Proud of my colleagues and students who caused admin to pause the pride flag removals. As we look hopefully to a future of genuine input into what our campus looks like, it's a good time to reflect on how we got here.
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I wrote about the Prairieland trial, the first to pilot the White House’s theory that antifa is a vector for terrorism. The case is a dangerous escalation in the admin's war against the left. Yet it also highlights a longer history...
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"Beyond the legal and scheduled obligations, there's the very real, invisible weight of the restrictions by which I must live. ... The hardest obstacle to overcome isn't just the rules; it's the constant awareness that any misstep, no matter how small, could send me back to prison."
"BU faculty have witnessed the BU administration engaging in what we now understand to be a campaign of censorship. Flags taken down. A student referendum thwarted. Solidarity punished."
Boston University AAUP is releasing a multi-part series documenting censorship at BU. Check it out:
Hm, was this spacing accidental, haha
Amazing insight on the current moment. lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...
When Liuzzo acquired this knowledge, when she got Woke, she was transfigured into a traitor to her race and a menace to The Homeland. For being a menace, for being Woke, she was killed—as was Renee Good. (As was Alex Pretti.) But revelations have their blessings, too. In this case, a life, however brief, that is clean, and does not depend on the oppression and debasement of others. The revelation of deep human ties, a belief that we are all equally chosen, doomed Liuzzo, Good, and Pretti, as revelation so often does. But it also immortalized them.
Ta-Nehisi on Minnesota, and Culture War as war www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
It took just 15 years to get from Citizens United to this
I'm glad cooler heads prevailed.
But the gulf state billionaires couldn't care less about Palestine.
Must-read: ‘Letter to Columbia’ written from political prisoner Mahmoud Khalil. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
Huh, I was there 2 days ago and most of the graffiti was gone. I'm guessing they clean it and it gets retagged periodically, heh.
It took me 28 years to go from carceral feminist to abolitionist. @saaarah.bsky.social tells that story here.
Governor Kathy Hochul and prosecutors say they want to "streamline" reforms passed five years ago to ensure fair and speedy criminal court proceedings. A close reading of their proposals reveals their effort to gut the legislation known as "Kalief's Law."
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“Prisons were transformed into a wedge that encouraged white guards to see their class mobility as tied to the criminalization of the racialized poor.” —Orisanmi Burton, author of ‘Tip of the Spear’ ( @ucpress.bsky.social ), on the deadly NY prison guard strike.
Folks asking for sources other than NY post, Inside Higher Ed article was published yesterday, link below.
Hochul’s move here is profoundly racist and dehumanizing. Defining Palestinian studies as fundamentally antisemitic means defining Palestinians as something to be erased. It is genocidal.
This is also an unacceptable attack on academic freedom. The governor should have no say in faculty hiring.
We urge university leaders to respond confidently, with law and moral principle on your side, and not to sacrifice essential and legally defensible DEI initiatives that help universities fulfill their most basic mission to pursue truth and knowledge for the common good.
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LPE friends, big announcement! 🔥🔥 This Sept, the first annual LPE conference, launching a new LPE Association! Been working hard on this, with an amazing crowd of LPE fac and groups - more here: law.richmond.edu/faculty/Inau....
Oh no! Hope things get moving again soon. As a regular Amtraker this is always my worry.
Can never forget how much of what we’re going to see in the next four years was road-tested and normalized by the last four years.
a fantastic piece by @jpygold.bsky.social about how powerful universities like Harvard are laundering Republicans’ bad-faith talking points to look like good-faith concerns and harming their own mission in the process
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My latest is out in BU Law Rev. It argues that the tension inherent in counseling clients as a defender is a testament to the power of the counseling space and urges ways to turn that contradiction into a strength. Check it out and the thoughtful response from @ahoagfordjour.bsky.social
Check out my response, "Client Counseling in Post-Conviction," in @bulaw.bsky.social's Law Review, Vol. 104, engaging with @apetrigh.bsky.social's article "Counseling Oppression." www.bu.edu/bulawreview/...
Really grateful to the folks at inquest for letting me share some thoughts I've been noodling over about client counseling.
How might a defense lawyer counsel her client not just about an individual criminal case, but about the broader oppression of our system of mass incarceration?
Former public defender @apetrigh.bsky.social of @bulaw.bsky.social offers insights. https://inquest.org/decarceral-counseling/
