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Gabe Rusk

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Oxford U & DU |Research: freedom of expression, free press, media law, legal history, journalism, & pacifism | Classical music, tea, cooking, art, video games, & Buddhism on the side. 🏳️‍🌈☮️

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This will be an interesting day to reflect on in the future. "Battery cells at $50/kWh means the technology to decarbonize most of road transport globally is already here, as opposed to in some future scenario." EVs are cheaper than ICE now. Today.

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“By using malicious words to create confusion, or through spreading fake news and disinformation in daily life, they mount soft resistance,” he said, adding that soft resistance “could be things like the internet, the media, the arts, watching a film or reading a book.” aka whtvr we want it to mean

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Sarah McLaughlin's avatar Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social
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A dual U.S.-Saudi citizen is facing a long prison sentence and an even longer travel ban for "extremist ideology" over his cartoon comedy on Netflix and old social media posts. It's not the first time, and likely not the last, that Saudi Arabia has targeted U.S. citizens for their speech.

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JP Collins's avatar JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social
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So not only do the courts get to have their say on all challenged agency actions, but there's basically no limit on challenging those actions. Cool.

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Adam Bonin's avatar Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court today has supercharged its decision last week gutting Chevron by effectively reopening the statute of limitations to challenge *any* regulation, as Justice Jackson, dissenting, explains.

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Mirya Holman's avatar Mirya Holman @mirya.bsky.social
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Here's a 'cite' to a paper of mine that I have not written, published in an article in a predatory journal

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Adam Bonin's avatar Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social
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There is a *very* sharp paragraph in Justice Kagan's dissent in Loper Bright on the dance this conservative majority has performed repeatedly to weaken liberal precedents en route to overturning them altogether -- on worker's rights, on the Establishment Clause, and on voting rights.

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Matthew Schafer's avatar Matthew Schafer @matthewschafer.bsky.social
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It's Friday, so another part of the free-press collection: A *very rare* 1766 first printing (!) of the repeal of the Stamp Act of 1765. The act taxed paper, including newspapers. Arguably, it was the Stamp Act that, more than anything, lit the spark of the Revolution.

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Jillian C. York 🍉's avatar Jillian C. York 🍉 @jillian.bsky.social
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I spent a lot of time researching this piece, I hope it’s helpful.

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pee wee herman-palladino's avatar pee wee herman-palladino @markpopham.bsky.social
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I can't believe we, as a species, invented bread and cheese - two things that require multiple, complicated steps as well as microbe husbandry - and this is the best political system we've got

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin's avatar Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social
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NEW ESSAY!! The Government Speech Doctrine Ate My Class: First Amendment Capture and Curriculum Bans The govt speech doctrine makes it almost impossible for teachers to challenge academic gag rules & may preclude student challenges. It should not. Please check out this almost finished paper!

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Corey Rayburn Yung's avatar Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social
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I would have lost because I would have spent the whole time wondering if they wanted what FOIA stood for, the USC cite, the public law cite, or the statutory cite.

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Knight First Amendment Institute's avatar Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org
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NEW BLOG POST: In “Are We Saving the News?”, Martha Minow of Harvard Law analyzes the decline of local #news and identifies paths to revitalization. Read it here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/are-we-...

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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What is chosen to get sent out as a push notification and why is a question more people should ask about the news.

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Sarah J. Jackson's avatar Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social
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Only a tiny portion of Black Americans were granted the land they were owed after the civil war. And then, almost immediately, the government took it back. Here’s where the people, and the land, ended up. Remarkable investigative reporting from the Reveal folks here:

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC's avatar Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social
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I cant believe they didnt call this watergate

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ProPublica's avatar ProPublica @propublica.bsky.social
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When Therapists Lose Their Licenses, Some Turn to the Unregulated Life Coaching Industry Instead Despite past misconduct, some former therapists have continued their careers as life coaches. Now, after a high-profile conviction in Utah, legislators are asking whether it’s time for more oversight.

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Matthew Schafer's avatar Matthew Schafer @matthewschafer.bsky.social
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I just posted a new article on @SSRN: "the Press": A Response to Professor Volokh

It draws into doubt @VolokhC's influential view that the Press Clause at the Founding meant only the right to use the printing press.

I hope you have the opportunity to read it.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Freedom of the Press Foundation's avatar Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press
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🧵 Today marks 53 years since the New York Times started publishing the Pentagon Papers – the 7,000 page top-secret study detailing decades of official lies about the Vietnam War It was, of course, given to the newspaper by the legendary whistleblower and FPF co-founder Daniel Ellsberg.

