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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I’ve flown to give talks often, even before academia. I decided to count them as I feel the toll on my body increasing, esp when I fly from Hawai’i. (I included virtual talks) While litigating, Feb2023-Apr2025: 45 AY Aug2025-July2026: 32 My rate increased by *150%* this year. I need to do less!

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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A big lesson from my first law professor summer: -teach summer school class -complete multiple writing projects -extended travel / vacation *pick 2*

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 09/04/2026

When you go online, your rights should go with you. X is no longer where the fight is happening. Our work protecting digital rights is needed more than ever before, and we’re here to help you take back control. eff.org/donate (5/5)

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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

On this trans day of visibility, I was misgendered during a 9am faculty committee mtg, then very kindly reminded the group of my pronouns (because no one made the correction for me) then shared this graphic as a witty reminder. Esp after reading Chiles, today was not the day! But really, no day is.

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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Conversion therapy—yes, even when it consists of talk therapy only—does harm. Full stop. It is medical malpractice. It should be regulated by any licensed profession that has been made aware of those harms. Chiles v. Salazar shows the Court will not halt the right’s purge of queer and trans identity

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

We need more journalists who don’t pretend the rising wave of right-wing inspired transphobia, racism, misogyny, predation, authoritarianism, homophobia and corruption is something they should shrug at and say “we can’t take sides” Which ofc is taking a side.

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

He too, btw, is not journalist himself It’s yet another short step to disqualify queer journalists who don’t toe a political line from covering issues all about us. Condé Nast and NBC did just that, laying off queer journalists en masse and eliminating the v few remaining platforms by and about us

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

It’s a v short step then for any news org to disqualify, say Black ppl, from covering issues of race. WaPo fired one of the world’s preeminent opinion journalists for daring to quote Charlie Kirk’s own words. In an interesting convergence, the ceo of FIRE found a way to scold this journalist.

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

The nyt has had a de facto ban on hiring/assigning trans journalists to cover trans issues. It’s been true for at least five years. It’s the exemplification of bigotry. Our being trans automatically disqualifies us from being involved in coverage that is all about us.

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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

No. “Disruption” is an exception to the free speech right in public school, under the standard issued by SCOTUS in a case called Tinker. Legislatures can state any rationale they want when they issue non-discrimination policies. In this context, they keep facing (anti-trans) free speech challenges.

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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

As I say in the piece, there is arguably a circuit split between the First Circuit’s decision in L.M. v. Middleborough and the 6th circuit’s decision here. Pronouns are pending in SCOTUS, specifically a parental right to know their child’s pronoun use. (Foote v. Ludlow). I worry we’ll see this next.

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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Thank you for your great journalism @walkerbragman.bsky.social ! It’s far too easy for cis judges and their law clerks, attorneys and staff at civil libertarian orgs, and others who are (nominally) committed to free speech to ignore the harm/disruption trans students experience when misgendered.

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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Steve, the problem is not his view in the piece, but is his wild uncalled for attack on the article in the comments on the Bluesky post and on his page. His views in the article are fine and he tried to say the journalist quoted him out of context, which he clearly did not.

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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill makes it a *federal crime* to provide trans youth with gender-affirming medical care or transport to get that care. Skrmetti facilitated the downward spiral to this awful destination. This is an *extremely* fascist use of criminal law. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/12/2025

One reason the NYT has burned its credibility with trans people is that they still cite the discredited Cass report in reporting on trans healthcare. Never the German, Utah, or other systematic reviews supporting care. They also never provide the political context behind restrictions in care.

A screenshot of a news article header featuring circular portraits of three authors: Azeen Ghorayshi, Amy Harmon, and Reed Abelson. The dateline is Dec. 18, 2025. The opening paragraph reads: "The federal government on Thursday acted to put an end to gender-related care for minors across the nation, threatening to pull federal funding from any hospital that offered such treatment."

A paragraph of text from a news article discussing medical interventions for minors. The text reads: "Questions over the evidence to support medical interventions for minors have been central to debate worldwide as demand for the treatments has increased. An influential report released in Britain last year found that the scientific evidence on the benefits and risks of the treatment was 'remarkably weak,' and concluded by recommending that puberty blockers be restricted to research trials only. Several European countries, and most recently New Zealand, have imposed restrictions."

