Bryce Tuttle
@bryce-tuttle.com
Stanford Law ‘26. Interested antitrust, constitutional law, federal courts, and anti-corruption. Previously: Office of FTC Cmr. Bedoya, FTC Bureau of Competition. he/him. “The tallest hobbit.” Views mine.
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Bryce Tuttle
@bryce-tuttle.com
· May 28
The FTC Should Not Be Wielded as a Weapon of Authoritarianism - The Sling
The anti-monopoly community cannot continue to behave as if business-as-usual will continue at the FTC and DOJ. We cannot continue to segment anti-monopoly policy off from the rest of the Trump admini...
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In @theslingutah.bsky.social, I argue Chair Ferguson has sacrificed the FTC's credibility and independence by pursuing Musk's vendetta against @mmfa.bsky.social. I am deeply disappointed in the agency where I began my career. www.thesling.org/the-ftc-shou...
As the national guard cases head to the Supreme Court, two passages from Ernst Frankel’s The Dual State stick with me:
October 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
As the national guard cases head to the Supreme Court, two passages from Ernst Frankel’s The Dual State stick with me:
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I used to focus on left versus right. Now I’m much more worried about the money at the top. But while it might seem strange to say it, I think this is a hopeful way of looking at the world that opens the door to coalitions that seemed impossible before. My first for the @newrepublic.com:
October 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I used to focus on left versus right. Now I’m much more worried about the money at the top. But while it might seem strange to say it, I think this is a hopeful way of looking at the world that opens the door to coalitions that seemed impossible before. My first for the @newrepublic.com:
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Former FTC Commissioner @bedoyausa.bsky.social's new piece in @newrepublic.com gives a glimpse of what’s at stake for Americans if SCOTUS allows the president the authority to fire FTC officers without cause.
How I Became a Populist
My time at the Federal Trade Commission—before Donald Trump fired me—totally changed the way I see our political divide.
newrepublic.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Former FTC Commissioner @bedoyausa.bsky.social's new piece in @newrepublic.com gives a glimpse of what’s at stake for Americans if SCOTUS allows the president the authority to fire FTC officers without cause.
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How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
October 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
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What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"
WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.
He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.
He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.
September 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"
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It can’t just be on us to make time every week to unsubscribe from whatever billionaire is behaving badly. Our elected officials NEED to step up to the plate to break up the billionaire conglomerates that made this censorship possible.
September 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
It can’t just be on us to make time every week to unsubscribe from whatever billionaire is behaving badly. Our elected officials NEED to step up to the plate to break up the billionaire conglomerates that made this censorship possible.
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NEW: Darcy Tuttle, "Hoc Saxsum: History as Conversation inside the Tomb of the Scipios," *Journal of Roman Studies* 2025.
A fundamental reinterpretation of a major mid-Republican monumental complex, arguing that "history" was made and remade here through "an ongoing dialogue with the dead."
A fundamental reinterpretation of a major mid-Republican monumental complex, arguing that "history" was made and remade here through "an ongoing dialogue with the dead."
Hoc Saxsum: History as Conversation inside the Tomb of the Scipios | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
Hoc Saxsum: History as Conversation inside the Tomb of the Scipios
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September 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
NEW: Darcy Tuttle, "Hoc Saxsum: History as Conversation inside the Tomb of the Scipios," *Journal of Roman Studies* 2025.
A fundamental reinterpretation of a major mid-Republican monumental complex, arguing that "history" was made and remade here through "an ongoing dialogue with the dead."
A fundamental reinterpretation of a major mid-Republican monumental complex, arguing that "history" was made and remade here through "an ongoing dialogue with the dead."
My amazing sister just got an article published in the Journal
of Roman Studies! Check it out if you want to hear about how the Scipios spoke, heard, felt, and even smelled their funerary rituals
of Roman Studies! Check it out if you want to hear about how the Scipios spoke, heard, felt, and even smelled their funerary rituals
I am thrilled to share that my article, “Hoc Saxsum: History as Conversation inside the Tomb of the Scipios” is now available on the Journal of Roman Studies website via FirstView. (It’s also open access!)
