Gabe Rusk
@gaberusk.bsky.social
University of Oxford & DU | Research: 1A, press freedom, media law, legal history, art law, & journalism. | Pottery, tea, cooking, art, & Buddhism on the side. 🏳️🌈 www.freepressforall.org
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The Vanity Fair photographer with a lot more courage than many titans industry and brokers of power
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
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Holy. Shit.
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December 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The Vanity Fair photographer with a lot more courage than many titans industry and brokers of power
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Parody of America to have the president live-tweeting misinformation about a mass shooting
December 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Parody of America to have the president live-tweeting misinformation about a mass shooting
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What a world we live in that while extracting the Nobel Peace Prize winner from a despotic Venezuela her team were legitimately concerned the US would accidentally bomb them. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
December 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
What a world we live in that while extracting the Nobel Peace Prize winner from a despotic Venezuela her team were legitimately concerned the US would accidentally bomb them. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
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If you’re not white make sure you carry your fucking freedom papers with you bsky.app/profile/radl...
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
If you’re not white make sure you carry your fucking freedom papers with you bsky.app/profile/radl...
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fucking yikes! internal movement controls are a sign of an increasing authoritarian state.
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
fucking yikes! internal movement controls are a sign of an increasing authoritarian state.
What a world we live in that while extracting the Nobel Peace Prize winner from a despotic Venezuela her team were legitimately concerned the US would accidentally bomb them. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
December 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
What a world we live in that while extracting the Nobel Peace Prize winner from a despotic Venezuela her team were legitimately concerned the US would accidentally bomb them. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
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FTC's Gabe Roth has filed a complaint against CA3 Judge Emil Bove for attending last night's Trump rally in Pa., since refraining from political activity — & from the start, this was clearly a political rally — is a foundational part of judges' Code of Conduct: fixthecourt.com/wp-content/u....
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December 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
FTC's Gabe Roth has filed a complaint against CA3 Judge Emil Bove for attending last night's Trump rally in Pa., since refraining from political activity — & from the start, this was clearly a political rally — is a foundational part of judges' Code of Conduct: fixthecourt.com/wp-content/u....
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Reporting goals, right here.
"Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud." 👀
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Reporting goals, right here.
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Amicus brief from the Cato Institute, Dale Carpenter and Eugene Volokh urges full Fifth Circuit to affirm panel ruling that president of West Texas A&M violated the First Amendment when he ordered a drag show canceled, citing the show's purportedly "objectionable message." @cato.org
Geese, Ganders, and Pterodactyls: Amicus Brief in Fifth Circuit En Banc Rehearing of West Texas A&M Drag Ban Case
From a brief filed yesterday by Joshua J. Bennett (Baker & Hostetler LLP) on behalf of Dale Carpenter, the Cato...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Amicus brief from the Cato Institute, Dale Carpenter and Eugene Volokh urges full Fifth Circuit to affirm panel ruling that president of West Texas A&M violated the First Amendment when he ordered a drag show canceled, citing the show's purportedly "objectionable message." @cato.org
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huge W for heidegger and the existentialists, honestly
I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
December 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
huge W for heidegger and the existentialists, honestly
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Quibbling over the semantics of the second tap also runs the risk of suggesting that the first tap was something other than murder.
“Quibbling over the semantics of ‘double-tap’ doesn’t change the reality that the strike was a summary execution of men clinging to the remains of a boat.”
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Department of War Disputes Second Attack on Boat Strike Survivors Was a “Double-Tap”
Facing scrutiny for killing survivors of an initial boat strike, the Department of War is attempting to distance itself from a controversial military tactic.
theintercept.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Quibbling over the semantics of the second tap also runs the risk of suggesting that the first tap was something other than murder.
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Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
November 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
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A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 3:02 AM
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
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The cruelty is the point and they don't take a break from it even during Thanksgiving and the holidays.
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The cruelty is the point and they don't take a break from it even during Thanksgiving and the holidays.
This is who the Washington Post capitulated to. Khashoggi dies in darkness.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This is who the Washington Post capitulated to. Khashoggi dies in darkness.
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Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
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this has really gotten buried, but the president called a reporter "piggy" for asking a question about Epstein files people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:18 AM
this has really gotten buried, but the president called a reporter "piggy" for asking a question about Epstein files people.com/donald-trump...
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The U.S. intelligence community concluded Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the killing and dismemberment of a Post columnist, making President Trump's formal dinner for the prince on Tuesday a dramatic step in public rehabilitation. https://wapo.st/3LOwEFn
November 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The U.S. intelligence community concluded Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the killing and dismemberment of a Post columnist, making President Trump's formal dinner for the prince on Tuesday a dramatic step in public rehabilitation. https://wapo.st/3LOwEFn
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Given what we’ve seen on America’s streets, it’s worth repeating what the court says here:
Needlessly pointing a firearm at someone can violate the Fourth Amendment, even if the officer never pulls the trigger.
Needlessly pointing a firearm at someone can violate the Fourth Amendment, even if the officer never pulls the trigger.
Fourth Circuit publishes an opinion to make a point that otherwise would go unseen.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Given what we’ve seen on America’s streets, it’s worth repeating what the court says here:
Needlessly pointing a firearm at someone can violate the Fourth Amendment, even if the officer never pulls the trigger.
Needlessly pointing a firearm at someone can violate the Fourth Amendment, even if the officer never pulls the trigger.
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People who make primary source documents easily accessible to the public are the best
Thank you @paulgp.com
Thank you @paulgp.com
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
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Epstein Document Search
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November 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
People who make primary source documents easily accessible to the public are the best
Thank you @paulgp.com
Thank you @paulgp.com
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The Supreme Court had three religious freedom cases last Term. With @richschragger.bsky.social and @nelsontebbe.bsky.social, our latest comments on them, extending our analysis of religious preferentialism under the First Amendment.
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The Structure of Religious Preference - Harvard Law Review
A revolution has occurred in the law of religious freedom. At this point, the picture is reasonably clear. The Supreme Court has greatly expanded the scope of the Free Exercise Clause.
harvardlawreview.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The Supreme Court had three religious freedom cases last Term. With @richschragger.bsky.social and @nelsontebbe.bsky.social, our latest comments on them, extending our analysis of religious preferentialism under the First Amendment.
harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
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Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
The First Amendment Won’t Go Quietly
Welcome to the third Red Scare.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
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Law Profs teaching First Amendment: I have put together a FREE, recently updated, and easy to use casebook for use in free speech classes. If you are interested in using such a casebook, send me an email or DM and I would be happy to share!
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Law Profs teaching First Amendment: I have put together a FREE, recently updated, and easy to use casebook for use in free speech classes. If you are interested in using such a casebook, send me an email or DM and I would be happy to share!
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM