Why. Were. So. Many. Men. Regularly. Emailing. Jeff. Epstein. After. He. Was. A. Known. Pedophile?

Recognition of #IndigenousPeoples’ leadership & of their unique role in addressing the #ClimateCrisis must go beyond ceremony. At #COP30, States & the UNFCCC must guarantee access & meaningful participation & ensure #IndigenousPeople's right to shape decisions that impact their lands & lives.

This a really good place to start. The biggest failure of that NY times piece is a fundamental misunderstanding of how Environmental Justice IS now the environmental movement and that requires changes in the internal labor and social structure of environmental organizations.

There was an NYT piece last week about the Sierra Club, and (by extension) the current state of the climate movement. I think they got three big things wrong. davekarpf.substack.com/p/every-gene...

"Saying that the Sierra Club’s problems are all *because of woke* is both entirely too trite and entirely incorrect." Read the whole thing for great insights about organizing, generational changes, this terrible moment & implicitly, WTF is going on at the NYTimes.

Not a bad IP article given how badly written these can be. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...

For example, linking public funding for research and advanced purchase commitments to licensing patents AND know how widely, or a temporary moratorium on litigation for any infringement during the emergency. Instead we got a minimal posthoc WTO Decision long after it would have been any real use.

I get the need to talk about what a difference GAVI made (it really did!) and there are reasonable questions about whether ALL manufacturing capacity was used but IP was a major issue and innovative early thinking on that would also have been helpful.

Fascinating. An interview about COVID vaccines access for low income countries that doesn’t mention Intellectual property or licensing. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Breaking News: House Democrats released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein alleged that Donald Trump knew of the convicted sex offender's conduct and “spent hours at my house” with a victim.

Epstein wrote in emails, at least one back in 2011 when there would have been little incentive to lie, that Trump knew about what he was doing with girls www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Fascinating. An interview about COVID vaccines access for low income countries that doesn’t mention Intellectual property or licensing. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Not a bad IP article given how badly written these can be. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...

🧵 (1/11) #Greensky 🔌💡 Some news for those who followed along in September, as we got the Poughkeepsie Town board to overturn its moratorium on grid scale batteries, in the face of fierce opposition.

Tenure-line faculty, this better teach many about solidarity with our colleagues in more precarity. They are fighting the good fight. We should be in solidarity with them because it's the right thing to do. And if that's not enough, always remember that what comes for them will come for you.

Just in case you thought this was about trans athletes. This was solely about creating a fascist and racist gender bureaucracy over what constitutes being feminine enough to be considered a woman. They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.

In the Spring, I'll be teaching two courses at Bemidji State University — Introduction to Turtle Island (a 1st-year course) and Indigenous Nation Building and Leadership (a 4th-year course). I'd love to bring in a few Indigenous guest lecturers! Let me know if you're interested!

Today we honor all who have served—and recognize the extraordinary contributions of Native veterans. Native peoples have served in the U.S. Armed Forces at higher rates per capita than any other group, carrying forward generations of courage, sacrifice, and commitment to protecting their homelands.

Today at the #Portugal Pavilion 🇵🇹 at #COP30: powerful panel on protecting Environmental Human Rights Defenders. #EHRDs. Happening during Gender Action Day is a reminder that climate action only works when the people, particularly women, defending our planet can do so safely.

The Climate Conference #COP30 starts today in Belém 🇧🇷. CIEL experts are joining the negotiations, monitoring the ambition gap between what States have promised & what is necessary to address the #ClimateEmergency. READ: www.ciel.org/news/experts... A 🧵

It seems straightforward that big polluters shouldn't be allowed to write the rules of #ClimateAction or use COP partnerships to cover up their role in fuelling the climate crisis. So why are there 5000+ fossil fuel lobbyists during the last 4 COPs? This must end. Time to #KickBigPollutersOut 👇

Sound familiar? edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...

The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal. www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...

Helpful review of past fed Indian law cases. "The Supreme Court, becoming known as a tribunal willing to overturn some of its major decisions, could only muster two votes on Monday to reconsider one of the most fiercely condemned rulings on the law governing America’s Indian tribes."

