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Marissa Jackson Sow

@marissaesque.bsky.social
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Sharp-tongued polyglot shitposting about politics, culture, current events, and law prof stuff. Curator of the Law & Liberation Lab. My pronouns are Not / The One and I’m only here so I don’t get fined. 🫶🏾

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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
🌟TOMORROW!🌟 Register here to help us celebrate luminaries Patricia Williams and Mehrsa Baradaran: www.aals.org/sections/web...
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Agree. Completely agree.
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Oh.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Martin O'Malley just mentioned state attorneys general filing state kidnapping charges. Just imagine the collective cheer in this country if state troopers pulled over, arrested and cuffed a van full of masked ICE fascists.
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Constitutional crisis.
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Every morning I pray for the US to ratify the Rome Statute so we can start throwing these demoniacs behind the bars they’ve built for others. 😤
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Manipulation Day, amirite?
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
That was quick.
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Building on the astute analyses by @karenattiah.bsky.social and @adamserwer.bsky.social in my debut post for the @lpeblog.bsky.social on the Trump Administration’s assault on Black federal workers today, which calls upon us to consider that peonage may be the point: lpeproject.org/blog/racial-...
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Racial Capitalism and the Assault on Federal Workers
By purging African Americans from the federal workforce, the Trump administration does not merely aim to undermine racial integration; rather, it seeks to bring about the economic immiseration of…
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Never ever miss a chance to read @marissaesque.bsky.social and here’s a great one about racial capitalism in the present moment.
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Racial Capitalism and the Assault on Federal Workers
By purging African Americans from the federal workforce, the Trump administration does not merely aim to undermine racial integration; rather, it seeks to bring about the economic immiseration of…
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Today, @marissaesque.bsky.social argues that Trump's assault on federal workers is part of a broader effort to demolish the the bargaining power of Black workers.
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Racial Capitalism and the Assault on Federal Workers
By purging African Americans from the federal workforce, the Trump administration does not merely aim to undermine racial integration; rather, it seeks to bring about the economic immiseration of…
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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Great piece in @lpeblog.bsky.social by @marissaesque.bsky.social on racism behind the administration's attack on federal workers. "Federal government jobs have long been responsible for the creation and maintenance of the Black American middle class." Check it out! lpeproject.org/blog/racial-...
lpeproject.org
Racial Capitalism and the Assault on Federal Workers
By purging African Americans from the federal workforce, the Trump administration does not merely aim to undermine racial integration; rather, it seeks to bring about the economic immiseration of…
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
It’s giving 1929.
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Screaming.
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Kamala Harris and Barack Obama owe y’all NOTHING.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Cuomo has 100% name id & a terrible disgraced corrupted brand. In the next few months you will necessarily see the current and non corrupted elected leaders spending their campaign money to raise their profile and win one of your five slots. Make sure you are listening and tell everyone you know.
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The next part of my project on social murder is now forthcoming in the Maryland Law Review. Abstract and outline available on SSRN. Full draft coming later this Spring.
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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
There is no ambiguity about this. You can be elected president twice. It is universally agreed upon. You cannot run a third time.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
No news organization should ever use the words "third term" without the word "unconstitutional" preceding it
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Forthcoming, Volume 85 of the Washington and Lee Law Review 🙏🏾
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I’m emotionally exhausted, y’all. The destruction is overwhelming and soul-sucking.
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
That’s a good word from the Lord!
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Thread: Alien Enemies Act hearing 🚨
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
ACLU atty says that unless there's a review process, "anyone could be taken off the street." He adds that the plaintiffs see another question: whether the proclamation itself is reviewable by the courts; he says it is
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
*stares in contracts professor* Someone please sue for discharge of the loans, please! I wanna see something!
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
And he means it, too.
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I want to hear from Ted Wells (Paul, Weiss). Hard for me to believe that he’d be going for this, or even willing to tolerate it (but I’m prepared to be gravely disappointed).
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
All of this!
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u... How can Paul, Weiss ever be trusted to properly represent its clients again?! This is horrifying, and a huge strategic mistake as well.
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Law Firm Bends in Face of Trump Demands
Paul, Weiss — one of three law firms targeted by President Trump as part of his retribution campaign — said it resolved the conflict by agreeing to a range of commitments.
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Deeply, deeply concerning. May I ask my American friends to consider making conferences hybrid as a rule. www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/d...
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Diplomatic row erupts after French researcher expelled from US for expressing 'a personal opinion' on Trump
A diplomatic row has erupted between France and the US after a French researcher was expelled from the country for expressing "a personal opinion" on Trump.
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Imagine if Kamala Harris was the POTUS right now and we could focus on being outraged about whether or not she’s sufficiently Black or some other mundane macro aggressive shit that’s none of our business while eating a 3-egg omelette, and respecting Canadian sovereignty. Just imagine!
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
GET HIM OUT OF THERE.
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
We can do better than this! Let’s get it down by 90%!
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
So, this is human trafficking.
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Get her out of there!
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Living for this right now!
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
CHUCK MUST GO.
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Columbia and Johns Hopkins. Read another way, that’s Harlem/Wash Heights and Baltimore. I don’t believe that’s coincidental.
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I think the Democratic Party has died, and I think we should bury it instead of letting the rotting corpse stink up the place. Working Families Party? Where you at? Your time is now.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
There are many Democrats who don’t agree with some or many of AOC’s policy ideas. But what she gets and more conventional Democrats do not is that political fight can be catalyzing and transformative. You can change the shape of the playing board in ways … www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/p...
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Ocasio-Cortez mobilizes Democrats against Schumer plan as colleagues privately urge her to consider primary challenge | CNN Politics
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday that she plans to mobilize her massive base of followers to oppose what she described as an “acquiesce” by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to accept th...
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Schumer’s betrayal is proving as galvanizing/clarifying/unifying to the Democratic electorate as Trump’s betrayal is to our erstwhile foreign allies
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UAW @uaw.org · 14/03/2025
In the latest assault on First Amendment rights, Columbia University has expelled and fired Grant Miner, President of UAW Local 2710, which represents thousands of Columbia student workers. The firing comes one day before contract negotiations were set to open with the University.
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
F*** Ch***.
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The LPE Project @lpeproject.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
A Statement on Recent Events lpeproject.org/blog/stateme...
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Statement on Recent Events
The online targeting and harassment of the LPE Project’s Deputy Director, Helyeh Doutaghi, is part of a broader environment of speech repression, particularly of anti-war and pro-Palestinian views.
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Has anyone explained to the President that champagne cannot be made in the USA? I don’t think he knows.
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We’re all being reminded that the Senate is, and was designed to be, an anti-democratic institution that tempers/stalls/undermines the work of the House of Representatives.
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