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Dara Purvis

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Law professor at Temple. Professional angry feminist (she/her). Views are mine, my own, my precious.

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Trump saluting a flag-draped casket carried by soldiers, wearing his standard ill fitting suit and a white baseball hat that says USA in gold letters visible from space

Trump saluting a flag-draped casket carried by soldiers, wearing his standard ill fitting suit and a white baseball hat that says USA in gold letters visible from space

I think it's great that the president put on his most solemnly branded baseball cap to receive the returning coffins of soldiers killed in the unnecessary war he launched to distract from his failing presidency and pedophilia scandal.

Look at that gold-like letting. Classy as shit.

07.03.2026 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 5276    πŸ” 1163    πŸ’¬ 343    πŸ“Œ 139

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

07.03.2026 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 6186    πŸ” 1802    πŸ’¬ 114    πŸ“Œ 60

10,000 gold stars for the symposium editor who emailed me "I checked with the caterer about vegan options and they said they can do a roasted vegetable platter. Here is the menu of a local vegan restaurant, let me know what you'd like."

06.03.2026 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A notebook labeled Women's Rights Law Reporter and program for that journal's symposium

A notebook labeled Women's Rights Law Reporter and program for that journal's symposium

I'm in North Jersey for the morning presenting at the Women's Rights Law Reporter symposium - the first journal I published an article with!

06.03.2026 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

06.03.2026 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 7654    πŸ” 1642    πŸ’¬ 208    πŸ“Œ 53

I shall be referring to him as Renesmee

05.03.2026 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I truly do think all of the "Noem out, Mullin in" posts and stories are failing American democracy right now!

Trump is announcing his nominee.

That's it.

If the Senate majority wants to confirm him, they're a part of thisβ€”even after knowing what they know now.

And that matters come November.

05.03.2026 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2651    πŸ” 613    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 54

Are you interested in adopting a 44 year old?

05.03.2026 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

1/ Khamenei was a brutal far right tyrant β€” whom America installed btw. The world is better off without such a dictator.

That is true.

But so is the following:

28.02.2026 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 8

Twitter is owned by a fascist who deliberately manipulates the algorithms to promote far right messages. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.

23.02.2026 02:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4925    πŸ” 827    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 18

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

22.02.2026 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 18520    πŸ” 6560    πŸ’¬ 431    πŸ“Œ 175
21.02.2026 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2155    πŸ” 350    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 24
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A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

This case is insane:

ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.*

The young man they killed had no criminal history.

All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs.

We don't know officers' names.

We don't have footage.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

21.02.2026 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4096    πŸ” 1830    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 69
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Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.

Chatgpt has already pushed people to kill themselves and others. Did it push this teenager to do a mass shooting?

www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Bypass:
archive.ph/EqNrW

21.02.2026 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 594    πŸ” 206    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 11

Coupled with their stated plans to outlaw transness entirely as "pornographic," this is their way to forcibly detransition all trans people who don't go back into the closet

Genocidal, full stop

19.02.2026 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Not one but two sex scandals at Trump’s Labor Dept - one involving the Labor Secty herself AND a second one involving her husband. Wow.

19.02.2026 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 598    πŸ” 253    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 34

a government for, by and of degenerates

19.02.2026 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 7285    πŸ” 1516    πŸ’¬ 164    πŸ“Œ 47

You do not need ID to check out a book. You often show your ID to get your library card and then you never show your ID again, JUST LIKE VOTING YOU CRETINS

20.02.2026 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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US military prepared to strike Iran as early as this weekend, but Trump has yet to make a final call, sources say | CNN Politics The US military is prepared to strike Iran as early as this weekend, though President Donald Trump has yet to make a final decision on whether he’ll authorize such actions, sources familiar with the m...

I know we’re all just used to Trump living in his Mad King era, but this isn’t how this is supposed to work at all. The entire reason the Constitution puts this power in Congress is so that whether or not we go into a war of choice isn’t just one man’s decision.

www.cnn.com/2026/02/18/p...

19.02.2026 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 425    πŸ” 171    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 17

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

18.02.2026 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 7845    πŸ” 2531    πŸ’¬ 65    πŸ“Œ 84

The 2-month-old baby in ICE detention was so sick he was hospitalized and unresponsive last night. Despite that, today, he and his entire family were deported. Now we don’t know where they are or if the baby is receiving healthcare.

18.02.2026 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 375    πŸ” 187    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 21

Another thing to add to the Dem platform: all of these contracts were plainly procured through fraud, not one of them will be honored, and all culpable parties will be prosecuted.

This isn't a "radical" demand, it's the bare minimum required to re-establish the rule of law.

17.02.2026 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2406    πŸ” 882    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 20
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Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

16.02.2026 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 14383    πŸ” 2816    πŸ’¬ 579    πŸ“Œ 730
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Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

15.02.2026 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 4997    πŸ” 1995    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 219

They talk and act exactly like Nazis in pursuit of the exact same objectives as Nazis using the exact same tactics and rationales as Nazis but it would be wrong to call them Nazis until they grow the little mustache.

15.02.2026 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2654    πŸ” 732    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 8

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

14.02.2026 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 10851    πŸ” 3516    πŸ’¬ 307    πŸ“Œ 150

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said β€œwe went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

14.02.2026 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 6656    πŸ” 2271    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 69

UCLA said no to Trump's abusive demands, went to court, and the govt is backing off.

Harvard said no to Trump's abusive demands, went to court, and the govt is left sputtering.

Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern giving in was a big mistake. If only there were lessons against appeasing fascists.

14.02.2026 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1767    πŸ” 528    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 20

This level of depravity is monstrous.

14.02.2026 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 709    πŸ” 155    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 1

Repeat after me:
An executive order is not a royal edict; it is not law. It is a direction to the executive branch as to how to carry out the law.

Also:
Key parts of Trump's last EO on elections have been stopped by federal courts, ruling that the President has no role to play in federal elections

13.02.2026 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1787    πŸ” 608    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 12