Ryan Thoreson

Ryan Thoreson

@ryanthoreson.bsky.social

Law prof teaching human rights, law and sexuality, con law & torts. 26.2 x 25. ⚖️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏃

2,582 Followers 1,691 Following 1,187 Posts Joined Aug 2023
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Ukrainian Supreme Court recognizes same-sex couple as a family Zoryan Kis and Tymur Levchuk married in US in 2021

“The Supreme Court of Ukraine has upheld the legality of recognizing a same-sex couple as a family based on their factual relationship, despite the absence of legal recognition of same-sex partnerships in Ukrainian legislation…”

Encouraging news for some same-sex couples in Ukraine.

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Thankfully the Supreme Court has taken a First Amendment case this term to (checks notes) legalize conversion therapy.

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Was so proud of myself for dusting off my high school French to order coffee in Paris and then when the barista repeated it back I panicked and said “si.”

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Nearly 4 in 10 U.S. Adults Think Homosexuality Is “Morally Unacceptable” The U.S. placed ninth among 25 countries surveyed.

Yeah well I feel the same way about nearly 4 in 10 US adults.

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4th Circuit Rules That States Can Compel Trans Adults To "Appreciate Their Sex" Via Care Bans They ruled that states "encouraging citizens to appreciate their sex" through care bans is a constitutional goal, affirming West Virginia's Medicaid ban for trans adults.

1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.

An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.

It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.

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Congratulations!!

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Ghana's Parliament Revives Dangerous Anti-LGBT Bill Lawmakers in Ghana have reintroduced a draconian bill that jeopardizes the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.

Lawmakers in Ghana reintroduced a draconian bill that jeopardizes the rights of LGBT people. On Feb 17, the parliament formally received the Human Sexual Rights & Family Values Bill marking the latest chapter in a prolonged legal, legislative process that started in 2021. www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...

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Everybody bookmark this for the war crimes trials.

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Fear and Hope for Iranians Trapped Between Bombs and Defiant Rulers

Mohammad Maljoo: “War opens neither a door to reform nor a horizon of liberation.” And Art 2(4) of the UN Charter serves to remind everyone of this: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/w...

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“the fouling of an entire region in an act of mass ecological terrorism”

- Statement by White House Press Secretary, Nov. 6 1991, describing the burning of oil fields in Kuwait

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Love to be on day nine of the war — d/b/a as a military operation, special operation, defensive action — only to have the administration go “oh yea, the uranium”

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Photo w caption: A person flees after throwing a homemade explosive device during a protest organized by far-right influencer Jake Lang in front of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's official residence on Saturday.
Charly Triballeau / AFP - Getty Images

NBC - Two arrested and two IEDs seized as right wingers hold an anti-Islam demo outside Gracie Mansion today during Ramadan. Not immediately known if Mayor Mamdani was home.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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It’s just destruction begetting more destruction, all the way down.

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I am of course horrified by the human toll but also for the environmental toll of recklessly blowing up fuel on a warming planet.

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Gender Studies is the most vindicated academic field of all time

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Everyone is very angry at Timothee Chalamet over on Threads, because he was mean about opera and ballet, and I feel like that’s the sort of scandal we were meant to be having in the President Kamala timeline

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I’ll pick one up just in case!

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I will as long as you understand when you eat it that I’m doing it at your request and not out of animosity

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But if you add them let me know how that goes!

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Blessedly it does not!

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Nate you left just in time

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I got it at Graeter’s but I think the original run was also at Kroger!

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It’s-a-not-the-DOJ!

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They are if you eat it fast!

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There are! I’m not sure what I expected when I read that but it’s just whole crackers.

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The flavor is not bad? It’s like vanilla and nutmeg and cinnamon. But then the texture is weird, and becomes more upsetting as the ice cream melts and visible oyster crackers emerge.

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It wasn’t bad! It also wasn’t good! The oyster crackers are upsetting!

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a pint of the Graeter’s Skyline Chili ice cream

Every day I stray further from God’s light.

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Now I can’t unsee that.

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Scott Bessent Will Ferrell as Harry Caray on SNL

It took a year but I finally put my finger on who I think Scott Bessent looks like in every TV interview.

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