Join me today on Thinking Live for a conversation with Lawrence Lessig on Super PACs and dark money in politics. April 30th, at 3:15 ET, snyder.substack.com, with @lessig.bsky.social
April 30, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Join me today on Thinking Live for a conversation with Lawrence Lessig on Super PACs and dark money in politics. April 30th, at 3:15 ET, snyder.substack.com, with @lessig.bsky.social
outraged essays demanding Trump be put back on in NY Mag (Chait), Slate (Lawrence Lessig), NY Times (Sam Moyn), all leading up to a motherfucking 9-0 Supreme Court decision. worthless
January 20, 2026 at 7:15 PM
outraged essays demanding Trump be put back on in NY Mag (Chait), Slate (Lawrence Lessig), NY Times (Sam Moyn), all leading up to a motherfucking 9-0 Supreme Court decision. worthless
Why can’t Congress stand up to this president? Larry
Lessig says it’s no mystery: we’ve raised a generation of lawmakers who excel at one thing — sucking up to people with money.
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Lessig says it’s no mystery: we’ve raised a generation of lawmakers who excel at one thing — sucking up to people with money.
youtube.com/shorts/e2dNk...
Why Congress Won’t Stand Up to This President — Larry Lessig Explains
YouTube video by The Lever
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November 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Why can’t Congress stand up to this president? Larry
Lessig says it’s no mystery: we’ve raised a generation of lawmakers who excel at one thing — sucking up to people with money.
youtube.com/shorts/e2dNk...
Lessig says it’s no mystery: we’ve raised a generation of lawmakers who excel at one thing — sucking up to people with money.
youtube.com/shorts/e2dNk...
Thanks to Lawrence Lessig for the vivid lesson of how power and privilege work.
September 30, 2023 at 4:20 PM
Thanks to Lawrence Lessig for the vivid lesson of how power and privilege work.
Larry motherfucking Lessig. That's it, that's the tweet.
September 14, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Larry motherfucking Lessig. That's it, that's the tweet.
best I can do is larry lessig
January 31, 2026 at 10:54 PM
best I can do is larry lessig
April 12, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Lawrence Lessig wishing on monkey's paw: "corporations will support remix culture"
I don't think "generative AI" is any good at doing the things it is hyped up as capable of doing, but I don't care to attack it on copyright grounds. I don't see any way to make it a copyright issue that will not end up restricting freedoms I do not want restricted. I will never respect copyright.
April 8, 2026 at 7:03 AM
Lawrence Lessig wishing on monkey's paw: "corporations will support remix culture"
Lawrence Lessig can go fuck himself.
March 6, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Lawrence Lessig can go fuck himself.
From The Free Press: open.substack.com/pub/lessig/p...
April 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
From The Free Press: open.substack.com/pub/lessig/p...
I got to talk to @lessig.bsky.social about what a democratic doge would look like
m.youtube.com/watch?featur...
m.youtube.com/watch?featur...
How Democrats Use DOGE To Win Back Voters w/ Lawrence Lessig & Molly Jong-Fast
YouTube video by Fast Politics w/ Molly Jong-Fast
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March 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I got to talk to @lessig.bsky.social about what a democratic doge would look like
m.youtube.com/watch?featur...
m.youtube.com/watch?featur...
March 1, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Marc Elias. Lawrence Lessig. And the good folks at @mmfa.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Marc Elias. Lawrence Lessig. And the good folks at @mmfa.bsky.social
1/🧵 I’m quite proud to have worked with leading intellectual property law scholars, Lessig, Yu, and Geist. Lessig, in particular, showed me the importance of not overstating one’s case and of understanding the existing law as a foundation for meaningful change.
February 18, 2026 at 10:30 PM
1/🧵 I’m quite proud to have worked with leading intellectual property law scholars, Lessig, Yu, and Geist. Lessig, in particular, showed me the importance of not overstating one’s case and of understanding the existing law as a foundation for meaningful change.
Lawrence Lessig tried this back in the day, using the framing that The Donors™ control access to candidacy
There are several reasons why this did not resonate. One, a Trumpian figure was just theoretical at the time. And two, Lessig himself is about as charismatic as a bowl of cottage cheese.
There are several reasons why this did not resonate. One, a Trumpian figure was just theoretical at the time. And two, Lessig himself is about as charismatic as a bowl of cottage cheese.
