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Mark Lemley
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William H. Neukom Professor, Stanford Law School. Partner, Lex Lumina LLP. I teach and write in IP, antitrust, internet, and video game law

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Mark A. Lemley is an American legal scholar known for his studies of American intellectual property law. He is currently the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Director of the Stanford Law School Program in Law, Science & Technology. Lemley is a founding partner of the law firm of Durie Tangri LLP, which he has been practicing with since 2009. .. more

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2h
This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 2h
Wow, xmas morning wind gusts up to 114 mph on Mount Hamilton, east of San Jose. Damaged the Lick Observatory. 🔭 🧪 bsky.app/profile/look...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3h
Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4h
The most common question I receive is how everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy. My advice, take the first step, start with something small and see what works for you. Here are ten things all of us can do. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...
Ten Things We Can All Do to Protect Democracy
From Marc | The most common question I receive is how everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy.
www.democracydocket.com

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3d
It's very exciting to have my very own BlueSky trolls, who seem to follow only one person: me. Oddly, they all seem to be attractive women who post lies in support of Donald Trump. I wonder: could they be bots? 🤔

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3d
"Witnesses" against Maxwell

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d
{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

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Sarah-Jayne Kenyon @sjkenyon.bsky.social · 3d
Have you also seen this one?

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m9-prime.bsky.social @m9-prime.bsky.social · 3d
I think if they weren’t so incompetent at everything they do, they would have covered this up fully. The only reason we will learn anything impactful is their incompetence at the most basic of tasks.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3d
Trump traveled on Epstein's jet multiple times, including with underage girls.

Expect this too to be retroactively censored in violation of the law. At least they are ham handed in their lawbreaking

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John Crittenden @johncrittenden.bsky.social · 3d
Good thing we have samizdat video coming from Canada

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3d
CBS is basically state media at this point. RIP 60 minutes

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CBS News delays 60 Minutes segment on El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison
Backlash after broadcaster announces investigation, due to air on Sunday night, ‘needs additional reporting’
www.theguardian.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d
it’s really fucking cool to see people working outside the system to expose the hacks running all of our crumbling institutions

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 5d
Video here (in which he claims the questions got harder from there): x.com/RpsAgainstTr...
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 5d
This is real. What an embarrassment .

I wonder if he could identify a horse's ass?

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Trump reveals which animals he was required to identify in mental tests
President provides insight into the mental fitness test: ‘The first question is like, ‘What is this?’ And they show a lion, a giraffe, a fish, and a hippopotamus’
www.the-independent.com

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 5d
If you mean the thousand agents, sure, that was a lie, but it was Pam Bondi's lie, not mine

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 5d
This is the exact title (other than the name redaction) of an email I received. Anyone see anything ironic about this?

"University of Oxford: Online reference requested - [redacted], DPhil in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences"

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WomenRiseUp2026 @womenriseup2026.bsky.social · 5d
Here's another.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 6d
Capture of the now-deleted image here:

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 6d
The FBI put a thousand agents (their own words) on trying to hide all the links between Trump and Epstein. They failed. When people found some additional photos of Trump in the release, the DOJ promptly DELETED THEM FROM THE DOCUMENT RELEASE.

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Available to download Friday, some Epstein files no longer there Saturday afternoon
An NPR analysis of the Epstein files shows some documents, originally available on Friday, are no longer on the Department of Justice's "Epstein Library" website as the DOJ releases more files.
www.npr.org

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 6d
Add TikTok to the list of media owned by right-wing billionaires

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 8d
The Mordoors

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 8d
Opinion | Sorry, Epstein critics, but age is just a number.

by David Brooks

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8d
He never disclosed that he’d visited Epstein in that column and did a lot of hand waving to insist that he and his fellow elites had nothing, nothing at all to do with him.
I know a thing or two about the American elite, ahem, and if you've read my work, you may be sick of my assaults on the educated elites for being insular, self-indulgent and smug. But the phrase "the Epstein class" is inaccurate, unfair and irresponsible. Say what you will about our financial, educational, nonprofit and political elites, but they are not mass rapists. But the most important reason the Epstein story tops our national agenda is that the QAnon mentality has taken over America. The QAnon mentality is based on the assumption that the American elite is totally evil and that American institutions are totally corrupt. If there is a pizzeria on Connecticut Avenue in Northwest D.C., it must be because Hillary Clinton is running a child abuse sex ring in the basement.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 8d
Trump announces an "unprecedented four-day athletic event" with "one young man and one young woman from each state and territory"

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 8d
What a time to decide to learn less about the world.

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UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 9d
Andreesen Horowitz should adopt a new motto: "If Black Mirror can imagine it, we'll fund it"

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Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.
www.404media.co

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 9d
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FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr Lighting the First Amendment on Fire
Generative AI generated
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d
LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency?

CARR: I think th---

L: Yes or no

C: There's a test for this in the la---

L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question

C: The FCC is not

L: So is your website lying?

C: Possibly

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 9d
I invite everyone to peruse Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto (his choice of title) to get a feel for where a16z's motives and interests lie.

(hint: their interests likely do not necessarily include your well-being)

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