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Ann Bartow
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Big fan of free speech and academic freedom. Strongly recommend avoiding UNH Franklin Pierce Law until change to less toxic leadership and more positive student treatment. She/her or gender neutral pronouns.

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Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 1h
It sounds like a terrible situation. Harassers at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law seem to get special protections too. With no media coverage and no administrative intervention, they do as they like.

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Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 1h
Looks like USC Law has been dragging this out for years. They have all the money and power and control. I'm glad Professor Rich is fighting this. I wish I could help.
bribleck.bsky.social Bribleck @bribleck.bsky.social · 1h
Wow, seems like USC might want to not drag this one out — the spouse, a law professor, fathered a child with a student

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Bribleck @bribleck.bsky.social · 1h
Wow, seems like USC might want to not drag this one out — the spouse, a law professor, fathered a child with a student

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Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 1h
He was a brilliant comedian and a really good person overall as far as I could tell.
earlvalley.bsky.social earlvalley.bsky.social @earlvalley.bsky.social · 2h
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. He reached a broad audience and was widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential stand-up comedians of all time. #BlackHistory

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Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 1h
This looks problematic too: www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/28/u...
USC law professor sues university for mishandling Title IX complaint
A USC Gould professor alleged university leaders engaged in gender and disability-based discrimination and ignored a resolution established after the Dr. George Tyndall investigation.
www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 2h
Sending support to victims of harassment and discrimination everywhere.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/28/u...
USC law professor sues university for mishandling Title IX complaint
A USC Gould professor alleged university leaders engaged in gender and disability-based discrimination and ignored a resolution established after the Dr. George Tyndall investigation.
www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 2h
BREAKING: We won! 3rd Circuit affirms illegality of Habba appointment

We @democracydefendersfund.org are honored to work on this case with the wonderful folks at Lowell & Associates, Gerald Krovatin & many others 👇

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2h
Yet another long feature article about political violence that refuses to acknowledge the basic reality that right-wing violence is far more common than left-wing violence.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
During the Trump era, political violence has become an increasingly urgent problem. Elected officials from both parties are struggling to respond. Balmer had pleaded guilty in mid-October, not just to arson and terrorism but to attempted murder. But Shapiro was still reluctant to focus on his attacker. “The prosecutor felt it was important to introduce into evidence the bomber’s claims that he did that because of ‘what I did to the Palestinians,’ so clearly there was some motivation because of my faith,” Shapiro said. “But I think it is dangerous for you or anyone else to think about those who perpetrate these violent attacks as linear thinkers, meaning that they have a left-wing ideology or a right-wing ideology, or that they have a firm set of beliefs the way you might or I might. These are clearly irrational thinkers. And I think that’s true of others who have claimed lives, whether it’s Speaker Hortman’s or Charlie Kirk’s.” right-wing homicides are far more common than left-wing homicides Across both datasets, we find that radical acts perpetrated by individuals associated with left-wing causes are less likely to be violent. In the United States, we find no difference between the level of violence perpetrated by right-wing and Islamist extremists.

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earlvalley.bsky.social @earlvalley.bsky.social · 2h
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. He reached a broad audience and was widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential stand-up comedians of all time. #BlackHistory

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h
The other thing about the OU student who wrote the bad essay on God-given gender roles is that she herself is rejecting those religious ideals about femininity by going to college, playing a sport, and having a mother who is a media personality and lawyer for Jan 6ers. Trad for thee but not for me

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 2h
Sorry to be a broken record but it's nuts to me that the New York Times would write an entire article summarizing a court ruling and refuse to provide a link to said ruling. This is a disservice to readers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...

Here's the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Appeals Court Says Alina Habba Is Unlawful U.S. Attorney
www.nytimes.com

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 2h
When we limit abortion access to “exceptions,” we send the message that women must first suffer before they are trusted with choice. That is not justice. That is control.

This #CupOfJoe goes out to every woman, every choice, every time.

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Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · 2h
exactly. plus, the nature of the claim isn’t limited to this assignment or any written assignment. it’s also a nightmare for classroom environment. students use viewpoint to disrupt class discussion all the time. bless that with 1A doctrine and poof, a heckler’s veto.

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Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 3h
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/03/new-...

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Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 3h
Meanwhile: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/03/new-...
New frontiers in law school administrative sleaziness: The Ann Bartow case - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The University of New Hampshire’s law school has fired a senior tenured faculty member, on what are transparently pre-textual grounds. The real reason she was fired is because she criticized the law s...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 3h
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/03/new-...
annbartow.bsky.social Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 4h
I got in big trouble for telling law students that the terms sex and gender are not used consistently across legal contexts. Even though this is a correct assessment.

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Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 3h
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annbartow.bsky.social Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 4h
I got in big trouble for telling law students that the terms sex and gender are not used consistently across legal contexts. Even though this is a correct assessment.

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 4h
NEW: Livestock graze on millions of acres of Western public lands. Congress dramatically reduced scrutiny of the impacts. As Trump seeks to expand grazing, we look at the consequences.

with @highcountrynews.org
A Loophole Allows Ranchers to Renew Grazing Permits With Little Scrutiny of the Environmental Impact
With dwindling oversight, cattle are grazing where they’re not supposed to and in greater numbers or for longer periods than permitted. This can spread invasive plants, pushing out native species and ...
www.propublica.org

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Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 4h
I got in big trouble for telling law students that the terms sex and gender are not used consistently across legal contexts. Even though this is a correct assessment.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 4h
One point that may have been lost: I’ve never seen this ad before.

It’s only when I searched for Mexican folk music tonight that YouTube started running it.

Google’s surveillance technology has enabled the government to selectively terrorize specific groups in service of white supremacy.
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 9h
Listening to Mexican folk music on Youtube and they're running this horrible ad urging people to self-deport.

Fuck you Kristi Noem, and fuck you Google for taking her money.
Bullshit Kristi Noem ad threatening people living in the US.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 4h
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 5h
This is not true. Musk is endorsing (again) a version of the white nationalist great replacement theory, as told by Stephen Miller.

It is a conspiracy theory and it was confined to the fringes of the Internet until 10 or so years ago.

If true, Harris would’ve easily won in 2024.

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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 6h
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 8h
I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Me on a candlelit vigil for AIDS in 1987. Me last week. Looking pretty healthy for 58 (28 years living with HIV).

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 10h
November 30, 2025
November 30, 2025
On Friday evening, the Wall Street Journal published an article about the Trump administration’s negotiations with Russia over Ukraine that illuminated the administration’s approach to the world at ho...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 11h
This is the specific price of racism. When people simply can't conceive of people who are somewhat different from them accomplishing great things. So they obstruct the great things and we all lose.
hilzoy.bsky.social hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 12h
“But the Trump administration cut the money, claiming it fell under DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion.”
erictopol.bsky.social Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 13h
Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...

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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 11h
Franklin Goes to The Hague

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11h
Amazing headline.

h/t @brianstelter.bsky.social

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 12h
Wild that this guy teaches Contracts.

I get the academic freedom argument for not firing someone even for … utterly INSANE … views, like his, but 1Ls don’t get to pick their profs, and no one should have to be in class w someone like this against their will.

law.ou.edu/faculty-and-...

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 12h
“But the Trump administration cut the money, claiming it fell under DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion.”