Soon-to-be Associate Professor of Law at University of San Francisco. Recreational essayist. Still technically a doctor (old books, not medicine).https://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mrr74azy5s23Working on a scholarly and more comprehensive piece with a non-bsky colleague on this but the notion that these data centers are ordinary customers which utilities have a duty to serve is unfounded in the history and justification for that legal duty. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jul 2026 05:31 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrr74azy5s23https://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mrr36i6cak2vI am in favor of maximally flexible work arrangements because workers should have maximal control over their conditions of work *but* I think framing this as a "feminist" issue reinforces rather than challenges the allocation of unpaid reproductive labor in the home. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jul 2026 04:21 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrr36i6cak2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mrqukyvev22yI am currently adapting previous year's curriculum to NextGen because after their *own* catastrophe, California is going to use them for rising 2Ls. I am FURIOUS on these graduates' behalf. Thousands of dollars and hours down the drain, careers disrupted - totally inexcusable. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jul 2026 02:22 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrqukyvev22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mrqaauy2wc2wI will be there avoiding social interaction by selling raffle tickets! JOIN THE ORB. [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Jul 2026 20:19 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrqaauy2wc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mrpv2wqias2kThe Trump administration has done many terrible things but what they have done to the 350,000 Haitians living as our neighbors and colleagues and carers, even if not a single one is deported (and there will be many deported, to death) is I think among the worst.28 Jul 2026 16:59 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrpv2wqias2khttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mrncvbqc7s23I think the anti-juristocracy turn in left scholarship doesn't adequately account for how courts (plural) have actually acquitted themselves quite well under Trump II and how much repression has failed to materialize in the face of it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Jul 2026 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrncvbqc7s23https://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mrm227xw5c2rPost a perfect album from the 90s [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Jul 2026 04:17 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrm227xw5c2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mrl3oz2sgk2xCalling for a moratorium on the use of the word "elite" which is almost always used because of its ambiguity and therefore to obscure the material politics it is being invoked to justify.26 Jul 2026 19:14 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrl3oz2sgk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mrfnjm26wc2gGee Ezra, I could think of something all these candidates have in common.24 Jul 2026 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrfnjm26wc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mreijcehc22xAnother case of We Have the Technology but incumbent economic interests, consumer cultural commitments (gender, anyone?), and lack of state capacity are keeping us trapped in cycles of self-harm. See also: coal to solar/wind replacement. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Jul 2026 04:15 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mreijcehc22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mreidvmkpk2xThis was our experience (we eventually went for the full replacement). $100 gets you a plug-in induction burner that enables you to stop poisoning yourself when you cook. (And we need programs to get replacements in rental units and subsidies for folks who can't afford the $100.) [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Jul 2026 04:12 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mreidvmkpk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mrecsrnjqc2kHeading home from the monthly @oaklandreviewofbooks.org happy hour and feel like I should remind people to sign up or even join (they don't paywall but they do pay their writers!). You don't even have to be from Oakland, they just published a great piece by someone in (gasp) NYC.24 Jul 2026 02:33 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrecsrnjqc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mrdnkepx4s2jI guess they ran out of YouTube training data for Gemini, huh? [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Jul 2026 20:12 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdnkepx4s2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mrdblrv54c2hBetween the murder in Madison and the Tate SHU tweet seems like we're overdue for a reminder that MAGA has not invented new forms of state violence so much as expanded the category of who may be subject to it beyond those already presumptively excluded as "criminals" (convicted or not)23 Jul 2026 16:38 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdblrv54c2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mrbvrmyqus2lThis spoke to me, deeply. If something can't go on, it must end, but somehow never today, maybe tomorrow. What if I am biding my time for a revolutionary moment that never arrives? [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Jul 2026 03:34 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrbvrmyqus2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mrbielwy5c2lThis is pure, uncut Newsom and I beg my fellow Americans not to let it break containment from our bizarre state any more than it has. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Jul 2026 23:34 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrbielwy5c2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mrbas6xeuk25Me, in 2024: we should think about school shootings as one violent instantiation of politicized misogyny, because K-12 is a site of feminine authority Sex toy manufacturers in 2026: [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Jul 2026 21:19 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrbas6xeuk25https://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mrazzx5d7s2xThe solution described at the end of the article, disallowing FAIR coverage for second homes, seems entirely reasonable. (More broadly California's politics are being driven by a plurality that is petit bourgeois on the basis of homeownership but self-deluded and self-righteous about that fact) [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Jul 2026 19:18 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrazzx5d7s2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mr67lzu7p22mMany People are Saying! https://www.liberalcurrents.com/aoc-for-president/ (Liberal Currents beats Jacobin to the AOC endorsement, it's a whole new world.) [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Jul 2026 16:19 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr67lzu7p22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mr4xaingg22sI, a nobody, know so many smart, well-educated people with impeccable credentials who write well and are doing legal and policy work against the Trump admin (even in flyover states!) and it's just offensive that the media can't figure out anybody to talk to besides Richard Hanania.21 Jul 2026 04:17 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr4xaingg22shttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mr4ns6ny7k2oI know this is a joke, but have you seen I Love Boosters? https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/i-love-boosters-review-boots-riley-oakland/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Jul 2026 01:28 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr4ns6ny7k2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mr4l7cyfr22lAre we sure the stove is on? [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Jul 2026 00:42 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr4l7cyfr22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mr3w4gr3oc22The ferocity and persistence of the debate On Here this comic alludes to is a pretty solid rebuttal of Rawls' exclusion of envy (and failure to explore less pejoratively-named values) as a component of the veil of ignorance. In this essay, I will... [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Jul 2026 18:24 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr3w4gr3oc22https://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mr3jdzid5k24This is really good and captured why I feel so bereft about the US Jewish commitment to Zionism, which is that European Jewry was, for so long, *the* problem for European ethnonationalism, and rather than build a case for pluralism from that historical condition, has joined the enemy. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Jul 2026 14:36 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr3jdzid5k24https://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mqzrlpqwy22lSo what I'm taking from this game is that Argentina treats the time until the other team scores as a warm-up.19 Jul 2026 21:58 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqzrlpqwy22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mqzaxvajx22wThis weekend the US military bombed civilian energy infrastructure leaving thousands in southern Iran w/o power in 100-degree heat. I've previously written about my sense of helplessness at these atrocities & keep asking, earnestly, how can I help stop it? https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-the-baddies/19 Jul 2026 17:00 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqzaxvajx22whttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mqyap3eydc2uOn a completely different topic I had one of my all-time trivia personal triumphs tonight when I was the only member of our team to know who invented the trolley problem, proving I had not forgotten *literally* everything from my PhD quals.19 Jul 2026 07:23 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqyap3eydc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/meganwachspress.bsky.social/post/3mqy6i3ookk2kI am biring my tongue on today's parenting (but let's be real, *mothering*) discourse but I think it's worth those outraged at outsourcing childcare asking themselves if they feel similarly about the decision to place aging parents who use diapers and cannot feed themselves in full time care.19 Jul 2026 06:43 +0000at://did:plc:v7snzinjqh4e4faevo424ess/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqy6i3ookk2k