I'm going to get a $400 million contract to supply the army with uniforms made entirely of pacifiers.
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Your honor, the respondent failed to discuss whether to treat the child's broken clavicle with my client before she took the child to the emergency room.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 22h agoRep. Max Miller: "When I was reported for child abuse of my daughter for a broken collarbone, my daughter was in my ex-wife's care 9 out of the last 11 days and she took her to the emergency room, which is a contempt violation from our shared parenting plan."
Kash Patel pushes to shrink number of people allowed to tell him he's breaking the law
Ben Penn@benjaminpenn.bsky.social · yesterdayScoop: FBI Director Kash Patel wants to shrink his general counsel's office, as tensions escalate with bureau's chief legal adviser. OGC is pushing early retirement to reduce staff, but has contemplated terminations. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Every now and then, I get a call from a former client where I know the topic is going to be whether my employment contract advice protected them. Very relieved that the call I received today was one where I succeeded.
Statistically, every other weekend AND court appearances is more than every other weekend.
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 3d agoHe says he spends more time with his daughter, statistically, then the average Ohio divorced father. I don’t think he understands how that sounds.
What the market wants is a fed that is much less responsive to market market conditions and meets to satisfy Trump's whims.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d agoNYT: 🚨 “.. a potentially seismic move that would mark the most significant change in how the central bank operates in years.” @colbylsmith.bsky.social @bencasselman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/b...
Fetterman announces plans to essentially be humiliated in primary
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoCNN: Are you definitely going to run for reelection? FETTERMAN: I've already essentially announced that
It's an entire business model built on gross negligence
Ruo Shui@ruoshuiresearch.bsky.social · 5d agoChannel 4 has announced documentary “The Great BM Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether bowel movements are a genuine digestive process, or a social construct.”
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta urges Senate leaders to bring the ADRENACHROME Act to the Senate floor, calling for clear body harvesting regulations and greater legal certainty for the industry
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d agoThreads
I've identified the video Amazon used to train employees on responsibly managing their AI usage.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d ago“Amazon staff have identified cases of what they called ‘catastrophically expensive’ cost overruns caused by mistakes in how the company has deployed AI and a lack of spending controls.”
The big banks mistook leverage for genius at the height of the housing bubble in the mid 2000s. Hedge funds like this are doing it again.
George Pearkes@peark.es · 6d agoAn 8 employee hedge fund that was up hundreds of percent and used aggressive leverage is asking investors for more cash to meet margin calls. The tropes in this particular bull market couldn’t get any lazier. www.ft.com/content/2803...
They're not a Trump court, they're a Republican court, and the fact those two things align 80-90% of the time instead of literally 100% doesn't mean they're therefore admirably independent. To even describe them as ideologically conservative is too generous. They are partisan politicians.
Joe Patrice@joepatrice.bsky.social · last wk.
The ACLU of Southern California found immigration agents on body cam and text chains using terms like "wet" and "tonk" to refer to Latinos: www.aclusocal.org/app/uploads/... huge congrats to Robert Kavanaugh, whose reputation is looking better all the time
![ody camera footage and forensically recovered text messages confirm that during
operations Defendants are in fact looking for Latinos—whom Defendants refer to using
dehumanizing racialized epithets. See supra at 2 (discussing Ex. 78 [GOV-P16-001]); Ex. 39
[agent text chains] at GOV 24294 (referring to “tonks everywhere selling food”), 24291 (using
term “wet”); Ex. 79 [GOV-P16-015] (SBPA V.S. from Westlake HD: “Who’s backpack is that?
Tonk’s backpack?”); Ex. 80 [GOV-P17-008] (agent who stopped Plaintiff Gavidia referring to
“tonk” in English and Spanish); Ex. 81 [GOV-P17-015] (from Hollywood HD: “There was a guy,
I’m pretty sure he’s wet he was just sitting in that minivan”); Ex. 82 [GOV-P19-044] (from
Paramount HD: “So the guy in the car was a tonk, he wasn’t the LPR [whom agents had
detained]”).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4wgc32lruykyqvmnculpihn5/bafkreicj5hggj6sbgfudc5ok65e7ywkyutepthcmmj7uk32ru2yjka6mc4)
Bought a new insanely comfortable recliner for baby girl's room. Asking toddler to use it instead of the falling apart recliner we bought for his room three years ago.
Midget Prison Stare
ALT: Midget Prison Stare
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Yale Law School remains number one in US News's rankings of sexual predators
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:
Tomorrow: Trump files notice of dismissal against BBC, claims victory while simultaneously blaming corrupt judges.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · last wk.BREAKING: Trump's trust is ordered to turn over financial documents "from the date of January 1, 2023, to the present" responsive to a subpoena issued in Trump's defamation case against the BBC. The first production is due in 10 days.
![ANALYSIS
Plaintiff alleges damages in an amount up to $10 billion which include damage
to "the value of [Plaintiffs] brand, properties, and businesses..." Compl. 9101 and at
32. As represented by the parties, virtually all of these "properties and businesses" are owned by the Trust. See generally Disc. Mot., ECF No. 52. Despite the Complaint's
damages allegations, the Trust contends that the Subpoena should be quashed because the discovery it seeks is prematures, improper, and burdensome. Id. at 4. For the reasons below, this Court disagrees.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreigx3eex7mikq4j2d7ttuwk4aq4gkcbsr5e4qa6pcxbggdkjgv5owu)
If you ever wonder whether an American media and government can have a press conference where real questions are asked and answered, listen to the Apollo 13 broadcasts. What a dream that level of professionalism would be to have again.
Blanche is now the subject of multiple federal court orders and rulings questioning his integrity and honesty and that of the DOJ. And he’s probably still going to get confirmed.
Chris Curtis@curtosis.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is pretty stunning. Let me translate: A federal judge does not trust the acting AG is telling the truth—before the court, to be clear—about specific redactions, and ordered him to bring proof. Just a staggering taint on DoJ.
SpaceX stock is experiencing a rapid unscheduled disassembly.