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Professor, CUNY Law | award-winning scholar, author, speaker scuba diver | environmental justice, climate justice, human rights, NYC history, urban policy, comic books | mom | optimist (mostly) www.RebeccaBratspies.com
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I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 11 hours ago • 142 comments

This is on purpose not collateral damage. It is exactly the venture capital model--smash everything to extract value today, then abandon the failing shell and blame unions and "diversity"

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Once again graffiti speaks to the moment

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Shutting down existing EV charging hardware, which has already been paid for, is the definition of government waste. But I don't hear DOGE doing anything about this… 🙄 electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

@proferikageorge.bsky.social taking her term at the lecturn. Giving the Wing-Tat Lee Annual Lecture at @loyolachicago.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Astrid Puentes Riaño has shared a great resource explaining why the right to a healthy environment should be binding under international law. We have also submitted an amicus curiae brief before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) advocating for this crucial recognition.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Wisconsin Professor Sumudu Atapattu talking about Human Rights and the Environment

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Prof Carmen opening the 2025 Loyola International Law Review Symposium

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For people wondering if congestion pricing is still in effect, the MTA’s lawsuit against DOT says “the status quo is that Congestion Pricing continues, and unless and until a court orders otherwise, Plaintiffs will continue to operate the Program as required by New York law.” The tolls are staying

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

This!!!

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Birthright citizenship 3: My letter to editor of NY Times on Barnett and Wurman’s misleading essay They’re not publishing it, so I’m self-publishing. Now y’all know what to do: shugerblogcom.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/b...

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Blue line from OHare is slow but we are moving faster than the traffic.

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Once again graffiti speaks to the moment

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Here is a palate cleanser from the mess of our world. John Corigliano is one of our great living composers. Give it a listen. And follow @allenschulz.bsky.social for Music Mondays.

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Time to relearn those Schoolhouse Rock lessons King: "Anything I say do it my way now, Anything I say do it my way." Americans: "Its very clear you're being unfair King No matter what you saw we won't obey" Schoolhouse Rock: No More Kings!

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

The good news is i saved you 60 billion dollars. The bad news is that is a typo i saved you 600 dollars and also your plane is falling out of the sky

submitted 2 days ago • 211 comments

TWF a law review that would never in a million years publish anything I wrote "humbly requests" that I peer review an article for them--for free, and in less than a week.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

more of this please!

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Today there were protests... everywhere.

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

here is the decision aboutblaw.com/bhfrchrome-e... (and I am begging reporters, if you write about a court decision PLEASE include the link to a decision in your story.)

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TODAY: NY Ct. of Appeals Judge Jenny Rivera (and former CUNY Law prof) in a critical decision about ethics oversight: Government “cannot function if the public perceives that those entrusted with public power are unaccountable when they misuse their authority for private gain,” Just sayin . . . .

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Doge is auditing NASA today. This is absurd. The owner of Space X should not be auditing NASA. It’s a massive conflict of interest.

submitted 9 days ago • 1002 comments

Teaching the COVID eviction moratorium case tonight. Ah, the bygone days of 2021, when the courts amid a pandemic stopped the CDC from engaging in a novel use of a power that Congress granted in a broadly worded statute, because they feared the potential for executive abuse.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

MEANWHILE, IN NEW YORK ...

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Deeply shocking. In a fiction movie, it wouldn't be believable. State Dept denied medevac to his pregnant wife on the edge of hemorrhaging until it was too late. Now, they can't leave the country. And they may have to personally pay $120,000 for a NICU medevac. Heads should roll! Peter Marocco's!

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

From today's rally to demand the Governor remove a MAGA mobster mayor who is an imminent threat to New Yorkers

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.

submitted 6 days ago • 148 comments

the rage I felt reading this as the parent of a disabled 14yo

submitted 6 days ago • 68 comments

If you live in New York State and think Gov. Kathy Hochul should remove the corrupt mayor of NYC, give her a call or send her a letter.

submitted 9 days ago • 293 comments

Hey folks, check out The Center for Progressive Reform's @progressivereform.bsky.social Project 2025 tracker. If you work on energy, environment, climate, worker safety, and education, this is an incredible resource.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Making sure folks realize that Alex Spiro is both Musk’s attorney and Eric Adams’ attorney.

submitted 8 days ago • 53 comments