Andrew Rothstein
@asrothstein.bsky.social
Minnesotan lawyer and photographer. Fan of the outdoors, public health, sports, and many nerd things. All views and skeets are my own; especially the good ones. (He/Him)
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Like, not wanting to pay artists for their work is not Marxism, this is so weird.
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Like, not wanting to pay artists for their work is not Marxism, this is so weird.
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Non-litigators, and non-lawyers, especially, might not quite understand how incredibly rare frivolousness sanctions are.
I have seen them, I think, twice, in sixteen years.
I have seen them, I think, twice, in sixteen years.
NEWS: A federal appeals court pane upholds the $1 million sanction against Trump and Habba for a "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, Comey, et al.
"Many of Trump’s and Habba’s legal arguments were indeed frivolous," Judge Pryor wrote.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"Many of Trump’s and Habba’s legal arguments were indeed frivolous," Judge Pryor wrote.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Non-litigators, and non-lawyers, especially, might not quite understand how incredibly rare frivolousness sanctions are.
I have seen them, I think, twice, in sixteen years.
I have seen them, I think, twice, in sixteen years.
Anybody got a hashtag resistance / liberal resistance blocklist? I’m seeing a lot of “being upset at Fani Willis is misogynistic” and “what she did isn’t worse than letting Trump off the hook”.
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Anybody got a hashtag resistance / liberal resistance blocklist? I’m seeing a lot of “being upset at Fani Willis is misogynistic” and “what she did isn’t worse than letting Trump off the hook”.
In a just world, the people responsible for this and who did this in the name of increased revenue would be household names as cautionary tales.
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
In a just world, the people responsible for this and who did this in the name of increased revenue would be household names as cautionary tales.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Here are my thoughts on pies. Keep your dicks out of them.
a man and a boy sit at a table with the words well we 'll just tell your mother that uhwe ate it all
Alt: a man and a boy sit at a table with the words well we 'll just tell your mother that uhwe ate it all while looking at a pie that was …fucked
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November 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Here are my thoughts on pies. Keep your dicks out of them.
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My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
It's well past time we put an end to irrelevant provisions and riders in vital purpose-built funding bills. This is a perpetual issue and it just makes zero sense. If Congress wants to pass new laws, they can. But stop with the riders designed to pass b/c "X voted against funding the military".
Please watch this.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
It's well past time we put an end to irrelevant provisions and riders in vital purpose-built funding bills. This is a perpetual issue and it just makes zero sense. If Congress wants to pass new laws, they can. But stop with the riders designed to pass b/c "X voted against funding the military".
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"We're going to prosecute you for sedition, but first...we'll do a uniform inspection!" is something out of Monty Python.
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"We're going to prosecute you for sedition, but first...we'll do a uniform inspection!" is something out of Monty Python.
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How I dress when I travel by air:
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
How I dress when I travel by air:
Taps the sign for no reason.
My molehill I will die on is that we need more rule 11 sanctions.
November 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Taps the sign for no reason.
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I was a lifelong opponent of trigger warnings. Then I read Ryan Lizza's most recent Substack post.
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I was a lifelong opponent of trigger warnings. Then I read Ryan Lizza's most recent Substack post.
All actions flowing from Ms. Halligan's defective appointment, including securing and signing Mr. Comey's indictment, were unlawful exercises of executive power and are hereby set aside.
New filing: "U.S. v. Comey (criminal case)"
Doc #213: ORDERED AND ADJUDGED as follows: (1) The appointment of Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney violated 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Appointments Clause of the U.S.…
[full entry below 👇]
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Doc #213: ORDERED AND ADJUDGED as follows: (1) The appointment of Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney violated 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Appointments Clause of the U.S.…
[full entry below 👇]
Download PDF | View Full Case
#CL71459121
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
All actions flowing from Ms. Halligan's defective appointment, including securing and signing Mr. Comey's indictment, were unlawful exercises of executive power and are hereby set aside.
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People, if you are too poor to pay an author for their work, I have a solution for you. Your local public library is FREE and will gladly help you find a legitimate ebook version that you can check out, for free.
Don’t steal; use your local public library.
Don’t steal; use your local public library.
