Rose Casey
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Rose Casey
@rosecasey.bsky.social
· Apr 15
Available for preorder, Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style is out from Fordham on 7/1/25.
I analyze property law expansively, across Nigeria, India, South Africa, and the English Atlantic, to argue that both legal and literary innovations are undoing law's colonial legacies.
I analyze property law expansively, across Nigeria, India, South Africa, and the English Atlantic, to argue that both legal and literary innovations are undoing law's colonial legacies.
So the @nytimes.com knew about DJT, Epstein, and sex-trafficked girls & young women in 2015 but refused to publish the story?
There's so much that the NYT does that's deeply morally questionable & decidedly non-neutral, so I don't know why I keep being surprised at their poor editorial decisions!
There's so much that the NYT does that's deeply morally questionable & decidedly non-neutral, so I don't know why I keep being surprised at their poor editorial decisions!
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
So the @nytimes.com knew about DJT, Epstein, and sex-trafficked girls & young women in 2015 but refused to publish the story?
There's so much that the NYT does that's deeply morally questionable & decidedly non-neutral, so I don't know why I keep being surprised at their poor editorial decisions!
There's so much that the NYT does that's deeply morally questionable & decidedly non-neutral, so I don't know why I keep being surprised at their poor editorial decisions!
I had such a wonderful two-day visit to Kenyon this week to talk about my book!
Ask me to visit your campus!
Ask me to visit your campus!
November 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I had such a wonderful two-day visit to Kenyon this week to talk about my book!
Ask me to visit your campus!
Ask me to visit your campus!
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Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
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BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the Trump administration likely illegally suspended SNAP benefits, ruling that at least reduced distribution is required to go forward under law using the $6 billion reserve fund.
Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
![UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS ET AL.,
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ET AL.,
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Civil Action No. 1:25-cv-13165-IT
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
October 31, 2025
TALWANI, D.J.
Pending before the court is Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order [Doc.
No. 3] seeking to enjoin, on an emergency basis, Defendants' November 1, 2025 suspension of benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ("SNAP"). For the reasons stated
below, Plaintiffs have standing to bring this action and are likely to succeed on their claim that
Defendants' suspension of SNAP benefits is unlawful. Where that suspension of benefits rested
on an erroneous construction of the relevant statutory provisions, the court will allow Defendants
to consider whether they will authorize at least reduced SNAP benefits for November, and report
back to the court no later than Monday, November 3, 2025.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiczapq36myqhzcrdp4jfodg5rkso7nuvlta4e5b5r4l5upce7b3le@jpeg)
![As both parties acknowledge, Congress has not yet appropriated any new funds for SNAP
benefits for Fiscal Year 2026, which began on October 1, 2025. Pls.' Mem. 6 [Doc. No. 4];
Defs.' Opp'n 7 [Doc. No. 18]. But Congress took steps to protect against the deprivation of
SNAP assistance. In the 2024 Consolidated Appropriations Act, Pub. L. No. 118-42, § 6, 138
Stat. 25, 93-94, Congress separately appropriated $6 billion to the SNAP program "to remain available through September 30, 2026" and "be placed in reserve for use only in such amounts and at such times as may become necessary to carry out program operations." See also Pub. L.
No. 119-4, § 1101(a), 139 Stat. 9, 10 (2025). As Plaintiffs point out, given the mandatory nature
of SNAP benefits under 7 U.S.C. § 2014(a) and the appropriation of these funds to be available
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Case 1:25-cv-13165-IT
Document 26 Filed 10/31/25
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through this current fiscal year, the government is obligated to use this contingent reserve
account to fund SNAP "as may become necessary to carry out program operations." 138 Stat. at
93-94; Pls.' Mem. 11 [Doc. No. 4].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiac7aa6icx44x5xjkilpwj7il5oriyttttnrslzrhkwvw6b32cbnm@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the Trump administration likely illegally suspended SNAP benefits, ruling that at least reduced distribution is required to go forward under law using the $6 billion reserve fund.
Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
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So there is a new article out about grade inflation at a certain school and people think it's funny that students told the student paper that the report was stressful and here's why I don't think it's funny
A friend of mine killed herself my senior year
It is a high pressure place
and
A friend of mine killed herself my senior year
It is a high pressure place
and
October 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
So there is a new article out about grade inflation at a certain school and people think it's funny that students told the student paper that the report was stressful and here's why I don't think it's funny
A friend of mine killed herself my senior year
It is a high pressure place
and
A friend of mine killed herself my senior year
It is a high pressure place
and
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may I recommend having your library order @rosecasey.bsky.social 's book
October 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
may I recommend having your library order @rosecasey.bsky.social 's book
I'm so excited about this book!
@ryantopper.bsky.social's Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is out from SUNY UP now
@ryantopper.bsky.social's Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is out from SUNY UP now
October 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I'm so excited about this book!
@ryantopper.bsky.social's Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is out from SUNY UP now
@ryantopper.bsky.social's Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is out from SUNY UP now
An amazing feature of raising two boys almost entirely on my own: seeing that bond only grow after my eldest left for college, our mutual respect blossoming. It's especially gratifying that my simultaneously arty/macho fashion designer college kid newly sees me & my feminist parenting so positively.
October 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
An amazing feature of raising two boys almost entirely on my own: seeing that bond only grow after my eldest left for college, our mutual respect blossoming. It's especially gratifying that my simultaneously arty/macho fashion designer college kid newly sees me & my feminist parenting so positively.
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Important update from two months into my “experiment” (lol) assigning college juniors and seniors to read whole physical books and then having a seminar where they use the physical book and physical notebooks and their ideas and questions to fill three hours of class time:
It rules
It rules
October 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Important update from two months into my “experiment” (lol) assigning college juniors and seniors to read whole physical books and then having a seminar where they use the physical book and physical notebooks and their ideas and questions to fill three hours of class time:
It rules
It rules
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Happy official publication day to Close Reading for the Twenty- First Century
October 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Happy official publication day to Close Reading for the Twenty- First Century
Okay, one more follow up: we know that associate profs often end up not far ahead of assistant profs. Has anyone had success (via legal or internal pressure) addressing situations when most assoc. profs in a dept have lower salaries than asst. profs? Or do we (academia) just accept this?
Academics, I'm looking for any successful cases of challenging salary inversion/compression, including methods (internal persuasion, legal, etc.) DMs are open!
October 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Okay, one more follow up: we know that associate profs often end up not far ahead of assistant profs. Has anyone had success (via legal or internal pressure) addressing situations when most assoc. profs in a dept have lower salaries than asst. profs? Or do we (academia) just accept this?
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Academics, I'm looking for any successful cases of challenging salary inversion/compression, including methods (internal persuasion, legal, etc.) DMs are open!
October 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Academics, I'm looking for any successful cases of challenging salary inversion/compression, including methods (internal persuasion, legal, etc.) DMs are open!
Academics, I'm looking for any successful cases of challenging salary inversion/compression, including methods (internal persuasion, legal, etc.) DMs are open!
October 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Academics, I'm looking for any successful cases of challenging salary inversion/compression, including methods (internal persuasion, legal, etc.) DMs are open!
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🔥 The never-ending narrative…
This week, I’ve once again heard prominent climate researchers dismiss individual action as either irrelevant or a distraction instigated by the fossil fuel industry.
Here’s a 🧵 on why this argument frustrates me to no end and why I think it misses the bigger picture.
This week, I’ve once again heard prominent climate researchers dismiss individual action as either irrelevant or a distraction instigated by the fossil fuel industry.
Here’s a 🧵 on why this argument frustrates me to no end and why I think it misses the bigger picture.
October 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
🔥 The never-ending narrative…
This week, I’ve once again heard prominent climate researchers dismiss individual action as either irrelevant or a distraction instigated by the fossil fuel industry.
Here’s a 🧵 on why this argument frustrates me to no end and why I think it misses the bigger picture.
This week, I’ve once again heard prominent climate researchers dismiss individual action as either irrelevant or a distraction instigated by the fossil fuel industry.
Here’s a 🧵 on why this argument frustrates me to no end and why I think it misses the bigger picture.
I'm sure that Oxford U is somewhat better than when I was there 20+ years ago but I doubt it's actually changed enough to wipe out the old boy mentality, which was horrifyingly sexist, racist, and classist. Did I hear things that upset me probably every single day? Yes.
Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.
October 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I'm sure that Oxford U is somewhat better than when I was there 20+ years ago but I doubt it's actually changed enough to wipe out the old boy mentality, which was horrifyingly sexist, racist, and classist. Did I hear things that upset me probably every single day? Yes.
Zoë Wicomb's passing is a monumental loss. She was one of the very best writers working today:
acknowledged yet still underrated on the world stage. Her writing has an acuity, power, wit, grace, and intellect that is most rare. She was brilliant.
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/10/14/z...
acknowledged yet still underrated on the world stage. Her writing has an acuity, power, wit, grace, and intellect that is most rare. She was brilliant.
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/10/14/z...
