Leonore (Lee) Carpenter
@leecarpenter.bsky.social
Rutgers Law prof. Into democracy, dogs, and cheese. Knows about LGBTQ+ rights, public interest lawyering, legal ethics, state constitutions, LRW. Too insubordinate for autocracy. 🏳️🌈
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Someone should write an alternate historical novel where Stephen Miller’s parents never met.
December 29, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Someone should write an alternate historical novel where Stephen Miller’s parents never met.
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
December 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
This Frank Sinatra? The one who made a ten-minute short film about religious pluralism? The one who refused to play segregated venues?
Stephen Miller once again proving himself to be the most fetid piece of trash in the entire dumpster.
youtube.com/shorts/wqk7x...
Stephen Miller once again proving himself to be the most fetid piece of trash in the entire dumpster.
youtube.com/shorts/wqk7x...
December 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This Frank Sinatra? The one who made a ten-minute short film about religious pluralism? The one who refused to play segregated venues?
Stephen Miller once again proving himself to be the most fetid piece of trash in the entire dumpster.
youtube.com/shorts/wqk7x...
Stephen Miller once again proving himself to be the most fetid piece of trash in the entire dumpster.
youtube.com/shorts/wqk7x...
Once again, I must remind everyone that the best way to renew my interest in a segment of a show I last watched with my grandpa in 1979 is to censor that segment.
December 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Once again, I must remind everyone that the best way to renew my interest in a segment of a show I last watched with my grandpa in 1979 is to censor that segment.
The real question is how this wasn’t already a word.
Not for the first time, the signature block for Self-Proclaimed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan spelled it “Virgina.”
December 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The real question is how this wasn’t already a word.
This bullshit is putting pressure on my first-year students to somehow produce a "writing sample" out of the ether, and I'm getting very stabby over it. No, they don't have a writing sample. The first thing I assigned to them as a diagnostic of their skills incoming is not a writing sample. Just no.
Duuuuuuuuumb
Sorry for not offering better analysis
Sorry for not offering better analysis
In a first, many top law firms this year are recruiting summer associates during students' first semester. Some are dangling ‘jumbo offers’ and ‘loyalty’ bonuses for students who do two summer stints back-to-back, keeping them out of other firms' reach reut.rs/44U44cD
December 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This bullshit is putting pressure on my first-year students to somehow produce a "writing sample" out of the ether, and I'm getting very stabby over it. No, they don't have a writing sample. The first thing I assigned to them as a diagnostic of their skills incoming is not a writing sample. Just no.
2008 had too much dignity to participate in this farce.
For anyone worried AI will replace all of us.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
December 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
2008 had too much dignity to participate in this farce.
Trump Derangement Syndrome’s most afflicted victim remains Donald Trump.
December 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Trump Derangement Syndrome’s most afflicted victim remains Donald Trump.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
1) Do these people have any idea who John Adams was married to?
2) Ambitious, intellectual conservative women feel politically homeless because they are. Conservatism is inherently sexist. It will never treat women as equals.
3 Leopards, faces, blah blah.
1) Do these people have any idea who John Adams was married to?
2) Ambitious, intellectual conservative women feel politically homeless because they are. Conservatism is inherently sexist. It will never treat women as equals.
3 Leopards, faces, blah blah.
‘For the Reinvention of Man’: How a Conservative Debating Society at Harvard Pushed Women From Its Ranks | News | The Harvard Crimson
The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
www.thecrimson.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
1) Do these people have any idea who John Adams was married to?
2) Ambitious, intellectual conservative women feel politically homeless because they are. Conservatism is inherently sexist. It will never treat women as equals.
3 Leopards, faces, blah blah.
1) Do these people have any idea who John Adams was married to?
2) Ambitious, intellectual conservative women feel politically homeless because they are. Conservatism is inherently sexist. It will never treat women as equals.
3 Leopards, faces, blah blah.
This is the line he uses to view the films that provide inspiration for his Warrior Ethos. Films such as "Rough Rider," "Midnight Hammer, and "No Beardos."
We also need to know what he used this line for, besides taking orders from Moscow.
apnews.com/article/hegs...
apnews.com/article/hegs...
Hegseth had an unsecured internet line set up in his office to connect to Signal, AP sources say
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer.
apnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This is the line he uses to view the films that provide inspiration for his Warrior Ethos. Films such as "Rough Rider," "Midnight Hammer, and "No Beardos."
If I were provost at Texas Tech right now I would be considering whether my feet were cute enough for an OnlyFans page.
December 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
If I were provost at Texas Tech right now I would be considering whether my feet were cute enough for an OnlyFans page.
Honestly, the strategic incompetence of this administration gives me great comfort. By targeting Mark Kelly, they have elevated the visibility of an extremely effective communicator who would be hugely threatening to them as a centrist presidential candidate.
