Tobias Barrington Wolff
@tobiasbwolff.bsky.social
Dad to Spark, feminist, anti-racist, Jefferson Barnes Fordham Professor at Penn Law, dogged optimist in the power of decency. 🏳️🌈
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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.
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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.
He is terrified and desperate. Let’s make him even more so. Get out and vote!
November 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
He is terrified and desperate. Let’s make him even more so. Get out and vote!
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.
Beloved NYC'ers make sure to vote early and tell billionaires they do not get to dictate the outcomes of our elections.
October 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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.
Beloved NYC'ers make sure to vote early and tell billionaires they do not get to dictate the outcomes of our elections.
There is both hope and horror in this but I will take the hope.
h/t @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
h/t @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 1:44 AM
There is both hope and horror in this but I will take the hope.
h/t @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
h/t @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Zohran Mamdani is reducing crime in New York City before even taking office.
October 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Zohran Mamdani is reducing crime in New York City before even taking office.
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.
October 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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.
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek:
September 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek:
This is quite literally insane.
September 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This is quite literally insane.
From my friend and law school classmate Professor Ryan Goodman. The number of people in the boat they targeted always made the drug smuggling claim suspect.
September 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
From my friend and law school classmate Professor Ryan Goodman. The number of people in the boat they targeted always made the drug smuggling claim suspect.
In case you wondered what the period of decadent decline in the Holy Roman Empire would have looked like if translated into 21st century vernacular.
September 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
In case you wondered what the period of decadent decline in the Holy Roman Empire would have looked like if translated into 21st century vernacular.
Today's Republican Party. (Dupree is a long-time Capitol Hill reporter.)
July 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Today's Republican Party. (Dupree is a long-time Capitol Hill reporter.)
From Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass's account on Twitter (which I will not link to). I take the Mayor to be making the point here that activation of the Guard and deployment of the Guard are two different things and that no deployment has yet happened despite rhetoric coming from the FELOTUS.
June 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
From Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass's account on Twitter (which I will not link to). I take the Mayor to be making the point here that activation of the Guard and deployment of the Guard are two different things and that no deployment has yet happened despite rhetoric coming from the FELOTUS.
So he is allowed to draw on military resources to affirm his gender identity. Hmm.
April 24, 2025 at 2:35 AM
So he is allowed to draw on military resources to affirm his gender identity. Hmm.
Some of the depredations of this Regime are particularly soul-damaging. This is one.
April 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Some of the depredations of this Regime are particularly soul-damaging. This is one.
I go to sleep and wake up to discover the Justices have entered the fray. This order, and the fact that only Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented, is striking.
April 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I go to sleep and wake up to discover the Justices have entered the fray. This order, and the fact that only Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented, is striking.
This is not parody. It is unwitting self-mockery, but it is real.
April 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This is not parody. It is unwitting self-mockery, but it is real.
Today is Trans Day of Visibility and being a visible ally has never been more important.
March 31, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Today is Trans Day of Visibility and being a visible ally has never been more important.
A Member of Parliament from the center-right Conservative People's Party in Denmark.
March 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A Member of Parliament from the center-right Conservative People's Party in Denmark.
The T***p "economy" after a month and a half. Chaos, mafia tactics, a collapse of our relationship with major trading partners and a plunging stock market that is tanking many people's retirement. And it will only get worse.
March 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The T***p "economy" after a month and a half. Chaos, mafia tactics, a collapse of our relationship with major trading partners and a plunging stock market that is tanking many people's retirement. And it will only get worse.
No one told me fascism was going to be so pathetic. I coined the term FELOTUS when referring to the orange Felon of the United States so I will just stick with that.
February 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
No one told me fascism was going to be so pathetic. I coined the term FELOTUS when referring to the orange Felon of the United States so I will just stick with that.
In case you need to be fortified in telling the "it's too soon" crowd to go to Hell when you urge the need for sensible gun reform after a mass shooting event.
Freaking lunatic.
Freaking lunatic.
January 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
In case you need to be fortified in telling the "it's too soon" crowd to go to Hell when you urge the need for sensible gun reform after a mass shooting event.
Freaking lunatic.
Freaking lunatic.
It is incredible that this image exists.
January 2, 2025 at 5:04 AM
It is incredible that this image exists.
Your next ambassador to the nation of Colombia.
December 12, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Your next ambassador to the nation of Colombia.