Leonore (Lee) Carpenter
@leecarpenter.bsky.social
Rutgers Law prof. Into democracy, dogs, and cheese. Knows about LGBTQ+ rights, public interest lawyering, legal ethics, state constitutions, LRW. Too insubordinate for autocracy. 🏳️🌈
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Indeed this is perfection.
January 23, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Indeed this is perfection.
While walking the dog yesterday I was thinking about how one of the major themes of the Bible is that humans are often, as a species, a huge disappointment, and in that moment I felt closer to organized religion than I have in decades.
January 22, 2026 at 3:40 PM
While walking the dog yesterday I was thinking about how one of the major themes of the Bible is that humans are often, as a species, a huge disappointment, and in that moment I felt closer to organized religion than I have in decades.
That feeling when you are compelled to send an email to your Dem senator screaming about the fact that the 25th Amendment isn't there for decoration, and then you remember that your Dem senator is John Fucking Fetterman.
January 20, 2026 at 12:16 AM
That feeling when you are compelled to send an email to your Dem senator screaming about the fact that the 25th Amendment isn't there for decoration, and then you remember that your Dem senator is John Fucking Fetterman.
This has momentarily soothed my tormented soul.
January 17, 2026 at 11:58 AM
This has momentarily soothed my tormented soul.
Hell yes.
Minneapolis groups call for ‘general strike’. "...several local unions—including Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, and St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28—have lent their support to the strike." www.commondreams.org/news/minneap...
Minneapolis Labor, Community Leaders Join Call for Jan. 23 General Strike to Demand ICE Out | Common Dreams
Minneapolis labor unions and community groups call for a general strike to push out federal immigration agents.
www.commondreams.org
January 16, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Hell yes.
DID KYRSTEN SINEMA STEAL YOUR HUSBAND? YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO COMPENSATION.
January 16, 2026 at 5:57 PM
DID KYRSTEN SINEMA STEAL YOUR HUSBAND? YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO COMPENSATION.
I've gotta say, harmonizing the idea that executing protesters in Minneapolis is cool with the idea that executing protesters in Iran is evil is one hell of a heavy rationalization lift, even for the MAGA crowd.
January 14, 2026 at 6:46 PM
I've gotta say, harmonizing the idea that executing protesters in Minneapolis is cool with the idea that executing protesters in Iran is evil is one hell of a heavy rationalization lift, even for the MAGA crowd.
I will add that there has often been a weird, scratchy layer of sexism over the whole thing, a “take a Valium, lady” attitude that I’ve occasionally felt like sandpaper since I first said Trump was a fascist in 2015.
Being right about trump was boring, tedious, partisan, ideological. Being wrong about trump? Heterodox, contrarian, free thinking.
January 14, 2026 at 12:42 PM
I will add that there has often been a weird, scratchy layer of sexism over the whole thing, a “take a Valium, lady” attitude that I’ve occasionally felt like sandpaper since I first said Trump was a fascist in 2015.
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Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
January 13, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
I wonder if this trademark is expired.
January 13, 2026 at 2:26 AM
I wonder if this trademark is expired.
You know he doesn’t like it when you talk like that. What did you expect? That he wouldn’t throw you down the stairs?
Go wash the blood off your face and cook dinner.
Go wash the blood off your face and cook dinner.
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."
January 11, 2026 at 3:23 PM
You know he doesn’t like it when you talk like that. What did you expect? That he wouldn’t throw you down the stairs?
Go wash the blood off your face and cook dinner.
Go wash the blood off your face and cook dinner.
This is as wise as anything else I’ve heard in years. And something I need to hear as the state breaks my heart nearly daily.
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
January 8, 2026 at 10:40 PM
This is as wise as anything else I’ve heard in years. And something I need to hear as the state breaks my heart nearly daily.
What if the head of Venezuela was really the DOGE Administrator? That would really tie up some loose ends.
January 6, 2026 at 1:52 AM
What if the head of Venezuela was really the DOGE Administrator? That would really tie up some loose ends.
Someone should write an alternate historical novel where Stephen Miller’s parents never met.
December 29, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Someone should write an alternate historical novel where Stephen Miller’s parents never met.
