Maybell Romero
@maybell.bsky.social
McGlinchey Stafford Associate Prof/Research Dean at Tulane Law. Criminal law, rural legal systems, sexual assault, punishment, and cultural criticism. Atrevida y obstinada.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2292637
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2292637
I am, embarrassingly, a Latina who cannot dance. Considering taking a bachata class, in case anyone in New Orleans wants to join... 👀
@brianlfrye.bsky.social is gets back too late on the Wednesday nights where this would happen.
@brianlfrye.bsky.social is gets back too late on the Wednesday nights where this would happen.
February 10, 2026 at 4:24 AM
I am, embarrassingly, a Latina who cannot dance. Considering taking a bachata class, in case anyone in New Orleans wants to join... 👀
@brianlfrye.bsky.social is gets back too late on the Wednesday nights where this would happen.
@brianlfrye.bsky.social is gets back too late on the Wednesday nights where this would happen.
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February 9, 2026 at 4:17 PM
This year’s edition also came with vegan drunken whiskey pecan praline king cake from Breads on Oak!
Yes, it's BONG HiTS 4 JESUS and "Fuck Cheer" Day in Romero's Children & the Law!
And this year, it even comes with king cake.
And this year, it even comes with king cake.
Me, searching "fuck cheer," at work, hoping to find the old ACLU video of Brandi Levy talking about her Snapchat video where she said "fuck school, fuck cheer, fuck softball, fuck everything," and getting results I was definitely not bargaining for.
I suspect I'm now on a departmental IT list.
I suspect I'm now on a departmental IT list.
February 9, 2026 at 11:52 PM
This year’s edition also came with vegan drunken whiskey pecan praline king cake from Breads on Oak!
Yes, it's BONG HiTS 4 JESUS and "Fuck Cheer" Day in Romero's Children & the Law!
And this year, it even comes with king cake.
And this year, it even comes with king cake.
Me, searching "fuck cheer," at work, hoping to find the old ACLU video of Brandi Levy talking about her Snapchat video where she said "fuck school, fuck cheer, fuck softball, fuck everything," and getting results I was definitely not bargaining for.
I suspect I'm now on a departmental IT list.
I suspect I'm now on a departmental IT list.
February 9, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Yes, it's BONG HiTS 4 JESUS and "Fuck Cheer" Day in Romero's Children & the Law!
And this year, it even comes with king cake.
And this year, it even comes with king cake.
Me, searching "fuck cheer," at work, hoping to find the old ACLU video of Brandi Levy talking about her Snapchat video where she said "fuck school, fuck cheer, fuck softball, fuck everything," and getting results I was definitely not bargaining for.
I suspect I'm now on a departmental IT list.
I suspect I'm now on a departmental IT list.
February 9, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Me, searching "fuck cheer," at work, hoping to find the old ACLU video of Brandi Levy talking about her Snapchat video where she said "fuck school, fuck cheer, fuck softball, fuck everything," and getting results I was definitely not bargaining for.
I suspect I'm now on a departmental IT list.
I suspect I'm now on a departmental IT list.
I mean, I was sold from this start: "¡Que rico es ser latino!"
February 9, 2026 at 8:35 PM
I mean, I was sold from this start: "¡Que rico es ser latino!"
Finally watching this halftime show because I knew I’d need it when I was feeling down. Wowowowow!
February 9, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Finally watching this halftime show because I knew I’d need it when I was feeling down. Wowowowow!
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If Bad Bunny was serious about uniting Americans, he would have given his Grammy to Donald Trump.
February 9, 2026 at 1:36 PM
If Bad Bunny was serious about uniting Americans, he would have given his Grammy to Donald Trump.
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It is. The Jewish Musuem in Prague has a collection of children's drawings from the Terezin ghetto. It was the worst thing I've seen in my life.
“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 8:12 PM
It is. The Jewish Musuem in Prague has a collection of children's drawings from the Terezin ghetto. It was the worst thing I've seen in my life.
I have this truly awful song from the early 00s in my head. Someone please make it stop. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XwO...
