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Katie Herrmann

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Lawyer. I make up songs about my dog and sing them to her. Sometimes I run into things. DM for Signal info

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · Feb 1

Seen some folks asking about lawyers who help federal employees so:

1. obviously, you can call us. we'll try to fit you in considering ~everything~

2. go to MWELA.org. that's the plaintiff's employment bar association in the DMV. go to NELA.org nationally. search for lawyers who do federal work.

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 23h

I hear this 100%. This year has been particularly tough.

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 23h

Young mothers, teachers, and lawyers make up the vast majority (if not the entirety) of folks in the intensive outpatient program I'm in.

This is due in part, I think, to an appreciation of the impact of now on the future.

I see you all and you are not alone.

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 1d

Desperation ™️ is a stinky cologne.

Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 1d

...while tap dancing and firing off a t-shirt cannon as dollar bills rained from the sky.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 2d

Neither fun nor flirty!

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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 2d

you can’t even occupy an american city without getting laughed at anymore, because of croak

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 2d

Hahaha this is neither fun nor flirty!

Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 3d

I love this.

Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 3d

That is beyond flirty my friend!

Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 3d

I don't believe in ghosts but I still hope to meet one.

Not like, a serious encounter. Just something fun and flirty.

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 3d

Unclear whether that means that: (1) I'm lucky to have a chance; or (2) I don't stand a chance, and beginning to think it was an uncool thing to say.

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 3d

Hard to say.

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 4d

If you've never had a medical provider look you square in the eye and say "statistically, you should be dead," then you've simply never lived.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 4d

please send me your candidates for the weirdest things Eric Adams has done in 2025

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 4d

I'm not familiar with this one but it made me laugh so hard.

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 4d

Is there a briefer history of space and time

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 4d

How small are these women anyway

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 4d

What are these great expectations and when are they met

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 4d

I couldn't bring myself to volley back this joke but here's our cat:

Clay the gray and white cat draped with gift ribbon, sitting atop scraps of wrapping paper.

Clay the cat sitting on a window ledge, swatting at a bug outside, tail draped over ledge.

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 4d

Here's the little scamp:

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 4d

If nothing else comes from ketamine treatment, there's a solid podcast here.

Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 4d

I got very chatty for about an hour (I was on one about the "spectrum of perception"). Then I got sleepy and listened to music.

I feel silly for being so nervous about it!

Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 4d

Returning minutes later to note this is still gross.

Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 4d

Also, who else is going to balance out Josh.