Ryan Thoreson
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Law prof teaching human rights, law and sexuality, con law & torts. 26.2 x 24. ⚖️ 🏳️🌈 🏃
Something about hearing this from a late night host really drives home what a dystopian moment we’re in.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak
1 day ago
The everyday courage of normal people is breathtaking
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Apparently I’m not the only one!
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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For nine wild and precious hours I actually did Hawai’i things before my trip back for AALS.
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gwen howerton
3 days ago
NEW: While its AI chatbot keeps creating explicit images of women, X is legally backing a Texas conservative activist who is under investigation for posting a photo of a transgender woman in the women's bathroom on X at the Capitol in 2023-
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X thinks a Texas law against bathroom photography infringes on free speech
The platform is backing a Texas Republican party chair and calling it an issue of free speech.
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/elon-musk-x-texas-transgender-bathroom-photo-21281603.php
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I don’t think I succeeded in convincing my Uber driver that international law is law but I do think I accidentally convinced him that domestic law might not be either. 🤷♂️
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Aaron Rupar
3 days ago
Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
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Melissa is an incredible conference host, and it’s been so lovely to hang out with so many kind, brilliant friends - if you’re a junior international law scholar, I truly can’t recommend JILSA highly enough.
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jamelle
5 days ago
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
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Josh Marshall
8 days ago
Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
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I don’t say happy new year anymore because I don’t want to be humiliated by the morning of January 3.
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George Monbiot
8 days ago
Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
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Well, those of us at the Junior International Law Scholars Association meeting will have lots to talk about this week, including the demise of our subject matter.
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E: “I want a pink dog someday!” Me: “Have you ever seen a pink dog!?” E: “No, dogs aren’t pink!” Me: “Oh, okay.” E: <very calmly> “We’re going to paint him.”
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Kind of perfect in that without immigrants our country will be spinning our wheels in imagined nostalgia as we ignore our impending doom.
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Techdirt
10 days ago
Judge To Texas: You Can’t Age-Gate The Entire Internet Without Evidence Over the summer, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority upended decades of traditional First Amendment standards to say that Texas could put in place an age verification law if that law was intended to keep kids away from…
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Judge To Texas: You Can’t Age-Gate The Entire Internet Without Evidence
Over the summer, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority upended decades of traditional First Amendment standards to say that Texas could put in place an age verification law if that law was intended to keep kids away from porn. As we argued at the time, the ruling had all sorts of problems, but even leaving those aside, it was still pretty clearly limited solely to situations involving age gating…
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/31/judge-to-texas-you-cant-age-gate-the-entire-internet-without-evidence/
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It’s a little too cold for our usual NYE at the zoo and I am racked with guilt so here we are.
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Mike Stabile
10 days ago
A little-noticed provision in the TRUMP AI Act would ban big tech platforms, including ostensibly Google, from distributing "sexual material harmful to minors" — a phrase routinely used by conservatives to ban not only porn, but sex ed, LGBTQ literature and repro rights resources.
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The TRUMP AMERICA AI Act is every bit as bad as you would expect. Maybe worse.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s latest is an anti-tech omnibus, combining years' worth of dangerous policy ideas into one big, bad bill.
https://reason.com/2025/12/29/the-trump-america-ai-act-is-every-bit-as-bad-as-you-would-expect-maybe-worse/
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Bolts
11 days ago
A voting rights advocate says Ohio's new ban on grace periods for mail ballots could cause major problems for voters. “Where is the sense that our lawmakers are protecting our right to vote?”
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Ohio Bans Grace Periods for Mail Ballots, Fulfilling Trump’s Wishes
Ohio is the fourth GOP-run state this year to ban ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive after. A Supreme Court case could force that policy nationwide next year.
https://boltsmag.org/ohio-ends-grace-periods-for-mail-ballots/
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I don’t know about everybody else but I *completely* forgot about Tulsi Gabbard.
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There's a question on my final exam involving an intoxicated driver named DJ, who I refer to as "she" or "her" three times in the prompt, and I've been fascinated that more than half of my students have referred to DJ as a man in their answers.
12 days ago
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
12 days ago
DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website
theonion.com/doj-removes-all-mentions-of-justice-from-website/
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So proud of my anal-retentive two year old. 🥲
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Texas Tribune
17 days ago
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
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Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/texas-am-system-fired-lecturer/
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Brad Heath
19 days ago
I have seen DOJ do some strange redactions before, but this is up there:
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Rick Weinmeyer
19 days ago
Jonathan Mitchell is bringing us two of the most cherished gifts of the holiday season: hate and intolerance!
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Waco judge asks federal courts to overturn same-sex marriage
Judge Dianne Hensley, who has been fighting the state judicial oversight body since 2019, is hoping to tee up a new challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/19/texas-judge-same-sex-marriage-supreme-court-obergefell/
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The Shape of Water (2017)
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And we haven’t even gotten to the inevitable TruthSocial post where the president publicly praises Bari Weiss for censoring criticism of the government.
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I don’t know what we did to deserve a child who enthusiastically enjoys every part of air travel.
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2024: Make America Great Again 2025: Only God Can Save Us Now
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Kyle Lukoff
23 days ago
The first time I tried binding it was in a public bathroom stall with a roll of duct tape before my 8-hour shift. Removing after was agony. They're trying to take away our safer options.
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I call this haiku “Virgina”: Lindsey Halligan United States Attorney Eastern District of
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Barrie Shannon
10 months ago
what it feels like to be the only one in the all-staff zoom meeting with pronouns turned on
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In other bad news, Egypt just successfully rallied states at the UN General Assembly to strip acknowledgment of sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination from a disability rights resolution that acknowledges other forms of intersectional discrimination.
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UN Disability Resolution Passes After LGBTQ Language Cut
https://outrightinternational.org/press-release/un-disability-resolution-passes-after-lgbtq-language-cut
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Alejandra Caraballo
23 days ago
Crazy how Trump is flailing, Epstein files are coming out, the economy is going to shit, and Republicans are defecting and the first thing his admin does is pivot to attacking trans people. It's all they know. Just distract everyone from what's important by attacking a vulnerable minority group.
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Parker Molloy
23 days ago
Guy really gives away the game here that this isn't about "children" when he straight up says that trans adults aren't real.
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Sam Bagenstos
24 days ago
Under the proposed rule issued by the Trump Administration today, any Medicare- or Medicaid-participating hospital would be barred from providing gender-affirming care to *any child*, even if the care is not paid for by Medicare or Medicaid.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23465.pdf
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Christopher Wiggins
23 days ago
I’m at HHS headquarters where RFK Jr. is announcing new restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors by spouting pseudoscience and political misinformation that goes against every major medical association.
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Sam Bagenstos
24 days ago
Note also that today HHS is proposing rules (a) to bar the use of federal Medicaid/CHIP funds to cover gender-affirming care for those under 18 (
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I spent all day feeling like I was going insane because "Dentist" was on my calendar at two slightly different times today, which then made sense when I looked up in the waiting room and saw my husband.
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Orin Kerr
25 days ago
Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules that there are no 4th Amendment rights in your Google search terms. When you search on Google, you tell them your search terms; the government can get those queries without a warrant. The third-party doctrine applies.
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HUMANS. HUMANS ARE IDEA MACHINES.
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Chris Geidner
26 days ago
BREAKING: The Eleventh Circuit grants Florida’s request to limit the injunction against the anti-drag law to cover only Hamburger Mary’s of Orlando. The preliminary injunction blocking all enforcement had been in place for nearly two-and-a-half years at this point.
www.lawdork.com/p/florida-an...
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Doghouse Reilly
27 days ago
People still responding this way are simply in denial about what’s happening nationwide.
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The Associated Press
27 days ago
BREAKING: Hong Kong court convicts Jimmy Lai, founder of former pro-democracy newspaper, in landmark national security trial.
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Former Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted in landmark national security trial
Jimmy Lai, the former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, has been convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city’s court, which could send him to prison for the rest of his life.
https://bit.ly/458pOBg
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Brad Lander
28 days ago
A deeply sad morning, with heartbreaking mass killings in Providence & Sydney. Innocent students killed in a classroom. At least 11 people by gunmen at a Hanukkah celebration. Too many guns here. Frightening levels of antisemitism globally. So much senseless violence & hate.
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FROM THE ROOFTOPS
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28 days ago
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
about 1 month ago
It's not a question of politics or party. Congress has a constitutional obligation to impeach and to remove a president who commits high crimes and misdemeanors and forsakes his solemn oath. And there has never been a president who has committed as many impeachable offenses than this one.
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