You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you? Maybe they’ll distract the kidnappers long enough for me to get away?

Happy birthday, Ray Davis

Hey I just want to remind everyone that even if vaccines did cause autism (they don’t), they also cause ALIVE CHILDREN, and if you don’t think an alive autistic child is something to celebrate, please fuck off into the sun forever

You are not bold and interesting for thinking not all genre romance books should have a happy ending. You are a person with an (extremely trite, at this point) opinion who should read genres of books that are not romance.

I got to “honored to be your ancestor” and started sobbing. I don’t even know what to say. It’s cliche to say that someone was a light, but Alice was, in both the sense of being a warm glow to find your way home and bright sun to burn the fuck out of the unwary. I hope we can honor her legacy.

Senate Dems

Know this, @schumer.senate.gov — if you cave, we will not rest until you are primaried and wrested from your seat. When kids on SNAP aren’t being fed, we’re even more hungry for justice. New York has shown you the people’s power just days ago. You *could* join with us, still, and do the right thing.

You can't live your life based on hate - that way lies madness and bitterness - but allowing yourself to slip into hater mode from time to time is a lovely little treat, like a drunk cigarette or a decadent slice of cake

I keep thinking back to this story. One time I subbed for my preschool teacher sister. She‘d told the kids multiple times that she‘d be out, and some of them were still freaking out that she was missing. One only accepted me as a sub because my sis and I look alike. These kids must be TRAUMATIZED.

This has been bringing me joy for three days now.

The same week that SNAP doesn’t go out for the first time in its history Elon gets a trillion dollar package. And 600,000 people have died from the cuts he made to USAID. None of this is at all ok.

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

GO BILLS!!!

i’m continually struck by the joy zohran has brought to this election and the absolute venom with which it’s been met.

Two things can be true at the same time: neither charities nor mutual aid groups have the capacity to completely replace SNAP benefits for November, *and* we should still do as much as we can to feed people and save lives.

People really need to wrap their heads around HOW ATTENUATED our election cycles have gotten. They're acting like the Maine primary was a race between Platner and Mills only and it's too late for anyone else to jump in. The deadline to REGISTER FOR IT is in MARCH! Go out and recruit SOMEONE ELSE

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

I honestly think that trying to legislate what was in Platner's heart and what/when he understood is a trap. It doesn't matter to me. It's actually okay to just go, "man I'd love to believe you've changed but I'm going to need to see proof of it in a place with lower stakes than the US Senate"

This is so needed. I’m scrambling trying to help an elderly lady in section 8 housing find a foster for 2 dogs to no avail. She needs back surgery and won’t be able to take care of them as she’s bedridden. She will be forced to turn them into overcrowded city kill shelter💔 anyone in LA who can help?

Also, a total lie that American students have been crowded out by international students. International students effectively subsidize the tuition of American students!

Buffalo is for sure part of the Midwest. We drink pop and play euchre, and our accent is closer to Wisconsin than NYC.

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

It was a beautiful Sunday in Portland. Farmer’s markets, the Portland Marathon, peaceful protests, and some views of Mt. Hood. This city is vibrant, peaceful, and resilient. We do not need a federal occupation, and we sure as hell don’t want one.

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

There is nothing lawyers like so much as roast chicken breast and an award.

Children. Not violent criminals. Not dangerous offenders. Little kids who were sleeping in their beds. This is who ICE is grabbing. Pulling them from their parents and their homes, naked, and throwing them into U Haul trucks. They have no limits. No moral compass. They only know cruelty.

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

Breaking my rule about Substack for this specific story. Denying amputees appropriate mobility aids is not just cruel, it can be deadly. Ill-fitting prostheses can cause sores which can become infected. They can cause musculoskeletal damage. People don’t just update aids because they want new ones.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

In 2014, Anita Sarkeesian canceled an event at Utah State after a credible assassination threat because the school’s response was that Utah allows guns on college campuses. People have warned about this kind of violence for years. But they weren’t the people the powers at be wanted to protect.

There’s a way to be respectful in reporting on Charlie Kirk being shot while also refusing to whitewash who he was and what consequences his political activism has had. Obituaries for public figures are a part of history.

We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.

My son basically has my face. I‘m mostly used to it, but every once in a while I’ll look at him and experience a sort of vertigo. There’s something so uncanny about seeing the visual representation of an expression I’ve only experienced internally.

“A 2023 study published in the journal Vaccine found in a nationally representative sample of Americans that nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism.”

People are so excited that we might be on the verge of civil war. I’m not. I’m a basic bitch who likes basic things like pumpkin spice lattes and not getting shot at in the grocery store.

Especially eerie with those squeaky clean Indy streets.

This has made my morning.

Somehow I need to sleep tonight! And still make motions like we ARE leaving Thursday as intended because if we don’t that will NOT go well. Please send good vibes. I don’t know what we’re gonna do.

Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.

I am in a pretty big need of a Mississippi attorney to help with a pro bono medical malpractice case. A pro bono attorney is optimal but we'll pay their fees if needed. We just need local MS counsel. Anyone have any ideas or connections?

I really wish Mack Hollins was still a Bill.

*me, negotiating between my past and future self to figure out who needs to do all this work someone scheduled to get done before the semester begins

on one hand i am not and never could be the youngest tenured prof at harvard law school and no one is going to make a movie about my work. on the other, a cop has never been like “sir i’m going to have to ask you to leave the pierogi stand”

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

This administration is terrible for my anxiety disorder

I needed this reminder of joy today. His daughter had such main character energy in that video!

Video of me teaching legal research and writing in the fall.