You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

It’s the official stance of this account that antisemitism, Islamophobia, and conspiracy theories in general are bad history. That’s apparently controversial these days.

To the men who come on here to “not all men” and/or do rape apologia: this means you, specifically.

If that’s just how men behaved at the time, I’m perfectly fine tearing down everything named for all of them.

Every single thing named after Cesar Chavez should be renamed for Dolores Huerta

Happy Gideon Day to all who celebrate. May your coffee be strong and your discovery received timely.

A very happy horribat Friday the 13th to all who celebrate.

Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.

Ontario law licence renewed for 2026. The alternate universe version of me who still lives in Toronto is delighted about the onset of patio season.

What if I move to Rio or São Paulo and other questionable Monday thoughts

“You can’t put 80 candles on my cake; it would cause a conflagration! It would destroy the structural integrity of the frosting!” — the man, the myth, the curmudgeonly Gypsy legend himself

The ugly scream-laugh I let out

Is Special Envoy for the Shield of the Harmonicas anything

I am not a running coach, but if you put Weird Al’s take on the theme from Rocky III in your playlist right about the time you start to get very tired, you will do a negative split.

The express train was opening its doors just as the local pulled in, so tonight I have won at NYC.

Proud to announce I created the artwork for the book: ‘Roaming Britain: Gypsy, Traveller and Nomadic Communities in the Built Environment’ by Lauren Alderton and Alice Power, from RIBA 💛 Roaming Britain is available now! Online and in the bookshops 📚

Asking for recommendations: capoeira schools in NYC? Regional or Angolal, no style preference.

We did it, everybody. We made it through February.

Killing a bunch of elementary school girls to distract from having raped a bunch of middle- and high-school girls is pretty fucking grim.

Hi, I slept in, what did I mi—oh. Oh no. Yikes.

I am just a lawyer for children asking that we not classify deaf kids as mute when they speak sign language?

the stages of gentrification, by types of guy

The two most important things you can take away from the SOTU is that a jury found Trump raped E. Jean Carroll but because of a flaw in NYS law that the legislature fixed after his case, it could only find him liable for sexual abuse; and that his name appears a million times in the Epstein files.

We are going to hear a lot about decorum from a lot of people who really suck.

There should be a word for when you are no longer on the job and you are drafting your own 61 to bring to the precinct because you had a silly mishap and part of you is still convinced that you’re going to get a command discipline even though you are finalized

If you or someone you know has been held at Camp East Montana or another Texas detention center, you represent a client held there, or you've worked with or at a Texas detention center, @lomikriel.bsky.social is looking to talk to you. The Texas Tribune has done a great job covering these places.

Underused word of the day: pugnacious

Snowcreatures of NYC

The mighty creature and her prey/bestie, as made by @kambriel.com

The greatest lie the legal profession ever told was that Scalia was a brilliant writer

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

🧵 On February 20, 1856, slavery was formally abolished in the Romanian Principalities, ending five centuries of chattel slavery. The first official record of the enslavement of Roma people dates to 1385.

this is the soundbite and we can make it stick

There is strength and bravery, and then there is juvenile testifying against the waste of oxygen who sexually abused them strength and bravery. When I say my clients are heroes, this is what I mean.

“Once your hope is crushed, you are truly free” and other wisdom overheard at work.

The man who made it impossible for European Roma fleeing pogroms and persecution to get refugee status in Canada because according to him all of Europe is composed of "safe third countries" says what now?

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

Abbe Lowell said “I wish a motherfucker would”

NYC to bigot losers: Do not get in our way; we will go around you. gothamist.com/news/nyc-are...

Good night, moon, Good night, goons, Good night, El Paso party balloons.

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

I am just a lawyer sitting in her office asking for some cell signal and for Teams to work

Genuinely and from the heart, how is it possible to live in the US (which, btw, does not have an official language) and not understand even a few words of Spanish?

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

Union power!

It is not our moral responsibility to coddle the delusional fears and bigotries of white supremacists. It is not our moral responsibility to change reality for them so they can hold onto those fears and bigotries. It is our moral responsibility to make their fears and bigotries THEIR problem.

Post a banger that isn’t in English youtu.be/pdxbYjb3SOk?...

i once got into an argument with someone when i told them that this country's closest cultural neighbors are mexico and brazil, not britain and france.