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Lawyer. Queer. My blood pressure would be better if I stayed off this site. And every site.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 11h
MODERATOR: Is the Roberts Court the most pro-corporate Supreme Court ever?

GENERAL COUNSELS AT TRILLION-DOLLAR CORPORATIONS, IN UNISON: No. Also, while we're here, we would like to state for the record how smart and handsome we think John Roberts is

www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/scot...
A Closer Look: The Commercial Litigation Panel at the SCOTUSblog Summit For those who want to take a break from reading about Trump’s deployment of the National Guard (explained in Amy’s article, below), the video of the discussion between the chief legal officers of Walmart, Citi, and Meta at the SCOTUSblog Summit at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center on Sept. 25 is now available online. Panelists shed light on commercial litigation at the Supreme Court and what issues they’re watching closely. David Lat of Original Jurisdiction, who moderated the panel, noted that the Roberts court is often described as one of if not the most pro-business courts in the history of the Supreme Court and then asked the panelists if they agree with that assessment. Rachel Brand of Walmart, Brent McIntosh of Citi, and Jennifer Newstead of Meta somewhat pushed back on that claim. According to them, the justices are more focused on applying legal text and precedent than finding the answer that will be most beneficial for businesses; sometimes this benefits businesses, sometimes it does not. Specifically, Brand said that, for better or worse, the justices generally aren’t thinking about the “practical consequences of their decisions,” which is why “you’re not going to find your salvation in the Supreme Court.” Similarly, McIntosh said that “the court seems to be unconcerned with which side of the ‘v.’ the companies are on.”
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12h
NEW RESEARCH confirms:

Countering far-right messaging by repeating it mainstreams extremist ideas and amplifying extremist terminology cedes the framing of the issues to the right.

(I’ll add that social media “dunking” only serves to spread undesired content.)

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
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Who me? @whomequestionmark.bsky.social · 21h
Saw today! Was really good! I particularly liked Sean Penn's portrayal of the unhinged captain. The way it balanced the at times surrealist dark comedy with the action/thriller beats was great. Also was pretty effective at portraying our current police state as a bunch of racist thugs.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 1d
We do not see things as they are but rather as we are. Worse yet if we can tack on numbers with decimals.
mtsw.bsky.social mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d
The difference in national narrative coming out of the 2025 November elections if Mikie Sherrill wins by 1% vs loses by 1% are going to be entirely different even tho those two results should say basically identical things about the national environment.
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Who me? @whomequestionmark.bsky.social · 1d
I say pocket the $20 billion for a rainy day because when the AI bubble bursts it will be "too big to fail" and we'll have to bail out those assholes instead.
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Who me? @whomequestionmark.bsky.social · 1d
I wish my mom had operated like the NYT when I was a kid. No matter how many times I patiently tried to explain that I was just making "brown liquid" jokes, she still yelled at me.
emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d
NYT sanewashing extends, apparently, to sparing NYT readers from a description of Trump's literal shit.
Trump Posts Fake Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters President Trump shared what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media. It shows Mr. Trump wearing a crown and flying a jet that dumps brown liquid on demonstrators. Listen to this article · 2:20 min Learn more Share full article Jenny Gross By Jenny Gross Oct. 19, 2025, 10:05 a.m. ET President Trump has posted what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media that showed him wearing a crown and flying a jet labeled “King Trump” that dumps brown liquid on protesters.
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Who me? @whomequestionmark.bsky.social · 1d
I thought this picture was porn for a brief second.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d
"This is a picture of a militarized American agent forcing his way into a private residence to abduct an illegal immigrant and deport him to his country of origin. When it was taken in April 2000, American conservatives were incensed by it."
Elián González, Trump, and What Happened to “True Conservatism”
Toward a quantum theory of politics.
www.thebulwark.com
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Who me? @whomequestionmark.bsky.social · 2d
Well, this is a bit literal. But yep.
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Who me? @whomequestionmark.bsky.social · 2d
If you start arguing about crime statistics, he's already won the messaging war!
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Who me? @whomequestionmark.bsky.social · 2d
Stop surrendering to Trump's framing of this issue. This is not about crime! Any idiot can see that we don't need the fucking military in Seattle. Just go there!

This is about a wanna-be military dictatorship. This is about authoritarianism. Moral outrage and mockery are the only proper responses!
governorferguson.bsky.social Gov. Bob Ferguson @governorferguson.bsky.social · 2d
Washington state does not need or want the president to militarize our streets.

Violent crime in Seattle and across Washington state is dropping.
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Who me? @whomequestionmark.bsky.social · 2d
Stop surrendering to Trump's framing of this issue! It is not about crime! Any idiot can see that we don't need the fucking military in Seattle. Just go there!

This is about a wanna-be military dictatorship! This is about authoritarianism! Moral outrage and mockery are the only proper responses!
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d
“Guys, wait. Look at this flyer. There’s a dance competition in two weeks and first prize is exactly $50,000 and a house for my mother. If we all work together on our routine and try our best,we just might still be afford to destroy democracy.”
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Who me? @whomequestionmark.bsky.social · 3d
A good narrator can make a mediocre book great and a bad narrator can kill a great book. Just don't see this robotic uncanny narration ever being something I'd actually want to listen to.
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Who me? @whomequestionmark.bsky.social · 3d
AI is the future. Just ask Stewart about how it has revolutionized her work product.
kyledcheney.bsky.social Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d
JUST IN: Judge Mehta threatens contempt and bar sanctions for attorney Carolyn Stewart — who has repped numerous Jan. 6 defendants and pardon recipients — over filing a motion with “fabricated” citations to local rules and refusing to correct it.
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Who me? @whomequestionmark.bsky.social · 3d
AI is the future. Just ask Stewart about how it has revolutionized her work product.
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Who me? @whomequestionmark.bsky.social · 3d
Now we're kidnapping people in international waters too.
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Who me? @whomequestionmark.bsky.social · 3d
Which is not to say that it would be impossible to sue the fed gov directly - there may be other reasons that withholding funds are illegal. But state anti discrimination laws aren't going to get you there.
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Who me? @whomequestionmark.bsky.social · 3d
"By the same token, SB1 does not exclude any individual from medical treatments on the basis of transgender status. Rather, it removes one set of diagnoses—gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder, and gender incongruence—from the range of treatable conditions." U.S. v. Skrmetti (2025) (syllabus)
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Who me? @whomequestionmark.bsky.social · 3d
"If you can think of something which is inextricably related to some other thing and not think of the other thing, you have a legal mind."
jonmladd.bsky.social Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 4d
Only in the Federalist Society academic bubble could you say that the government going in and splitting up geographically contiguous communities of Black voters in order to prevent them from ever being a majority in any House district is "government not taking race into account."
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Who me? @whomequestionmark.bsky.social · 3d
Can we bring back all the women and black people they fired?
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Who me? @whomequestionmark.bsky.social · 4d
Yes girl! El presidente in 2028!
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Who me? @whomequestionmark.bsky.social · 4d
Juries have a lot of power to stand up to the administration's vindictive prosecution bullshit.
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 4d
Jeanine Pirro’s office tried three times to indict a woman on bogus felony charges of assaulting an ICE agent. A DC grand jury turned her down each time. So Pirro brought a misdemeanor charge instead. And now a trial jury has acquitted her of that. www.huffpost.com/entry/sidney...
Jeanine Pirro Strikes Out Yet Again In Federal Court
Prosecutor Jeanine Pirro failed to secure a felony indictment against the woman three times, then lost a jury trial on a misdemeanor charge. Ouch.
www.huffpost.com
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Who me? @whomequestionmark.bsky.social · 4d
They might as well turn the government into an old folks home. Seriously. I'm surprised they don't evaluate you for alert/oriented and fall risk and when you're sworn in.
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Who me? @whomequestionmark.bsky.social · 4d
Rather, the remedy would be with the fed gov - suing to keep them from withholding funds on a discriminatory basis. But you can't sue the fed gov for not complying with state antidiscrimination law. There are no fed law protections. And as SCOTUS has made clear, no US constitutional protections.
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