AJB (dark mode)
@ajboyack.bsky.social
Law prof, mom of 4, & very concerned citizen.
My scholarship centers on housing, consumer finance, and property law.
My scholarship centers on housing, consumer finance, and property law.
A little PSA for everyone over 50:
GET YOUR SHINGLES VACCINE
I never scheduled mine, and now my torso is half covered in a blistery rash I’m this is day 13 of nearly unbearable pain!
If only I could go back and get that damned vaccine!
GET YOUR SHINGLES VACCINE
I never scheduled mine, and now my torso is half covered in a blistery rash I’m this is day 13 of nearly unbearable pain!
If only I could go back and get that damned vaccine!
February 14, 2026 at 12:26 AM
A little PSA for everyone over 50:
GET YOUR SHINGLES VACCINE
I never scheduled mine, and now my torso is half covered in a blistery rash I’m this is day 13 of nearly unbearable pain!
If only I could go back and get that damned vaccine!
GET YOUR SHINGLES VACCINE
I never scheduled mine, and now my torso is half covered in a blistery rash I’m this is day 13 of nearly unbearable pain!
If only I could go back and get that damned vaccine!
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everyone’s saying “people are NIMBYs about concentration camps” and yeah, I don’t want a concentration camp in my neighborhood, or anywhere
you know who I don’t mind in my neighborhood?
free immigrants, undocumented or otherwise
you know who I don’t mind in my neighborhood?
free immigrants, undocumented or otherwise
February 13, 2026 at 7:48 PM
everyone’s saying “people are NIMBYs about concentration camps” and yeah, I don’t want a concentration camp in my neighborhood, or anywhere
you know who I don’t mind in my neighborhood?
free immigrants, undocumented or otherwise
you know who I don’t mind in my neighborhood?
free immigrants, undocumented or otherwise
The cruelty is astounding
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 14, 2026 at 12:22 AM
The cruelty is astounding
Congratulations, Liz!!!!
This is terrific news! Liz Magill is a great choice to lead Georgetown Law.
Regarding the controversy—Elise Stefanik ambushed Magill at that hearing with the evident goal of smearing her as an antisemite, which she is not (obviously). UPenn's loss is our gain.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Regarding the controversy—Elise Stefanik ambushed Magill at that hearing with the evident goal of smearing her as an antisemite, which she is not (obviously). UPenn's loss is our gain.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
She Resigned as Penn President After a Controversial Hearing. Now She’s Back.
Liz Magill, the former president of the University of Pennsylvania, will be the new dean of Georgetown University’s law school.
www.politico.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Congratulations, Liz!!!!
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Imagine a President bulldozing 1/3 of our Historic White House pocketing $300 million and that doesn’t even crack the top 100 most destructive, vile, disgusting things he’s done, yet here we are
February 11, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Imagine a President bulldozing 1/3 of our Historic White House pocketing $300 million and that doesn’t even crack the top 100 most destructive, vile, disgusting things he’s done, yet here we are
This is a touching article. We need to center the humanity involved in this manufactured crisis and violent occupation of our cities by lawless federal officers. Pretti’s death is a tragedy. There are so many tragedies. And why? For what? Trump’s ego?
(gift article). www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
(gift article). www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
‘No Reason He Should Have Died’: Alex Pretti’s Parents Open Up
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:25 PM
This is a touching article. We need to center the humanity involved in this manufactured crisis and violent occupation of our cities by lawless federal officers. Pretti’s death is a tragedy. There are so many tragedies. And why? For what? Trump’s ego?
(gift article). www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
(gift article). www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
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NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise.
BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned
NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?
BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned
NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?
February 11, 2026 at 6:28 PM
NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise.
BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned
NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?
BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned
NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?
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Pam Bondi just laughed when asked if she would apologize to Epstein Survivors.
February 11, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Pam Bondi just laughed when asked if she would apologize to Epstein Survivors.
