Joan Howarth

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare (Gift Article) It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.

Indispensable M. Gessen. Time for a higher education reset?

Judith Butler · This Is Wrong: Executive Order 14168 When diversity, equity and inclusion become ‘threats’ to the order of society, progressive politics in general is...

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Paul Weiss/ Morale/ Estuary. It’s too good.

Law Students Call on the Legal Profession to Defend the Rule of Law

⭐Attention Law Students⭐: Several student leaders have penned a letter calling on the legal profession to defend the rule of law.

"The time to speak out and act in defense of the rule of law is now."

You can review and sign the letter here. ⬇️

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you think hegseth is bad, one time I accidentally added the country I was about to invade to the chat and then I had to be like omg Iran no lol total typo I did not mean YOU, we're gonna invade Iraq again haha just autocorrect. it was sooo mortifying tbh and then we had to invade both?? full cringe

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
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Musk Retweets ‘Hitler Didn’t Murder Millions’ Message Amid Ongoing Nazi Controversy Musk and Tesla have faced heightened criticism since the billionaire made a gesture likened to a Nazi salute during an inaugural event in January.

Public sector workers in democracies fought fascism and genocide. In totalitarian states, some went along with totalitarian crimes; some resisted. What kind of “public sector worker” will Elon Musk be? www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

DOGE Privacy Act Requests U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (...

This is a great idea. @raskin.house.gov invites others to join him in filing a FOIA request to find out what personal data on us DOGE has collected. Link to a FOIA form & submission info on his website:
jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...

Brilliant

Woman holding a sign at a protest: “Childhood Vaccines Cause Adulthood”

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Mandatory high school civics class that isn’t just like “how a bill becomes law” or whatever but also “how NOAA powers your phone’s weather app” and “NIH helped make your asthma inhaler”

The Third Face of Power in the Age of Trump Democrats must lead public opinion rather than merely following it.

This is very good.
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Very sorry that you and your family have to deal with this.

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If RFK wants to meaningfully decrease rates of depression, he can support paid family and maternity leave, equal pay for women, universal healthcare, and fully funded public schools.

Stigmatizing medication that treats the mental impact of a country that devalues your existence won’t cut it.

The ABA supports the rule of law It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...

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ABA It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accordance with the rule of law and in an orderly manner that respects the lives of affected individuals and the work they have been asked to perform. Instead, we see wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself, such as attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize those who support lawful programs to eliminate bias and enhance diversity. We have seen attempts at wholesale dismantling of departments and entities created by Congress without seeking the required congressional approval to change the law. There are efforts to dismiss employees with little regard for the law and protections they merit, and social media announcements that disparage and appear to be motivated by a desire to inflame without any stated factual basis. This is chaotic. It may appeal to a few. But it is wrong. And most Americans recognize it is wrong. It is also contrary to the rule of law. The American Bar Association supports the rule of law. That means holding governments, including our own, accountable under law. We stand for a legal process that is orderly and fair. We have consistently urged the administrations of both parties to adhere to the rule of law. We stand in that familiar place again today. And we do not stand alone. Our courts stand for the rule of law as well.

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

what kind of stock trades do you think your senator has lined up for tomorrow morning? is that what they're working on tonight instead of figuring out how to get those teenagers out of the servers at the treasury?

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

Fewer well-crafted letters and more hard hitting posts, with visuals. Double your staff support for that.

Contemporary fiction. Walking around. Jigsaw puzzles. Starting tai chi.

Great point

I spent most of my 22-years in the Army as an aviator in and out of line units flying OH-58's and UH-60's.We lost more aircrews in peacetime training accidents than combat. It's a very dangerous business. Having the President smear them as their families are freshly mourning is unforgivable.

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Examining the Future: Joan Howarth and Deborah Jones Merritt are spearheading efforts to reinvent attorney licensing Legal Rebels - ABA Journal

Fun to be named with my friend Debby Merritt as ABA 2025 "Legal Rebels" for our bar exam reform efforts. When at first you don't succeed, just keep at it for another 25 years.... www.abajournal.com/legalrebels/...

Best of luck in getting things resolved quickly.