Maya Lorey

6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”:
‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU:
1. Don’t know
2. Don’t care
3. Don’t tell
4. Don’t have
5. Don’t know how to
6. Don’t give
7. Can’t do
8. Don’t sell
9. Don’t show
10. Do nothing’

Every city choose your anti-fascist culinary projectile challenge.

The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

Criminalizing pregnancy: A record number of women were prosecuted the year after Dobbs They were targeted for substance use, miscarriages, and stillbirths, largely driven by fetal personhood laws.

Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

What's happened since?

A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.

"I asked ChatGPT" ok well I asked the wild geese and they said to let the soft animal of my body love what it loves so

The Founders’ constitution—the one they had before the Revolution and the one they fought the Revolution to preserve—was one in which violence played a lawmaking role. An embrace of violence to assert constitutional claims is worked deeply into our intellectual history and culture. It was entailed upon us by the Founding generation, who sincerely believed that people “are only as free as they deserve to be” and that one could tell how much freedom people deserved by how much blood they were willing to shed to obtain it. This constitutionalism of force survived ratification. Its legacy is a constitutional order that legitimizes the violent assertion of rights, especially by groups of armed white men—a legacy that showed itself in the Republican National Committee’s statement that the January 6 Insurrection amounted to “legitimate political discourse.” We must acknowledge this heritage and the pressure it imposes on the rule of law if we are to survive today’s authoritarian challenges to our democracy.

I think about this article pretty much every other day now. Farah Peterson, Our Constitutionalism of Force.

columbialawreview.org/content/our-...

Some Script

Wrote some flash fiction abt trauma responses and the responses were supposed to have to others trauma flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/04...

a man with long hair and a beard is smiling and saying thank you . Alt: a man with long hair and a beard is smiling and saying thank you . that man is keanu reeves and he's bowing with his hand to his heart.

*taps mic*

please for the love of all that is holy and good in the world, stop announcing to everyone that "NO ONE IS PRO ABORTION."

YOU'RE WRONG.

I AM.

A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE.

ABORTION IS HEALTH CARE.

I'M PRO HEALTH CARE.

I'M PRO CHEMO.

I'M PRO BUTTERFLY STITCHES.

STOP SPREADING STIGMA.

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Illustration looking down on a small boat as it speeds through the water leaving white waves in its wake, with two people onboard, the boat is followed by a group of white seagulls

Yuko Shimizu, New York based award winning Japanese illustrator #womensart #Fridayfeeling

New Nasa data hints we could be living inside a black hole Black hole cosmology suggests our entire universe formed inside a black hole from another universe

Well that explains it.

A school photo of a gently smiling teenage girl. She has long brown hair and a black cardigan.

My dear friend’s niece, who in October developed sepsis when a Georgia hospital refused her a D&C after a miscarriage, will be taken off life support tomorrow.

I don’t know the names of the countless others who have suffered and will suffered because of anti-abortion laws.

But her name was Haley.

I need abled people to understand that breaking someone's wheelchair is like breaking your legs. Both of them. They want to get away with breaking people's legs.

Does textualism promote or protect equality? Several prominent textualist scholars and jurists have raised the possibility that textualism may serve equality values. And yet the role of textualism in protecting equality remains largely unexplored. This Article takes seriously the claim that textualism may promote equality: either as an absolute matter, or in comparison to other statutory interpretation methods. It asks, can textualism be conceptualized as an equality practice, i.e., an interpretive practice that protects or promotes equality? This Article answers this question with a qualified “yes.” Textualism can promote equality before the law, a thin form of equality often associated with the rule of law. Moreover, this thin form of equality can help to promote thicker forms of equality, by preventing the gerrymandering of disfavored groups out of rights protections, and of favored groups out of burdensome laws. This thin form of legal equality can also further substantive equality by preventing the judicial hobbling of legislative gains secured especially by or for historically marginalized groups (such as civil rights laws, social welfare law, and laws protecting Native Nations’ sovereignty). But this Article also cautions that the equality-promoting potential of textualism is qualified. Only certain forms of textualism—what other scholars have referred to as “formalistic” textualism—are likely to be sufficiently constraining to create meaningful protections for equality. Moreover, even applying formalistic textualism, there will surely be circumstances where textualism confronts true indeterminacy or even cuts against substantively equality-promoting results. Finally, legal realism poses a genuine challenge to claims that any interpretive theory can meaningfully constrain judicial preferences, and thus to any theory’s claims of equality-promoting potential. [Final paragraph too long to include in alt text -- see SSRN link!]

8/X A full abstract is below. Many thanks to the many scholars who contributed to my thinking, including @williambaude.bsky.social @jessicaclarke.bsky.social @almadiamond.bsky.social @mlorey.bsky.social @fpeterson.bsky.social @lsolum.bsky.social @deborahwidiss.bsky.social and others not on Bluesky!

“Winter Fear,” a poem by Kay Ryan

This is often particularly difficult for women, who are expected to outwardly signal warmth and approachability. It is simply more acceptable for men to be blunt and direct.

For example, direct communication styles can be misinterpreted as inappropriately "cold," and the unspoken relational rules of operating successfully in a firm can prove baffling and stressful for autistic attorneys who may be less adept at navigating small talk or discrete hierarchical signals.

Teams that include neurodiverse attorneys benefit hugely from these strengths, yet lawyers are rarely open about their autism due to the very real risks of bias and discrimination and this lack of openness can compound the difficulties of navigating the legal industry for autistic attorneys.

Imagine The Possibilities Of Openly Autistic Lawyering - Law360 Andi Mazingo at Lumen Law, who was diagnosed with autism about midway through her career, discusses how the legal profession can create inclusive workplaces that empower openly autistic lawyers and en...

www.law360.com/articles/229... A rare article that spotlights the contributions of autistic lawyers - including the power of hyperfocus, attention to detail and pattern recognition, abstract problem solving, and special interest aligned career focus resulting in exceptional motivation & dedication.

Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad

Woman cuddling a Rottweiler/pitbull mix on the couch.

I got to take out this very good girl from the Philly shelter yesterday. Serenity was affectionate sweet and calm and charmed everyone we met all day long. If you live in the Philly area, and want to adopt a dog, she is still looking for her forever home! acctphilly.org/available-do...

Everyone should read this paper.

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