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L. Lou
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Attorney ⚖️ Weimaraner lover 🦮 Crafty Crafter 🧶 Supporter of civil rights, Detroiter, Ravelry member, Stardew Valley enthusiast, hablo español, you know, all the fun stuff.
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AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Accurate. Verdad. Which is especially egregious in the context of minors and people with intellectual disabilities or impairments. Jessie Misskelley is a sad example of the damage lying LEOs can do to the young and impaired.
In the US, law enforcement isn't just legally allowed to lie to you, they're ENCOURAGED to. OTOH, your lawyer is legally prohibited from lying to you and can lose her license for it.

Which of those professions, though, do you reflexively associate more with lying?

You're not immune to copaganda.
November 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
You know what’s not shutdown rn? Federal student loan collections. People aren’t getting paid or their food benefits, grocery stores are losing tons of $ leading to more layoffs and food chain disruptions, yet the govt is still trying to collect student loan debt. #greed #shutdown #snap
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
W/ all the political BS, the media isn’t reporting on other things that matter, like the 1st SCOTUS case involving a Rastafarian & religious freedom of institutionalized persons (RLUIPA): www.oyez.org/cases/2025/2...

Yet another example of why our entire justice system needs reform.
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www.oyez.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Fellow lawyers: get it together! We double check our paralegals’ work, but not AI work?! Seriously?! Stop being lazy and just do the damn work. Submitting false or misleading info in a court filing is at best malpractice and at worst an ethical breach of professional conduct. Do better.
“A French data scientist and lawyer, Damien Charlotin, has catalogued at least 490 court filings in the past six months that contained “hallucinations,” which are AI responses that contain false or misleading information.”

apnews.com/article/arti...
Mistake-filled legal briefs show the limits of relying on AI tools at work
Judges around the world are seeing error-riddled legal briefs that were generated with the help of artificial intelligence.
apnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Everyone should pay careful attention to the Maine voter ID ballot measure (Prop 1). It is on track to lose -- thereby proving that the GOP claims that voter ID laws are overwhelmingly popular is a lie. Perhaps now the legacy media will stop repeating that nonsense.
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Agreed.
I’m so disgusted by this administration and all the cowards who have the powerful to stop this but refuse to.
October 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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October 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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🎯🎯
October 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Bet working remotely looks real good to them right about now.
October 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Ridiculous that he’s stalling - just swear her in.
Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?
October 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.
October 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Stay strong, stay beautiful, Chicago. c
October 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Sending Texas National Guard out of state while Texas is preparing for a state of emergency…I wish I could say I’m surprised.
Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.
Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas
With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.
trib.al
October 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.
October 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Some of the biggest firms in the U.S. have told clients to prepare for potential politically motivated government probes, warning that the DOJ intends to target left-leaning nonprofits and their donors for activity “protected by the First Amendment.”
‘Stakes Are High:’ Big Law Alerts Clients on Trump’s Domestic Terrorism Order
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
www.democracydocket.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?
October 9, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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There it is
October 7, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
October 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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September 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
🤣 but also yes, release the Epstein Files!
September 27, 2025 at 2:50 AM