Sammi
@sammilawrence.bsky.social
Constitutional law & civil rights lawyer fighting for the separation of state & church | UW-Madison Law alum | D&D enthusiast | painter | not afraid to be petty | opinions are my own
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Sammi
@sammilawrence.bsky.social
· Jul 2
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Abortion rights win in Wisconsin: Today, Wisconsin's Supreme Court held 4-3 that the state's pre-Civil War abortion ban is unenforceable. This means abortion is once again available in Wisconsin up to 20 weeks of pregnancy.
www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/D...
www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/D...
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If this is the kind of “mental-health advice” schools give now, imagine what happens when chaplains replace counselors.
This is why public schools need actual mental-health education, not sermons.
This is why public schools need actual mental-health education, not sermons.
"If you ever go to bed depressed or sad, guess what? You probably haven’t worked hard enough."
That's a real quote. From a real assistant principal. Shown to an entire high school. With religious references (naturally).
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/utah-high-...
That's a real quote. From a real assistant principal. Shown to an entire high school. With religious references (naturally).
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/utah-high-...
Utah high school blasted for sermon-like video blaming "sin of laziness" for mental health struggles
A Cedar Valley High School administrator used Christian rhetoric to spread bad information to his students
www.friendlyatheist.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
If this is the kind of “mental-health advice” schools give now, imagine what happens when chaplains replace counselors.
This is why public schools need actual mental-health education, not sermons.
This is why public schools need actual mental-health education, not sermons.
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We are pleased to report that a biblical reference in an elementary school in Virginia has been removed after a letter from us. ffrf.us/4pHbaJy
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We are pleased to report that a biblical reference in an elementary school in Virginia has been removed after a letter from us. ffrf.us/4pHbaJy
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OU says students have a right to be free from a lecturer’s “impermissible evaluative standards.”
Translation: if a student invokes Christianity, academic rigor no longer applies.
Poor writing and off-topic work get a free pass so long as they are labeled “religious belief.”
Translation: if a student invokes Christianity, academic rigor no longer applies.
Poor writing and off-topic work get a free pass so long as they are labeled “religious belief.”
December 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
OU says students have a right to be free from a lecturer’s “impermissible evaluative standards.”
Translation: if a student invokes Christianity, academic rigor no longer applies.
Poor writing and off-topic work get a free pass so long as they are labeled “religious belief.”
Translation: if a student invokes Christianity, academic rigor no longer applies.
Poor writing and off-topic work get a free pass so long as they are labeled “religious belief.”
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Is it really so hard to give state employees time off for the holidays without using government power to preach your personal religious beliefs?
Apparently it is.
Apparently it is.
A governor is not a preacher.
A proclamation is not a sermon.
So why is Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders telling state employees to spend the holidays "giving thanks for Christ’s birth"?
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/arkansas-g...
A proclamation is not a sermon.
So why is Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders telling state employees to spend the holidays "giving thanks for Christ’s birth"?
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/arkansas-g...
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders turned a holiday email to state employees into a Christian sermon
Sanders' proclamation violated the idea of church/state separation by treating Christian doctrine as state policy
www.friendlyatheist.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Is it really so hard to give state employees time off for the holidays without using government power to preach your personal religious beliefs?
Apparently it is.
Apparently it is.
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If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.
December 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
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Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
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New Yorkers kept telling me the same thing: they’re thinking of leaving because they can’t afford to raise their kids here. Universal childcare isn’t just a promise — it’s how we make this a city for everyone.
December 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
New Yorkers kept telling me the same thing: they’re thinking of leaving because they can’t afford to raise their kids here. Universal childcare isn’t just a promise — it’s how we make this a city for everyone.
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A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
December 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
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lmao this is the worst possible way they could have done it, you gotta leave him in some non-terrible stuff so you can argue that's all there is
"he wasn't mentioned once" is not gonna fly
"he wasn't mentioned once" is not gonna fly
December 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
lmao this is the worst possible way they could have done it, you gotta leave him in some non-terrible stuff so you can argue that's all there is
"he wasn't mentioned once" is not gonna fly
"he wasn't mentioned once" is not gonna fly
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I guess Epstein isn’t in the Epstein files.
December 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I guess Epstein isn’t in the Epstein files.
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Elise Stefanik finds that enabling Trump's corruption and amplifying his hatred isn't the ticket to the top she thought it was.
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Elise Stefanik finds that enabling Trump's corruption and amplifying his hatred isn't the ticket to the top she thought it was.
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Mitt Romney was apparently visited early by 3 ghosts.
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Mitt Romney was apparently visited early by 3 ghosts.
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Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
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this is crazy, these people are 2nd grade-level liars
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
this is crazy, these people are 2nd grade-level liars
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The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.
December 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.
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When you hire a white man because they’re a white man that’s not identity politics. Identity politics is when you get hired and you’re not a white man. The anti wokeness hysteria was always a backlash to integration of white collar jobs bsky.app/profile/jami...
Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics”
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
December 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
When you hire a white man because they’re a white man that’s not identity politics. Identity politics is when you get hired and you’re not a white man. The anti wokeness hysteria was always a backlash to integration of white collar jobs bsky.app/profile/jami...
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We’ve officially reached the "fire codes are anti-Christian" stage of the culture war.
Last year, a man opened up a makeshift homeless shelter in his Ohio store. The building was a fire hazard and failed safety inspections.
An appeals court now says those regulations violated his religious freedom.
So much for public safety.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/ohio-appel...
An appeals court now says those regulations violated his religious freedom.
So much for public safety.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/ohio-appel...
Ohio appellate court lets makeshift church challenge local fire codes on religious grounds
Conservative attorneys reframed a public safety issue as anti-Christian discrimination—and judges fell for it
www.friendlyatheist.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
We’ve officially reached the "fire codes are anti-Christian" stage of the culture war.
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looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign
*SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ROLLBACK
December 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign
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It’s genuinely unbelievable how much the average right winger’s conception of history is based on post-war American advertising of the mid 20th century
Terminally online Right wingers are telling on themselves
December 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It’s genuinely unbelievable how much the average right winger’s conception of history is based on post-war American advertising of the mid 20th century
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life moves pretty fast
December 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
life moves pretty fast