Gautam Hans
@gshans.bsky.social
Clinical Professor, Cornell Law School. That brown gay law prof who bakes, makes ice cream & laughs too loud. Tech law & policy, con law, clinical education, and screaming into the void. Not the best but pretty good. Always MI ✋🏾
Can't decide among these three as for my favorite Garak moment:
• him and Quark on root beer
• "You'd shoot a man in the back?" "Well, it's the safest way."
• interpreting the moral of the boy who cried wolf as being "never tell the same lie twice."
• him and Quark on root beer
• "You'd shoot a man in the back?" "Well, it's the safest way."
• interpreting the moral of the boy who cried wolf as being "never tell the same lie twice."
This is what plays him off so interestingly against a character like Garak, who considers himself a patriot working for a great good (as he might define it) but does not believe on any level, even for a second, that he's actually a misunderstood good person
December 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Can't decide among these three as for my favorite Garak moment:
• him and Quark on root beer
• "You'd shoot a man in the back?" "Well, it's the safest way."
• interpreting the moral of the boy who cried wolf as being "never tell the same lie twice."
• him and Quark on root beer
• "You'd shoot a man in the back?" "Well, it's the safest way."
• interpreting the moral of the boy who cried wolf as being "never tell the same lie twice."
Reposted by Gautam Hans
“We are sold the myth that the language of legality is preferable to the language of morality because it is impartial and fixed. But as this whole dispute makes plain, that is least apt to be true precisely when it matters most.”
Joseph Margulies on Trump’s murders in the Caribbean:
Joseph Margulies on Trump’s murders in the Caribbean:
The Moral Stupefaction of the American Public - Boston Review
Trump’s actions are illegal, yes. Worse than that, they are wrong—precisely what the legality debate is meant to obscure.
www.bostonreview.net
December 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“We are sold the myth that the language of legality is preferable to the language of morality because it is impartial and fixed. But as this whole dispute makes plain, that is least apt to be true precisely when it matters most.”
Joseph Margulies on Trump’s murders in the Caribbean:
Joseph Margulies on Trump’s murders in the Caribbean:
Reposted by Gautam Hans
NEW: The Supreme Court will once again consider the legality of Trump's attack on birthright citizenship, this time (likely) on the merits.
December 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
NEW: The Supreme Court will once again consider the legality of Trump's attack on birthright citizenship, this time (likely) on the merits.
Reposted by Gautam Hans
NPR fights Trump's executive order against public media
The case isn't getting much attention.
But it pits the press's right not to face government retaliation over coverage against the president's assertion of vast executive powers
My story:
www.npr.org/2025/12/05/g...
The case isn't getting much attention.
But it pits the press's right not to face government retaliation over coverage against the president's assertion of vast executive powers
My story:
www.npr.org/2025/12/05/g...
NPR battles Trump executive order in court
NPR was in court for a pivotal hearing arguing that the Trump administration had broken the law with its treatment of public media.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
NPR fights Trump's executive order against public media
The case isn't getting much attention.
But it pits the press's right not to face government retaliation over coverage against the president's assertion of vast executive powers
My story:
www.npr.org/2025/12/05/g...
The case isn't getting much attention.
But it pits the press's right not to face government retaliation over coverage against the president's assertion of vast executive powers
My story:
www.npr.org/2025/12/05/g...
One need only read Isgur’s Wikipedia to determine how much credence to give her views.
The idea that what looks like the Supreme Court's GOP partisanship is actually a master plan to reinvigorate Congress is the most ridiculous, clueless thing I have read in a long time. (And I read the NY Times op-ed page regularly, so that's saying something.) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Opinion | Actually, the Supreme Court Has a Plan
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
One need only read Isgur’s Wikipedia to determine how much credence to give her views.
Thinking today, for truly no real reason, of this wonderful Marie Howe poem “What the Living Do”, from the collection of that title.
“I’m speechless:
I am living. I remember you.”
poets.org/poem/what-li...
“I’m speechless:
I am living. I remember you.”
poets.org/poem/what-li...
What the Living Do
Johnny, the kitchen sink has been clogged for days, some utensil probably fell down there
poets.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Thinking today, for truly no real reason, of this wonderful Marie Howe poem “What the Living Do”, from the collection of that title.
“I’m speechless:
I am living. I remember you.”
poets.org/poem/what-li...
“I’m speechless:
I am living. I remember you.”
poets.org/poem/what-li...
Reposted by Gautam Hans
cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans
Same as it ever was
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has permitted Texas to keep its newly redistricted, GOP-favorable congressional map in 2026.
Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson dissent.
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson dissent.
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
December 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Same as it ever was
Reposted by Gautam Hans
do I have these numbers right:
SCt appointments since 1976:
GOP - 10
Dem - 5
Presidential terms since 1976
GOP - 6
Dem - 6
SCt appointments since 1976:
GOP - 10
Dem - 5
Presidential terms since 1976
GOP - 6
Dem - 6
December 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
do I have these numbers right:
SCt appointments since 1976:
GOP - 10
Dem - 5
Presidential terms since 1976
GOP - 6
Dem - 6
SCt appointments since 1976:
GOP - 10
Dem - 5
Presidential terms since 1976
GOP - 6
Dem - 6
Whiteness ascendant even in the Pantone prediction markets.
Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is technically not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year
We did not see that coming.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Whiteness ascendant even in the Pantone prediction markets.
I had my clinic students over tonight for our end of the year party and they got me to reveal my Apple Music year in review. For self-preservation reasons I only told them my top two artists, but admitted: “Well, I’m definitely an aging gay millennial: it’s Father John Misty and Sabrina Carpenter.”
