Kathy Stanchi
@katstanchi.bsky.social
Law prof, animal lover, yogi, feminist, BLM, 🌈, nature is my church, broken irony meter. Vegas transplant via Jersey. Gen X feral child. Would swim all the time if I could. #resist
Horrible. This is one of the most special hikes I’ve ever done in a country filled with treasures.
Heli vid from last night of the fire at Mangatepopo in Tongariro National Park.
Devastating in our premier national park.
Please stay away so firefighters can do their jobs...
#RuapehuNZ #CruisingSH4 #Tongariro
Devastating in our premier national park.
Please stay away so firefighters can do their jobs...
#RuapehuNZ #CruisingSH4 #Tongariro
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Horrible. This is one of the most special hikes I’ve ever done in a country filled with treasures.
C’mon ladies. This list is too short! Let’s roll up our sleeves and fuck some shit up FOR REAL
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
C’mon ladies. This list is too short! Let’s roll up our sleeves and fuck some shit up FOR REAL
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I get to work with these local heroes lasvegasweekly.com/news/2025/oc...
UNLV Immigration Clinic lawyers Alissa Cooley Yonesawa and Melissa Corral defend the most vulnerable
Approximately 443 people are in immigrant detention in Southern Nevada as of September 15.
lasvegasweekly.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I get to work with these local heroes lasvegasweekly.com/news/2025/oc...
I've canceled spotify. I don't know why I had any faith that some businesses and services might not willfully support this madness. #wrongagain I'm running out of places to buy stuff, which I guess isn't a terrible thing. I'm saving money! www.the-express.com/entertainmen...
Spotify users launch boycott after platform refuses to stop ICE support
Spotify users have been left outraged as they launch a boycott of the platform after adverts supporting ICE have been playing to users.
www.the-express.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I've canceled spotify. I don't know why I had any faith that some businesses and services might not willfully support this madness. #wrongagain I'm running out of places to buy stuff, which I guess isn't a terrible thing. I'm saving money! www.the-express.com/entertainmen...
My heart is full.
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
My heart is full.
Ezra Klein - hey ladies can you die for democracy please? Especially poor rural women of color, cause, ya know, you’re kinda expendable. Hard pass, dude.
Ezra Klein 🤝 Neera Tanden
Despite the overwhelming popularity of abortion rights in all states, we should surrender instead
Despite the overwhelming popularity of abortion rights in all states, we should surrender instead
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Ezra Klein - hey ladies can you die for democracy please? Especially poor rural women of color, cause, ya know, you’re kinda expendable. Hard pass, dude.
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Disney has lost nearly $4 Billion in three days from combined stock price collapse and cancelled subscriptions.
September 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Disney has lost nearly $4 Billion in three days from combined stock price collapse and cancelled subscriptions.
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New from me:
There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo.
Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post.
Read and judge for yourself.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo.
Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post.
Read and judge for yourself.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
Why Washington Post fired me
Read the official termination letter for yourself.
open.substack.com
September 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
New from me:
There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo.
Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post.
Read and judge for yourself.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo.
Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post.
Read and judge for yourself.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
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We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.
September 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.
This is today’s @nytimes.com front page. WTEF. Later in the middle of the piece, the article notes that Cox “did not … offer details to substantiate his views.” SO WHY ARE THEY THE HEADLINE?
September 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This is today’s @nytimes.com front page. WTEF. Later in the middle of the piece, the article notes that Cox “did not … offer details to substantiate his views.” SO WHY ARE THEY THE HEADLINE?
Yeah, we all know how much we can trust Brett Kavanaugh to tell the truth.
But—but—Brett Kavanaugh SAID
September 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Yeah, we all know how much we can trust Brett Kavanaugh to tell the truth.
Noem v. Perdomo clearly shows that SCOTUS's whole "colorblind" thing is subterfuge for pure racism. Hey John "the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race" Roberts -- your legacy will be as tainted as Taney's. And deservedly so. Disgusted.
September 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Noem v. Perdomo clearly shows that SCOTUS's whole "colorblind" thing is subterfuge for pure racism. Hey John "the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race" Roberts -- your legacy will be as tainted as Taney's. And deservedly so. Disgusted.
I needed this today.
September 4, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I needed this today.
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I'm not going to try to excerpt this article because there's so much good stuff in it. (Those who follow me know I'm close with the family since Bajun Sr and I went to high school together.) Just please read and share.
Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice
Legal experts say the charges against Afghanistan war veteran Bajun Mavalwalla II mark an escalation in the Trump administration’s crackdown on first amendment rights
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I'm not going to try to excerpt this article because there's so much good stuff in it. (Those who follow me know I'm close with the family since Bajun Sr and I went to high school together.) Just please read and share.
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Inside the CDC director’s ouster: Kennedy demanded acceptance of new vaccine policies; Susan Monarez refused www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c... via @statnews.com @danielpayne.bsky.social
Inside the CDC director's ouster: Kennedy demanded acceptance of new vaccine policies; Susan Monarez refused
Susan Monarez’s resistance to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s moves to assert control over vaccine guidance is at the center of her dismissal as CDC director
www.statnews.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Inside the CDC director’s ouster: Kennedy demanded acceptance of new vaccine policies; Susan Monarez refused www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c... via @statnews.com @danielpayne.bsky.social
I am so beyond tired of capitulation. Screw this so damn hard. Maybe people should just, I dunno, read?
It would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses.
August 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I am so beyond tired of capitulation. Screw this so damn hard. Maybe people should just, I dunno, read?
Color me surprised. Many women complained about Brian Kohberger and nothing was done. When will universities listen to us? I know litigation isn't often a solution but I hope some enterprising lawyer kicks the 💩 out of the administrators who ignored these warnings. www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/u...
Bryan Kohberger described as creepy, domineering by college peers in months before Idaho killings, newly released files show | CNN
In the days and weeks after Bryan Kohberger was arrested in connection with the brutal killings of four undergrads at the University of Idaho, students and instructors at nearby Washington State Unive...
www.cnn.com
August 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Color me surprised. Many women complained about Brian Kohberger and nothing was done. When will universities listen to us? I know litigation isn't often a solution but I hope some enterprising lawyer kicks the 💩 out of the administrators who ignored these warnings. www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/u...
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Relatedly, I invite you to look up "vagrancy laws" of the post-Civil War south.
REPORTER: Why are troops stationed here at Union Station and at the National Mall instead of areas where crime is higher?
JD VANCE: Crime is actually extremely high here at Union Station. You have vagrants.
JD VANCE: Crime is actually extremely high here at Union Station. You have vagrants.
August 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Relatedly, I invite you to look up "vagrancy laws" of the post-Civil War south.
If you want to learn more about how immigration policies impact our community, this book by my colleague @michaelgkagan.bsky.social is informative and filled with compassion and heartbreak. Just reissued for obvious reasons. We humans sure are slow learners. unpress.nevada.edu/978194890851...
August 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
If you want to learn more about how immigration policies impact our community, this book by my colleague @michaelgkagan.bsky.social is informative and filled with compassion and heartbreak. Just reissued for obvious reasons. We humans sure are slow learners. unpress.nevada.edu/978194890851...
Whut
August 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Whut
Wow full on threats
Noem: "What you saw happen in Texas was much more how FEMA will look in the future."
July 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Wow full on threats
That Bove is still a member of the bar in good standing is atrocious. As a lawyer, I’m embarrassed to be in the same profession.
I'm sorry, nine HUNDRED former DOJ lawyers all signed this letter opposing Emil Bove's nomination to be an appellate federal judge?
900?!
900?!
July 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
That Bove is still a member of the bar in good standing is atrocious. As a lawyer, I’m embarrassed to be in the same profession.
In the any resistance is good resistance column: consider, if you ever buy on Etsy, reporting shops that are selling Alligator Alcatraz merch. The proliferation of this garbage is disgusting and Etsy’s policies prohibit hate speech, items that promote violence, and harassment.
July 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
In the any resistance is good resistance column: consider, if you ever buy on Etsy, reporting shops that are selling Alligator Alcatraz merch. The proliferation of this garbage is disgusting and Etsy’s policies prohibit hate speech, items that promote violence, and harassment.
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Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated).
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
Here we go again: Over an acerbic dissenting opinion by Justice Sotomayor (joined in full by Justices Kagan and Jackson), #SCOTUS, with no explanation, grants a stay in the Department of Education RIFs case—effectively clearing the way for the Trump administration to dismantle much of the agency:
www.supremecourt.gov
July 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated).
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*