Shelley Powers

'...obvious that authors are being shunted aside in favor of publishers in this class action when it comes to works the publishers deem 'educational'. Here is where the class lawyers failed authors. And the settlement administration just continues that failure.' burningbird.net/anthropic-se...

@victoriastrauss.com Really wanted you to see this letter just filed in the Anthropic case by the Textbook & Academic Authors Association. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69058...

Textbook and Academic Authors Association has filed a letter with the Anthropic settlement court case, bringing attention to the problems authors are facing with the settlement administration. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“The Tekshash legishlachure…”

The small handful of Democrats running anti-trans ads should be embarrassed now and will be embarrassed in time. I've been saying it and still think it — www.lawdork.com/p/dangerous-... — and people who compromise in this way will change or won't be leaders, even if they are in office.

Oh my God. He authored a law to kick Donald Trump out of women’s dressing rooms? www.facebook.com/share/v/1FAN...

Lot of comments on this slamming the writer for "legitimizing" AI slop by reviewing it, but just one of those points I fundamentally disagree on! A critic should absolutely be engaging with garbage and articulating what makes it garbage!

Now, do the same for Trump www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Jeremy Lewin killed hundreds of thousands without a signed employment agreement.

For the nonlawyers: This is an accurate description of the DOJ's position. Legally, as they frame it, it is an "Air Bud" argument - new, but no rule against it. It's simultaneously bananapants clownshoes crazy and morally reprehensible.

Anthony Michael Kreis, a constitutional law professor at Georgia State University, said Georgia’s constitution provides “fairly strong” protections for the governor. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most

Well how's he supposed to fill a venue in a Democratic stronghold like.... [checks notes]... Mississippi

This is just perfection Wow ..

There's so much else wrong with this stupid lawsuit but on this specific point: despite being "busy" with "lives" and "jobs," Alaskans were able to spell M-U-R-K-O-W-S-K-I when they reelected her to the Senate as a write-in candidate in 2010 after she lost the GOP primary.

Sounds like a bribe to me

Firefox brings back internet icons for new anti-tracking, anti-AI campaign mashable.com/tech/come-ba...

Wow, it really does take you back to a better time. @firefox.com perfection. youtu.be/E2AoYIKwJqM?...

“it's not interested in nuclear or renewables”

while Republicans are out here defending the honor of Cheesecake Factory, let's take a moment to remember how they're actually spending their time--and our money 👇🏾 ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

'Judge Patrick Bumatay, another Trump appointee, dissented — going beyond the jurisdictional ruling in a 35-page diatribe that, from its first paragraph made clear that it was less a work of law even than DOJ’s almost-certain-to-fail lawsuit.'

a federal judge sanctioned the lawyers who tried to help Trump create a $1.776 billion slush fund so obviously House Republicans are now targeting the judge, saying *she's the one who committed professional misconduct ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

“What’s going on in these cases is that evidence that’s consistent with deportation is treated as accurate and evidence that is inconsistent is treated as fraudulent,” she said. “This case is not a one-off. This is a feature, not a bug, of how ICE handles claims of U.S. citizenship.”

'Nothing is more surreal than watching figures like JD Vance (Yale Law), Ted Cruz (Princeton, Yale Law) or Ron DeSantis (Yale, Harvard Law) insisting that Republicans are a working class party, as they point at Democrats and say “They think they’re better’n you!”'

theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/did-sanita...

When I get my payout from the PACER class action, I'm donating to the Free Law Project for RECAP and CourtListener. free.law/2026/10/21/p...

👀 A Trump admin declaration in its lawsuit against California describes its process for flagging potential noncitizen voters but also indicates that the review is “ongoing” and that it discovered “minor data discrepancies” for 189 people it identified storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I wonder if RFK Jr has ever heard of a thing called math.

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

The DOJ lawsuit to block the Alaska Senate result based on the two Dan Sullivans is meritless, as I detail in my latest column for @justiaverdict.bsky.social. I also explain how states or Congress could address voter confusion over same-name candidates in future elections w/o violating the 1st Am. 👇

He has got to be the most stupid person in the country abcnews.com/US/man-alleg...

The midterms are going so well for Republicans that Trump is campaigning in Mississippi and Vance is in Montana today.

Voters making a choice is kinda the whole point of elections

“We’re self-confident men,” says the guy who on Oct. 13 told a fan “I love you too sir. In a totally platonic way, to be clear. I'm the vice president, not James Talarico.”

This but for every goddamn post

A Catholic Latina might impose Shakira Law.

Why the Hulscher-McCullough Ivermectin Cancer Study Was Retracted: bad methods, COIs. Better question: why was it published to start with? www.techarp.com/fact-check/h... via @techarp.bsky.social

Why RFK Jr. is planning an attack on a little-known vaccine program: to increase vaccine costs, benefit lawyers at the expense of claimants, and drive vaccines companies out of the market with frivolous lawsuits. wapo.st/4zfrnKU via Ross Marchand, @postopinions.bsky.social

What the hell is happening at Microsoft?

Me: Well, at least my exceptional skills in car detailing insulate me from the unremarkable laptop job masses in an AI world Car detailing:

Hey before you respond to one of my posts consider if you're someone who would have yelled at Vincent to cut his ear off.

sad

Is it my browser or Bluesky? It's almost impossible to do anything with the web site today.

The NYT — having been shamed for years for not posting court opinions — now does so, but only with its enraging workaround of posting a link to a page that has individual images of each page of any opinion. So, here, you load a page of 55 images that are completely unworkable for any future use.

'The line I am asking you to draw is at only the worst among them, the ones who ran ads against us, promised to take away our healthcare, or laughed when asked about our kids.' www.erininthemorning.com/p/dont-vote-...

“The Department of Justice is putting its formidable thumb on next week’s elections in a way that seems clearly intended to call into question the legitimacy of any result that is especially unfavorable to Republicans—before those results have even come in.” Me on DOJ’s California and Alaska suits:

That’s a first. The “don’t let Cherokee County win” strategy.

No elephants hiding in those mouseholes: were they not already destined to fail on other grounds (lack of a cause of action, timing defects) the Trump DOJ's shameless voting lawsuits against California and Alaska would be doomed to defeat b/c of the Major Questions Doctrine [@rickhasen.bsky.social]

Many seniors in traditional Medicare receive remote health monitoring services but will lose access, yet seniors -- esp those in rural areas -- may struggle to get in-person appts. It also undercuts the Rural Health Transformation Fund's goal of tech-based solutions kffhealthnews.org/medicare/rem...