I’ve never been more excited to not be in the Army.

Donate to someone alleged to have smashed Flock cameras for their legal defense fund!

I am ashamed to say “you go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want” has come out of my mouth in court from Rummy, though someone has to be a very specific age to get the tone in which I say it.

all I can add is Epstein apparently knew something about law enforcement and who they really serve

I want people who aren’t justice involved to know that when poor people talk about not being able to get in touch with their attorney, that private firms with public defense contracts often set up a separate email for those people, so they don’t have to read poor emails in their regular accounts.

Make schools who want to suspend black and brown students have to pay for them to receive legal counsel and get discovery.

The thing about transphobes is their insistence on “really” in ways they don’t demand for other things in their life. You don’t see them saying “I need proof this guy REALLY loves you before I call him your boyfriend”, or “No cake if this isn’t REALLY going to be a happy birthday for you.”

This, one thousand percent. For me, being a Catholic is being out in the streets, in the jails; where Christ is. It is doing pro bono service, it is choosing to keep faith with the most vulnerable over the mighty. When my leaders reflect that, I attend church.

I am watching the Trump speech at the “Board of Peace” and my grandmother with Alzheimer’s is more coherent. There was literally a “no homo” moment.

This is why JAGs should not be pulled in for this shit, because I can see exactly how this happened. JAG: “Ah, order is in. My job is to transmit it to the department that will execute it, because government departments follow orders.” Judge: “You live in this environment and didn’t follow up?”

This is actually amazing: track what’s going on with the current insane DoJ.

Meanwhile they’re asking for people who don’t like ICE to be identified and jailed.

One of the priests who went into the Beoadview facility, Fr. Paul Keller (speaking here), said he felt "a society with dirty hands actually asking for the forgiveness of those who are being detained, as opposed to encouraging them to repent of their sins."

Damn y’all I can’t even tell you all how awesome one of my client freeings was but I’m not even tired anymore.

Has anyone seen any “will give impromptu trainings about legal constitutional rights” shirts or do I have to make my own? It’s difficult wading through all the gross “I’m so cool because I’m a lawyer” garbage.

My biggest problem with being a military veteran is staying up too late and having a switch in my head that says “oh you’re basically on a CQ shift, you may as well keep staying up.”

More likely, he realized the jury wasn’t buying it and didn’t want to give a win.

I was at Occupy Wall Street, in the middle of the night, when some cops were about to violently come for members of the encampment prior to the final breakup of Zuccotti. All of a sudden, out of NOWHERE, Jesse Jackson popped up, and was like “You have no power here!” He hadn’t been there prior.

Are you a veteran who doesn’t want you or other vets to get fucked over by MAGA and Collins’s bullshit? Leave a comment NOW: VA is trying to override clear court rulings that say vets should still be compensated for disabilities even if medication helps somewhat with symptoms. @altvba.bsky.social

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

“The pilot explained that if he was fired, he would need to land the plane immediately while another pilot was found to continue the mission to Washington” This is big military energy. In reality, you cant actually get “fired” just because someone’s pissed at you, just reassigned.

I was just talking to a friend in Georgia (the country, not the state) about our respective state-run media. CBS is definitely bucking for first in line.

This is monstrous; and if you have a Republican senator, this is the angle you should be hitting to call out Noem.

I don’t know how to explain to people that bangers like this issuing from federal judges is very much not the norm.

Holy shit I went to click on one of Stancil’s reply guys to see where the fuck he was coming from and that’s when I found out that he has acolytes that have never posted and just go around defending him all over BSky for kicks.

Okay SFF friends, who’s too busy doing anti ICE work to shamelessly self promote for Hugo noms and needs them?

Does…Trump know what a county is?

Sometimes I think I became a lawyer so when I wake up at 4AM and start reading and writing people would call me “productive” instead of “a psychopath.”

Every liberal activist's Wikipedia page is like "spent 10 years providing free legal services to battered women" and every right wing activist's Wikipedia page is like "believed to be webmaster for a dark web CSAM site"

Me, with three kids, wanting to make eggs for breakfast: “This is why single men who haven’t been parents should shut the fuck up about economics” Eggs for breakfast for my family is a full dozen eggs. 2+2+3+3+2.

Apparently my partner is saying that “throwing things at the TV just because Homans is on Face the Nation and lying like his pants are on fire” is not appropriate.

Will Stancil again at it with his “You’re not poor if you’re not carefully counting every penny” and pretending that definition isn’t a political choice.

I would once again like to pitch my “sff writers and (good) lawyers share the same skills and fatal flaws” theory. Also in related news I’m not saying Worldcon was *full* of other public defenders but it was certainly nonzero.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Okay just had “why my dog never listened to or interacted with my ex husband” confirmed.

This is interesting; unfortunately I’ve already unsubscribed from most on the website. The big frontier is Comcast. Does anyone know reliable internet alternatives that support Twitch-level streaming in the PNW?

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

I would also like to point out that you can get a ton of stuff through estate sales and yard sales. During the Revolutionary War, patriotic women boycotted British run stores. They used homespun cloth rather than buy imported. We have it way easier; hit them where it hurts.

I would wager money this man has never attended a protest before. But this is what I think about when I think of the bedrock of America.

How you enjoying Pope Leo, Bannon?

This is your occasional reminder that mending is a desperately important skill, and not just for “the poor”. I, a lawyer, regularly mend things in my home to make them last longer. I most recently noticed my mend of a couch cushion cover. It broke after three months. Mend has lasted a year.

I still talk to a lot of my high school friends but i specifically went to a nerd school for nerds.

Omg you guys didn’t have to get me anything for a Valentine’s Day! but that’s so sweet, I love it 🥰

This is where having been an intelligence professional really helps with being an attorney. I’ve been saying this for ages. I don’t use AI for client work and when I possess it, I’ve used it for shit like “ways the Trump admin (by name) are breaking the law”, on the off chance it’s logging.

Watching Coriolanus is basically “Shakespeare was stuck for a plot and watched his veteran drinking buddies be insane to each other for a while and was like ‘heeeeeeeey!’”

Chinese dissidents have issued such notarized statements for the past two decades, in case they later die under mysterious circumstances and authorities rule their deaths as "suicide", a practice more commonly known as "suicided" (被自殺). The term "suicided" is banned on the Chinese internet.

Wild that a sitting member of Congress, a Republican no less, feels compelled to post this.

I’m exerting great willpower not to repost the “kid accepts consequences of punching ICE supporter and just does it” video, but I will say I’m sure that kid has a line of lawyers ready to go.

Me rubbing my hands together and trying to find out a way I am harmed by this so I can sue Heggie boy.

I need to check the RPC to see if “Education Banned by the “Department of War” is acceptable advertising on business cards