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Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · 1d

Haha and all, but Frog and Toad already has the capacity to radicalize children by depicting quiet care and everyday humanity. Let it do that work without turning it into yet another forum for partisan contestation.

Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · 1d

Were judges ever meant to save democracy? It was precisely when we delegated the job of civic worldbuilding to the federal courts that we stopped talking to each other and doing democracy ourselves. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · 1d

Good to be reminded that "the press" comprises more than celebrity talking heads . . . so many real people experiencing real indignity as they try to document what is happening on our streets and in our neighborhoods

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · 27d

Can you say more about their structural incapacity?

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Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · 27d

Curious to clarify . . . were you on foot or on bike during these incidents?

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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.bsky.social · 29d

We must come to terms with the fact that it was a huge mistake to leave the online world largely unchecked, and that we urgently need to deal with a fragmented, radicalized and instrumentalized reality in many countries simultaneously and take action instead of remaining in shock or relativization.

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Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · Sep 10

Thrilled to be a part of this stellar lineup!

🎃😱Slaybell Romero loves Halloween👻👹 @maybell.bsky.social · Sep 10

@sarahlawsky.bsky.social, @joshchafetz.bsky.social, Maeve Glass (Columbia), and @cristinatilley.bsky.social. Such a great line up and so excited to bring this series to @tulanelaw.bsky.social this year! 2/2

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Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · Sep 7

Yes, the beauty of different readers bringing different worldviews to the same text! Glad you shared it, fun to think about.

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Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · Sep 7

Is it really so strange? I mean, it's just "in for a penny, in for a pound" thinking . . . and refreshing that the trailing spouse pledged not to cling to an old life where his identity was more self-defined. Haven't read the book, not commenting on ACB work, just resisting the easy hot take.

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · Sep 7

This is from Justice Barrett’s new book. I’ll just observe that it‘s a very strange metaphor to use to describe the decision to move to Washington D.C. to become a Supreme Court Justice. www.cbsnews.com/news/book-ex...

Jesse and I had a very brief time to make one of the biggest decisions in our marriage. His position was full support
on one condition: if we did it, we had to "burn the boats." The phrase comes from a military strategy used by Alexander the Great, who, after landing on the shores of enemy territory, ordered his men to burn the ships they had come in. With the option of exit gone, there was no choice but to forge ahead, no matter the
challenge. Likewise for us.

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Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · Sep 7

This guy too, though he probably has more money to spend . . .
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/d...

Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · Sep 7

I ordinarily try to read the Times with grace, as reporters and editors contend with unprecedented challenges and are acquitting themselves better than many of their peers. But the mayoral coverage stretches credulity.

Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · Sep 7

Mamdani is way ahead with NY Jewish voters, but you’d never know it from the @NYTimes portside.org/2025-09-04/w...

Why Does The New York Times Keep Ignoring Polls Showing Mamdani Leading With Jewish Voters?

In the months leading up to New York assemblymember Zohran Mamdani’s surprise win in the June 24 Democratic primary, the New York Times—as I documented at the time—used innuendo, sectarian framing, an...

portside.org

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Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · Sep 7

Totally agree it's ironic and problematic. Wonder if using it as a moment of shared challenge and conversation around the appropriate role of the state might achieve better community outcomes than sharp discourse at farmers' expense?

Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · Sep 7

Genuine question, not rhetorical . . . what nonsense specifically has motivated individual decisions to go?

Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · Sep 7

Private law enters the chat!

Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · Sep 7

And a subhead in a tort complaint or a prosecution memo.

ceej @ceej.online · Sep 7

every quote from a cabinet secretary now is like a trailer for the eventual house committee hearing

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Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · Aug 31

Why don't they collaborate as a shadow cabinet? Everyone take an area of expertise and generate the policies they'd pursue as a counterpoint to what's happening now. Give voters a concrete slate and a concrete plan . . . unless Dems are more interested in funded competition and have no plan?

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Aug 31

Other people who are clearly interested in running:
— Pritzker
— Beshear
— Walz
— AOC
— Whitmer

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Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · Aug 31

A joke, I know. And I'm no golf fangirl. But, in all seriousness, why can't it be a cure for loneliness? Male or female? Walking for a few hours in nature with a group big enough for chitchat and small enough for real talk . . . probably can't hurt.

A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · Aug 31

I'm sorry but the cure for male loneliness can't be golf. It just can't.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/s...

I Really Didn’t Want to Golf

www.nytimes.com

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Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · Aug 30

Des Moines Register, are you on this?

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Aug 30

You would think that documenting these effects - on farms, in meat-packing plants, in the garment industry, and restaurants would be a popular beat for reporters in MSM.

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · Aug 30

Thousands of farm animals & livestock are going unattended.

They aren’t being milked. They aren’t being fed.

I feel a great deal more for those animals than for the farmers who voted for this shit.

They KNEW who their workers were & where they came from. But they voted to hurt them anyway.

Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · Aug 30

Latest entry in the canon of guys (Robert McNamara, Jaron Lanier, Roger McNamee) who champion policies and products, collect the resulting money and power, and profit off of books detailing their late-stage regret. The call must be out for Bill Cassidy's ghostwriter

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/b...

He Paved the Way for CNN, Fox News and the Internet. He’s Not Sure We’re Better Off.

www.nytimes.com

Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · Aug 30

Would ordinarily like this . . . my Torts students this week had read it in full and had followup questions! Bodes well . . .

Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · Aug 29

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · Aug 29

I love this idea and also want a list of academic murder books. Please reply with recs

Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · Aug 26

I mean, J.B. specifically implored the media not to do this . . . predictable but pathetic.

Dan Izzo @izzos.us · Aug 26

www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/p...
It's not a "political feud" @cnn.com it's a authoritarian dictator trying to take military control of America
It also won't be a "political feud" when his goons burst into your studio and arrest you live on air "THINK OF THE RATINGS!" but no one will be left to fight then

Analysis: Trump vs. Pritzker: A political feud that could trigger a major national crisis | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker are each the type of foe the other loves to hate.

www.cnn.com

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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · Aug 26

NYT article by @kashhill.bsky.social on ChatGPT's role in a teen's suicide. Until the law holds tech companies accountable, we'll keep seeing tragedies like this: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.

www.nytimes.com

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Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thx for this explanation!

Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · Aug 25

Can you say more? Do you think they should be saying something? If so, what do you think they should be saying? Genuine question, not being rhetorical.

Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · Aug 20

True, but bias connotes toxicity, when it might be just taste or preference, often stemming from the strengths of the faculty teaching the editors or some other consideration. For example, I've found that Catholic/urban schools that historically trained the plaintiffs PI bar like torts scholarship

Cristina Carmody Tilley @cristinatilley.bsky.social · Aug 20

What would that even look like?