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Leta Hong Fincher洪理达's avatar Leta Hong Fincher洪理达 @letahongfincher.bsky.social
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One of China's most prominent feminist activists is reportedly about to be sentenced on charges of "inciting subversion." Free Huang Xueqin - BBC profile by Jessie Lau. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2_t...

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Sarah McLaughlin's avatar Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social
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An Indonesian court has sentenced a comedian to seven months in prison for blasphemy over a joke he made about the name 'Muhammad' during a performance:

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Phil Lewis's avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
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School officials in Florida have banned a book about book banning

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The New York Times's avatar The New York Times @nytimes.com
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Gustavo Gorriti, a journalist who has exposed corruption in Peru for more than 40 years, has been accused of bribery by the country's attorney general. Press freedom groups say the investigation is part of a growing campaign against the news media.

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Justin Hendrix's avatar Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social
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As media pluralism diminishes and government control increases in Türkiye, online platforms and civil society groups must challenge legal instruments and decisions that restrict speech and information access, writes Burak Haylamaz.
www.techpolicy.press/turkiyes-fre...

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Four Years Ago Today's avatar Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social
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The New York Times marks a grim milestone with a front page bearing not a single image: just names, one after the other.

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Internet Archive's avatar Internet Archive @archive.org
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Why is The Wayback Machine so important for preserving our digital culture? According to new analysis from Pew Research Center:
❌ 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible
❌ 23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link
🔗 www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

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Gabe Rusk's avatar Gabe Rusk @gaberusk.bsky.social
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I've been curious for a while if anyone has run recent SCOTUS opinions through admittedly inconsistent AI detectors. Clearly for data security reasons and obvious others they are prohibited at the court but you have to wonder sometimes... "Reword Chapter 3 of Josh Chafetz' Congress's Constitution."

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Across ~100 studies from the past 20 years, evidence shows that granting same-sex couples access to marriage offered substantial benefits to LGBT individuals, same-sex couples, and their children. And there have been no harms to different-sex couples. 🧵

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Andrew Fleischman's avatar Andrew Fleischman @nobodyinteresting.bsky.social
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UGA law school has a First Amendment clinic. That clinic helps file open records requests. But when it sought information about Attorney General Chris Carr's baffling RICO charges against Cop City protesters, the open record request center was shut down.

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Katie Engelhart has won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, for a story about dementia — and what happens to a person’s wishes as they slip into cognitive decline. Read the full story, from The New York Times Magazine, here.

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A U.S. drone strike in Syria last year killed a 56-year-old shepherd after confusing him for a terrorist leader, an internal investigation concluded, underscoring the Pentagon’s persistent struggle to avoid unintentional casualties despite the Biden administration’s pledge to curb such incidents.

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Joshua J. Friedman's avatar Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
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Good news, thanks to journalism unions: Today the NY legislature passed a new journalism-jobs tax credit in the 2025 state budget. The program, worth $30M/yr over 3 years, allows an eligible newsroom to get a 50% credit against the first $50K of each journalist's salary, capped at $300K per org.

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Mike Masnick's avatar Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social
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With it looking like the Tiktok ban is going to become law, I wrote yesterday about how this will backfire badly, as we signal that the US no longer believes in an open internet.

www.techdirt.com/2024/04/19/t...

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Internet Archive's avatar Internet Archive @archive.org
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Today, we filed our final brief in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the publishers’ lawsuit against our library. For four years we've been fighting for library rights—what our founder, Brewster Kahle, calls “a battle for the soul of libraries in the digital age.” 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/04/19/i...

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Freedom of the Press Foundation's avatar Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press
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It’s been six months since @RFERL journalist and U.S. citizen Alsu Kurmasheva was detained in Russia.

She shouldn’t have been held for even one day.

The U.S. State Dept. should designate her as wrongfully detained. Russia must immediately release her.

#FreeAlsu

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Archaeologists working at the ancient site of Pompeii unveiled their latest find on Thursday: a formal dining room. It's part of an insula, the equivalent of a city block, that has been excavated, offering fresh understanding about how the residents lived.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation's avatar Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press
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Witnesses, including journalist Catherine Herridge, testified in Congress Thursday about the importance of passing the bipartisan #PRESSAct, not just for journalists and their sources but for American democracy.

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Patrick LaForge's avatar Patrick LaForge @palafo.bsky.social
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A welcome change...

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Knight First Amendment Institute's avatar Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org
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🗓️RSVP: On May 3, @knightcolumbia.org will host "The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times," a symposium examining what it means to safeguard the role of the press in the U.S. today. More info in🧵. knightcolumbia.org/events/the-f...

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Matt Novak's avatar Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social
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“The findings demonstrate the power of reading glasses in reducing poverty. For the cost of only a few dollars a pair, reading glasses have a significant and sustained impact on an individual’s earnings and help others get back to work.”

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