Pete Yorn - Life On A Chain
YouTube video by PeteYornVEVO
www.youtube.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:07 PM
I have this truly awful song from the early 00s in my head. Someone please make it stop. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XwO...
When's the last you've been to a nursing home? Next time you go, take a look at the people who are doing the hard work of taking care of our elderly.
My mom & cousin were CNAs & my grandma was the housekeeper at the same nursing home. It was immigrants & refugees from LatAm and the Philippines.
My mom & cousin were CNAs & my grandma was the housekeeper at the same nursing home. It was immigrants & refugees from LatAm and the Philippines.
NEW at @thebulwark.com
A dispatch from Miami about some of those “shithole country” refugees Trump keeps talking about
And the indispensable, downright inspiring work they do caring for our elderly
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-atta...
A dispatch from Miami about some of those “shithole country” refugees Trump keeps talking about
And the indispensable, downright inspiring work they do caring for our elderly
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-atta...
Why Trump’s Attack on Refugees Could Hurt Grandma
It’s immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries who care for our elderly, and nobody’s lining up to take their place.
www.thebulwark.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:26 PM
When's the last you've been to a nursing home? Next time you go, take a look at the people who are doing the hard work of taking care of our elderly.
My mom & cousin were CNAs & my grandma was the housekeeper at the same nursing home. It was immigrants & refugees from LatAm and the Philippines.
My mom & cousin were CNAs & my grandma was the housekeeper at the same nursing home. It was immigrants & refugees from LatAm and the Philippines.
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My latest, "Free Exercise and the Redistribution of Liberty," is now posted (and forthcoming in @yalelawjournal.bsky.social). It argues that free exercise doctrine uses selective market logic to redistribute both public resources and liberty itself.
Comments welcome: papers.ssrn.com/abstract=618...
Comments welcome: papers.ssrn.com/abstract=618...
February 9, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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My latest article, "In Praise of Generative AI," is forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review! In it, I present accounts from the Worst People You Will Ever Meet In Law in which they praise generative AI and all the extra terrible behavior it enables: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
February 9, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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🚨 New research: FIRST EVER county-level study of racial disparities at the arrest-to-court transition in CA. In county after county, arrests of Black & Hispanic individuals reach court at far lower rates than those of white ones. People burdened with records for cases never worth filing. #LawSky
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February 9, 2026 at 11:29 AM
🚨 New research: FIRST EVER county-level study of racial disparities at the arrest-to-court transition in CA. In county after county, arrests of Black & Hispanic individuals reach court at far lower rates than those of white ones. People burdened with records for cases never worth filing. #LawSky
I didn't even realize the Super Bowl was today until I just came on here right now. So I'll leave y'all to it. Goodnight!
February 9, 2026 at 12:21 AM
I didn't even realize the Super Bowl was today until I just came on here right now. So I'll leave y'all to it. Goodnight!
WOW
There’s a wolf in LA for the first time in 100 years. A collared gray wolf entered the mountains of north Los Angeles County yesterday. Known as “BEY03F” she traveled hundreds of miles from her pack in Plumas County crossing highways, mountains, creeks and valleys.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
A wolf has come to Los Angeles County for the first time in more than a century
Around 6 a.m. Saturday, the 3-year-old female arrived in the mountains north of Santa Clarita, as tracked by a GPS collar.
www.latimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:14 AM
WOW
Okay, friends, who's got restaurant recommendations for Marfa and El Paso?
February 9, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Okay, friends, who's got restaurant recommendations for Marfa and El Paso?
How can you profess to care about style while being willing to be photographed in that outfit?
@brianlfrye.bsky.social, look at this garbage.
@brianlfrye.bsky.social, look at this garbage.
Noah Feldman has a new Substack where he’ll guide us during these difficult times. He wants “to be together with you on the journey that we’re all on.”
He adds: “There’s room for a little fun, and so as part of this, I’ll also talk about men’s style, a topic that is extremely dear to my heart.”
He adds: “There’s room for a little fun, and so as part of this, I’ll also talk about men’s style, a topic that is extremely dear to my heart.”
Noah Feldman (@professornoahfeldman)
Welcome to my Substack newsletter.
I’m Noah Feldman. In my day job, I’m a professor at Harvard, where I teach classes on topics like free speech, constitutional law, power, ethics, religion, technol...
substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:32 PM
How can you profess to care about style while being willing to be photographed in that outfit?
@brianlfrye.bsky.social, look at this garbage.
@brianlfrye.bsky.social, look at this garbage.
Brian keeps trying to convince me that Heatmiser was good, but they just weren’t.
February 8, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Brian keeps trying to convince me that Heatmiser was good, but they just weren’t.
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oooh we are posting super bowls?
As a specialist in Islamic ceramics *cracks knuckles* I present this fabulous 11th c. lustre painted bowl from Fatimid Cairo depicting a Coptic priest. Its white glaze imitates Chinese porcelain and the lustre technique was invented in Iraq a century earlier.
As a specialist in Islamic ceramics *cracks knuckles* I present this fabulous 11th c. lustre painted bowl from Fatimid Cairo depicting a Coptic priest. Its white glaze imitates Chinese porcelain and the lustre technique was invented in Iraq a century earlier.
February 8, 2026 at 5:04 PM
oooh we are posting super bowls?
As a specialist in Islamic ceramics *cracks knuckles* I present this fabulous 11th c. lustre painted bowl from Fatimid Cairo depicting a Coptic priest. Its white glaze imitates Chinese porcelain and the lustre technique was invented in Iraq a century earlier.
As a specialist in Islamic ceramics *cracks knuckles* I present this fabulous 11th c. lustre painted bowl from Fatimid Cairo depicting a Coptic priest. Its white glaze imitates Chinese porcelain and the lustre technique was invented in Iraq a century earlier.
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So I heard we’re posting super bowls. Here’s a Fatimid lusterware bunny. Islamic lusterwares originate in Iraq to emulate the sheen of Chinese porcelain, but the combo with highly animated-looking Fatimid animal motifs is my favorite. He even has a little snack.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Bowl Depicting a Running Hare - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bowl with Eagle (63.178.1) and Bowl with Hare (64.261)The tenth and eleventh centuries under the Fatimid caliphate were times of prosperity in Egypt and the neighboring lands, when a burgeoning class ...
www.metmuseum.org
February 8, 2026 at 3:46 PM
So I heard we’re posting super bowls. Here’s a Fatimid lusterware bunny. Islamic lusterwares originate in Iraq to emulate the sheen of Chinese porcelain, but the combo with highly animated-looking Fatimid animal motifs is my favorite. He even has a little snack.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
A whole week before getting rejected by Michigan. A new record for me…it’s usually just a few days! 😂
February 8, 2026 at 3:56 PM
A whole week before getting rejected by Michigan. A new record for me…it’s usually just a few days! 😂
It doesn’t take much in the way of specialized training to say yes, this is messed up for obvious reasons.
As an expert in prosecutorial ethics, it used to be really interesting getting to debate what exactly doing "justice" meant with my fellow expert. This landscape has been made more boring and bonkers at once with the DOJ just flatly saying you must support Trump. 1/2
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
Demanding Support for Trump, Justice Dept. Struggles to Recruit Prosecutors
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:19 PM
It doesn’t take much in the way of specialized training to say yes, this is messed up for obvious reasons.
As an expert in prosecutorial ethics, it used to be really interesting getting to debate what exactly doing "justice" meant with my fellow expert. This landscape has been made more boring and bonkers at once with the DOJ just flatly saying you must support Trump. 1/2
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
Demanding Support for Trump, Justice Dept. Struggles to Recruit Prosecutors
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:18 PM
As an expert in prosecutorial ethics, it used to be really interesting getting to debate what exactly doing "justice" meant with my fellow expert. This landscape has been made more boring and bonkers at once with the DOJ just flatly saying you must support Trump. 1/2
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...