Rebecca Bratspies, Author

here is a welcome musical interlude. Very interesting piece! Check it out

The idea that opposing and rolling back trans rights is good for cis women and girls is ludicrous on every level and absolutely enraging when applied in legislation and policy that obviously limits and rolls backs rights for ALL women and girls

Isn't it also the idea that we're doing it wrong than that maybe the mainstream media and politicians are doing it wrong plus there's a ton of ff industry propaganda and idiot wankers like Bill Gates contaminating the conversation? Or maybe that's the same thing as power.

Behind on sharing. Check out my recent blog post "Staring into the Legal Void." It is my contribution to the the Environmental Law Collaborative (ELC) biannual meeting. The theme was "Red Sky Thinking in a Blue Sky World."

www.environmental-law-collaborative.com/blog-4-1/elc...

The whole ‘death of the author’ thing works far better when the author is actually dead

“If the word hope doesn’t work for you, try never fucking surrender”.

Thought for the day: “If the word hope doesn’t work for you, try never f*cking surrender”. Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for this!!

Space laser? Jew’s won’t replace us? C’mon. This Rep’s tweet is appalling. But please don’t pretend theVERY SAME people don’t also say equally horrible things about Jews and other religious minorities. Don’t pit us against each other when we should be standing together against hate

Keynote speaker Taylor Lilley from @chesapeakebayfdn.bsky.social

Photo of Dean Hutchins-Laurent in front of the Journal of Health Care Law & Policy presents Toxic Inequities

Dean Hutchins-Laurent welcoming us to the Toxic Inequities symposium

At Maryland’s Francis Carey School of Law for a symposium

Wow.

“Let Justice roll down like water.’ (Amos 5.24) etched into a marble fountain

Thought for the morning.

It was way longer at MSY

Long lines, delays at New Orleans airport amid apparent TSA sickout and government shutdown The New Orleans airport was plagued by security lines that stretched through multiple floors of the building and into the parking garage Sunday morning amid an apparent Transportation Security Adminis...

Wow. TSA was out of control today in NOLA. Was this a one off or is it everywhere? www.nola.com/news/politic...

4/ That's not a bug. That's the system working. "Reputational ruin" is the defence mechanism — it gives the public the *feeling* that accountability happened, while the real feedback loops stay unbroken.

Blair isn't an anomaly. He's a reliable output.

Opinion | The EPA’s New Pollution Rules Give License to Ignore Public Health Janet McCabe writes about how the Trump administration’s new EPA guidelines may increase harmful pollution and roll back decades of progress.

OPINION: "Under this new approach, the EPA will be able to justify more air pollution and less public health protection when it issues Clean Air Act rules," Janet McCabe writes.

Wow

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Ah. But which way does the causal vector run?

We don’t have the minimize how amazing AI and LLMs are, or ignore their potential, to also understand they aren’t sentient creatures.

That scene where they sing La Marseillaise hits differently when you realize most of the actors were refugees who fled the Nazis, and they did not know how the war would turn out

Dolphins are amazing, sailors work very hard, and colonialism
Sucks. PS. I now totally understand why people ran away to sea.

WAR CRIMES DON'T HIDE SEX CRIMES!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!

I read Moby Dick while sailing across the Pacific on the Endeavor—a square rigged replica of Captain Cook’s ship (go foremast watch)

YES!

Portrait of Casimir Pulaski. He looks heroic and is about to draw his sword

Happy Casimir Pulaski Day!

Fun fact: Pulaski was the father of the American cavalry and was almost definitely intersex. Read more in Naming Gotham #history #historymatters #newyork #nyc #awardwinning #book #historypodcast #booklovers

Whut??

N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care

The New York attorney general's office has ordered NYU Langone to resume gender affirming care for trans youth due to violating New York Human Rights law.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n...

Bypass here.

archive.ph/4NboB

Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn