if I send you these it means I’m quietly but enthusiastically rooting for you behind the scenes

Torres 🟧@tordolisan.bsky.social · 18h ago

If you don't love this team, you're lying #gsv #goldenstatevalkyries #valkyries

with alt text!

Along Came Poly-4-The-W@alongcamepoly4thew.bsky.social · 3d ago

Full quote on Natalie Nakase’s answer to being asked about what she thinks about regarding the ongoing Sophie Cunningham/trans-athletes debate that's swept across the WNBA - kenzo fukuda on x "Im all about women, little girls deserving to play & that includes trans women...im all about inclusivity"

A great Valkyries performance against a solid Toronto team; happy to see Temi again in Balhalla!

let's take a moment also to celebrate the first absolute meatball down the middle getting fucking crushed. the first woman in pro baseball league history to get her shit rocked

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 4d ago

and Denae Benites hits the first home run in Women's Pro Baseball League history!

MLB players are the thoroughbred horses of the human world in that if you take your eye off them for a second they will get loose and find some completely novel Looney Tunes way to suffer a catastrophic injury

A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...

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If you're a law student and you miss the first Civil Procedure lecture, this is what happens to you years later

Kash Patel’s Ambitious Defamation Lawsuit Foiled By Basic Civil Procedure Doctrine

The litigious FBI director’s case against a blogger who called him a “blatantly incompetent chud” is no match for International Shoe.

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Tag yourself I’m MOAR TORT LAW!!!

Kate Klonick@klonick.bsky.social · last wk.

Sat down to write about the Hugging Face/AI incident. Ended up drawing this instead.

The defendants asked the district judge to award attorneys' fees (as a judge is allowed to do in certain copyright cases). The district judge just released a decision on this matter. It is short and readable. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Order on Motion for Attorney Fees – #583 in Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney (S.D.N.Y., 2:22-cv-02435) – CourtListener.com

Order on Motion for Attorney Fees

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For anyone who ever wants to read (or re-read) @trungles.com's Pride & Prejudice readthrough commentary w/o having to slog through needing to constantly expand the original thread, I put it all together on a google doc! 135 glorious pages! 💙📚 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Pride & Prejudice Commentary by Trung

docs.google.com

This is Nymeria. She is demonstrating the rare compact zoomies. Ideal for situations where you don't have much room, but still must zoom. 13/10 (TT: ouruntamedtale)

To the students writing your papers with AI: I can tell.

JANE: But you hate Darcy. ELIZABETH: No, I love Darcy. JANE: When did that start? ELIZABETH: Oh I don’t know. It must have happened when I visited his enormous and beautiful and elegantly appointed house. Probably around then. JANE: Oh. Hmm.

Proud to be a UC faculty member!

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 2w ago

A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.

If they do not patch this up I will riot. I will tear away the veil between the dimensions of my reality and Jane Austen’s imagination and bludgeon Darcy to an oily pulp with a fat-haunched roast of venison.

Fantastic sports writing! I’m not following baseball closely this summer (it’s WNBA time, go Valkyries!) but this is so smart about pitching. You need a guy and you have a guy and he’s the guy.

Linda Holmes@lindaholmes.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Granted, you will hear fans push the idea of a four-man rotation, but they are wrong. The body of a major league pitcher already balances on a razor’s edge between well-oiled machine at peak performance and haunted junkyard full of abandoned refrigerator parts and bald tires."

In addition to being morally abhorrent, this is both factually wrong as to the people who ICE has killed and legally wrong as to when lethal force can be used.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Homan on people getting killed by ICE: "It comes down to one simple fact -- these people failed to comply with law enforcement ... all they had to do is comply. If they did, they'd be alive today."

This Getty photo is one for the ages

Absolutely disgusting and infuriating to see from a tour founded on defiance and moral clarity. End of that era, end of that illusion. A betrayal of the LGBTQ+ community and women.

Ben Rothenberg@benrothenberg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Breaking news story at Bounces: Following cultural momentum around anti-trans pushes in sports, the WTA has enacted a new policy that will require *all* players to undergo genetic sex testing in order to continue playing on WTA Tour. Read at Bounces: www.benrothenberg.com/p/wta-requir...

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 3w ago

I swear to god, Jane and Bingley live in a completely separate dimension populated entirely by Precious Moments figurines.

Once he was warned of Wickham he wouldn’t wait and went and weeded out a woman who was once his ward’s watcher to waylay Wickham’s wicked Wickham-ing

No one does an opening scene like Ann Patchett. Goddamn. Just started Whistler. The opening of Commonwealth — oranges, gin, grownups getting a little wild — lives in my head always.

Valkyries close the road trip undefeated and have now won eight in a row with 88-75 win in Indiana. Chen with 14 points off the bench, Gabby Williams gets 16, Tip Hayes adds 13

So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.

This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.

I Read Trump v Barbara So You Don’t Have To — Anna O. Law

As someone who took 16 years to research and write a new book, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship , a policy and legal history, I paid keen attention to the oral arguments (April 1) ...

annaolaw.com

About Trump v. Barbara: Do not give the Court and the CJ credit for reading and upholding the Constitution. It's a travesty that this is not a unanimous decision... it's also a travesty that the Court let this question percolate for a year, giving credence to a crank theory of citizenship.

The outcome is thus: 5–4 that the Constitution protects birthright citizenship for the children of all immigrants. 6–3 that Trump's order is unlawful (because Kavanaugh says it violates a statute, NOT the 14th Amendment.) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Cannot co-sign this harder. The vibes at Golden State Valkyries games are loud, happy, and queer. Dolores Huerta showed up on Friday to bang the drum. My kids have become fervent fans and I love it.

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · last mo.

Once again, if you have never been to a WNBA game, I am pleading with you to go. The best vibes of any sporting event I have ever attended. The nonbinary lawyer who got presented with an award during a timeout for their work with LGBTQ kids seeking asylum got a standing ovation.

my husband is doing fantasy baseball for the first time. he does not follow baseball. his team is run entirely by our 10yo neighbor, who gets a split of his winnings if she helps my husband defeat the rest of the league. they’re in 1st place! but now, a problem: today she left for sleepaway camp