Jesse Bachir
@drfreedom.bsky.social
Dr [of the philosophy of] freedom. Yes, it does sound like a Marvel villain.
Do-er of philosophy & law (US & UK) | BA, LLB, AM, PhD | Research freedom & free expression | Republicanism/non-domination | Constitutional lawyer(?) | 🏳️🌈 | he/him | 🏳️⚧️ rights!
Do-er of philosophy & law (US & UK) | BA, LLB, AM, PhD | Research freedom & free expression | Republicanism/non-domination | Constitutional lawyer(?) | 🏳️🌈 | he/him | 🏳️⚧️ rights!
Hey, this is what actual fascism look like. It's happening, in the US.
-- signed, someone with expertise in this exact area of philosophy.
-- signed, someone with expertise in this exact area of philosophy.
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Hey, this is what actual fascism look like. It's happening, in the US.
-- signed, someone with expertise in this exact area of philosophy.
-- signed, someone with expertise in this exact area of philosophy.
The Democratic Party, yet again, demonstrating its weakness and inability to supply essential policy around healthcare.
*sigh*
Ending the shutdown now translates to: we did this for nothing. No policy gains have been made.
*sigh*
Ending the shutdown now translates to: we did this for nothing. No policy gains have been made.
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The Democratic Party, yet again, demonstrating its weakness and inability to supply essential policy around healthcare.
*sigh*
Ending the shutdown now translates to: we did this for nothing. No policy gains have been made.
*sigh*
Ending the shutdown now translates to: we did this for nothing. No policy gains have been made.
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This is not the country we should be.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This is not the country we should be.
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They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs.
www.vogue.com/article/teen...
www.vogue.com/article/teen...
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs.
www.vogue.com/article/teen...
www.vogue.com/article/teen...
Yes.
And I feel like the positivists are getting tired of this point: entrenchment is achieved because of internal point of view and rules of recognition. Not because text somewhere says something.
B/c of this, of course it’s conceptually possible to achieve kinds of entrenchment outside of
And I feel like the positivists are getting tired of this point: entrenchment is achieved because of internal point of view and rules of recognition. Not because text somewhere says something.
B/c of this, of course it’s conceptually possible to achieve kinds of entrenchment outside of
However, what that requires is that a majority of the officials of the system - and particularly a majority of senior officials, including judges - 'go along' with Parliament's attempt to 'self-entrench' legislation (what this means in the post below). /3
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2022/12/19/v...
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2022/12/19/v...
October 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Yes.
And I feel like the positivists are getting tired of this point: entrenchment is achieved because of internal point of view and rules of recognition. Not because text somewhere says something.
B/c of this, of course it’s conceptually possible to achieve kinds of entrenchment outside of
And I feel like the positivists are getting tired of this point: entrenchment is achieved because of internal point of view and rules of recognition. Not because text somewhere says something.
B/c of this, of course it’s conceptually possible to achieve kinds of entrenchment outside of
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close the law schools
October 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
close the law schools
This is certainly grim, and undoubtedly an accurate assessment of the government's attitude towards Universities.
*sigh*
*sigh*
So I've been reading the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper. There's some good things in there. But when it comes to universities there's very little to cheer. The situation is very tough and will get worse. The last chance to preserve what we've got has passed. Let me explain why. (1/?)
October 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is certainly grim, and undoubtedly an accurate assessment of the government's attitude towards Universities.
*sigh*
*sigh*
Students in my classes this year have used the US as an example of backsliding & authoritarian imagery in various ways, especially with reference to ICE.
Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.
October 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Students in my classes this year have used the US as an example of backsliding & authoritarian imagery in various ways, especially with reference to ICE.
This is.... crazy. 🙃
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
This is.... crazy. 🙃
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Reporters were seen exiting the Pentagon and vacating their workspaces in the building on Wednesday after most news organizations rejected the Defense Department's new press rules and refused to sign documents acknowledging the policy.
October 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Reporters were seen exiting the Pentagon and vacating their workspaces in the building on Wednesday after most news organizations rejected the Defense Department's new press rules and refused to sign documents acknowledging the policy.
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For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’
Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
The disconnect between arriving in the US seeing all the “welcome” messages in different languages, displaying flags from various counties, etc.
To then going through TSA screening seeing posters advertising self-deportation on a free flight + $1,000
Is certainly an incredibly stark contrast.
To then going through TSA screening seeing posters advertising self-deportation on a free flight + $1,000
Is certainly an incredibly stark contrast.
October 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The disconnect between arriving in the US seeing all the “welcome” messages in different languages, displaying flags from various counties, etc.
To then going through TSA screening seeing posters advertising self-deportation on a free flight + $1,000
Is certainly an incredibly stark contrast.
To then going through TSA screening seeing posters advertising self-deportation on a free flight + $1,000
Is certainly an incredibly stark contrast.
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It’s an insane world where militarizing your own civilian streets and ordering extrajudicial murders on the high seas doesn’t get you a prize.
October 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
It’s an insane world where militarizing your own civilian streets and ordering extrajudicial murders on the high seas doesn’t get you a prize.
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Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.
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October 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.
Remember Legal Positivism 101: Rule of law works only to the extent that those in positions of power have accepted an internal point of view with rule of law as a relevant condition of the system. Legal entrenchment can go no further than such an internal viewpoint.
If leaders are elected that 1/
If leaders are elected that 1/
October 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Remember Legal Positivism 101: Rule of law works only to the extent that those in positions of power have accepted an internal point of view with rule of law as a relevant condition of the system. Legal entrenchment can go no further than such an internal viewpoint.
If leaders are elected that 1/
If leaders are elected that 1/
Statutes give judges non-judicial functions for judicial review.
Yes. Mhmmm.
Yes. Mhmmm.
So the argument is that Congress giving *judges* this power ≠ Congress giving *courts* this power?
Umm…
Umm…
October 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Statutes give judges non-judicial functions for judicial review.
Yes. Mhmmm.
Yes. Mhmmm.
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If I were an investigative journalist in the UK (are there any left?), I would be having a good look at the extent to which NHS leadership seems to have allied itself with a fringe medical movement that more or less condones conversion therapy. qnews.com.au/australian-r...
Australian report says UK’s Cass review should not guide transgender healthcare
QNews LGBTIQA+ News
qnews.com.au
October 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
If I were an investigative journalist in the UK (are there any left?), I would be having a good look at the extent to which NHS leadership seems to have allied itself with a fringe medical movement that more or less condones conversion therapy. qnews.com.au/australian-r...
Who can look at the authoritarian tactics and lawlessness of ICE and think: we need that here?
ICE dragged children into the street in the middle of the night in Chicago. Ransacked people’s homes. And Badendoch thinks that’s a *good* idea?
ICE dragged children into the street in the middle of the night in Chicago. Ransacked people’s homes. And Badendoch thinks that’s a *good* idea?
Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice
Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Who can look at the authoritarian tactics and lawlessness of ICE and think: we need that here?
ICE dragged children into the street in the middle of the night in Chicago. Ransacked people’s homes. And Badendoch thinks that’s a *good* idea?
ICE dragged children into the street in the middle of the night in Chicago. Ransacked people’s homes. And Badendoch thinks that’s a *good* idea?
I look forward to seeing the “emerging scholarship” — that most definitely exists and isn’t currently being written by just him right now — on this point.
We don’t have to carry water for dictators. Just my thought.
October 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I look forward to seeing the “emerging scholarship” — that most definitely exists and isn’t currently being written by just him right now — on this point.
Labour appears more interested in silencing dissent, than listening to voters.
Even if we take the argument seriously that protest is disruptive — that’s kind of the point. Historic social movements have been achieved with disruptive protest. Labour seems uninterested in history or social change
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Even if we take the argument seriously that protest is disruptive — that’s kind of the point. Historic social movements have been achieved with disruptive protest. Labour seems uninterested in history or social change
🧵
Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office
Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Labour appears more interested in silencing dissent, than listening to voters.
Even if we take the argument seriously that protest is disruptive — that’s kind of the point. Historic social movements have been achieved with disruptive protest. Labour seems uninterested in history or social change
🧵
Even if we take the argument seriously that protest is disruptive — that’s kind of the point. Historic social movements have been achieved with disruptive protest. Labour seems uninterested in history or social change
🧵
Flag burning is constitutionally protected speech.
Oh he can just unilaterally pass unconstitutional laws now huh ok
October 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Flag burning is constitutionally protected speech.
This isn’t a wait list; it’s a fundamental failure and a denial of self-determination.
In Glasgow, there is a 224-year waiting list for gender clinic appointments.
224 YEARS.
This is institutionalised discrimination. It's unacceptable, it's ruining people's lives and it needs to change.
We have the solution. Time for politicians to act.
224 YEARS.
This is institutionalised discrimination. It's unacceptable, it's ruining people's lives and it needs to change.
We have the solution. Time for politicians to act.
October 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This isn’t a wait list; it’s a fundamental failure and a denial of self-determination.
Fundamentally unconstitutional and jeopardises the future of academia.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Trump’s proposed “compact” with nine major universities “is extortion, plain and simple,” Erwin Chemerinsky writes in a guest essay. “It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it.”
Trump’s proposed “compact” with nine major universities “is extortion, plain and simple,” Erwin Chemerinsky writes in a guest essay. “It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it.”
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
There seems to be no limit to the president’s odious attempts to control higher education.
nyti.ms
October 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Fundamentally unconstitutional and jeopardises the future of academia.
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Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…
October 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…
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The admin’s efforts to get universities to agree to a list of demands in exchange for preferential access to federal funding isn’t just “troubling” as Ted Mitchell, prez of the @aceducation.bsky.social says in this article; it looks blatantly unconstitutional.🧵
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The admin’s efforts to get universities to agree to a list of demands in exchange for preferential access to federal funding isn’t just “troubling” as Ted Mitchell, prez of the @aceducation.bsky.social says in this article; it looks blatantly unconstitutional.🧵
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...