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Tobias Barrington Wolff

@tobiasbwolff.bsky.social
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Dad to Spark, feminist, anti-racist, Jefferson Barnes Fordham Professor at Penn Law, dogged optimist in the power of decency. 🏳️‍🌈 FB: www.facebook.com/tobias.b.wolff Threads: www.threads.net/@tobiasbwolff

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The tyranny of the closet is brutal and cruel. Lindsey Graham made it even worse for a lot of people.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The radicals on the Court are determined to kill the Voting Rights Act at any cost. It is a breathtaking betrayal of the rule of law.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Happy Pride, all. Time to bring some game.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Every once in a while the fact that a bare plurality of voters reinstalled a squawling, whining, sadistic, sociopathic predator in the U.S. presidency just hits me all over again. Today it was reading the district court ruling enjoining the desecration of the Kennedy Center.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Texas Republicans are morally lost. Time for them to step aside.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The Rabbit Books and Bar is opening this summer in the East Village in NYC as the labor of love of two of my favorite people and it is going to be amazing. www.instagram.com/reel/DYuq30m...
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
It is dizzying to have these self-enriching, self-fluffing, self-pleasuring corrupt ignormaus lunkheads in charge of the U.S. Government. I have mostly disconnected from that fact for a few weeks because I need breaks. It is catastrophically stupid and horrifically destructive all at the same time.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
So proud of my friend and colleague Shannon Minter. TIME Magazine honors itself with this selection.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Sending Vance to take political ownership of Orbán's disastrous defeat was yet another clear indication that these people are both weak and stupid.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The smirk on JD Vance's face makes him look like he always believes he is getting away with something and feeling contempt for the people he is duping. Which I think is probably in fact the case.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I have needed my imagination to be illuminated and lifted up on wings during this time of darkness. I am so grateful to the scientist-adventurers of Artemis and the entire team back home who made this possible.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Rep. Jamie Raskin speaks for me.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The Artemis mission view right now on the NASA tracking website. So cool.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Looking up at the moon early this morning had a different feel with the knowledge that the Artemis crew are more than halfway there.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Nearly three more years of this is not viable.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Luna really showing out for Artemis on the evening of her launch. 🌕
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
On today's Supreme Court ruling. tobiasbarringtonwolff275915.substack.com/p/the-suprem...
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The Supreme Court's Ruling on Statutes Banning "Conversion Therapy"
The Supreme Court has ruled 8 to 1, with only Justice Jackson in dissent, that laws preventing licensed therapists and medical professionals from engaging in the abusive practice of “conversion therap...
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Today is Int'l Trans Day of Visibility. A terrible ruling from the Court must not mute our voices in celebrating our trans chosen family, friends, and fellow humans. You have never been the problem. People who seek your harm and weaponize shame against you are the problem. I stand with you, always.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
TOMORROW: Be a part of history! Show the world that the majority of Americans oppose the most corrupt, inept, criminal, orange "president" in U.S. History. NO KINGS. Also: NO SERIAL LIARS/CONVICTED FELONS/ADJUDICATED RAPISTS & NO ILLEGAL WAR IN IRAN Be there. Make your voices heard! 🇺🇸 ✊ #NO_KINGS
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Flipping the Florida House district that encompasses Geriatric Joffrey's gaudy retirement home / purloined classified documents storage unit — a district the Republican won by 19 points in 2024 — is a pretty fantastic piece of symbolism.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
ICE in Minnesota and the Legacy of Dred and Harriet Scott tobiasbarringtonwolff275915.substack.com/p/ice-in-min...
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ICE in Minnesota and the Legacy of Dred and Harriet Scott
During the extended assault on the Minneapolis-St.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Sanae Takaichi is the first woman ever to serve as Prime Minister of Japan. It is no coincidence that Geriatric Joffrey chose the occasion of her state visit to make his disgusting "joke" in a manner designed to be publicly belittling and humiliating. He is — among many, many other things — a pig.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
A nominee is typically at their best in a confirmation hearing: their most prepared, their most polished, their most composed. Think about that as you watch whatever it is that Markwayne Mullin is doing today.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Do not lionize Joe Kent because of his noisy exit. He is a horrible person.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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A Brief Explainer on the War Powers Resolution
The Regime has launched a war on Iran with no authorization from Congress and no clear justification under the United Nations Charter or international law.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
From the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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Explosions rock Bahrain, Dubai, Jordan and Kuwait as war spreads across Middle East
War launched by US and Israel on Iran has quickly escalated prompting anxiety and concern in whole region
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This bombing campaign against Iran is illegal, immoral and unjustified. Legions of people will die because this demented narcissist ripped up the nuclear inspection framework President Obama crafted with Iran and the world community to contain the danger these lunatics now use as a pretext for war.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The level of panic and desperate flailing in this Regime has ratcheted up substantially in the last couple of weeks.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
"Don't choose people who don't choose you." This advice is strong in my spirit right now.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Punxsutawney Jill has emerged from her burrow and seen her shadow.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Can we just hire bros to dress up like "alphas" and pound beers with Kash Patel a few times a week? That would be much cheaper.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I feel bad for all the drag queens in the D.C. metro area this evening who will face a shortage of foundation, concealer and bronzer because a certain cognitively impaired sex pest is making a big TV appearance.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
This Regime are the most feckless fascists. As long as they are in power they will continue to do terrible harm and all praise goes to the judges, political leaders and ordinary people who are pushing back and pushing back hard. But my God these racist thugs are worthless losers.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, 10/8/1941–2/17/2026. The first vote I cast in a presidential election was for Rev. Jackson in the 1988 primary. A force for good committed to the promotion of multiracial democracy, he helped define my understanding of racial justice in politics. I grieve his passing.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Reposting this timeless moment from Seth Meyers' star turn at the WH Correspondents' Dinner because, well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpei...
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Seth Meyers translates what Trump meant by saying he has a good relationship with "The Blacks"
YouTube video by The Dean Obeidallah Show
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
One of these men was Geriatric Joffrey’s closest buddy. The other was and is JD Vance’s main patron. Monsters. A bare plurality of voters in this country elected monsters.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Catherine O'Hara. No. God damn it.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Majority bipartisan opposition in the Senate to the GOP more-ICE bill. The Republican Party is completely incapable of governing.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Call your Senators. Demand not a single penny more to ICE in this bill. Is it enough? No, not remotely. It is what’s on their desk right now and what they are making decisions about right now.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE shot this man repeatedly until he was dead while he was on the ground immobile after they had beaten him and already shot him.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I just saw the video of the latest ICE killing of a civilian in Minneapolis. It is an execution. A straight-up execution.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Well. Let’s see how the markets feel about this latest shot-in-the-arm of confidence in the current stewardship of the United States Government.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
A long overdue departure, both legally and morally.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
If you are being less bold than Bill Kristol in your resistance to the depredations of ICE then you need to rethink your choices. Abolish ICE.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
One of the things that does not need to be happening.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support. PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities- Venmo @powwowgrounds www.powwowgrounds.com
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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
All these monsters know how to do is escalate. Escalate, pivot. Escalate, gaslight. Escalate, chicken out and run away. Escalate, pillage and steal. Escalate. Escalate. Escalate. No sane person would want anything to do with such lunacy. They abuse people's nervous systems and have nothing else.
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