Lawrence Lessig

An extortionist caving: www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

This is a beautiful act of integrity and principle, incredibly rare for our time. Thank you, Anthropic.

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UCLA Faculty Beat the the Trump Admin. Other Schools Should Take Notes. Trump's DOJ drops appeal of court order blocking massive UCLA settlement that would have banned diversity programs and declared transgender people don't exist.

tl;dr: An injunction against Trumpian extortion. Finally. The first clear ruling against the business model of this Capo in Chief.

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Sam Wang for New Jersey | Join the Democratic Reform Movement Support Sam Wang's campaign for a fair, transparent, and accountable government in New Jersey. Join the movement to reform democracy and challenge gerrymandering.

Someone who understands neurons, numbers, and democracy is running for Congress. Pay attention: Sam Wang is in the race in NJ. Greast news for evidence-based self-government.

Sam Wang for New Jersey | Join the Democratic Reform Movement Support Sam Wang's campaign for a fair, transparent, and accountable government in New Jersey. Join the movement to reform democracy and challenge gerrymandering.

Sam Wang—neuroscientist, Princeton professor, democracy reformer, gerrymandering nemesis—is running for Congress. From mapping brains to fixing maps. New Jersey is on the clock.

How to get dark money out of politics Lawrence Lessig — Harvard law professor, former presidential candidate, and founder of Equal Citizens — joins Kara to explain why Super PACs are one of the root causes of political corruption in the…

Grateful to have a chance to talk to Kara Swisher:

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Sam Wang for New Jersey | Join the Democratic Reform Movement Support Sam Wang's campaign for a fair, transparent, and accountable government in New Jersey. Join the movement to reform democracy and challenge gerrymandering.

I’ve admired Sam Wang’s work on gerrymandering and democracy for years. Now he’s running for Congress in NJ. A Princeton neuroscientist who actually uses evidence to defend democracy? Yes please.

Sam Wang for New Jersey | Join the Democratic Reform Movement Support Sam Wang's campaign for a fair, transparent, and accountable government in New Jersey. Join the movement to reform democracy and challenge gerrymandering.

Sam Wang is running for Congress. Yes, THAT Sam Wang: Princeton professor, neuroscientist, democracy reformer, relentless opponent of gerrymandering. Serious brains + serious commitment to democracy = very good news.

Sam Wang for New Jersey | Join the Democratic Reform Movement Support Sam Wang's campaign for a fair, transparent, and accountable government in New Jersey. Join the movement to reform democracy and challenge gerrymandering.

Big news from New Jersey: Sam Wang—neuroscientist, Princeton professor, and one of the nation’s leading anti-gerrymandering voices—is running for Congress. Evidence-based democracy is stepping onto the ballot. This is how change happens.

New episode in The Gino Case posted From The Law, such as it is

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On the eve of the 50th anniversary of Buckley v. Valeo, I'm participating in an event at the AEI in DC about originalism and the First Amendment. Register to attend in person or online here: buff.ly/SaJGigQ

Our founder @lessig.bsky.social is going live on Lawrence O’Donnell’s MSNOWNews The Last Word segment with Ali Velshi tonight at 10:20 pm ET!

Tune in to learn how our legal strategy can get dark money out of politics WITHOUT overturning Citizens United.

Dear America, We’d Like to Speak to the Manager Talks in Washington among Greenland, Denmark and the United States over Greenland’s future have stalled, with no compromise in sight. Greenlanders have made it clear that they want to remain under…

Seriously, truly brilliant. Yo, time to get off the train.

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Jason Crow is really pissed #short

Remember when Trump (who has bombed 7 countries, invaded 1, and is threatening at least two others (not counting Mexico)) was to be the anti-NeoCon president?

I respect the anti-NeoCons. But hey, Trump-supporting-anti-NeoCons: Do you respect yourself? @TulsiGabbard

Nemik's eulogy for Renee Nicole Good. It's always a bad sign when there are Andor memes in your feed. Thanks to the many photographers whose work I've borrowed. You can find a full list of all the photos used in the montage here:…

Wow. #JustWow

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Good vs. Ice

The revolution will be YouTube-ified.

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Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia

- @aaronsw, +13.

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The idiocy of "empire" it is.

"Battle Hymn of the Empire" - Marsh Family adaptation of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" about Trump The “Battle Hymn of the Republic” is an iconic American song, drawing on lots of roots and precursors, but pulled into its most famous shape by abolitionist Julia Ward Howe. During the American Civil…

Brilliant remix of the Battle Hymn of the Republic by the extraordinary Marsh Family. Favorite line: "He is drumming out the glory of a land once free and brave..."

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This is going to be lots of fun: First Amendment Originalism at the AEI in DC on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Buckley v. Valeo.

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Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US…

My favorite thing about New Year's:

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Worth 1,000 words The appellees have filed their brief in our case defending the people of Maine’s right to police the size of contributions to independent…

When a picture is worth 1,000 words: Here's the sleight of hand that is going to bring SuperPACs down.

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The Resonant Computing Manifesto Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.

What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow?

Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it)

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The Chief Justice was right. #POTUS #OBLIVIOUSNESS

The courts broke campaign finance. Maine is giving them a chance to repair it. - The Boston Globe There is a path to restore limits on big money in politics.

From the authors of the argument that will end SuperPACs:

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The First Epstein Report Ignored Summers. Harvard Must Do Better. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson How could Harvard have allowed this production of Hamlet without the Prince? And will it now commit to a practice that will not protect the elite among us, while shaming those not quite elite enough?

Harvard's 2020/21 reports on Epstein were Hamlet without the Prince (Summers). We need to understand why: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...