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Dr Amber, esq.

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Legal Education Expert, lawyer, law tutor, recovering professor, life-long learner, cat mom, introvert activist. Ambertutorslaw.com

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Dr Amber, esq. @ambertutorslaw.bsky.social · Jun 9

It’s here! ANNOUNCING the new Amber Tutors Law for #pre-law, #lawschool and #BarExam. I’m building a community of future lawyers who want to use law as a force for good! And for students looking for support to thrive, not just survive!

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Forbestonow @forbestonow.bsky.social · 10h

When I studied the Second World War I genuinely could not understand how the Germans found so many people to participate in their worst excesses. And I mean across the whole war, not just concentration camps.

I don't have a problem understanding it any more...

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Dr Amber, esq. @ambertutorslaw.bsky.social · 5h

Time for the Young Republicans to learn about Lysistrata…. #DontDateRepublicans

Dr Amber, esq. @ambertutorslaw.bsky.social · 16h

As an introvert with anxiety and panic disorders, I’m excited to see so many local options for the No Kings protest. I’m in the Twin Cities, so if I feel overwhelmed about going to the capitol in St Paul, I can find a smaller one in a suburb and still participate. I’m using this as a selling point!

Dr Amber, esq. @ambertutorslaw.bsky.social · 16h

And anyone who says otherwise is trying to impress you - which should therefore do the opposite!

Dr Amber, esq. @ambertutorslaw.bsky.social · 17h

Jimmi Pickles’ couch is just divine! Such luxury!

Dr Amber, esq. @ambertutorslaw.bsky.social · 17h

I’ve read about some causes of arrested emotional maturation (becoming famous, for example) - but any thoughts on why this is seeming to happen so broadly so quickly in American culture? (Though maybe my axiom is wrong there, too…?)

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Dr Amber, esq. @ambertutorslaw.bsky.social · 1d

How did Jennings feel about the grand jury process when it indicted Trump? Was it weaponization then? Bet it was….

God, his hypocrisy should be way more shameful for him than it seems.

Dr Amber, esq. @ambertutorslaw.bsky.social · 1d

Now more than ever, when government official will just baldly lie and not care. I prefer reporting that talks to actual people, not animated cardboard cutouts.

Dr Amber, esq. @ambertutorslaw.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta appreciate that they’re putting the oligarchy right out there now.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 1d

And the best adaptation of any Dickens that has ever been put onto the screen, or ever will be, is the Muppets Christmas Carol. But I think that is quite possibly the least unhinged opinion it is possible to have about Dickens. It's simply fact.

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Dr Amber, esq. @ambertutorslaw.bsky.social · 1d

Ayn Rand’s stories aren’t bad if you take out the ideology, monologues, and misogyny.

Dr Amber, esq. @ambertutorslaw.bsky.social · 1d

We must overturn Citizens United. Money is not speech, it is not intelligence, it is not inherent value, and it does not give one the right to control politics.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, it needs to go further than this.

We need to confront the fact that democracy and wealth hoarding cannot coexist. Allowing people to amass the resources of a small state/country allows them to act as such, which is inimical to a shared society of “one person, one vote.”

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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Dr Amber, esq. @ambertutorslaw.bsky.social · 1d

Isn’t it amazing the way music can literally move your mood and fill your soul?! (Now try Les Miz - Broadway version not movie!)

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 2d

One thought that few seem to care to utter is that you can't have viewpoint diversity to any great degree if you keep hiring people from the same four schools, all having the same professors. You get the view of one segment of a class hierarchy.

reason.com/volokh/2025/...

How Viewpoint Diversity Can Help Protect Academics from Themselves (and Perhaps Help Heal Our Civic Culture Too)

Ohio State Professor Michael Clune, who caused a bit of a stir in academia with hhis December 2024 essay "We…

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Dr Amber, esq. @ambertutorslaw.bsky.social · 1d

I had a prof in grad school who had little business cards that explained the proper meaning of beg the question that he would hand out whenever someone (mis) used it. It was his biggest pet peeves. Now it’s one of mine.

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Dr Amber, esq. @ambertutorslaw.bsky.social · 2d

I donated to the same political candidate as Michael Stipe!!! @katmabu.bsky.social

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

This is the definition of an ad hominem argument.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

STEPHANOPOULOS: ProPublica reported that several members of the Trump administation have similar questions about their mortgages

VANCE: ProPublica is basically a left-wing blog

S: Do you dispute the facts they reported?

VANCE: I haven't read it. I have no idea. I certainly question the source

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Dr Amber, esq. @ambertutorslaw.bsky.social · 2d

I donated to the same political candidate as Michael Stipe!!! @katmabu.bsky.social

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Dr Amber, esq. @ambertutorslaw.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting HuffPo article about vertical morality as an explanation for why evangelicals support this cruelty.

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"Evangelicals are taught that all morality comes from God and therefore true goodness can only be spread by obeying God, even if it harms people around us," Ajoy said. "This isn't necessarily a bad thing if pleasing God manifests by following the teachings of Jesus - loving our neighbors, loving our enemies, promoting peace, and taking care of the poor, the widow, the immigrant, and standing up for the mar-ginalized. It becomes dangerous when Christians weaponize this vertical morality for power, which is exactly what we're seeing with the Christian nationalism in the Trump administration."
In the current era, conservative Christian nationalists see anyone on their political team as good and on God's side, while those who oppose them as evil and satanic.
"What's interesting is that Jesus taught a compassionate, flexible, grace-filled view of what it means to live a life loving God," Levings noted. "But today's conservative Christianity is less influenced by Jesus and more by the Old. Testament and Paul!"

"Horizontal morality prioritizes the wellbeing of our neighbors, communities and personal relationships," Ajoy explained.
"We act in ways that cause the least amount of harm to those around us, regardless of beliefs. Someone with vertical morality may help someone in need because they believe that's what God wants them to do, versus someone with horizontal morality may help that same person for the benefit of the person that needs help."
Rather than unquestioning obedience and superficial optics, this approach focuses on genuine empathy, compassion, and love toward others, recognizing the actual effects our actions have on people.
"I think both are important in the Christian faith, but a lot of people today get hung up on the vertical as a priority and forget about the horizontal altogether," said Malynda Hale, an advocate and executive director of The New Evangelicals, a nonprofit focused on promoting inclusivity, justice, and compassion in Christianity.

Dr Amber, esq. @ambertutorslaw.bsky.social · 2d

Great context here…

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 17d

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."

Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

Dr Amber, esq. @ambertutorslaw.bsky.social · 2d

a 20 dollar bill is laying on top of a 20 dollar bill

Alt: (a 20 dollar bill is laying on top of lots of 20 dollar bills.) Money. The answer is money.

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Dr Amber, esq. @ambertutorslaw.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a real assumption here about what it means to “cover and sell news” - if Weiss’s way of doing it is laudable, we don’t have the same values. Is it good to “take on the mob” when that mob is promoting pro-social values and literally the truth? The underlying axioms here are concerning.

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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 2d

Alito for the majority.

Alexandra Lahav @alahav.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Supreme Court granted cert

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