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Sara

@ulkcohbra.bsky.social
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Bookworm. Parent. Criminal justice reform supporter.

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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I know there is a lot going on, and the atrocities keep mounting. But the lack of coverage about these horrifying bigoted regs by my favorite legal and political podcasts this past week has deeply disappointed me. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Medicaid Program; Prohibition on Federal Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program Funding for Sex-Rejecting Procedures Furnished to Children
This proposed rule would require that a State Medicaid plan must provide that the Medicaid agency will not make payment under the plan for sex-rejecting procedures for children under 18 and prohibit t...
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
JUST IN: Federal judiciary discloses it can use alternative funding, including filing fees, to continue operating through Oct. 17. Earlier statement suggested it might curtail operations after Oct. 3. Stmt: www.uscourts.gov/data-news/ju...
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Judiciary Still Operating as Shutdown Starts
Despite a federal government shutdown that began on Oct. 1, the Judiciary remains open and will continue paid operations through Friday, Oct. 17, by using court fee balances and other funds not depend...
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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
These are Matrix pods.
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Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth @thecfsy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
ACTION ALERT! ⚠️ Tomorrow morning, the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will decide the future of Washington, DC’s second chance laws, including the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act (IRAA), which has been lifesaving for many on a road to redemption.
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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
1/ This is far, far worse than second-class citizenship. To say that someone can’t demonstrate they have standing because they were ALREADY violently detained by ICE so they can’t show they will be so detained AGAIN is the most ass-backward, absurdist, double-fucking speak conclusion on the planet.
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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
This is NOT how the Oklahoma Survivors’ Justice Act was intended to be implemented.
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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
It’s not what the president would have you believe.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
what it looks like to not give into the idea that you should just "crackdown" for show because anything else is a "distraction": boltsmag.org/norfolk-virg...
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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The killing, the culling of huge swaths of humanity that take up space and resources, NOT the cruelty, is the point. (The cruelty is simply a side benefit to this administration.)
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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Taken to Philly No Kings today
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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This administration is quite literally trying to kill us all.
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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This. (I would like to have had a split screen so I could see Noem’s face as Sen. Murphy was speaking.)
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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Yay! And look at this amazing list of defendants. Love it.
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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This.
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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
My favorite.
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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
#Handsoff #Philly #Batala
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InformedCitizen ❌👑 @deedoherty.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
@hcrichardson.bsky.social Shareable page of the many Partner organizations working together on the April 5th Mass Mobilization. ☮️ See you in the Streets!
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Partners — Hands Off!
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Robert @bearchicago.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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Krassenstein on Substack
Make this go viral! Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.
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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Time for a countercoup?
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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This is beyond vile and Noem is lying. None of these prisoners was “prosecuted” - they were not even granted that dignity.
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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This is a terrifying but very logical take.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
It’s comforting for some lawyers to lament the “tough spot” Trump has put some law firms in. But I choose to remember what civil rights lawyers endured, and the integrity & courage they showed despite being considerably more vulnerable that well-resourced law firms being bullied by Trump.
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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
www.propublica.org/article/nih-...
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NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Keker is a highly regarded San Francisco firm and it’s great to see them speak out against Trump’s anti-lawyer EOs and encourage firms to support Perkins Coie and oppose Trump’s bullying tactics
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Teen Vogue: remains braver than almost any other news outlet at this time.
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Vivian Wilson on Being Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter, Going Viral, and Protecting Trans Youth
Elon Musk’s estranged daughter is coming into her own.
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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
gazette.com/news/us-worl... WTAF
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Trump withdraws order targeting Paul Weiss, says law firm promised free legal work
By Jasper Ward and Mike Scarcella
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
NEW: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court expands pathways to legal parenthood, adopting the doctrine of "intent-based parentage" into state law. This is excellent news for same-sex couples and others who use IVF, ART, or have nontraditional families. www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...
JUSTICE DOUGHERTY DECIDED: March 20, 2025
I. Introduction
Our law in this Commonwealth presently recognizes four pathways to establish
legal parentage: biology, adoption, equity (i.e., parentage by a marital presumption or
estoppel), and contract where a child is born using Assistive Reproductive Technology
(ART). As we explain below, none of these existing paths applies to the facts of this case,
which involves a married same-sex couple who conceived a child using a sperm donor
and ART but did not enter into a contract and separated before the child was born. We
believe the time has come for our law to embrace a fifth pathway to parentage to account
for the situation at hand. We thus adopt the doctrine of intent-based parentage into our
common law and affirm the Superior Court en banc to the extent it found parentage was
established under that theory.
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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Chilling, overbroad, untenable.
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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Who is going to El Salvador to agitate for prisoners like Reyes Barrios? How about FIFA?
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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This is insane.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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It Is Not Enough to Fight. You Have to Meet the Moment
“There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation.
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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Dems are done if they vote in this CR.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...
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KLAB - finding a cure for GI dysmotility at #HarvardStrong @klab.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
UPDATE: From the original poster of the letter on FB:
I just now got off the phone with Allan Schappert, the author of this letter. He’s not on social media. When I shared how his letter has travelled, he said, “I’m gobsmacked.” He wrote to share his story, and perhaps to let other veterans know they’re not alone, and he’s amazed that he touched a nerve. “The pen is mightier than the sword!” exclaimed this pilot who once wielded the nuclear sword at the controls of an American B52. Whew. He thanks you, Peter, for sharing his words. Allan and I have plans to grab a beer together this weekend.
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
this feels like an invitation for literally anyone to email hr@opm.gov with thoughts about how their last week went. not telling people to do this or anything, but hr@opm.gov is easy enough to remember. hr@opm.gov
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Sara @ulkcohbra.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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BREAKING: U.S. Military School Students in Germany Walk Out on Hegseth Over DEI Rollbacks
The kids are alright
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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/02/2025
‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
JUST IN: Judge Lamberth has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing provisions of Trump executive order that would require moving transgender inmates from women's to men's prisons. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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Salena @salena.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
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Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The campaign against trans rights is also about stripping away everyone’s protections against discrimination, reviving, as Douglass put it “the moral blindness” of those who “persuade themselves that they are safe, though the rights of others may be struck down.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Attack on Trans Rights Won’t End There
Once legal rights begin to fall, they fall for everyone.
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winston @winston.cc · 25/01/2025
not to go all anarchist on the TL but a lot of people don't realize The Rules are whatever is enforced, and if there's no enforcement it's not actually a rule. Lotta you living by imaginary rules which are prisons of your own making. Be free! Challenge shit! www.winstonhearn.com/wrote/2024/p...
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Practice Refusing
When you practice refusal, you start conjuring up space for different futures. It's a magic trick.
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David Nakamura @davidnakamura.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Breaking: DOJ freezes all cases in civil rights division. "It’s unprecedented. We’ve never seen this before at this scale with any transfer of power, regardless of the ideology of any incoming president or administration." Story w/ @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Justice Department freezes all cases in civil rights division
The directives halt ongoing civil rights cases and could jeopardize police reform agreements finalized in recent months in Minneapolis and Louisville.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/01/2025
Jealous Trump Throws Own State Funeral To Upstage Carter’s theonion.com/jealous...
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Jealous Trump Throws Own State Funeral To Upstage Carter’s
WASHINGTON—Peeking out of his coffin with one eye open, a jealous President-elect Donald Trump reportedly threw his own state funeral Thursday in an effort to upstage the late Jimmy Carter’s ceremony. “I’m way deader than he is,” mumbled Trump, who lay at the opposite end of the National Cathedral as his senior aides attempted to […]
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Tomorrow’s Supreme Court case obviously has huge stakes for transgender Americans. But it also affects all our rights—because the big question is really whether the constitutional guarantee of gender equality can survive this conservative supermajority. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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The Hidden Danger of the Supreme Court’s New Trans Rights Case
The Supreme Court hears arguments on Wednesday in Skrmetti v. U.S.
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