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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Listen to the Landor oral argument at 28:14-29:06; 36:15-36:45, and 39:06-42:25. I’ll be writing about this in a forthcoming piece, “Trans Scapegoats.”

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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

The questions do not hide the ball at all. The Court is deciding this issue with Title IX liability—including in the sports cases this term—in mind. That’s why they granted cert despite the circuit courts’ unanimity. They’re poised to issue a ruling even broader than RLUIPA to bar Title IX damages.

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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

ICYMI, trans people came up in the Supreme Court today, but not in a case where you’d expect it. In Landor, the Court will decide whether RLUIPA allows damages remedies against individual officers. Justices Gorsuch and Barrett asked hypos about another spending clause statute: Title IX.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 19/10/2025

“This Jewish self-determination is coming at the cost of my self-determination as a Palestinian.” Mahmoud Khalil joined Mehdi to discuss the conflation between anti-zionism & anti-semitism & his hope for a land where everyone can co-exist peacefully. Watch the discussion: zeteo.com/p/mahmoud-kh...

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 18/10/2025

“Donald Trump, the man who uses Palestinian as a pejorative, as a slur, has no plan for Palestinian freedom.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social slams Donald Trump at the ‘No Kings’ rally in Washington, DC over his Gaza ‘peace-plan.’ Watch his full speech: zeteo.com/p/no-kings-p...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/10/2025

"This is about a handful of the wealthiest people on Earth who, in their insatiable greed, have hijacked our economy and our political system." Bernie Sanders speaking at the No Kings rally in DC. Watch here.

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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Bernie could have been president if neoliberals like Obama didn’t meddle in the primaries + ruin his chance. Polls said Bernie had a better shot at beating Trump in 2016 than Hillary. When neoliberals beg not to vote for leftists candidates bc we will lose GOP to the moderates, don’t listen to them.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The people are striving to hold our government accountable. Agents often hide or remove their name plate, turn off body cams before taking abusive actions. The agents are trying to doxx protestors + have their fascist compatriots destroy a person through all potential avenues the tech age provides.

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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Neoliberals in power have always raised hell over protesters masking—BLM, antifa. They labeled them criminals. They want to identify protestors to surveil them. The people do not have that tech. Gov’t agents hiding their faces only frustrates potential litigation. It’s an obstruction of justice.

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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

A rule of thumb: when they come for a specific practice despite adopting it themselves, it’s a sign of fascism. Unlawful for thee, not for me. Fascists love to point the finger at things they’re actually doing. Remember when cops unmasked activists from campus Gaza encampments in front of media?

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Historian here No Kings is the most American thing you could say and the people opposing it simply don’t believe in our republic or constitutional democracy.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/10/2025

Suffice it to say, these are not kids. These are full grown ass adults, many of them in their late 20's and early 30's. At least one was a elected state senator in Vermont. And even if they were, it's never ok to make antisemitic and racist jokes like that.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/10/2025

JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer." JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.

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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Things are really hard right now, and sometimes words are insufficient balms, but when artists add a melody and a beat, their words help me a lot more than they otherwise would. I collected some songs that bring me hope / bring me into a mindset of hope. It was a salve tonight, so I decided to share

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Bad news feels inescapable. There’s a lot of it, it goes viral, and things are getting worse. But resistance is also everywhere, and it doesn’t get the same attention. We need to share mass resistance, to inspire hope and so that more and more people join in. www.jphilll.com/p/resistance...

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Resistance is everywhere — it just isn't getting enough attention

Nepal, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Madagascar, and the United States

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Eat. Sleep. Exercise. Nurture the relationships that sustain you. Protect your health. Find joy. Don't mistake any of these for the resistance itself. Joy isn't resistance, neither is rest. But you need to be whole to resist for a lifetime.

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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

This witch hunt is so obviously forced and disconnected from reality. I should not be shocked anymore by how low the heritage foundation is willing to stoop, or the fact that they got their cronies into positions of power to regurgitate their baseless talking points. But we should be VERY concerned.

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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

“Right-wing ideologies have fueled more than 70% of all extremist attacks and domestic terror plots since 2002 in the U.S. …[,] outpac[ing] all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism. The study was removed from the Justice Department website in the past few days….”

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D Dangaran (they/them) @ddangaran.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Reminds me of the opening parts of Parable of the Sower!!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2025

In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.

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