I think this touches a deep, often-overlooked point. In my labour law days, I saw some employers spend MORE money fighting unionization than they would have paid accepting it. Loss of control was driving them at least as much as profits! Control is vital – with environmental policy as well.

This is so true. Most employers in firms that serve the public would benefit from a unionized workforce in terms of retaining good employees and negotiating salaries. The bosses don't want to give up their power to fire people they don't like, and to threaten those who complain.

‼️ Event alert ‼️ Tomorrow, Nov 11, at 6:30pm [Belem 🇧🇷 time] - Room 6, do not miss this critical event to learn more about what impact the International Court of Justice climate ruling can (and must) have on the ongoing climate negotiations #COP30. JOIN US! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Jotwell Contracts Eliza Mik, AI Agents: Tools or … Actors?, JOTWELL (November 10, 2025) (reviewing Noam Kolt, Governing AI Agents, 101 Notre Dame L. Rev. __ (forthcoming), available at SSRN (Feb. 11, 2025)), contracts.jotwell.com/ai-agents-to....

I mean nothing screams oligarchy (or feudalism?) thank being able to “cherry pick” your own revenue obligations

In the event you were wondering whether it was important to provide opposition, trump’s IRS is gutting the alternative minimum corporate tax law via “unlegislated tax cuts” that help eg crytpo, private equity, real estate investors, and MNCs, stealing $222bn from revenue

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

Wild. They are figuring out how to store electricity in ... concrete.

Thanks for this and I think that’s true. I think I am not thrilled that we are already formulating policy and cultural interventions on this as it solidifies as conventional wisdom. It would help to be really clear about which populations we don’t have data on and what differences we do see.

This is a burgeoning field of study, and data is not as comprehensive yet, globally, as it would ideally be.

Among young people, we see the same thing. This shakes out differently in different cultures. However, if you were to create a 'lonely' marketing persona, they would, in many cases, be young, financially insecure, disabled and a minority. But...

Short answers: no, and no, most likely. Globally, men and women report experiencing loneliness at roughly similar rates, but cultural responses and support systems are often vastly different. Income and disability are bigger indicators than gender. And...

👀 What are the impacts that the International Court of Justice’s historic Advisory Opinion on #ClimateChange can & should have on the climate negotiations #COP30? Find out in this great piece by @ninalakhani.bsky.social for @theguardian.com 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So much of these conversations and data seem focused on two divergent populations: working class whites and upper middle class families. Is the male loneliness epidemic universal? Is the teenage gender group isolation true across race and class?

Every one of these conversations about Sommers and gender relations just elides what is happening for queer kids, racialized kids (especially black and Hispanic ones), and class differences! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

An excellent question. The evidence shows pretty persuasively that many Black people don’t use these terms “liberal” or “conservative” in any context. They are terms that are simply not part of lots of people’s political or social lexicon.

Every one of these conversations about Sommers and gender relations just elides what is happening for queer kids, racialized kids (especially black and Hispanic ones), and class differences! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The winter sky(at the train station ❤️) when I come back from work to what, after almost 2.5 years, feels like home.

I'm in @thenation.com this morning on the repeated failure of transphobia as political strategy, efforts to scapegoat trans people for Democrats' own failures, and Zohran Mamdani's model of solidarity

How you write about contraception and fertility and present hormonal birth control or nothing as the only two options - as is condoms don’t exist, or men don’t have any responsibility? And then fail to note how much this is about male control? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...

every place your kid goes is out here asking for an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, royalty free, unrestricted right to use your kid's right of publicity for any purpose in the world & expecting you to waive all their rights to enable them to attend one (1) 90-minute birthday party

How you write about contraception and fertility and present hormonal birth control or nothing as the only two options - as is condoms don’t exist, or men don’t have any responsibility? And then fail to note how much this is about male control? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...

There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been saying the same since 2017.

8 November 1921 | A Polish woman, Helena Przyborowska, was born in Warsaw. In #Auschwitz from 19 January 1943. No. 29898 She perished in the camp on 16 October 1943. --- Women at Auschwitz Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/ Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8