Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 5hVery curious how many first year law students have access to instruction that provides historical precedent for this sort of thing. bsky.app/profile/alab... 000
Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 6hthis passage from @cydneydupree.bsky.social @mwkraus.bsky.social & Brittany Torez's new study jumps off the page as such a clear distillation of one of intersectionality theory's most underappreciated insights: the ever-present baselining to whiteness. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 083
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldCydney Hurston Dupree @cydneydupree.bsky.social · 14hMixed feelings about this one. The Arday case is painful, and I get vulnerable in this piece. But the message is important, and it draws some of my favorite research, led by Brittany Torrez with @mwkraus.bsky.social . My latest, in Times Higher Ed. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac... 2129
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldNeil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 10h"For many Black scholars, academia is a burning house. If we cannot extinguish that fire, Black scholars will always bear a greater risk of being burned–& therefore have to insulate themselves against the risk more than others." @cydneydupree.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac...timeshighereducation.comBlack academics face extra scrutiny. Our research shows its consequencesScholars of colour told us they engage in strategies to make it harder for them to be dismissed as biased or lacking rigour, says Cydney Hurston Dupree 313378
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldHeidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 9hI still can't get over the fact that SCOTUS (minus Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson) did this yesterday *on the shadow docket.* Nary a word of justification. Not even a nod to the lower court opinions finding it unlawful to deport to 3rd countries w/o due process to flag torture & persecution risks. 35317
Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 9hread more @katemanne.bsky.social. "If you’re an outsider to American universities, you might think that students are simply out of control, and that disciplinary processes are similarly lax for other infringements. But that is not accurate. Compare this to how the university punishes protesters."thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 021
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10hA new poll from The 19th News shows faltering Republican support for gender-affirming care bans for trans youth. It also shows that anti-trans ads might be backfiring, with respondents increasingly saying Republicans are talking about trans people too much. Subscribe to support our journalism.erininthemorning.comNew Poll From The 19th News Shows Public Turning Against Republican Anti-Trans Healthcare BansThe poll even shows faltering Republican support for such bans. 21772195
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11hBeshear really has been a light in the darkness on trans issues. He's not perfect, but he's been remarkably consistent on telling other Dems that they need to continue standing up for us. It makes me wonder if he has a trans person in his life. 291033149
Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 11hSchmitt's real accomplishment was making the Broadview Six prosecution look professional. 040
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 11hWhat do authoritarians do when they are about to lose an election? I survey the big picture before the midterms - and investigate the struggle between authoritarian escalation and democratic resilience since the Trumpists took power. My new piece, for @blaetter.bsky.social:blaetter.deAutoritäre Eskalation oder demokratische Erneuerung: Die USA vor den MidtermsDie bevorstehenden Zwischenwahlen in den USA am 3. November sind ein wichtiger Stresstest für die US-Demokratie. Vieles hängt davon ab, inwieweit die Amerikaner für ihre Republik und deren Regeln eins... 320075
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldKate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 592849926
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldBillie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Transphobia is designed by the right to drive a wedge bw Democratic constituencies to undermine women’s health care rights, racial equity, voting rights and climate science. It’s “magic” one of the main architects of the strategy brashly says. But if there ever was a spell, it’s wearing off 313042
Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And *we* should act accordingly when our institutions praise them and invite them to speak on our campuses. bsky.app/profile/anth... 030
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is a human rights abuse worthy of prosecution under intentional law. Minimally, they should be impeached and removed for this alone. 15482157
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldTruthout @truthout.org · 29/09/2026An NFL official reportedly threatened to remove Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair from his game earlier this month unless he removed his memorial for an 8-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israel in Gaza.truthout.orgNFL Threatened to Ban Player From Game for Honoring Slain Palestinian GirlTexans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair wrote Wafaa Akila, the name of an 8-year-old girl killed by Israel, on his face tape. 611163
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldDavid Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026reminder that we are talking about this 419255
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldPaul Gowder @gowder.io · 29/09/2026SCOTUS, I guess: "who cares if immigrants are sent to torture dungeons in Equatorial Guinea? It's not like they're humans with rights." 410231
Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just the efficiency is galling. bsky.app/profile/stev... 020
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldHannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If “irreparable harm” means anything, it means being sent to a country you’ve never seen, where you may well be imprisoned, tortured, or killed, under a policy that (the cert grant implicitly acknowledges!) may well be illegal 318078
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldTom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is THEE Dr. Evelyn Carter who wrote the book I’m reading! Check out my pinned skeet! 131
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026if you know anything about senator schmitt's monumental fuck up in the jack smith hearing, i implore you to reach out. can be anonymous. signal: marisakabas.04 email: marisa@thehandbasket.co 723018564
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldJonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026new from "My Best Friend is Black" collab w Dr. Evelyn Carter & Dr. Lisel Murdock-Perriera.mybestfriendisblack.substack.comFor people of color mourning the friendships you thought you hadA love letter to the people who, like me, are wondering how you got it so wrong. 023
Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hard concur. Listen to the authors dig into the text in our recent #RaceClass conversation.soundcloud.comEp. 67 | Carmen Gonzalez & Rebecca Bratspies on Teaching Environmental Law in ContextEnvironmental law scholars Carmen G. Gonzalez and Rebecca Bratspies join the #RaceClass Podcast to discuss their new teaching guide: Teaching Environmental Law in Context. Their guide offers a correct 020
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldRebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026When Zyg Plater. one of Environmental Law's OGs, shares his thoughts about Teaching Environmental Law, people generally listen up! Thanks again, @progressivereform.bsky.social for making this series possible. progressivereform.org/cpr-blog/bra...progressivereform.orgBratspies and Gonzalez’s Book Is a Godsend - Center for Progressive ReformI wish to confirm that for environmental law teachers new and old — whatever our theological leanings — Rebecca Bratspies and Carmen Gonzalez have created a godsend. In a time of existential national ... 064
