Vince Polley
@vpolley.bsky.social
Former Internet lawyer and techie. Michigan, frequently.
Indeed; it’s quite a letter, and worth a two minute read.
Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 17h agoThis is wild: The Trump administration has provoked so many immigration habeas petitions, and has lost so many lawyers, that the Western District of Washington (Seattle, Tacoma, etc.) U.S. Attorney's Office can no longer *defend* the government in all of those cases, per this letter filed on 10/26:
So ends another era: news.slashdot.org/story/26/11/...
Salon, One of the Web's Pioneering News Outlets, Shuts Down After 31 Years - Slashdot
"It has been an extraordinary privilege," says the subheading on Thursday's announcement. After 31 years Salon.com will stop publishing, according to an announcement which appeared on the site under ...
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Old enough to remember the White House Correspondents Association schmoozing with and honoring Trump.
David Kaye@davidakaye.bsky.social · 3d agoif trump is going to treat the press sec role as a joke, the wh press should too. just stop showing up. no oxygen for propaganda and nonsense.
Time to start asking hard questions of the knee-benders
Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6d agoRemember when a huge portion of civil society including corporate leaders, top law firms, and elite universities decided to submit to Trump's authoritarianism? And it was legitimized because he won in 2024 with <checks notes> 49.7% of the popular vote? What now?
The resistance of Minnesotans this winter changed the trajectory of our country and that cannot be overstated.
Yes, but … “the road back will be too long to walk in anger”.
Sarah G.@sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 6d agothere's so much damage to repair. I'm definitely basking in the "IN YOUR FACE" of the results (especially because some real piece of shit humans got shown the door), but there's so much work to do and I'm genuinely excited to see people's lives materially improve in future
If you see anything disturbing at the polls, call or text Election Protection at 866-OUR-VOTE. And if you work at @866ourvote.bsky.social or @lawyerscomm.bsky.social, could you please keep us posted on how it's going?
AIs Hacking the Law www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
AIs Hacking the Law - Schneier on Security
In both a 2021 essay and my 2022 book, A Hacker’s Mind, I talk about AIs finding vulnerabilities and exploits—hacking—the legal system. Here’s some demonstrations of this from Germany: Legal systems e...
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Lessig’s “Code is Law” meets “1984”; a good and horrifying read: open.substack.com/pub/tull/p/m...
You Will Not Be Arrested, You’ll be Deleted
Meta, Binance, and the Money That Watches You.
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Hope so. Shes finished as a politician. How sad.
Jen Rubin@jenrubin.bsky.social · last wk.the entire Dem party is now fully united ... this could add a point or 2 to El-Sayed's victory.
Cowed: “As Midterms Near, Top Law Firms That Capitulated to Trump Are on the Sidelines” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/31/u...
As Midterms Near, Top Law Firms That Capitulated to Trump Are on the Sidelines (Gift Article)
None of the firms that struck deals to avoid crippling executive orders are publicly involved in the major legal efforts to check the Trump administration’s attempts to meddle in the midterm elections...
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Somehow after the “error” of taking down the No Kings page, it’s happened again to Angie Nixon.
Meta apologizes for suspending ‘No Kings’ Instagram account, blaming bot traffic increase
Facebook's parent company, Meta, on Sunday apologized for suspending the "No Kings" Instagram account, saying the suspension was caused by a high increase in traffic by bots.
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Angie Nixon@angieforfl.bsky.social · 2w agoHey Meta 👋 We are currently hosting a get-out-the-vote rally in Osceola County, home to a large Puerto Rican community, and our #LatinosConAngie Instagram page was suddenly taken down while we were actively posting content from the event.
Not to rub this in, but in all the race-baiting and Muslim-baiting about El-Sayed, somehow never gets mentioned about him what was always mentioned about Bill Clinton, Bill Bradley, Pete Buttigieg, Corey Booker, Wes Moore, etc, and should be about Gina Raimondo: that he won a Rhodes scholarship.
DOJ sought an indictment against Cassidy Hutchinson for her Jan. 6 testimony but the grand jury refused to indict, WaPo reports. Gift link: wapo.st/4yPWbRx
Apple's foldable phone has a crease in its reputation
Apple's foldable phone has a crease in its reputation
Admits a 'small number' of iPhone Duos have display problems, and no, you're not folding it wrong.
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Glad to see Dan Froomkin writing for the new republic and very happy to see No Kings starting to connect the mobilization of the citizenry to actual demands. Good.
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 2w agoLeaders of the No Kings movement are already gearing up for the next major grassroots campaign: Making sure congressional Democrats don’t wimp out. My first piece at @newrepublic.com! (Reposted to update link card) newrepublic.com/article/2168...
Google Says Gmail and Photos Data Shared with AI Search Could Be Used for Targeted Ads tech.slashdot.org/story/26/10/...
Google Says Gmail and Photos Data Shared with AI Search Could Be Used for Targeted Ads - Slashdot
The blog Android Authority offers this TLDR: Google updated its privacy policy to clarify that it could use information shared through Personal Intelligence to personalize ads. Gmail, Drive, and Pho...
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another reason to be cautious about using AI: [Eugene Volokh] Some Communications by Rabbi Shmuley with AI Platforms May Be Discovered in Order to Determine Punitive Damages reason.com/volokh/2026/...
Some Communications by Rabbi Shmuley with AI Platforms May Be Discovered in Order to Determine Punitive Damages
From Wednesday's decision in Fontainebleau Florida Hotel, LLC v. Botach [Rabbi Shmuley], decided by Magistrate Judge Marty Fulgueira Elfenbein: Plaintiff's…
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Last summer, Scientific American's owners were stalking the site, making sure it wasn't being too critical of Trump. This summer, the magazine was sold and gutted. I wrote about it for The Nation www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Fall of “Scientific American”
When the beloved science publication got too political, its corporate owners stepped in. Now its future is uncertain.
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The story of Trump lawyer Alina Habba getting $50 million to secure a Trump pardon for a foreign billionaire is just wow. What’s hilarious is the guy’s original crime was bribery and his first $3.5 million to a Trump PAC wasn’t enough to get a pardon. NYT Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...
A Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal. (Gift Article)
Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.
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Some people think that Learned Hand had the perfect name for a judge. But "Learned" was the judge's middle name, not his first name. Hand's real first name was better suited for a lawyer: Billings.
For non-lawyers: this is the judge quite specifically asking "which lawyers here are willing to lose their licenses out of personal loyalty to Trump?"
Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social · 3w agoJudge Reyes is ordering Woodward to refile submission from last night with as many DOJ attys willing to sign it. J: DOJ attys: raise your hand if you youj're willing to sign it. Woodward: not an appropriate request. J: right now, for rule 11 purposes, which other attys willing to sign this brief /6
[Eugene Volokh] "The AI Data Will Provide an Unrivaled View into the Mind of a Defendant …" reason.com/volokh/2026/...
"The AI Data Will Provide an Unrivaled View into the Mind of a Defendant ..."
That's part of libel plaintiff's argument(filed last week) for subpoenaing defendant's AI queries in Fontainebleau Florida Hotel, LLC v. Botach;…
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