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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. 🏳️‍🌈 FB: https://www.facebook.com/tobias.b.wolff/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@tobiasbwolff

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3d

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Saturday blocked President Donald Trump’s call-up of the National Guard for a deployment in Portland, saying Trump’s actions were based on false claims and undermined Oregon’s sovereignty. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Seizure of Oregon National Guard for Portland Deployment

Read more here.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 7d

I doubt T***p and Hegseth could have done more to strengthen the resolve of U.S. senior military leadership to obey their oaths to the Constitution in the face of whatever pressure they receive from the Regime than they unwittingly accomplished with this juvenile and offensive spectacle today.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 9d

The reporting on the horror unfolding in Michigan gets progressively worse. To my Mormon friends and community members: I stand with you in grief, outrage and resolve.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 10d

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek:

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 11d

I am so goddamned sick of having to think about these people.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 12d

This is quite literally insane.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 13d

He inadvertently published a command to the Attorney General to prosecute his enemies regardless of the evidence and decompensated for an hour before the U.N. General Assembly. Networks and newspapers should be running stories 24/7 on his manifest lack of moral and mental fitness for office.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 14d

I watched about 30 seconds of Confused Oompa Loompa yelling at the assembled diplomats of the United Nations while clearly under the delusion that he was sitting on a stool at the corner bar ranting about "those damned hippies" and that is quite enough thank you.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 15d

Keeping my feet planted firmly on the ground today.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24d

“Ever teachers” flayed me when I read it this week.

Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 24d

This is how they survived, with solidarity, mutual aid. This is how we will survive until this fascist regime is defeated.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 24d

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 24d

These people have nothing to offer. They are all memes and soulless shouting, corruption and avarice, an Orange shape discharging obscene sounds and smells while eager piranha dart about vying to cause pain.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 24d

One thing I take away from the last few days: This Regime is empty. There is no foundation, no core, no center that can hold, no stability, no creed or code. I understood all this before but the latest round of desperate, ugly, crass performance has given that dreadful truth new sharpness.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 24d

And now Romania.

www.reuters.com/world/drone-...

Drone breaches Romanian airspace during Russian attack on neighbouring Ukraine

Romania scrambled fighter jets on Saturday when a drone breached the country's airspace during a Russian attack on Ukrainian infrastructure near the border, the defence ministry said.

www.reuters.com

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 25d

Very helpful, thank you.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 25d

We've gotten off on a really wrong foot here. I don't know exactly what to say to change your impression. I genuinely appreciate the input you've offered. I don't automatically accept it as authoritative and correct but I take it seriously and will pay more attention to how "trans activist" is used.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 25d

OK, I appreciate the clarification, thank you.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 25d

I appreciate the input and will take it seriously. I did not consider my response defensive. I trust you can understand that your replies did not come across as an inquiry so much as lowkey accusatory. Now you're putting me on blast, which is your prerogative. In any event, I appreciate the input.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 25d

Young White man named Tyler turned in by his family and currently in the custody of state authorities. We will see what there is to learn about his politics and the motivation for this targeted assassination. I doubt it will conform to the story the Right has been screaming at the top of their lungs

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 26d

The embodiment of a troll—a mediocre, unimpressive troll.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 26d

I beg your pardon? The woman who coined this language is both trans and an activist—she works full time attempting to advance sound policy for trans lives and educate the public about assaults on trans rights. The word "activist" is not owned by hostile opponents.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 26d

What is your question?

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 26d

A trans activist referred to the Department of Defense as the "deadname" for the Department of War following its "transition" and I may not recover.

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Sep 8

Flag Burning, the First Amendment and a Weak and Foolish Executive Order.

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Flag Burning, the First Amendment and a Weak and Foolish Executive Order

In his increasingly flailing efforts to divert attention away his role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking and rape of minors, the current occupant of the Presidency is now trying to push the “flag b...

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Sep 6

From my friend and law school classmate Professor Ryan Goodman. The number of people in the boat they targeted always made the drug smuggling claim suspect.

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