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Joanna Grossman
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Law professor. Three-boy mom. Aging, decrepit ultrarunner. Social justice warrior. Dream is to own a fluffy cow.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h
The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

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🌊 Matt Gaetz’ 🐀 Defunct SoůL 🌊 @krisbouncedx.bsky.social · 1d
Another rogue ICE Agent asks, “haven’t you learned from the last couple of days?”

Then grabs her phone away from her.
Make him famous.

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Joanna Grossman @joannagrossman.bsky.social · 1d
I remember that Mondale map like it was yesterday.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 2d
@frasernelson.bsky.social, it’s not the immigrants who are the problem here. It’s fascism. This headline is like saying that Hitler’s extreme tactics show what happens when the Jewish presence gets out of control.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d
i just watched this video and the fact that they believe this to be exculpatory is genuinely insane

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.

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Joanna Grossman @joannagrossman.bsky.social · 3d
The YLS faculty needs to take turns following Vance around and correcting in real time the insanely stupid things he says about law. It’s the only way to repay is for producing this monster.
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3d
Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations
Jd Vance with headline “Vance: ice agent who killed Renee good protected by absolute immunity”

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Joanna Grossman @joannagrossman.bsky.social · 3d
People still on Twitter are just a short hop away from necrophilia.
justinhendrix.bsky.social Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3d
"Hours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her."
clarajeffery.bsky.social Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d
In one of the most appalling developments of past day, Elon Musk's AI chatbot desecrated Renee Nicole Good's body. That's in addition to harassing women and sexually exploiting minors. By @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3d
"Hours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her."
clarajeffery.bsky.social Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d
In one of the most appalling developments of past day, Elon Musk's AI chatbot desecrated Renee Nicole Good's body. That's in addition to harassing women and sexually exploiting minors. By @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Grok deepfaked Renee Nicole Good's body into a bikini
Hours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her.
www.motherjones.com

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3d
Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations
Jd Vance with headline “Vance: ice agent who killed Renee good protected by absolute immunity”

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Joanna Grossman @joannagrossman.bsky.social · 3d
Shared my thoughts for this article on the Heritage Foundation’s latest marriage and family dumbfuckery. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Heritage paper on families calls for ‘marriage bootcamp,’ more babies
The conservative think tank aims to boost U.S. marriage and births through discouraging online dating, restricting pornography and creating tax credits for families.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 4d
Our first investigation of the year just landed, and it’s a doozy.

More than 1,000 children across Texas were affected by this.

Through interviews with more than a dozen former employees and the review of internal documents and court records, The Barbed Wire found:
After funding was restored, RAICES voluntarily declined the $19.5 million annual contract from the federal government, which accounted for roughly half of the organization’s more than $43 million budget in 2024. More than 1,000 youth across Texas were affected by the decision to effectively end the children’s program, according to a recording of a February staff meeting. RAICES had child clients sign acknowledgements that the organization’s attorneys were withdrawing from their cases because of a loss of funding that was “beyond the control of RAICES,” even after a court order that restored the funding. After the funding was restored, RAICES falsely represented the same explanation to employees and immigration courts, including in court motions into November of this year. Many former employees said they felt misled by executives at the organization about the program shuttering and some said they felt compelled to mislead their own clients. Such representations, mandated by RAICES directors, could have violated Texas’ legal ethics code.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 5d
Just a reminder that George Conway is not fundraising right now to run against a MAGA republican.

He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 5d
President Trump mocks transgender athletes while addressing Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives, using examples from weightlifting and boxing as he argued against transgender participation in women’s sports.

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Joanna Grossman @joannagrossman.bsky.social · 5d
Ironic source on the subject of the appropriate time to step back from the public eye.
blakeprof.bsky.social Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 5d
Why is Jeffrey Toobin back?

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 5d
Why is Jeffrey Toobin back?

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 5d
Big: Wyoming supreme court just struck down abortion ban.

