Prof. Yvette Joy Liebesman
@yvettejoy.bsky.social
Law prof specializing in (1) Intellectual Property Law and (2) Wills & Trusts; artist, tinkerer, bicyclist, dog lover— and now a published novelist.
Pinned
My latest publication: "What is Claimed: A Patent Coloring Book"
Amazon links in the comments; QR codes are on the picture.
Amazon links in the comments; QR codes are on the picture.
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Richard Falk detained for four hours at Toronto Airport. Outlandish conduct by Canadian authorities.
Border officers detain well-known legal scholar travelling to conference on Palestine | CBC News
A prominent academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians.
www.cbc.ca
November 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Richard Falk detained for four hours at Toronto Airport. Outlandish conduct by Canadian authorities.
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Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
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LA:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
DC:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Chicago:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Charlotte:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
- black mayor
- majority non-white
DC:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Chicago:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Charlotte:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Gregory Bovino, the top Border Patrol official leading the charge on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in cities, and his officers are heading to Charlotte, according to a source familiar with the planning. That was news to city officials. https://cnn.it/49crpZT
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
LA:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
DC:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Chicago:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Charlotte:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
- black mayor
- majority non-white
DC:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Chicago:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Charlotte:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
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The Trump administration’s science funding cuts, firings at agencies like the NOAA, the elimination of important science programs at federal agencies, and other measures born out of its disregard for the climate crisis...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The Trump administration’s science funding cuts, firings at agencies like the NOAA, the elimination of important science programs at federal agencies, and other measures born out of its disregard for the climate crisis...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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“The Trump administration plans to allow new oil and gas drilling off the California coast for the first time in roughly four decades, according to three people briefed on the matter.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/c...
Trump Is Said to Propose Opening California Coast to Oil Drilling
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
“The Trump administration plans to allow new oil and gas drilling off the California coast for the first time in roughly four decades, according to three people briefed on the matter.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/c...
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We now are subjected to a new spectacle: Rupert Murdoch's editorials in the NYPost are lightly massaged and republished as Jeff Bezos' editorials in WaPo. Isn't someone even going to question the copyright infringement? Or is plagiarism now privileged among tech bros?
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
We now are subjected to a new spectacle: Rupert Murdoch's editorials in the NYPost are lightly massaged and republished as Jeff Bezos' editorials in WaPo. Isn't someone even going to question the copyright infringement? Or is plagiarism now privileged among tech bros?
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HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS
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Makes more sense now
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Makes more sense now
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It's not just that he wants a "taste" of every tech company he gives a license or contract under government auspices, now grandpa also wants a comprehensive system of price controls so he can moderate the consequences of his muy loco tariff policies.
November 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
It's not just that he wants a "taste" of every tech company he gives a license or contract under government auspices, now grandpa also wants a comprehensive system of price controls so he can moderate the consequences of his muy loco tariff policies.
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DAG Blanche knows better than to use the language of “war” to describe these legal battles involving judges who disagree with the Administration’s lawlessness. Too many judges require security as it is. To say nothing of the preposterous premise of his remarks.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche described a “war” against the federal judiciary at the Federalist Society conference today and called on young conservative lawyers in the audience to join the fight, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
DOJ’s No. 2 Official Asks Lawyers to Join ‘War’ Against Judges
Todd Blanche, second-in-command at the Justice Department, described a “war” against the federal judiciary and called on young conservative lawyers in the audience to join the fight against so-called ...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
DAG Blanche knows better than to use the language of “war” to describe these legal battles involving judges who disagree with the Administration’s lawlessness. Too many judges require security as it is. To say nothing of the preposterous premise of his remarks.
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Kidnapped by state secret police at her court hearing
November 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Kidnapped by state secret police at her court hearing
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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I’m a SNAP recipient and I’m asking you if you live in any of the following states to call your representative and tell them to
HOLD THE DAMN LINE
We aren’t going through all of this for them to fold.
These are the at risk ones. If one of them is yours, call!
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HOLD THE DAMN LINE
We aren’t going through all of this for them to fold.
These are the at risk ones. If one of them is yours, call!
/
November 6, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I’m a SNAP recipient and I’m asking you if you live in any of the following states to call your representative and tell them to
HOLD THE DAMN LINE
We aren’t going through all of this for them to fold.
These are the at risk ones. If one of them is yours, call!
/
HOLD THE DAMN LINE
We aren’t going through all of this for them to fold.
These are the at risk ones. If one of them is yours, call!
/
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It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
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Apparently the internet has figured out that the new Oval Office signage and gilding is at base a literal meme template
November 6, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Apparently the internet has figured out that the new Oval Office signage and gilding is at base a literal meme template
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“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”
Families "horrified" after daycare teacher pulled out of school by federal agents.
The incident happened in front of parents and children at Rayito de Sol in North Center, a parent said. They believe the employee, who cares for infants, is legally allowed to work in the United State...
www.chalkbeat.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”
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Trump's capitalism
November 4, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Trump's capitalism
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"Why don't people support welfare programs?"
Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.
White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.
White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
November 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"Why don't people support welfare programs?"
Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.
White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.
White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
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I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.
November 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.
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NOAA’s National Weather Service holds the federal responsibility for tsunami warnings, and has historically been a primary supporter of seismic data collection in Alaska
NOAA cancels longstanding funding for seismic data collection crucial to tsunami warning systems
The Alaska Earthquake Center has long provided NOAA with seismic data for tsunami monitoring and warning purposes. That work will wind down in November, after the federal agency said it can no longer fund the contract.
akpub.io
November 1, 2025 at 2:50 AM
NOAA’s National Weather Service holds the federal responsibility for tsunami warnings, and has historically been a primary supporter of seismic data collection in Alaska
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We do not have constitutional government. Our constitution has failed. People are going to have a hard time accepting this, but it’s a fact.
I don't understand how anyone can make the case that we still have constitutional government at this point. The president is collecting revenue *AND* spending money without Congressional authorization, refusing to spend money that Congress appropriated, disobeying whatever laws he feels like.
October 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM
We do not have constitutional government. Our constitution has failed. People are going to have a hard time accepting this, but it’s a fact.