Joshua Michelangelo Stein, Ph.D.
@joshuastein.bsky.social
Boies Schiller Flexner Litigation Partner (but this account is my personal account and views expressed here are my personal views).
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oh my god, The Tweet is exactly ten years old tonight
![screenshot of a Justin Klugh tweet from October 28, 2015:
JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
BUCK: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
BUCK: oh god yes](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t2bjwvguncd35fna7ruckjtw/bafkreiczbp37nmuosnvgyrbv3nfdxupczam3ezjeri5cpio36htjuyiisy@jpeg)
October 28, 2025 at 5:25 AM
oh my god, The Tweet is exactly ten years old tonight
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What is the Times doing calling this extrajudicial murder spree “cartel strikes”? On what evidence do they ape the killers’ propaganda?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
Trump Says He Will Not Seek Authorization for Cartel Strikes
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:07 AM
What is the Times doing calling this extrajudicial murder spree “cartel strikes”? On what evidence do they ape the killers’ propaganda?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
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We have not been under rule of law since SCOTUS ruled in Trump v USA against USA
I think at this point it’s fair to say that we’re no longer under the rule of law.
Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:26 AM
We have not been under rule of law since SCOTUS ruled in Trump v USA against USA
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."
The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."
The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
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hey this is fun
And congratulations to @jamellebouie.net for winning the American Historical Association's Tikkun Olam Prize for promoting public historical literacy www.historians.org/award-grant/...
Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy – AHA
The Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy honors individuals whose work has promoted literacy in public culture.
www.historians.org
October 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
hey this is fun
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It's fascinating to watch originalists insist that the intention of the Founders was to create an all-powerful executive with near-plenary authority over the entire government only a few years after fighting the American Revolution
October 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
It's fascinating to watch originalists insist that the intention of the Founders was to create an all-powerful executive with near-plenary authority over the entire government only a few years after fighting the American Revolution
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The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.
October 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.
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Every Democrat at every level of office must denounce this madness Monday morning. Has to be huge outcry. We need to be incredibly loud.
We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.
October 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Every Democrat at every level of office must denounce this madness Monday morning. Has to be huge outcry. We need to be incredibly loud.
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In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
September 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
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Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.
My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.
a.co/d/29c7EIP
My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.
a.co/d/29c7EIP
September 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.
My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.
a.co/d/29c7EIP
My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.
a.co/d/29c7EIP
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Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."
September 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."
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This is an interesting piece. It makes me mourn for the time when we could think judges worried mostly about following the law and could assume that the executive would mostly follow it. But if you assume judges are thinking in this way, the options in this essay are just the start. Here's more:
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Just posted a new essay with @williambaude.bsky.social and Sam Bray -
"Remedies for a Constitutional Crisis" (forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review).
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"Remedies for a Constitutional Crisis" (forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review).
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Remedies for a Constitutional Crisis
<p><span>In a crisis of authority, where it is unclear whether executive officials will comply with judicial decisions, the courts may seem to have limited reme
papers.ssrn.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This is an interesting piece. It makes me mourn for the time when we could think judges worried mostly about following the law and could assume that the executive would mostly follow it. But if you assume judges are thinking in this way, the options in this essay are just the start. Here's more:
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We can dunk on Silver. But the folks wildly hyping Adams in 2021-22 included Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden. The desire for a prominent BLACK politician who was pro-police and hostile to the BLM movement was broadly shared within elite Dem circles. They ignored obvious signs he was corrupt and inept.
September 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
We can dunk on Silver. But the folks wildly hyping Adams in 2021-22 included Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden. The desire for a prominent BLACK politician who was pro-police and hostile to the BLM movement was broadly shared within elite Dem circles. They ignored obvious signs he was corrupt and inept.
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Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.
September 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.
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Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats.
The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit
The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit
September 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats.
The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit
The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit
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Serious question: what does it matter that Trump is polling in the 30s unless and until an organized and mobilized opposition prevails in free and fair elections?
I think we should also ridicule Miller here, not fear him. His fascist cosplay is absurd. He thinks tweeting in a clipped, military-sounding tone will frighten us. Oooo, he said "utilized"! Scary! Meanwhile their efforts to prosecute foes are imploding in buffoonery and Trump is polling in the 30s.
After Miller tweeted that calling ICE is "incitement to violence," I directly asked Bannon if this means the government will be unleashed on groups that describe ICE that way. "Yes," Bannon told me, adding that Miller is "in charge." You can read that exchange in this link: bsky.app/profile/greg...
September 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Serious question: what does it matter that Trump is polling in the 30s unless and until an organized and mobilized opposition prevails in free and fair elections?
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you probably need to be of a certain vintage to understand the absolute hilarity of ken starr being in the epstein files
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
you probably need to be of a certain vintage to understand the absolute hilarity of ken starr being in the epstein files
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The financial economy is immersed in the kind of wild gambling we saw leading up to the 2008 financial crisis.
We’re seeing it all over again — this time with crypto, meme stocks, junk bonds, and investors pumping up shares of AI stocks without knowing what it is.
Be warned.
We’re seeing it all over again — this time with crypto, meme stocks, junk bonds, and investors pumping up shares of AI stocks without knowing what it is.
Be warned.
September 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The financial economy is immersed in the kind of wild gambling we saw leading up to the 2008 financial crisis.
We’re seeing it all over again — this time with crypto, meme stocks, junk bonds, and investors pumping up shares of AI stocks without knowing what it is.
Be warned.
We’re seeing it all over again — this time with crypto, meme stocks, junk bonds, and investors pumping up shares of AI stocks without knowing what it is.
Be warned.
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1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
September 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
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/5 Of course, the case isn’t being brought with an expectation of winning. It’s illegitimately brought to punish an enemy by a dishonest totalitarian regime. The process is the punishment.
September 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
/5 Of course, the case isn’t being brought with an expectation of winning. It’s illegitimately brought to punish an enemy by a dishonest totalitarian regime. The process is the punishment.
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the Wounded Knee Massacre, as described in Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America:
Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (2023)
Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (2023)
September 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
the Wounded Knee Massacre, as described in Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America:
Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (2023)
Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (2023)
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In perhaps related news, upon the Democratic victory in AZ special election tonight the U.S. House now has the needed 218 signatures on a discharge petition to force a floor vote on the release of the Epstein Files
“I can't believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled!”
September 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
In perhaps related news, upon the Democratic victory in AZ special election tonight the U.S. House now has the needed 218 signatures on a discharge petition to force a floor vote on the release of the Epstein Files
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For our October issue I wrote about the Roberts Court for its 20th anniversary, how it helped lead us to the current crisis, and what should be done about it:
The Roberts Court Is Winning Its War on American Democracy
Chief Justice John Roberts has now overseen 20 years of increasingly illiberal rulings by the Supreme Court.
newrepublic.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
For our October issue I wrote about the Roberts Court for its 20th anniversary, how it helped lead us to the current crisis, and what should be done about it: