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Law prof at Albany Law School. Proud to be trans. Personal page, views my own. https://linktr.ee/avaayers Move slowly and put things together.
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EVERYBODY GETS A TRANSGENDER OPERATION

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New US immigration history book alert! Brendan A. Shanahan, Disparate Regimes: Nativist Politics, Alienage Law, and Citizenship Rights in the United States, 1865–1965, will be published from Oxford UP in February! @iehs.bsky.social @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

submitted 1 day ago • 95 comments

Good.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

It took a 2L three days to smoke Wurman, including in some new and creative ways.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

It seems like only yesterday they were concerned about “waste, fraud, and abuse”

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

typically, HSI does a lot of investigatory work in child sex crimes cases

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

Because regulators ARE the good guys

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger. Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.

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austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-lates...

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SUPER clear article re: tools courts have to respond to recalcitrant exec branch www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

"When strangers reside with you in your land, you shall not wrong them. The strangers who reside with you shall be to you as your citizens; you shall love each one as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." (Leviticus 19:33-34)

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

i wrote about the NYT's latest op-ed on birthright citizenship: why it's stupid, and why its implications are bigger than one clause

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

Sure when trans people want to change our names it’s “ideology” but when it’s a body of water it’s like “hey identity is fluid ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I just tried to type “moderate” and autocorrect suggested “loser.”

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“People here see undocumented migrants as members of their community. But the official stance of the federal government is that they are not members of the community,” said one protester. “We’re in this together to protect each other and reject the notion that we are separate entities.”

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Wow. Clerked for both Kavanaugh and Roberts. “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion [to dismiss Adams charges]. But it was never going to be me.” Honor and admiration.

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

Oh my god. They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service. "Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights" WOW.

submitted 9 days ago • 219 comments

why is this a national monument....? we can't tell you ❤️

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Not enough attn to this. Main Justice ordered New York office (SDNY) to drop the charges agst Eric Adams on Monday. Most - me included - thought that meant it was done. Already happened. But as of right now no one has filed a motion to drop the charges. We're going on three days later.

submitted 10 days ago • 199 comments

Great C L R James writing on Moby Dick to fight deportation story - now with ALT text! (New edition of resulting book out on my birthday!)

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I asked the introducer of Nebraska’s anti-trans bathroom bill how she knows I was assigned female at birth. She conceded that she doesn’t know. The reality is, this bill would turn every public bathroom into a battleground where ppl are harassed and reported based on stereotypes.

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

This is the least surprising detention news from the last two weeks but it doesn’t make it any less devastating www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Incredible news. After immense pressure and threats of protest, Children's Wisconsin has reinstated treatment for at least one trans teen under its care. Several hospitals across the country determined their fear of Trump's illegal EO was more important than their trans patients.

submitted 14 days ago • 52 comments

Kash Patel was paid by Russian filmmaker with Kremlin ties, documents show www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 15 days ago • 45 comments

This morning I was happy to see NASA still had a page up showing this cool pride flag Rachel Lense created last summer. I downloaded a full-res version so I could order a print. Good timing - as of this afternoon that NASA page returns a 404. Goddammit.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments