Rebecca Tushnet
@rtushnet.bsky.social
Trademark, advertising, and more
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"Books — actual books, with dust jackets, spines...are increasingly unwelcome...With few exceptions, the only stories allowed in the early grades of state-appointed HISD Superintendent Mike Miles' New Education System are minced into dry text that teachers read from manuals."
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"Books — actual books, with dust jackets, spines...are increasingly unwelcome...With few exceptions, the only stories allowed in the early grades of state-appointed HISD Superintendent Mike Miles' New Education System are minced into dry text that teachers read from manuals."
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"My father remained at the Texas detention center until October. During those six months, he went completely blind in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other, because he wasn’t receiving adequate medical care for his Type 2 diabetes."
From @vanessalop.bsky.social: He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
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He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
Deportation has taken away the father I once knew and given me back a person I no longer recognize.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
"My father remained at the Texas detention center until October. During those six months, he went completely blind in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other, because he wasn’t receiving adequate medical care for his Type 2 diabetes."
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November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Fiskars can't cut down $1.4 million disgorgement award
Fiskars can't cut down $1.4 million disgorgement award
Fiskars Finland OY AB v. Woodland Tools Inc., 2025 WL 3124111, No. 22-cv-540-jdp (W.D. Wisc. Nov. 7, 2025) Previously in this false advert...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Fiskars can't cut down $1.4 million disgorgement award
Funny, but also rage-making that women keep having to be funny about this take. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Funny, but also rage-making that women keep having to be funny about this take. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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I don't usually post during lunch, but:
*responsible voice*: To say this is the profoundest political malpractice.
*real voice* You dumb fuck, people were rationing food and borrowing money to pay rent for you! Fuck off directly into the sun!
*responsible voice*: To say this is the profoundest political malpractice.
*real voice* You dumb fuck, people were rationing food and borrowing money to pay rent for you! Fuck off directly into the sun!
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I don't usually post during lunch, but:
*responsible voice*: To say this is the profoundest political malpractice.
*real voice* You dumb fuck, people were rationing food and borrowing money to pay rent for you! Fuck off directly into the sun!
*responsible voice*: To say this is the profoundest political malpractice.
*real voice* You dumb fuck, people were rationing food and borrowing money to pay rent for you! Fuck off directly into the sun!
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the gap has applied to register CASHSOFT as a trademark for clothing
but the clothing isn’t made of cashmere. deceptive mark? 🧐
seems like a misdescription consumers would believe & one that’s material to the purchasing decision.
but the clothing isn’t made of cashmere. deceptive mark? 🧐
seems like a misdescription consumers would believe & one that’s material to the purchasing decision.
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
the gap has applied to register CASHSOFT as a trademark for clothing
but the clothing isn’t made of cashmere. deceptive mark? 🧐
seems like a misdescription consumers would believe & one that’s material to the purchasing decision.
but the clothing isn’t made of cashmere. deceptive mark? 🧐
seems like a misdescription consumers would believe & one that’s material to the purchasing decision.
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I should write the argument up properly somewhere, but I think this is fundamentally wrong. A decisive fraction of the capitalist class does oppose addressing the climate crisis, but *not* because it would be bad for profits. If anything, a green New Deal type program would raise aggregate profits.
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I should write the argument up properly somewhere, but I think this is fundamentally wrong. A decisive fraction of the capitalist class does oppose addressing the climate crisis, but *not* because it would be bad for profits. If anything, a green New Deal type program would raise aggregate profits.
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*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap
(Forthcoming Article) - We show that subjective assessments of employee “potential” contribute to gender gaps
in promotion and pay. Using data on 29,809 management-track employees from a
large retail ...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
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I mean nothing screams oligarchy (or feudalism?) thank being able to “cherry pick” your own revenue obligations
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I mean nothing screams oligarchy (or feudalism?) thank being able to “cherry pick” your own revenue obligations
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Really looking forward to the Trump government getting back up and running again, seeing what exciting things they'll be able to get to now
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Really looking forward to the Trump government getting back up and running again, seeing what exciting things they'll be able to get to now
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Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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One, spicy, focus group participant here ("activatable" white women, Nov. 5) laying out how it undermines defiance by regular folks when those in power refuse to demonstrate courage & convictions.
November 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
One, spicy, focus group participant here ("activatable" white women, Nov. 5) laying out how it undermines defiance by regular folks when those in power refuse to demonstrate courage & convictions.
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Until we confront this we cannot hope to build a healthy democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Until we confront this we cannot hope to build a healthy democracy.
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Money quote from Gov-Elect Spanberger (now please just do it).
November 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Money quote from Gov-Elect Spanberger (now please just do it).
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We ask how to convert march energy to action? SNCC had busses outside! “walking opposite the Student Union at Pitt..we saw SNCC leaders talking abt civil rights. & we just had to go in there & listen to them. They said, ‘Hey, there are buses outside, & we’re going to Montgomery to march’ So we went”
Every word of this interview needs reading and rereading
"The administration ballooned, and inside the administration the financial technocrats took over. There was less and less sympathy with Columbia as a place of thought. It was more about Columbia as an enterprise..."
www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...
www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...
November 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
We ask how to convert march energy to action? SNCC had busses outside! “walking opposite the Student Union at Pitt..we saw SNCC leaders talking abt civil rights. & we just had to go in there & listen to them. They said, ‘Hey, there are buses outside, & we’re going to Montgomery to march’ So we went”
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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Possibly he was one of those who spoke to the NYT and is getting out ahead of the investigation, but still, this is stunning.
In what amounts to Mark Wolf’s resignation letter from the federal bench in Massachusetts forget more than 40 years—he was already a senior judge, so it creates no vacancy—he says he “intend[s] to advocate for the judges who cannot speak publicly for themselves.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Possibly he was one of those who spoke to the NYT and is getting out ahead of the investigation, but still, this is stunning.