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youtu.be/6r6vnSR0wbI?...

for those that might not have known, @rickhasen.bsky.social @chrisgeidner.bsky.social

and we're done! :)

Post Edited: “Not registered to vote yet in the US? There’s a good chance you can still cast a ballot” https://electionlawblog.org/2026/not-registered-to-vote-yet-in-the-us-theres-a-good-chance-you-can-still-cast-a-ballot/

THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT HAS WAIVED SANCTIONS TO FACILITATE THE ARRANGEMENT AND INSISTS IT IS LEGAL - AXIOS

Carter: Was SAVE used in Nevada? Essayli: No. (In neither list.) Carter: Was the same process used in California and Nevada? Essayli: Yes.

Essayli suggests CA could go through the list in "hours or days," insisting that the approach has been, "We want to work with you." Citizens are to decide our elections under federal law, Essayli says, adding — "not noncitizens coming in here and infecting our elections."

Do you need to know what you think before you start writing? Not necessarily, argues historian Lynn Hunt. In a 2010 #AHAPerspectives essay, Hunt explores how the act of writing itself generates new ideas and why getting words on the page is essential to the thinking process.

Some context around this, from a markets person. Historically in LatAm, leftist victories have led to sharp losses over the ~3 months after an election where the left wins. Stocks also typically underperformed into those victories. But 3y post-election, returns for leftists have been *higher*.

THis is what they'll do in DC. the day after, Johnson and McConnell (notionally) are gonna recall the bodies and pass laws that strip congress of all investigative power, and trump will sign it. if they lose the senate, I'd say above 50/50 they try an Alito swap.

Paywalls on court documents impede democracy. But instead of getting rid of PACER fees, the judiciary is implementing a 20% fee hike. free.law/2026/10/21/p...

AI models can take up to 17 times more tokens to process non-Latin scripts than English, saddling users with a steep "tokenizer tax" https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-tokenizer-tax-non-english-languages-cost-inequity/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky

Oh, and this is a good one, relevant these days: "tariff" is a word from Arabic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff#...

Nobels: Literature - Naguib Mahfouz, Abdulrazak Gurnah Chemistry - Ahmed Zewail*, Omar Yaghi*, Elias James Corey*, Moungi Bawendi (*=also Wolf) Medicine: Peter Medawar Peace - Anwar Sadat, Yasser Arafat, Mohamed ElBaradei, Tawakkol Karman Fields: Michael Atiyah Booker: Jokha Alharthi

Bluesky has 8 kinds of users

the masculine alpha giga chads really are the softest men on the planet, embarrassing behavior

"Mohammed is the most common name in the world, yet when Alaskans vote for their next senator, they’ll find two Dans Sullivan and zero people that Islamophobes can scapegoat." buff.ly/VlHrHsU

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

Litman: Susan Collins walking back her vote to confirm Kavanaugh sounds familiar... Murray: Believe Black women.

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

Not that long ago, three major lower-court rulings against the executive branch on three unrelated topics would’ve been a busy *month,* and outlets would’ve rushed to write up such a run of adverse rulings. Now, it doesn’t feel unusual when we get three on the same *day.* It’s all … exhausting.

Make Gutter Racism Disqualifying Again

Post Edited: Trump Promises $1 Million Reward for Voter Fraud Information; Watch Trump Try to Squirm Out of It in Six Months https://electionlawblog.org/2026/trump-promises-1-million-reward-for-voter-fraud-watch-trump-try-to-squirm-out-of-it-in-six-months/

Call your Congressmembers To ask them to have the EPA web archive preserved and kept accessible to the public. Leave messages. 1-202-224-3121 switchboard.

In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web.

Steve Voguit, the co-owner of a local i9 Sports franchise that removed a 3-year-old Black child from the youth soccer league after parents called police and complained he was too good, follows several MAGA accounts on Instagram.

TIL: someone has ported English to Rust github.com/Aaryan-Kapoo...

This. And if most Americans weren't aware of this in 2019, I'd guess they're even less so now. Public university students were paying for a third of the cost of their education in 2009, and it was up to half by 2019. 2009 wasn't great compared to the 60s-70s, either. www.pbs.org/newshour/edu...

"libertarian candidate for state senate in north carolina is currently in a shootout with the cops and live-tweeting his planned suicide", while not exactly surprising, is still a weird thing to read

#USDemocracy #louisiana KEEP THEM HONEST! KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

Trump's attack on free and fair midterm elections that should be familiar to anyone who has lived through the Trump era: The severity of his threat to democracy is matched only by his pure absurdity.

This is a near perfect article whose only defect is the fact that it refers to them as Dan Sullivans rather than the correct Dans Sullivan. www.washingtonsun.com/national/dan...

This earlier quote post of mine is leading me to find so many academics, and we're all into niche things (like @design-law.bsky.social's interest in design patents)! People say we're budding Machiavellis and most of us are just Marge trying to convince our students potatoes are neat.

A week ago, the SEC fined Tennessee $500,000 after its fans rushed the field. That money went to Alabama. This week, the SEC fined South Carolina $500,000 after its fans rushed the field. That money went to Tennessee. You're on the clock, Oklahoma. Pay it forward.

Court's opinion on Article II reads like a treatise on the removal of inferior officers. It's quite well done.

Judge rules in favor of Maurene Comey. Will write up a short thread once I find the order. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/n...

“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:

A single billionaire megadonor is propping up the Republican effort to stop Dems from flipping Pennsylvania’s Senate and gaining full control of government—to a much greater degree than Elon Musk is doing it at the federal level

Leave him on the runway

From the Bruce specimen "handy-book" (1901):