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. 🏳️‍🌈

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Tobias Barrington Wolff is a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School where he teaches classes on sexuality and the law, same sex marriage and human rights. He is known for his legal advocacy on same sex marriage and other LGBT-related issues, and served as the chief advisor and spokesperson on LGBT issues for Barack Obama throughout his 2007-08 presidential campaign. He is openly gay. .. more

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 1d

One of the things that does not need to be happening.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 1d

Donated. Thank you.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Pow Wow Grounds

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 5d

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.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 5d

The World will always know that we are a 2-to-3 point election in three swing states away from this. Whatever we rebuild after these monsters are kicked to the curb, that will not change.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 8d

Something less soul destroying to focus on has been a mantra for the last thirteen months.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 8d

I just watched the video from the ICE agent’s own phone of Renee Good’s last seconds alive. That man needs to be arrested and charged.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 9d

If the Regime thought slaughtering a White mother of young kids on video in her Honda Pilot in a residential neighborhood and then mercilessly demonizing her as a terrorist was going to brush us back from standing up to their thuggishness I have news for them.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 9d

Impeach Kristi Noem.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 9d

Renee Nicole Good

www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 10d

The cowardice of Republicans in Congress beggars belief.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 10d

ICE has killed a legal observer in Minneapolis in what Mayor Jacob Frey calls a reckless and wholly unjustified use of force.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 14d

I have no words for the acts this Regime just perpetrated in Venezuela.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 14d

They gave him yet another cognitive assessment and he is obviously now persistently anxious about collapsing into incompetence. Things must be very bad indeed.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 19d

Just substitute "White Patriarchy" for "God" and this tracks perfectly.

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A Digression about Heated Rivalry

Happy Holidays all. I will be emerging soon from the slog of drafting and grading exams on a compressed schedule — major law firms decided to make the exercise a fire drill this year — and I have a few essays on law, public policy and recent developments taking shape in the back of my mind that I will be writing up. I thought I would also intersperse th…

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 23d

Every time Stephen Miller does a TV segment there is a moment after he is finished screaming when he gets that smug, self-satisfied expression on his face that says "I did another fascism."

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 25d

Cher will turn 80 years old this coming spring and she is giving me all the #lifegoals I need.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6AX...

Cher: Run Rudolph Run (Live) - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 29d

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/h...

Trump Moves to End Gender-Related Care for Minors, Threatening Hospitals That Offer It

www.nytimes.com

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 29d

To trans kids and parents of trans kids: I will contribute my efforts and do what I can to fight this. The Supreme Court has made the pathway in the courts very difficult so do not wait for judicial intervention to mobilize politically.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Dec 18

After that confused, impotent performance last night I am tempted to suggest that we use "Transgender for everybody!" as one of our rallying cries in resisting the depredations of this crumbling Regime.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Dec 15

The details that are emerging about the deaths of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner are horrific. Words fail.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Dec 14

“Things can happen.”

Soulless monster.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Dec 14

Praise and gratitude to Ahmed al Ahmed for risking his life to stop one of the terrorist assassins at Bondi Beach. I hope I would have been brave enough to do the same. I don’t know whether I would.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Dec 13

Once again sane public officials must respond in a mature, rational fashion to the flailing insanity of the memory care patient currently occupying the Oval Office.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Dec 12

Responding to the depredations of these appalling vandals by bringing forward our best selves is an act of courage and nobility. Bravo.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Dec 12

Good reporting of the cesspool in Motherjones

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.

Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.

www.motherjones.com

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Dec 12

Geriatric Joffrey "pardoning" that Colorado county clerk for her Colorado state law convictions is, to quote the late, brilliant essayist David Rakoff, "about as descriptively apt as the wishful four-year-old at Halloween who announces 'I'm a scary monster!' to every grownup proffering candy."

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Dec 11

The whole country has become Geriatric Joffrey’s memory care unit.

Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · Dec 9

Air Force One now has a bumper sticker on the tail fin that says "My Second Grader is a FIFA Peace Prize Winner!"

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