Dara Purvis
@darapurvis.bsky.social
Law professor at Temple. Professional angry feminist (she/her). Views are mine, my own, my precious.
Very cool and normal day when a professor friend I texted to check in on after reports of a shooting at the start of last semester texts to check on me after reports of a shooting at the start of this semester.
January 12, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Very cool and normal day when a professor friend I texted to check in on after reports of a shooting at the start of last semester texts to check on me after reports of a shooting at the start of this semester.
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I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
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Enjoyed seeing this wholesome guy just noping all of Fox's leading questions. It was like
Q:Don't you thinks she was wrong?
A: No obviously ICE was wrong
Q: What about the people who shouldn't be here?
A: Obviously they should be here
Q: Anything el--
A: I have a bell!
Q:Don't you thinks she was wrong?
A: No obviously ICE was wrong
Q: What about the people who shouldn't be here?
A: Obviously they should be here
Q: Anything el--
A: I have a bell!
Hannity has a Fox reporter in Minneapolis talk to a random protester walking through the city who goes on to spit bars for 2 minutes
January 10, 2026 at 4:06 AM
Enjoyed seeing this wholesome guy just noping all of Fox's leading questions. It was like
Q:Don't you thinks she was wrong?
A: No obviously ICE was wrong
Q: What about the people who shouldn't be here?
A: Obviously they should be here
Q: Anything el--
A: I have a bell!
Q:Don't you thinks she was wrong?
A: No obviously ICE was wrong
Q: What about the people who shouldn't be here?
A: Obviously they should be here
Q: Anything el--
A: I have a bell!
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Because of my southern twang, the caption thought I said “White gays” not “White gaze” 🤣🤣
January 9, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Because of my southern twang, the caption thought I said “White gays” not “White gaze” 🤣🤣
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Hey, @alizashatzman.bsky.social, you just got a great shoutout from @darapurvis.bsky.social at #AALS2026 because you and your work are amazing!
January 8, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Hey, @alizashatzman.bsky.social, you just got a great shoutout from @darapurvis.bsky.social at #AALS2026 because you and your work are amazing!
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A country that blows up foreign fishing boats for no reason is one that will shoot its own citizens for no reason.
January 8, 2026 at 4:27 AM
A country that blows up foreign fishing boats for no reason is one that will shoot its own citizens for no reason.
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NPR built a visual archive of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, showing exactly what happened through the lenses of the people who were there. In Chapter 3, we lay out a timeline of key moments throughout the day as the assault on the Capitol unfolded.
Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack
NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
n.pr
January 6, 2026 at 9:06 PM
NPR built a visual archive of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, showing exactly what happened through the lenses of the people who were there. In Chapter 3, we lay out a timeline of key moments throughout the day as the assault on the Capitol unfolded.
PSA for those at AALS, the street address for the Hilton Riverside in Doordash is wrong. It will direct your driver to the Hilton embassy suites. Let me and last night's room temperature fried okra be a warning.
January 6, 2026 at 11:28 PM
PSA for those at AALS, the street address for the Hilton Riverside in Doordash is wrong. It will direct your driver to the Hilton embassy suites. Let me and last night's room temperature fried okra be a warning.
I saw exactly this - you people caused the SCOTUS legitimacy crisis by arguing a critical perspective - on Facebook from another professor and had to resist becoming a Crazy Person On Facebook.
This faction tends to be anti-anti-SCOTUS too: They might not defend the Supreme Court's bad decisions on the merits, but they'll nitpick progressive professors who criticize those decisions. The real threat to the court's legitimacy, they imply, comes from these critics—not the justices themselves.
January 5, 2026 at 4:03 PM
I saw exactly this - you people caused the SCOTUS legitimacy crisis by arguing a critical perspective - on Facebook from another professor and had to resist becoming a Crazy Person On Facebook.
Reaaaally thinking about how this era is going to be described in the history books.
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 6:22 AM
Reaaaally thinking about how this era is going to be described in the history books.
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Per WASH POST, Stephen Miller will play an “elevated role” in Venezuela (what could go wrong!) and Machado won’t be president because she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize Trump wants (yes, seriously)
Couldn’t make it up if we tried
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Couldn’t make it up if we tried
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Per WASH POST, Stephen Miller will play an “elevated role” in Venezuela (what could go wrong!) and Machado won’t be president because she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize Trump wants (yes, seriously)
Couldn’t make it up if we tried
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Couldn’t make it up if we tried
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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We're going to need a bigger Hague.
January 3, 2026 at 9:51 AM
We're going to need a bigger Hague.
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On left:
Barry Weiss on Monday: "We need to be able to get the principals on the record and on camera."
On right:
Alfonsi on Sun: "If the standard for airing a story becomes 'the government must agree to be interviewed' ... we go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state."
Barry Weiss on Monday: "We need to be able to get the principals on the record and on camera."
On right:
Alfonsi on Sun: "If the standard for airing a story becomes 'the government must agree to be interviewed' ... we go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state."
December 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
On left:
Barry Weiss on Monday: "We need to be able to get the principals on the record and on camera."
On right:
Alfonsi on Sun: "If the standard for airing a story becomes 'the government must agree to be interviewed' ... we go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state."
Barry Weiss on Monday: "We need to be able to get the principals on the record and on camera."
On right:
Alfonsi on Sun: "If the standard for airing a story becomes 'the government must agree to be interviewed' ... we go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state."
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The recent trans rights cases--Skrmetti on health care, the shadow docket passport order, and the pending athletics cases--should be seen in this context, as vehicles for chipping away at the promise of equal protection
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The recent trans rights cases--Skrmetti on health care, the shadow docket passport order, and the pending athletics cases--should be seen in this context, as vehicles for chipping away at the promise of equal protection
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I wish a single journalist or leader would reach out to me
I have the scientific expertise, lived experience of a trans person, and am literally a science communicator for my career
I'm willing to explain this even though I know it will decrease my personal safety!! bsky.app/profile/jeym...
I have the scientific expertise, lived experience of a trans person, and am literally a science communicator for my career
I'm willing to explain this even though I know it will decrease my personal safety!! bsky.app/profile/jeym...
If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
December 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I wish a single journalist or leader would reach out to me
I have the scientific expertise, lived experience of a trans person, and am literally a science communicator for my career
I'm willing to explain this even though I know it will decrease my personal safety!! bsky.app/profile/jeym...
I have the scientific expertise, lived experience of a trans person, and am literally a science communicator for my career
I'm willing to explain this even though I know it will decrease my personal safety!! bsky.app/profile/jeym...
The House passed a bill banning gender affirming care nationwide tonight. Call your Senators.
Don't say "it will die in the senate"
Say "I will kill it in the senate"
And then call them. It takes so few calls, comparatively, to make it feel like a wave crashing over them. We need to be the wave, again and again.
Say "I will kill it in the senate"
And then call them. It takes so few calls, comparatively, to make it feel like a wave crashing over them. We need to be the wave, again and again.
December 18, 2025 at 5:08 AM
The House passed a bill banning gender affirming care nationwide tonight. Call your Senators.
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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
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A former immigration judge alleged to DOJ that Trump fired her bc of her sex & national origin
DOJ said equal employment opportunity laws don't supersede Trump's removal powers under Article II
this is literally a claim to constitutional power to discriminate
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
DOJ said equal employment opportunity laws don't supersede Trump's removal powers under Article II
this is literally a claim to constitutional power to discriminate
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Resegregating the American Workforce
The Justice Department’s rollback of disparate impact is just one new policy that makes it harder for people of color to challenge illegal discrimination.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
A former immigration judge alleged to DOJ that Trump fired her bc of her sex & national origin
DOJ said equal employment opportunity laws don't supersede Trump's removal powers under Article II
this is literally a claim to constitutional power to discriminate
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
DOJ said equal employment opportunity laws don't supersede Trump's removal powers under Article II
this is literally a claim to constitutional power to discriminate
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Absolutely furious that a student made a pun in their exam answer that I set up yet didn't think of. How dare they be funnier than me.
December 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Absolutely furious that a student made a pun in their exam answer that I set up yet didn't think of. How dare they be funnier than me.
As a scholar of masculinities, next time I want to murder a man I'm describing him as a pugnacious [height under six feet]
December 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM
As a scholar of masculinities, next time I want to murder a man I'm describing him as a pugnacious [height under six feet]
I make a great faculty advisor.
Blue states should counter with mandatory Antifa chapters.
One day apart - In Tennessee and Texas Republicans at the top of the state announce a plan to put TP USA chapters in every high school in each state
Likely not a coincidence
Likely not a coincidence
December 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I make a great faculty advisor.
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
May this be as successful as the D.A.R.E. program was in my day.
New: Gov. Greg Abbott and Turning Point USA are launching a partnership to create chapters of the right-wing organization on every Texas high school campus.
Abbott says Turning Point USA will expand in Texas schools
Republican officials in Oklahoma and Florida have also launched plans to expand the presence of the conservative youth organization founded by Charlie Kirk.
www.texastribune.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:33 AM
May this be as successful as the D.A.R.E. program was in my day.