Professor Yelena Duterte (she/her)

Professor Yelena Duterte (she/her)

@doothirty.bsky.social

Assistant Professor and Director of the Veterans Legal Clinic @UIC Law ♐️🇵🇭 Obsessed with everything veterans law related. Made in the Bay Area. Assembled in Chicago. Shipped to Syracuse. Returned to Chicago.

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Elissa Slotkin Says She’s Under DOJ Investigation Over Video Urging Troops To Refuse Illegal Orders The Democratic Senator told the New York Times that the U.S. attorney for D.C., Jeanine Pirro, had written to the Senate’s sergeant-at-arms seeking an interview with her.

The Democratic Senator told the New York Times that the U.S. attorney for D.C., Jeanine Pirro, had written to the Senate’s sergeant-at-arms seeking an interview with her.

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Graduate Fellowships

GREAT JOB ALERT: The Appellate Immersion Clinic at Georgetown Law is accepting applications for fellows!

This is an incredible opportunity to do great work with incredibly smart, good people. @immersionclinic.bsky.social @brianwolfman.bsky.social

www.law.georgetown.edu/experiential...

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2 months ago

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

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2 months ago
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WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

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2 months ago

I don’t want to keep reading congressional records. Racism is too deeply engrained.

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3 months ago

41 minutes is a long time to sit in your air conditioned office watching men struggle to survive as you decide to kill them.

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3 months ago
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Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers | CNN Politics The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications device...

Shipwrecked and not using any communications equipment.

This is a crime against humanity. Everyone involved should be prosecuted for murdering stranded civilians in cold blood.

www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...

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BREAKING NEWS: Pentagon IG says of Hegseth's use of Signal, "The information could have imperiled American troops." If Hegseth values our troops as much as he says he does, he should resign and allow someone more experienced to lead the Department of Defense.

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3 months ago

This explains so much of what we are seeing.

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3 months ago

Apparently it’s a crime to remind military members to follow the law and refuse illegal orders (something that it is ingrained in basic) and the pentagon can recall you into the service to discipline you. However, the pentagon will not prosecute you for dodging the draft five times.

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4 months ago

Wtaf?!

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They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.

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4 months ago

I have assumed that a cub fan did this… check out the 2016 timing - timing seems a bit suspicious.

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Roxane Gay: 10 Years of Being a Bad Feminist Celebrating a decade since the release of the modern classic

Chicagoans, if you’re free tomorrow morning you can find me here: www.chicagohumanities.org/events/atten...

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4 months ago

Chicago frens!

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5 months ago

Just wild footage today. it’s very difficult to sue cops for constitutional violations, and they never personally pay (they’re indemnified), but this stuff makes it as easy as it ever gets.

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ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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I read 1984.
And Fahrenheit 451.
And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale.
And The Giver.
And The Road.
And The Lottery.
And The Parable of the Sower.
And The Hunger Games.

I know what I’m seeing.

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5 months ago

I substantially underestimated corporate and institutional cowardice in the US.

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5 months ago

Most people never begin.

They tell themselves the timing isn’t right.
That the space is too crowded.
That their voice won’t matter.

But years from now, they’ll look back with regret, wishing they had started.

You don’t have to be one of them.

Begin today. your future self will thank you.

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"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

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5 months ago

Breaking: Columbia University demands that faculty show photo evidence of tears following Charlie Kirk's death.

#Satire

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5 months ago

Brian Kilmeade wants to murder unhoused Veterans then?

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5 months ago

“We’re celebrating the legacy of our martyred free speech hero by firing a bunch of people for saying mean things about him” is the kind of thing Tom Lehrer could have done roper justice to.

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6 months ago

A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.”

In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.

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6 months ago

This is so wildly inadequate. If taken at face value, it‘s a claim that Article II empowers the President to kill people whenever wherever in the world because “U.S. interests“ as defined by him.

I know. But this is a legal claim. And no, no law gives him that power.

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