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Law prof, mom of 4, & very concerned citizen. My scholarship centers on housing, consumer finance, and property law.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.” H/t @ameshaa.bsky.social
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#BREAKING: #SCOTUS once again freezes the lower federal courts’ rulings in the Missouri redistricting case—and affirms that, as the Missouri Supreme Court held earlier this month, Missouri will use the 2022 map in the November elections. There were no public dissents.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 20/09/2026
ICE Detention Claims 25th Life Since the Start of the Year Carlos Josué Marchena at Louisiana and Lianyong Wei in Saipan are the 25th and 24th people to die in ICE custody. Story by Spanish-language media, slow to hit English-language media. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-detent...
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ICE Detention Claims 25th Life Since the Start of the Year
Carlos Josué Marchena at Louisiana and Lianyong Wei in Saipan are the 25th and 24th people to die in ICE custody. Story by Spanish-language media, slow to hit English-language media.
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A point made in this piece is that Trump has destroyed an entire community. For people outside of DC, I can understand why you may not understand. But for those of us from here, its the culture he is destroying that hurts so much. The building is secondary. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
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Column | The Kennedy Center is empty and in peril. Its community is in anguish.
The fiasco of this week’s closure reveals the truth of President Trump’s motivations — and what the arts community stands to lose.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Texas is delaying the release of the state’s maternal mortality statistics until after the midterms. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
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Texas' first post-Roe look at maternal deaths won't be ready by midterms
Democrats say the timing is suspicious, given the Dec. 1 deadline is after Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans who supported the state’s abortion ban are up for reelection.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Prisoners paying off kids' school lunch debts speaks to the US's failures at so many levels.
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AJB (dark mode) @ajboyack.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Reposting - Dolly has left the world a better place for her having been part of it. 💔
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Do you know what China's been doing while we've been dropping bombs and allocating more money for new weapons? Beating us on alternative energy, manufacturing, high speed rail, technology, microchips, and infrastructure.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Damn
Andrew Lloyd
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Since Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, every President has been alive at the same time as Herbert Hoover.
@AjitPai @StevenJDuffield
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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 17/07/2026
see also screwworm
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
ICE: "so we murdered another person in broad daylight with total impunity. in our defense we were scared in an abstract way"
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Kev - Vote 💙 no matter who! @57kev.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Just fucking disgraceful and much more! We have paid murders roaming our streets under the protection of and under the command of our government. We are officially a third world country.
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Trump Admin Trying to Deport Witnesses Who Contradicted ICE Claims About Fatal Shooting | Common Dreams
Controversy grows over the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by ICE officials. Witnesses dispute ICE's account.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Sickening and un-American. Watch authoritarianism work.
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AJB (dark mode) @ajboyack.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
May Trump and everyone associated with ICE rot in hell
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AJB (dark mode) @ajboyack.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Politicizing EVERYTHING- making bribery great again? (and necessary)
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 08/07/2026
It’s been two weeks.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ICE fatally shot a man in Houston yesterday. Agents arrested a nun on her way to mass. An Afghan who helped the U.S. military died in ICE detention, one of at least 21 people to die in detention this year. The headlines have moved on, but Trump is still waging his reign of terror.
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AJB (dark mode) @ajboyack.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
My dog is more patriotic than the Embarrassment-in-Chief
Photo of my puppy on the campus of University of Missouri, decked out for the Fourth of July
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AJB (dark mode) @ajboyack.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This year’s Fourth of July, in a nutshell
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 05/07/2026
Nice to see people catching on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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These Justices Are Not Impartial
Why such a slim Supreme Court majority upheld birthright citizenship
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Rep. Greg Stanton @repgregstanton.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
In English: Arizona's 20,000 DACA recipients are our neighbors, teachers, nurses, and small business owners. They’re doing everything right, but DHS is deliberately slow-walking renewals anyway, putting them at risk for deportation. (1/2)
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Happy 250th, America! My gift to you, as is the tradition of course, is all the phenomenal public scholarly writing, podcasts, & books in my 283rd #ScholarSunday thread. Add more below, please share as widely as was the Declaration, & enjoy the intellectual fireworks, all! 🗃️ +
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#ScholarSunday Thread 283 (7/5/26) – Black and White and Read All Over
Happy 250th, America! My gift to you, as is the tradition of course, is all the phenomenal public scholarly writing, podcasts, & books in my 283rd #ScholarSunday thread. Add more below, please share a...
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🇺🇦 Пан Ґік 🎮 @pangik.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This is our everyday reality. It has been this way for years. Russia is a terrorist state #UkrainianView
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AJB (dark mode) @ajboyack.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Sure glad we elected the guy who can stop this Russian war of aggression on “Day One.” 🙄😡 My hear is with Kiev. Fuck Putin and his lackey in the Oval Office e #SlavaUkraina
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
😂In 2017, NPR live tweeted the entire text of the Declaration of Independence to mark Independence Day. Some people read lines like: “He has refused his Assent to Laws…” and “He has erected a multitude of New Offices…” and assumed NPR was criticizing Trump and calling for rebellion.😂
Happy Anniversary to the day that
NPR tweeted the Declaration of Independence out 140 words at a time and conservatives thought they were calling for an insurrection.
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AJB (dark mode) @ajboyack.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Survival tips for the Apocalypse: Notice the precious and beautiful moments all around us #findingthegood
A photo I took today of a blue heron taking flight over a lake near my home
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AJB (dark mode) @ajboyack.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
He is so corrupt, incompetent, selfish, and vile. I’m so tired of him dominating our government and attention. )And there is no one in the world who doesn’t know exactly who I’m talking about - even though I never mentioned his repulsive name)
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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 05/07/2026
Why put solar panels on green space when we could put them over car parks? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Why put solar panels on green space when we could put them over car parks?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions considers a hot topic within renewable energy
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Cathy🟧 @kitterlecathy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
In case you haven't seen this today.
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 02/07/2026
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have donated $26 million to at least 20 charities ahead of their wedding — ranging from food banks, animal cruelty organization, educational programs and children’s hospitals. (variety.com/2026/music/n...)
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The most corrupt "president" in history, Donny Trumpy has made over$1,000,000,000 in one year. So he's getting richer while 90% of us are getting poorer. This should be a major issue, maybe the only issue in the midterms.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/07/2026
The American legal system is being abused in order to pander to the president's fantasies and make them seem real www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/u...
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Olympian Is Indicted After Arrest at Washington’s Reflecting Pool
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Allison Marsh @mamafoo2000.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Corruption in full view. @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Here’s some straight talk from someone who knows some things.
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
SpaceX = white tech bro hype Nvidia = white tech bro hype Anthropic= white tech bro hype Crypto currencies = white tech bro hype Data Centers = white tech bro hype Tesla =white tech bro hype All of this nonsense is going to implode, and likely at the same time.
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AJB (dark mode) @ajboyack.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
After he made the speech, he stood on the steps holding a sign that said impeach convict remove. Then he was arrested and taken away in handcuffs. This is America today
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AJB (dark mode) @ajboyack.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This!!
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Ma Carol @caroodles.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We are at North Korea levels of corruption. We are no longer a functional democracy.
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Walter MOONdale @dabenner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is a pretty clear cut principle:
Cher: So, OK, like right now, for example, the Haitians need to come to America. But some people are all, "What about the strain on our resources?"

