Dear U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, I would like to report a public death threat made on social media against numerous members of Congress by a DC resident. Given your zero tolerance policy for such conduct, I trust that you will promptly investigate and prosecute this perpetrator.

Forward, forward, let us range Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of oh FFS what now --Tennyson, slightly paraphrased

So to recap our governmental positions: vaccines cause autism, nurses aren’t professionals, swastikas and nooses are just controversial, and stating legal precepts is sedition, but trying to prosecute someone with no grand jury or evidence is fine. We’re #1!

I'm not autistic b/c I'm vaccinated. I'm autistic b/c a woman who knit cables w/o a cable needle and had an encyclopedic knowledge of the works of Agatha Christie procreated w/a man who if left to his own devices would only eat cheese and cereal and collects books and obscure classical records.

litigators, is it good when someone tells a judge they didn't know the contents of their own sworn declaration

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Law students, Lindsey Halligan and Pam Bondi both passed the Bar and got admitted. You will be fine.

I hate how every nation is living down to its stereotype because I’m trained to look for complexity in things, yet the USA is run by a caricature of crony capitalism that Soviet propaganda would consider too unsubtle, Russia is run by a Bond villain, the UK is speedrunning Children of Men, etc.

Seeing the strong reaction of Greene, Boebert, and Mace to the Epstein business has made me wonder whether they are, like a lot of girls & women in the USA, survivors of gender violence and felt something genuine about it (which does not redeem them or erase all their other endorsements of cruelty).

11th Cir., in an unpublished order, holds that Trump's defamation lawsuit against CNN for its coverage of his election lies is meritless. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/unp...

Becoming increasingly garment-like

NEW: Judge dismisses the Trump Admin's challenge to NY's Protect Our Courts Act, a law prohibiting immigration arrests at NY's courthouses! This is an important response to those who say states can't hold ICE officers accountable to the law. www.courtlistener.com/docket/70522...

Laws Named After People Are Rarely Good, Slovenia Edition: With the passage of the “Šutar Law”, an EU member state has passed legislation that treats the Roma as a security threat.

I recognize litigating imposes serious costs, but Trump has to be stood up to, because his claims are *always* meritless.

Underused word of the day: rascalry

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

I know this is the least important part of the onslaught of cruelty and terror this administration is inflicting, but it also shows that nobody in charge of this shit reads books.

So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

Being a lawyer for the last 298 days:

I think people should be allowed to get abortions whenever they want for any reason. I don't give a shit and it doesn't affect me

This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate. Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents. couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” ― Anatole France

Law students, Megyn Kelly passed the Bar and got admitted. You will be fine.

"This could take down Democrats, too." I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office. Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.

If only our society took major crimes by rich people as seriously as minor crimes by poor people. Ideally more seriously. But as seriously would be a big improvement.

As a tangent, this white/not-white binary is the big problem scholars and activists have had to push past in trying to understand racialisation of and in the Balkans more deeply - which is so bound up with racialisation of Roma…

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Men do not “have sex with underage girls” they rape them. Language matters. Children CANNOT consent

Also, "the names of the people we denied food and sleep and forced to urinate on themselves unless they signed 'voluntary' deportation papers are not easily accessible to us, but we'll see if we can figure something out" is a sentence that should get you ostracized from society.

Genuinely hadn't occurred to me until today that maybe some of these tech billionaires are so psyched about AI because they are unironically impressed by LLM's writing skills.

Yoke completed. Onward to short rows.

Just cuz I suspect it's gonna be relevant: "underage women" is a contradiction in terms. There are adults and there are minors, who are children. Ditto "nonconsensual sex." That's rape. The only reason to play semantic games is because you benefit from obscuring the simplicity of these terms.

Finally got my hands on a copy of @madelinepotter.bsky.social’s The Roma: A Travelling History. At last, our history by a scholar who is Romani.

JUST IN: Federal judge orders release of hundreds of people arrested in Trump's immigration crackdown in Illinois, according to CNN affiliate WLS. https://cnn.it/3LzqUPL

“The President sent his lawyer to negotiate a settlement with a convicted sex trafficker to provide cushy accommodation in exchange for her silence on his participation in said sex trafficking” is a cold description of the facts of an insane story that the media doesn’t find worthy of scrutiny

the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”

OVERT ACT 125 In additional furtherance of the conspiracy, DEFENDANTS met on November 12, 2025 to discuss ways to wield official government power to prevent further news of the child sex trafficking ring from becoming public.

The wonder of nature is the wonder of nature.

Well that’s awfully pretty.

should I be worried

I'm seeing a decent number of claims that the Democratic cave-in somehow extends SNAP funding for a long time, and I don't know where that's coming from. I'm just a simple country hyperchicken, and I could have missed it. But unless I did, it funds SNAP through January 30, 2026. Three months.

This dude popped up in my mentions yesterday to insist that there were 50 million undocumented immigrants in the country, of which 25 million had entered under Biden, and you just have to realize that these people just make things up and then demand we change the world to accommodate their fictions.

Ancestors, help, dinlos on the internet are trying to tell me that I should be bigoted against a South Asian man.

Happy Romani Language Day! If you've ever used word such as pal, shiv, lollipop, cosh, posh, or cushy, you've spoken Romanes.

Immigrants? In New York City???? sorry i've never read a book so this sounds scary and strange to me bsky.app/profile/park...

It will never not be funny when non-New Yorkers complain that New Yorkers say "fuck" too much, or think their lectures about our saying "fuck" a lot will be well-received. We are a fuck-speaking people in NYC. If the word "fuck" offends you, you're going to struggle here.

Let me tell you something I’m a New Yorker, I do not take kindly to those people who talk about New York as though it isn’t a real place populated by real people. This is not an abstract. This is not some place on a tv show. Eight point five million people call New York City their home.

i probably sound like an asshole tonight but man i am fucking tired of pretending that democratic voters and urban people with all of the implications republicans have very much stopped pretending to dogwhistle about are not the heart of this country. it's us. it's always been us

So fucking proud of my hometown for a) doing something great while b) telling some of the worst people alive to go fuck themselves. Real New York shit.

so it turns out that fascism is unpopular