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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 · 15h

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 · 17h

Hard to say.

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 1d

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

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a briefer history of space and time

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 1d

How small are these women anyway

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 1d

What are these great expectations and when are they met

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

Here's the little scamp:

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 1d

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

Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

Returning minutes later to note this is still gross.

Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 1d

Also, who else is going to balance out Josh.

Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 1d

Doing my best to be less wholesome but I can't turn it off

Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 1d

If you all aren't careful, you'll be stuck with nothing but my unobjectionable, light-hearted posts about inane bullshit.

Pictures of my cat and years-old anecdotes that are charming at best.

Is that what you sickos want?

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 1d

Dude.

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 1d

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!

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!!!

Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 1d

It went well! Too early to say whether/to what extent it will work for me, but a treatment option I'm grateful to have.

@joshuaerlich.bsky.social chaufferred and sat in with me. "Counting Blue Cars" wasn't on my treatment playlist, but he got to hear all my thoughts on God regardless.

Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 2d

I have my first Spravato treatment tomorrow (es-ketamine, administered in-clinic) for severe depression.

It sounds like a thing I'd try in college that would end with me thowing up on someone's shoes.

But I guess it increases brain plasticity and legit helps? 🤞

Willing to try anything atm.

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 2d

I have, of course, made a quite depressing compilation of decades-old songs. Save me from myself!

open.spotify.com/playlist/3c5...

Trippy

Playlist · Katie Herrmann · 26 items

open.spotify.com

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 2d

Also accepting suggestions for a trippy playlist. 😄 So far, mine is a lot of Billie Eilish.

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 3d

Someone made a challenge coin commemorating a cop we sued, for doing the thing we sued him for.

Didn't work out well for him.

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 3d

Cops are giant children. Out there brutalizing folks for a Happy Meal toy.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

This story about the FBI director handing out challenge coins that celebrate vigilante violence came out the same week that he fired an agent for having a small rainbow flag on his desk.

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 4d

You are too kind!