Jennifer Hendricks
@jenniferhendricks.bsky.social
feminist law professor. regulation of pregnancy, gender and sports, relational feminist theory, ecofeminism.
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Essentially a Mother: A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and Motherhood a book by Jennifer Hendricks
Essentially a Mother argues that the law of pregnancy and motherhood has been overrun by sexist ideology. Courts have held that a pregnant woman's nine months of gestation hardly count in her claim to...
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The law of pregnancy is overrun by a sexist ideology that masquerades as sex equality while denigrating gestation and other caretaking. Feminists must work to overthrow this skewed value system that subordinates women, devalues caretaking, and impoverishes the law of our fundamental rights.
The neoliberalization of dispensations for sale (from Common Dreams).
"You can keep eating meat and donate to 'offset' your impact."
"You can keep eating meat and donate to 'offset' your impact."
Keep the Turkey, Change the System | Common Dreams
Changing your diet isn’t the only way to help tackle factory farming; instead, you can donate to charities working to make a difference.
www.commondreams.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The neoliberalization of dispensations for sale (from Common Dreams).
"You can keep eating meat and donate to 'offset' your impact."
"You can keep eating meat and donate to 'offset' your impact."
There is no conversation with a Californian that does not eventually turn to the topic of parking.
November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
There is no conversation with a Californian that does not eventually turn to the topic of parking.
This piece describes the author, Elizabeth Geddes, as a former AUSA but omits that she's now doing white collar defense and "routinely counsels individuals under investigation by the government."
In other words, she's drumming up business with the kind of people who hung out with Epstein.
In other words, she's drumming up business with the kind of people who hung out with Epstein.
Opinion | I Prosecuted R. Kelly. This Is Why the Epstein Files Should Be Redacted.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This piece describes the author, Elizabeth Geddes, as a former AUSA but omits that she's now doing white collar defense and "routinely counsels individuals under investigation by the government."
In other words, she's drumming up business with the kind of people who hung out with Epstein.
In other words, she's drumming up business with the kind of people who hung out with Epstein.
For once, it really is about ethics in journalism.
November 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
For once, it really is about ethics in journalism.
Oh come the fuck on.
"A conspiracy theory still thrives among some in Trump’s base that Epstein knew the names of other rich or powerful pedophiles."
"A conspiracy theory still thrives among some in Trump’s base that Epstein knew the names of other rich or powerful pedophiles."
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed
A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Oh come the fuck on.
"A conspiracy theory still thrives among some in Trump’s base that Epstein knew the names of other rich or powerful pedophiles."
"A conspiracy theory still thrives among some in Trump’s base that Epstein knew the names of other rich or powerful pedophiles."
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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Coal is fueling data centers for Amazon, causing hellish levels of pollution in Mumbai. Does anyone need any further reasons to boycott Amazon??
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal
As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Coal is fueling data centers for Amazon, causing hellish levels of pollution in Mumbai. Does anyone need any further reasons to boycott Amazon??
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Laughing in law professor.
my advice is: don't write a paper that's 15k words (18k including footnotes), because it turns out there aren't very many journals that will even entertain papers this long
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Laughing in law professor.
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I’ve been arguing ever since Trump’s 9/30 confession to US generals that he’s at war with Democrat-led cities that Congress needs to recognize that communicating for the military is a critical goal, and that articles of impeachment can serve as a vehicle for those communications.
November 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I’ve been arguing ever since Trump’s 9/30 confession to US generals that he’s at war with Democrat-led cities that Congress needs to recognize that communicating for the military is a critical goal, and that articles of impeachment can serve as a vehicle for those communications.
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She has it exactly backwards. The domestic deployments to date are a much weaker case for being so manifestly illegal as to justify refusal; that's a high bar. The boat strikes are outright unambiguous murder, everyone in that chain down to the one pulling the trigger has had a clear duty to refuse.
Sen. Slotkin said today—to my surprise—that she's unaware of any illegal orders *so far*.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wee...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wee...
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
She has it exactly backwards. The domestic deployments to date are a much weaker case for being so manifestly illegal as to justify refusal; that's a high bar. The boat strikes are outright unambiguous murder, everyone in that chain down to the one pulling the trigger has had a clear duty to refuse.
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Hey all! I hope you come to New Orleans for AALS 2026. I know @brianlfrye.bsky.social and I would love to see you.
If you are going, stay at the Loew’s rather than the Hilton. ICE is currently terrorizing New Orleans’ immigrant communities, and they’re staying at the Hilton Riverside. 1/2
If you are going, stay at the Loew’s rather than the Hilton. ICE is currently terrorizing New Orleans’ immigrant communities, and they’re staying at the Hilton Riverside. 1/2
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Hey all! I hope you come to New Orleans for AALS 2026. I know @brianlfrye.bsky.social and I would love to see you.
If you are going, stay at the Loew’s rather than the Hilton. ICE is currently terrorizing New Orleans’ immigrant communities, and they’re staying at the Hilton Riverside. 1/2
If you are going, stay at the Loew’s rather than the Hilton. ICE is currently terrorizing New Orleans’ immigrant communities, and they’re staying at the Hilton Riverside. 1/2
I'm a purely civil litigation person, and it honestly never quite hit me that there's NO JUDGE in the room when a grand jury indicts. I always just kind of thought of it as ex parte, I guess.
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I'm a purely civil litigation person, and it honestly never quite hit me that there's NO JUDGE in the room when a grand jury indicts. I always just kind of thought of it as ex parte, I guess.
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How about gold fillings in teeth? Maybe you can make a heap of their shoes?
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
How about gold fillings in teeth? Maybe you can make a heap of their shoes?
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"Rooting around to explain [why] UC people [were] given up by their own officials, someone found a Resolution Agreement ... [dated] Dec 18, 2024 with Biden’s OCR."
"The Agreement may have served as a template for Trump’s demands of Columbia University and other universities."
"The Agreement may have served as a template for Trump’s demands of Columbia University and other universities."
Liner Note 38. The University of California's Charlie Kirk Tribute Act
UC Berkeley on May 29, 2024 I’m opposed to the University of California’s current responses to the Trump Administration’s multiple shaked...
utotherescue.blogspot.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
"Rooting around to explain [why] UC people [were] given up by their own officials, someone found a Resolution Agreement ... [dated] Dec 18, 2024 with Biden’s OCR."
"The Agreement may have served as a template for Trump’s demands of Columbia University and other universities."
"The Agreement may have served as a template for Trump’s demands of Columbia University and other universities."
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Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
Airport delays, on the other hand, ...
One of the things we* learned from the genocide livestreamed from Palestine is that the obvious, indisputable starving of children is not enough to move the American political class. The brutal revocation of SNAP is no different. Been thinking about how far this says we are from the horizon.
November 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Airport delays, on the other hand, ...
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I'm reading Michael Banarjee's work (can't find him on bsky) on academic freedom, and he includes a list of the ancient privileges of scholars, and boy do we need to work on getting some of these back:
● to be able to silence the players of silly games interrupting their studies;
● to be able to silence the players of silly games interrupting their studies;
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I'm reading Michael Banarjee's work (can't find him on bsky) on academic freedom, and he includes a list of the ancient privileges of scholars, and boy do we need to work on getting some of these back:
● to be able to silence the players of silly games interrupting their studies;
● to be able to silence the players of silly games interrupting their studies;
The always pithy Michael Hendricks, quoted in the headline!
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The always pithy Michael Hendricks, quoted in the headline!
A great thing about a quasi-nomadic academic life: I currently have online access to the libraries for three cities, two universities, and one well-endowed liberal arts college.
November 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A great thing about a quasi-nomadic academic life: I currently have online access to the libraries for three cities, two universities, and one well-endowed liberal arts college.
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Money does not represent value in itself: it represents the ability to make unilateral decisions about the uses to which various resources in the world will be put. That our system has produced a kind of central planner in the person of Elon Musk is the greatest indictment of it one could imagine
If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
November 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Money does not represent value in itself: it represents the ability to make unilateral decisions about the uses to which various resources in the world will be put. That our system has produced a kind of central planner in the person of Elon Musk is the greatest indictment of it one could imagine
"Eliminating hunger in America in 2025 would be a simple thing to do, and we don’t do it because we affirmatively, as a society, choose not to do it.
Billionaire fights desperately to ensure the poor starve - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Good explainer here from Steve Vladeck about the inside baseball procedural game that’s being played at the SCOTUS now in regard to funding SNAP. Specifically, he addresses the question of why KBJ iss...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"Eliminating hunger in America in 2025 would be a simple thing to do, and we don’t do it because we affirmatively, as a society, choose not to do it.