Chris Morten
@cmorten.bsky.social
Associate professor of law at @nyulaw.bsky.social. Director of the Science, Health & Information Clinic (SHIC). He/him. https://chrismorten.com/
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🚨 New publication from the Science, Health & Information Clinic! 🚨
Sarah Lamour, Rhea Sahai & Humphrey Shen, "Exploring a Public Option in Pharmacy Benefit Management: A research and advocacy toolkit"!
Co-published with T1nternational!
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Sarah Lamour, Rhea Sahai & Humphrey Shen, "Exploring a Public Option in Pharmacy Benefit Management: A research and advocacy toolkit"!
Co-published with T1nternational!
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What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?
ICE out of Minnesota NOW.
Breaking News: Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a person in Minneapolis on Saturday morning, state and local officials said. Follow live updates.
January 24, 2026 at 7:11 PM
What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?
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This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home!
Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.
Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.
January 22, 2026 at 8:05 PM
This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home!
Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.
Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.
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We are excited to share a recently published editorial in @jama.com that discusses the FDA’s review of REMS requirements for mifepristone. (1/7)
January 22, 2026 at 7:01 PM
We are excited to share a recently published editorial in @jama.com that discusses the FDA’s review of REMS requirements for mifepristone. (1/7)
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For years, @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social & I have been frustrated with what we call the Part IV Problem in legal scholarship, the expectation of neat & feasible prescriptions to end pieces. Our frustrations are heightened in this moment of authoritarianism, as we wrote today at @lpeblog.bsky.social:
Today, @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social and @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social challenge the idea that law review articles should conclude with a set of actionable prescriptions.
This convention, they argue, constrains ambition, sidelines critique, and conflates near-term feasibility with rigor.
This convention, they argue, constrains ambition, sidelines critique, and conflates near-term feasibility with rigor.
Beyond Feasibility in Legal Scholarship
Law review articles are expected to conclude with a short section, often “Part IV,” that translates analysis into actionable prescriptions. Though well-intentioned, this convention constrains ambition...
lpeproject.org
January 21, 2026 at 5:02 PM
For years, @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social & I have been frustrated with what we call the Part IV Problem in legal scholarship, the expectation of neat & feasible prescriptions to end pieces. Our frustrations are heightened in this moment of authoritarianism, as we wrote today at @lpeblog.bsky.social:
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The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.
January 16, 2026 at 3:38 PM
The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.
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Correct.
The Biden Admin tried to fix as much of this as possible, but the courts stopped it. As I said then, they had no idea what kind of mess they were making. And the Trump Admin has no idea what to do about it.
The Biden Admin tried to fix as much of this as possible, but the courts stopped it. As I said then, they had no idea what kind of mess they were making. And the Trump Admin has no idea what to do about it.
Repeating my mantra that the average person out there has *no idea* how much of a fiasco the student loan program is right now and that 90% of it has to do with politicking (going back decades) and nothing to do with the borrower.
New: Secretary Linda McMahon says the Department of Education has decided to "pause" garnishing wages for student loans.
January 16, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Correct.
The Biden Admin tried to fix as much of this as possible, but the courts stopped it. As I said then, they had no idea what kind of mess they were making. And the Trump Admin has no idea what to do about it.
The Biden Admin tried to fix as much of this as possible, but the courts stopped it. As I said then, they had no idea what kind of mess they were making. And the Trump Admin has no idea what to do about it.
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🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The mirage of AI deregulation
One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...
www.science.org
January 15, 2026 at 7:23 PM
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Mike Johnson compellingly making the case for abolishing ICE ...
Mike Johnson: "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do"
Mike Johnson comes out against additional guardrails on ICE as Democrats call for it.
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
January 14, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Mike Johnson compellingly making the case for abolishing ICE ...
🚨 New publication from the Science, Health & Information Clinic! 🚨
Sarah Lamour, Rhea Sahai & Humphrey Shen, "Exploring a Public Option in Pharmacy Benefit Management: A research and advocacy toolkit"!
Co-published with T1nternational!
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Sarah Lamour, Rhea Sahai & Humphrey Shen, "Exploring a Public Option in Pharmacy Benefit Management: A research and advocacy toolkit"!
Co-published with T1nternational!
