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Tobias Barrington Wolff
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Dad to Spark, feminist, anti-racist, Jefferson Barnes Fordham Professor at Penn Law, dogged optimist in the power of decency. 🏳️‍🌈

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Tobias Barrington Wolff is a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School where he teaches classes on sexuality and the law, same sex marriage and human rights. He is known for his legal advocacy on same sex marriage and other LGBT-related issues, and served as the chief advisor and spokesperson on LGBT issues for Barack Obama throughout his 2007-08 presidential campaign. He is openly gay. .. more

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 1d
say something we don't like we will abuse the rules and treat your service like dirt just to fuck with you."

Imagine how much worse that is coming from a fake-bone-spur draft dodger and a drunk washout.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 1d
Leaving aside the legal and constitutional arguments, important as those are, imagine how career military feel when they hear these thugs say: "You can serve honorably, even heroically; you can put in your twenty; you can embrace public service after you return to civilian life; but if you ever

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 5d
Please add "anything RFK Jr. has ever said or written" to the list of materials I would like excluded entirely from my life, environment and awareness.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 5d
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Federal Suit Seeking Names of Some Jewish Employees at Penn Sparks Backlash
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 5d
The Regime is demanding lists of Jews at the institution where I work.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 6d
On MTG’s announcement:

Good. Let’s stop thinking or talking about her as soon as she is no longer a public official.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 6d
Speaker Mike Johnson has officially become Fredo in the wannabe-mobster world of this Regime.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 7d
The First Amendment and Opposition to Illegal Military Action:

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The First Amendment and Opposition to Illegal Military Action
The current occupant of the presidency, Stephen Miller, and apologists for this Regime have recently begun screaming that Democrats in Congress who served in the military and are reminding servicememb...
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The First Amendment and Opposition to Illegal Military Action

The current occupant of the presidency, Stephen Miller, and apologists for this Regime have recently begun screaming that Democrats in Congress who served in the military and are reminding servicemembers of their duty to refuse illegal orders are promoting “”sedition,” “insurrection” and “insubordination.” (Link to the Democratic video below.) It thus seems an appropriate time to remind everyone of some important First Amendment history.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 7d
career slapping his name on other people's work—but it is a setting where he feels in control. The destruction of the East Wing was an autocratic atrocity but also a flailing cry of fearful disorientation. 2/2

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 7d
When I look at Geriatric Joffrey obsessing about "renovation" projects at the White House I see someone in serious cognitive decline trying desperately to ground himself in familiar situations. I doubt he has ever genuinely managed a construction project in his life—he spent his misbegotten 1/2

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 9d
the fundamental shift in the political landscape that this episode has crystalized is an opportunity to be capitalized on across the entire resistance effort.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 9d
I suggest — in a genuine spirit of respect and solidarity amidst this awful crisis — that you are experiencing some combination of learned helplessness and blinders on your political imagination. The passage of this bill and whatever the Regime releases is not remotely the end of this effort and

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 9d
If your reaction to the stunning political developments of the last few days surrounding the Epstein materials is to say "T***p and his cronies are just going to scrub the files of anything incriminating so nothing will come of this, it doesn't matter, nothing matters with these people" then

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 10d
Bravissima to the extraordinary Florence Onyiuke who has been selected as a Rhodes Scholar from the University of Pennsylvania!

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Penn fourth-year Florence Onyiuke named a 2026 Rhodes Scholar | Penn Today
Onyiuke has been awarded a 2026 Rhodes Scholarship, which funds tuition and a living stipend for graduate study at the University of Oxford in England. She is among 32 American Rhodes Scholars and an ...
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 17d
I am very glad to have been proven right on this Kim Davis business. I worry a great deal about what the radical majority on this Court will do with marriage equality but Davis's misbegotten mess of a case was never going to be the vehicle.

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Justice Jackson's brief pause in the SNAP benefits case—an explanation.

Professor Steve Vladeck has offered a helpful explanation concerning the “administrative stay” that Justice Jackson issued in the SNAP case that pauses the order for a couple of days. His full analysis can be found here but I thought a quick summary of what he writes would also be helpful.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 21d
Think about what mainstream media would be doing if Democrats controlled the White House and both Houses of Congress and 10% of all airspace in the U.S. concentrated over 40 of the busiest airports were getting closed down tomorrow because of a politically dysfunctional government shutdown.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 23d
Populist Dems won. Moderate Dems won. We won in blue states. We won in purple states.

Maybe the take is that (a) people think Trump is out of control; and (b) people like Dems when we're taking a stand and fighting for what we believe in - as we have been for the last month.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 23d
He is terrified and desperate. Let’s make him even more so. Get out and vote!

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 23d
Showed up to vote in Philly first thing this morning. I’m seventh in line. 💪

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 24d
One of the many reasons it would be fantastic for Democrats to sweep tomorrow's elections decisively is that it will strengthen their hand in forcing a resolution of the GOP shutdown that will preserve access to affordable health care.

Get out and vote tomorrow if you have not voted already!

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 24d
Same-Sex Couples in Hostile States: The Recent Administrative Ruling of the Supreme Court of Texas and the Threat of Systematic Discrimination

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Same-Sex Couples in Hostile States: The Recent Administrative Ruling of the Supreme Court of Texas and the Threat of Systematic Discrimination
The Supreme Court of Texas issued an administrative ruling on October 24, 2025 that permits state judges in Texas “to publicly refrain from performing a wedding ceremony based upon a sincerely held re...
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Same-Sex Couples in Hostile States: The Recent Administrative Ruling of the Supreme Court of Texas and the Threat of Systematic Discrimination

The Supreme Court of Texas issued an administrative ruling on October 24, 2025 that permits state judges in Texas “to publicly refrain from performing a wedding ceremony based upon a sincerely held religious belief” without violating the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct. The ruling resolves a dispute involving a

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 25d
That “et cetera” really rips away the mask.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 27d
The Regime is launching a war of aggression against Venezuela for no legitimate reason.

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U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime
The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald...
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 28d
When I hear the name Bill Ackman my mind always goes here first.

Beloved NYC'ers make sure to vote early and tell billionaires they do not get to dictate the outcomes of our elections.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Oct 28
Geriatric Joffrey's nonsense about running for a third term is evidence of his advancing dementia and fraying connection with reality and should be reported as such.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Oct 28
There is both hope and horror in this but I will take the hope.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Oct 25
"Douthat" is the insult a juvenile wag would select if he were trying to taunt a person like Ross Douthat.