My small southern town has a place to buy bagels now, and the jersey boy in me is so unbelievably happy. Even better, they don't suck!
Kyle Morgan
@profkmorgan.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science (Public Law, Public Opinion, Criminal Justice, and Experiments) writing lately on privacy and surveillance. But please talk to me about surfing, dogs, trash pandas, and the outdoors. Statements are my own.
That point of the semester where I talk about how eye witnesses suck and all my students' favorite forensic science stuff is largely junk science.
South Carolina corruption is wild, blatant, and on an incredible scale. And that's coming from someone born and raised in New Jersey.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 5d agoWe’re back with our second story about how Trump’s purge of the FBI killed a sweeping bribery probe in D.C. This time, we take you to South Carolina, where two powerful politicians escaped scrutiny: Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. James Clyburn. THREAD 👇
Any time Rutgers is in the news, it's bad but this takes the cake! The surveillance state must be destroyed.
Britt Paris@hellobrittparis.bsky.social · last wk.Surveilling students AND workers. Things like this are why we at @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social put across an article in April to address surveillance, the lack of oversight or thoughtful governance in tech decision making at Rutgers. Mgmt has not responded in nearly 6mo... www.nj.com/news/2026/10...
Imagine when Flock goes under and decides to sell their data
EPIC@epic.org · 2w ago✍️ EPIC’s Abigail Kunkler and Mayu Tobin-Miyaji wrote about the privacy issues in Spirit Airline’s attempts to sell employee data to Google for AI training. We also filed an amicus brief supporting @afacwa.org's objections to the sale; the hearing on the sale of worker data will be held tomorrow.
Benefit of having a dog that demands early morning walks is you see cool stuff like this.
"Why are you criticizing the democrats, when the republicans did this??" Here's the thing: there's no need to call out the ominous evil hole in the ground. It's an ominous evil hole in the ground. You need to call out the guy guiding travelers into the hole instead of putting a fence around it
Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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Got to see the back end of the Flock system, including how "affiliated cameras" are integrated into the network and visible to police. Calling them ALPR's is so misleading, these systems are akin to Minority Report surveillance. They are so much more than passive recording of vehicles passing them.
The proliferation of police body cam [TikTok/YouTube/etc], the Qannon BS/pop culture trope that industrial scale child trafficking is basically happening everywhere all of the time, and every fucking cop show saying "based on real events" has absolutely cooked students' brains.
Student paper talking about my Constitution Day talk on Popular Constitutionalism and opposition to ALPR cameras. But maybe the best thing is they included my qualification on a call to action: "'Don’t buy hacksaws,' Morgan said." patriotnewsonline.com/news/2026/09...
FMU Constitution Day program examines ALPR use and privacy in Florence
More than 50 Francis Marion University students and faculty gathered Sept. 17 in Harris Auditorium at the School of Business and Education for a Constitution Day presentation examining the privacy, se...
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my buddy who lived in italy as a kid mentioned what the ninja turtles are called in italian and i asked how they made it work with the song and,
Constitution Day talk this year about ALPR's and why we don't need the court to tell us they are unconstitutional, we can do that ourselves.
New from 404 Media: Georgia State has rescinded a job offer given to Samuel Tunick, the activist who allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before DHS could search it. Tunick says the case is "textbook political repression". Now can't study or work at the university www.404media.co/university-r...
University Rescinds Job Offer to Activist Who Allegedly Wiped Phone Before DHS Could Search It
Samuel Tunick allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before CBP officials could search it, in what has become a high profile civil liberties case. Now Georgia State University has rescinded a job offer ...
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www.postandcourier.com/pee-dee/news... Happy I got to participate in this and call attention to the misinformation from the City Manager and Chief of Police. Even in the deep south, almost everyone hates these damn cameras!
Florence residents voice concerns about use of Flock cameras
Florence residents voiced concerns to city officials about the city’s use of Flock cameras during a public forum with City Manager Scotty Davis and Police Chief Angela Greene.
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Red States: We're cutting the humanities at our public universities to spend more money on right-wing indoctrination Blue States: We're cutting the same programs, but to spend more money on AI and the business school.
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 3mo agoCentrist Democrats hate humanities scholarship just as much as Republicans do - the difference is that Democrats think humanities teaching is important in the elite private institutions they aspire to send their kids to, but not the actual laborers.
My family has discovered AI videos on YouTube. I don't know if this is better or worse than Fox News 24/7.
Getting a 30% off coupon for a book from the journal's publisher as a "thank you for being a reviewer" sums up so much of what is wrong with academic publishing.
constitutionalstudies-ojs-utexas.tdl.org/cs/article/v... The court is engaged in a different form of Counter-majoritarian behavior though its decisions "If courts engage in behavior that harms access to and participation in the democratic process, this weakens or even eliminates those remedies..."
Legislative Attitudes Toward Judicial Review and Reconceptualizing the Counter-Majoritarian Dilemma | Constitutional Studies
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I can't decide which is worse; normalizing the surveillance state or Prego pasta sauce.
WIRED@wired.com · 6mo agoThe pasta-sauce company has partnered with the nonprofit StoryCorps on a device designed to record family conversations around the table and save them for all time. www.wired.com/story/prego-...
It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.
wpde.com/news/local/f... Things are going well here in SC. We have our own Schitt's creek here.
Florence residents link foul odor to sewage spilling from manhole into Jeffries Creek
Residents in Florence say a sewage overflow into Jeffries Creek may be responsible for a foul odor lingering in the area for months.Videos shared on social medi
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Given we keep coming back to lawns in my environmental law course this semester, I'm adding a section for next time about lawn laws. Calling this part of the syllabus: "Why you should take your lawn out back and shoot it, put it in your car, and bury it under Giants stadium, but you legally can't"
Imagine being this useless at your job, the administration is launching illegal wars and you're over there trying to shame them for lying. Absolutely useless, each and every one of them.
Senator Chris Van Hollen@vanhollen.senate.gov · 8mo agoNot only has this Admin launched a regime-change war of choice that the American people don't want, they can't even get their story straight about why they did it. American servicemembers and hundreds of civilians have been killed — and all they can do is lie.
Ban the fucking polymarkets. Betting on death. Betting on war while Incentivizing death and war. Shaping foreign/domestic policy by rewarding the rich people already in the know and encouraging them to make decisions that destroy the world while padding their pockets. Burn it down.
Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 8mo agoSix suspected insiders made $1.2M betting on a US strike on Iran these wallets • were funded in the last 24h • specifically bet for February 28 • bought "yes" hours before the strikes
