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Margaret H. Zhang

@marzhang.bsky.social
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Law prof @ Widener University Delaware Law School. Reproductive justice, workplace justice, environmental justice. Philly. She/her.

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Margaret H. Zhang @marzhang.bsky.social · 19h
Kacey Musgraves FTW
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Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
“There was a time in the recent past — in the 1980s and 1990s — when we could have been forgiven for not being sure how to respond to the future disruptions of climate breakdown. But now we know.”
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Opinion | Wildfires Are Unfightable Now (Gift Article)
This year’s fast moving, virtually irrepressible wildfire events are not the seasonal burns of decades past.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/u...
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Christa Pike Discharged From Hospital After Surviving Execution Attempt (Gift Article)
Ms. Pike, 50 and convicted of the 1995 murder of a classmate, survived two doses of the drug pentobarbital late last month.
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Dara Purvis @darapurvis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
PACK IT
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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Margaret H. Zhang @marzhang.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Omg!! So sorry this happened and I'm glad it wasn't worse!!
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Margaret H. Zhang @marzhang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just awful
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Garrett Epps @garrettepps.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A reminder that if not for the Supreme Court in US v. MORRISON, Jane Doe would have had access to the federal courts for a civil rights action. The Court said that rape is a local matter no matter how great the impact on commerce.
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Margaret H. Zhang @marzhang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The menopause one is the one that caught my attention. Then I started searching and discovered so many more initiatives that sounded like good ideas but were vetoed. Ugh.
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Margaret H. Zhang @marzhang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just catching up on all the Newsom vetoes this week. So disappointing. legiscan.com/CA/legislati...
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California 2025-2026 Regular Session Legislation
Bill tracking browser for California 2025-2026 Regular Session legislation
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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 01/10/2026
End the death penalty. End it now. There is no reason for it, never.
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Roel Janssen🍀🌹🪶 @vrijevogel56.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Unimaginable. Horrific. Sentenced to death 30 years ago. So, 30 years of waiting to be put to death. And then the execution goes wrong. Tennessee Fails to Execute Woman After 2 Doses of Lethal Injection www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)
Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.
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Margaret H. Zhang @marzhang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What do we think about the homogeneity in the picture here, where every person is a man in a suit? www.axios.com/2026/09/29/t...
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Trump, top AI leaders agree to voluntary ​AI ​standards
"They're going to be policing each other," Trump told reporters.
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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Calvinball enters its QP era.
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Margaret H. Zhang @marzhang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm just getting caught up on this now. 😭 SCOTUS continues to be awful but is now even delegating its authority to decide the legal issues at stake to the Executive Branch. 👎 (See fourth question presented)
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Eve Brensike Primus @primuseve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Attn: @umichlaw.bsky.social and @mdefenders.bsky.social is hiring a Clinical Assistant Professor of Law/Associate Director for the new MDefenders Center for Public Defense. Job posting here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2.... Come work w/me to train the next generation of public defenders!
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Law and Associate Director MDefenders Center for Public Defense | U-M Careers
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Dr. Daniel Grossman @drdgrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A new analysis shows that nearly 35% of U.S. counties have zero birth centers, zero hospitals providing labor and delivery services, and zero obstetric clinicians. It is difficult to overstate how alarming these findings are.
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More Than One Third of U.S. Counties Are Maternity Care Deserts
A new March of Dimes report finds that one-third of counties in the U.S. don't have access to ob-gyn providers or labor and delivery units.
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Margaret H. Zhang @marzhang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Really good thread. I couldn't agree more.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026
I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Rich countries owe Nepal climate reparations.
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Nepal floods: Climate change played role in disaster, study finds
More than 1,400 people were killed and thousands remain missing following the deluge on 26 August.
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Ally Whelan @amwhelan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members"
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Margaret H. Zhang @marzhang.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I always go back to stuff that worked for me before (e.g., whatever I did before my most stressful college performance examinations, so long as the outcome was good). Then I've got that "success" conditioning in my head already. Good luck!!
