Barth
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I agree court procedure can be overly complex but 1) that’s why we have lawyers and 2) many courts have pro se offices, but that’s not the clerk
I have to file in housing court, so I called the clerk to find out literally what physical building to go to.
Me: (overly friendly) Hi there. We've lived in the same apartment for 15 years and signed 15 years worth of leases saying that it's rent stabilized. Now our new landlord says it's not.
Me: (overly friendly) Hi there. We've lived in the same apartment for 15 years and signed 15 years worth of leases saying that it's rent stabilized. Now our new landlord says it's not.
It's not even a conspiracy theory at this point to say that our court system is needlessly complicated in order to maintain the status quo and make it difficult for anyone without wealth to protect themselves from people with wealth
November 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I agree court procedure can be overly complex but 1) that’s why we have lawyers and 2) many courts have pro se offices, but that’s not the clerk
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Big fan of democracy but we'll have to admit it's an L of historic proportions to get subverted and destroyed not by some strategic genius but by possibly the dumbest man on earth
July 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Big fan of democracy but we'll have to admit it's an L of historic proportions to get subverted and destroyed not by some strategic genius but by possibly the dumbest man on earth
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wow the three month orgy of breaking long-standing agreements, abrogating contracts and shredding the constitution has damaged the full faith and credit of the united states that the entire global financial system rests on?
might've been a bigger deal that Tim Walz' national guard retirement idk
might've been a bigger deal that Tim Walz' national guard retirement idk
April 9, 2025 at 5:02 AM
wow the three month orgy of breaking long-standing agreements, abrogating contracts and shredding the constitution has damaged the full faith and credit of the united states that the entire global financial system rests on?
might've been a bigger deal that Tim Walz' national guard retirement idk
might've been a bigger deal that Tim Walz' national guard retirement idk
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I wonder what it'd take conservatives doing for people to stop writing these "to be sure" paragraphs. When will it be time to consider the possibility that the ideas of American conservatives have been stupid and evil and that the left was right not to take them seriously? What more has to happen?
April 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I wonder what it'd take conservatives doing for people to stop writing these "to be sure" paragraphs. When will it be time to consider the possibility that the ideas of American conservatives have been stupid and evil and that the left was right not to take them seriously? What more has to happen?
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To anyone who is not clear: The First Amendment protected Rumeysa Ozturk when she published her op-ed. The same way it has protected me.
Rule of law means that we should be treated equally.
Rule of law means that we should be treated equally.
March 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
To anyone who is not clear: The First Amendment protected Rumeysa Ozturk when she published her op-ed. The same way it has protected me.
Rule of law means that we should be treated equally.
Rule of law means that we should be treated equally.
Oh my god shut up. Noem is not a stand in for anything. She’s a fascist of her own right! Just like Lindy England before her
I think it’s a mistake to say that this appropriation of a masculine sexual sadism by a woman means that sexual sadism is somehow *not* gendered. Noem here serves as a stand-in for the male Trump supporter whose presence softens the homoeroticism of the sadistic fantasy.
March 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Oh my god shut up. Noem is not a stand in for anything. She’s a fascist of her own right! Just like Lindy England before her
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the brain drain is going to be incalculable. why would anyone want to come here to study if you can be shipped away without due process by thugs for writing an article disagreeing with the policies of another foreign country?
March 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
the brain drain is going to be incalculable. why would anyone want to come here to study if you can be shipped away without due process by thugs for writing an article disagreeing with the policies of another foreign country?
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I’m an elitist sorry I think smart people are better at making decisions than people who aren’t smart I know this is not a good opinion to have
March 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I’m an elitist sorry I think smart people are better at making decisions than people who aren’t smart I know this is not a good opinion to have
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you should lose your law license for saying something like this in a public forum
March 17, 2025 at 4:09 AM
you should lose your law license for saying something like this in a public forum
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Very much like the Iraq War, somehow "I thought Elon Musk was a genius until a couple years ago" is now considered the more respectable and serious opinion than "I knew he was a fraud for a decade and was never fooled by him."
February 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Very much like the Iraq War, somehow "I thought Elon Musk was a genius until a couple years ago" is now considered the more respectable and serious opinion than "I knew he was a fraud for a decade and was never fooled by him."
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The argument here--that it's *morally wrong* to judge somebody by the ideas and beliefs they profess and advocate--has somehow become the dominant elite ideology of our era and it's still the stupidest fucking thing I've ever encountered.
I very much get where this is coming from, but I think we should resist this framing. As long as they're acting with integrity (which we should presume unless proven otherwise), academics need to be given the space to pursue their ideas in good faith, wherever they lead. 🧵
This isn’t a quaint academic debate. It’s people’s lives. If law professors want to audition for judgeships that’s fine, but then we should treat their scholarship accordingly with an extra grain of salt. I’m over it.
January 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The argument here--that it's *morally wrong* to judge somebody by the ideas and beliefs they profess and advocate--has somehow become the dominant elite ideology of our era and it's still the stupidest fucking thing I've ever encountered.
You bring your dog into restaurants so you might not be the impeccable dog owner you think you are
the owner always gives me a look like this is my fault and I should do something and I was just wondering if that is true? Like is there etiquette around if your dog is another dog’s kryptonite? I do try to avoid if I see them a block ahead but I don’t always notice until it’s too late.
January 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
You bring your dog into restaurants so you might not be the impeccable dog owner you think you are
Everyone saying Twitter is toxic but where else can you find someone saying a holocaust denier is one of the kindest people in the world.
December 8, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Everyone saying Twitter is toxic but where else can you find someone saying a holocaust denier is one of the kindest people in the world.
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the true GOP base is “people who opposed segregation at the time and their actual or ideological descendants” and any discussion of american politics needs to start with that to have any practical meaning or connection with reality
If you exclude the South, Democrats would have a 43-29 Senate advantage in the next Congress.
December 6, 2024 at 5:32 PM
the true GOP base is “people who opposed segregation at the time and their actual or ideological descendants” and any discussion of american politics needs to start with that to have any practical meaning or connection with reality
Hello Bluesky. I will never call them skeets.
December 4, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Hello Bluesky. I will never call them skeets.