Reposted by Leonore (Lee) Carpenter
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
December 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
This Frank Sinatra? The one who made a ten-minute short film about religious pluralism? The one who refused to play segregated venues?
Stephen Miller once again proving himself to be the most fetid piece of trash in the entire dumpster.
youtube.com/shorts/wqk7x...
Stephen Miller once again proving himself to be the most fetid piece of trash in the entire dumpster.
youtube.com/shorts/wqk7x...
December 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This Frank Sinatra? The one who made a ten-minute short film about religious pluralism? The one who refused to play segregated venues?
Stephen Miller once again proving himself to be the most fetid piece of trash in the entire dumpster.
youtube.com/shorts/wqk7x...
Stephen Miller once again proving himself to be the most fetid piece of trash in the entire dumpster.
youtube.com/shorts/wqk7x...
Once again, I must remind everyone that the best way to renew my interest in a segment of a show I last watched with my grandpa in 1979 is to censor that segment.
December 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Once again, I must remind everyone that the best way to renew my interest in a segment of a show I last watched with my grandpa in 1979 is to censor that segment.
The real question is how this wasn’t already a word.
Not for the first time, the signature block for Self-Proclaimed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan spelled it “Virgina.”
December 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The real question is how this wasn’t already a word.
This bullshit is putting pressure on my first-year students to somehow produce a "writing sample" out of the ether, and I'm getting very stabby over it. No, they don't have a writing sample. The first thing I assigned to them as a diagnostic of their skills incoming is not a writing sample. Just no.
Duuuuuuuuumb
Sorry for not offering better analysis
Sorry for not offering better analysis
In a first, many top law firms this year are recruiting summer associates during students' first semester. Some are dangling ‘jumbo offers’ and ‘loyalty’ bonuses for students who do two summer stints back-to-back, keeping them out of other firms' reach reut.rs/44U44cD
December 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This bullshit is putting pressure on my first-year students to somehow produce a "writing sample" out of the ether, and I'm getting very stabby over it. No, they don't have a writing sample. The first thing I assigned to them as a diagnostic of their skills incoming is not a writing sample. Just no.
2008 had too much dignity to participate in this farce.
For anyone worried AI will replace all of us.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
December 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
2008 had too much dignity to participate in this farce.
Trump Derangement Syndrome’s most afflicted victim remains Donald Trump.
December 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Trump Derangement Syndrome’s most afflicted victim remains Donald Trump.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
1) Do these people have any idea who John Adams was married to?
2) Ambitious, intellectual conservative women feel politically homeless because they are. Conservatism is inherently sexist. It will never treat women as equals.
3 Leopards, faces, blah blah.
1) Do these people have any idea who John Adams was married to?
2) Ambitious, intellectual conservative women feel politically homeless because they are. Conservatism is inherently sexist. It will never treat women as equals.
3 Leopards, faces, blah blah.
‘For the Reinvention of Man’: How a Conservative Debating Society at Harvard Pushed Women From Its Ranks | News | The Harvard Crimson
The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
www.thecrimson.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
1) Do these people have any idea who John Adams was married to?
2) Ambitious, intellectual conservative women feel politically homeless because they are. Conservatism is inherently sexist. It will never treat women as equals.
3 Leopards, faces, blah blah.
1) Do these people have any idea who John Adams was married to?
2) Ambitious, intellectual conservative women feel politically homeless because they are. Conservatism is inherently sexist. It will never treat women as equals.
3 Leopards, faces, blah blah.
This is the line he uses to view the films that provide inspiration for his Warrior Ethos. Films such as "Rough Rider," "Midnight Hammer, and "No Beardos."
We also need to know what he used this line for, besides taking orders from Moscow.
apnews.com/article/hegs...
apnews.com/article/hegs...
Hegseth had an unsecured internet line set up in his office to connect to Signal, AP sources say
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer.
apnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This is the line he uses to view the films that provide inspiration for his Warrior Ethos. Films such as "Rough Rider," "Midnight Hammer, and "No Beardos."
If I were provost at Texas Tech right now I would be considering whether my feet were cute enough for an OnlyFans page.
December 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
If I were provost at Texas Tech right now I would be considering whether my feet were cute enough for an OnlyFans page.