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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter

@leecarpenter.bsky.social
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Rutgers Law prof. Into democracy, dogs, and cheese. Knows about LGBTQ+ rights, public interest lawyering, legal ethics, state constitutions, LRW. Too insubordinate for autocracy. 🏳️‍🌈 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAu…

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
President Trump is 0-2 against pools.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I may just be a gay who doesn’t understand how any of this works, but this doesn’t seem like… a straight people thing to do.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In 1997 I bought a new Honda Civic that quickly developed a mysterious electrical problem that caused it to simply refuse to start at random intervals. I had to carry around jumper cables wherever I went. Even then I didn't want my money back as badly as I want a refund on those Fetterman donations.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“We relied too much on AI instead of our own critical thinking.” krcrtv.com/news/local/t...
krcrtv.com
Three Mount Shasta climbers rescued after relying on AI to plan climb
Three novice climbers were rescued from Mount Shasta on Sunday after becoming lost, running low on supplies and spending an unplanned night in Mud Creek Canyon,
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Finding problems to the solution is the solution to the problem!
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Rest in power to a wonderful human - and a proud union member. www.afm.org/2026/08/pass...
afm.org
AFM Statement on the Passing of Dolly Parton
Today, the entire community of professional musicians mourns the loss of an irreplaceable icon and a generous heart: Dolly Parton. While the world knows her as a global superstar and philanthropist…
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
law.berkeley.edu
Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is excellent and very much worth reading.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Honestly, if you think only leftists are sore losers you haven’t met a bunch of the centrists I’ve seen lose with no grace whatsoever. And the converse is emphatically true as well. IMHO, it’s individual people’s shitty personalities that inform their politics, and not the other way around.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
So, I used to help domestic violence survivors get civil protection orders. I can say confidently that the answer to every one of this jackass’s rhetorical questions about whether a “real” victim of domestic violence would behave toward an abuser the way his ex behaved toward him is… yes. 100%.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Andrew Tate is living proof that at some point, Anton LaVey impregnated a naked mole rat. I can't say how it happened but it happened.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Pretty much how all other disciplines react.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
What an absolute GOLDMINE of potential gay jokes this headline is.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Just a friendly reminder that "no means no" and "don't complain if you text an alcoholic and then he rapes you" are incompatible statements. You'll need to pick one. I don't make the rules.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Stephen King should just run. We already know about the skeletons.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A NAZI TATTOO IS ALWAYS A RED FLAG WHY DO I HAVE TO SAY THIS I WANT OUT OF THIS TIMELINE
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
We must simply put it down, flip it, and reverse it.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Megyn Kelly’s opinion that our country is superior because of our “work ethic” is a little confusing given that large parts of it were founded on the principle of getting someone else to do your work for you and not paying them.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This… is the FACE OF ANTIFA.
A close-up of algae
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Fun fact: "San Recto" is named for Saint Recto, the patron saint of pulling things out of your ass.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I would like to go back to that innocent time when I thought everyone knew that a Nazi tattoo was a gigantic red flag. Truly, I miss those days.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
New Decemberists album just dropped
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
10/10
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
In which I repeat what @elliemargolis.bsky.social and I have written about … we need to be teaching state con law.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Sees Striking Exodus of Legal Talent
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The Captain and Cookie have announced that they will no longer be performing “God Loves a Terrier” at the Freedom 250 concert.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
In which the ship holding the distinction between scholarship and punditry sinks beneath the waves, never to be seen again. When the orcas take over, I hope they are kinder to us than they are to fish.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Look at these cowards over here, thinking their complicity will protect them.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Honestly, this man is a walking lesson on how it doesn’t matter how much money and fame you have if you are committed enough to being miserable.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Every year this guy looks more and more like one of the lesser commanders from the Colonies. His second wife is going to be so low-status.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
While higher ed leadership has jumped on the AI bandwagon with an astounding level of credulity and an utterly depressing lack of foresight, here's what our own students think. Good thing they're smarter than our Executive Vice Presidents for FutureTech Career-Forward Outcome Strategies.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Looks like it’s Rule 11-o’clock, kids.
news.bloomberglaw.com
DOJ Omits Crucial Element in Southern Poverty Law Center Charges
The Justice Department relied on a lesser-known bank deception statute to indict the Southern Poverty Law Center while omitting an element needed to prove the crime: intent to influence a financial in...
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
All I’m saying is that if the Strait of Hormuz was bi-curious, those ships might have more options. 🏳️‍🌈
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Captions please.
An AI generated image depicting Trump wearing a Jesus outfit, healing the sick and eliciting worshipful stares from a variety of white people. In the background are national monuments, a big ol’ American flag, and naturally, a fighter jet.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I don't know about you, but I feel really weird just going about my business today, particularly because "my business" is supposed to be teaching people that the rule of law matters.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Things I never thought I’d say to myself: “It’s such a relief that originalists refuse to acknowledge the existence of airplanes.”
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Mandatory life sentences for second-degree murder are unconstitutional, Pa. Supreme Court rules share.inquirer.com/cSote3
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Mandatory life sentences for second-degree murder are unconstitutional, Pa. Supreme Court rules
The decision could reshape a portion of state law that many criminal justice advocates and some public officials have long targeted for reform.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
If I can’t enjoy a good zinger, I don’t want to be part of your apocalypse.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.
A headline reading “Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables”
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
If Kamala hadn’t won, NONE of this would be happening.
A NYT headline describing soaring gas prices, with a smaller headline reading “war in the Middle East.”
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
If there was a little man inside my brain, this gentleman would be that little man.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Now THAT is what I'm talking about.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Anyone else in here old enough to remember that the Iraq War was going to last two weeks?
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Beginning to think we have underestimated the efficacy of simply having our enemies destroy each other with lasers.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
You can tell how deeply rotted these people’s moral centers are because they actually think as they’re talking, “the American people will EAT UP this bomb-ass retort,” rather than “people will find it morally unpalatable when I tell them to ignore child rape because it’s good for their 401ks.”
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Love this guy. Curling lawyers forever.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
RIP Fred Smith, bassist of Television. Today I learned that Patti Smith dated both Television Fred Smith and MC5 Fred "Sonic" Smith, but I'm about 40 years too late for this information to help me look cooler. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlbu...
youtube.com
Television - Marquee Moon
YouTube video by SpaceOdyssee0
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Who would want less of that? I will never understand.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Dear men, This isn't mentoring. Regards, Women.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Guess what the good news is? YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORK FOR THEM.
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