A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

In a decision that I'm sure will have no negative repercussions whatsoever, the University of Arkansas has fired a law prof b/c of public criticism of the prof's comments (on her personal facebook page) about Charlie Kirk: abovethelaw.com/2025/10/law-...

"We need to remind ourselves, constantly, that in the median experience of tyranny, life is largely unchanged. ...If we wait until the abuses become severe and widespread enough to register in our standard analytic tools, it will be too late." www.offmessage.net/p/the-median...

"The Vanderbilt Chapter of the AAUP stands with the national AAUP, the AAUP chapters of the other targeted universities, and members of the Vanderbilt community in opposing the Compact and demanding that our administration do so as well."

“No self-respecting university could ever accept something like this,” said Lee Bollinger, a First Amendment scholar and former Columbia University president. “Trying to protect conservative ideas against being ‘belittled’ — that’s about as violative of the First Amendment interests as you can get.”

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I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists 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. @washingtonpost.com

Biggest story in the world, told in the mainstream press perfectly well: AP/PBS headline: TRUMP'S MOVES AGAINST MEDIA OUTLETS MIRROR AUTHORITARIAN APPROACHES TO SILENCING DISSENT www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Page One of today's NYT:

In Alabama, a trans civil rights lawyer is facing criminal charges; three civil rights lawyers are fighting sanctions. I spoke to @chrisgeidner.bsky.social about how federal judges came after a team of civil rights lawyers who challenged a transgender care ban www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

"...when people say we were "lied to" about what Trump would do to us. We weren't! US farmers knew Trump planned another trade war, and that it would hurt our businesses. And a lot of farmers just voted for him anyway." NO BAILOUTS FOR FARMERS!

What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky. So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵

“She’s very black and white, right and wrong, no gray area,” he said, “which is not the way to do medicine.” An important @propublica.org story showing how a false sense of certainty by child abuse pediatricians leads CPS to take children from parents based on shaky and oftentimes disputed evidence

I am not exaggerating when I say the Supreme Court’s unsigned, unexplained order yesterday is the worst thing it has done since Trump returned to office. And not just on the merits—it’s also an unfathomably dangerous green light for Trump to flout lower court orders. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I couldn't let that Confessore piece slide. It was such a disgusting hit piece on a vulnerable community in a moment of crisis. I dissected the article and why its framings are dishonest at best and outright lies of ommission at worst. www.thedissident.news/anatomy-of-a...

This explanation of the path to Skrmetti is a must read. If you weren’t (properly) outraged before, you will be.

When you inadvertently say the quiet part out loud. Sexism in the legal profession is far from dead.

This horrific bit from Jessica Valenti's substack: WV prosecutor Tom Truman said if women who miscarry want to avoid arrest, they should “call 911” to tell them that their pregnancy has ended: “Call your doctor. Call law enforcement, or 911, and just say, ‘I miscarried. I want you to know.’”

Naomi Cahn, Mary Ziegler & I just published a Slate piece on an alarming FL case. Republican judges are trying to block abortions-and other health care-for teens without parents' consent. To do that, they've made up history and overlooked the harm it would cause teens. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Horrifying that we’re locking up foreign scientists for no reason. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

Way past time for this. Chalk up one victory for a much embattled and bedraggled rule of law.

HUGE ruling—by a conservative judge—that is almost certain to be affirmed by the 4th Circuit and is unlikely to be disturbed by SCOTUS. Justice Riggs’ final victory draws much closer.

Welp, the federal minimum wage is now officially a poverty wage (as in, a full-time worker earning the federal minimum wage gets paid less than the poverty line for a single person). www.epi.org/blog/the-fed...

Rev. Barber is a civil rights hero. This is horrendous.

“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.” blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

My coauthors, drs. at UNC, and I have posted our new article on abortion exceptions, The Inevitable Vagueness of Medical Exceptions, to SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... We use original empirical research to show why so many pregnant women are dying in states with abortion bans.

With parental consent, girls in Mississippi can marry at the age of 15.

3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.

it was the worst of times, its was the wow somehow it keeps getting worse of times

Maybe the real tariffs were the allies we lost along the way.

I’ve seen a lot of assumptions in the media that Trump (and Musk) are targeting institutions with loyalty tests. But that’s not quite right. They’re using dominance tests. And the difference between these two things matter. 🧵

BREAKING: In the most predictable of predictable news, trump has just ordered a 90-day pause on some tariffs. HE CAVED AGAIN. What a fucking clown.

So the Supreme Court’s strategy seems pretty clearly to be forestall admitting we have a constitutional crisis by giving Trump huge victories on narrow procedural grounds. This is akin to having engineers move the Rubicon River closer and closer to Rome to avoid Caesar crossing it.

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

This lady at a Hands Off! protest is my spirt animal. I wanna be just like her when I grow up!

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

Breaking: North Carolina Appeals Court, Over Strong Dissent, Sides with Judge Griffin in Election Contest, Gives Some Voters Chance to Cure Failure to Provide Certain Information to Election Officials (That Officials Did Not Demand) electionlawblog.org?p=149314

This is a gross violation of democratic (small d) principles. Republican judges are going along with stealing the election.

Principled. Courageous. Thread.👇

“You can support a lawyer’s right to represent unpopular clients against powerful forces — essentially the oath we took when becoming members of the bar. “Or you can sit back, check your bank balance and watch your freedoms swirl down the drain.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...

Working on my sign for the big Tesla Takedown protest this afternoon

Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked. The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...

👀 “Several firms, including Sullivan & Cromwell and Kirkland & Ellis, were looking to exploit the moment….Lawyers at another major law firm, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, also mulled whether to try to lure partners away from Paul Weiss.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/b...

Outside Paul Weiss' office today

in all seriousness: one of the most important philosophical questions of our time

THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO SEE FROM EVERY DEMOCRAT IN OFFICE. Thank you, Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury