This is all terrible; but also holy fuck, imagine being a sheriff and saying “I’m going to choose to trust ChatGPT’s knowledge of the law over the prosecutors.”

If they’re going to come for you, may as well use your whole voice first.

I did not have “They blatantly challenge the War Powers Act” on my bingo card but fuck it I guess i need to start smoking again.

this narcoterrorist-on-narcoterrorist violence has got to stop

I’m the tail end of Gen X, so “near 60” isn’t accurate, but damn if “You remember when even the cheapest chocolate candy bars actually tasted like chocolate” doesn’t hit.

Alright this is actually genius phrasing, for those of us old enough to remember that movie.

I've seen a couple different people say things like "Trump did the wrong thing the right way" and "The Venuzuelans are so happy". You know, the first month after we invaded Iraq, everything was lovely there. The people waved at us. And four of my friends are dead. Pardon me if I don't buy into this.

What they aren’t saying is probably troops risked their careers to leak it to the journalists in the first place, who had reason to believe the papers would do something other than sit on their thumbs. also; if you go public with a raid several hours before it begins, they just call it off.

oh my god he posted so many action shots from the makeshift mar a lago situation room and they were just looking at tweets together on a gigantic screen

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

This plus citizens arrest does open some interesting possibilities.

There’s reasons no one has done this and then utilized the court system before. Has Maduro been arraigned? Is he going to be? Is he going to receive the right at arraignment of a non citizen to have communication with his consulate? Also, doing it in SDNY is deliberate.

I would like to point out that I warned democrats a year ago to start getting real bodyguards. Not from a company whose head donated to Trump.

There’s so, so many reasons this is impossible in real courts. Have a quick read. The danger I think is that a dismissal in a normal court will be the excuse he needs to insist he doesn’t want to use them anymore.

I think it’s also worth noting - Whether it’s intentional or not, this is happening to the countries one can conceivably flee to and where the leaders wouldn’t extradite. Going to call it now: if not stopped, Nicaragua will be next.

Now he’s threatening to invade Cuba for the Cuban emigres? It’s not going to make Latines forgive the Trump regime, and only a fucking psychopath would think so.

Every Iraq veteran right now just heaves a long fucking sigh.

I have motions to dismiss on my computer for complaints with far more specificity than that.

This is not a fucking indictment. I don’t know what it is other than political masturbation maybe, but this is not how you write fucking indictments.

I fucking hate Putin. If we did this to Putin because the President had a wild hair up his ass, I’d still be furious.

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

People convicted of domestic violence can’t use firearms even in war and become nondeployable? In related news, speaking of current events, I wonder how the wives of SOCOM boys are doing and if they’re in need of family lawyers.

Impeachment is the moderate position. Being hung upside down by a girder in the public square would not be unreasonable.

Simple as Everyone in DoD who participated in planning and executing this needs to face charges Yes I know the scope/scale of what I'm saying; either laws mean things or they don't

I wish this were real so very, very much. Here’s to Sliwa, who may have bad politics, but loved New York too much to be bought by shithead Cuomo.

Imagine being a white man proudly advertising “I don’t fuck my wife/partner as much as the immigrants do” while also talking about the “natural superiority” of the white man.

A lot of people have the idea that it can’t possibly get to Nazi era levels of state media. But they forget that the only thing protecting that is individual will: and if people aren’t willing to stand up, that’s what happens.

So they’re having to get attorneys from the military for immigration judges, but are willing to hire 400 lawyers to protect the pedophile-in-chief? Cool, cool. Totally normal stuff here.

I have never been more of That Annoying Lawyer than wondering why Facebook doesn’t have a simple, easy option to declare meretricious relationships.

This is a common misunderstanding, but completely untrue. You can follow the laws of war and still kill the fuck out of the enemy. A Democrat unwillingness to treat the opposition as the enemy because they all went to the same clubs and hung out is how we wound up in this situation.

Happy 2026

InfantryDort is the military equivalent of someone shitting themselves and just cheerfully flinging it in the air like it’s Scrooge McDuck’s gold instead of slinking away and taking a shower like a normal human.

I would like to encourage you all to imagine the horror of being a New Englander who brings a live lobster home to a Midwesterner, confidently unaware of how monstrously they cook them.

This is 100% correct. Businesses are the biggest thieves of all - but good luck getting cops to make an arrest.

Exhaustedly, I ask, “where the fuck is she barred, and what are their RPC?” as I prepare to write yet another bar complaint that will go nowhere, like the autistic crank I am.

You know I’m going to be honest the biggest work related problem my PTSD causes me is an inability to tolerate other people’s unethical shit.

Important for new and young lawyers to know they can and should push back when their ethics compel them. I got a client free today on an argument my boss didn’t want me to make because it “took the courts time”

I have never before attended a gun show. But if ICE is there targeting, I will certainly fucking start. In fact, I’ll create an “ICE Will Take Your Guns” booth.

I can’t believe my *infantryman* husband is opposing our up armoring our vehicle on “the firemen are more likely to need to smash out the window when we get in a car wreck than masked vigilantes are to smash our window” grounds. Vets: this is what “stable long term relationships” does to you.

To be clear, my cornfed Midwest spouse also doesn’t like baseball. Can these people stop being racist for five freaking minutes?

Why court is structurally unjust: an ongoing series. Let’s suppose, as happens, there are 25 arraignments for a 2 hour block. That leaves 4.8 minutes per client: an insufficient time to even get clients on the record and preserve important objections - much less talk to them adequately.

This is fucking incredible.

“YES: Residents of Takoma Park, Maryland, noticed ICE cars lurking every day in a parking lot. So they showed up early to occupy the space, with coffee, music, conversation, knitting... not leaving ICE a single parking space. ICE stopped coming.” I. S. Democratic Socialists

If only there were decades of science fiction warning us about this problem someone could have looked at!

New parents and would be parents out there: I want to reiterate that the kids neither notice nor care about all the shit you’re worried other people will judge you on. Loving them and those they love gets you 75% of the way. We play host frequently to kids whose parents didn’t learn that lesson.

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

The bloody ghost of my ancestor Lt. John Bacon, shot dead by a redcoat musket during the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19th, 1775, appeared at the side of my bed last night and said anyone can be American as long as they aren’t English

Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

Kid: “You are like the Spiders Georg of civilization.”