December 4, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I had my clinic students over tonight for our end of the year party and they got me to reveal my Apple Music year in review. For self-preservation reasons I only told them my top two artists, but admitted: “Well, I’m definitely an aging gay millennial: it’s Father John Misty and Sabrina Carpenter.”
Every moment when I wonder “what will it take?” I have to remind myself “the limit does not exist.”
here's Trump's full racist rant about MN's Somali community: "Somalians ripped off that state for billions. And they contribute nothing... Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work... They come from hell & do nothing but bitch. We don't want them"
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Every moment when I wonder “what will it take?” I have to remind myself “the limit does not exist.”
Don Draper would never.
"If this is where we wanted to end up, we all did everything perfectly.” - Lane Pryce
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
"If this is where we wanted to end up, we all did everything perfectly.” - Lane Pryce
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
‘Mad Men’ Hits HBO Max With Errors; Episodes Featuring Crew Members in Shots to Be Corrected
Lionsgate will deliver a corrected version of the "Mad Men" 4K episodes, after errors were accidentally uploaded to the service instead.
variety.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Don Draper would never.
"If this is where we wanted to end up, we all did everything perfectly.” - Lane Pryce
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
"If this is where we wanted to end up, we all did everything perfectly.” - Lane Pryce
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
What would Joe Kahn say?
editing out xenophobia, a perfectly descriptive word for trump's behavior, now makes the times look craven. wtf.
Lol
December 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
What would Joe Kahn say?
What comes first — an adaptation of "The Power Broker" or Volume 5 of Caro's LBJ series?
December 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
What comes first — an adaptation of "The Power Broker" or Volume 5 of Caro's LBJ series?
This is a piece that would be more offensive if it were better written. Key terms not defined: “cancelled”, “we”.
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is a piece that would be more offensive if it were better written. Key terms not defined: “cancelled”, “we”.
Reposted by Gautam Hans
Once again, “cancelled” just means “subsidized by the media and culture infrastructure that still has robust funding”.
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Once again, “cancelled” just means “subsidized by the media and culture infrastructure that still has robust funding”.
I still remember a staging of “Arcadia” my freshman year at Columbia (I believe @egoetschius.bsky.social worked on that one!) that was mind-blowing. What a writer! RIP to a true legend.
November 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I still remember a staging of “Arcadia” my freshman year at Columbia (I believe @egoetschius.bsky.social worked on that one!) that was mind-blowing. What a writer! RIP to a true legend.
Reposted by Gautam Hans
or ideological reasons. The feds acted like thugs here, which is precisely why the answer should have been to fight in court, like Harvard did and like the faculty independently did (and won!) in the UC system. I wrote an op-ed to this effect last month: dailynorthwestern.com/2025/10/29/o... 4/4
Opinion | NU AAUP Dispatches: It’s time to take the Trump Administration to court
Opinion Contributor Prof. Heidi Kitrosser discusses how Northwestern should respond to funding freezes by the Trump Administration.
dailynorthwestern.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
or ideological reasons. The feds acted like thugs here, which is precisely why the answer should have been to fight in court, like Harvard did and like the faculty independently did (and won!) in the UC system. I wrote an op-ed to this effect last month: dailynorthwestern.com/2025/10/29/o... 4/4
Reposted by Gautam Hans
Reposted by Gautam Hans
I have a new Jotwell review of Tejas N. Narechania & Scott Shenker's _How to Save the Internet_, a really nice law/CS collaboration on Internet architecture policy.
article: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
review: cyber.jotwell.com/the-edge-of-...
article: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
review: cyber.jotwell.com/the-edge-of-...
The Edge of Tomorrow - Technology Law
Tejas N. Narechania & Scott Shenker, How to Save the Internet, __ Berkeley Tech. L.J. __ (forthcoming), available at SSRN (Mar. 18, 2025).James GrimmelmannEvery time I teach Internet Law, I start by l...
cyber.jotwell.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I have a new Jotwell review of Tejas N. Narechania & Scott Shenker's _How to Save the Internet_, a really nice law/CS collaboration on Internet architecture policy.
article: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
review: cyber.jotwell.com/the-edge-of-...
article: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
review: cyber.jotwell.com/the-edge-of-...
Reposted by Gautam Hans
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“I have found myself increasingly convinced that the best way to help people facing catastrophe is to support local organizations working closest to them on the ground,” our columnist Lydia Polgreen writes. “And, whenever possible, give those people money directly.”
“I have found myself increasingly convinced that the best way to help people facing catastrophe is to support local organizations working closest to them on the ground,” our columnist Lydia Polgreen writes. “And, whenever possible, give those people money directly.”
Opinion | Donate This Holiday Season: The World’s Poorest People Need Your Help
With suffering everywhere, give directly to those most in need and help those around you.
nyti.ms
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“I have found myself increasingly convinced that the best way to help people facing catastrophe is to support local organizations working closest to them on the ground,” our columnist Lydia Polgreen writes. “And, whenever possible, give those people money directly.”
“I have found myself increasingly convinced that the best way to help people facing catastrophe is to support local organizations working closest to them on the ground,” our columnist Lydia Polgreen writes. “And, whenever possible, give those people money directly.”
Reposted by Gautam Hans
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
"Modern dentistry is great. But your dentist doesn’t insist you worship him.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
"Modern dentistry is great. But your dentist doesn’t insist you worship him.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
Every year when I have to recall that Maureen Dowd exists and has a brother, I wonder what I have done to deserve this...
The worst annual event in American journalism. I refuse to click on this
November 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Every year when I have to recall that Maureen Dowd exists and has a brother, I wonder what I have done to deserve this...