David Brody
@dbrody.bsky.social
Privacy rights are civil rights.
Founder & former director of the Digital Justice Initiative at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
Founder & former director of the Digital Justice Initiative at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Boomers remember the success of protest during Vietnam and Watergate. They remember a conventional GOP under Ford, Reagan, and Bushes. They saw the fall of the Berlin Wall.
You have to be at least 35 today to have voted during a normal GOP admin (2008). Gen Z’s political memory is very different.
You have to be at least 35 today to have voted during a normal GOP admin (2008). Gen Z’s political memory is very different.
My @nytimes.com op-ed: The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o... (gift link)
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Boomers remember the success of protest during Vietnam and Watergate. They remember a conventional GOP under Ford, Reagan, and Bushes. They saw the fall of the Berlin Wall.
You have to be at least 35 today to have voted during a normal GOP admin (2008). Gen Z’s political memory is very different.
You have to be at least 35 today to have voted during a normal GOP admin (2008). Gen Z’s political memory is very different.
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
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I was lead counsel on the robocall voter intimidation case against Burkman and Wohl, and… yeah… this checks out.
The latest in pardon corruption: Joseph Schwartz, a convicted fraudster, paid two other convicted fraudsters nearly $1M to get him a pardon. And it worked 🤯 youtube.com/shorts/_1n_C...
Grifters helping grifters: the pardon of Joseph Schwartz
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer
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November 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I was lead counsel on the robocall voter intimidation case against Burkman and Wohl, and… yeah… this checks out.
I was lead counsel on the robocall voter intimidation case against Burkman and Wohl, and… yeah… this checks out.
The latest in pardon corruption: Joseph Schwartz, a convicted fraudster, paid two other convicted fraudsters nearly $1M to get him a pardon. And it worked 🤯 youtube.com/shorts/_1n_C...
Grifters helping grifters: the pardon of Joseph Schwartz
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer
youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I was lead counsel on the robocall voter intimidation case against Burkman and Wohl, and… yeah… this checks out.
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The latest in pardon corruption: Joseph Schwartz, a convicted fraudster, paid two other convicted fraudsters nearly $1M to get him a pardon. And it worked 🤯 youtube.com/shorts/_1n_C...
Grifters helping grifters: the pardon of Joseph Schwartz
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer
youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The latest in pardon corruption: Joseph Schwartz, a convicted fraudster, paid two other convicted fraudsters nearly $1M to get him a pardon. And it worked 🤯 youtube.com/shorts/_1n_C...
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That's a pretty awesome group of people
November 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM
That's a pretty awesome group of people
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Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announces transition committees
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Monday the creation of 17 transition advisory committees made up of more than 400 people.
www.cbsnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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"It seems like a marvel of financial engineering: Meta is building a $27 billion data center in Louisiana, financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet."
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"It seems like a marvel of financial engineering: Meta is building a $27 billion data center in Louisiana, financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet."
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"owners tend to downplay the situation, insisting their pet is friendly or disciplined and deserves a chance to roam."
Owners tend to underestimate the former two properties of their dog, but the latter really pisses me off. It's incredibly entitled.
Owners tend to underestimate the former two properties of their dog, but the latter really pisses me off. It's incredibly entitled.
Unleashed dogs in Boston are a source of frustration for some people, and citations have risen - The Boston Globe
The clashes play out in parks, on baseball fields, and Facebook pages — often pitting neighbor against neighbor.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"owners tend to downplay the situation, insisting their pet is friendly or disciplined and deserves a chance to roam."
Owners tend to underestimate the former two properties of their dog, but the latter really pisses me off. It's incredibly entitled.
Owners tend to underestimate the former two properties of their dog, but the latter really pisses me off. It's incredibly entitled.
This is a big deal bc insurance is one of the strongest levers for changing policy and behavior (the other being taxes).
AI companies may have so much money they can self insure. But their enterprise customers don’t and this will cause them think twice about how they adopt and deploy AI.
AI companies may have so much money they can self insure. But their enterprise customers don’t and this will cause them think twice about how they adopt and deploy AI.
Insurers AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots and to retreat from coverage of AI risk as multibillion-dollar claims mount
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This is a big deal bc insurance is one of the strongest levers for changing policy and behavior (the other being taxes).
AI companies may have so much money they can self insure. But their enterprise customers don’t and this will cause them think twice about how they adopt and deploy AI.
AI companies may have so much money they can self insure. But their enterprise customers don’t and this will cause them think twice about how they adopt and deploy AI.
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The media doesn't treat the Trump regime's allegiances with neo-Nazis like Nick Fuentes as antisemitism, but Zohran's belief in Palestinian liberation is treated as antisemitism.
It's completely backwards and insane. Zohran will protect American Jews; the fascists will target American Jews.
It's completely backwards and insane. Zohran will protect American Jews; the fascists will target American Jews.
WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism?
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The media doesn't treat the Trump regime's allegiances with neo-Nazis like Nick Fuentes as antisemitism, but Zohran's belief in Palestinian liberation is treated as antisemitism.
It's completely backwards and insane. Zohran will protect American Jews; the fascists will target American Jews.
It's completely backwards and insane. Zohran will protect American Jews; the fascists will target American Jews.
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Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege reut.rs/48eKxnO
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege
Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a class action by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.
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November 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege reut.rs/48eKxnO
My father was a gambler down in Georgia
He wound up on the wrong end of gun
I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus
Rollin down Hwy 41
Lord, I was born a ramblin man
Tryin make a living and doing the best I can
And when it’s time for leaving I hope you’ll understand
I was born a ramblin man
He wound up on the wrong end of gun
I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus
Rollin down Hwy 41
Lord, I was born a ramblin man
Tryin make a living and doing the best I can
And when it’s time for leaving I hope you’ll understand
I was born a ramblin man
November 23, 2025 at 2:30 AM
My father was a gambler down in Georgia
He wound up on the wrong end of gun
I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus
Rollin down Hwy 41
Lord, I was born a ramblin man
Tryin make a living and doing the best I can
And when it’s time for leaving I hope you’ll understand
I was born a ramblin man
He wound up on the wrong end of gun
I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus
Rollin down Hwy 41
Lord, I was born a ramblin man
Tryin make a living and doing the best I can
And when it’s time for leaving I hope you’ll understand
I was born a ramblin man
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something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
It was commonly known on campus that when Cruz was a student at Harvard Law, he refused to study with anyone who hadn’t attended Harvard, Yale, Princeton, or Stanford for undergrad.
Ah yes. Harvard Law School in the early 1990s, well known for its Communist professors.
November 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
It was commonly known on campus that when Cruz was a student at Harvard Law, he refused to study with anyone who hadn’t attended Harvard, Yale, Princeton, or Stanford for undergrad.
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when I was in law school everyone knew that joining the federalist society was like getting tsa precheck for a clerkship
I’m a law prof & a YLS grad and anyone familiar w elite law schools knows it is beyond laughable to describe these places as radicalism hotbeds. Cruz knows this, as does JD Vance. But they assume that their marks are too unsophisticated to know it too. It’s condescending as hell.
Ah yes. Harvard Law School in the early 1990s, well known for its Communist professors.
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
when I was in law school everyone knew that joining the federalist society was like getting tsa precheck for a clerkship
Protecting privacy of group membership against the State is at core of the 1st Am.
“Inviolability of privacy in group association may in many circumstances be indispensable to preservation of freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.” NAACP v. Alabama (1958).
“Inviolability of privacy in group association may in many circumstances be indispensable to preservation of freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.” NAACP v. Alabama (1958).
Federal Suit Seeking Names of Some Jewish Employees at Penn Sparks Backlash
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Protecting privacy of group membership against the State is at core of the 1st Am.
“Inviolability of privacy in group association may in many circumstances be indispensable to preservation of freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.” NAACP v. Alabama (1958).
“Inviolability of privacy in group association may in many circumstances be indispensable to preservation of freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.” NAACP v. Alabama (1958).
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Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can’t Decrypt the Results.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Under NAACP v. Alabama, an organization has a 1A right to associational privacy of its members.
“We think that the production order… must be regarded as entailing the likelihood of a substantial restraint upon the exercise by petitioner's members of their right to freedom of association.”
“We think that the production order… must be regarded as entailing the likelihood of a substantial restraint upon the exercise by petitioner's members of their right to freedom of association.”
