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Meera Deo

@meeradeo.bsky.social
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author | law prof | LSSSE Director | empirical scholar | DEI expert | plant-based foodie | mama | BA UCBerkeley | JD UMich | PhD (Soc) UCLA

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🦋💔🇺🇸SEB🇺🇸💔🦋 @sebastiangarof5.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
F_ck ICE
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Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I don’t know any parent who’s gonna react to an attempted carjacking with their kid in the car in any other way.
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Train art! #publictransit #art
CA train with stylized Ventura written on it and city/ocean images
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Blast from the past. Have not been forever!
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Loved to see it! And love that she did not want to leave :)
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When you’re doing a Zoom presentation on #SCOTUS and Stitch (or, at least, my 8YO in a Stitch costume) makes a cameo: 📸: @meeradeo.bsky.social
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“In every position across the board, you see a lot of men, and so it’s nice to be the first one out there, be a woman, be a Black woman, and for people to see that and acknowledge that.” BRANDEE, WE SEE YOU 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This video showed up in my feed right after an excerpt about the Maine hecklers. The resistance is getting spicy!
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
no one should use this thing but I just cannot stress enough that you have to stay away from it if you’re a practicing attorney
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This was a tremendous opportunity for me early in my career. The Center is all about interdisciplinary, intellectual, productive engagement. There are weekly speakers and plenty of opportunities for coffee, lunch, and walks with scholars through the lovely Berkeley campus.
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Having been a named party in a case with huge national implications, I am so grateful to these scientists 🙏 Signed, intervening-defendant in Grutter while a law student at Michigan and now a lawyer-sociologist studying systemic inequities ❤️
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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April Fools Joke: This Is Fine Dog Meme
ALT: April Fools Joke: This Is Fine Dog Meme
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026
Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted).
As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
YOU TELL THEM 🙌🏾 Represent!!!
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Bet you could find some others and beyond Texas too.
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It brings me such joy to see this post from you, a dad. In my research I’ve interviewed dozens of moms who’ve written articles, done class prep, or sent in edits from the side of the soccer field/lap pool/basketball court during the hour or two their kid was occupied. Far fewer dads. Love to see it!
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13/09/2026
This will be bad for: - the students - the research progress - the universities - the towns the universities are in - the companies hiring students - the states the universities are in - the national economy - national security - the country - the world
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
SFFA does not signal the end of DEI, even if federal directives pretend otherwise.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/09/2026
Absolutely amazing.
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Same. I remember realizing I was allowed past the kids’ section. Literally opened up vast new worlds. Grateful my parents, librarians, and community didn’t censor what I could read.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This would have destroyed me as a kid. Reading was EVERYTHING. And not children’s books. Even at a young age.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
As many large firms succumb to greed and fear, scrappy groups of lawyers are taking Trump’s lawlessness and winning. They deserve our thanks. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Legal veterans lead fightback against Trump’s ‘full-out assault on democracy’
Advocacy groups expand legal challenges and condemn president’s ‘self-serving attempts to take over midterms’
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’m a Dartmouth professor. Pres. Beilock implies in this piece that she speaks for us as a college. She does not. I don’t permit AI in my classroom. Not because it stole my work; because as I wrote in @chronicle.com, most of my students hate it—and feel betrayed by the college—even more than I do.
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Maybe even if we win….
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Why has Trump been attacking unions and workers’ rights? He wants working people to feel helpless and divided. Trump and his billionaire backers realize that the collective power of a unified labor movement outweighs their own power. Know this: Workers outnumber the oligarchs.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Children can't learn when they're hungry. Said me, a retired teacher.
npr.org
As millions of kids lose SNAP food benefits, free school meals are also at risk
Food stamps have a direct link to other critical resources, such as free breakfast and lunch at school. Now, experts say they're starting to see that link break.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is insane. When I was in first grade my parents let me walk 3 blocks to school in the mornings, and home after it was over. The independence that I got as a child helped me so much in my life. No parent should face charges for something like this, let alone be convicted!
In June, when Parkinson was preparing for the bar—and also happened to be eight months pregnant with her fifth child—she and her then-youngest, Sam, went for a bike ride, as they often do. They stopped for her son's favorite activity: collecting goose feathers from the path near their community pond. When they got home, he asked if he could walk back and get some more.

Parkinson said yes. It's a short walk, along a sidewalk separated from the street by 10 feet of grass. Sam would have to cross two streets with crosswalks, which she'd seen him do safely hundreds of times—including six times that morning, she says. Off he went while she made lunch.

A passerby saw Sam and alerted security. One of the community's security guards escorted the boy back and gave Parkinson an earful. Pretty soon there were three cop cars, just as many cops, a security vehicle, and two Child Protective Services (CPS) workers at Parkinson's door.

CPS ended up investigating her for abuse and neglect.

The cops, meanwhile, charged her with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. CPS found the allegations substantiated and placed Parkinson on the state's child abuse and neglect registry. She will remain there for seven years.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Remember, the Constitution doesn’t begin with, ‘I, the president.’ It begins with, ‘We, the people.’ ” —Gloria Steinem at the 2017 Women’s March
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Olatunde Johnson @olatij.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Exactly. The regs are here: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-18127.pdf Note the dramatic extension of Bob Jones, purposefully vague on what is “discrimination”, and purports to apply to remedial programs too (ie that correct past and ongoing discrimination).
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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I See What You Did There Oh Yeah Meme
ALT: I See What You Did There Oh Yeah Meme
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Love this for us 🙌🏾
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Indian American here. In case you missed it, by this simple ceremony of Rakhi, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made himself the brother and protector of all the people of New York City. How much do I love this guy!
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Agreed! There shouldn’t be proxies for quality.
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'm reading 15 full-length law review articles rn as Chair of the AALS Scholarly Papers competition. Learning a lot about elections, crim, bankruptcy, int'l law, etc. Also learning that apparently, most scholars still include in their Intro some version of, "This Article fills this gap by...."
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Nick Varga @karaoke-god.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Overhaul the system!
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Thanks for this suggestion. Will file it away for later....
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
What would you suggest?
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I worry about this so much for junior scholars.
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Combine loss of intl students with faculty brain drain, and the future does not look bright 😩 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...
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Canada Hires U.S. Scholars From Harvard and Other Top Universities
A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hat tip to the League of Women Voters, who have successfully sued Trump to block his efforts to use US Postal Service to manipulate state voting rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Enjoy it!
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
U.S. Brain Drain 😩 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...
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Canada Hires U.S. Scholars From Harvard and Other Top Universities
A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
You can’t win if you don’t fight. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Hellrosser @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“This ruling…needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming midterm elections. It also lets another shoe drop in the Kafkaesque nightmare that our precedents have been steadily creating for certain plaintiffs who seek to bring election-related challenges" www.huffpost.com/entry/justic...
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'Serious Legal Error': Justice Jackson Eviscerates Supreme Court Decision In Scathing Dissent
She argued that the conservative majority’s ruling on Trump’s mail-in voting order only served to fuel uncertainty ahead of the elections.
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