Trade Secret Prof

Info. about trade secret law & information law and governance. Ask me about UTSA, DTSA, and EU T/S Directive. See @SharonSandeen for other thoughts.

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

This is serious… SERIOUS.

[Grant Certiorari @GrantCertiorari]

Libertarians took over a town in New Hampshire. They gutted the government, slashing every “wasteful” service.

Including garbage pickup.

Due to this, the town was soon overrun by bears. The libertarians fled.

That failed experiment is now happening on a national scale.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Republican "Red Wave"

[Nurses Against Dick Pics. 🪷🇺🇦 @ClaudetteGGibs1]

This is fascism…this is Becky Burke she was on a back packing tour of North America and crashed into Trumps immigration pogroms.

Her father writes
“Our daughter Becky, a 28-year-old British tourist, has been caught up in the recent immigration crackdown in the US. What was meant to be a life-changing four-month backpacking trip across North America has turned into a nightmare.

Despite being a tourist with no criminal record, she was handcuffed and taken to a detention facility in Tacoma, Washington.

Becky’s current conditions are deeply concerning. She is sharing a cell, surviving on a diet of cold rice, potatoes, and beans (she is vegan), and has limited access to phone calls. Visitors are restricted to speaking through a glass screen via telephone.

All her possessions have been confiscated, and she feels isolated and desperate to come home.

We are doing everything we can. We are in touch with the British Consulate in London and San Francisco. An American friend is helping by sending funds to her inmate account so she can buy basic necessities like tea. But progress has been slow, and we urgently need more support.

We are asking for your help. Please share Becky’s story widely through your networks. We hope to connect with experts, legal professionals, or anyone who can offer advice or assistance. Becky is a kind, adventurous young woman who simply wants to return home to her family.”

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Things are going great

[Manisha Sinha @ProfMSinha]

Historian here:

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

Markets don’t like monarchs who lack impulse control.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

This cartoon has never been more accurate than it is now.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Call me old fashioned, but being Russia’s KGB agent “Krasnov” since 1987 should disqualify Trump from being President of the United States. Retroactively, immediately, and forever.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

When Trump said vote for me, and you will never have to vote again. This is what he meant.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

JD Vance: "Our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge ... my message to young men is don't allow this broken culture to send you a message that you're a bad person because you're a man, bc you like to tell a joke, bc you like to have a beer with your friends."

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

REMINDER: The single biggest driver of our national debt since 2001 has been **Republican** tax cuts.

[Oleksandra Povoroznyk 🇺🇦 @rynkrynk]

It’s breathtaking how much easier it was for Russia to buy the US wholesale than to defeat Ukraine on the battlefield.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

WOW! Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe called Donald Trump and MAGA a "Nazi movement" and was arrested and carried out of a city council meeting by police.

[JB Pritzker @JBPritzker]

Only an idiot would think we should eliminate:
- Emergency response in natural disasters
- Education and healthcare for disabled children
- Clean air and water programs
- Gang crime investigations
- Monitoring of nursing home abuse
- Nuclear reactor regulation
- Cancer research

[Trade Secret Prof @TradeSecretProf]

In addition to all the other laws they probably broke, it appears that Elon and his minions may have violated the federal Trade Secrets Act, 18 USC 1905. Even if not a federal employees, it applies to private sector employees who work in IT and are assigned to a federal agency.