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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ll come right out and say it, I am opposed to Glenn Close-blind casting.

Casting announcement of Glenn Close as King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar

Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's been an insanely busy semester, but couldn't be happier to finally announce my favorite development of the past two months.

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

At no point could I predict where this sentence was headed:

“Kyrsten Sinema’s ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major U.S. artificial intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on,” the Arizona Republic reports.”

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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 · 24/09/2026

I briefly thought you were referring to one of the best characters of all time.

Laurie Metcalf saying well well well turns out the doctor was a woman

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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!

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Seating senators in both Minnesota and Maine:

Kombucha girl meme with negative reaction to sexual misconduct and maybe reaction to throwing things

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Inside you there are two wolves:

Spotify radio of This is Kim Petras and This is Carly Simon

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I’ve never clicked unsubscribe so hard in my life.

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Hacks should win a special Emmy for Lifetime Achievement in Casting Outstanding Guest Actresses In A Comedy Series.

A graphic of the 2026 nominees for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

“I am furious, but I am sailing” - how I will now describe being a con law professor

Patti LuPone describing her gay cruise
being refused entry into Turkey.

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I just wrote to @amyactonoh.bsky.social expressing my *profound* disappointment with this. Setting aside that OHSAA had a policy that let trans kids play that worked just fine, calling transgender girls boys is just gratuitously cruel and offensive to kids who are struggling through a lot.

Amy Acton quote saying “I do not support boys playing in girls sports.”

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Compare this passage to Masterpiece Cakeshop, where the Court said the *slightest* affront to Jack Phillips' religious beliefs tainted the impartial review of his claims.

passage from Thomas's concurrence saying that trans women are not women

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Okay fine, there is one drag queen who should not be reading to children.

JD Vance reading Winnie the Pooh on Usha’s reading hour.

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I treasure the moments when a Yale Law classmate is in the news and I feel hope instead of abject horror. Congrats, @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social!

screenshot of Josh McLaurin winning the democratic primary for lt governor of Georgia

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I'm a bit belated in sharing this, but Dignitary Crimes and Human Rights is now out in the Tulane Law Review. Grateful to everyone who's engaged with the project and this part of my research agenda, and especially to the student editors for their fantastic work! lnkd.in/grwEzmpB

abstract for Dignitary Crimes and Human Rights, available at the link in the post

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

They won’t accept “policy failure” ☹️

Crossword clue reading “multibillionaire, e.g.”

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

As an example, this conflates three *very* different groups and doesn’t at all acknowledge federal and state laws that might make faculty doubt their administrators would or could support them.

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Just a reminder that TPUSA promotes one of these as family-friendly patriotism and considers the other obscene.

A TPUSA promo with the Octagon Girls outfits for the White House cage fight.

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Looks like Nancy Mace and Riley Gaines will have something else to bond over.

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Unfortunately, as a gay feminist sleeping with the enemy is my whole personality.

A horoscope that reads “don’t sleep with the enemy.”

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I know one person who didn’t get a single boo at Madison Square Garden.

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Well that burned fast and bright!

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Just searching for the best show on Epix.

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Looks like Canvas isn’t the only thing abruptly shutting down and abandoning my students during finals

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

For good reason, I had never been told my monograph on LGBT activism “provides a compelling and insightful exploration of American literature and the myths that shape cultural identity.”

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

My Gender, Sexuality and the Law students surprised me with an inscribed book on the last day of class and they really knocked it out of the park.

A copy of Uncle Bobby’s Wedding, one of the books at the center of Mahmoud v Taylor

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

In lieu of therapy I've been rereading movement texts over the past year and a half, and my review of Jyotsna Vaid & Amy Hoffman's rich collection of Urvashi Vaid's writings is out now in Human Rights Quarterly: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

"In one essay excerpted in the collection, a chapter from her 1995 book Virtual Equality, Vaid asks: 'When did it all change? When did our lives go from the optimism of people developing a whole new politics to the numbness of a people experiencing survival as a disaster?' That question could be posed just as easily thirty years later."

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

As a citizen I think she should lose her job but as a gay man I unfortunately will be quoting “how about the josh sauvi B” for the rest of my life.

snippet from NYT article quoting our labor secretary texting “how about the josh sauvi b” when informed they do not have rosé

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Our three year old flipped through this research guide I wrote and told me that it’s not good because it “doesn’t have pictures in it.”

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Very excited to be at Widener today for the second annual dignity law symposium, and thanks to @marzhang.bsky.social for moderating a really engaged opening panel!

PowerPoint slide welcoming people to second annual dignity symposium

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

“HOW MUCH LONGER ARE WE DOING THIS”

Donald Trump shouting at a child mowing the lawn

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Well at least Donald Trump will never be allowed to teach undergraduate anthropology again.

Post from Trump celebrating Robert Mueller’s death

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Every day I stray further from God’s light.

a pint of the Graeter’s Skyline Chili ice cream

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

It took a year but I finally put my finger on who I think Scott Bessent looks like in every TV interview.

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I refuse to use AI to generate illustrations so my students are unfortunately stuck with the most cringe and poorly made memes that a geriatric millennial can produce.

Sue Sylvester saying "I am going to create a work environment that is so hostile"

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I don’t know, MacKenzie Scott and George Soros don’t seem that miserable. Something to think about!

Elon Musk tweet saying “whoever said ‘money can’t buy happiness’ really knew what they were talking about”

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Finally, we can hold these midsize American cities accountable:

Headline that says “‘Cleveland’ appears 798 times in Epstein files”

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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

It's contraception day in Gender, Sexuality, and the Law!

image of slide with holding from Eisenstadt v. Baird and a picture of Samantha Jones from Sex and the City

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