Vanessa Braganza
'The real Robert Langdon' | writer ✒️ | historical detective🔍 | future civil rights lawyer ⚖️ | 📖 THE SECRET-SEEKERS: A BOOK DETECTIVE'S QUEST out from HarperOne January 2027 | PhD @harvard, JD @columbialaw
- Reposted by Vanessa BraganzaTrue in 2025 and will continue to be true in 2026: The establishment is not unbeatable. They only go unchallenged.
- Reposted by Vanessa BraganzaJudge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
- NEWS: Judge Biery has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos. A thunderous rebuke against ICE’s violent campaign in Minnesota. Read the order below. Link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- "Whaddya mean, 'more work'?"
- I spent most of 2024 evacuating critically ill and injured Gazan children to the US for emergency medical care. Many of my kids died before I could get them out and they're buried in Gaza. The ground there is a graveyard of innocent children wantonly killed. Nothing "glittering" about it. #gaza
- Reposted by Vanessa BraganzaThe killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
- Reposted by Vanessa Braganza"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." -James Baldwin, from Notes on the House of Bondage (The Nation, 1980) #everynightapoem #ofsorts
- Probable cause, not reasonable suspicion. This is the legal equivalent of not knowing your ABCs--unacceptable.
- I'm sometimes asked why I'm becoming a civil rights lawyer when I'm already a writer. This is why.
- Correction: This *and nearly everything else in the news cycle* is why.
- Reposted by Vanessa BraganzaAnother exodus from the other site, from the sounds of it? If you're looking for the #EarlyModern gang, we've got three starter packs that compile a bunch of them. I can keep adding to the third, just poke. Here's the OG: go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF 1/3at://did:plc:2xh3ekkjbuyi3e5pbfnakuyt/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l2ilk674e52f
- Overheard a young woman the other day stressing over her law school essays. Went over and said hi. A couple of co-editing sessions later, she sent several applications off today and felt good about herself (as she should). Dark times only get brighter if we make light at every opportunity. ✨️
- Was on Capitol Hill today doing research on the Constitution's promise of equality and justice. In the spirit of both, never forget. #January6th #Jan6th (I only realized what day it was when I signed into the Library of Congress reading room.)
- Reposted by Vanessa BraganzaOn a Year of Resistance in the Courts: "We need to fight with every tool in our toolkit and one of those tools... is suing the bastards when they violate the Constitution" – @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/49vUDm9
- David Cole says it best: this is barely disguised imperialism and it sets a dangerous precedent of might over law. It opens the field for any country to forcibly remove the head of another sovereign nation and take over that nation. That should unsettle everyone. @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social
- The invasion of Venezuela is being defended as a law enforcement operation and ”self-defense.” It is neither. It is imperialism, pure and simple. And illegal seven ways to Sunday. www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
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- my midnight kiss > your midnight kiss
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- Ending 2025 with TWO new pieces under commission from the @bostonglobe.com! One is about my favorite singer (out in Sept). The other is on our relationship to detective stories in the current moment (out in Feb). And even bigger writing news to come in a couple of weeks... 🧐 Happy #newyear! 🥳
- It may be winter break, but my legal work is still being closely supervised.
- A critical eye, that.
- Well this is just an early Christmas present from where I'm standing! Thanks, @jackelhai.bsky.social and Damn History!
- Today's article pick from Damn History, a free newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @vanessabraganza.bsky.social & @smithsonianmag.bsky.social! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-fo...
- I have a new piece out in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social for Christmas Eve: Louisa May Alcott wrote to survive for much of her life. What became of her love affair with words later, when she was rich and adapted Dickens' A Christmas Carol for children? tinyurl.com/4ypdyyah #christmas #writers #books
- There is no better high than having a new piece of writing imminently due out. None.
- I'm writing a new piece for Smithsonian Magazine for Christmas! 🎄🎅 In Little Women, the March sisters give their Christmas breakfast away--but I've dug up another Yuletide tale by Alcott that you've never heard of. I'll be bringing its magic back next month! ✨️ @smithsonianmag.bsky.social #christmas
- Reposted by Vanessa Braganza"I want to do something splendid…Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead…I think I shall write books." — Louisa May Alcott, born on this day in 1832 #AmWriting
- Thankful to be invited to Thanksgiving dinner, but not to be on the menu. 🍗
- Lining up interviews for my Smithsonian articles while reading First Amendment cases for my law school thesis like
- There are many reasons to love my mum, not least because when she asks me what I like to read and I answer "Anything," this is what she picks:
- I'm writing a new piece for Smithsonian Magazine for Christmas! 🎄🎅 In Little Women, the March sisters give their Christmas breakfast away--but I've dug up another Yuletide tale by Alcott that you've never heard of. I'll be bringing its magic back next month! ✨️ @smithsonianmag.bsky.social #christmas