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Honestly, the strategic incompetence of this administration gives me great comfort. By targeting Mark Kelly, they have elevated the visibility of an extremely effective communicator who would be hugely threatening to them as a centrist presidential candidate.
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I join the chorus of people from Philly and beyond in thanking @houlahan.house.gov, as well as @deluzio.house.gov and the other four members of Congress targeted by Donald Trump, for your unwavering defense of our Constitution.
There must be no place in our country for political violence. (1/2)
There must be no place in our country for political violence. (1/2)
Fear is contagious, but so is courage. I remain steadfast in my oath to the Constitution and am grateful to those across the nation who stand with us. Don't give up the ship.
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I join the chorus of people from Philly and beyond in thanking @houlahan.house.gov, as well as @deluzio.house.gov and the other four members of Congress targeted by Donald Trump, for your unwavering defense of our Constitution.
There must be no place in our country for political violence. (1/2)
There must be no place in our country for political violence. (1/2)
Americans who know that Puerto Ricans are Americans: “Why can’t other Americans understand that Puerto Ricans are Americans?”
NYT:
NYT:
November 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Americans who know that Puerto Ricans are Americans: “Why can’t other Americans understand that Puerto Ricans are Americans?”
NYT:
NYT:
Here’s me wondering why I’m exhausted and then realizing it might be because this being Inaugural Micropenis Week is not even the weirdest thing that happened in the last five days.
November 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Here’s me wondering why I’m exhausted and then realizing it might be because this being Inaugural Micropenis Week is not even the weirdest thing that happened in the last five days.
I do not understand anything that is happening here, the most glaring of which is that Trump sounds like a relatively normal person.
Q: would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration ?
TRUMP: I would. I really would.
TRUMP: I would. I really would.
November 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I do not understand anything that is happening here, the most glaring of which is that Trump sounds like a relatively normal person.
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Shame on Rep. Clay Higgins & shame on anyone who thinks this is acceptable.
This man didn’t just cast the lone “no” vote on exposing a global sex-trafficking network… he also grabbed a citizen for daring to ask a question he didn’t like. I hope this young man presses charges.
This man didn’t just cast the lone “no” vote on exposing a global sex-trafficking network… he also grabbed a citizen for daring to ask a question he didn’t like. I hope this young man presses charges.
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Shame on Rep. Clay Higgins & shame on anyone who thinks this is acceptable.
This man didn’t just cast the lone “no” vote on exposing a global sex-trafficking network… he also grabbed a citizen for daring to ask a question he didn’t like. I hope this young man presses charges.
This man didn’t just cast the lone “no” vote on exposing a global sex-trafficking network… he also grabbed a citizen for daring to ask a question he didn’t like. I hope this young man presses charges.
Are Women Ruining the Workplace?
Of course it's trite, but imagine if Biden or Obama said this to a reporter?!
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Are Women Ruining the Workplace?
There are a lot of people on here today flipping out at the possibility that other people on here might be giving Rep. Jewish Space Lasers credit for anything. To those people, I remind you that the Allies could not have won WWII without the USSR, so maybe make some tea and just breathe through it.
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
There are a lot of people on here today flipping out at the possibility that other people on here might be giving Rep. Jewish Space Lasers credit for anything. To those people, I remind you that the Allies could not have won WWII without the USSR, so maybe make some tea and just breathe through it.
Absofuckinglutely
The fact that @harvard.edu's Larry Summers is teaching three courses this semester while Texas A&M Professor Melissa McCoul was fired tells you all you need to know about what "gender ideology" is allowed and which is not. @aaup.org
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
November 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Absofuckinglutely
Today I read that Cecil Rhodes said "I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.” And this made Elon Musk snap into historical context in a very specific way.
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Today I read that Cecil Rhodes said "I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.” And this made Elon Musk snap into historical context in a very specific way.
I invite you to join me in imagining the cover art on these VHS tapes.
November 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I invite you to join me in imagining the cover art on these VHS tapes.
The GOP is going to see some seemingly inexplicable erosion of support across different subsets of the 45-64 crowd and it’s going to turn out to be entirely parents of 15 year old girls.
November 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The GOP is going to see some seemingly inexplicable erosion of support across different subsets of the 45-64 crowd and it’s going to turn out to be entirely parents of 15 year old girls.
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Dave McCormick says John Fetterman will ‘probably’ leave hospital Saturday as GOP floods the Democrat with well wishes
Dave McCormick, Karoline Leavitt and Mehmet Oz were among those sending good vibes to the Democratic senator after he was hospitalized this week after a heart issue caused him to fall.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Someone help me understand the double commas.
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Someone help me understand the double commas.