People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

A lot of problems in this country could be solved simply by enforcing anti-monopoly laws

Hey #LSAT students! Read this for some real life flaws in legal journalism. This piece speaks to me as a lawyer, social scientist, and LSAT tutor.

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

With each passing day I am newly infuriated that national media (and many politicians) bought the Trump regime's lies about a draw down in Minnesota

Even my non-lawyer non-history buff technologist partner said “but there wasn’t a cabinet then…” and shook his head sadly when I showed him this.

Hey law students! Review your 10th amendment cases and write to educate JD Vance, because Yale Law apparently didn’t.

my family is gonna lose SNAP assistance bc of this and now they're going to try to take our healthcare too. if/when this kills me, hurl my body into the oval office.

The MAGAts and politicians who support this should be punished. This is based on debunked and false info and he knows it. It’s b/c of our resistance. But people want to believe it (like eating dogs and cats) and want to hurt others. America has a morality problem and a media illiteracy problem.

while we tend not to reward people who write scholarly books or do peer review. law often rewards attention-seeking behavior while it either ignores or actively discourages the work necessary to support the cultivation of scholarly knowledge 5/5

Past Amber was BRILLIANT when she bought tickets to Kimberly Akimbo for the night of the State of the Union.

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

See law students? It’s not ALL esoteric language and boring controversies!!

Happy End Of Seth Meyers Hiatus Day to those who celebrate.

Read it if for no other reason than the poetry in the prose: “Kennedy’s longstanding gibbering anti-vax quackery” for example.

I fucking love being a St. Paul girl (even now, as I sit in a suburb, these are my people). Sad to miss this epic speech and moment.

The American dream used to be “anyone could possibly become a millionaire.” Now it’s apparently “anyone can be a pedophile and get away with it.”

My middle name is Lee. It was my mom’s name. (Actually, her name was Leola and she hated that and refused to let that be my middle name.) My brother got my dad’s name for his middle name. I thought that was a cool tradition so my cats’ middle names are all Amber now.

PSA: I tested more legal AI! It still doesn’t work. I do not understand all of these articles about firms hiring fewer associates because they are leveraging AI for simpler work. The tech is not there. I would like it to be there. But it is not there. It has other uses, but none are “legal work.”

Re: Bluesky “is seen as a joke across progressive media and activist circles.” … I respect the writer who posted that, and know he was angry because a friend was being treated unfairly he thought, but let me just say: not in Minnesota it isn’t.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

The Gen X urge to wonder: And you may ask yourself "How do I work this?" And you may ask yourself "Where is that large automobile?" And you may tell yourself "This is not my beautiful house!" And you may tell yourself "This is not my beautiful wife!"

Seems to me that recently our nation has chosen selfishness over all else when push comes to shove way too often.

I remember a politician saying, “I’ve heard masking only protects other people”, as a reason to not mask. And I knew we were in trouble.

You can get into all kinds of reasons why and why the normal, hard working american is so often beaten down and been shown for decades why they (allegedly) can’t have a less bloodthirsty society, to the point we may actually believe it. But it’s still disheartening

America, in 2026:

In America, we can't eradicate racism with law or policy. But we can make racism shameful again. Doing so is ultimately a political and cultural act, and it must be a conscious one. And it is an important part to restore some semblance of our liberal democracy. /fin

In honor of his 16th birthday next week, we have granted Armani a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Happy caturday! Marlowe makes art!

False dichotomy alert

Hey #LSAT students! Here’s an easy correlation-causation flaw for you in real life! (Enjoy the brief caveat acknowledging the possibility of reverse causation, which is the point of the flaw…)

The right to vote is an individual right. It cannot be understood through collective statistics. Even if a policy impedes voting by only a fraction of a percent of eligible voters, each of those voters has 100% of their right to vote at stake.

One thing to understand is that jackasses like me graduated from law school basically believing that, while nothing like <all this> was realistic in our lifetimes, if it did happen, then our Supreme Court with all its flaws would respond roughly like this judge did, maybe 9-0.

Getting ready for the soccer season with a #Loons drone show! It’s the 10th year in MLS for MNUFC! #COYL

The level of anger normal Minnesota people have at their elected representatives is palpable. It's not about party, but the perceived failure of local/state electeds to do anything of substance to protect residents who pay their taxes and get left facing off alone against masked, armed men.

I think we need a paradigm shift in the bar to be more willing to punish incompetence when it contributed to injustice. A lot of lawyers are going to deserve that after this is over and they won't all be having criminal liability.

now I feel better about the hold shelves sagging under the weight of my ambitions

“Aggrieved by people who have far less power than me yet some morals” is no way to go through life.

This picture is so crazy that if you had this as a scene in a made-for-TV dystopian scifi movie in like 2014 people would switch channels because you’d ruined the suspension of disbelief.

We responded to their terror with community. Now they’re tearing at our very trust in one another and willingness to help.

Hey #conLaw peeps, new hypo just dropped! @leahlitman.bsky.social @profmmurray.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social

So, in FL kids are being taught that the reason some professions are dominated by men and others by women is because of basic biological differences? Sex chromosomes (notably NOT hormones…) determine how people behave, apparently. Good fucking grief.

Why does Trump keep referencing dogs when talking about cheating? Does he have a print of the dogs playing poker painting somewhere? Does he assume those dogs are cheaters because he cheats? Does he know dogs are incapable of deceit? Has he met a dog? Has he seen a dog?

It is notable that Andrew has been arrested for "misconduct in public office", which is precisely what the US Supreme Court decided no American president can ever be charged with.

My theory is that we're here specifically because of this. That we have not lived through dictatorship and have no living memory of war within our territory, so we take our liberties for granted, and wrongly believe we'll get to keep them even if we vote criminals into office.

Hello former gifted kids. You didn't "peak" in high school, you discovered what you could accomplish when your basic needs were met and you were allowed to pursue your interests. We could build that into society, if we wanted to.

I’m really worried for our neighbors outside the metro. There are countless reasons that Minneapolis & St Paul have been able to push back so hard, but one core element is density. It’s easier to push back when we have 100s or 1000s of neighbors living/working within a few blocks of each other.

The fundamental breaking of the social contract of neighbors helping neighbors feels evil in a way that's very hard to articulate.