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[mysterious old lady flips tarot card revealing a dude who looks exactly like Chuck Gray needing to have an outside group run ads attacking his Democratic opponent in Wyoming] Mike Johnson: is that good

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The moral is, if you’re appointed Ambassador to Greece as an unqualified nepo hire, don’t try to do bonus grifts. The grift is being Ambassador to Greece. You are being paid to hang out in Greece for 4 years. Grift accomplished

of the many things that bar examiners do that drive me crazy, one of the biggest ones is how many of them UTTERLY REFUSE to provide any information about when results will be released. don't even THINK about asking them, they'll be posted on a RANDOM DAY, and you should be GRATEFUL for the privilege

"threesomes always make it hard to win," says Donald Trump

theoretical question for folks more familiar with ABA Standards than I am: does 303(a)(2) ACTUALLY require an upper-level writing requirement, e.g., participation on law journal, a seminar, or directed study? or could it be satisfied with a class that has a SUBSTANTIAL written component on an exam?

This framing is wild because somehow, the people who pushed the lie get passive-voiced away into a generalized “mistrust”, the Democrats get named as the ones who need to learn their lesson from this, and then we move on to a broader framing for the Republicans who are described as simply “worried”.

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My great-grandparents immigrated from Italy in the early 1900s. My great-granduncle experienced so much prejudice as an Italian-American that he changed his name from Tesitor (sp) to Taylor. I'm very proud of my Italian heritage, so please, I'd like to say: CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS IS BURNING IN HELL

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 5d ago

President Trump has a midterm message for Italian Americans: Remember what I did for Christopher Columbus. https://wapo.st/4yap3mX

Lexis and Westlaw, sites I use every day, the first time that I try to use them each day:

NEW: State courts remain a powerful bulwark for democracy when Donald Trump, Republicans, and the federal courts seek to undermine fair elections, civil rights, and the rule of law. We detailed 8 states with key supreme court elections to watch next month: www.the-downballot.com/p/how-voters...

good god

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · last wk.

Far too many people simply hate children for existing

we are not doing originalist pronouns; shut the FUCK up

Lawrence Hurley@lawrencehurley.bsky.social · last wk.

Judge James Ho seems very upset that the Supreme Court, in a ruling written by Justice Kavanaugh that upheld bans on transgender athletes participating in women's and girls sports, used a female pronoun in the case caption (as it was in lower courts)

the joke here is that Amy Acton is a drunk, and that allegation is a main line of attack against her, but to many Ohioans, I wonder if this doesn't just sound like Amy Acton is a cool person who goes to bars sometimes

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

JD Vance on Amy Acton: "I did promise Amy that I would meet her at a bar later. I understand she's into that sort of thing, so I'm gonna try to get to know her."

the violence was backed up by the formal legal mechanisms that were required for an ostensibly "democratic" transition of power. in 1876, gubernatorial elections in FL, LA, and SC saw Democrats "win" as the result of pressuring eligible voters not to vote and corrupt election contests where needed.

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · last wk.

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

I genuinely respect the pettiness of a landowner who says: “The city won’t approve my development plans for this fucking downtown parking lot and keeps jerking me around because it’s filled with NIMBY assholes? Fine! Then no more parking is allowed at the parking lot.”

one of the biggest selling points of AI is that it will help you do the things you don't want to do more quickly and efficiently. whether these people realize it or not, what they *don't want to do* is remarkably revealing of their souls. basically the plot of the 2006 Adam Sandler movie "Click"

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · last wk.

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

it's time to share (again) one of the weirdest things I've ever seen: at the 2019 Burton Awards reception at the Library of Congress, Ken Paxton participated in a magic trick with magician Shin Lim in which he held a card in his mouth, while Jane Sullivan Roberts was also on stage as a volunteer

the mailers attacking @wewill2026.bsky.social are increasingly unhinged. but please, Tom, keep wasting money sending me these mailers!

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

NEW: Montana Supreme Court unanimously strikes down several provisions of a 2023 state law that significantly impaired the citizen initiative process—most significantly by imposing a $3,700 filing fee and prohibiting the resubmission of any failed measure. Link here: courts.mt.gov/external/ord...

cool cool cool

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

Launched in May, “the page uses data from customers’ activity to generate details about them in categories like Product Preferences, Interests & Hobbies, and Home & Family, which Amazon then uses to personalize users’ product experiences.”

Well, that is certainly a way of picking a law school dean that will produce a result.

“if” doing Herculean work here

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 2w ago

“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...

this is just so, so deeply cruel, stupid, outrageous, offensive, blood-curdling, idk, from beginning to end. it is a pathology unto itself. it is the disgusting bigotry of a tried-and-true bigot whose brain is increasingly broken by old age. it is, to say the obvious, intolerable in our society.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump: "Annie 'Trannie' Andrews is running against our wonderful Darline Graham for the Senate in South Carolina ... Trannie is not for South Carolina, and South Carolina must show, in the upcoming Election, that it is not for her."