Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.

Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed

Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...

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I didn’t realize I could have a lower opinion of the star of Morbius.

Any 26-person firm would fail this task. This 26-person firm was built specifically to fail. It is loaded up with legal pariahs that have no relevant experience.

Politico@politico.com · 23h ago

26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court

It’s wrong, it’s unconstitutional, it’s bad policy. But I still want a giant assigned to accompany Miller everywhere he goes, menacing him and occasionally bonking him on the head.

9th Cir. holds that the Bad Spaniels parody toy of a Jack Daniel's bottle is unlikely to harm the reputation of Jack Daniel's trademarks *because* it is parody. Held: no dilution by tarnishment; remanded for entry of judgment in favor of Bad Spaniels maker. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the DEX, nor the battle to the STR, neither yet bread to the WIS, nor yet riches to men of INT, nor yet XP to men of skill; but 1d20 happeneth to them all.

🎵I want to live in America Actually, Puerto Rico is part of America🎵

Me: The new agent harness is great. You feed your tokens into the machine. Then you run simulations which, if successful, produces tickets. If they fail you have to buy more tokens and keep running the sims. Once you have enough tickets you can redeem them Boss: are you at dave & busters, yes or no

there are definitely downsides to the nuclear block but the reason I keep coming back to it as necessary and good is that it completely ruined the whole MAGA engagement model to the point that they prefer to mock us from the nazi bar rather than come here to troll us directly

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

Congrats again to the White House Correspondents Association!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"

“Kurosawa‘s first word was ‘mise-en-scène.’”

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 3d ago

is there some future competitive advantage with college admissions if you deafened your child to Ludwig Göransson

this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

But they will be

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

fun hobby: cataloging the securities law violations in batman begins bruce wayne bought up the shares of his company right after the IPO without so much as a 13D, let alone a Form 4?

and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME

For a primarily litigation firm, one danger of becoming a full service firm is that transactional lawyers bring in more money, are generally less attached to rule of law principles, and some will object to any controversial representation as a “business conflict.”

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 3d ago

As disgraceful as you might think Paul Weiss is, it's much worse. A must read. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...

I’ll need to prepare my kids for using AI with Faust. Oh, yeah, it’s useful, but always assume its underlying motivation is to take your soul. Never step into the summoning circle and never believe it’s your friend.

After 20 years of legal practice while watching increase Republican lawlessness, my view is less abstract legal theorizing and more carving into a rock "if a proſecutour bringeth a cauſe without merit, then ſhall he ſerue the ſelfe-ſame ſentence which he ſought for the falſely accuſed."

Matthew Guariglia@mguariglia.bsky.social · 4d ago

I worry that most cynical among us, hopped up on 30 years of law and order rhetoric, will say "this is the system working: he didn't do anything wrong and now he's free." As if the terror and wide-scale publicity of an arrest and federal prosecution is not a horrible punishment in and of itself.

People need to start getting disbarred for this shit.

CNN@cnn.com · 5d ago

The Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj

The “Al-Sayed says ‘Inshallah’” nonsense reminded me of this:

Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦@ejacobslaw.com · last yr.

After spending a lot of time with Desis, I misread a headline as referring to an individual because it began with “Amid Din of Market.” It took me two paragraphs to realize I’d never learn more about Amid.

Bill the pony:

LAISSEZ LES BON QUESO ROULER@thequeso.bsky.social · 5d ago

went to a cave in colorado last month, was told that the cave actually went six miles back into the mountain, said get me the fuck out of there.

Got a good job down at the Data Center. I work on the line, and it's hard work but it's honest and the wage is fair; my family and I are grateful for it. I rivet the word "absolutely" onto the little apologies that chatbots do when they misunderstand a prompt.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

In the summer, Midwestern teenagers get summer jobs detaselling data at the server farms.

Missing The Point@missingthept.bsky.social · 5d ago

Data centers create a large number of temporary construction jobs but very few permanent on-site operations jobs relative to their cost and physical footprint, but I wouldn't expect that to be known by *checks notes* the Director of the National Economic Council of the United States.

Only bollards can deliver this much happiness. #WorldBollardAssociation

If I could propose one minor modification to the Catholic Church, it’s that an audience with the Pope has a small chance he gives you a quest.

Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 5d ago

The godmother of punk Patti Smith met Pope Leo XIV this morning.

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

H. Jon Benjamin. As Archer. As Odyseus.

A strong dissent from denial of rehearing by Judge Willett in McKesson - the case where the Fifth Circuit upheld liability for a Black Lives Matter leader when there is no evidence he had anything at all to do with a police officer's injury. 1/ www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...