 
	
But it's like when I had this garden party for my father's birthday, right? I said RSVP because it was a sit-down dinner. But people came that, like, did not RSVP. So I was, like, totally buggin'. I had to haul ass to the kitchen, redistribute the food, squish in extra place settings. But, by the end of the day it was, like, the more the merrier!

 
And so, if the government could just get to the kitchen, rearrange some things, we could certainly party with the Haitians.



 
	 
And in conclusion, may I please remind you that it does not say "RSVP" on the Statue of Liberty.

 

 

Thank you very much.
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biggivenotbiggov.bsky.social @biggivenotbiggov.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." – Patrick Henry
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Lea Zengage @leazengage.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
He probably doesn't even realize how awful he shows himself t be....
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Three big stories this week. Trump canceled the signing ceremony of a bipartisan housing bill to push voter suppression. A judge blocked his mail-in voting scheme. And three Supreme Court decisions expanded gun rights and stripped immigrant protections.
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Trump scuttles bipartisan housing bill. Judge blocks Trump's USPS mail-in ballot rule. SCOTUS rulings advance right-wing priorities.
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AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸 @joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Trumpy is terrified what will happen when he loses the mid-terms.. So his last best scam is the SAVE MY ASS ACT. In the most basic terms, this is a work around to end the 19th Amendment and to prevent millions of women from being able to vote. Even the GOP isn't interested. That's how bad it is.
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AJB (dark mode) @ajboyack.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
My Sanity Tips for the Apocalypse Tip #8: stop & smell the flowers
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AJB (dark mode) @ajboyack.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This fucking guy!
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AJB (dark mode) @ajboyack.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
And this is why we can’t have nice things. Congress finally gets their act together and does something, and the President blocks it for stupid partisan, selfish reasons. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Cancels Plans to Sign Housing Bill
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AJB (dark mode) @ajboyack.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
My Sanity Tips for the Apocalypse Tip #7: Reflect (meditate and/or gaze at the sky as reflected in water)
Photograph of Lily pad in a still, clear pond, reflecting the sky
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Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Narcissists have a history with reflecting pools
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AJB (dark mode) @ajboyack.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
My Sanity Tips for the Apocalypse Tip #6: Appreciate the unexpected beauty of the imperfect
Looking out through a shattered window Looking in through a shattered window
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/06/2026
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