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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy

@profciara.bsky.social

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Law professor & book author of Corporatocracy, Political Brands & Corporate Citizen; Brennan Center fellow; board of CREW; campaign finance expert. Podcaster of Democracy & Destiny. I’m a lawyer not your lawyer. https://soundcloud.com/profciara #beans

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · Nov 18

👋Hello, to my new followers!
So glad we’re all here together. I’m a law professor who works on the intersection of corporate law and election law. I write about corruption. If you have a podcast I’d love to talk about my new book 📖 Corporatocracy. 🥰https://nyupress.org/9781479828326/corporatocracy/

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 4h

A new Portland character has entered the chat at the ICE facility….meet The Unipiper!

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 4h

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h

Rep. Jim Himes on Trump blowing up boats in the Caribbean: "The White House has not shared what they believe their legal justification is. They did put out a memo. I will tell you based on what I know now and the reading of that memo, these are illegal killings."

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you Diane Keaton, for your brilliant acting and for your animal advocacy. You spoke out for the Big Cat Public Safety Act, for dog adoption, for eating plants rather than animals. (PS- animals are not voiceless! They do express their wishes to live.) #DianeKeaton #animals #activism

Diane Keaton, actress and animal advocate, has died, aged 79

Fame, for Diane Keaton, was never an excuse to look away. In a profession built on performance, she turned her gaze outward—to the voiceless and the overlooked. While audiences remember her for Annie ...

news.mongabay.com

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That Anonymous Coward @thatac.bsky.social · 9h

Aug 20 1986

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 2h

Evening bunny #gardensky 🐰

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3h

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Maggie Reed @mermaidmamamaggie.bsky.social · 1d

Antifa is from the land of imaginary characters.

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Adam B. Bear 🇨🇦 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @adambear.bsky.social · 16h

Just when many people throughout the nation weren't paying attention, New Orleans, Louisiana, just elected Helena Moreno, to be its first Latina Mayor, without so much as a need for a runoff.

www.wwno.org/politics/202...

Helena Moreno to be next mayor of New Orleans: 'The work starts tomorrow morning'

City Councilmember Helena Moreno is heading back to City Hall after a resounding win in the Oct. 11 primary election, securing 55% of the vote.

www.wwno.org

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David M. Pumpkins 🎃 @davidmonroe.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton
1946 - 2025

What a great actor. Reds, The Godfather, Shoot the Moon, Looking for Mr Goodbar, Crimes of the Heart, Interiors, Play it Again, Sam...

Photograph by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair, 2016

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 13h

New @nejm.org
One-shot gene therapy for a type of congenital deafness enabled some children to hear for the first time, and 3 of 12 kids achieved normal hearing
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2400521

DB-OTO Gene Therapy for Inherited Deafness | NEJM

Genetic deficiency of otoferlin, a protein critical to synaptic transmission by the sensory hair cells of the ear, causes congenital deafness. Medicines to treat the condition are lacking; children...

www.nejm.org

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 14h

The new pope is quoting Hannah Arendt. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 15h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 14h

Wut? 📦 #ups

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15h

How Trump plays you:
He posts a claim undermining the facts about January 6.

YOU ALL DISSEMINATE IT!!!

You don't mock that he's complaining that the FBI responded to a terrorist attack. You instead "fact check" re his claim that Joe Biden was in charge of the FBI--which is abt tribalism, not truth

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t let the bastards get you down.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 1d

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 1d

A+

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

Blue!💙

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 1d

Chocolate labradoodle (mostly poodle). 🐕🐩🐩🐩 #dogsky

Debbi Winkler @debawink.bsky.social · 1d

Your dog looks so much like mine. What breed? Mine is an Aussiedoodle.

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 1d

My dog is milking the puppy dog eyes. #dogsky

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah. TikTok is out. It's an arm of the ruling fascist party at this point.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 1d

HUD’s ability to enforce fair housing laws was further gutted by the administration’s actions yesterday.

This is on top of the agency’s firing of 70% of its fair housing attorneys since January.

This will allow discrimination by race, sex, and disabilities to become more common—and go unpunished.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 1d

✅⚖️ oh yes? #NYT #Musk

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

The Pentagon has to provide The New York Times information about Elon Musk’s security clearances, a federal judge ruled Wednesday—and the billionaire’s own posting habits helped decide the case. trib.al/f74QkIn

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myskhin.bsky.social @myskhin.bsky.social · 1d

Document and Murmur are two of the beautiful but mostly unknown REM albums! But Life’s Rich Pagaent will always be my favorite.

“There's the progress we have found…A way to talk around the problem”

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