To the guy spotted reading Imperfect Victims on the B train last week: I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it. And I hope they liked the flowers. ❤️

This is news to me, a Jew who doesn't feel like I have lost anything because of Zohran's victory. My goodness. Imagine showing everyone how much your brain is just absolutely pickled in fear and bigotry.

The ideas underlying socialism are hardly toxic. Inclusion, community, compassion, opportunity, effective governance are all fundamental, widely embraced. The term socialism itself has been cynically stigmatized. But with a little good sense, we can move past that and focus on values & results.

It’s been so long since there was good news that I forgot you could scroll and smile at the same time.

study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1

Blue sky.

Getting COVID is terrible. Getting COVID in prison, as @victorialaw.bsky.social explores in her latest book, Corridors of Contagion, is still a potentially deadly nightmare. Read about it here: www.thenation.com/article/soci.... And get the book here: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2447-c...

So excited for Kim Hricko, whose essay is part of the "Inside the Prison Heat Crisis" series at The Jump Line. Read it here: thejumpline.substack.com/p/inside-the...

The average salary for NYPD investigators is $100K. $100K x 450 investigators = $45 million/year. Imagine what we could do to decrease intimate partner violence with $45 million a year? But yeah, let's fund more cops instead. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/n...

That this administration is committed to "aggressively arresting and prosecuting every criminal who terrorizes our fellow citizens and their families" tells you everything you need to know about the effectiveness of criminalization as a response to IPV. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

I told Anna Sinfield that the first season of The Girlfriends made me yell at the radio. She interviewed me anyway. 🤷‍♀️ Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Ending cash bail prevents criminalized survivors of gender-based violence from being held unnecessarily. Kudos to the anti-violence advocates in Illinois advocating for maintaining Illinois' bail reform law. 19thnews.org/2025/10/cash...

My relationship to Judaism right now is...complicated. I didn't go to temple today. But I took the Yom Kippur Torah portion to heart: "Is not this the fast that I have chosen...to let the oppressed go free and that ye break every yoke." I took my fast to court. And the world got a little more just.

The Governor of Michigan seems to be aware of domestic violence and yet just denied clemency to multiple criminalized survivors of violence. Is that irony? Or is it just deeply enraging? www.michigan.gov/whitmer/news...

Tell me again how police keep us safe from sexual violence. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/forme...

I learned today that the reason that I do not read science fiction is because I am a science idiot. 🤷‍♀️

On brand-I’m spending my last hours before the Rapture at the Maryland Parole Commission

This Thursday I’ll be in conversation w/ @leighgoodmark.bsky.social about her work on decriminalizing domestic violence at @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social’s domestic violence symposium. If you’re a journalist interested in reporting on DV, & getting funding to do so from USC, register & attend! ⤵️

Super excited to be moderating a panel w/ @leighgoodmark.bsky.social on the criminalization of domestic violence at @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social's Domestic Violence Symposium on 9/25. The event is free & attendance is required if you want to apply for a USC grant to support reporting on DV in CA

Associate Dean @leighgoodmark.bsky.social featured in the @knowablemag.bsky.social article "Can a strategy shift reduce intimate partner violence?"

Bittersweet when someone who never should have been charged, let alone spent more than a decade in prison, is released. Though she should not have been in, Alexis Martin is out. #FreeThemAll www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Maryland Carey Law Professor @mgraber1.bsky.social in today's New York Times: “The Roberts court’s pro-Trump series of decisions creates reason for thinking that you might lose, even as every professor in your law school tells you the law is on your side.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/o...

"The Zaynab Project is a women-led, 100% volunteer-run nonprofit operating directly from within Gaza. We are part of the very communities we serve. No middlemen, no marketing costs, no admin fees — just local teams delivering urgent relief to those most in need."

Gee, who would have guessed? 🙄

Israel is starving Gaza's people. American funding and weapons are supporting this genocide. It's a moral horror of unfathomable scope. indivisible.org/resource/ong...

3 home. So many more to go. #FreeThemAll

Paper files were better. No matter how hard I try, I

Imagine a world in which we actually tried to address why people use violence rather than sending them to places where they are likely to experience trauma and that exacerbate the risks of future violence? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Female law profs: the phantom "law school isn't fair" guy added on this week--he told someone he would feel better if she would walk on his face. Has anyone else heard this one? Trying to figure out if it's human or chatbot.

If you missed the Council on Criminal Justice webinar on Policing Domestic Violence, it's here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMSG.... Yes, I screwed up-Gabby Petito wasn't arrested, just removed from the scene-but the point about the failure of primary aggressor determinations stands.

A new season of "Love After Lockup" is premiering on AMC/WeTV on August 1. Formerly incarcerated people should not be a storyline for other people's entertainment and corporations' profits. Tell AMC/WeTV to stop profiting from incarceration here: campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/ai...

Not to be a Bobby Buzzkill but the set of anti-DV policies that Zohran is recommending have been up and running in much of the First World for a while and are getting good results. NY should adapt this approach to our own particular circumstances. www.newyorker.com/news/persons...

Prosecutors don’t keep us safer either.

When what I'm reading to write an article about how incarceration is sexual violence is less depressing than the news, you know we're in really bad shape.

Innocence Project New Orleans recently posted a job for an attorney position to focus on their new Women's Justice Initiative, which will tackle post-conviction cases of women's unjust incarceration in Louisiana. I would apply myself if I didn't already have the best job in the world.

The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000 The list is 1,227 pages long. The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children. archive.is/2025.06.28-0...

Guess what I learned today? The great state of Maryland was the first state to hold a person subjected to abuse liable for failing to protect a child from their partner's abuse. 🤦#TheMoreYouKnow #NotSoBlue

Journalist: "You want some batterers to go to jail, don't you? Abolition feminists don't actually want to abolish the prison system, right?" Me: "It's right there in the name." 🤦‍♀️ And yes, I sent her to @prisonculture.bsky.social's New York Times op-ed...

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

Fuck cancer. Fuck prison. And fuck for-profit prison “health care” providers.

I have resigned as Executive Director of the Skadden Foundation. This moment in history calls on us to provide more and better support for public interest lawyers. I look forward to finding other ways to contribute to their vital work.

A momentary respite from doomscrolling. Breathe in. Watch the turtle walk on the beach. Breathe out. Repeat.

The “feminism isn’t fair” guy has moved from texting to calling. Here’s today’s number. I’m sure he changes it frequently.

I experienced a moment of pure joy this morning: at the end of my walk under this glorious sky, the best walking song ever-It’s Raining Men-came on to end my walk. I danced the last few steps. Everything is terrible, but I can’t let them steal my joy. I need that energy to keep going.

Could not be more excited for my dear friend, the brilliant writer @kwanetaharris.bsky.social. Please go to her website and follow her here.

PSA-the guy who was texting female law professors to complain that law schools were anti-male and that feminism had won seems to be back. I deleted the first text before screenshotting-here’s the follow up.

Call the police for help, get arrested--in the US and in the UK. Police don't keep victims of intimate partner violence safe. #ImperfectVictims www.opendemocracy.net/en/domestic-...

The Trump Administration is using domestic violence as a smoke screen to justify kidnapping Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Hoping anti-violence organizations in Maryland and across the country will join me in making this point. marylandmatters.org/2025/04/25/t...