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Textbook. If you are surprised, it is because this shit usually, at least not in the last 150 years, does not happen in the US. And the past is mild in comparison
February 10, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Textbook. If you are surprised, it is because this shit usually, at least not in the last 150 years, does not happen in the US. And the past is mild in comparison
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The Armenian Genocide is a historical fact. Vice President Vance can delete his post, but he can't erase history. His decision to ignore the facts is beyond disrespectful to the Armenian community and the millions killed in the Armenian Genocide.
Vance Acknowledges Armenian Genocide, Then Deletes Post, Igniting Outrage
By deleting the social-media post, Vice President JD Vance upset Armenians after a historic visit.
www.wsj.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:10 PM
The Armenian Genocide is a historical fact. Vice President Vance can delete his post, but he can't erase history. His decision to ignore the facts is beyond disrespectful to the Armenian community and the millions killed in the Armenian Genocide.
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Khanna: There were two rounds of redactions. There was the original FBI redactions… and they did a second round of redactions at the DOJ. What they’re showing members now is the unredacted version of the DOJ’s redactions—not the original FBI redactions. They’re in blatant violation of the law.
February 11, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Khanna: There were two rounds of redactions. There was the original FBI redactions… and they did a second round of redactions at the DOJ. What they’re showing members now is the unredacted version of the DOJ’s redactions—not the original FBI redactions. They’re in blatant violation of the law.
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
This is exactly what I thought when I saw this ad. We are just normalizing mass surveillance
February 11, 2026 at 12:14 AM
This is exactly what I thought when I saw this ad. We are just normalizing mass surveillance
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We are murdering people and it is basically just background noise at this point. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
U.S. Boat Strike Kills 2 in Pacific, With One Survivor
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:14 AM
We are murdering people and it is basically just background noise at this point. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
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Increasing autism rates over the last 25 years may just be kids with mild forms getting diagnosed. Rates of moderate to severe impairment due to autism have actually fallen slightly.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
![The autistic community is a large, growing, and heterogeneous population, and there is a need for improved methods to describe their diverse needs. Measures of adaptive functioning collected through public health surveillance may provide valuable information on functioning and support needs at a population level. We aimed to use adaptive behavior and cognitive scores abstracted from health and educational records to describe trends over time in the population prevalence of autism by adaptive level and co-occurrence of intellectual disability (ID). Using data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, years 2000 to 2016, we estimated the prevalence of autism per 1000 8-year-old children by four levels of adaptive challenges (moderate to profound, mild, borderline, or none) and by co-occurrence of ID. The prevalence of autism with mild, borderline, or no significant adaptive challenges increased between 2000 and 2016, from 5.1 per 1000 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 4.6–5.5) to 17.6 (95% CI: 17.1–18.1) while the prevalence of autism with moderate to profound challenges decreased slightly, from 1.5 (95% CI: 1.2–1.7) to 1.2 (95% CI: 1.1–1.4). The prevalence increase was greater for autism without co-occurring ID than for autism with co-occurring ID. The increase in autism prevalence between 2000 and 2016 was confined to autism with milder phenotypes. This trend could indicate improved identification of milder forms of autism over time. It is possible that increased access to therapies that improve intellectual and adaptive functioning of children diagnosed with autism also contributed to the trends.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j76trmiofvaxxpvx2vnb2vwf/bafkreibeoudvh2b4ifuiqq7pmnzwg6y6n3caschubukvo6kzqcfn2kdf5i@jpeg)
February 10, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Increasing autism rates over the last 25 years may just be kids with mild forms getting diagnosed. Rates of moderate to severe impairment due to autism have actually fallen slightly.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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“I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”
“Just try to get me out of here and do all you can, please. It’s an absolute torture, psychological & physical torture. It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
“Just try to get me out of here and do all you can, please. It’s an absolute torture, psychological & physical torture. It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Irish man held in ICE detention says he fears for his life and asks Ireland for help
Seamus Culleton describes conditions as ‘torture’ as he pleads with taoiseach to raise his case with Donald Trump
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:02 AM
“I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”
“Just try to get me out of here and do all you can, please. It’s an absolute torture, psychological & physical torture. It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
“Just try to get me out of here and do all you can, please. It’s an absolute torture, psychological & physical torture. It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
jamanetwork.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
It’s almost like the Trump administration doesn’t care about protecting the rights of regular people?!?
🙄😡
🙄😡
In late January, a credit reporting trade group said the CFPB should make changes to its complaint database that will decrease the number of complaints filed. On Wednesday, the CFPB did just that (IN ALL CAPS).
news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/...
CFPB Makes Industry-Friendly Changes to Complaint Database
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is forcing people looking to file complaints about financial products or services to wade through industry-backed disclosures before doing so, a move that cons...
news.bloomberglaw.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:50 PM
It’s almost like the Trump administration doesn’t care about protecting the rights of regular people?!?
🙄😡
🙄😡
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The Washington Post—for which I wrote editorials for nearly a decade—has closed its Kyiv bureau.
@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.
We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.
We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
February 6, 2026 at 6:55 PM
The Washington Post—for which I wrote editorials for nearly a decade—has closed its Kyiv bureau.
@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.
We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.
We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
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At 18 months, is the baby a US citizen that they tried to kill?
It's genuinely a miracle this baby didn't die.
"...doctors treated her for pneumonia, Covid-19, RSV and severe respiratory distress."
"detention medical staff confiscated Amalia’s nebulizer, albuterol and nutritional supplements."
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
"...doctors treated her for pneumonia, Covid-19, RSV and severe respiratory distress."
"detention medical staff confiscated Amalia’s nebulizer, albuterol and nutritional supplements."
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention and denied prescribed medication, lawsuit says
The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.
www.nbcnews.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:18 AM
At 18 months, is the baby a US citizen that they tried to kill?
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That’s a concentration camp. Republicans have been all freaked out about a Democratic administration doing this for years, but the Republicans were the ones planning it all along.
The location, which was built as an Amazon distribution center, was chosen because of its proximity to railroad tracks. It can house up to 10,000 beds (not people -- beds), and will be equipped with a medical incinerator.
A warehouse in south Kansas City could be sold to the federal government to become an ICE detention center. That warehouse, owned by Platform Ventures, had received a $21 million tax incentive from the Port Authority of Kansas City.
February 8, 2026 at 11:07 AM
That’s a concentration camp. Republicans have been all freaked out about a Democratic administration doing this for years, but the Republicans were the ones planning it all along.
“culture which reveres female youth and innocence despises female age and experience. It disgusts them, scares them. That’s our paedophiliac culture too; misogyny of adult women is the opposite of sexual desire for girls, an inverted mirror.”
February 7, 2026 at 4:04 PM
“culture which reveres female youth and innocence despises female age and experience. It disgusts them, scares them. That’s our paedophiliac culture too; misogyny of adult women is the opposite of sexual desire for girls, an inverted mirror.”
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Family money-raking: "You’d have to add two digits to the sum of Biden abuses of power, foreign entanglements, & corruption alleged in the report to get near what Trump has raked in just from the UAE." Andrew McCarthy kicks off 5-part NRO series on Trump-&-sheiks sleaze, should be worth following
The Sordid Story of Trump, the Trump–Witkoff Family Business, and the UAE | National Review
Even if crypto makes your head hurt, you’re going to be hearing a lot about this in the months to come.
www.nationalreview.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Family money-raking: "You’d have to add two digits to the sum of Biden abuses of power, foreign entanglements, & corruption alleged in the report to get near what Trump has raked in just from the UAE." Andrew McCarthy kicks off 5-part NRO series on Trump-&-sheiks sleaze, should be worth following
This is simply heartbreaking. Why, oh why, must this cruelty exist
Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care.
Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school
A photo of Liam Conejo Ramos, a scared 5-year-old, drew attention to a detention center in Dilley, Texas. Advocates say his experience reflects what hundreds of children have endured out of public vie...
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:25 PM
This is simply heartbreaking. Why, oh why, must this cruelty exist
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3/Are we so numb to the fact that men kill women all the time, that it makes us more comfortable to watch it happen in front of our own eyes?
February 5, 2026 at 8:39 PM
3/Are we so numb to the fact that men kill women all the time, that it makes us more comfortable to watch it happen in front of our own eyes?