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Heather Swadley

@heatherswadley.bsky.social

legal scholar + developmental editor | health law, bureaucracy & the Constitution | loves cats, coffee & Taylor Swift | she/her http://heatherannswadley.com | heatherswadley.substack.com

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Heather Swadley@heatherswadley.bsky.social · 2w ago

I find it a bit funny when conservatives complain about how "woke" academia is. Those of us who actually work on research that affects marginalized groups constantly have to justify our existence to disciplines who argue that we're not "mainstream enough."

Heather Swadley@heatherswadley.bsky.social · last mo.

This is a real problem I’ve been having. Democrats have not been rising to the moment in the minority. Why am I expecting them to not squander a majority?

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · last mo.

Wish I could easily imagine a path from even Democratic victories in both houses to concrete actions to rein in Trump's self-destructive wars and trade wars of choice. I hope there are people in Congressional leadership who are drawing up very aggressive concrete plans behind closed doors.

Heather Swadley@heatherswadley.bsky.social · last mo.

Hiring sprees for “conservative” professors is certainly a… move… in an environment where Black studies departments are being eliminated across the country, and some profs are scared to teach something as banal as Plato’s Symposium.

Joey Fishkin@fishkin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Dear lord, what are they trying to AVOID discovery of? Cancelling grants solely because the state where the grantee happens to be located did not vote for Trump is the less damaging thing they will admit in writing?

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's part of a major federal court case over those cancelations. Here's what the government admitted as part of a process meant to avoid discovery (and perhaps spare it from sharing more damaging records):

ACLU@aclu.org · 4mo ago

52 senators voted in favor of allocating an additional $70 billion to fuel ICE and Border Patrol's campaign of chaos and violence in our communities without any reforms. The House of Representatives must reject this bill and any attempts to give ICE more money to violate our rights.

Graphic reading "These senators voted to deport DACA recipients and supercharge ICE’s violence without any reforms:" Underneath, it reads the names of the 52 senators.
Heather Swadley@heatherswadley.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I found it frustrating to do legal/policy epidemiology with non-lawyers, because most non-lawyers don't care about or understand the legal idiosyncrasies that can prevent a law from having the effect you think it will. I was often encouraged to pay less attention to these types of variables.

Dorit Reiss@doritreiss.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Says Prof. Scott Burris from @templelaw.bsky.social in #LSA2026 by @lawandsociety.bsky.social soc: Paper looked at ten years of studies of legal epidemiology. Lack of attention to legal variables. Nothing in methods about legal variable and how they got it.

Heather Swadley@heatherswadley.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is why Elizabeth Emens calls "life admin" an invisible cost of being disabled. It always incenses me that no one I talk to recognizes that time I spend talking to them is time I'm not able to spend working, relaxing, or doing literally *anything else*.

Professa Murray@kalimurray.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The rage of the American Mom starts with the receipts she has to upload for her to for her FSA/HSA accounts, or the 15 Wufoos to sign to get her kid to the Zoo, or 17 emails that needed to refill a prescription. I work for Tech Lords as their clerk, www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o....

Joseph M. Adelman@jmadelman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New at Sally Franklin’s Bookshelf, @unlawfulentries.bsky.social stops by to preview her new book, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship. #VastEarlyAmerica #history #newbooks #immigration www.cliodigital.media/sally/anna-o...

Anna O. Law, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship — Clio Digital Media

Scholars often work for years, or even decades, on their books. They sort through documents, organize reams of notes, and begin drafting chapters with copious footnotes. By the time a book has been pe...

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