Hoc Saxsum: History as Conversation inside the Tomb of the Scipios | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
Hoc Saxsum: History as Conversation inside the Tomb of the Scipios
www.cambridge.org
September 12, 2025 at 8:08 AM
My amazing sister just got an article published in the Journal
of Roman Studies! Check it out if you want to hear about how the Scipios spoke, heard, felt, and even smelled their funerary rituals
of Roman Studies! Check it out if you want to hear about how the Scipios spoke, heard, felt, and even smelled their funerary rituals
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Dear journalists:
The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.
Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.
Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
August 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Dear journalists:
The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.
Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.
Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
DDC Judge Sooknanan rightfully blocked the FTC’s CID to @mmfa.bsky.social as unconstitutional. The opinion is worth a read ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
August 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
DDC Judge Sooknanan rightfully blocked the FTC’s CID to @mmfa.bsky.social as unconstitutional. The opinion is worth a read ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
I don’t even know what to do with this news. The University of Chicago, home of a world-class museum on West Asian and North African antiquities, may be seriously curtailing or shutting down its languages and area studies departments. A cultural crown jewel in my home town is destroying itself.
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
August 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I don’t even know what to do with this news. The University of Chicago, home of a world-class museum on West Asian and North African antiquities, may be seriously curtailing or shutting down its languages and area studies departments. A cultural crown jewel in my home town is destroying itself.
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Happy to see FIRE and Stanford Daily teaming up on this lawsuit against the administration’s despicable censorship crusade against immigrants. It’s a righteous case. I worry a bit that standing will be used to attack it by dishonest judges.
www.thefire.org/research-lea...
www.thefire.org/research-lea...
Complaint - Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation et al. v. Rubio et al.
FIRE sues to challenge unconstitutional provisions Secretary of State Marco Rubio uses to deport legal immigrants over their speech
www.thefire.org
August 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Happy to see FIRE and Stanford Daily teaming up on this lawsuit against the administration’s despicable censorship crusade against immigrants. It’s a righteous case. I worry a bit that standing will be used to attack it by dishonest judges.
www.thefire.org/research-lea...
www.thefire.org/research-lea...
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INBOX: Union for Reform Judaism, Central Conference of American Rabbis & American Conference of Cantors issue a lengthy statement declaring:
"Starving Gazan civilians neither will bring Israel the 'total victory' over Hamas it seeks, nor can it be justified by Jewish values or humanitarian law."
"Starving Gazan civilians neither will bring Israel the 'total victory' over Hamas it seeks, nor can it be justified by Jewish values or humanitarian law."
July 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
INBOX: Union for Reform Judaism, Central Conference of American Rabbis & American Conference of Cantors issue a lengthy statement declaring:
"Starving Gazan civilians neither will bring Israel the 'total victory' over Hamas it seeks, nor can it be justified by Jewish values or humanitarian law."
"Starving Gazan civilians neither will bring Israel the 'total victory' over Hamas it seeks, nor can it be justified by Jewish values or humanitarian law."
There are a lot of horrifying and embarrassing things about Trump’s SLAPP against WSJ but the former paralegal in me finds it very funny that the firm he hired doesn’t know how to take a proper screenshot.
July 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
There are a lot of horrifying and embarrassing things about Trump’s SLAPP against WSJ but the former paralegal in me finds it very funny that the firm he hired doesn’t know how to take a proper screenshot.
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Here is the full letter Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, sent to colleagues: www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
July 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Here is the full letter Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, sent to colleagues: www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
Instead of focusing on protecting consumers, the FTC is hosting a virulently transphobic workshop next week. Because the President illegally fired all the Democratic commissioners, there is no one within the agency to speak out against this hate-filled exercise www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
The Dangers of “Gender-Affirming Care” for Minors
This workshop will focus on unfair or deceptive trade practices in “gender-affirming care” for minors.
www.ftc.gov
July 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Instead of focusing on protecting consumers, the FTC is hosting a virulently transphobic workshop next week. Because the President illegally fired all the Democratic commissioners, there is no one within the agency to speak out against this hate-filled exercise www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
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The 1L curriculum, which remains basically unchanged since the late 1800s, is broken.