The bridge between liberals and socialists lies in Machiavelli, and the political realist tradition more generally: a Republic cannot long endure a class of wealthy notables who undermine it at every single turn.
it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea
but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist
but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist
May 20, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Lawrence Lessig tried this back in the day, using the framing that The Donors™ control access to candidacy
There are several reasons why this did not resonate. One, a Trumpian figure was just theoretical at the time. And two, Lessig himself is about as charismatic as a bowl of cottage cheese.
There are several reasons why this did not resonate. One, a Trumpian figure was just theoretical at the time. And two, Lessig himself is about as charismatic as a bowl of cottage cheese.
Yeah, the logic is not confusing. It's the same as post-CU/SpeechNow Dem super PAC logic from Lessig et al - the court created this system, Dems can't disarm, no way to repeal it unless they take back power (for long enough to flip SCOTUS).
I absolutely can say that the institutions have fallen and the way back is gerrymandering maps to take control of said institutions. I am in fact saying “the institutions have fallen and the way back is gerrymandering maps to take control of said institutions”.
1. This isn’t a Nazi regime, it’s an American one.
2. You cannot say the institutions have fallen and also say the way to fight back is gerrymandering maps so you can take control of said institutions.
2. You cannot say the institutions have fallen and also say the way to fight back is gerrymandering maps so you can take control of said institutions.
August 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Yeah, the logic is not confusing. It's the same as post-CU/SpeechNow Dem super PAC logic from Lessig et al - the court created this system, Dems can't disarm, no way to repeal it unless they take back power (for long enough to flip SCOTUS).
There was a time when Larry Lessig was pushing the concept of "soft corruption," which was actions that everyone looking from the outside would say "that's corrupt," but didn't meet the legal definition.
Point being: such things do real harm to institutional credibility.
Point being: such things do real harm to institutional credibility.
May 23, 2024 at 2:51 PM
There was a time when Larry Lessig was pushing the concept of "soft corruption," which was actions that everyone looking from the outside would say "that's corrupt," but didn't meet the legal definition.
Point being: such things do real harm to institutional credibility.
Point being: such things do real harm to institutional credibility.
Headed to Boston for this panel on AI and disagreement tomorrow at Harvard: the format is based on the 1970s Ethics in America PBS program - likely to be a very lively conversation, moderated by Lawrence Lessig. Join us if you’re in town!
www.ethics.harvard.edu
September 23, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Headed to Boston for this panel on AI and disagreement tomorrow at Harvard: the format is based on the 1970s Ethics in America PBS program - likely to be a very lively conversation, moderated by Lawrence Lessig. Join us if you’re in town!
On settling with an extortionist: open.substack.com/pub/lessig/p...
August 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
On settling with an extortionist: open.substack.com/pub/lessig/p...
Fucking Lessig.
That's it; that's the skeet.
That's it; that's the skeet.
June 20, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Fucking Lessig.
That's it; that's the skeet.
That's it; that's the skeet.
March 27, 2026 at 1:37 PM
#ELB: “Legal scholar Lawrence Lessig on how a Maine law could topple Super PACs” https://electionlawblog.org/2026/legal-scholar-lawrence-lessig-on-how-a-maine-law-could-topple-super-pacs/
August 8, 2026 at 3:44 PM
#ELB: “Legal scholar Lawrence Lessig on how a Maine law could topple Super PACs” https://electionlawblog.org/2026/legal-scholar-lawrence-lessig-on-how-a-maine-law-could-topple-super-pacs/
If you made it to the (current) end of this thread, here's a treat: the Oct 2015 letter I wrote to NBC Legal explaining why, in the wake of Hillary Clinton's SNL cameo, not only was my client Larry Lessig a bona fide candidate but (because they asked) so was Clinton.
www.scribd.com/doc/28637083...
www.scribd.com/doc/28637083...
February 17, 2026 at 4:28 PM
If you made it to the (current) end of this thread, here's a treat: the Oct 2015 letter I wrote to NBC Legal explaining why, in the wake of Hillary Clinton's SNL cameo, not only was my client Larry Lessig a bona fide candidate but (because they asked) so was Clinton.
www.scribd.com/doc/28637083...
www.scribd.com/doc/28637083...