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Corey Stoughton

@coreystoughton.bsky.social
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Lawyer, social media refugee

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Corey Stoughton @coreystoughton.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
What the Trump admin is doing to these advocates is wrong on every level, but it underscores what’s wrong with the premise driving their advocacy: the lesson from history isn’t that free speech leads to tyranny and oppression, it’s that government power, unchecked by civil liberties, leads there.
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They Helped Women Fight Online Abuse. They Were Barred From the U.S.
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Corey Stoughton @coreystoughton.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
💔Susan Stamberg, a Longtime Voice of NPR, Is Dead at 87 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...
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Susan Stamberg, a Longtime Voice of NPR, Is Dead at 87
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Corey Stoughton @coreystoughton.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
As an advocate for free speech I don’t tend to get that worked up when powerful people lose one of many platforms available to them. But when that loss is the result of threats from government regulators it’s a different ballgame. A very authoritarian ballgame.
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Corey Stoughton @coreystoughton.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
This victory belongs not just to the university administration but to the faculty, who first stood up to fight these attacks on Harvard and who the judge rightly recognized are directly harmed and entitled to enforceable relief. I’m proud to represent them.
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Corey Stoughton @coreystoughton.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Love that ranked choice voting lets candidates embrace collaboration amid competition, this is the world I want to live in
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Corey Stoughton @coreystoughton.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
@kateshaw.bsky.social Stick with Cahokia Jazz! There is a lot of world-building at the front it’s true but the payoff is brilliant.
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Corey Stoughton @coreystoughton.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Let me state in no uncertain terms that when they RIF the social media manager for the National Park Service, that is my Rubicon. Whoever they are, they are the Best of America.
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Corey Stoughton @coreystoughton.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I promise I take this issue seriously but it is very hard not to automatically root for Pope Pizzaballa
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Corey Stoughton @coreystoughton.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Most of my feelings about my Catholicism are complicated, but not my grief in this moment.
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Francis, the First Latin American Pope, Dies at 88
After decades of conservative leadership, Francis tried to reset the course of the Roman Catholic Church, emphasizing inclusion and care for the marginalized over doctrinal purity.
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Corey Stoughton @coreystoughton.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
As a longtime/part-time Londoner I endorse every word of this excellently curated London itinerary except the choice to take the Heathrow Express over the tube. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/t...
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A Cheapskate in London: Travel on a Budget
Our Frugal Travel columnist took a budget-stretching, four-day trip to one of the world’s most expensive cities. Would chasing bargains lessen, or enhance, her experience?
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Corey Stoughton @coreystoughton.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Quite shocked that the UK Supreme Court interprets its equalities laws to harm trans people in a manner even the US Supreme Court rejected…really says something about the pervasiveness and effectiveness of the radical anti-trans movement in the UK www.theguardian.com/law/live/202...
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UK supreme court rules definition of woman in Equality Act refers to ‘a biological woman’ – live
Judges were asked to rule on whether the definition of woman in the Equality Act 2010 included transgender women with gender recognition certificates
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Corey Stoughton @coreystoughton.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Few things have made me prouder than to stand up in court to fight for the very people who taught me how to do it www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...
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Harvard Professors Sue Trump Administration Over Threat to Federal Funds
The administration is reviewing about $9 billion in federal funding that the university receives.
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Corey Stoughton @coreystoughton.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
You have to envy a nation whose biggest politics story at the moment is the reassignment of a cat to an overseas posting.
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Corey Stoughton @coreystoughton.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
A small but ludicrous illustration: a major city police department tried to share information about their proposed new training last week as part of a police reform settlement and the link they sent was dead. We will get past this obstacle but it’s all just so silly. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
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Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday
Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”
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Corey Stoughton @coreystoughton.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
I am in my 40s and studied American History in college and am only just now learning about the Battle of Blair Mountain and the West Virginia coal wars?? Incredible. What a story. (Thank you Barbara Kingsolver). en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Vi...
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West Virginia coal wars - Wikipedia
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Corey Stoughton @coreystoughton.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
If you are looking for a new book Zadie Smith’s new one, The Fraud, is really really really very good. I’m sure she’d have some more compelling adjectives to use here but I’m just gonna tell you to read it.
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Corey Stoughton @coreystoughton.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
Charles Feeney seeded the movement to improve public defense services in New York in the early 2000s, the most successful initiative I’ve ever been part of. Like everyone else who spent his money, I didn’t even know who he was until years later. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/09/b...
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Charles Feeney, Who Made a Fortune and Then Gave It Away, Dies at 92
After piling up billions in business, he pledged to donate almost all of his money to causes before he died. He succeeded, and then lived a more modest life.
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Corey Stoughton @coreystoughton.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Search drinks in your camera roll
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Corey Stoughton @coreystoughton.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Alongside word of a 9th death of 2023 at Rikers, a 27 year-old condemned to die in this indefensibly unsafe jail, today we have another scathing report from the federal monitor acknowledging things are getting worse all the time, and the City’s response is “limited and ineffective.”
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