The government, in going after Penn to "fight antisemitism," has asked for "a list of members of Jewish-related campus groups and the names of employees in the school's Jewish Studies Program."
We do not believe that turning over lists of Jews is helpful to the fight against antisemitism.
We do not believe that turning over lists of Jews is helpful to the fight against antisemitism.
www.reuters.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Under NAACP v. Alabama, an organization has a 1A right to associational privacy of its members.
“We think that the production order… must be regarded as entailing the likelihood of a substantial restraint upon the exercise by petitioner's members of their right to freedom of association.”
“We think that the production order… must be regarded as entailing the likelihood of a substantial restraint upon the exercise by petitioner's members of their right to freedom of association.”
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what i suspect here is that for Trump himself, accusations of fascism are viewed as "keyfabe" by either side
During his visit to the White House, NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani was asked about a recent interview in which he called President Trump a fascist. Mamdani began to answer the question before Trump jokingly cut him off.
November 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
what i suspect here is that for Trump himself, accusations of fascism are viewed as "keyfabe" by either side
DONALD TRUMP FIVE MINUTES AFTER MEETING ME: It’s called the “Machete Order.” Mach-et-ay. Match-ET-hey. They say it makes Anakin and Luke’s stories a beautiful thing, a beautiful thing. Also Han shot first. Nobody shoots faster than that guy. And we’re going to be looking very closely at JJ…
DONALD TRUMP FOVE MINUTES AFTER MEETING ME: There's this character, they're called heroes in the game, can you believe that? Not characters but heroes. I like that. Anyways there's this hero, H-E-R-O, named Kiriko and they're saying she's unfair. She's got a cleanse, can you believe that? Unbelie...
DONALD TRUMP FIVE MINUTES AFTER MEETING ME: You know they're saying Sylvester McCoy is an underrated Doctor, and you know, maybe there's something in it. A lot of great stories in those last years. A lot of great stories. Year four of the Cartmel years would have been something special, folks.
November 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
DONALD TRUMP FIVE MINUTES AFTER MEETING ME: It’s called the “Machete Order.” Mach-et-ay. Match-ET-hey. They say it makes Anakin and Luke’s stories a beautiful thing, a beautiful thing. Also Han shot first. Nobody shoots faster than that guy. And we’re going to be looking very closely at JJ…
18 USC 241 — Conspiracy to deprive civil rights.
18 USC 242 — Deprivation of constitutional rights under color of law.
42 USC 1985 — Conspiracy to obstruct justice, deprive civil rights, or *hinder state officials in providing equal protection of the law.*
Plus regular state torts and crimes.
18 USC 242 — Deprivation of constitutional rights under color of law.
42 USC 1985 — Conspiracy to obstruct justice, deprive civil rights, or *hinder state officials in providing equal protection of the law.*
Plus regular state torts and crimes.
America 2025.
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
18 USC 241 — Conspiracy to deprive civil rights.
18 USC 242 — Deprivation of constitutional rights under color of law.
42 USC 1985 — Conspiracy to obstruct justice, deprive civil rights, or *hinder state officials in providing equal protection of the law.*
Plus regular state torts and crimes.
18 USC 242 — Deprivation of constitutional rights under color of law.
42 USC 1985 — Conspiracy to obstruct justice, deprive civil rights, or *hinder state officials in providing equal protection of the law.*
Plus regular state torts and crimes.
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This is conspiracy theory stuff. China doesn’t need to spy on baby monitors to know what Americans are doing. They can just open Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, or one of the many apps that Americans use to share the kind of information that two generations ago couldn’t be waterboarded out of them.
HINSON: As a mom, I think about watching a baby monitor. That's a very intimate moment with your baby and to think the Chinese could be spying on your morning routine
BARTIROMO: Why are they spying on moms?
HINSON: They just want to know what Americans are up to to undermine our way of life
BARTIROMO: Why are they spying on moms?
HINSON: They just want to know what Americans are up to to undermine our way of life
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This is conspiracy theory stuff. China doesn’t need to spy on baby monitors to know what Americans are doing. They can just open Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, or one of the many apps that Americans use to share the kind of information that two generations ago couldn’t be waterboarded out of them.
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Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records
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Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records - Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School's Nuremberg Trials Project has finalized the first complete, keyword searchable online collection of more than 750,000 pages of Nazi war tribunal documents.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records
hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...
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