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Joanna Grossman
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Law professor. Three-boy mom. Aging, decrepit ultrarunner. Social justice warrior. Dream is to own a fluffy cow.

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Joanna Grossman @joannagrossman.bsky.social · 2h
Ironic source on the subject of the appropriate time to step back from the public eye.
blakeprof.bsky.social Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 2h
Why is Jeffrey Toobin back?

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 2h
Why is Jeffrey Toobin back?

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 5h
Big: Wyoming supreme court just struck down abortion ban.

And get this: The reason is a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare!

Quite the backfire. We explained this lawsuit a few years back:
How Attacks Against Obamacare Turned Into Tools to Protect Abortion Access  - Bolts
Explore our ongoing Bolts series, Abortion Rights in State Constitutions. A decade ago, when conservatives were attacking President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act as government encroachment in hea...
boltsmag.org

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 23h
She is so desperate to infect children, she hallucinates meaningful patterns in random variations and doesn’t even know how viruses are diagnosed.

I wrote about this summer 2021…

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1d
thegrio.com/2026/01/04/d...
Dr. Janell Green Smith, a midwife who advocated for Black maternal health, dies of childbirth complications
Dr. Janell Green Smith, a South Carolina midwife and advocate for Black maternal health, has died due to complications during childbirth.
thegrio.com

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Joanna Grossman @joannagrossman.bsky.social · 3d
Yale Law School should be forced to account for this bozo’s lack of understanding about basic legal principles.

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Joanna Grossman @joannagrossman.bsky.social · 3d
Congrats!

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 3d
Trump had "insisted that he had nothing to do with the far-right vision for his second administration known as Project 2025, a Christian-nationalist blueprint to remake the federal government."

Trump admin has implemented half of Project 2025. Including assault on DEI.

azmirror.com/2026/01/02/h...
How much of Project 2025 has actually been accomplished?
How much of Project 2025 has actually been accomplished in its namesake year, the first of President Trump's second term.
azmirror.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d
Bigger than Teapot Dome in terms of scandals, but in the age of Trump, it doesn't even raise an eyebrow: Karen Budd-Falen, the No. 3 at the Interior Department, didn’t disclose a $3.5m water-rights contract between her husband and the developers of a Nevada mine approved by Interior.
The Trump Administration Approved a Big Lithium Mine. A Top Official’s Husband Profited.
www.nytimes.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3d
Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 3d
This is incredibly worth reading in light of what is happening now and the basis on which Trump and Rubio are pursuing charges against Maduro.
The Narco-Terrorist Elite - The American Prospect
Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?
prospect.org

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 3d
NEW: The anonymous "researcher" in Nick Shirley's viral "fraud" video--treated as a concerned citizen on Fox News and elsewhere--is actually a Minnesota state lobbyist and political activist who worked with a GOP House staffer to provide Shirley info/

theintercept.com/2026/01/03/m...
Unnamed Source in Viral Minnesota Somali Fraud Video Is Right-Wing Lobbyist Who Called Muslims “Demons”
David Hoch, who goes by his first name in Nick Shirley’s video allegedly exposing Somali fraud, referred to “demon Muslims” on social media.
theintercept.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 4d
My latest is up!

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
The Year America Broke Open
It would be silly to pretend that 2025 was not among the most challenging years this country has faced in modern times.
open.substack.com

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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 5d
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 8d
Speaking of typos, someone should direct Ms. Dhillon to U.S. v. Murphy, 406 F.3d 857, 859 n.1 (7th Cir. 2005), aka the greatest footnote in appellate court history.
scholar.google.com/scholar_case...
Tweet by Dhillon calling conservative influencers “hoes”. “The trial transcript quotes Ms. Hayden as saying Murphy called her a snitch bitch "hoe." A "hoe," of course, is a tool used for weeding and gardening. We think the court reporter, unfamiliar with rap music (perhaps thankfully so), misunderstood Hayden's response. We have taken the liberty of changing "hoe" to "ho," a staple of rap music vernacular as, for example, when Ludacris raps "You doin' ho activities with ho tendencies."”

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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 8d
A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.
What researchers have discovered about maternal, infant health under Texas' abortion laws
In the more than four years since the state of Texas significantly restricted access to abortion, medical researchers have been studying the health effects of that policy change.
medicalxpress.com

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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 9d
Subbing in for the incomparable @velshi.com this morning on @velshimsnow.bsky.social on @msnowreports.bsky.social! Join us!

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 9d
On this day in 1894, Burnita Shelton Matthews was born. She became a suffragist, lawyer, and advocate for repealing the thousands of laws that discriminated against women. She helped end women’s exclusion from juries in D.C. In 1949, she became the first female federal district judge. #WeTheMen
Burnita Shelton Matthews

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Joanna Grossman @joannagrossman.bsky.social · 11d
It’s like an MLM that doesn’t sell anything. I don’t get it.

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NPR @npr.org · 11d
After his mom died, Fry Bread author Kevin Maillard found himself wondering, "but where did she go?" So he wrote about it. His new kids' book is And They Walk On, illustrated by Rafael López.
When a loved one dies, where do they go? A new kids' book suggests 'They Walk On'
After his mom died, Fry Bread author Kevin Maillard found himself wondering, "but where did she go?" So he wrote about it. His new kids' book is And They Walk On, illustrated by Rafael López.
n.pr

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Joanna Grossman @joannagrossman.bsky.social · 11d
I’m half Jewish, so I went to a movie today but did not eat Chinese food.

