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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter

@leecarpenter.bsky.social

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Rutgers Law prof. Into democracy, dogs, and cheese. Knows about LGBTQ+ rights, public interest lawyering, legal ethics, state constitutions, LRW. Too insubordinate for autocracy. 🏳️‍🌈 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1120939

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 1d

Pleased to announce that the point headings suck too.

Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't say I could do it ELEGANTLY.

Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 1d

Breakfast that I can eat while walking: toasted everything bagel with slab of plain cream cheese and tomato. Sitting down breakfast is toasted everything with scallion cream cheese, lox, and tomato. Cynthia Nixon's bagel order is more of a kink than a meal.

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 1d

They forgot the taco trucks.

Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 1d

He’s right about it all having to come to an end. He’s just wrong about what “it” is.

See you on the 18th.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "This hate America rally that they have coming up for October 18? The antifa crowd, the pro-Hamas crowd, and the Marxists, they're all gonna gather on the Mall. It is an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes ... all this has gotta come to an end."

Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 1d

I loved your reply piece! Thank you two so much for agreeing to write it!

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 1d

Painfully accurate.

Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 2d

Will proudly be sporting this fine shirt on 10/18!

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 2d

The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa .

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 3d

You can't take your eye off Indiana Democrats for ONE MINUTE.

Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 3d

The fact that my friend's roommate has a bearded dragon that he decided to name Antifa just gets funnier and funnier.

Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 3d

Inside of the frog is the Secret Antifa Org Chart. Open the frog, Pam.

Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 3d

Proud AF to be a member of this union and this university.

RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 3d

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 4d

Now when people say that Pam Bondi learned nothing in law school, we can correct them by informing them that she learned how to glue her argument points into a manila folder. Professional Responsibility slid right off, but that lesson stuck.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 4d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 4d

When you have to deploy someone from a conservative think tank to write an opinion piece that argues that, actually, that Hegseth speech wasn't so bad really, that means you know that it was really fucking bad.

Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 4d

Well known fact that there are no children in cities. Any children you think you see are crisis actors. Do your own research!

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 5d

Its not lost on me that the conservative bugaboo for years was federal troops marching in their states and cities and its the first thing Trump reached for once in power

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5d

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 6d

This post has aged so well that people keep asking it if it's had work done.

Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · Aug 28

Say what you will about this, the dumbest, cruelest timeline, but you have to admit it’s going to be fun watching law schools fight over the hottest young scholars specializing in (checks notes) interstate compacts and the Third Amendment.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10d

MW correctly reading the room

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 11d

I'm sure this is just a coincidence, but the last time I sensed that kind of resentment directed at the prospect of a woman taking up space where someone thought an exceedingly fit man should be, I was in a very old-school gay bar.

Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 14d

Does anyone know how the Transgender for Everybody program works? Can’t wait until they launch the TFE website so we can all know whether we qualify.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16d

NEW: Hawaii's Supreme Court keeps releasing opinions that denounce the U.S. Supreme Court.

The latest? A new ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations from now on.

The author took it as an opportunity to say Hawaii's court will protect due process—while SCOTUS isn't:

Hawaii Supreme Court Expands Rights of Defendants, and Once Again Rebukes SCOTUS - Bolts

Hawaii justices ruled that their state constitution requires police to record interrogations. And they vowed to protect due process for Hawaiians—unlike, they said, the Roberts Court.

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 17d

And here I thought it meant that he has made an art of preening while avoiding physical contact.