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Multiple things can be true at once: we can try to listen to women who have been harmed by doctors and why, we can acknowledge how grift and white privilege based the MAHA movement is, and we can hate Big Pharma for how it fucks over most people.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 07/09/2026
genuinely a banger from justin briley about what the democratic party is, in actual empirical reality, as opposed to the phantasmagorical caricature of social media
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.
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Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)
The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
but persuasion efforts are mostly targeting MAHA people who are low info, not very ideologically committed and still persuadable on critical issues like vaccine. not just me saying this either—there’s good quality data to back it up. will it be successful? we’ll see. but it’s not a clear cut issue
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Every single damn day men kill their family members, including an incident just last week where a man in MT killed 8 members of his family — 4 of them children. But you barely heard a peep about it in the national conversation. Men killing their families is so common there’s a name for it… 1/
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Margaret H. Zhang @marzhang.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This was a great explainer about a complicated set of issues (habeas, First Amendment, detention, removal) and cases (Khalil, Madawi, Suri). Much appreciated.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 06/09/2026
My very unpopular take is that MAHA is right on some things in defining the problem and very wrong in defining the solution. And if you ignore that at least some segment of MAHA is because of the horrible treatment women have at the hands of medical professionals that's on you...
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 04/09/2026
That means: Every wind turbine and solar panel deployed Every heat pump installed Every energy efficiency retrofit Every electric bus and vehicle Every job created from all these things… It all matters! It all counts.
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Ariel Méndez @amendez.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This year feels like a climate turning point. Wildfires, melting glaciers, flash floods, low/no snow, freakishly warm oceans, etc. Time to get smart about climate. Focus on the policies that will make the biggest difference and get them done. Lots of good still to be done.
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Margaret H. Zhang @marzhang.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
👎
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Margaret H. Zhang @marzhang.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
1 (in their childhood) and at most 2 for me
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem
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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 03/09/2026
What to Know About a Reported US Airstrike That Hit a Wedding in Iran | Four people — two women and two children — were killed and more than 60 were wounded, according to Iranian state media.
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What to Know About a Reported US Airstrike That Hit a Wedding in Iran - Bucks County Beacon
Four people — two women and two children — were killed and more than 60 were wounded, according to Iranian state media.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Everyone needs to see this and spread this www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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Video: U.S. Strike Kills Several at a Wedding, Iran Says
A U.S. strike hit a wedding in southern Iran, videos verified by The New York Times show. The U.S. military said it had not targeted civilians in its wave of attacks, and Iran said it had retaliated w...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I don’t think there’s really even a colorable argument that this isn’t mass murder. theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...
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The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”
“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.”
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/08/2026
Climate change is a moral catastrophe because countries like Nepal who are least responsible for causing it suffer the most.
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Ally Whelan @amwhelan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Also, one of the deaths was an infant. The exact age was not given, but they likely were too young to have even received their first dose yet. This is why herd immunity matters, to protest the most vulnerable who cannot get the vaccine or who are too young to have been vaccinated
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Infant in Pennsylvania is one of two people reported to die of measles this week
The deaths were the first associated with measles in the state in 35 years.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social does is a huge public service: www.stevevladeck.com/p/246-making...
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246. Making Sense of the Mail-in Ballots Ruling
The Supreme Court’s grant of a stay in one of the mail-in ballot cases is deeply wrong, but it’s also not the main event over whether Trump’s patently unlawful executive order can take effect.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I attempted to put words to what's been going on in my life:
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My miscarriage
A personal update from Marisa.
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Margaret H. Zhang @marzhang.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Looks delicious
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Margaret H. Zhang @marzhang.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Courthouses are public property and it'd be good if more people went to random trials 👍 the suit will help you get in with fewer questions asked (but we should encourage all to watch our justice system in action even without suits!)
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Margaret H. Zhang @marzhang.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Agreed
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