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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 13d
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 13d
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 13d
The rule of law is under threat
philipmai.com Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 13d
"Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment & threats have changed their lives. More than 100 pizzas were delivered to the homes of judges & their families this year, some with signs of foreign involvement. Judges say the message is clear: We know where you live." www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives
More than 100 pizzas were delivered to the homes of judges and their families this year, some with signs of foreign involvement. Judges say the message is clear: We know where you live.
www.nbcnews.com

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CNN @cnn.com · 13d
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 14d
NYT shows how Bari Weiss really screwed this up.

She didn't attend any of the 5 screenings of the story, which began on Dec. 12.

She only first weighed in on Thursday, and the show incorporated her suggestions.

She then waited until weekend to ask for more edits.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...
Turmoil at CBS News After Bari Weiss Pulls a ‘60 Minutes’ Segment
www.nytimes.com

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 14d
Belatedly, this line from Weiss' memo is...something

Let's get someone who says banishing to CECOT was legit, she says

Here's the thing: There's a consensus among legal experts that *wasn't* legit

You can find someone who says moon is made outta Fluffernutter. Doesn't mean you should quote 'em

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Joanna Grossman @joannagrossman.bsky.social · 14d
It is truly sickening.

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Joanna Grossman @joannagrossman.bsky.social · 14d
Hot take: if you don’t know how to redact a PDF, you probably shouldn’t be running the federal government’s law enforcement agency.
truthfuljai.bsky.social Jai: Lover of ALL forms of Black Joy @truthfuljai.bsky.social · 14d
It is. You can actually search visible text on the redacted documents and the completely UNredacted document appears in the results 😭
(along with other young girls) to such powerful people were to ingratiate himself with them for business, personal, political, and financial gain, as well as to obtain potential blackmail information. relations with was| One such powerful individual that Epstein forced then-minor Jane Doe #3 to have sexual , a close friend of Epstein's Epstein required Jane Doe #3 to have sexual relations with on numerous occasions while she was a minor, not only in Florida but also on private planes, in New York, New Mexico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In addition to being a participant in the abuse of Jane Doe #3 and other minors, was an eye-witness to the sexual abuse of many other minors by Epstein and several of Epstein's co-conspirators. would later play a significant role in negotiating the NPA on Epstein's behalf. Indeed, helped negotiate an agreement that provided immunity from federal prosecution in the Southern District of Florida not only to Epstein, but also to "any potential co- conspirators of Epstein." NPA at 5. Thus, | helped negotiate an agreement with a provision that provided protection for himself against criminal prosecution in Florida for sexually abusing Jane Doe #3. Because this broad immunity would have been controversial if disclosed, (along with other members of Epstein's defense team and the Government tried to keep the immunity provision secret from all of Epstein's victims and the general public, even though such secrecy violated the Crime Victims' Rights Act. Ghislaine Maxwell was another person in Epstein's inner circle and a co-conspirator in Epstein's sexual abuse. She was someone who consequently also appreciated the immunity granted by the NPA for the crimes she committed in Florida. In addition to participating in the 4 (along with other young girls) to such powerful people were to ingratiate himself with them for business, personal, political, and financial gain, as well | as to obtain potential blackmail information. One such powerful individual that Epstein forced then-minor Jane Doe #3 to have sexual relations with was former Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, a close friend of Epstein's and well-known criminal defense attorney. Epstein required Jane Doe #3 to have sexual relations with Dershowitz on numerous occasions while she was a minor, not only in Florida but also on private planes, in New York, New Mexico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In addition to being a participant in the abuse of Jane Doe #3 and other minors, Deshowitz was an eye-witness to the sexual abuse of many other minors by Epstein and several of Epstein's co-conspirators. Dershowitz would later play a significant role in negotiating the NPA on Epstein's behalf. Indeed, Dershowitz helped negotiate an agreement that provided immunity from federal prosecution in the Southern District of Florida not only to Epstein, but also to "any potential co- conspirators of Epstein." NPA at 5. Thus, Dershowitz helped negotiate an agreement with a provision that provided protection for himself against criminal prosecution in Florida for sexually abusing Jane Doe #3. Because this broad immunity would have been controversial if disclosed, Dershowitz (along with other members of Epstein's defense team) and the Government tried to keep the immunity provision secret from all of Epstein's victims and the general public, even though such secrecy violated the Crime Victims' Rights Act. Ghislaine Maxwell was another person in Epstein's inner circle and a co-conspirator in Epstein's sexual abuse. She was someone who consequently also appreciated the immunity granted by the NPA for the crimes she committed in Florida. In addition to participating in the 4

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 14d
Wisconsin billboard sponsored by the Jackson County Democratic Party (via @thetnholler.bsky.social)
Billboard from Wisconsin’s Jackson County Democratic Party: MAGA Tariffs Are Destroying Our Family Farms, showing a farmer standing in a field with his head in his hands

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14d
Flight records show Trump "traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware)," an assistant US attorney from the Southern District of New York wrote in an email dated January 8, 2020.