D Dangaran (they/them)
@ddangaran.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Law, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law | constitutional law, family law & civil rights | Co-Chair, National Trans Bar Association | formerly @Rights Behind Bars https://www.rightsbehindbars.org/donate
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Things are really hard right now, and sometimes words are insufficient balms, but when artists add a melody and a beat, their words help me a lot more than they otherwise would. I collected some songs that bring me hope / bring me into a mindset of hope. It was a salve tonight, so I decided to share
ICYMI, trans people came up in the Supreme Court today, but not in a case where you’d expect it. In Landor, the Court will decide whether RLUIPA allows damages remedies against individual officers. Justices Gorsuch and Barrett asked hypos about another spending clause statute: Title IX.
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
ICYMI, trans people came up in the Supreme Court today, but not in a case where you’d expect it. In Landor, the Court will decide whether RLUIPA allows damages remedies against individual officers. Justices Gorsuch and Barrett asked hypos about another spending clause statute: Title IX.
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“This Jewish self-determination is coming at the cost of my self-determination as a Palestinian.”
Mahmoud Khalil joined Mehdi to discuss the conflation between anti-zionism & anti-semitism & his hope for a land where everyone can co-exist peacefully.
Watch the discussion: zeteo.com/p/mahmoud-kh...
Mahmoud Khalil joined Mehdi to discuss the conflation between anti-zionism & anti-semitism & his hope for a land where everyone can co-exist peacefully.
Watch the discussion: zeteo.com/p/mahmoud-kh...
October 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“This Jewish self-determination is coming at the cost of my self-determination as a Palestinian.”
Mahmoud Khalil joined Mehdi to discuss the conflation between anti-zionism & anti-semitism & his hope for a land where everyone can co-exist peacefully.
Watch the discussion: zeteo.com/p/mahmoud-kh...
Mahmoud Khalil joined Mehdi to discuss the conflation between anti-zionism & anti-semitism & his hope for a land where everyone can co-exist peacefully.
Watch the discussion: zeteo.com/p/mahmoud-kh...
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“Donald Trump, the man who uses Palestinian as a pejorative, as a slur, has no plan for Palestinian freedom.”
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social slams Donald Trump at the ‘No Kings’ rally in Washington, DC over his Gaza ‘peace-plan.’
Watch his full speech: zeteo.com/p/no-kings-p...
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social slams Donald Trump at the ‘No Kings’ rally in Washington, DC over his Gaza ‘peace-plan.’
Watch his full speech: zeteo.com/p/no-kings-p...
October 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
“Donald Trump, the man who uses Palestinian as a pejorative, as a slur, has no plan for Palestinian freedom.”
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social slams Donald Trump at the ‘No Kings’ rally in Washington, DC over his Gaza ‘peace-plan.’
Watch his full speech: zeteo.com/p/no-kings-p...
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social slams Donald Trump at the ‘No Kings’ rally in Washington, DC over his Gaza ‘peace-plan.’
Watch his full speech: zeteo.com/p/no-kings-p...
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"This is about a handful of the wealthiest people on Earth who, in their insatiable greed, have hijacked our economy and our political system." Bernie Sanders speaking at the No Kings rally in DC. Watch here.
October 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"This is about a handful of the wealthiest people on Earth who, in their insatiable greed, have hijacked our economy and our political system." Bernie Sanders speaking at the No Kings rally in DC. Watch here.
Bernie could have been president if neoliberals like Obama didn’t meddle in the primaries + ruin his chance. Polls said Bernie had a better shot at beating Trump in 2016 than Hillary. When neoliberals beg not to vote for leftists candidates bc we will lose GOP to the moderates, don’t listen to them.
October 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Bernie could have been president if neoliberals like Obama didn’t meddle in the primaries + ruin his chance. Polls said Bernie had a better shot at beating Trump in 2016 than Hillary. When neoliberals beg not to vote for leftists candidates bc we will lose GOP to the moderates, don’t listen to them.
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MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:
October 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:
A rule of thumb: when they come for a specific practice despite adopting it themselves, it’s a sign of fascism. Unlawful for thee, not for me. Fascists love to point the finger at things they’re actually doing. Remember when cops unmasked activists from campus Gaza encampments in front of media?
Commentary: Surely a judge who sentences convicted criminals to prison is as much at risk as ICE agents, yet the notion is absurd that judges should be anonymous or allowed to mask their faces in the courtroom.
Amy Dru Stanley and Craig Becker: The masking of ICE agents is indefensible
The courts must act to declare masked arrests unconstitutional, as unreasonable seizures barred by the Fourth Amendment.
www.chicagotribune.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
A rule of thumb: when they come for a specific practice despite adopting it themselves, it’s a sign of fascism. Unlawful for thee, not for me. Fascists love to point the finger at things they’re actually doing. Remember when cops unmasked activists from campus Gaza encampments in front of media?
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Historian here No Kings is the most American thing you could say and the people opposing it simply don’t believe in our republic or constitutional democracy.
October 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Historian here No Kings is the most American thing you could say and the people opposing it simply don’t believe in our republic or constitutional democracy.
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Suffice it to say, these are not kids. These are full grown ass adults, many of them in their late 20's and early 30's. At least one was a elected state senator in Vermont. And even if they were, it's never ok to make antisemitic and racist jokes like that.
October 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Suffice it to say, these are not kids. These are full grown ass adults, many of them in their late 20's and early 30's. At least one was a elected state senator in Vermont. And even if they were, it's never ok to make antisemitic and racist jokes like that.
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JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer."
JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."
JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."
October 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer."
JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."
JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."
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I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.
October 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.
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For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.
Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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October 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.
Things are really hard right now, and sometimes words are insufficient balms, but when artists add a melody and a beat, their words help me a lot more than they otherwise would. I collected some songs that bring me hope / bring me into a mindset of hope. It was a salve tonight, so I decided to share
October 9, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Things are really hard right now, and sometimes words are insufficient balms, but when artists add a melody and a beat, their words help me a lot more than they otherwise would. I collected some songs that bring me hope / bring me into a mindset of hope. It was a salve tonight, so I decided to share
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Bad news feels inescapable. There’s a lot of it, it goes viral, and things are getting worse.
But resistance is also everywhere, and it doesn’t get the same attention.
We need to share mass resistance, to inspire hope and so that more and more people join in.
www.jphilll.com/p/resistance...
But resistance is also everywhere, and it doesn’t get the same attention.
We need to share mass resistance, to inspire hope and so that more and more people join in.
www.jphilll.com/p/resistance...
Resistance is everywhere — it just isn't getting enough attention
Nepal, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Madagascar, and the United States
www.jphilll.com
October 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Bad news feels inescapable. There’s a lot of it, it goes viral, and things are getting worse.
But resistance is also everywhere, and it doesn’t get the same attention.
We need to share mass resistance, to inspire hope and so that more and more people join in.
www.jphilll.com/p/resistance...
But resistance is also everywhere, and it doesn’t get the same attention.
We need to share mass resistance, to inspire hope and so that more and more people join in.
www.jphilll.com/p/resistance...
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Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.
October 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.
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Eat. Sleep. Exercise. Nurture the relationships that sustain you. Protect your health. Find joy. Don't mistake any of these for the resistance itself. Joy isn't resistance, neither is rest. But you need to be whole to resist for a lifetime.
September 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Eat. Sleep. Exercise. Nurture the relationships that sustain you. Protect your health. Find joy. Don't mistake any of these for the resistance itself. Joy isn't resistance, neither is rest. But you need to be whole to resist for a lifetime.
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You don't have to mourn people who despised you and wanted terrible things to happen to you. Hard to believe that this needs to be said but apparently it does.
September 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
You don't have to mourn people who despised you and wanted terrible things to happen to you. Hard to believe that this needs to be said but apparently it does.
This witch hunt is so obviously forced and disconnected from reality. I should not be shocked anymore by how low the heritage foundation is willing to stoop, or the fact that they got their cronies into positions of power to regurgitate their baseless talking points. But we should be VERY concerned.
September 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
This witch hunt is so obviously forced and disconnected from reality. I should not be shocked anymore by how low the heritage foundation is willing to stoop, or the fact that they got their cronies into positions of power to regurgitate their baseless talking points. But we should be VERY concerned.
“Right-wing ideologies have fueled more than 70% of all extremist attacks and domestic terror plots since 2002 in the U.S. …[,] outpac[ing] all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism. The study was removed from the Justice Department website in the past few days….”
September 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
“Right-wing ideologies have fueled more than 70% of all extremist attacks and domestic terror plots since 2002 in the U.S. …[,] outpac[ing] all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism. The study was removed from the Justice Department website in the past few days….”
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In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.
September 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.
Remember when the right and the centrist dems kept rallying around the evil that was progressive “cancel culture”? We’ve seen it before, but this moment is shining a spotlight on their hypocrisy. When they decry terminations for racist or sexist speech or acts in the future, just remember Sept 2025.
September 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Remember when the right and the centrist dems kept rallying around the evil that was progressive “cancel culture”? We’ve seen it before, but this moment is shining a spotlight on their hypocrisy. When they decry terminations for racist or sexist speech or acts in the future, just remember Sept 2025.
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“News organizations should be as transparent as possible about how details… are being confirmed, both to increase accuracy in reporting and build trust with audiences in a breaking news environment.”
Our full statement:
www.transjournalists.org/tja-urges-ca...
Our full statement:
www.transjournalists.org/tja-urges-ca...
TJA urges caution in reporting on details of Charlie Kirk shooting investigation
Various outlets have reported that authorities have found ammunition engraved with expressions of “transgender and antifascist ideology” alongside a weapon purportedly associated with the killing of C...
www.transjournalists.org
September 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“News organizations should be as transparent as possible about how details… are being confirmed, both to increase accuracy in reporting and build trust with audiences in a breaking news environment.”
Our full statement:
www.transjournalists.org/tja-urges-ca...
Our full statement:
www.transjournalists.org/tja-urges-ca...
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What an honor to receive this award alongside @margotpollans.bsky.social @ariezra.bsky.social @darapurvis.bsky.social @ddangaran.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
What an honor to receive this award alongside @margotpollans.bsky.social @ariezra.bsky.social @darapurvis.bsky.social @ddangaran.bsky.social