Ugh.

Under the leadership of Prof. Jamie Abrams (@jrabrams.bsky.social), Prof. Elizabeth Keith and Shalala Valiyeva visited @ADAUniversity School of Law in Baku to advance the AUWCL–ADA partnership and collaborate with visiting instructors (and recent AUWCL grads), Nathan Sebree and William Siefert.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

This is a searingly powerful infographic.

So grateful for the insightful Book Review of "Inclusive Socratic Teaching" (@ucpress.bsky.social) authored by @suemcmahon.bsky.social and infused with all the wisdom, expertise, savvy, and experience in law teaching, wellness, and justice that she brings to all things! alwd.org/lcr-archives...

The Pitt, Ginny & Georgia, All’s Fair – how did this year’s biggest TV shows tackle abortion? We tracked this year’s hits and misses in our Abortion Onscreen report. www.ansirh.org/research/res...

@jillwieberlens.bsky.social is in the house at AUWCL, and I’m so excited to learn from her about stillbirth and the law.

Join AUWCL’s Health Law & Policy Program for Preventing Stillbirth: Legal, Policy, and Public Health Perspectives on Thurs, Nov 13 from 12–1:30 PM ET (Hybrid). Experts explore stillbirth prevention, legal frameworks, and reproductive justice. Register (Free): tinyurl.com/4xvm6s6b

And if you want to check out more of the details behind this for yourself, please see this stellar work by the @justsecurity.org team at: www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Really helpful post capturing so many worrisome events and developments together. Thanks @marzhang.bsky.social.

Marching today? Consider running for office next. @runforsomething.net will help you get started. runforwhat.net

1. Washington DC #NoKings 👑

Looks like people showed up in DC

D.C. is out in patriotic and peaceful solidarity fighting for democracy!

This is a beautiful use of art to empower more action and courage!

If you read one thing today, make it this piece by @nytimes.com's Kurt Streeter about the extraordinary Bryan Stevenson. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Re-sharing a piece that preceded Bluesky. "A family law lens exposes profound dissonance in how the state interacts with immigrant families to harm instead of to protect. These conclusions [are] a call to action for family law . . . and [its] practitioners to engage in immigrant justice advocacy."

Congresswoman McClellan is delivering an amazing keynote address to the Arlington Branch of the NAACP tonight, reminding us of the power of community. “We the People is working, but we’ve got to be in it for the long haul.”

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

@azizaahmed.bsky.social delivered an amazing talk today at @auwcl.bsky.social about her impactful book “Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS”. @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social beautifully summarized that Prof. Ahmed “practices her brilliance with grace.”

“The federal government should not, under any circumstances, dictate who goes to college, what can be researched,or learned, and what can or can’t be the subject of critical academic inquiry.”

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

“Trump is free to spout any partisan nonsense he wants from his giant bully pulpit. But he may not coerce federal employees into joining his choir. I am calling on every agency and Department head implicated in these forms of Orwellian miscommunication to remove them immediately.”

Higher Ed. must mobilize and organize. These is no limit on the political capture otherwise. “Among other steps, universities would also be required to change their governance structures to prohibit anything that would “punish, belittle and even spark violence against conservative ideas.”

A moment that calls for collective action… to reject this transparent attack on academic freedom.

Medicare telehealth is bipartisan. It's wildly popular. But year after year, Congress has refused to permanently fund it—which could have protected it from the shutdown.

Priorities.

Many great orgs co-hosting an organizing / mobilizing call tonight on the shutdown. mobilize.us/s/CeAXNV

Great piece by @jessicalwaters.bsky.social msmagazine.com/2025/09/25/t...

Great tool! ifwhenhow.org/resources/gu...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

These Project 2025 videos were intended to train a second Trump administration’s political appointees "to be ready on day one." Last August, ProPublica & @documented.net obtained 14 hours of the videos, which covered everything from passing new regulations to rooting out left-wing language:

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

“ … it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Advocacy groups are concerned that Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, who was shot by ICE & died near a school after dropping of his kids, may have been targeted due to his involvement in a lawsuit against Home Depot & Chicago police officers alleging that they were assaulting & detaining immigrants.

Wondering how H.R. 1, also called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, will affect ob-gyns and their patients? ACOG’s new guide breaks it down. Learn how the bill undermines Medicaid and threatens access to comprehensive, patient-centered care: bit.ly/45Z6EO2

DC today

🔔 🔔 🔔

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

I cannot hype enough @profhilaryallen.bsky.social’s amazing book FinTech Dystopia. Her writing is as fiery as it is insightful. It is the online version of a “page turner.” A treasure trove of knowledge that is so deeply accessible for readers. fintechdystopia.com/chapters/int...

Cities led by Black women are the first targets of Trump's political power grab 19thnews.org/2025/08/blac... via @19thnews.org

Really important piece by D.C. Shadow Senator @ankitjaindc.bsky.social about how Trump's attempted takeover of D.C. is a test run for his broader, unlawful assault on cities around the country. slate.com/news-and-pol...

A great read!

Breaking: Republicans finally find rising tide that lifts only one boat.

"George Mason University must stand firm. Gregory Washington must remain in office — not just because he deserves it but because caving to this onslaught would betray the very essence of public education." @aaupmason.bsky.social @bletiecq.bsky.social

New Kentucky law targeting trans Medicaid care takes effect Friday, leaving access in limbo. ✍️ @oliviakrauth.bsky.social queerkentucky.com/will-transge...

The anti-abortion agenda tries to mask a simple truth: Attempts to “defund” Planned Parenthood will decrease access to timely, life-saving care – and the people who will be hurt the most are those already facing significant barriers to health care access. (1/3)