Andréa Worden
@andreaworden.bsky.social
Human rights activist/lawyer, #joyfulwarrior focused on China /Asia. Former CECC general counsel, Intl Campaign for Tibet, Asia Catalyst; ex-adjunct at AU WCL and JHU Krieger School. Writer. Translator. Still asking: #WhereIsPengShuai
Every law student in America should be required to read this as a cautionary tale. Every lawyer at Paul Weiss should be required to read this to understand what they have become. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee
Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...
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NEWS: The tarp is STILL covering the restored Kennedy Center name as the legal fight heads back to court next week. @macfarlanenews.bsky.social reports.
"But then, like many others, he made the decision to abandon his previous ideals, to bury the patriotism that was once so important to him, and to become, instead, a loud, opportunistic collaborator." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Quintessential Politician of This Era
The late South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham made a mid-career turn to MAGA.
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Jack Smith: "I think we are facing an attack on the rule of law that is different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime"
Today I signed an Executive Order for every worker exposed to extreme heat on the job. It requires multilingual heat safety guidance for workers, a review of construction site heat safety practices, and heat illness prevention plans at every mayoral agency.
Sealant Team Six guarding our vulnerable shores against Algae-Qeada, Algaetifa. And Algae Sharpton.
The right to vote is the foundation of everything. Healthcare. Education. Housing. Jobs. None of it happens without voters who can show up and speak out. Our vote is our voice. Our voice is our power. July 17-19, we get into #GoodTrouble #USDemocracy
Paul Krugman is right: there is nothing “inevitable” about Social Security cuts. The crisis is political, not mathematical. Corrupt Republicans took new revenue off the table so they can force benefit cuts onto workers. Don’t swallow the gaslighting. #HandsOffSocialSecurity
Zohran’s speech at the Knicks ceremony & Obama’s speech at the presidential center opening are cousins — two different ways of getting at the belief that hope is a choice, that hard work is worth it, that setbacks are never permanent & long odds are not fate. Stubborn collective optimism is back!
NOTUS: The Department of the Interior must restore exhibits that mentioned topics like race, climate and LGBTQ+ communities — and ensure that they “remain available and visible to the public” when reinstalled, a federal judge ruled.
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One of my favorite moments of the day. If you missed it, take a moment… 🤎 John Legend and Common performing “Glory.”
If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250
#SNL cold open features real DC institution Martin’s Tavern as the secret watering hole for Hegseth, Kavanaugh and Patel.
I joined NY’s Cutest on the Bergen Bike Bus that they ride to school every Wednesday, rain or shine. We’re adding bike boulevards and more pedestrian space on Bergen and Dean Street, from Court Street to East New York Ave. It was a wonderful kind of day.
A Supreme Court so fundamentally hostile to the rights of minority voters places the Court at odds with democracy itself. This is the legacy of Chief Justice John Roberts. I opposed his nomination back in 2005, and I stand by that.
UPDATE: The Trump administration is deporting "nonviolent medically impaired grandparents" to Laos over a 33-year-old drug conviction, a decision Judge Tana Lin says is "inhumane" and "cruel" — but says she is powerless to stop. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Poland joining Ireland and Wales in a World Cup boycott is as welcome as it is expected. 🇵🇱💪🏼
Jamaica doing the right thing and boycotting this summers World Cup in the USA. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🇯🇲
A U.S. District Court judge found that President Trump's executive ordering the defunding of NPR and PBS violated the First Amendment. n.pr/3PUBm6t
Federal judge finds Trump violated free speech by ordering NPR defunded
A U.S. District Court judge found that President Trump's executive ordering the defunding of NPR and PBS violated the First Amendment.
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Shout out to Birmingham, Alabama and Utqiaġvik (Barrow), Alaska! 🎉
8 AM in the DC suburbs and people are already getting on the subways to go downtown for the No Kings protests. gatherings planned for every overpass on the freeway going north from my house. This is going to be big. #nokings