One key missing piece is a total absence of political science and history. We don’t teach our students to think about the law as *inherently* political—both in terms of what it does, and how it is shaped.
One key missing piece is a total absence of political science and history. We don’t teach our students to think about the law as *inherently* political—both in terms of what it does, and how it is shaped.
the difficult thing for a lot of legal experts to comprehend is that the part you understand is often not the important part
June 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The 1L curriculum, which remains basically unchanged since the late 1800s, is broken.
One key missing piece is a total absence of political science and history. We don’t teach our students to think about the law as *inherently* political—both in terms of what it does, and how it is shaped.
One key missing piece is a total absence of political science and history. We don’t teach our students to think about the law as *inherently* political—both in terms of what it does, and how it is shaped.
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When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.
It matters. I care.
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June 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.
As reported by @nytimes.com, the frivolous @mmfa.bsky.social investigation is indeed something the FTC is dedicating real resources to. Absolutely absurd and dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/t...
F.T.C. Investigates Ad Groups and Watchdogs, Alleging Boycott Collusion
www.nytimes.com
June 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
As reported by @nytimes.com, the frivolous @mmfa.bsky.social investigation is indeed something the FTC is dedicating real resources to. Absolutely absurd and dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/t...
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Commissioner Slaughter and I issued a statement about the new FTC majority's decision to drop the lawsuit against Pepsi.
May 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Commissioner Slaughter and I issued a statement about the new FTC majority's decision to drop the lawsuit against Pepsi.
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In @theslingutah.bsky.social, I argue Chair Ferguson has sacrificed the FTC's credibility and independence by pursuing Musk's vendetta against @mmfa.bsky.social. I am deeply disappointed in the agency where I began my career. www.thesling.org/the-ftc-shou...
The FTC Should Not Be Wielded as a Weapon of Authoritarianism - The Sling
The anti-monopoly community cannot continue to behave as if business-as-usual will continue at the FTC and DOJ. We cannot continue to segment anti-monopoly policy off from the rest of the Trump admini...
www.thesling.org
May 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
In @theslingutah.bsky.social, I argue Chair Ferguson has sacrificed the FTC's credibility and independence by pursuing Musk's vendetta against @mmfa.bsky.social. I am deeply disappointed in the agency where I began my career. www.thesling.org/the-ftc-shou...
In @theslingutah.bsky.social, I argue Chair Ferguson has sacrificed the FTC's credibility and independence by pursuing Musk's vendetta against @mmfa.bsky.social. I am deeply disappointed in the agency where I began my career. www.thesling.org/the-ftc-shou...
The FTC Should Not Be Wielded as a Weapon of Authoritarianism - The Sling
The anti-monopoly community cannot continue to behave as if business-as-usual will continue at the FTC and DOJ. We cannot continue to segment anti-monopoly policy off from the rest of the Trump admini...
www.thesling.org
May 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
In @theslingutah.bsky.social, I argue Chair Ferguson has sacrificed the FTC's credibility and independence by pursuing Musk's vendetta against @mmfa.bsky.social. I am deeply disappointed in the agency where I began my career. www.thesling.org/the-ftc-shou...
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This is getting a fair amount of scorn, and I’d say it deserves it. The hidden premise is that “corruption” requires the specific proof that the Supreme Court has decided (controversially) is required for certain very specific federal criminal statutes.
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May 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This is getting a fair amount of scorn, and I’d say it deserves it. The hidden premise is that “corruption” requires the specific proof that the Supreme Court has decided (controversially) is required for certain very specific federal criminal statutes.
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What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a
@reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility.
11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.
@reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility.
11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.
April 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a
@reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility.
11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.
@reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility.
11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.