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Tobias Barrington Wolff
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Dad to Spark, feminist, anti-racist, Jefferson Barnes Fordham Professor at Penn Law, dogged optimist in the power of decency. 🏳️‍🌈

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Tobias Barrington Wolff is a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School where he teaches classes on sexuality and the law, same sex marriage and human rights. He is known for his legal advocacy on same sex marriage and other LGBT-related issues, and served as the chief advisor and spokesperson on LGBT issues for Barack Obama throughout his 2007-08 presidential campaign. He is openly gay. .. more

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 4d
I am very glad to have been proven right on this Kim Davis business. I worry a great deal about what the radical majority on this Court will do with marriage equality but Davis's misbegotten mess of a case was never going to be the vehicle.

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Justice Jackson's brief pause in the SNAP benefits case—an explanation.

Professor Steve Vladeck has offered a helpful explanation concerning the “administrative stay” that Justice Jackson issued in the SNAP case that pauses the order for a couple of days. His full analysis can be found here but I thought a quick summary of what he writes would also be helpful.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 8d
Think about what mainstream media would be doing if Democrats controlled the White House and both Houses of Congress and 10% of all airspace in the U.S. concentrated over 40 of the busiest airports were getting closed down tomorrow because of a politically dysfunctional government shutdown.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 10d
Populist Dems won. Moderate Dems won. We won in blue states. We won in purple states.

Maybe the take is that (a) people think Trump is out of control; and (b) people like Dems when we're taking a stand and fighting for what we believe in - as we have been for the last month.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 10d
He is terrified and desperate. Let’s make him even more so. Get out and vote!

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 10d
Showed up to vote in Philly first thing this morning. I’m seventh in line. 💪

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 11d
One of the many reasons it would be fantastic for Democrats to sweep tomorrow's elections decisively is that it will strengthen their hand in forcing a resolution of the GOP shutdown that will preserve access to affordable health care.

Get out and vote tomorrow if you have not voted already!

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 11d
Same-Sex Couples in Hostile States: The Recent Administrative Ruling of the Supreme Court of Texas and the Threat of Systematic Discrimination

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Same-Sex Couples in Hostile States: The Recent Administrative Ruling of the Supreme Court of Texas and the Threat of Systematic Discrimination
The Supreme Court of Texas issued an administrative ruling on October 24, 2025 that permits state judges in Texas “to publicly refrain from performing a wedding ceremony based upon a sincerely held re...
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Same-Sex Couples in Hostile States: The Recent Administrative Ruling of the Supreme Court of Texas and the Threat of Systematic Discrimination

The Supreme Court of Texas issued an administrative ruling on October 24, 2025 that permits state judges in Texas “to publicly refrain from performing a wedding ceremony based upon a sincerely held religious belief” without violating the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct. The ruling resolves a dispute involving a

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 12d
That “et cetera” really rips away the mask.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 14d
The Regime is launching a war of aggression against Venezuela for no legitimate reason.

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U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime
The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald...
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 15d
When I hear the name Bill Ackman my mind always goes here first.

Beloved NYC'ers make sure to vote early and tell billionaires they do not get to dictate the outcomes of our elections.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 17d
Geriatric Joffrey's nonsense about running for a third term is evidence of his advancing dementia and fraying connection with reality and should be reported as such.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 18d
There is both hope and horror in this but I will take the hope.
h/t @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 20d
"Douthat" is the insult a juvenile wag would select if he were trying to taunt a person like Ross Douthat.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 21d
Lord what an ass this man is.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 21d
But really, best of luck with the book.
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Dipshittery abounds.
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When he listens to Dinah Washington, what do we imagine he hears?

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Gallagher @mgallagher.bsky.social · 21d
Dipshittery abounds.
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When he listens to Dinah Washington, what do we imagine he hears?

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 21d
When he listens to Dinah Washington, what do we imagine he hears?

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 21d
it is important to remember the righteous ground on which we stand in waging this struggle.

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Defeating the Republican Gerrymandering Scheme is a Moral Imperative
The fight over the gerrymandering of U.S.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 21d
The fight over the gerrymandering of U.S. congressional districts has quickly become one of the key battlegrounds in the fight for democracy and the rule of law. As Democrats marshal their resolve to defeat this Republican scheme to corrupt our system,

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Defeating the Republican Gerrymandering Scheme is a Moral Imperative

The fight over the gerrymandering of U.S. congressional districts has quickly become one of the key battlegrounds in the fight for democracy and the rule of law. As Democrats marshal their resolve to defeat this Republican scheme to corrupt our system, it is important to remember the righteous ground on which we stand in waging this struggle.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 22d
I think it is fair to say that destroying things is one of the main sources of pleasure in Geriatric Joffrey's life.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 23d
Zohran Mamdani is reducing crime in New York City before even taking office.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 26d
Circulating that video of himself defecating on the United States and the American people is the closest Donald Trump has ever come to telling the truth in his entire misbegotten life.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Oct 12
Pulitzer Prize winning historian Benjamin Nathans of the University of Pennsylvania provides a defining piece of iconic imagery in making the case for universities to stand together and repudiate the subservience the Regime is seeking to impose.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Oct 5
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Saturday blocked President Donald Trump’s call-up of the National Guard for a deployment in Portland, saying Trump’s actions were based on false claims and undermined Oregon’s sovereignty. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Seizure of Oregon National Guard for Portland Deployment
Read more here.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Sep 30
I doubt T***p and Hegseth could have done more to strengthen the resolve of U.S. senior military leadership to obey their oaths to the Constitution in the face of whatever pressure they receive from the Regime than they unwittingly accomplished with this juvenile and offensive spectacle today.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Sep 28
The reporting on the horror unfolding in Michigan gets progressively worse. To my Mormon friends and community members: I stand with you in grief, outrage and resolve.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Sep 28
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek: