Kate Silbaugh, Professor at BU Law
@katesilbaugh.bsky.social
Focus on youth on social media, youth voting, youth and nicotine, youth in sports, family law, households, local government, politics, AI, urban planning, hoping for life after bird site
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Such a pleasure to team up with my #BULaw colleague @sshermanstokes.bsky.social Sherman-Stokes to tell this important story of race, immigration, and tax law.
Sovereignty for Some: Racism, Immigration and the Global Tax Order - Truthdig
How an obscure 20th-century tax rule ensured that newly decolonized nations would never fully escape the orbit of their colonizers.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Such a pleasure to team up with my #BULaw colleague @sshermanstokes.bsky.social Sherman-Stokes to tell this important story of race, immigration, and tax law.
I don’t think so.
September 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I don’t think so.
Maybe easier to teach an AI to say I’m not sure? arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13962
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August 4, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Maybe easier to teach an AI to say I’m not sure? arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13962
That feeling when you’re about to deep dive into your area of expertise to explain a joke …
July 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
That feeling when you’re about to deep dive into your area of expertise to explain a joke …
Kagan apologizes for citing herself in Paxton dissent ❤️
June 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Kagan apologizes for citing herself in Paxton dissent ❤️
I did it; hope you’re sitting down.
June 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I did it; hope you’re sitting down.
Mahmoud v. Taylor upends the law allowing parents to direct their child’s education by choosing their child’s school, *not* by creating a buffet of content at the public school that parents can choose. Completely misrepresents Yoder precedent.
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June 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Mahmoud v. Taylor upends the law allowing parents to direct their child’s education by choosing their child’s school, *not* by creating a buffet of content at the public school that parents can choose. Completely misrepresents Yoder precedent.
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For every millionaire household that would get a tax break from Republicans’ big, ugly bill, 19 Americans would be stripped of their health coverage.
Their priorities couldn’t be clearer.
We must stop this devastating bill.
Their priorities couldn’t be clearer.
We must stop this devastating bill.
June 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
For every millionaire household that would get a tax break from Republicans’ big, ugly bill, 19 Americans would be stripped of their health coverage.
Their priorities couldn’t be clearer.
We must stop this devastating bill.
Their priorities couldn’t be clearer.
We must stop this devastating bill.
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Thrilled to host this amazing group at Drexel for another wonderful Family Law Scholars & Teachers Conference! Most grateful for the generous feedback, new ideas, and supportive community #FLSTC @drexelklinelaw.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Thrilled to host this amazing group at Drexel for another wonderful Family Law Scholars & Teachers Conference! Most grateful for the generous feedback, new ideas, and supportive community #FLSTC @drexelklinelaw.bsky.social
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Oh, you useless lib females eat BRUNCH? With FRIENDS?
Leftist vanguards of the REVOLUTION only eat BREAKFAST
ALONE
AT AN HOUR BEFORE TEN AM
Leftist vanguards of the REVOLUTION only eat BREAKFAST
ALONE
AT AN HOUR BEFORE TEN AM
April 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Oh, you useless lib females eat BRUNCH? With FRIENDS?
Leftist vanguards of the REVOLUTION only eat BREAKFAST
ALONE
AT AN HOUR BEFORE TEN AM
Leftist vanguards of the REVOLUTION only eat BREAKFAST
ALONE
AT AN HOUR BEFORE TEN AM
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They are only "Attack Plans" unless they're from the "War Plans" region of France.
This is REALLY the lame-ass defense they are going with? They were “attack plans” not “war plans”?
March 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
They are only "Attack Plans" unless they're from the "War Plans" region of France.
Cut off checks and see who complains to identify fraudsters? Why not just throw them in the lake and see if they float or sink?
BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.
March 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Cut off checks and see who complains to identify fraudsters? Why not just throw them in the lake and see if they float or sink?
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You can't just be right, you have to know you're right. Good advice for LLMs, according to new Johns Hopkins research. Sometimes no answer is better than a wrong one - life or death choices in medicine, for example, or big financial decisions. 🧵
March 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
You can't just be right, you have to know you're right. Good advice for LLMs, according to new Johns Hopkins research. Sometimes no answer is better than a wrong one - life or death choices in medicine, for example, or big financial decisions. 🧵
The Democrats face the only decisions because—in headlines—only the Democrats have agency in the federal government, even when they have no majorities and hold virtually no formal power.
March 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Republicans do something outrageous and extreme, their opponents respond by critiquing each other.
March 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Republicans do something outrageous and extreme, their opponents respond by critiquing each other.
Providence, Rochester, New Haven
March 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Providence, Rochester, New Haven
I love this. I make this same point to anyone who will listen: teaching high school students to debate is a terrible use of education. It deliberately schools them in insincerity. The 'how to be toxic club,' to avoid real talk. I pointed out to Wurman speaking at BU that this is not debate club.
March 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I love this. I make this same point to anyone who will listen: teaching high school students to debate is a terrible use of education. It deliberately schools them in insincerity. The 'how to be toxic club,' to avoid real talk. I pointed out to Wurman speaking at BU that this is not debate club.
Debate as a form is the worst.
March 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Debate as a form is the worst.
PS 100% you could be the original source of the argument.
March 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
PS 100% you could be the original source of the argument.
In discussing whether we should be scoring points, or getting the story right, I asked if he'd ask the NYT for a correction. He said it didn't warrant it, is my recollection. One other thing: I think he said the opportunity to write this in NYT shaped the project. Again, confirm elsewhere please.
March 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
In discussing whether we should be scoring points, or getting the story right, I asked if he'd ask the NYT for a correction. He said it didn't warrant it, is my recollection. One other thing: I think he said the opportunity to write this in NYT shaped the project. Again, confirm elsewhere please.
each explicable (diplomatic immnty, e.g.). You should call him, you'd have a better conversation about his concession than I. I believe he said this was the one part of the op-ed that gave him "heartburn" is how I remember it (could have been a like term, headache/insomnia, but I recall heartburn).
March 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
each explicable (diplomatic immnty, e.g.). You should call him, you'd have a better conversation about his concession than I. I believe he said this was the one part of the op-ed that gave him "heartburn" is how I remember it (could have been a like term, headache/insomnia, but I recall heartburn).
1/2 I'm not on x and I am not a historian. I read a number of pieces about the op-ed organized and linked by a scholar, and one linked to Calvin's case. I think the op-ed itself does as well. The idea was that open war is required to negate, not simply being Alien [sic]. Other exceptions also ..
March 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
1/2 I'm not on x and I am not a historian. I read a number of pieces about the op-ed organized and linked by a scholar, and one linked to Calvin's case. I think the op-ed itself does as well. The idea was that open war is required to negate, not simply being Alien [sic]. Other exceptions also ..
What I saw was a future federal judge
March 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
What I saw was a future federal judge
I'm persuaded that it is, but on this one point, Wurman conceded something wrong with it.
March 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I'm persuaded that it is, but on this one point, Wurman conceded something wrong with it.
But he did concede that the way he'd characterized amity in the NYT did give him some heartburn. Not enough to correct.
March 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
But he did concede that the way he'd characterized amity in the NYT did give him some heartburn. Not enough to correct.