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Cat Moon aka @inspiredcat
@catmoon.bsky.social
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'Be ignited, or be gone.'
- Mary Oliver

#MakeLawBetter provocateur

Credentials for those who care: Prof at Vanderbilt Law, Co-Director of the Program on Law + Innovation and the Vanderbilt AI Law Lab ailawlab.bsky.social
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Friends in London, I'm hosting a Women+AI event at Dentons on April 25, workshop at 2 and networking mingle at 5.

Open to all women who work in AI, use AI, or are simply curious about AI.

If you're in town, please join!

www.eventbrite.com/e/women-ai-l...
Logo for Women + AI London, superimposed over the initials WAI
April 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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At Hands Off Nashville ✊
Man holding sign that reads the power of the people is greater than the people in power - Sen Corey Booker
April 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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The Big Ten Law Schools present Rule of Law in 2025

April 2: Rule of Law and Separation of Powers, Part II: Executive Authority and the Administrative State

Join the virtual webinar series here:

law.unl.edu/ruleoflaw/
The Big Ten Law Schools present Rule of Law in 2025 All panels can be joined virtually by returning to this URL each Wednesday. All panels begin at 2 p.m. Pacific/4 p.m. Central/5 p.m. Eastern. We will begin admitting people to the webinar a few minutes before the start time. The event is limited to the first 1,000 participants and will not be recorded. JOIN WEBINAR The Big Ten law schools have coordinated a series of virtual panel discussions that examine the Rule of Law in 2025 after an unprecedented series of executive orders, legal interpretations, and administrative actions by the Trump administration over the last several months. Distinguished panelists will present a broad range of perspectives and nuanced views on the rule of law during a period of constitutional, legal, and governmental recalibration.
April 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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If you're wondering what to do in this moment and searching for leaders to follow, look for these and other women who are using their voices, their positions, and their privilege to do the right thing, even when it comes at personal peril.
March 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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And, I worry. It's a gamble, right? Stay silent now and mabye the really bad things won't happen. And if they do, maybe the interests I'm protecting won't be affected. Or, at least not soon.
March 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Google Strips DEI Language From Some Internal Research Studies

via @theinformation.bsky.social
screenshot of email from The Information: Exclusive Google Strips DEI Language From Some Internal Research Studies By Erin Woo Google employees have told staffers doing user research around Google devices to remove language related to diversity, equity and inclusion from their work or else lock down access to their documents, according to a person with direct knowledge of the instructions.
March 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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maybe this was a cry for help from Waltz?

"Houthi PC Small Group"

these are not serious people
What happened? Top US officials, including vice-president JD Vance and defence secretary Pete Hegseth, were among members of a Signal chat group called “Houthi PC Small Group” that accidentally shared classified details about last week’s military strikes on Yemen with Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine. Goldberg was added to the chat by Mike Waltz, the national security adviser.
March 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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The new WH liaison to NASA?

A Total Wine assistant manager.

You just can't make this shit up.
Screen shot of New Yorker newsletter: As I pieced together the story, publishing today, I heard one name more than any other: Darren Bossie. The new White House liaison to NASA, Bossie seems to be an embodiment of Trump in the hallways of the agency’s headquarters. I’d never heard of him. But I knew that who he was would be telling of Trump’s agenda. I found Bossie’s profile on LinkedIn. To my astonishment, he’d spent the bulk of his professional life as an assistant manager of a Total Wine & More. (The NASA community was surprised, too. “Cannot make this stuff up,” someone wrote on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory subreddit.) I called every Total Wine & More location in the area, repeatedly, hoping to speak with someone who remembered him. I talked with many people, but found only one who did.
March 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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We all have choices to make right now.

Rachel Cohen made a powerful choice to lead with morality.
Screen shot of Rachel Cohen's email to her law firms, Skadden Arps, wherein she gives notice unless the firm responds to protect the rule of law
March 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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I hope you didn't have your money on Paul Weiss doing the right thing.
March 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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the spiral of bizarre #chaos continues
Quote from WaPo article: Trump and his deputies are threatening those who vandalize Teslas, saying they will classify anti-Tesla protesters as domestic terrorists. “If you’re going to touch a Tesla, go to a dealership, do anything, you better watch out because we’re coming after you,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a Friday interview on Fox Business. “And if you’re funding this, we’re coming after you. We’re going to find out who you are.”
March 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Civil disobedience therefore becomes a sacred duty when the State has become lawless, or which is the same thing, corrupt. And a citizen that barters with such a State shares its corruption or lawlessness.

- Mahatma Gandhi
raised fist with a stylized American flag, symbolizing strength, hope, unity, and resistance
March 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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ironic if we are saved by the Brits?

please, take my $, @theguardian.com
Why you can rely on the Guardian not to bow to Trump – or anyone I hope you appreciated this article. Before you move on, I wanted to ask whether you could support the Guardian’s journalism as we face the unprecedented challenges of covering the second Trump administration. As Trump himself observed: “The first term, everybody was fighting me. In this term, everybody wants to be my friend.” He’s not entirely wrong. All around us, media organizations have begun to capitulate. First, two news outlets pulled election endorsements at the behest of their billionaire owners. Next, prominent reporters bent the knee at Mar-a-Lago. And then a major network – ABC News – rolled over in response to Trump’s legal challenges and agreed to a $16m million settlement in his favor. The Guardian is clear: we have no interest in being Donald Trump’s – or any politician’s – friend. Our allegiance as independent journalists is not to those in power but to the public. Whatever happens in the coming months and years, you can rely on the Guardian never to bow down to power, nor back down from truth. How are we able to stand firm in the face of intimidation and threats? As journalists say: follow the money. The Guardian has neither a self-interested billionaire owner nor profit-seeking corporate henchmen pressuring us to appease the rich and powerful. We are funded by our readers and owned by the Scott Trust – whose only financial obligation is to preserve our journalistic mission in perpetuity. What’s more, we make our fearless, fiercely independent journalism free to all, with no paywall – so that everyone in the US can have access to responsible, fact-based news. With the new administration boasting about its desire to punish journalists, and Trump and his allies already pursuing lawsuits against newspapers whose stories they don’t like, it has never been more urgent, or more perilous, to pursue fair, accurate reporting. Can you support the Guardian today? GIVE TO THE GUARDIAN!
March 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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a day I love: we're listening to our *happy* playlist while we work on our life odyssey canvases