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January 14, 2026 at 8:21 PM
🚨 New publication from the Science, Health & Information Clinic! 🚨
Sarah Lamour, Rhea Sahai & Humphrey Shen, "Exploring a Public Option in Pharmacy Benefit Management: A research and advocacy toolkit"!
Co-published with T1nternational!
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Sarah Lamour, Rhea Sahai & Humphrey Shen, "Exploring a Public Option in Pharmacy Benefit Management: A research and advocacy toolkit"!
Co-published with T1nternational!
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NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold.
We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940.
2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.
We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940.
2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.
January 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold.
We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940.
2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.
We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940.
2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.
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See @cmorten.bsky.social's extensive thread on the hearing including a link to he and @reshmagar.bsky.social's new editorial "Politics, Science, and the Future of FDA Drug Regulation: FDA’s Review of Mifepristone REMS as a Litmus Test."
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On Wed, Senate HELP will hold a hearing on "Protecting Women: Exposing the Dangers of Chemical Abortion Drugs"—pushing the lie that FDA's regulation has been lax. @reshmagar.bsky.social & I are in @jama.com today, on how FDA has, in fact, been (over-)careful in regulating medication abortion.
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January 14, 2026 at 2:16 PM
See @cmorten.bsky.social's extensive thread on the hearing including a link to he and @reshmagar.bsky.social's new editorial "Politics, Science, and the Future of FDA Drug Regulation: FDA’s Review of Mifepristone REMS as a Litmus Test."
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Protester blinded, skull fractured by DHS agent during Santa Ana demonstration, family says
Protester blinded, skull fractured by DHS agent during Santa Ana demonstration, family says
A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protest last week, according to family of the victim.
www.latimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Protester blinded, skull fractured by DHS agent during Santa Ana demonstration, family says
On Wed, Senate HELP will hold a hearing on "Protecting Women: Exposing the Dangers of Chemical Abortion Drugs"—pushing the lie that FDA's regulation has been lax. @reshmagar.bsky.social & I are in @jama.com today, on how FDA has, in fact, been (over-)careful in regulating medication abortion.
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January 12, 2026 at 5:33 PM
On Wed, Senate HELP will hold a hearing on "Protecting Women: Exposing the Dangers of Chemical Abortion Drugs"—pushing the lie that FDA's regulation has been lax. @reshmagar.bsky.social & I are in @jama.com today, on how FDA has, in fact, been (over-)careful in regulating medication abortion.
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Rahm's "lane" is really the "Democrat" who sides with payday lenders, hedge fund owners, and huge corporate donors. A lot of us think his wing of the party has been way too powerful as it is.
I'm a political reporter. We do enjoy a good binary Fight For the Soul of the Party. Emanuel shows up with one ready to go: My pragmatic solutions versus the crazy resistance. Feels fake to me tbh
January 12, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Rahm's "lane" is really the "Democrat" who sides with payday lenders, hedge fund owners, and huge corporate donors. A lot of us think his wing of the party has been way too powerful as it is.
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Countless opeds about Mamdani being a "socialist" and are literally any of those publications talking about Donald Trump not just claiming to take over a country but deciding what companies are allowed/not allowed to operate in that foreign country?
Apparently Exxon won't have the privilege of having their stuff nationalized a third time in Venezuela bc Darren Woods told the truth at what was meant to be a performed loyalty session.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
January 12, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Countless opeds about Mamdani being a "socialist" and are literally any of those publications talking about Donald Trump not just claiming to take over a country but deciding what companies are allowed/not allowed to operate in that foreign country?
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Glad to have the opportunity to join @nejm.org for a new podcast about this article with @dusetzinas.bsky.social. It's especially timely in light of the newly released BALANCE model, which aims to instantiate the agreements reached with GLP-1 manufacturers. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
Summarizing the current state of pricing and coverage for GLP1s in the US with @rachelsachs.bsky.social in @nejm.org this week!
Read it before things change (again)!
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Read it before things change (again)!
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Insurance Coverage and Pricing of Weight-Loss Drugs in the United States | NEJM
The Trump administration’s agreements regarding glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists
could reduce prices and improve access for some patients — and lead to substantial
additional spending.
www.nejm.org
January 9, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Glad to have the opportunity to join @nejm.org for a new podcast about this article with @dusetzinas.bsky.social. It's especially timely in light of the newly released BALANCE model, which aims to instantiate the agreements reached with GLP-1 manufacturers. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Leaving my house with the ‘don’t tread on me’ flag on it, putting on my mask and tactical gear, strapping on my weapon, and roaming the cities and towns that didn’t vote for my favorite candidate as an armed anonymous agent of the state kidnapping and shooting people who I don’t like the look of.
ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who shot and killed an unarmed civilian, flew a don't-tread-on-me Gadsden flag at his house, per the Daily Mail.
January 9, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Leaving my house with the ‘don’t tread on me’ flag on it, putting on my mask and tactical gear, strapping on my weapon, and roaming the cities and towns that didn’t vote for my favorite candidate as an armed anonymous agent of the state kidnapping and shooting people who I don’t like the look of.
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No information in this answer from Google AI is correct. Nothing.
January 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM
No information in this answer from Google AI is correct. Nothing.
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When I talk about the NYT as a chronicle of power without any true moral center, this is the kind of shit I mean
This bizarre and dangerous claim violates literally every section of our Constitution, which was built by geniuses explicitly to limit individual power.
Those entrusted with enforcing our Constitution have a duty to every Conservative and Liberal American. A duty to act. Now.
Those entrusted with enforcing our Constitution have a duty to every Conservative and Liberal American. A duty to act. Now.
January 9, 2026 at 3:15 PM
When I talk about the NYT as a chronicle of power without any true moral center, this is the kind of shit I mean
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For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.
Classic Democratic no-win. All of them voted against the OBAA, which supercharged ICE funding and hiring. But they won't say they'd "abolish ICE" so they'll get yelled at (mostly by people who'll vote for them in the midterms after threatening not to).
Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting
January 9, 2026 at 2:50 AM
For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.
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I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponent’s secret police is a bad idea.
This should not be a difficult concept.
This should not be a difficult concept.
Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries denounce the killing but offer no concrete pledges
www.independent.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 2:24 AM
I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponent’s secret police is a bad idea.
This should not be a difficult concept.
This should not be a difficult concept.
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7 Democrats just voted today to confirm a Trump judicial nominee who refused to say what happened on January 6 or answer who won the 2020 election:
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
King
Klobuchar
Shaheen
Welch
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
King
Klobuchar
Shaheen
Welch
January 9, 2026 at 1:41 AM
7 Democrats just voted today to confirm a Trump judicial nominee who refused to say what happened on January 6 or answer who won the 2020 election:
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
King
Klobuchar
Shaheen
Welch
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
King
Klobuchar
Shaheen
Welch
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Noem saying Ross acted "according to his training" is a blinking red light. Any investigative effort from those with subpoena power needs to press on ICE permitting early resort to lethal force. @lilahassan.bsky.social's reporting is crucial & acknowledges it may be out of date:
January 8, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Noem saying Ross acted "according to his training" is a blinking red light. Any investigative effort from those with subpoena power needs to press on ICE permitting early resort to lethal force. @lilahassan.bsky.social's reporting is crucial & acknowledges it may be out of date:
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Have you noticed 🇺🇸 ICE vehicles screeching to a halt and snatching people off the street?
Ever wonder how they knew about that person's location?
Here's how 👇
www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Ever wonder how they knew about that person's location?
Here's how 👇
www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Have you noticed 🇺🇸 ICE vehicles screeching to a halt and snatching people off the street?
Ever wonder how they knew about that person's location?
Here's how 👇
www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Ever wonder how they knew about that person's location?
Here's how 👇
www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
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It is the position of the Trump Administration that its agents can come into any state and city in America (let alone other countries) and kill people and that state and city have no jurisdiction to inquire about it.
Treat any Trump official accordingly.
Treat any Trump official accordingly.
Noem on Minnesota officials: "They have not been cut out. They don't have any jurisdiction in this investigation."
January 8, 2026 at 5:23 PM
It is the position of the Trump Administration that its agents can come into any state and city in America (let alone other countries) and kill people and that state and city have no jurisdiction to inquire about it.
Treat any Trump official accordingly.
Treat any Trump official accordingly.