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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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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey, state con law nerds! Do you find yourself in the Mid-Atlantic, yearning to go to an excellent lecture on the importance of state judiciaries in shaping the national conversation about rights and democracy? Well have I got an event for YOU. Come join us at Rutgers Law - Camden on October 26th!
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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 · 22/06/2026
This… is the FACE OF ANTIFA.
A close-up of algae
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Summer of Soul
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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 · 03/06/2026
New Decemberists album just dropped
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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 07/02/2026
Grew up mostly in North Jersey and totally cosign. This is the heartland of the now-extinct Moderate Classy Republican. This lady was my parents’ Member of Congress:
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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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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
First interracial TV kiss. 1968.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I wonder if this trademark is expired.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Someone should write an alternate historical novel where Stephen Miller’s parents never met.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Americans who know that Puerto Ricans are Americans: “Why can’t other Americans understand that Puerto Ricans are Americans?” NYT:
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I invite you to join me in imagining the cover art on these VHS tapes.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I’ll believe it when they finally deliver those taco trucks.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Oh that’s just Jamie Raskin reading the list of grievances in the Declaration of Independence in front of Independence Hall.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Guys, I don’t know how this kind of blunder happens, but it looks like the NYT accidentally ran a headline from 2015!
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Here, have a baby opossum.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
This. Is. Why. We. Have. Laws.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
If Yale Law has any self-respect it will rescind this JD.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
If this isn’t MAGA in a nutshell, I dunno what is.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I can't not point out that this highly phallocentric and really manly example of "direct communication" is taking place on TWO DIFFERENT SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, and each ubermensch is referring to the other... in the third person. This writing style is pure "Trang Pak: is a grotsky little byotch!"
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Some of y’all can’t handle two high-agency males going at it, and it really shows
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I may die laughing.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Given the massive influx of immigrants in the first two decades of the 20th century, it's likely that a large percentage of our military were birthright citizens - brave citizens like my grandfather, who served in the Navy. Many of them died fighting men just like Stephen Miller.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Got tenure! Fun fact - this headshot is the only known photograph of me.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
New single just dropped!
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
So. Much. Winning.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It’s not me and my colleagues, Elon. It’s that you’ve destroyed lives and pillaged institutions and now everyone fucking hates you.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Congratulations to the Times for not publishing this in the Opinions section. A real profile in courage.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I hope the words "oversee" and "report" are earning enough money from all this work they're doing here to bail Amy Gleason out when she's charged with perjury.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Preparing slides for a CLE and realizing I have absolutely run out of fucks.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Welcome, involuntary Xpats. Please have a seat while we process you for shitposting privileges. Note that the waiting room doesn't smell like Axe Body Spray and Nazis.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
So we are admitting that Elon Musk is governing? Like, he has a governing ARRANGEMENT so ergo he is… governing? And the Times is just like, “the real story is that this governing arrangement is ‘unusual,’” not that… he’s governing? Is everyone at the times HIGH right now?
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I also did this:
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
One more subscription cancelled. If I wanted to subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, I’d subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. Asshole.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
You can’t be a state actor when you want to bully federal workers and suddenly a mere private citizen when it’s convenient. That’s not how it works. That’s not how any of this works.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Me, joking, two weeks ago:
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
There were a lot of hilarious signs at today's Philly protest (because Philly has A+ protest sign game), but this was my favorite from an "I want that as a tattoo" perspective.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Philly right now!
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