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Matt Bodie
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A party that could not be sure of its hold on the past had to be nervous about its future.

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Minnesota Law @umnlawschool.bsky.social · 15h
@nicholasbednar.bsky.social’s article, “Presidential Control of the Civil Service” challenges the view that federal civil service is beyond presidential control, highlighting the president’s authority over federal employees since before the Pendleton Act.
@ssrn.bsky.social: z.umn.edu/b2rm
Maroon background, maroon block M, gold banner: “Presidential Control of the Civil Service”, University of Minnesota Law School, Prof. Nick Bednar ’16; SSRN logo

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University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy @umfordschool.bsky.social · 1d
Congratulations to @sbagen.bsky.social on being awarded the President’s Award for Public Impact!

Learn more about this honor: https://myumi.ch/W6my1
Samuel Bagenstos presenting at a podium

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 1d
Today, Emmanuel Mauleón reflects on the situation in Minnesota, what it tells us about the law, and how the legal community should respond.

lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...
Whistling at the Edge of Law
The whistle is sounding in Minneapolis. The question before the legal profession is whether we will hear it, amplify it, and act accordingly, or instead insist that the ground eroding beneath our feet...
lpeproject.org

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 2d
Reminds me of this Steve Martin bit

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Steve Martin-El Paso
YouTube video by Kehlog Albran
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d
Top FDA official Vinay Prasad overruled the agency’s reviewers--career scientists--when he refused to accept Moderna’s application for a new influenza vaccine www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...
Prasad overruled FDA staff to reject Moderna's flu vaccine application
The rejection is the latest instance of Vinay Prasad overruling career FDA scientists to place vaccines under harsher scrutiny.
www.statnews.com

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Minnesota Law @umnlawschool.bsky.social · 2d
@matthewtbodie.bsky.social was interviewed by @nytimes.com about the decision of the NLRB to end its investigation into unfair labor charges leveled against SpaceX. Eight employees had filed charges with the NLRB accusing SpaceX of firing them for their criticism of CEO Elon Musk. z.umn.edu/b2jv
Gold banner, maroon block M, Faculty in the News: ...it’s “a stretch” to call the company a common carrier as “SpaceX operates very differently than the airlines.” -Prof. Matthew Bodie; NYT logo

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

Now, Starbucks is lifting a cap on the CEO's use of a private jet to commute from California to Seattle.

It's been four years since Starbucks stores began unionizing and workers still don't have a contract.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 4d
We are murdering people and it is basically just background noise at this point. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
U.S. Boat Strike Kills 2 in Pacific, With One Survivor
www.nytimes.com

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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 5d
First shot: sugarcane

The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times

Still used to make rum of course!
A musician playing a guitar in sugarcane that is somehow in the middle of a football field

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 5d
omg on cue

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 5d
Daniel Craig

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d
You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling.
In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
www.nytimes.com

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 7d
Things have not improved. The government won't comply with court orders. Agents are behaving more aggressively. Schools are offering remote learning into April. The tapering of national media coverage has emboldened DHS.

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7d
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 8d
An excellent deep dive into one such instance by U Amsterdam Prof Ashley Mears

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 8d
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 9d
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 9d
again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are

his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 9d
The hometown newspaper that I read as a teenager through Watergate and Vietnam and made me crave the life of a reporter is now being butchered by a billionaire who had $75 million to bribe and flatter a president and his wife but nothing to save journalism, an bulwark of the republic itself. Got it.

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Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff @rhollblum.bsky.social · 9d
Old: “Go on home, get a nice hot bath. Rest up...Then get your asses back in gear. Nothing's riding on this except the, uh, first amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press, and maybe the future of the country.”

New: “Go on home…Nothing’s riding on this.”

RIP WaPo

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All the President's Men (1976) - Ending Scene
YouTube video by White Chaddar
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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 10d
Baby Bao ate his very first shrimp and absolutely crushed it. 🦐 Watching him figure it out is even cuter! 💙

📹: Animal care staff Katie

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 12d
“You might say that this film is documenting this administration’s efforts to give birth to a nation, no?”

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 12d
“So who’s to say, really?”

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Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 12d
The “aw” kills me.

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 12d
In the last 48 hours, Musk's reactions to the Epstein release show exactly why he bought Twitter.

He's used the platform to call coverage of his emails with Epstein as "lies," elevated his fans who have defended him, and gotten positive reinforcement from his AI chatbot.

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Noah VanDowe @vandowe.bsky.social · 14d
For a week, right-wing media have baselessly smeared Alex Pretti as a "domestic terrorist" and "race traitor" who tried to "commit a mass murder" of DHS agents

New from me and @isabellasherk.bsky.social for @mmfa.bsky.social

www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...
The right-wing media figures who have justified Alex Pretti's killing by Trump’s DHS
Following the January 24 killing of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, many right-wing media figures jumped to blame Pretti for his own death and spread false information about his ac...
www.mediamatters.org

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 14d
KKR's bill came due at S&S, I see. Oof.
More Job Cuts at S&S
After confirming on Monday that the publisher had made limited reductions to its staff, Simon & Schuster made another round of layoffs later in the week. More than a dozen jobs have been cut, mostly o...
www.publishersweekly.com

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National Labor Relations Board Union @nlrbu.bsky.social · 14d
We, the employees of the NLRB, are calling on members of Congress to reject the Senate’s proposed funding deal unless it includes meaningful reforms for ICE and CBP’s operations.

Our Union has never endorsed a government shutdown before. But we believe we have no other choice.