Kate Silbaugh, Professor at BU Law
@katesilbaugh.bsky.social
Focus on youth on social media, youth voting, youth and nicotine, youth in sports, family law, households, local government, politics, AI, urban planning, hoping for life after bird site
Kagan apologizes for citing herself in Paxton dissent ❤️
June 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Kagan apologizes for citing herself in Paxton dissent ❤️
Mahmoud v. Taylor upends the law allowing parents to direct their child’s education by choosing their child’s school, *not* by creating a buffet of content at the public school that parents can choose. Completely misrepresents Yoder precedent.
www.supremecourt.gov
June 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Mahmoud v. Taylor upends the law allowing parents to direct their child’s education by choosing their child’s school, *not* by creating a buffet of content at the public school that parents can choose. Completely misrepresents Yoder precedent.
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For every millionaire household that would get a tax break from Republicans’ big, ugly bill, 19 Americans would be stripped of their health coverage.
Their priorities couldn’t be clearer.
We must stop this devastating bill.
Their priorities couldn’t be clearer.
We must stop this devastating bill.
June 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
For every millionaire household that would get a tax break from Republicans’ big, ugly bill, 19 Americans would be stripped of their health coverage.
Their priorities couldn’t be clearer.
We must stop this devastating bill.
Their priorities couldn’t be clearer.
We must stop this devastating bill.
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Thrilled to host this amazing group at Drexel for another wonderful Family Law Scholars & Teachers Conference! Most grateful for the generous feedback, new ideas, and supportive community #FLSTC @drexelklinelaw.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Thrilled to host this amazing group at Drexel for another wonderful Family Law Scholars & Teachers Conference! Most grateful for the generous feedback, new ideas, and supportive community #FLSTC @drexelklinelaw.bsky.social
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Oh, you useless lib females eat BRUNCH? With FRIENDS?
Leftist vanguards of the REVOLUTION only eat BREAKFAST
ALONE
AT AN HOUR BEFORE TEN AM
Leftist vanguards of the REVOLUTION only eat BREAKFAST
ALONE
AT AN HOUR BEFORE TEN AM
April 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Oh, you useless lib females eat BRUNCH? With FRIENDS?
Leftist vanguards of the REVOLUTION only eat BREAKFAST
ALONE
AT AN HOUR BEFORE TEN AM
Leftist vanguards of the REVOLUTION only eat BREAKFAST
ALONE
AT AN HOUR BEFORE TEN AM
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They are only "Attack Plans" unless they're from the "War Plans" region of France.
This is REALLY the lame-ass defense they are going with? They were “attack plans” not “war plans”?
March 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
They are only "Attack Plans" unless they're from the "War Plans" region of France.
Cut off checks and see who complains to identify fraudsters? Why not just throw them in the lake and see if they float or sink?
BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.
March 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Cut off checks and see who complains to identify fraudsters? Why not just throw them in the lake and see if they float or sink?
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You can't just be right, you have to know you're right. Good advice for LLMs, according to new Johns Hopkins research. Sometimes no answer is better than a wrong one - life or death choices in medicine, for example, or big financial decisions. 🧵
March 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
You can't just be right, you have to know you're right. Good advice for LLMs, according to new Johns Hopkins research. Sometimes no answer is better than a wrong one - life or death choices in medicine, for example, or big financial decisions. 🧵
The Democrats face the only decisions because—in headlines—only the Democrats have agency in the federal government, even when they have no majorities and hold virtually no formal power.
March 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Debate as a form is the worst.
March 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Debate as a form is the worst.
Machine learning paper says the longer the machine thinks the better its answer; a second thought is usually more accurate.
🚨 You are only evaluating a slice of your test-time scaling model's performance! 🚨
📈 We consider how models’ confidence in their answers changes as test-time compute increases. Reasoning longer helps models answer more confidently!
📝: arxiv.org/abs/2502.13962
📈 We consider how models’ confidence in their answers changes as test-time compute increases. Reasoning longer helps models answer more confidently!
📝: arxiv.org/abs/2502.13962
February 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Machine learning paper says the longer the machine thinks the better its answer; a second thought is usually more accurate.
The Pope drops a diss track on JD Vance
When you get your Catholic teaching so wrong the pope himself has to issue a correction ☠️
MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”
February 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The Pope drops a diss track on JD Vance
Thread on the 28th Amendment by ERA scholar. It’s in.
I’m seeing a lot of confusion about the Equal Rights Amendment online.
I've been working on the ERA for 13 years & literally wrote a book about it.
So, let me help answer some questions.
1) Yes, it really is a real amendment & fully part of the U.S. Constitution. Full stop.
I've been working on the ERA for 13 years & literally wrote a book about it.
So, let me help answer some questions.
