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Heather Swadley @heatherswadley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I find it a bit funny when conservatives complain about how "woke" academia is. Those of us who actually work on research that affects marginalized groups constantly have to justify our existence to disciplines who argue that we're not "mainstream enough."

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Heather Swadley @heatherswadley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Cool. I have better things to do in my state than go to a gas station…

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Heather Swadley @heatherswadley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Oh to have that sweet, sweet university WestLaw access once again!

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Heather Swadley @heatherswadley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tell me you don’t understand social security without telling me you don’t understand social security?

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Heather Swadley @heatherswadley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Hi Bluesky, think I may be back for good this time! Though, I’ve been spending a lot of time on Substack— find me over there at heatherswadley.substack.com if you’d like!

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Heather Swadley @heatherswadley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is a real problem I’ve been having. Democrats have not been rising to the moment in the minority. Why am I expecting them to not squander a majority?

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Heather Swadley @heatherswadley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Hiring sprees for “conservative” professors is certainly a… move… in an environment where Black studies departments are being eliminated across the country, and some profs are scared to teach something as banal as Plato’s Symposium.

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Heather Swadley @heatherswadley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Oh good god. This truly is the worst take in the worst timeline.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hear me out: The John F. Kennedy and Dolly Parton Memorial Center for the Performing Arts

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Heather Swadley @heatherswadley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Something something but unitary executive....

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Heather Swadley @heatherswadley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Does @michaelhobbes.bsky.social know that Spotify is recommending Rachel Hollis to MP listeners? Because I find this hysterical.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Dear lord, what are they trying to AVOID discovery of? Cancelling grants solely because the state where the grantee happens to be located did not vote for Trump is the less damaging thing they will admit in writing?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Here we see @stevevladeck.bsky.social vindicated again bsky.app/profile/prop...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Do not forget the hunger strikers and the deplorable conditions that prompted their protest.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 05/06/2026

52 senators voted in favor of allocating an additional $70 billion to fuel ICE and Border Patrol's campaign of chaos and violence in our communities without any reforms. The House of Representatives must reject this bill and any attempts to give ICE more money to violate our rights.

Graphic reading "These senators voted to deport DACA recipients and supercharge ICE’s violence without any reforms:" Underneath, it reads the names of the 52 senators.

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Heather Swadley @heatherswadley.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I found it frustrating to do legal/policy epidemiology with non-lawyers, because most non-lawyers don't care about or understand the legal idiosyncrasies that can prevent a law from having the effect you think it will. I was often encouraged to pay less attention to these types of variables.

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Heather Swadley @heatherswadley.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This is why Elizabeth Emens calls "life admin" an invisible cost of being disabled. It always incenses me that no one I talk to recognizes that time I spend talking to them is time I'm not able to spend working, relaxing, or doing literally *anything else*.

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Andrew Kinsey @andrewkinsey.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

USPS shouldn't even calculate "profit." It's an essential service that should be fully funded by the government.

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

The lane is open for a 2028 candidate to pledge to accept jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Good.

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Heather Swadley @heatherswadley.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Is anyone surprised that Trump is targeting the women in his cabinet? (like really...)

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Heather Swadley @heatherswadley.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Can politics be more than taking down bad faith hot takes from boys I would have beaten in high school debate? I hope that, one day, it is. But today is not that day. open.substack.com/pub/heathers...

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I have nothing smart to say...

And that's why I have to say it

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Heather Swadley @heatherswadley.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Everyone's an originalist until it comes to the Reconstruction Amendments...

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Honestly the justices (particularly Justice Sotomayor) sound ... somewhat taken aback that they're even hearing this case. And ... same? Also - you didn't have to! You could have just issued a summary op saying "See the Fourteenth Amendment"! Even last year in the nationwide inujunction case!

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mattitations @mattitations.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

alito’s birthday being april fool’s day is the surest sign yet of a cosmic order and a maker with an indulgent sense of humor

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Heather Swadley @heatherswadley.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Hating the SCOTUS arguments right now, but at least I got Lily Allen tickets?

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Torey Dolan @toreydolan.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

It might not surprise folks to know that legal scholars that are new to the birthright citizenship debate are also new to federal Indian law and are also horrendously bad at it.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Note: *they* are saying it! They are the ones promising to use ICE to throw the election to the GOP.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I wonder how much of some people's discomfort with "eugenics was a science, and framing it as outside the histories of science is dangerous" is because they need to believe in science as moral/good. Ive yet to meet a historian who would believe this, though (I am happy to be corrected).

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 24/03/2026

Like, the takeaway is to encourage ethical and humane scientific practices. Not to imagine a new version of history where the iterative process of science was not impacted by the social and political structures of the places and times in which it was happening

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Ally Whelan @amwhelan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Today is World Tuberculosis Day. TB is the world's most deadly infectious disease and devastates millions globally each year. It doesn't have to be this way, but we need to counter the dismantling of the U.S. public health system to ensure cross-border leadership, investment, and action

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World TB Day 2026 - Yes! We can End TB! Led by countries. Powered by people.

World TB Day 2026: Yes! We can end TB: Led by countries, powered by people.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

"eugenics and scientific or medical racism etc wasn't real science™" Be for real, come on. Science has always been part of heinous things, was implicated in and facilitated colonization, slavery, the Holocaust more. All of this IS part of the story of science. WHY are you sanitizing this?

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Heather Swadley @heatherswadley.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I had a lot of fun writing about insurance and disability this week. Apparently, you can take the girl out of insurance coverage litigation, but you can't take insurance out of her work. open.substack.com/pub/heathers...

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The NYT presents this as an either-or situation and it is not. We can protect women and girls from predators and have justice for the common worker. We can protect women and girls while providing the civil rights to ALL. Rights that many shed blood and lost their lives for us to have.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Am teaching a course on Pain & the humanities this yr, and I can't stop thinking about this 1950 experiment conducted in New York hospitals and Cornell University hospital, where physicians burned the hands of women in labor (IN LABOR) to create a measure for pain/study pain thresholds. #histmed

A black and white photo of a woman's hand showing the back side of her hand, she wears nail polish and her nails are cut short. And on the back of her palm are four blisters caused by burning with a dolorimeter

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INFLUENCE OF ANALGESICS ON PAIN INTENSITY
DURING LABOR
(WITH A NOTE ON "NATURAL CHILDBIRTH") *
CARL T. JAVERT, M.D., AND JAMES D. HARDY, PE.D.
New York, New York
Received for publication August 9, 1950

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