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Tobias Barrington Wolff
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Dad to Spark, feminist, anti-racist, Jefferson Barnes Fordham Professor at Penn Law, dogged optimist in the power of decency. 🏳️‍🌈

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Tobias Barrington Wolff is a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School where he teaches classes on sexuality and the law, same sex marriage and human rights. He is known for his legal advocacy on same sex marriage and other LGBT-related issues, and served as the chief advisor and spokesperson on LGBT issues for Barack Obama throughout his 2007-08 presidential campaign. He is openly gay. .. more

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 1d
Every time Stephen Miller does a TV segment there is a moment after he is finished screaming when he gets that smug, self-satisfied expression on his face that says "I did another fascism."

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 3d
Cher will turn 80 years old this coming spring and she is giving me all the #lifegoals I need.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6AX...
Cher: Run Rudolph Run (Live) - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 7d
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Trump Moves to End Gender-Related Care for Minors, Threatening Hospitals That Offer It
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 7d
To trans kids and parents of trans kids: I will contribute my efforts and do what I can to fight this. The Supreme Court has made the pathway in the courts very difficult so do not wait for judicial intervention to mobilize politically.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 8d
After that confused, impotent performance last night I am tempted to suggest that we use "Transgender for everybody!" as one of our rallying cries in resisting the depredations of this crumbling Regime.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 11d
The details that are emerging about the deaths of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner are horrific. Words fail.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 11d
“Things can happen.”

Soulless monster.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 11d
Praise and gratitude to Ahmed al Ahmed for risking his life to stop one of the terrorist assassins at Bondi Beach. I hope I would have been brave enough to do the same. I don’t know whether I would.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 13d
Once again sane public officials must respond in a mature, rational fashion to the flailing insanity of the memory care patient currently occupying the Oval Office.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 13d
Responding to the depredations of these appalling vandals by bringing forward our best selves is an act of courage and nobility. Bravo.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13d
Good reporting of the cesspool in Motherjones

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
www.motherjones.com

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 14d
Geriatric Joffrey "pardoning" that Colorado county clerk for her Colorado state law convictions is, to quote the late, brilliant essayist David Rakoff, "about as descriptively apt as the wishful four-year-old at Halloween who announces 'I'm a scary monster!' to every grownup proffering candy."

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 14d
The whole country has become Geriatric Joffrey’s memory care unit.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 17d
Air Force One now has a bumper sticker on the tail fin that says "My Second Grader is a FIFA Peace Prize Winner!"

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 18d
On the subject of Rep. Henry Cuellar: Now that the schadenfreude of Geriatric Joffrey’s unsuccessful attempt at bribing him with a pardon has run its course, it is time to primary Cuellar’s corrupt a$$ and run a Democrat for that seat who is not taking bribes and engaging in money laundering.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 18d
If Kristi Noem gets axed from the Regime because she is having an affair with Corey Lewandowski the cognitive dissonance of celebrating the removal of that hideous sadist while simultaneously trying to avoid thinking about that Predator-Meets-Alien tryst is going to be a trial. But I'll take it.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 22d
Let me see whether I can help Jake Tapper out —

Picture 1: A President of the United States listening attentively in a meeting where he is in command.

Picture 2: Not that.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 23d
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Trump Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the Country
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 23d
The nominal occupants of the U.S. presidency and vice presidency. This racist filth is what Republicans in Congress are defending and enabling every day. It is equal parts nauseating and pathetic.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 24d
the Regime responded to seeing Bradley commit a textbook war crime they had not ordered him to commit by promoting him.

This is what it looks like when scared children try to lie their way out of consequences.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 24d
The Regime's current version of events (as of today) is that Adm. Bradley committed this textbook war crime on his own with no direct command and no give-no-quarter order from Hegseth. When Bradley knew the whole operation was being recorded on video and Hegseth was watching. And that

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 26d
If the Armed Services Committee investigation bears out the Washington Post reporting, the Senate's next step must be a referral to the House for impeachment proceedings.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 26d
I am glad to see that Senator Roger Wicker (R.-Miss.) and Senator Jack Reed (D.-R.I.), the Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, have opened an investigation into the reports of Pete Hegseth's criminal give-no-quarter order.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 26d
Concerning the clip making the rounds of Katie Miller arguing with Bakari Sellers about the Regime's give-no-quarter murder of alleged drug traffickers on the high seas:

Why is CNN putting the wife of someone who may bear accessory criminal liability for these events on a discussion panel?

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 27d
The headline is not just that Pete Hegseth issued a plainly unlawful order to intentionally slaughter survivors after an initial strike. It is also that senior military officers improperly carried out those orders.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Nov 26
say something we don't like we will abuse the rules and treat your service like dirt just to fuck with you."

Imagine how much worse that is coming from a fake-bone-spur draft dodger and a drunk washout.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Nov 26
Leaving aside the legal and constitutional arguments, important as those are, imagine how career military feel when they hear these thugs say: "You can serve honorably, even heroically; you can put in your twenty; you can embrace public service after you return to civilian life; but if you ever

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Nov 22
Please add "anything RFK Jr. has ever said or written" to the list of materials I would like excluded entirely from my life, environment and awareness.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Nov 22
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Federal Suit Seeking Names of Some Jewish Employees at Penn Sparks Backlash
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Nov 22
The Regime is demanding lists of Jews at the institution where I work.