Libby Adler
@libbyadler.bsky.social
Professor of Law and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Northeastern University.
Point well-made by Perry Bacon. I would add only that a young Kennedy tried to unseat Markey last round. But in Mass we've got people like Rep. Ayanna Presley, Gov. Maura Healey, & Mayor Michelle Wu. When Markey retires, we'll be looking at one of them. newrepublic.com/article/2150...
Good Riddance, Seth Moulton: You Got What You Deserved
The congressman who got drubbed by Ed Markey on Tuesday tried to distance himself from the base. That just doesn’t work anymore.
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“While dying of AIDS in a sixth-floor walk-up in Hell’s Kitchen, and before taking his own life, the gay Cuban ex-pat writer, Reinaldo Arenas wrote a memoir.” Already captivated by @northeasternu.bsky.social Professor @libbyadler.bsky.social new book: Governing the Terrain Called Beauty.
It's new publication day! 🤩 We've got some very interesting new books including... 📖 'Governing The Terrain Called Beauty' by @libbyadler.bsky.social 📖 'The Tragedy of Soviet Market Economists' by Tobias Rupprecht 📖 'Hot Spots of Crime' by David Weisburd, Clair Uding, Beidi Dong & Kiseong Kuen
Pepperoni Pizza Shawarma share.google/QLHdvpxQcsit... Not every idea needs to become a reality.
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Professor @libbyadler.bsky.social of Northeastern Law has published Governing the Terrain Called Beauty: The Queerness of Political Economy in Cuba and the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2026). #NUSLPride law.northeastern.edu/professor-li...
Behind every abortion is a village who made it possible: from providers and policymakers to the clinic escort who walks you to your car and the donor who keeps the lights on. Most of that work goes unseen. That's why we're highlighting a different activist every week in our new series, The Helpers.
Meet The Pennsylvania Lawyer Helping Minors Access Abortion
Christine Castro of the Women's Law Project in Pennsylvania has helped teens who already have kids navigate a broken abortion access system
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A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.
Today, the right-wing Supreme Court supermajority finished what it started over a decade ago – in Justice Kagan’s words, “a judicial project to destroy the Voting Rights Act.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u... This is nuts. If the EEOC really wanted to find out about anti-Semitism on campus, it could put out a notice inviting people with complaints to call a 1 800 number. What it wants is to identify Jews who DON'T want to cooperate with the administration.
Judge Delays Order to Force Penn to Turn Over List of Jews on Campus
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Meet Frankie. Her ears are lab, her haunches are pit, and her tongue is pastrami.
I'm in Paris where the restrooms seem to be predominantly all-gender and everyone appears to be surviving it.
J. D. Vance has “clearly made the calculation that anti-Semites are part of the Republican Party’s base, and he can’t afford to shunt them to the side as he plots his own presidential bid,” Franklin Foer argues.
J. D. Vance Fails a Simple Moral Test
The vice president welcomes anti-Semites into the Republican coalition.
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The FDA is going after the company TomboyX, which makes underwear, swim suits, etc. for trans, nonbinary, etc. folks claiming that compression bras are medical devices. Laughing and crying.
Thank you so much to the @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social for posting my book! legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/ahme... 🙏🏽
Ahmed, "Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS"
Cambridge University Press has published Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS , by Aziza Ahmed (Bosto...
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It got drowned out in all the good news from last night, but Boston Mayor Michelle Wu became the youngest person to be reelected in the city's history. She ran unopposed because her opponent--Patriots owner Bob Kraft's son--withdrew a few months ago after realizing he had no hope of winning.
So that was a lie. Fenway health in Boston just eliminated access for trans youth. Dallas is their Executive Vice President of Donor Engagement and External Relations.
Dallas Ducar@dallasducar.bsky.social · last yr.Massachusetts is standing strong. While many states across the country have restricted or even banned access to healthcare, Massachusetts has not backed down.
WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"
Murder is wrong. Pogroms are wrong. Using a murder to incite a pogrom against a small and vulnerable group in society is wrong. (If I’m not mistaken, an assassination was the excuse for the wave of mob but state-sanctioned violence in Russia in 1881 that gave us the term “pogrom.”)
apnews.com/article/bost... If Kraft is this far behind after spending tons of his own born rich money on ads that offer nothing positive to Bostonians, maybe he should get the hint. Boston likes its mayor and doesn't need another entitled gazillionaire who thinks he knows better. #Boston #WuTrain
Boston mayor race expected to narrow to Trump adversary Michelle Wu and son of Patriots owner Kraft
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is expected to take a crucial step to securing a second term when voters go to the polls.
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In one of the debates in New York mayor's race, Mamdani (and Lander) both praised Boston Mayor Michelle Wu. She has been one of the most passionate voices defending cities and urban life as Trump trashes them. And she's stayed popular in way Brandon Johnson has not. newrepublic.com/article/1997...
This Democrat Proves You Can Be Principled, Effective—and Popular
Zohran Mamdani has pointed to Boston Mayor Michelle Wu as a model. There are many good reasons why.
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When I'm in a Francophone jurisdiction I don't know what restroom to use because I'm not a dude, but also not a "femme."🤨
for many of the worst people in our politics, the only real belief they have is that it should be illegal for us not to like them
New York Magazine@nymag.com · last yr.After a Martha’s Vineyard pierogi vendor refused to sell to him, Epstein’s lawyer plans to sue a farmer’s market so that they must sell to him.
Senate Democrats could have united behind Mangi and called out the GOP smear against him as religious bigotry. Instead, ~3 Dems decided to buy into that smear (and Schumer declined to fight), and now Bove has a 3d Circuit seat. There's an obvious lesson here...
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · last yr.Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.
This is why the Bove seat was vacant, and there’s a real throughline from the forces that defeated the previous Democratic nominee to where we are today. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
The Two-Pronged Attack on a Muslim Judicial Nominee
How the smearing of Adeel Mangi became a bipartisan exercise.
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