Professor Yelena Duterte (she/her)

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.

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

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...

Chicago frens!

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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.

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

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.

I substantially underestimated corporate and institutional cowardice in the US.

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.

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

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

#Satire

Brian Kilmeade wants to murder unhoused Veterans then?

“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.

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.

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.

Thank you on this labor day!!

If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

This is so important…

Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles.

In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected.

REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency.
@governor.ca.gov
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Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ BREAKING: Per DHS & ICE sources, this afternoon, DHS notified Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s counsel via email that ICE may deport Abrego Garcia to Uganda “no earlier than 72 hours from now”, & ICE is also ordering him to report to ICE’s Baltimore office on Monday. Notifications below 👇🏻

UPDATE: Fox News reports that ICE told Kilmar Abrego Garcia they are going to deport him to Uganda on Monday.

Well everyone, we now just got clearance on some more lines so we're doing open rank searches for

1. business/corporate law,
2. commercial law, and
3. torts!

Please share this with anyone you think might be interested!

1. Checkpoint for what?

2. I doubt that a constitutional answer can be given to that question

3. Even if it’s constitutional, this is totally unnecessary, a means of punishing a community for daring to stand up for itself and deterring other jurisdictions from doing the same

August 2025 - ACIC fellowship announcement ACIC fellowship announcment

Georgetown Law’s Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic is hiring for its fellowship/staff attorney position for 2026-2028. This is an INCREDIBLE opportunity to work with amazing lawyers on great cases.

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Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪

Nothing— and I mean nothing— about this decision is more than the bare desire to harm.

Wait. It gets better.

This is not the act of a legitimate government.

A) people recoil in horror when I tell them the amount of reviewing I do in a year

B) sometimes I do service because, if I didn't, a person with less power would be harmed (e.g., tenure)

C) women are treated very differently when we say no to these types of requests