Nothing like an impending filing deadline of *checks calendar* DECEMBER 24 to chase away those post-Thanksgiving lazies! 🥲

A free-will maxxer if ever I’ve seen one

Please stop falling for the MTG is a new person con. Please.

One lesson of the Sandwich Guy Case is now more than ever when you are called to jury duty you should go

Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.

First brief as attorney of record: ✅😇 First brief requesting sanctions: ✅😈

Someone tell the Democratic Party that fascism is, in fact, a kitchen table issue

The carceral state is generally brutal and evil in the way it treats the human beings it cages, but it’s fine to point out when there are bursts of unusually concentrated or vigorous evil and use it to get people to care.

I’d like to be the first to congratulate Luke Kornet’s Spurs on their 2026 championship

This whole thing is incredible, but look how his hand is shaking when he points at the guys who are being hassled. He's scared, he's angry, he's pounding with adrenaline, but he's maintaining control of himself and not backing down. He's taking a stand, whatever the cost.

If you see this & think “naive libs this changes nothing”: You know people who marched. Have you made an effort to encourage them to get active in different ways, too? You probably think more direct action is better (me too). Could you encourage anyone to bring their No Kings energy to that work?

It will never make sense to me to clown people for getting active the “wrong” way. “They’re just out in the streets with their phones” - EXACTLY!!!!!!! They’re OUT IN THE STREETS WITH THEIR PHONES! Could they be doing that in more helpful ways? Sure. So why not ENCOURAGE them to do so?

HBO’s top recommendation today is an Israeli-produced, scripted series about #October7.

As a Virgo, I love celebrating every culture’s New Year. Another opportunity to turn over a new leaf..? 😏

I don't want 100 troops sent to Chicago. It's a major escalation that must be opposed. I also want folks to understand that the agents that have been attacking us at Broadview are more heavily armed and elaborately, tactically outfitted than National Guard troops would be. We're already in some shit

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

Like….. please! Please do something for someone to counteract the violence! Our neighbors are being taken from their homes by armed faceless men! They will keep taking more until enough people are SHOUTING NO!

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

I swear to god if we lose to the fascists because it’s kinda cringe to post about politics

we’re in ur courts protecting ur rights

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

*sighs*; *opens PACER*

For those keeping score at home, 2025 America’s N@zi Brownshirts (SA) will be the Proud Boys who now have a free pass from the administration to do open-carry terrorism in DC :)

I cannot emphasize enough: We DO NOT WANT anyone who takes orders from that man policing us. Not in D.C., not anywhere. His people cannot wait to sic ‘em & see what they can get away with. (From a police-accountability standpoint, they can get away with a lot.)

Friday afternoon & the fuzzy co-worker is ready to clock out

#AppellateSky bat signal: Any members of the CA6 bar feel like moving my and @sara-rosenburg.bsky.social's admission?

just need to say this, and maybe you can relate: way too much of my mental overhead recently has been devoted to a questionably healthy amount of numbing myself to what is happening in front of me while trying to stave off the feeling that it is all about to get a lot worse for everyone

The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.

Reached the point of the brief-drafting day when I wonder if anyone among us (appellate jerks) has ever or will ever have the guts to begin a sentence… “Reversibly,”

We are incensed by the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the administration to unlawfully dismantle the Department of Education in direct violation of the Constitution. Our children, educators and nation will suffer great harm if this agency is shuttered. www.afscme.org/press/releas...

The problem with liberals is that they’re still “respectfully” dissenting

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Great day to be a Lexis hater

Oh god! It's happening!!! THE HECK BAR RECKONING IS HAPPENING!!!!!!!!

As others have said, what is important to understand is that those of us educated in the order of the 20th century have got to let those assumptions go. It’s time for people to lean into the chaos that these rulings/regime create and use them to advantage. A politics of Tricksterism is called for.

History books should refer to this day at SCOTUS as “Christofascist Friday”

Well team, Trump v. CASA is as bad as it gets

Happy #SCOTUS finale day

the world that Citizens United built 🥰

One important lesson from Zohran’s W (especially for young progressives) is that your digital footprint need no longer stop you from running for public office

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

Gorsuch wrote (& Roberts agreed) in Bostock that "an employer who discriminates against transgender employees necessarily and intentionally applies sex-based rules." Today in Skrmetti, CJR (joined by Neil) blithely says SB1's *obviously* sex-based rule is about "medical use." Unserious bigots.

I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.

This is one of the most irresponsible things a president has ever said.

The civil-rights litigation system in the U.S. only works because—by law!—it costs plaintiffs nothing to bring a meritorious case. Just think of who’s bringing all the critical lawsuits right now—immigrants, trans people, children & families—and you understand the point of this new scheme.

It can get confusing, Senator, so I’ll remind you: Posting indignantly about American fascism is *our* job. *Your* job is actually to do something about it! Hope this helps :)

But if a few people in masks start lighting stuff on fire? Then you have news. This creates an *enormous* attentional advantage towards the most violent and chaotic kind of protest.