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldAnna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“There’s a special kind of mourning that comes with realizing the friendship you thought was generative is actually extractive. Maybe the White friend that you thought was committed to anti-racism was actually just committed to it when you were around.” 15013
Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026new from "My Best Friend is Black" collab w Dr. Evelyn Carter & Dr. Lisel Murdock-Perriera.mybestfriendisblack.substack.comFor people of color mourning the friendships you thought you hadA love letter to the people who, like me, are wondering how you got it so wrong. 023
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldDr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 29/09/202610/17/23 is specifically the date of the al-Ahli hospital bombing when the IDF killed upwards of 500 Palestinian civilians. Western media collectively agreed that it was prudent to cast doubt on the reported casualty figures, so "Hamas-run ministry of health" became a thing. 15839
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldBen Eidelson @beidelson.bsky.social · 28/09/20268/ Drawing on testimony by @genevievelakier.bsky.social & @dorfonlaw.bsky.social, the report distinguishes targeted abuse from chants, signs, & other speech addressed to the campus at large. In a university setting, the latter receives much greater 1st Amendment protection, even when very offensive. 1131
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldBen Eidelson @beidelson.bsky.social · 28/09/20265/ The report then explains why—contrary to the pending Trump administration lawsuit— events like the anti-Israel "study-ins" at Harvard aren't plausibly covered as harassment: ... 1152
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldBen Eidelson @beidelson.bsky.social · 28/09/20261/ The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights just released its report on campus antisemitism and Title VI. I testified at the hearing. The report is unanimous, bipartisan, & debunks the main legal theories behind recent attacks on universities for allegedly tolerating antisemitism. 🧵 27457
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/09/20261. Jay Feely, a former NFL kicker and a GOP candidate for Congress in Arizona, has made “protecting women’s sports” a centerpiece of his election campaign. So I reviewed years of Feely’s podcast appearances to see what he actually thinks about female athletes. 🧵 461540565
Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026also why a national discourse that corrodes how we understand antisemitism by moral panicking over student protest erases the antisemitic ideology deeply embedded in domestic white nationalist movements. cc: @bulldogshadow.bsky.social re antisemitism & white nationalism. bsky.app/profile/seth... 121
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In my research on the antisemitic white nationalist who became chair of the OR GOP in 1978, I’ve run across innumerable references to “the Jewish Question,” and it’s always been in the context of neo-Nazi shit. This is from a 1970s newsletter he received from James K Warner, a pal of David Duke’s. 131532
Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026hopefully NYTimes gives him more air time so he can explain the solution to all of us. bsky.app/profile/seth... 000
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Here’s Chris Rufo and his podcast co-host addressing “the Indian question,” a reference to “the Jewish question.” That question was whether Jews could be incorporated into European society, and the Nazis were the ones who claimed to have developed the “final solution” to that “problem.” 561180318
Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026in all fairness the Celtics front office has been no better. bsky.app/profile/ryan... 000
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that. 101315220
Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I feel seen. “We do not agree with these annoying colleagues who are causing trouble for our benevolent Big Brother Tech administrators!” bsky.app/profile/kana... 020
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldTired while Black @hurtthisday.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026John Roberts’ dream has come true! 021
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldTim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is the symbol of the Jewish Labor Bund: the universalist, socialist group my great-grandfather supported, the vision of which was always more liberatory than Zionism and which we need to recapture now as an alternative to this death cult timjacobwise.substack.com/p/breaking-f...timjacobwise.substack.comBreaking Free from the Cult of ZionismPerpetual victimhood narratives have given rise to this unhealthy, destructive, and frankly self-hating ideology. We need to commit to universalism again. 093
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldKristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If you’re bitching to the UN about a Twitch streamer it’s safe to say your PR battle has taken the biggest of L’s 663015328
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Big week over here: One year of Democracy Americana, one year as a full-time independent writer. I hope I’ll be able to convince enough people to become free subscribers or, better yet, paid members so that I can keep going. Here is my pitch to everyone who is interested:steady.pageOnward. Forward. With your help.Happy birthday to Democracy Americana! One year ago, I started this experiment. To keep it going, I need your support. 16630
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Finally, segregationists have achieved their dream of capturing the Civil Rights Division and turning it to their own ends 481851694
Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 25/09/2026segregation now. segregation tomorrow. segregation forever. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...nytimes.comJustice Department Scraps Dozens of School Desegregation CasesCritics said the changes, mostly in the South, moved the nation “back toward the Jim Crow era.” Justice Department officials said the decrees were outdated. 161
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldAbu5217 🚫👑 @abu5217.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Agreed. I just read the article as well. Disgusting doesn't begin to explain it, but I am not at all surprised. Thank you for this. 021
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldCassandra of Troy @cassandraoftroy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Unbelievably bleak and necessary reading. 041
Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 24/09/2026today is a good day to support independent journalism. always appreciate @marisakabas.bsky.social for telling stories that need to be told. www.thehandbasket.co/p/naza-docum...thehandbasket.coI saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza. 27223
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldAMHotFlash @amhotflash.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Texas officials just admitted DPS failed to send an unknown number of voter registration applications to county officials. Up to 6 million Texans have used that same DPS portal to register since 2020. If yours got lost, you might not be on the rolls, even though you did everything right… 27330281863
Reposted by Jonathan FeingoldJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There's a lot to say about this, and other folks are saying most of it. I just want to focus on one thing: the claim about the relationship between universities and "the real world." 1526993