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Ryan Thoreson

@ryanthoreson.bsky.social
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Law prof teaching human rights, law and sexuality, con law & torts. 26.2 x 25. ⚖️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏃

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don’t think my husband and I parent very differently from heterosexual parents but our three year old *did* just walk into the kitchen and sing, unprompted, “nobody’s on noboooooody’s side.”
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Belated in sharing this, but it was so great to welcome Prof. Katherine Mims Crocker to the Klekamp College of Law for Constitution Day last week - the lecture was fantastic, and we couldn't have asked for a more engaged, engaging speaker!
Katherine Mims Crocker delivering the Constitution Day Lecture.Katherine Mims Crocker and Ryan Thoreson before the Constitution Day Lecture.
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not sure what the worst place to be in a fire drill is, but campus gym locker room has to be up there.
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 21/09/2026
A bill proposed by Councilmember Rue Landau would remove references to “male or female impersonators” in a part of the zoning code that regulates strip clubs, topless bars, and other adult venues.
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Philly laws conflate drag shows with strip clubs. City Council wants to change that.
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If AI is going to kill us all, my only ask is to live long enough to see a feature-length Knives Out / Poker Face crossover.
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It feels depressingly on brand for 2026 to invite a lawyer onto your drag panel, but still really looking forward to joining true legends for the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Art of Drag event this weekend. If you’re in town, RSVP here! www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/events/event...
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Cincinnati Art Museum: CAM Presents: The Art of Drag, a Panel Discussion
Join the Cincinnati Art Museum for The Art of Drag, a lively public panel exploring drag as a powerful cultural and artistic force.
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Greg Lipper @theglipper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ugh. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/a...
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Duncan Sheik, Who Traded Pop Stardom for Broadway, Dies at 56
Weary of the heartthrob label after his 1996 hit “Barely Breathing,” he pivoted to musical theater and won two Tonys for composing “Spring Awakening.”
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Public universities have led the way in creating popular ethnic & gender studies programs, which are now being destroyed by aggressively regressive politicians & administrators, not because students aren't interested in these subjects, but because they are. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/17/u...
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Majors related to race, gender cut at University of Texas
The University of Texas at Austin rejected a department’s plan to keep the majors, a decision that came without public knowledge, an interim department chair told faculty.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 16/09/2026
Hungary’s new government has taken an important step toward dismantling a key discriminatory legacy of the Orbán era—the legal targeting of LGBT people. But the government’s plans leave other discriminatory provisions in Hungarian law intact. Learn more:
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Reforms to Hungary's Anti-LBGT Laws Welcome, but More to Do
Hungary’s new government has taken an important step toward dismantling a key discriminatory legacy of the Orbán era—the legal targeting of LGBT people. The job is not finished, however.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I am going to become the Joker
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The administration, not content with taking public stakes in private companies and redistributing wealth to fight communism, is now fighting wokeness by putting trigger warnings outside the Smithsonian. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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The Next Change Trump Has Planned for the Smithsonian
A letter from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum revealed new details about warning signs the White House will install near the American-history museum.
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
An aggressive crackdown against LGBTQ activism is underway in Turkey, where authorities raided organizations and arrested dozens of activists and supporters this morning.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In the months after 9/11, NYT ran a daily feature called Portraits of Grief: short vignettes of the dead, remembered in their best light, as we would want to be remembered. Worth picking some at random to read (click on a letter of the alphabet at top). archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
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Peter T. Milano
Thoughtful. He was always thoughtful.

The son of a good friend was starting high school. On the morning of the first day of classes, Peter T. Milano called the young man to wish him luck. At the end of the day, he called again to see how things went.

Arriving to take the commuter ferry to New York, Mr. Milano spied a pregnant young woman waiting at the end of a very long line, carrying a package. He whisked the package from her arm and escorted her to the front of the line and onto the ferry.

He never missed his son's basketball games, never missed his daughter's dance recitals. "He was an incredibly thoughtful guy," said William McGarr, a close friend.

Mr. Milano, 43, was a corporate bond broker at Cantor Fitzgerald and lived in Middletown, N.J., with his wife, Patti, and their two children, Jessica, 13, and Peter, 16.

About 20 years ago, he played in a pretty serious touch football league in Brooklyn. The field was asphalt; when the game ended, you felt it. After a championship game, he was introduced to Patti, who had come to watch. He spoke to her only briefly. When he got home, he told his aunt, "I met the girl I'm going to marry."

