stack Alaska’s Midterm Ballot With Another Dan Sullivan (Gift Article)
Operatives aligned with Mary Peltola, the Democratic nominee for Senate, spent months recruiting candidates to peel votes from Senator Dan Sullivan, the Republican.
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Dolores Huerta, United Farmworkers co-founder and civil rights icon, has died, her family says.
Here's @gillianbrockell.com's latest in the saga over a immigrant ordered to be freed from a hotel prison in Equatorial Guinea. The judge has threatened contempt against ICE after catching them lying about not sending a plane to the country last week. prospect.org/2026/10/28/j...
Judge Blasts Trump Officials, Hints at Contempt Over Deportation - The American Prospect
In a scorching order Tuesday, a federal judge laid out a four-page laundry list of noncompliance in the case of Ahmed Soliman.
prospect.org
We're taking submissions for our annual book/article lists again. Submit your own, tell us about a colleague's work, or put down everything relevant from your press's Spring and Fall 2026 catalogues.
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
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everyone should start loading up a lot of sleep to get thru the night on November 3
uniongal.bsky.social@uniongal.bsky.social · last wk.Watching the results from @taniel.bsky.social is gonna be absolutely bonkers in 8 days.
One benefit of holding leaders accountable for crimes is that if Flávio Bolsonaro tries to overturn this election, he knows exactly where he’d end up. In prison, next to his father.
Nice news outta Brazil and Serbia. I think I'm gonna go to bed on that high and so I never have to find out more about that Google twit who asked the text output of a LLM to praise her kid. Hopefully, the two giants eyes will have swiveled elsewhere by tomorrow and she will disappear.