Rita Wenxin Wang

@hellgatenyc.com with the sight gag of the night as they slowly swap out the cuomo photo to zoom in on his nipple ring

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.

Just a big ol' Stryker combat vehicle (mini-tank) perched on a hillside above the border wall.

Looking into Arizona from the border city of Nogales, Mexico.

From proyectopuente.com.mx/2025/06/17/v...

fuck Supreme Court released Skrmetti

Roberts opinion, liberals dissent

the awful outcome--blessing anti-trans discrimination--isnt in and of itself surprising, but it's a bit stunning the way they're pretending the Equal Protection Clause isn't even *relevant*
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

It is impossible not to read this in conjunction with the Supreme Court's heartrbreaking, awful decision in Skrmetti allowing states to deny transgender teens the health care they need.

The Army Was the Only Life She Knew. Trump’s Trans Ban Cast Her Out.

This is just utterly heartbreaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

In light of SCOTUS's ruling in Skrmetti, @brittneymac15.bsky.social asked doctors what trans youth and their families need to know about navigating this. @teenvogue.com

experts advise continuing to talk to affirming healthcare providers if you have them and exploring options for care out-of-state.

Solidarity with trans people today, and always.

An Urbanist NYC Voter Guide And the pragmatic case for Zohran Mamdani over Andrew Cuomo

Here it is: my urbanist NYC voter guide. While Zellnor Myrie and Brad Lander are (by far) the best candidates, you’re going to have to rank either Zohran or Cuomo if you want your vote to count.

I dove deep into this decision and came to the conclusion that Zohran is the superior choice.

Most importantly, states can now just ban gender affirming care for everyone, including adults. We'll likely see that coming soon in addition to federal government efforts to eliminate access for all trans people.

Sotomayor, counter to Roberts and the court's majority, explains how the law "obviously" classifies based on sex.

BREAKING: In a 6-3 Roberts decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that Tennessee's ban on gender affirming care is not subject to heightened scrutiny. This decision will strip millions of trans people off their constitutional rights.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Tennessee’s law expressly classifies on the basis of sex and transgender status, so the Constitution and settled precedent require the Court to subject it to intermediate scrutiny. The majority contorts logic and precedent to say otherwise, inexplicably declaring it must uphold Tennessee’s categorical ban on lifesaving medical treatment so long as “‘any reasonably conceivable state of facts’” might justify it. Ante, at 21. Thus, the majority subjects a law that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review. By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims. In sadness, I dissent.

Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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I am particularly interested in articles written by folks not traditionally published in elite Law Reviews, including non T14 law students, currently or formerly incarcerated folks, or other folks particularly affected by the law or traditionally underrepresented in legal academia.

Thrilled to announce that I have been appointed to be an Online Editor for NYU Law Review! Article submissions are now open and we accept submissions between 5000 and 15000 words. Authors can submit both on Scholastica and via NYULRevOnline@gmail.com.

Look, like I said most of the “wheee we love dead CEOs” stuff is performative and Super Online. I doubt it accomplishes anything. But the hand-wringing about it is overdone. It’s like the OJ Simpson verdict. I don’t agree with it, I don’t think it’s productive, but I understand why it happened.

I can understand how it got on the Michelin guide now

A statute of a minion with heterochromia (and a Santa hat)

went to a michelin guide recommended restaurant and their central decor piece was this minion with heterochromia

Privileged people generally experience the system as biased against and as singling them out for abuse, because they cannot imagine that’s just how the system treats people.

Federal Judiciary Misleadingly Conflates Low Number Of Sexual Harassment Complaints With Lack Of Misconduct The AO seems not to understand that there is no greater power disparity in the legal profession than between a fresh-out-of-law-school clerk and a life-tenured federal judge.

❗Just 9% of the 78 EDR matters initiated by federal court employees from 2021-23 were initiated by *term law clerks,* according to the AO’s 2023 Workplace Report.

That’s ~7 complaints over a 2 YR PERIOD, or <5 misconduct complaints per year, in @abovethelaw.com abovethelaw.com/2024/12/fede...

(One of) the (many) problem(s) with the legal profession is being welcoming and civil to people who want to take away the rights of the marginalized and then insisting that the marginalized be welcoming and civil to them, too

Here’s the piece we mentioned on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social - @kmtani.bsky.social’s powerful meditation on today’s Supreme Court. Long but worth every word

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Patrick as scientist "the starter packs I am in" Patrick with board nailed to head "my posts"

I must not be the only one who feels this way

I guess they want to discuss it at Nuremberg later