1) Yes, it really is a real amendment & fully part of the U.S. Constitution. Full stop.
January 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Thread on the 28th Amendment by ERA scholar. It’s in.
Laurence Tribe on 28th A: it is now part of the Constitution. Congress’s date is not binding. To be binding, it would need to be in the Amendment text, per S Ct case law known before Congress of 1960s/70s ratified, and Congress chose not to put deadline where it would have power.Celebrate the 28th!
The Equal Rights Amendment at Long Last
Thanks to President Biden, the Constitution will finally guarantee equality for all
open.substack.com
January 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Laurence Tribe on 28th A: it is now part of the Constitution. Congress’s date is not binding. To be binding, it would need to be in the Amendment text, per S Ct case law known before Congress of 1960s/70s ratified, and Congress chose not to put deadline where it would have power.Celebrate the 28th!
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Check out Stanford Law School professor Deborah Siva’s discussion of the LA fires, climate change, and insurance nightmares.
California Burning: LA Fires, Climate Change, and Insurance Nightmares with Environmental Lawyer Debbie Sivas | Stanford Law School
In this episode, Professor Deborah Sivas joins Pam Karlan for a discussion on California's fire crisis, examining how climate change and urban development are making residents more susceptible to the…
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January 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Check out Stanford Law School professor Deborah Siva’s discussion of the LA fires, climate change, and insurance nightmares.
our furniture and construction materials are full of plastic even when it doesn’t look that way. Plastic burns faster (harder to escape) and is more toxic in the smoke.
What Happens When a Plastic City Burns
Most modern couches are basically blocks of gasoline.
www.theatlantic.com
January 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
our furniture and construction materials are full of plastic even when it doesn’t look that way. Plastic burns faster (harder to escape) and is more toxic in the smoke.
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hello darkness my old friend
January 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
hello darkness my old friend
Doing this on the exact Date of January 20 is the Jimmy Carter tribute I know I need, and I would guess it could be just the thing for a whole lot of people
I would love to see a bunch of musical artists and celebrities put on a nationally televised tribute concert for Pres. Jimmy Carter on inauguration day with all proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity.
December 30, 2024 at 5:45 AM
Doing this on the exact Date of January 20 is the Jimmy Carter tribute I know I need, and I would guess it could be just the thing for a whole lot of people
“By every metric, Bidenomics was a roaring success.” The issues then are not economic? Alternatives: social/cultural, psychological, or informational?
"The strong economy and tight labor markets that Biden has overseen have dealt workers their best hand in decades."
From @brycecovert.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/1892...
From @brycecovert.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/1892...
Bidenomics Was Wildly Successful
The president’s domestic record wasn’t just extraordinary. It might put Democrats back in power in four years.
newrepublic.com
December 17, 2024 at 2:39 PM
“By every metric, Bidenomics was a roaring success.” The issues then are not economic? Alternatives: social/cultural, psychological, or informational?
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I think one reason why a lot of women resist feminist insights about the extent and vehemence of men’s misogyny is that they can’t accept how stupid it is.
December 17, 2024 at 2:51 AM
I think one reason why a lot of women resist feminist insights about the extent and vehemence of men’s misogyny is that they can’t accept how stupid it is.
Forthcoming from my amazing colleague Aziza Ahmed.bluesky.social
December 14, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Forthcoming from my amazing colleague Aziza Ahmed.bluesky.social
The new Brolagarchy
The official portraits of the 17 House Republicans elected to chair committees in the 119th Congress:
December 14, 2024 at 4:35 PM
The new Brolagarchy
1/2 More people should talk about this: both houses of Congress have passed the ERA, and 38 states have ratified it. That makes it an amendment. Congress has put additional conditions of a time limit on an already absurdly difficult amendment process.
Gillibrand Presses Biden to Amend the Constitution to Enshrine Sex Equality
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is leading the charge for Democrats to persuade President Biden to adopt the Equal Rights Amendment, which would invite a Supreme Court battle.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 10:27 PM
1/2 More people should talk about this: both houses of Congress have passed the ERA, and 38 states have ratified it. That makes it an amendment. Congress has put additional conditions of a time limit on an already absurdly difficult amendment process.
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For better or worse, I think New World contracts are here to stay. Given my view that consumer consent is a fiction, contract law should be retooled with this understanding in mind. This means far more guardrails on contracts to address power asymmetries.
Oh that's interesting; I'd say (and we argue) that contract law thinks the right model is old world contracts and worries that real world contracts are the dominant experience (and should thus be resisted and rebooted). New World Contracting isn't a practice that folks have thought a ton about.
December 12, 2024 at 11:18 PM
For better or worse, I think New World contracts are here to stay. Given my view that consumer consent is a fiction, contract law should be retooled with this understanding in mind. This means far more guardrails on contracts to address power asymmetries.