I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.

really excited for this!

Re-reading some things ahead of teaching this afternoon and Larry Bartels' "What's the Matter with What's the Matter With Kansas" remains one of my favorite article titles of all time, and one of the most enjoyable in the genre of scathing academic reviews. www.qjps.com/prod.aspx?pr...

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Something that bothers me deeply. In the legal academy, we lack formal mechanisms for peer review— this has pros and cons. Many of our institutions have only a couple of experts in any one area. We can fall into the trap of using law review mastheads as a proxy for quality. That has limited utility.

Oh wow, I'm (re-)watching some West Wing and the episode's subplot is everyone has filed their financial disclosures and worrying over how various gifts or stock bumps will be perceived and holy cow is that very very ... not how things work now.

saving this post for teaching about social class & income next year!

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

the process is part of the work. it’s not supposed to be easy. the effort creates good work. i can’t believe this needs to be explained to people who call themselves journalists.

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

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Just RT-ing this again for #TDOV, it's a thread.

Put up my usual #TODV post, which is getting lots of likes and RTs, which meets the "visibility" part of the day. But for lots of trans folks visibility is not the issue - it's the threats to our rights and our livelihoods. So - do something today for a trans person or trans organization, please.

So funny that it’s trans day of visibility and you could be supporting trans and genderqueer performers 👀 NYC, looking at you, show is 13 days away!

Another suggestion - follow and support trans writers and artists. For GREAT explainers on all things trans and gender (and beyond) I heartily recommend @assignedmale.bsky.social - give her a follow and some $$

Oh hello it's Trans Day of Visibility and, like many trans people, I'm only visible if I say something. If you think you don't know anyone trans, you probably do. If you want to read my post about how I understand my gender, it's at daniellaurison.com/n...

This seems very right to me - along with other points in the thread. It isn't ideal that the modal grade in a lot of institutions & departments and courses is an A, but solutions focused on increasing variance in grades or decreasing average grades etc are probably going to exacerbate other issues.

i think this is exactly right and it is part of what i was trying to get at last week when i wrote about the narcissism of the president and his allies. they fundamentally do not believe other people are real, and do not understand the decisions they make.

A selection of the best responses to this question. (from @sameyler.bsky.social @jordanw2382.bsky.social @interfluidity.com @pamherd.bsky.social)

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

The NYT is being disingenuous here. The AMA has *always* said that gender-affirming surgeries should generally be reserved for adults. That's part of why so few kids get them! The AMA reiterated this position and the NYT is characterizing it as a policy change. It's not.

honestly, this was the median opinion among protestors at no kings, and it's hard to tell if that's getting through to the establishment

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

Dear parents looking at your kid's financial aid offers for their first year of college next year. 1st, congrats! And, did you know you can appeal financial aid awards, and it often works?!? I did not know this until recently. If you have $$ you can even pay a consultant to help you! $ begets $ +

The NYT quotes a young conservative operative without identifying him as such. On the left, the NYT quotes him wondering why anyone would think Trump is different from any other president. And then on the right, is that kid's Substack insisting that Trump is different from any other president.

Social movement scholar here again. So, why protest? Nihilists were out yesterday arguing that "protests don't do anything." A short 🧵:

I continue to need to point out that normie libs are hugely invested in anti-fascism because it's about basic decency for everyone. People keep on not understanding that Trump specifically makes normie libs angry to the point of violence regardless of what leftists have told themselves

It’s such a laughably bad argument for the war on Iran to say “The people there want regime change.” I want regime change in the US, and I 100% do not want the US to be bombed. F off with garbage arguments.

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

Fascism is worse than neoliberalism in literally every way

To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️ It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.

if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things

This post is AI. I was just at No Kings Philly. It was big but not that big. Posting fake stuff and reposting fake stuff is bad.

If you think No Kings is too vague or insufficiently radical, I sincerely encourage you to go to your local No Kings rally tomorrow and hand out flyers/zines to recruit folks to your org/cause. It's a perfect recruitment event! Thousands of people eager to DO STUFF! Get out there!

Been thinking about it since I saw JK Rowling posted this yesterday about the IOC's new policy, calling Imane Khelif a man. Imane Khelif was born female. She was raised as a girl. Her original birth certificate says female. She's always been a woman. But sure. "Men punching women."

Transphobia cooks your brain. You spend years screaming "everyone fits neatly into two sexes!" and then reality hands you Khelif or Caster Semenya and you can't adjust. You can't say "this is more complicated than I thought." You just call her a man, because the framework demands it. Fundamentalism.

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

Showing this to my seminar on Bourdieu's Distinction this afternoon.

I will be at the Philly No Kings March on Saturday, and I hope, again, millions of us are out. These big marches don't automatically make change, but they show how many people know that fascism is not OK - important for the bystanders to see and for the resisters to experience.

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

New reporting from the Guardian contradicts @bardcollege.bsky.social president Leon Botstein’s claims about his 2012 visit to pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s Caribbean island. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I wrote about how we talk about political "issues" and how that connects to political disconnection, and a chart I tell people about all the time - now I can just link to this post. on both substack & my own blog: daniellaurison.com/c... daniellaurison.subst...

State election officials testifying under oath say that voting by mail is secure. But an AI video in the MAGA2028 Facebook group says it’s rife with fraud. For busy Supreme Court justices, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Melt ICE! 🔥🧊 music.youtube.com/watch?v=qfSj...

For some reason "AI is just like watching Netflix" is back in my feeds so I took that as a sign to update my data tracking for Netflix. The company's energy use rose 1% from 2021 to 2024. Compare that to: Google: 71% Nvidia: 88% Meta: 96% Microsoft: 119%

Non-religious Republican men seem to often support religiously motivated laws against adult content and educational material about sexuality. In the latest "Theory of Change," @siridahl.com argued that incels want the government to control their own use of porn. plus.flux.community/p/culture-da...

Afroman found not liable. A complete victory for the rapper and a massive unforced error from the cops and their attorney. www.billboard.com/pro/afroman-...

Folks who are struggling with the news about Cesar Chavez, be gentle with yourselves. You are not obligated to consume all of the awful details. You can simply offer your belief and support to those who were harmed.