Kathleen Rubenstein

If you could de-bias the answers... that'd be swell.

RFK Jr., Don’t Kill Health Care for Trans Youth – Follow the Real Science There are an estimated 724,000 transgender youth between the ages of 13 and 17 in the United States. Each one, together with their own parents and guardians, turn to medical professionals to make info...

To build the beloved community, we have to provide loving care to kids. I hope you'll consider signing: sign.moveon.org/petitions/rf...

If Columbia wishes to persuade its community that its principles are institutional rather than situational, it must apply them without regard to medals, proximity to donor funds, or decades of accumulated distinction.

Yet when a Nobel laureate maintained an 11-year relationship (at least) with a convicted sex offender whose crimes involved the exploitation of minors ... well after Epstein’s 2008 conviction — the University’s language narrowed to procedural compliance. Standards receded; policy remained...

When students protested the war in Gaza, interim policies materialized with enviable efficiency. Enforcement mechanisms expanded. Columbia demonstrated that it can define and apply new rules quickly when it believes institutional values are at stake.

Faculty and students are capable of nuance. They can distinguish between illegal conduct and grievous error. What they struggle to accept is visible hierarchy in consequence — the sense that standards expand or contract depending on who stands beneath them....

"Universities often insist that ethics extend beyond policy violations and criminal codes. They speak of judgment, responsibility, and institutional trust. Those commitments ring hollow if their invocation depends on celebrity or rank....

Post #17 — CU Stands Up Columbia’s Shifting Accountability in the Epstein Cases by The Specter Editorial Staff

Powerful commentary on Columbia's accepting its much-lauded faculty member's partial resignation (à la Paul Weiss and Brad Karp) as opposed to more full terminations/resignations/repudiations of those with less institutional juice. Lays bare institutional ethics. 🧵

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A magnificently colored tulip with striations including deep crimson petal tips and a glowing yellow center.

In case anyone needs a little beauty this evening

It's stunning as is. I'm sure you have improvements in mind, but it is very, very lovely just like this.

Omg thank you. I would have. But now I'll silence the guilt. Appreciated.

At least the redacted portions of the warrant are fuzzy on whether they claim her property would provide evidence of Aurelio's violation of 793 or her own. Also I don't see written that she was a journalist, info the judge needed to make an informed decision. www.washingtonpost.com/documents/64...

Mamdani just secured a quarter million future voters for his reelection.

Holding your whole family close. 🙏

Don't know her, but my impression is many TV news folks Botox away the ability to make inappropriate facial expressions.

I've lost track of the # of convos on how this moment brings up rage and anguish of prior chapters of (un)accountability and (missed) opportunities for change. If no woman has unloaded boiling seething fury on you, please know it's still there, and it's burden.

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Is the right reading of "any unrepresented party" in the district, or something narrower?

Will this help some folks get off the sidelines? Or just further depress white Karen tourism?

ICE locked up a 65 yr old white woman named Karen. It can happen to anybody. It can happen to you.

well and the reporter's wellbeing too -- her affidavit says basically no sources are telling her anything anymore, and the govt splayed personal information about her on the public docket, hard to see how she could be made whole.

Citicasters can't answer an important question here: what was the Kromberg's duty of candor. Model Rule 3.3 requires not only the disclosure of adverse authority but also, in an ex parte proceeding, "all material facts known to the lawyer that will enable the tribunal to make an informed decision"

Have you seen the full transcript? Hoping to find.

The most powerful crime syndicate in history It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is essentially acting as a massive criminal enterprise. It lies, steals, extorts and murders – all while cloaked ...

Agree with James Speyer that "the most powerful crime syndicate in history" is a much more effective frame than "unprecedented corruption." lakevillejournal.com/the-most-pow...

Image showing Mayor Mamdani looking frustrated, with a text overlaid that reads “NYC Public Library Action Network” at the top, and in large bold letters text that reads “Mayor Mamdani did not honor his commitment to allocate 0.5% of the city expense budget to NYC public libraries in his preliminary budget” and then in smaller font below, there is text that reads “visit NYCPLAN.ORG for more information”

While a candidate, @mayor.nyc.gov pledged to commit 0.5% of the city’s budget to public libraries.

Unfortunately, Mayor Mamdani has broken this promise in his preliminary FY27 budget, released yesterday, where he allocated 0.39% to libraries.

This amount is well below the promised 0.5%

Lawyering.

It’s also not true. It’s apples to oranges. Both Obama and Clinton levels of deportations were fueled by rapid border removals. Trump, through brutality and defiance of the law, has managed to halt most border crossings. Deportations from the interior are at record levels. That can’t be done nicely.

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Brilliantly said. Needed saying.

A haunting and urgent call to conscience, and action, for lawyers. Beautifully written. "[A]bolition is not a radical slogan but a natural conclusion. The whistle is being sounded in Minneapolis. The question before the legal profession is whether we will hear it, amplify it, and act accordingly[.]"

"Per an amicus brief submitted by forty-one retired officers, many veterans are today 'declining' to 'participate in public debate on important and contested issues' out of fear of "official reprisal.'

"That is a troubling development in a free country!"

—Judge Leon (GWB appointee)