During every workday, even the busiest and most stressful ones, he found the time to call his wife several times, just to hear her voice and see how she was. "It always boosted his spirits," Mr. McGarr said.
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My husband explaining football to me: “…and you won’t like this: everyone has a traumatic brain injury and there are no women.”
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Our three year old keeps referring to “Rosie the Riddler” and now I’m making up Batman fanfic in my head.
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Proud to have signed this letter as a WGS alum. WGS changed my life, giving me a community and opening opportunities that I wouldn’t have found otherwise, and it’s being dismantled at Harvard and elsewhere at a time it’s critically needed.
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
There’s a lot I love about our walkable neighborhood but one is that the wine shop is a notary and if you buy wine it’s free.
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If you ever wondered "what if popcorn was dusty," I highly recommend protein popcorn.
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My new favorite insult just dropped: "Have you seen a kangaroo? They're as tall as Professor Thoreson, but muscular."
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
then they came for milo yiannopoulos, and i was busy that day so i waited until they came for someone else to complain, although i objected to it in theory
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm glad to have contributed to @statecourtreport.org's compilation of advice to students on how to write their comments on state constitutional law. I can't think of anything else like this—it's a great resource!
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For a Novel Student Note, Think State Constitutions
States provide opportunities to explore unresolved legal issues and are rich ground for advancing scholarship — and demonstrating your analytic skills.
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is quite literally an extinction level event for graduate education in several fields in the United States.
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Siri, is it possible for flags at half-mast to be flown even lower
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 25/08/2026
Texas cannot enforce restrictions on some public drag shows after a federal judge again declared a 2023 law unconstitutional. “For those who find such activities offensive, the solution is relatively simple... just don’t go,” Judge David Hittner wrote.
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Texas’ limits on some drag shows found unconstitutional again
A federal judge reasserted his 2023 ruling that the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals sent back for reconsideration. The law went into effect in March as the case proceeded.
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We enrolled our three year old in the Imagination Library and whenever she finishes a book she says “Thanks, Dolly!” to the photo of Dolly Parton on it. It’s hard to think of another cultural icon who’s brought as much joy to as many people. 🫡
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
When it comes to signing open letters about academic freedom, “We have to take a principled stand!” doesn’t work if there have been loads of other much more obvious and serious instances of violations of academic freedom to which you said absolutely nothing.
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I don’t know what I was expecting when I ordered peach pizza but here we are!
a pizza with slices of peach on it
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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"The Education Department is taking the first step toward removing the ABA’s authority to accredit law schools, said David Barker, assistant secretary of education." Gift link: www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Exclusive | Trump Administration Attacks Bar Association’s Power to Accredit Law Schools
The move escalates a feud with the nation’s premier legal organization.
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I really love Bert and Meredith Lockwood’s podcast and it was great to join them as a guest to talk about LGBTQIA rights in the US and abroad - you can listen below!
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Professor Ryan Thoreson: Protecting LGBTQIA+ Rights and Human Dignity
Human Rights: Conversations Across Generations · Episode
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LYT - Subscribe for free to my Substack plz @lytrules.substack.com · 19/08/2026
Funny how all these people I see who are performatively super-worried about "men in women's spaces" have said nothing about this.
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 17/08/2026
"international human rights law requires that such measures are inclusive of all women and girls, including transgender and intersex women, and respect the rights of all persons without discrimination.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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UK: Revised Code of Practice risks institutionalising discrimination against transgender and gender-diverse persons, warn UN experts
GENEVA – UN human rights experts* today warned that the UK’s revised Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions, and Associations, in force as of 5 August, may place transgender and gender-divers...
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Read the full memo written by Serena Mayeri and Amanda Shanor urging Yale’s leadership to reject a settlement deal put forth by the Trump administration, noting its likelihood to chill freedom of expression and academic inquiry on campus. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-ful...
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Memo to Yale's President and General Counsel Opposing a Trump-Yale Deal
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Very excited to start today as our Associate Dean of Faculty and Research, and to relentlessly plug all the great scholarship that my colleagues are producing here at UC's Klekamp College of Law!
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I don’t understand how Panera is always either the best or worst salad I’ve ever had in my life.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A hugely consequential disaster for the country: The Trump administration has gutted federal civil rights enforcement in the United States, leaving the people the laws were built to protect without adequate remedies, @hrw.org reports. www.hrw.org/news/2026/08...
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US: Federal Agencies Abandon Civil Rights Duties
The Trump administration has gutted federal civil rights enforcement in the United States, leaving the people the laws were built to protect without adequate remedies.
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I think about the fact that some people will vote for this because they don’t like that a politician criticized Thanksgiving one time and it makes me want to walk into the sea.
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I think it goes without saying that none of the men in this room ever went to a pediatrician appointment with their children.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/08/2026
Great reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social about a gay man who’s been in the US since he was four, imprisoned in a “hotel” in Equatorial Guinea since April. He says he’s being denied soap and toilet paper in retaliation for filing a complaint w African Commission. 1/ tucson.com/news/local/b...
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Arizona man languishes in African hotel after third-country deportation
A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
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Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
who needs a writing center when u can use AI and just DOGE staff. lest we forget also closing the basements ie womens center, LGBTQ office, multicultural office etc. but i guess they stood up to trump for…federal money
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
To everyone taking the bar: I wrote down the wrong date for the exam and only realized it a week out, went to the wrong address on the first day, forgot a #2 pencil, and was so stressed I panic-ate my quiet snack as the exam started. You’ve got this and don’t let the snags throw you!
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is such a loss, and not just for Penn State but for the whole enterprise of bold and engaged academic inquiry. www.law.com/thelegalinte...
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Penn State Dickinson Law Dean's Sudden Departure Follows Congressional DEI Hearing | Law.com
The school announced Friday that Danielle Conway had stepped down as dean effective immediately, two days after a former Penn State Dickinson Law student testified during congressional hearings accusi...
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I’m choosing to focus on the positive, which is that I did a good job of applying sunscreen to 98% of my exposed skin.
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I’ve always had a thick skin with homophobic messaging but it turns out attacks on my family hit differently, including this nut job set of billboards across Ohio: thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/07/23/o...
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Anti-LGBTQ+ billboards pop up in rural Ohio. Communities are immediately pushing back.
‘These billboards don’t just attack LGBTQ+ families, they erase every Ohio kid whose home doesn’t fit a narrow, manufactured mold.’
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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Finished all my summer writing projects and am now giving myself permission to dissociate on a beach with gay people all weekend before even thinking about the fall semester.
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 22/07/2026
Argentina: The Gender Identity Law is fully reinstated: the courts suspended Milei's decree against transgender adolescents agenciapresentes.org... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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The Gender Identity Law is fully reinstated: the courts have suspended Milei's decree against transgender adolescents - Agencia Presentes
The Federal Court provisionally suspended Decree 62/2025, which prevented access to hormonal treatments for minors under 18 years of age contemplated in the Gender Identity Law.
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