A Texas University Becomes a Petri Dish for a Conservative Overhaul www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u... The thought police are hard at work at Texas Tech and the doublespeak about academic freedom and censorship is breathtaking to behold.
Michael Perino
@professorperino.bsky.social
Law professor at St. John’s Law and writer (The Hellhound of Wall St.) who still believes in the rule of law and the American experiment
youtube.com/watch?v=IZjq... For all you Civil Procedure and Federal Courts nerds out there, the Federal Circuit channels Schoolhouse Rock.
What is the Federal Circuit? An Animated Civics Lesson
YouTube video by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
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Will no one rid me of this meddlesome Fed Chair? Trump Threatens to Fire Powell if He Does Not Resign From Fed www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/b...
Trump Threatens to Fire Powell if He Does Not Resign From Fed
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Even Dictionary.com is taking shots at our idiotic president and his administrative buffoons. I give you today's Word of the Day: perpend. www.dictionary.com/word-of-the-...
The world is watching he says, and boy is it embarrassing.
The federal government's war on fraud enforcement continues unabated. SEC enforcement personnel down 18%. Bigger declines in Investment Management, Trading & Markets, and, in a nice homage to 2008, Credit Ratings. GAO: these changes "could pose risks to the agency’s ability to fulfill its mission."
Will media ever abandon this terminology? “ICE-involved shooting” like “police-involved shooting” does nothing but obscure who is doing the shooting. ICE agents or police weren’t shot. They were the shooters. Just say it directly!
Hiring the dregs of Liberty Law School for the DOJ is the legal equivalent of drafting 13-year-olds into the infantry
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 7mo agoScenes from a personalist regime
How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t... Wow, really? Who would have guessed that a financial instrument designed to disguise illegal activity would be used to disguise illegal activity.
How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
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Prosecutor Used Flawed A.I. to Keep a Man in Jail, His Lawyers Say www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u... I guess I shouldn’t be surprised but you’d think that after all the stories of hallucinations in legal briefs lawyers would begin to take a bit more care when using #ChatGPT.
Prosecutor Used Flawed A.I. to Keep a Man in Jail, His Lawyers Say
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The Comey Case Is a Comedy of Errors www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o... This is what happens when the only qualification is blind loyalty.
Opinion | The Comey Case Is a Comedy of Errors
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My paper with @vanloo.bsky.social and @lanemiles.bsky.social showing that more than 15% of US companies have potentially illegal interlocking board members is now published in the Columbia Law Review columbialawreview.org/content/anti...
ANTICOMPETITIVE DIRECTORS - Columbia Law Review
“The practice of interlocking directorates is the root of many evils. It offends laws human and divine.” — Justice Louis Brandeis. Introduction Antitrust law prohibits competing corporations from shar...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u... Wait for it … and because there is an ongoing criminal investigation it would be inappropriate to publicly release any investigatory information.
Trump Demands Inquiry Into Epstein’s Ties to Prominent Democrats
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"On the first question, several jury members struggled to stifle laughter as Lairmore expanded on the hoagie’s alleged explosive properties. 'It was like, Oh, you poor baby,' the juror told me." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Inside the Sandwich Guy’s Jury Deliberations
Can a flung sandwich cause bodily harm?
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The World According to John Irving www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/s... “I could not, would not, in good conscience go to my birth country when there is such an authoritarian bully in the White House, and when the craven Republicans in the House and the U.S. Senate are complicit in their silence.”
The World According to John Irving
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Democrats were winning in the courts and in the court of public opinion. They threw away all the political momentum and leverage for what? To avoid photos of stranded Thanksgiving travelers?
Vigilante Lawyers Expose the Rising Tide of A.I. Slop in Court Filings www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b... Robert Freund “is part of a growing network of lawyers who track down A.I. abuses committed by their peers, collecting the most egregious examples and posting them online.”
Vigilante Lawyers Expose the Rising Tide of A.I. Slop in Court Filings
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To Preserve Records, Homeland Security Now Relies on Officials to Take Screenshots www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u... Solution to avoiding record-keeping requirements by auto-deleting on Signal was not to automatically save messages, it was to ask officials to take screenshots? Not suspicious at all.
How Bad Is Finance’s Cockroach Problem? We May Be About to Find Out. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o... Stayed tuned to the private credit market. “Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase’s chief executive, warned, ‘When you see one cockroach, there are probably more.’”
Opinion | How Bad Is Finance’s Cockroach Problem? We May Be About to Find Out.
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Keeping the House Absent, Johnson Marginalizes Congress and Himself www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u... Any psychologists want to comment on why you would expend all that time and effort to become Speaker only to cede all your power and make yourself servile and irrelevant?
Keeping the House Absent, Johnson Marginalizes Congress and Himself
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The Rise of the Inflatable Chicken Resistance www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o... “Frivolity and absurdity are kryptonite to authoritarians who project the stern-father archetype to their followers. Once the pants are lowered and the undies of the despot are glimpsed, there is no point of return.”
Opinion | The Rise of the Inflatable Chicken Resistance
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Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/c... “President Trump has been a cheerleader for coal miners. But these miners say his administration is failing to enforce limits on a lethal workplace hazard.” This should surprise no one.
Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump
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