And get this: The reason is a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare!

Quite the backfire. We explained this lawsuit a few years back:
How Attacks Against Obamacare Turned Into Tools to Protect Abortion Access  - Bolts
Explore our ongoing Bolts series, Abortion Rights in State Constitutions. A decade ago, when conservatives were attacking President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act as government encroachment in hea...
boltsmag.org

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 6d
She is so desperate to infect children, she hallucinates meaningful patterns in random variations and doesn’t even know how viruses are diagnosed.

I wrote about this summer 2021…

Reposted by Philip Nel, Joanna L. Grossman, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 7d
thegrio.com/2026/01/04/d...
Dr. Janell Green Smith, a midwife who advocated for Black maternal health, dies of childbirth complications
Dr. Janell Green Smith, a South Carolina midwife and advocate for Black maternal health, has died due to complications during childbirth.
thegrio.com

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Joanna Grossman @joannagrossman.bsky.social · 8d
Yale Law School should be forced to account for this bozo’s lack of understanding about basic legal principles.

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Joanna Grossman @joannagrossman.bsky.social · 8d
Congrats!

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 8d
Trump had "insisted that he had nothing to do with the far-right vision for his second administration known as Project 2025, a Christian-nationalist blueprint to remake the federal government."

Trump admin has implemented half of Project 2025. Including assault on DEI.

azmirror.com/2026/01/02/h...
How much of Project 2025 has actually been accomplished?
How much of Project 2025 has actually been accomplished in its namesake year, the first of President Trump's second term.
azmirror.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8d
Bigger than Teapot Dome in terms of scandals, but in the age of Trump, it doesn't even raise an eyebrow: Karen Budd-Falen, the No. 3 at the Interior Department, didn’t disclose a $3.5m water-rights contract between her husband and the developers of a Nevada mine approved by Interior.
The Trump Administration Approved a Big Lithium Mine. A Top Official’s Husband Profited.
www.nytimes.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8d
Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.

Reposted by Joanna L. Grossman, Michael Larkin

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 9d
This is incredibly worth reading in light of what is happening now and the basis on which Trump and Rubio are pursuing charges against Maduro.
The Narco-Terrorist Elite - The American Prospect
Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?
prospect.org

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 9d
NEW: The anonymous "researcher" in Nick Shirley's viral "fraud" video--treated as a concerned citizen on Fox News and elsewhere--is actually a Minnesota state lobbyist and political activist who worked with a GOP House staffer to provide Shirley info/

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Unnamed Source in Viral Minnesota Somali Fraud Video Is Right-Wing Lobbyist Who Called Muslims “Demons”
David Hoch, who goes by his first name in Nick Shirley’s video allegedly exposing Somali fraud, referred to “demon Muslims” on social media.
theintercept.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 9d
My latest is up!

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
The Year America Broke Open
It would be silly to pretend that 2025 was not among the most challenging years this country has faced in modern times.
open.substack.com

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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 10d
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 13d
Speaking of typos, someone should direct Ms. Dhillon to U.S. v. Murphy, 406 F.3d 857, 859 n.1 (7th Cir. 2005), aka the greatest footnote in appellate court history.
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Tweet by Dhillon calling conservative influencers “hoes”. “The trial transcript quotes Ms. Hayden as saying Murphy called her a snitch bitch "hoe." A "hoe," of course, is a tool used for weeding and gardening. We think the court reporter, unfamiliar with rap music (perhaps thankfully so), misunderstood Hayden's response. We have taken the liberty of changing "hoe" to "ho," a staple of rap music vernacular as, for example, when Ludacris raps "You doin' ho activities with ho tendencies."”

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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 13d
A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.
What researchers have discovered about maternal, infant health under Texas' abortion laws
In the more than four years since the state of Texas significantly restricted access to abortion, medical researchers have been studying the health effects of that policy change.
medicalxpress.com