with crayons, colored pencils

so many smiles

yes, this is a law school class

these students are making plans to THRIVE
Life One Odyssey plan worksheet - 6 word title, with space to explore across 5 years what your life will be like - gauges along the bottom for resources, "I like it", confidence, coherence, a gray box to answer "How might I explore/test this plan?" and another gray box along the bottom to explore "What question does this plan answer for me? (2-5)" Life Two Odyssey plan worksheet: "What to do if plan no. 1 is one" - 6 word title, with space to explore across 5 years what your life will be like - gauges along the bottom for resources, "I like it", confidence, coherence, a gray box to answer "How might I explore/test this plan?" and another gray box along the bottom to explore "What question does this plan answer for me? (2-5)" Life Three Odyssey plan worksheet: "Life Three: life you'd live / work you'd do if money, optics, etc. were no object." - 6 word title, with space to explore across 5 years what your life will be like - gauges along the bottom for resources, "I like it", confidence, coherence, a gray box to answer "How might I explore/test this plan?" and another gray box along the bottom to explore "What question does this plan answer for me? (2-5)"
February 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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National Park Service rangers have pulled off a brilliant action in Yosemite Park on El Capitan by deploying a massive American flag upside down in the traditional sign of distress or extreme emergencies.

Via Teresa Baker, Founder of the In Solidarity Project, on LinkedIn
February 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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more fresh hell

FTC bans membership in ABA

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Letter from FTC chariman Andrew Ferguson. Text: For many years, federal antitrust enforcers and the private antitrust bar have enjoyed a cozy relationship facilitated by the Antitrust Law Section of the American Bar Association (ABA). The ABA's long history of leftist advocacy and its recent attacks on the Trump-Vance Administration's governing agenda, however, have made this relationship untenable. I therefore have concluded that it does not advance the interests of the United States government for Federal Trade Commission (FTC) political appointees to hold leadership positions in the ABA or to participate in AB A events. Accordingly, I prohibit FTC political appointees from holding leadership positions in the ABA, participating in or attending ABA events, or renewing any existing ABA memberships. " I further prohibit the FTC from expending any funds to facilitate any employee's membership in the ABA or participation in, or attendance at, an ABA event. 2 The President of the ABA recently issued a statement accusing the Trump-Vance Administration of "wide-scale affronts to the rule of law." What followed was a breathless screed leveled against President Donald J. Trump's swift and tireless delivery on his promises to the American people to confront our existential immigration crisis and end waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government. This statement was not a sober assessment of the law. It was a collection of Democrat political talking points with the ABA's logo affixed at the top. The nation's debt has ballooned to a terrifying $36 trillion. Fortunately, President Trump is using the mandate he received from the electorate to protect future generations from this profligacy. He has ordered the Department of Government Efficiency to tackle this problem and address waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government. After decades of Presidents of both parties promising to reduce government inefficiency and wasteful spending, President Trump is the first one actu… page 2 of letter: "insistent and outspoken political organization. It advances radical left-wing causes and promotes the business interests of Big Tech. If that ceased to be the case, perhaps senior government officials could once again participate in ABA events. But even after conservatives have for years tried to work within the ABA to make it more balanced, the organization has become only more left-wing and radical. The FTC's senior leadership should not lend a patina of nonpartisan legitimacy to an organization guided by the principles of the Democrat Party and the priorities of Big Tech. Rather, we will focus on what is important: Fighting monopolies, promoting competition and economic liberty, protecting consumers from fraud and unfairness, and helping President Trump usher in America's Golden Age. Signed by Andrew N. Ferguson, FTC Chairman dated February 14, 2025
February 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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this is amazing
November 30, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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Making the crust for the brandied pumpkin tart. Baking happens tomorrow.

BTW, do you know this trick for getting crust into the pan easily?
Crust being placed in an oblong tart pan sitting on a flour-dusted wooden surface, using a rolling pin
November 27, 2024 at 8:21 PM
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Buttery, bourbon-y pecan perfection.
Close up of a freshly baked bourbon pecan tart, the buttery crust perfectly pulling away from the edge of the tart pan
November 27, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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Enough for two baby tarts! Sharing with neighbors.
Two unbaked bourbon pecan tartlets on a wooden surface dusted with flour
November 27, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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In it goes!
A bourbon pecan tart in the oven on foil on a half sheet pan
November 27, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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Pecans are grown by family friends!
Pecans from Young Pecans in Louisiana scattered in an unbaked tart shell with the giant bag of pecans in the background
November 27, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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Progress.
Pie crust dough pressed into a tart pan with scraps of dough arrayed about
November 27, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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Using handmade vanilla!
A bottle of handmade vanilla held in front of a mixing bowl filled with pecan pie batter and a whisk floating in it
November 27, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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Fresh eggs for the bourbon pecan pie from Moon Mountain Cinnamon Queens
3 cracked eggs in a mixing bowl next to a bowl of fresh eggs from the Moon Mountain Cinnamon Queens
November 27, 2024 at 6:08 PM