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
People, if you are too poor to pay an author for their work, I have a solution for you. Your local public library is FREE and will gladly help you find a legitimate ebook version that you can check out, for free.
Don’t steal; use your local public library.
Don’t steal; use your local public library.
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Figures in a position of official power, contemplating imposition of official consequences on Donald Trump or a Trump Administration official:
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Figures in a position of official power, contemplating imposition of official consequences on Donald Trump or a Trump Administration official:
If every judge finds that the government didn’t act in good faith and repeatedly did not comply with their orders, but the conduct doesn’t meet the bar for sanctions, we’ve got a problem.
You create if not precedent, at least a roadmap for the government to defy the court and act in bad faith.
You create if not precedent, at least a roadmap for the government to defy the court and act in bad faith.
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
If every judge finds that the government didn’t act in good faith and repeatedly did not comply with their orders, but the conduct doesn’t meet the bar for sanctions, we’ve got a problem.
You create if not precedent, at least a roadmap for the government to defy the court and act in bad faith.
You create if not precedent, at least a roadmap for the government to defy the court and act in bad faith.
My family school is the University of Buffalo (SUNY). My grandpa was a professor and department chair, all three of his kids went there, 5 of his 7 grandkids went there, including me. 7 undergrad degrees, an MD, and an MBA. My dad and uncle went on to Penn Med and to work at Ivies.
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
My family school is the University of Buffalo (SUNY). My grandpa was a professor and department chair, all three of his kids went there, 5 of his 7 grandkids went there, including me. 7 undergrad degrees, an MD, and an MBA. My dad and uncle went on to Penn Med and to work at Ivies.
"Hey Meta, how many more times can I solicit a minor?"
On Facebook, you could sexually solicit minors 17 times before being kicked out... or you could just post a passage from Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, describing Zuckerberg's obsequious conduct with Xi Jinping, and then get kicked out instantly. www.thedailybeast.com/lawsuit-alle...
Court Filings Allege Meta ‘Lied To Congress’ About Harms To Kids
New court filings also allege it would take a whopping 17 strikes for solicitation before an account was deleted.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
"Hey Meta, how many more times can I solicit a minor?"
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Trump's domestic Gestapo raided a job site, then handcuffed a US citizen born in Raleigh NC -- even after being shown the guy's REAL ID, which is only available to US citizens and LPRs
CBP+ICE will ignore your identifying documents when it suits their racism
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
CBP+ICE will ignore your identifying documents when it suits their racism
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Trump's domestic Gestapo raided a job site, then handcuffed a US citizen born in Raleigh NC -- even after being shown the guy's REAL ID, which is only available to US citizens and LPRs
CBP+ICE will ignore your identifying documents when it suits their racism
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
CBP+ICE will ignore your identifying documents when it suits their racism
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
I’m surprised X was willing to roll out a feature that would show how much of its traffic is disinformation, distortion, and lies.
X's new About This Account feature reveals that some top accounts, including many MAGA influencers, are based in countries like Russia, India, and Nigeria (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I’m surprised X was willing to roll out a feature that would show how much of its traffic is disinformation, distortion, and lies.
Just saw the new Naked Gun and that was….terrible? A few jokes hit but this felt like it was a bunch of hastily written jokes slapped together and read off at Rodney dangerfield’s stand up pace.
Didn’t live up to the original. And the last hour good lord.
Didn’t live up to the original. And the last hour good lord.
November 23, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Just saw the new Naked Gun and that was….terrible? A few jokes hit but this felt like it was a bunch of hastily written jokes slapped together and read off at Rodney dangerfield’s stand up pace.
Didn’t live up to the original. And the last hour good lord.
Didn’t live up to the original. And the last hour good lord.
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Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
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Man Bluesky is going NUTS about Magic the Gathering’s new Avatar the Last Airbender set. It must be really fun.
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Man Bluesky is going NUTS about Magic the Gathering’s new Avatar the Last Airbender set. It must be really fun.
On a plane with no in-seat entertainment. I am appalled.
a cartoon character from south park is sitting at a table
Alt: Randy marsh: angrily pointing at his plate saying This is America
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November 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
On a plane with no in-seat entertainment. I am appalled.