Zoë Wicomb, 1948—2025, RIP
Zoë Wicomb, the pioneering South African author and academic, has died in her home of Glasgow, Scotland. She was 77 years old. Born in the then Cape Province, Wicomb was raised in Namaqualand, then at...
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Zoë Wicomb's passing is a monumental loss. She was one of the very best writers working today:
acknowledged yet still underrated on the world stage. Her writing has an acuity, power, wit, grace, and intellect that is most rare. She was brilliant.
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/10/14/z...
acknowledged yet still underrated on the world stage. Her writing has an acuity, power, wit, grace, and intellect that is most rare. She was brilliant.
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/10/14/z...
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
I wish I lived in NYC so I could use my very first vote as a citizen to vote for this man. Mamdani is it.
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I wish I lived in NYC so I could use my very first vote as a citizen to vote for this man. Mamdani is it.
It's notable that MIT's announcement that it is rejecting the White House's ideological economic compact comes on the very same day that U Zurich announces that it has enticed two Nobel-winning economists to leave MIT
www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr...
www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr...
MIT President Says ‘We Cannot Support’ Trump’s Compact
The institution’s president, Sally Kornbluth, wrote: The proposal “is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”
www.chronicle.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It's notable that MIT's announcement that it is rejecting the White House's ideological economic compact comes on the very same day that U Zurich announces that it has enticed two Nobel-winning economists to leave MIT
www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr...
www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr...
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Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.
Legal Theory Blog
Discover our latest articles and updates. Stay informed with recent posts that cover a variety of topics you care about!
legaltheoryblog.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.
BlueSky: If you've started reading my new book, AESTHETIC IMPROPRIETY: PROPERTY LAW AND POSTCOLONIAL STYLE, and are enjoying it, please consider sending me a sentence or two explaining why.
It's for a thing I'm applying for (and a small monetary award for future research funds). Thanks!
It's for a thing I'm applying for (and a small monetary award for future research funds). Thanks!
October 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
BlueSky: If you've started reading my new book, AESTHETIC IMPROPRIETY: PROPERTY LAW AND POSTCOLONIAL STYLE, and are enjoying it, please consider sending me a sentence or two explaining why.
It's for a thing I'm applying for (and a small monetary award for future research funds). Thanks!
It's for a thing I'm applying for (and a small monetary award for future research funds). Thanks!
Spotted on Upworth: an ad for an "editor" to help an AI system to write romance fiction. Hook: "If you're looking for a gateway drug into the future of book writing, this is it." Gross.
![Post advertising the following position: "Romance/Thriller Editor Wanted for AI Writing Startup ($40/hr)."
Text begins as follows [note: I didn't read it all and will just type the first few lines]: "If you're looking for a gateway drug into the future of book writing, this is it. We're building FictionPub.ai--an AI platform that generates full-length novels. The software team is handling the engineering, but we need an experienced fiction editor to help shape the stories into something readers can't put down. Here's the role: you'll generate drafts with our AI, edit them, and work directly with the team to translate your feedback into simply rules the system can learn from. It's not just editing--it's teaching the AI how to nail tropes, hooks, pacing, and character arcs that sell."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ttdnc246ov2gybpe6e7sdzwh/bafkreichrq5snpjyhyrolusxda3i3knjuubjmav4hi4c3ula3cebssg7lu@jpeg)
October 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Spotted on Upworth: an ad for an "editor" to help an AI system to write romance fiction. Hook: "If you're looking for a gateway drug into the future of book writing, this is it." Gross.
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oh good lord
www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...
www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...
USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel
A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.
www.uscannenbergmedia.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
oh good lord
www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...
www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...
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People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.
This new column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social makes me think about when I recently had to talk to the police for yet another safety plan, I tried to “lighten” the mood by saying that we all knew this wasn’t my first rodeo. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
October 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.
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Any creative ideas for a weird college financing situation?
Govt shutdown means that my kid's student loan will be delayed even longer. He's in Canada and has been waiting over a month for his small loan to arrive. (The rest he was supposed to get as a Pell grant--but we didn't know that ...
Govt shutdown means that my kid's student loan will be delayed even longer. He's in Canada and has been waiting over a month for his small loan to arrive. (The rest he was supposed to get as a Pell grant--but we didn't know that ...
October 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Any creative ideas for a weird college financing situation?
Govt shutdown means that my kid's student loan will be delayed even longer. He's in Canada and has been waiting over a month for his small loan to arrive. (The rest he was supposed to get as a Pell grant--but we didn't know that ...
Govt shutdown means that my kid's student loan will be delayed even longer. He's in Canada and has been waiting over a month for his small loan to arrive. (The rest he was supposed to get as a Pell grant--but we didn't know that ...